"I used to believe that security as a discipline needed to be my primary focus. But I'm now more of a business person with a security skill set than just a security professional," says Parry. That explains his title: executive director and head of global security, scientific data quality and archiving and for Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research.

Along the way, Parry has gained a comprehensive view of all the types of operational risk. He has experience with strategy development and operational implementation; physical and logical security convergence; global frameworks and governance; enterprise risk management; disaster planning and business continuity; and crisis management and communication.

Parry started out with the Reading, Mass., police department, working his way up to sergeant before becoming security manager for The Analytic Sciences Corp. (TASC)

The 2012 CSO Compass Award Honorees

This year's CSO Compass Award winners point the way toward risk management that's more inclusive -- and more exact