Ep. 80 Nick Selby

Nick Selby Talks Data...Big Data

What happens when you use data instead of anecdotes to

study the information behind police shootings? You get facts and

not rhetoric. You get a place to start a real conversation about

situations that need a deeper look.It's amazing what Nick Selby and

his team are doing with data research to get to the bottom of the

real story. You can't argue with facts and physics and when those

get backed up by data, you have a pretty solid foundation for

understanding. 

You have to go look at the study that the team put together

here:

Police Killings In Context

About Nick Selby

Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder

StreetCred CEO and co-Founder Nick Selby was sworn as a

police officer in 2010, and currently serves as an investigator at

a police agency in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. His focus is on

crimes that leverage the Internet, such as fraud, organized retail

crime, identity theft and child exploitation.

He was an information security analyst and consultant for ten

years, and has worked in physical security and intelligence

consulting in various roles since 1993. He is co-author of

Blackhatonomics: An Inside Look at the Economics of Cybercrime

(Syngress, 2012) and technical editor of Investigating Internet

Crimes (Syngress, 2013).

In 2005 he established the information security practice at

industry analyst firm The 451 Group, where he conducted in-depth

interviews with and consulted more than 1000 technology vendors,

and a range of Fortune 1000 and government clients. In 2007 he was

appointed 451’s VP of Research Operations. Since 2008 he has

focused on law enforcement intelligence, while managing a boutique

consultancy that provided cyber-incident response services to

Fortune 250 companies.

He co-founded StreetCred Software, Inc., in 2012.

Nick has consulted hundreds of venture-backed startups on

understanding their competitive landscape, on product development

and feature enhancements, user interface and security. He has

consulted US and European governments, more than 80 investment

banks, more than 20 venture capital firms: on the investment side,

to better understand the technology and landscape of the companies

into which they invested, and on the operations side on securing

their intellectual property and processes.