Cyber Security Interviews

Frank Downs is the director of cybersecurity practices at ISACA . Frank, a 14-year cybersecurity specialist, graduated with a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Maryland, after which he promptly joined the US Department of Defense as a subject matter expert, working with computer networks on a daily basis. Realizing that English and cybersecurity were two very different concepts,...

Lesley Carhart is a Principal Threat Analyst at the Threat Operations Center at Dragos . She is recognized as a subject matter expert in cybersecurity, incident response, and digital forensics, regularly speaking at conferences and universities. She has spent the last 11 years of her 20+ year IT career specializing in information security, with a heavy focus on response to nation-state adversary a...

Brian Martin (a.k.a. Jericho) has been poking about the hacker and security scene for over 22 years, building valuable skills such as skepticism and anger management. As a hacker-turned-security whore, Jericho has a great perspective to offer an unsolicited opinion on just about any security topic. A long-time advocate of advancing the field, sometimes by any means necessary, he thinks the idea of...

Bill Conner is the President and CEO of SonicWall . Bill has lead key divisions of AT&T, took Nortel into the $9 billion acquisition of Bay Networks, worked to secure digital identities with Entrust, and brought secure communications and privacy from the consumer to the enterprise through mobile and cloud with Silent Circle. Bill also created and hosted “Hacked” for SiriusXM’s business radio....

Bernard Harguindeguy is the Chief Technology Officer & General Manager Intelligence from Ping Identity . Bernard joined Ping in June 2018 through the acquisition of Elastic Beam, where he was the CEO and founder. His work at Elastic Beam revolutionized the use of AI to protect API infrastructures from cyber attacks and deliver deep insight into API access and usage. Bernard earned an MS in Eng...

Vinny Sakore joined the NetDiligence team in 2017 as their Chief Technology Officer. Prior to joining NetDiligence Vinny served as Verizon’s HIPAA Security Officer. His previous experience includes stints as Chief Technology Officer for two healthcare technology companies. Vinny is a featured speaker nationally and internationally on the topics of Cyber Risk, Mobile Technology, and Information Sec...

Renaud Deraison is known in the global security community as the father of the Nessus vulnerability scanner. His original creation, Nessus , celebrated its 15th anniversary in 2013 and is considered the de facto standard for vulnerability scanning worldwide. Renaud co-founded Tenable Network Security in 2002. As Chief Technology Officer, he drives product strategy and development. Before Tenable,...

Lorrie Faith Cranor , IEEE Fellow , is the Director and Bosch Distinguished Professor in Security and Privacy Technologies of CyLab and the FORE Systems Professor of Computer Science and of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University . She also directs the CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory (CUPS) and co-directs the MSIT-Privacy Engineering masters program. In 2016 she se...

Ben Johnson is CTO and co-founder of Obsidian Security . Prior to founding Obsidian, he co-founded Carbon Black and most recently served as the company’s Chief Security Strategist. As the company’s original CTO, he led efforts to create the powerful capabilities that helped define the next-generation endpoint security space. Prior to Carbon Black, Ben was an NSA computer scientist and...

Deborah Blyth is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) State of Colorado, Governor’s Office of Information Technology . In August 2014, Deborah Blyth became the state’s new CISO, bringing a diverse 25-year technology background including 14 years of information security experience. As the CISO, she serves as the point of contact for all information security initiatives in Colorado, i...

Fred Kneip is the CEO and Founder of CyberGRX . Since founding the company in 2015, Fred has led the creation of the world’s first global third-party cyber risk management (TPCRM) exchange. During his tenure at CyberGRX, Fred has been responsible for the overall direction of the company and as the company’s chief strategist, for securing global partnerships, leading investments and overseein...

Alissa Torres is a SANS analyst and Principal SANS instructor specializing in advanced digital forensics and incident response (DFIR). Alissa was recognized by SC Magazine as one of its "2016 Women to Watch." and a recipient of the Enfuse 2018 Difference Makers Award for her efforts in educational outreach. She has more than 15 years of experience in computer and network security that spans govern...

Lizzie Cookson is an Associate Director of Cyber Investigations at Kivu Consulting . She specializes in cyber extortion and threat intelligence with a focus on attacker negotiations, threat actor profiling, and data breach remediation. Lizzie’s case work has included network intrusions, e-commerce compromise, business email compromise, wire/tax fraud, employee misconduct, and over 150 cyber extort...

Georgia Weidman is the founder and CTO of Shevirah and is a serial entrepreneur, penetration tester, security researcher, speaker, trainer, author, and angel investor. She holds a MS in computer science as well as holding CISSP, CEH, and OSCP certifications. Her work in the field of smartphone exploitation has been featured internationally in print and on television including ABC World News Tonigh...

Dean Sysman , is the CEO and co-founder, Axonius . Dean is a world renowned expert in cybersecurity and has been honored with being in the Forbes 30 Under 30 Israel 2017 list. Before founding Axonius, Dean co-founded Cymmetria , A YC-backed cyber deception company with Fortune 500 customers. He has spoken at major conferences including Blackhat, Defcon, CCC and more. He is an alumnus of an elite u...

Chad Loder is the CEO and co-founder of Habitu8 , a Los Angeles-based cyber security startup that's transforming the security awareness industry away from its traditional "training-centric" approach to an approach that is based on measurable risk reduction through influencing and measuring key employee behaviors. Prior to Habitu8, Chad was co-founder and VP of Engineering at Rapid7 , which he help...

Yonathan Klijnsma is a threat researcher at RiskIQ , leading threat response and analysis efforts with the help of RiskIQ's expansive data set. Both his work and hobbies focus on threat intelligence in the form of profiling threat actors as well as analyzing and taking apart the means by which digital crime groups work. Outside of work Yonathan likes taking things apart and figuring out how they w...

Mike Johnson is the CISO of Lyft , where he is responsible for Security, Data Privacy, and a few other key areas he can't talk about. He's been in the security field long enough to be able to use "decades" as a measure. In his time he's seen things, heard things, and shared his opinion on a great many things. Prior to becoming Lyft's first CISO , he was at Salesforce working in various information...

Jacob Williams is the Founder and President of Rendition Infosec . Jake started his information security career doing classified work with the U.S. government and was awarded the National Security Agency (NSA) Exceptional Civilian Service Award, which is given to fewer than 20 people annually. He's been involved in high-profile public sector cases including the malware analysis for the 2015 c...

Joshua Corman is a Founder of I am The Cavalry (dot org) and CSO for PTC . Josh previously served as Director of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative for the Atlantic Council, CTO for Sonatype, Director of Security Intelligence for Akamai, and in senior research, analyst, & strategy roles. He co-founded RuggedSoftware and IamTheCavalry to encourage new security approaches in response to the world’s...

Ron Gula is the President of  Gula Tech Adventures . Ron started his cybersecurity career as a network penetration tester for the NSA. At BBN, he developed network honeypots to lure hackers and he ran US Internetworking's team of penetration testers and incident responders. As CTO of Network Security Wizards, Ron pioneered the art of network security monitoring and produced the Dragon Intrusi...

This is a special episode where my guests actually turn the mics and spotlight on me. In this episode, I speak with  Kristopher Wasserman and  Ricky Brooman , both governance and eDiscovery experts that wanted to get deeper knowledge about cyber security. We discuss how folks in the litigation and eDiscovery world can help, compliment, and jump ship to cyber security. Additionally, we di...

Mark Greisiger has led NetDiligence , a Cyber Risk Assessment and Data Breach Services company, since its inception in 2001. During that time, Mark has been responsible for the creation of highly-focused services that are used by leading cyber liability insurers in the U.S. and U.K. to support both loss-control and education objectives. Prior to joining NetDiligence, Mark spent 12 years in the ins...

Brian Vecci is the Technical Evangelist at Varonis  where he supports a wide range of security initiatives by helping Varonis’ customers and employees get the most out of the company’s products to tackle today’s biggest security challenges. In his 20-year technical career, Brian served as a developer, tech architect, engineer and product manager for companies in financial services, legal...

Cameron Williams is the Founder and CTO of OverWatchID . Cam has more than 22 years of experience as a leader in the cyber security industry. He has led breach mitigation and designed security solutions/countermeasures for leading global companies such as IBM, Boeing, Sony, BP, Chase and Washington Mutual. He has designed and built a multitude of access management systems including privileged acce...