Tennessee’s media, entertainment, and marketing sectors present a distinctive cybersecurity challenge: protecting content, intellectual property, and audience data across organizations that range from global music rights administrators to faith-based publishers to fast-growing digital media platforms. The leaders in this feature have built security programs inside those environments, navigating the operational and regulatory demands that come with each.
Harold Moore — Chief Information Security Officer, Lifeway Christian Resources
Harold Moore joined Lifeway Christian Resources in 2021 as the organisation’s first CISO, brought in to lead culture change and digital transformation across a media and publishing environment. His background spans e-commerce and retail, manufacturing, healthcare, financial services, and media and streaming, giving him cross-sector depth that he has applied to building Lifeway’s security programme from the ground up. Earlier roles include director of information security at Plymouth Rock Assurance, director of information security at Froedtert Health, and director of global information security at Johnson Controls, where he led security across a 180,000-person global manufacturer. He also serves as a director and board member of the Cloud Security Alliance Music City Chapter.
Justin Bumpus — Senior Vice President of IT, The Daily Wire
Justin Bumpus currently serves as senior vice president of IT at The Daily Wire, bringing a career that includes CISO roles at Medalogix and naviHealth, director of information security positions at both naviHealth and GEODIS, and a security architecture role at Tractor Supply Company. His certifications include CISSP, GSEC, GCCC, CEH, and CPT, and his experience spans security program management, secure architecture, audit committee and board-level communication, disaster recovery, and vulnerability assessment across both healthcare and logistics environments. That breadth of regulated-sector experience informs his current role overseeing technology operations at a fast-growing digital media organization.
Joy Mangrum — Associate Vice President, IT Security and Infrastructure, Broadcast Music Inc.
Joy Mangrum brings more than twenty years of experience across IT security and infrastructure, with a career history spanning healthcare, music, manufacturing, legal, and printing industries. At Broadcast Music Inc., she oversaw IT security and infrastructure for one of the world’s largest music rights organizations, a role that sits at the intersection of intellectual property protection, regulatory compliance, and operational technology management. She also serves as a board member of the Cloud Security Alliance Music City Chapter, contributing to the Nashville security community alongside her enterprise responsibilities.
Scott Bleau — Senior Vice President, Infrastructure and Security, Restaurant Growth Services
Scott Bleau serves as senior vice president of infrastructure and security at Restaurant Growth Services, where his work sits at the intersection of brand protection, network security, and operational technology management in a multi-brand hospitality and marketing environment. His technical foundation includes expertise in networking, PCI compliance, CISSP and CISM certifications, and hands-on experience with platforms spanning Cisco, Fortinet, LogRhythm, and Imperva. His approach to security leadership is grounded in practical problem-solving and team development, with a focus on protecting the operational and reputational assets that underpin the brands his organization supports.
Protecting content, rights, and trust in Tennessee’s creative economy
Media, entertainment, and marketing organizations face security challenges that do not always map neatly onto the frameworks designed for financial services or healthcare. Intellectual property, content pipelines, audience data, and brand reputation all require protection, often with leaner security teams and less prescriptive regulatory guidance. The leaders in this feature have built programs suited to those conditions, drawing on experience across sectors to apply the right controls in environments where the stakes are real even when the regulatory pressure is lighter.
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