As the CISO-in-Residence of YL Ventures, a cybersecurity-focused venture capital firm, Sounil Yu provides entrepreneurs first-hand insights into product development, customer needs and how global enterprises evaluate cybersecurity vendors and their solutions pre- and post-investment.

Since being named FedEx CISO in January of 2018, Gene Sun has been guided by the principle that the most important factor in any cybersecurity program is trust.

Joyce Hunter is the Executive Director of the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT), a nonprofit cybersecurity and technology think tank. There, she is responsible for building and executing ICIT's mission of improving national security, increasing public and private sector cyber resiliency, and modernizing critical infrastructures.

As Chief Cybersecurity Officer, Kurt John is responsible for overseeing the development and implementation of cybersecurity strategy in Siemens’ largest market, the U.S. In this role, he oversees the coordination of cybersecurity for the enterprise’s products, solutions, services and infrastructure utilized to deliver value to Siemens USA’s customers.

Paul Lanois is Director of Technology, Outsourcing and Privacy at Fieldfisher, a European law firm with practices in many of the world’s dynamic sectors. Lanois provides guidance on information governance, data protection, privacy, cybersecurity and digitalization.

Freepik Company, a graphics resources company headquartered in Europe, recently notified approximately 8.3 million users of a security breach affecting two of its brands Freepik and Flaticon. 

Get to know James Carder, CSO at LogRhythm, who has 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; and oversees both threat and vulnerability management as well as the security operations center (SOC). Carder previously led criminal and national security related investigations at the city, state and federal levels, including those involving the theft of credit card information and Advanced Persistent Threats (APT).

Security executives on the move! Which industry leaders have recently begun new roles?

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is looking for public and private sector experts to take part in an exercise that will evaluate the digital forensics community’s ability to conduct mobile- and computer-based investigations.

Cybersecurity is one of our customers’ most common concerns when choosing a cloud access control system, and with good reason.