Eric Cowperthwaite: Connect the dots  CISO of Providence Health
and Services closes organizational gaps to create foresight (CSO
Compass Awards 2012)  By Constantine Von Hoffman  August 03,
2012CSO  Businesses frequently divide risk and security efforts
among several business units or make them specific to a certain
place or type of activity: Electronic is separate from physical
is separate from financial. However, keeping them all apart
makes it impossible to understand how one risk can affect and
exacerbate so many others. That's the problem Eric
Cowperthwaite, CISO for Providence Health and Services, is most
concerned with.  Cowperthwaite has been overseeing Providence's
drive to create enterprisewide risk management. He wants to
close the gaps that allow issues to be overlooked—most likely
because no one is looking at the entire picture.  [Read more
about Providence Health's approach in Risk's rewards:
Organizational models for ERM]  "Our goal is to see it before it
imperils the organization," he says. Co