Saskia Hoffmann is a Director at BD Emerson. She serves clients as a CISO and hands-on security engineer, and her work sits where security and compliance meet. She designs the technical controls and automation that satisfy SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and NIST requirements and builds them into the systems and processes the business already runs, which keeps compliance simpler and less costly to maintain.
Her background is in security program development, risk management, and security operations. At BD Emerson she works directly with client teams to design, implement, and tune security controls, and she measures the result by the security improvement it produces, with the audit evidence following from controls that actually operate.
Saskia speaks regularly at women-focused cybersecurity conferences on access to security careers and leadership, and she advises nonprofit organizations on protecting sensitive data with limited budgets and staff.
Startups, SaaS companies, healthcare providers, and enterprises come to her to turn complex security requirements into a plan the business can run.
EXPERIENCE: Security Program Development, Compliance & Audit Readiness, Risk Management, Security Operations, Incident Response, Technical Control Implementation
INDUSTRIES: SaaS, Healthcare, Automotive, Retail, Startups
FOCUS AREAS: Governance, Risk, Compliance, Security Engineering, Security Automation, SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST CSF, Cloud Security
CERTIFICATIONS: Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH)
