Chris Hallenbeck, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for the Americas at Tanium, says he got the “security bug” when he worked as a student consultant in the computer lab at Binghamton University in New York.
After a promotion to a Unix System Administrator, 40 computers were compromised in the school’s Engineering department. No one had a solution to the problem. “They were going to nuke the machines, reinstall them and move on, rather than try to dive into understanding how it occurred to prevent this from happening again,” he says.