Walid Barakat

Senior Vice President, IT Governance, Risk and Compliance, Global Payments

Walid Barakat has 20 years of payment card industry experience that includes project coordination ranging from application delivery enablement and data center migrations to security monitoring controls. Walid applies best practices to lead worldwide compliance programs for Global Payments as leader of the IT Governance, Risk, and Compliance team. Walid and his team drive collaborations to ensure compliance, minimize organizational risk and keep pace with dynamic integration business demands.

Walid Barakat's Events

Leveraging PCI ISAs in Your Organization to Scale the Effectiveness of Your Compliance Program

Date: Wednesday, September 14

Presented by: Walid Barakat, Senior Vice President, IT Governance, Risk and Compliance, Global Payments and Todd Davenport, Director, GRC, Global Payments

Organizations today find increasing challenges in managing compliance with greater environment complexity and limited compliance staffing. Learn how an organization has effectively scaled its compliance team’s effectiveness through the use of embedded Internal Security Assessors across the IT landscape. Identify how to gain executive leadership sponsorship for top down compliance program accountability. Discover how compliance efficiency can manifest through compliance education.