Chris Novak has a 20-plus-year track record of building and growing cybersecurity talent and successful teams. As Director of Verizon’s Threat Research Advisory Center (VTRAC), Novak has developed his current team to support both public and private sector clients across more than 100 countries with a truly global reach. The team provides a multitude of services, including digital forensics, incident response, cyber threat intelligence and penetration testing, among others. At Verizon, Novak also routinely leads the organization’s CISO Customer Advisory Board meetings, where he helps facilitate conversations between chief information security officers (CISOs) on important and timely topics.
Back when Novak first found himself designing and implementing basic security controls for organizations more than two decades ago, he found many organizations lacking security in their products, processes and operations.