eXecutive Security

Lauren is just starting her career in cybersecurity. She has a bachelor’s degree in cybersecurity from Champlain College and is a SOC Analyst at ThreatX.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurencampanara/ 

Ray has more than 15 years of experience in the information security space and is currently CISO at Inspectiv. He has held leadership positions at numerous organizations including, Cobalt.io, Amazon, Proofpoint, and Cisco.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ray-espinoza-b399821/ 

Black Girls in Cyber: https://www.blackgirlsincyber.com 

Maarten Van Horenbeeck, who is the chief information security officer at Zendesk, has more than 15 years of experience managing security organizations, which includes building the cybersecurity-threat intelligence team at Amazon, and working on the security teams at Google and Microsoft. He is also a former board member and Chairman of the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST).

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maartenv/

Chaos Computer Club: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Computer_Club 

NIST: https://www.nist.gov  

MITRE: https://www.mitre.org 

Rand Institute: https://www.rand.org 

FIRST: https://www.first.org 

Cloud Security Alliance: https://cloudsecurityalliance.org 

Defcon:  https://defcon.org  
Black Hat: https://www.blackhat.com 

Jim Routh has a long history in technology and cybersecurity as a leader and management consultant. He was formerly a cybersecurity leader for many large companies including MassMutual, CVS Health, Aetna, and JP Morgan Chase. He is also the former Board Chair for the Health Information Sharing & Analysis Center (H-ISAC) where he served for five years and former Board member for the Financial Services Information Sharing & Analysis Center (FS-ISAC). Jim currently sits on several Boards and acts as an advisor for several cybersecurity companies and venture funds. Jim brings to the boards a vast business and technology background and is considered a digital and cyber security industry expert and thought leader. Finally, Jim is an ICIT Fellow and an Adjunct Faculty member for NYU.

The Role of Cybersecurity Leaders as Educators: https://icitech.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/ICIT-Fellow-Perspective-The-Role-of-Cybersecurity-Leaders-as-Educators.pdf
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jmrouth/ 

Jim Routh's Book List:
Cybersecurity and Cyberwar by Singer and Friedman

Dark Territory by Kaplan

The Perfect Weapon by Sanger

Sandworm by Greenberg

The Cuckoo’s Egg by Stoll

Spam Nation by Krebs

Future Crimes by Goodman

Data and Goliath by Schneier

Confront and Conceal by Sanger

The Fifth Domain by Clarke

America the Vulnerable by Brenner

The Code Book by Singh

Algorithms to Live By by Christian and Griffiths

Your Government Failed You by Clarke

Sting of the Drone by Clarke

Countdown to Zero Day by Zetter

Software Security: Building Security In by McGraw

@War by Harris

Fight Fire With Fire by Tarun

Kingpin by Poulsen

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Zuboff

The Internet in Everything by DeNardis

Senior Cyber by Schober

CISO Compass by Fitzgerald

This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends by Perlroth

Crimedotcom by White

Big Breaches by Daswani and Elbayadi

Innovating in a Secret World by Srivastava

Cyber Mayday by Lohrmann and Tan

Navigating the Cybersecurity Career Path by Patton

Tribe of Hackers by Carey and Jin

The PtaaS Book by Wong

CyberJutsu by McCarty

Cyber Defense Matrix by Yu

Shape by Ellenberg

So You Want to Talk About Race by Oluo

White Fragility by Diangelo

Hos to Be an Antiracist by Kendi

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 $300m in venture capital and grow revenues to $100m, setting up the company for an IPO in 2018. Prior to Tenable, Ron was a cyber industry pioneer and developed one of the first commercial network intrusion detection systems called Dragon, ran risk mitigation for the first cloud company, was deploying network honeypots in the mid 90s for the DOD and was a penetration tester for the NSA and got to participate in some of the nation's first cyber exercises. Ron was also a captain in the Air Force.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rongula/ 

Gula Tech Adventures: https://www.gula.tech  

Cybrary, Free Cybersecurity Training and Career Development: https://www.cybrary.it/  

SANS Institute: https://www.sans.org   

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, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Veracode, and Iron Mountain.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/billbrownusa/ 

HIPPA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Insurance_Portability_and_Accountability_Act 

Hiitrust: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HITRUST 

PII: https://www.techtarget.com/searchsecurity/definition/personally-identifiable-information-PII 

Cyber Warrior: https://www.cyberwarrior.com/ 

Cloud Security Alliance:  https://success.impartner.com/English/Customer/home.aspx 

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 Force.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carderj/ 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/carderjames 

ISSA: https://www.issa.org/

OWASP: https://owasp.org/ 

Cloud Security Alliance: https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/ 

BSides: https://bsideslv.org/ 

U Minnesota Certificate Program: https://bootcamp.umn.edu/cybersecurity/ 

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.linkedin.com/in/iamit/ 

DEFCON: https://defcon.org

BSides: https://bsideslv.org

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 public service to tech. She values diversity, inclusion, and kindness. 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanya-janca/

Jobs in InfoSec: https://shehackspurple.ca/2022/01/01/jobs-in-information-security-infosec/ 

We Hack Purple Community: https://community.wehackpurple.com/

#CyberMentoringMonday: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23CyberMentoringMonday&src=typed_query&f=live