Mathieu Gorge

CEO at VigiTrust - Chairman of the VigiTrust Global Advisory Board - Featured ForbesBooks Author - Keynote Speaker

Ireland

About

As the CEO and Founder of VigiTrust, I have been leading a team of experts in cybersecurity, compliance, and risk management for over 22 years. Our company provides an Integrated Risk Management (IRM) SaaS service that helps organizations across various sectors achieve, maintain, and monitor compliance with industry standards such as PCI DSS, GDPR, VRM, HIPAA, CCPA, and ISO 270001. We also offer cloud-based eLearning programs to enhance the knowledge and skills of our clients. In addition to my role at VigiTrust, I am also a Forbes Featured Author, where I share my insights and strategies on dealing with today's cybersecurity issues through my column "The Cyber Elephant in the Boardroom". I have developed the 5 Pillars of Security Framework™, a unique risk assessment methodology that is applicable to organizations of any size and type. My mission is to help senior leadership teams and CXOs understand and address these threats effectively.

Experience

  • CEO at VigiTrust
    Jan 2003 - Present · 23 yrs 6 mos

    Mathieu is CEO & Founder of VigiTrust. As the brain child of the 5 Pillars of Security Framework™, a unique risk assessment methodology for C-level & executives, Mathieu has been demonstrating sustained national and international acclaim as being on top of the security, compliance and risk management field. Mathieu founded VigiTrust in 2003. VigiTrust is an IRM (Integrated Risk Management) Saas service provider that helps organizations in the hospitality, transportation, healthcare, financial services, retail and government sectors to achieve, maintain and monitor compliance with a range of industry standards such as PCI DSS, GDPR, VRM, HIPAA, CCPA, and ISO 270001. The company also provides cloud-based eLearning programs and offers a portfolio of over 50 eLearning modules, built around information security and industry standards. In 2018, VigiTrust launched VigiOne, a unified IRM Software Platform. VigiOne is designed to provide complex and diverse organizations with a single SaaS solution to easily manage and implement security and privacy regulations. VigiOne utilizes VigiTrust’s own 5 Pillars of Security Framework™ to enable the key processes for preparation, validation and compliance. VigiOne brings together all of VigiTrust's tools and experience into a single, integrated platform; this allows customers to manage compliance to multiple information security and data protection standards and regulations in one all-encompassing program. VigiOne enables Project Managers to simplify compliance; the platform provides a global view of security posture and enables effective internal communication with other business units across the organization. The platform also provides organizations with multi-tiered user levels, including project managers, assessors and contributors. Different views may be assigned to the various user levels.

  • Forbes Featured Author - The Cyber Elephant in the Boardroom at Forbes
    Dec 2019 - Present · 6 yrs 7 mos

    The Cyber Elephant in the Boardroom delivers strategies and best practices for dealing with today’s cybersecurity issues and provides guidance for the next decade of risks. As companies begin to adjust to mounting security issues, senior leadership teams and CXOs will require simple ways of understanding and addressing these threats. The 5 Pillars of Security Framework™ is the perfect foundational tool. The 5 Pillars transcend industries and can be applied to organizations of any size and type. They are timeless in nature. If you or your business need future-proof cybersecurity strategies, The Cyber Elephant in the Boardroom is an indispensable reference for helping key stakeholders to understand their roles.

  • Président - Les Conseillers du Commerce extérieur de la France en Irlande at Les Conseillers du Commerce extérieur de la France
    Jun 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 1 mo

    Appointed by the French Government, French Foreign Trade Advisors (CCEF) are at the heart of international markets and aware of the full range of international business risks. Their opinion help shape the French trade policy. The role involves providing government with recommendations, sponsoring small companies in their international expansion and educating and informing young people about international trade careers.

  • Board Member at La French Tech Dublin
    Dec 2021 - Present · 4 yrs 7 mos

  • Chairman at VigiTrust Global Advisory Board
    Sep 2012 - Present · 13 yrs 10 mos

    The VigiTrust Global Advisory Board is linked to VigiTrust, a SaaS provider of Integrated Risk Management solutions enabling clients to comply with legal and industry standards and laws around data protection. VigiTrust’s core strength is its ability to keep ahead of the various legal, operational and technical security and compliance challenges faced by its clients. The company continuously monitors the security and compliance environment, complemented by its Advisory Board, comprised of over 1350+ CEOs, CFOs, Risk Managers and other payment and fraud experts. Each year, VigiTrust hosts a number of Regional Advisory Boards across the globe to discuss and explore current and evolving cyber security threats, trends and innovations, as well as compliance, information governance and regulations. Since its inception in 2012, the Advisory Board has placed strong emphasis on information sharing and education in a confidential, non-commercial setting, featuring thought leaders who can call on decades of experience in their respective fields.