Chester Wisniewski is Subject CTO Utilized Analysis at next-generation safety chief Sophos. With greater than 25 years of safety expertise, his curiosity in safety and privateness first peaked whereas studying to hack from bulletin board textual content information within the Eighties, and has since been a lifelong pursuit.
Chester works with Sophos X-Ops researchers all over the world to know the most recent traits, analysis and prison behaviors. This attitude helps advance the trade’s understanding of evolving threats, attacker behaviors and efficient safety defenses. Having labored in product administration and gross sales engineering roles earlier in his profession, this information allows him to assist organizations design enterprise-scale protection methods and seek the advice of on safety planning with among the largest world manufacturers.
Primarily based in Vancouver, Chester usually speaks at trade occasions, together with RSA Convention, Virus Bulletin, Safety BSides (Vancouver, London, Wales, Perth, Austin, Detroit, Los Angeles, Boston, and Calgary) and others. He’s widely known as one of many trade’s high safety researchers and is usually consulted by press, showing on BBC Information, ABC, NBC, Bloomberg, Washington Publish, CBC, NPR, and extra.
When not busy preventing cybercrime, Chester spends his free time cooking, biking, and mentoring new entrants to the safety subject by means of his volunteer work with InfoSec BC. Chester is obtainable on Twitter (@chetwisniewski) and Mastodon (securitycafe.ca/@chetwisniewski).
For press inquiries, e mail chesterw [AT] sophos [.] com.
