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PRINCETON, N.J., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

Today, ETS President and CEO Amit Sevak announced that Wallace Dalrymple will

serve in the newly created role of Chief Security Officer. Dalrymple will be

responsible for the security framework and ensuring strong and cohesive

strategy and governance of the organization across the areas of information

security, enterprise risk management and the Office of Test Integrity.

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"Security is paramount to expanding our global impact while best serving new

and existing customers with innovative technologies," said Sevak. "I am

confident that Wally will ensure protection that will maintain and bolster our

integrity across the education and testing landscape, that is mission critical

to our success."

Dalrymple, at the helm of security, will help to strengthen ETS's role as an

industry leader in test security, one of the most critical pillars of the

organization's end-to-end testing process that ensures scores across all

assessments are valid and reliable. To advance protections across ETS, Sevak

said that bringing Wallace on in the new role of Chief Security Officer

underscores ETS's commitment to maintaining top-notch security and furthering

capabilities in this space.

"l look forward to safeguarding security at ETS to continue enabling the

creation of valid assessments, delivering reliable scores and ensuring a secure

process that brings immense value to the entire education and professional

world," said Dalrymple. "We have a responsibility to our customers — test

takers, institutions and the many stakeholders around the globe — to continue

providing the best-in-class products and offerings that they have come to

expect of ETS."

Dalrymple brings nearly 30 years of information technology experience leading

and enabling global companies to operate in an evolving ever-changing threat

landscape. He has a proven track record of leading enterprise information

security programs, driving security capabilities into customer facing brands,

enabling security as a differentiator and aligning global risk management

programs with organizational vision, values and goals. Dalrymple most recently

served as Chief Information Security Officer at Emergent, Blue Cross Blue

Shield™ of Michigan Mutual Insurance Company where he built an information

security program supporting 20 plus health care organizations across the United

States in a highly regulated industry. Previously, he worked in executive

security leadership roles for customer insights and digital marketing at Dialog

Direct and General Motors™.  

About ETS

At ETS, we advance quality and equity in education for people worldwide by

creating assessments based on rigorous research. ETS serves individuals,

educational institutions and government agencies by providing customized

solutions for teacher certification, English language learning, and elementary,

secondary and postsecondary education, and by conducting education research,

analysis and policy studies. Founded as a nonprofit in 1947, ETS develops,

administers and scores more than 50 million tests annually — including the

TOEFL® and TOEIC® tests, the GRE® tests and The Praxis Series® assessments — in

more than 180 countries, at over 9,000 locations worldwide. www.ets.org

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Media Contact: Alescia Dingle, mediacontacts@ets.org