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Hello World!

I’m the CEO and co-founder of the Cybercanon Project, an all-volunteer nonprofit seeking to be the Infosec Community’s first source for curated and timeless cybersecurity wisdom.

Over a 30-year career, I have served in senior leadership roles across government, industry, and media.

  • Chief Security Officer and podcast host at The CyberWire (a cybersecurity podcasting network), CSO at Palo Alto Networks (a security vendor)

  • CISO at TASC (a U.S. Government Contractor)

  • General Manager of iDefense at VeriSign (a commercial cyber intelligence service.

  • Global SOC Director at Counterpane (one of the original managed security service providers)

  • Chief of the U.S. Army’s Computer Emergency Response Team, where I coordinated network defense, intelligence, and attack operations for the Army’s global network.

  • One of the Founding organizers of the Cyber Threat Alliance (an ISAC for security vendors)

  • I currently advise

  • Tidal Cyber (a startup that operationalizes the MITRE ATT&CK framework)

  • The Center for Internet Security (a nonprofit known for setting cyber benchmarks)

  • Resilience (a security vendor that forecasts risk using insurance data).

I hold a Master of Computer Science from the Naval Postgraduate School and an engineering degree from the U.S. Military Academy. I taught computer science at West Point from 1993 to 1999 and currently serve as a seminar instructor in Carnegie Mellon University’s CISO Executive Program, where I teach a biannual module on Cybersecurity First Principles.

I have authored one book on cybersecurity and served as executive editor on two others.