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Ron is President at Gula Tech Adventures, which focuses on cyber technology, cyber policy and recruiting more people to the cyber workforce. Since 2017, GTA has invested in dozens of cyber start-ups and funds and supported multiple cyber nonprofits and projects. From 2002 to 2016, Ron was the co-founder and CEO of Tenable Network Security. He helped grow the company to 20,000 customers, raise $300...

Bill Brown is an accomplished information technology and information security leader with experience leading M&A Security Due Diligence Response and Remediation, and leading global teams in start-up, mid-size, and Fortune 1000 companies. Currently he is CISO and CIO at Abacus Insights and an advisory board member to ThreatWarrior. He has also held security leadership positions in ClickSoftware...

James Carder is an experienced Chief Security Officer, research and development leader, cyber security services expert, and go to market executive with over 26 years in both corporate security and consulting for public and private companies across various industries, the Fortune 500, and U.S. Government. Currently, he is the Chief Security Officer at iOffice + SpaceIQ. James also served in the Air...

Ian Amit is an executive manager in the security and software industry with vast experience in multiple fields - from enterprise security, through retail, to end-user software, large back-end systems, corporate security policy, regulatory compliance, and strategy. He has spoken at various customer-focused seminars such as DEFCON, RSA, BlackHat, BSides, and many more.    LinkedIn: https://www.linke...

Tanya Janca, also known as SheHacksPurple, is the author of ‘Alice and Bob Learn Application Security’. She is also the founder of We Hack Purple, an online learning academy, community and weekly podcast that revolves around teaching everyone to create secure software. Tanya has been coding and working in IT for over twenty years, won numerous awards, and has been everywhere from startups to publi...

Chris Wysopal is Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Veracode, which pioneered the concept of using automated static binary analysis to discover vulnerabilities in software. In the 1990’s, Chris was one of the original vulnerability researchers at The L0pht, a hacker think tank, where he was one of the first to publicize the risks of insecure software. Chris started his career as software e...

David McLeod is the VP, Chief Information Security Officer at Cox Enterprises. He is an experienced Chief Information Security Officer who has demonstrated success across multiple industries. David has extensive skills in Privacy, Enterprise Risk Management, IT Strategy and Governance, and Information Risk Management. David McLeod LinkedIn

Patti Titus is the Chief Privacy and Information Security Officer at Markel Corporation. She also serves on the Board of Directors for Black Kite and the Girl Scouts of the Commonwealth of Virginia. She was recognized as a 'Woman of Influence' by the Executive Women’s Forum in 2009 and the Silicon Valley Business Journal in 2013. Patti has held numerous leadership positions in the cybersecurity in...

Eric Richard, SVP Engineering and CISO, Hubspot Linkedin SANS Institute

Special thanks to Tom Quinn for joining us in this episode: Tom Quinn on Linkedin MomentumCyber: https://momentumcyber.com/  Girl Security: https://www.girlsecurity.org/

Hello and welcome to the eXecutive Security podcast where we talk to CISOs and other leaders in cybersecurity about a career in this industry, specifically how to get into it, and how to advance. My name is Gene Fay and I'm the CEO of ThreatX an API security company and the host of the eXecutive Security podcast. I started this podcast because of my two passions, cybersecurity and helping people f...