Cyber Security Interviews

Jeremiah Grossman is the CEO of  Bit Discovery . Jeremiah's career spans nearly 20 years and has lived a literal lifetime in computer security to become one of the industry's biggest names. Since Jeremiah earned a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt, the media has described him as "the embodiment of converged IT and physical security.” In 2001, Jeremiah founded WhiteHat Security , which today...

Robert M. Lee is the CEO and Founder of the industrial (ICS/IIoT) cyber security company Dragos, Inc . He is also a non-resident National Cybersecurity Fellow at New America focusing on policy issues relating to the cyber security of critical infrastructure. For his research and focus areas, Robert was named one of Passcode’s Influencers , awarded EnergySec’s Cyber Security Professional of the Yea...

Chris Roberts is the Chief Security Architect at  Acalvio and is regarded as one of the world’s foremost experts on counter threat intelligence within the cyber security industry. At Acalvio, Chris helps drive Technology Innovation and Product Leadership. In addition, Roberts directs a portfolio of services within Acalvio designed to improve the physical and digital security posture of both e...

Keith McCammon is the Chief Security Officer and Co-founder of Red Canary in Denver, CO. Keith runs Red Canary’s Security Operations Center and leads a group of expert analysts that monitor a continuous stream of potential attacks detected in their customers’ environments. Keith is a known expert in offensive cyber computing and defensive IT security from his background as Director of Commercial S...

Tom Brennan is the Founder of Proactive Risk with two decades of hands on the keyboard experience building, breaking and defending data for clients worldwide. He is a an alumni of McAfee, Intel Security, SafeCode, Trustwave, WhiteHat, ADP, Datek Online, and the United States Marines. Tom served the OWASP Foundation as an elected member of the Global Board of Directors for ten years. He also f...

Cody Cornell is the Founder and CEO of Swimlane . Cody is responsible for the strategic direction of Swimlane and the development of it’s security operations management platform. Collaborating with industry leading technology vendors, he works to identify opportunities to streamline and automate security activities saving customer operations costs and reducing risk. In 2011, Cody co-founded Phoeni...

Bret Fund is the CEO of SecureSet . As a founder of the business in 2014, he has led the growth of the organization from startup to multiple programs and campuses. He oversees the growth, strategy and financial operations for the company. As a former professor, Bret has a great passion for and a strong executional focus on providing students with a quality education and success in the placement pr...

Kristinn Gudjonsson is a manager with the Detection & Response team at Google , where he has been for the last 6 1/2 years. Kristinn joined Google in 2011 as part of the incident response team, investigating and responding to security incidents, before making the move to management, where he now oversees the digital forensics and incident management teams in Sunnyvale, CA. Prior to his managem...

James Carder  is the CISO of LogRythm and brings more than 19 years of experience working in corporate IT security and consulting for the Fortune 500 and U.S. Government. At LogRhythm, he develops and maintains the company’s security governance model and risk strategies, protects the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information assets, oversees both threat and vulnerability man...

David Navetta is a US co-chair of Norton Rose Fulbright's Data Protection, Privacy and Cybersecurity practice group. David focuses on technology, privacy, information security and intellectual property law. His work ranges from compliance and transactional work to breach notification, regulatory response and litigation. David currently serves as "breach coach" or is on the approved panel for numer...

Jared Michael Coseglia , founder and CEO of TRU Staffing Partners , has over fourteen years of experience representing talent in e-discovery and cybersecurity. He has successfully placed over 2500 professionals in full-time and temporary positions at the Fortune 1000, AmLaw 200, Cyber 500, Big Four, and throughout the ESI and cyber consultancy, service provider and software community. His ability...

Andrew Hay is an information security industry veteran with close to 20 years of experience as a security practitioner, industry analyst, and executive. As the Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for LEO Cyber Security , he is a member of the senior executive leadership team responsible for the creation and driving of the strategic vision for the company. Prior to LEO, Andrew served as...

Michelangelo Sidagni serves as Chief Technology Officer leading technical development, security research, and operations for NopSec . Prior to NopSec, Michelangelo was the Director of IT Security Services at Ciphertechs and served as a lead internal security consultant at Blue Cross Blue Shield advising on HIPAA security compliance and privacy initiatives. Michelangelo holds numerous professional...

James Tarala is a principal consultant with Enclave Security and is based out of Venice, Florida. James Tarala has been a speaker with the SANS Institute , the Institute of Applied Network Security (IANS), and the Center for Internet Security for over 20 years. He has spoken at RSA for numerous years and has enjoyed the chance to bring the experiences from working hands on with organizations into...

SANS Senior Instructor Eric Conrad is the lead author of SANS MGT414: SANS Training Program for CISSP® Certification , and coauthor of both SANS SEC511: Continuous Monitoring and Security Operations and SANS SEC542: Web App Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking . He is also the lead author of the books the CISSP Study Guide , and the Eleventh Hour CISSP: Study Guide . Eric's career began in 1991...

Dr. Johannes Ullrich is currently responsible for the SANS Internet Storm Center (ISC) and the GIAC Gold program . In 2000, he founded DShield.org , which is now the data collection engine behind the ISC. His work with the ISC has been widely recognized, and in 2004, Network World named him one of the 50 most powerful people in the networking industry. Prior to working for SANS, Johannes...

Jorge Orchilles , author of Microsoft Windows 7 Administrator’s Reference , holds a Masters of Science in Management Information Systems from Florida International University, leads a security team in a large financial institution, and serves on the board of the Information Systems Security Association South Florida Chapter. Jorge has been involved in the Information Technology field since 2001. R...

David Kovar is the President and founder of Kovar & Associates where he leads the development of URSA – Unmanned & Robotics Systems Analysis – a suite of tools designed to collect, integrate, analyze, and present UAV related data for many purposes including fleet management, criminal investigations, failure analysis, and predictive analysis. He also leads the firm’s consulting practice whi...

Harlan Carvey is currently the Director of Intelligence Integration at Nuix . Harlan has been involved in information security for 28 years, which began during his military career. After leaving active duty 20 years ago, he started in consulting, performing vulnerability assessments and penetration testing. From there, it was a natural progression to digital forensics and incident response se...

Perry Carpenter currently serves as Chief Evangelist and Strategy Officer for KnowBe4 . Previously, Perry led security awareness, security culture management, and anti-phishing behavior management research at Gartner Research , in addition to covering areas of IAM strategy, CISO Program Management mentoring, and Technology Service Provider success strategies. With a long career as a security profe...

Ryan Kalember has over 15-years of experience in the information security industry. Ryan currently leads cybersecurity strategy for Proofpoint and is a sought-out expert for media commentary on breaches and best practices for enterprises as well as consumers. He joined Proofpoint from WatchDox where he served as chief marketing officer and was responsible for successfully building and leading the...

Jobert Abma is a co-founder and technical lead at HackerOne , one of the leading bug bounty service platforms. He is an avid hacker, developer and advocate for transparent and safe vulnerability disclosure. He and co-founder Michiel Prins have been named one of Forbes 30 under 30 for 2017 in tech . As a hacker himself, Jobert has reported critical vulnerabilities to GitLab, Yahoo, Slack, Snap...

Joseph Carson is a cyber security professional and ethical hacker with more than 25 years’ experience in enterprise security specializing in blockchain, endpoint security, network security, application security & virtualization, access controls, and privileged account management. He currently serves as Chief Security Scientist at Thycotic . Joseph is a Certified Information Systems Securi...

This is a solo episode between interviews. I have been doing IT and security consulting for a long time. Over this time, I have noticed a few things that are worth noting when hiring a security consultant. In fact, I would say until you perform some basics and perform some due diligence on your own, don't hire me or any other security consultant. Yes, this seems a little counter intuitive for me t...

Brett Shavers is a consultant to corporations and government agencies in computer related cases as well as being the author of " Placing the Suspect Behind the Keyboard ", co-author of " Hiding Behind the Keyboard " and co-author of the “ X-Ways Forensics Practitioner's Guide ." Brett began his career as a digital forensics investigator in law enforcement and was trained by the Federal Law Enforce...