Software Engineering Institute

Lisa Young is an SEI alumni employee.

Lisa Young, Senior Member of the Technical Staff at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, has 20+ years of experience in the information technology and telecommunications industry. She holds the designation of Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), and is experienced in IT governance, information audit and security, and risk management. Ms. Young teaches the Operationally Critical Threat, Asset, and Vulnerability Evaluation (OCTAVE®) risk-based security assessment methodology at the Software Engineering Institute. Her current line of research provides guidelines for improving the way organizations manage the processes of security, IT Operations, business continuity, compliance, and audit to support the organization's mission and critical success factors.