Stacey Halota joined Graham Holdings Company (then The Washington Post Company) in 2003. She leads the development and implementation of information security and privacy programs, including Sarbanes Oxley, privacy law, Payment Card Industry compliance, and other data protection efforts. Halota has more than 25 years of experience in the information technology, security, and privacy field. Before joining Graham Holdings, she served as the federal government and southeast region leader of Guardent (now part of Verisign), a security and privacy consulting and managed security services company. Prior to Guardent, she worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers in the Technology Risk Services consulting practice.

Ms. Halota serves on the advisory boards of CyberVista, Y/L Ventures, the National Technology Security Coalition, and the International Consortium of Minority Cybersecurity Professionals. She is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP).