The cybersecurity world is continually changing and global businesses are looking to leaders to help them protect vital digital assets.
Digital transformation is continually surging, with disruptive technologies like AI working to advance the sector, but also causing threats to it. As a result, the threat landscape continues to mutate, with threat actors around the world seeking to exploit valuable data and conduct a range of sophisticated attacks on services.
Such rapid rates of advancement have posed considerable challenges for companies, but there is a solution. Here, Cyber Magazine showcases some of the most pivotal and transformative figures in cybersecurity who are committed to keeping both enterprise and personal data safe.
These individuals have extensive experience in the cybersecurity industry and are committed leaders with world-class insights.
10. Hao-Wei Chen
- Job Title: Senior Director, Head of Information Security, Taiwan at Coupang
- Location: Seattle, Washington (United States)
- Sector: E-commerce
Hao-Wei Chen is a cybersecurity professional who holds more than two decades of experience in offensive and defensive advanced threats and security engineering. Having relocated to Seattle with Coupang, the largest online marketplace in South Korea, his role is to oversee cybersecurity strategies within the company.
His previous role saw him working at tech giant Amazon for nearly 10 years, working as Director of Information Security within his last year at the company. In addition, he worked at Trend Micro and the Ministry of National Defence in Taiwan.
9. Troy Hunt
- Job Title: Founder and CEO of Have I Been Pwned
- Location: Gold Coast (Australia)
- Sector: Consulting
A renowned cybersecurity expert, Troy Hunt is a web security consultant known for public education and outreach on security topics. He is the founder and CEO of Have I Been Pwned: an organisation that helps individuals find out if their private information has been exposed in a data breach.
As a result, Troy has been instrumental in uncovering hundreds of threats. He has also authored several popular security-related courses on Pluralsight and regularly presents keynotes and workshops on security topics.
8. Renee Forney
- Job Title: Deputy CISO and Head of Fintech Governance, Risk and Compliance at Meta
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
- Sector: Technology
Renee Forney is well-versed in technology leadership, strategic planning and cybersecurity talent acquisition for federal and state agencies as well as the private sector, having managed cybersecurity-related projects for a range of organisations.
She has worked as a Senior Director at Microsoft and previously been an Executive Director at the US Department of Homeland Security. During her time in federal service, Renee led efforts to establish the Department of Energy’s Distributed Cyber Risk Management Framework and provided executive-level guidance to the White House’s Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative, Cybersecurity National Action Plan and the Defense Industrial Base.
7. Bob Carver
- Job Title: Principal Cybersecurity Threat Intelligence and Analytics at Verizon
- Location: Dallas-Fort Worth (United States)
- Sector: Telecommunications
With more than 25 years of experience in uncovering cybersecurity risks, Bob Carver has been instrumental in interrupting malicious traffic, monitoring botnets and initiating network architecture changes in response to cyberattacks. His expertise lies in threat hunting, discovering unknown threats not found by traditional monitoring solutions.
At Verizon, he develops and executes the company’s strategy to accelerate cyber threat intelligence, leveraging data analysis to boost its risk management programme. He works with the company’s threat intelligence team and advises on cybersecurity, technology and IoT projects.
6. Sarah Armstrong-Smith
- Job Title: Chief Security Advisor (EMEA) at Microsoft
- Location: England (United Kingdom)
- Sector: Technology
With more than 25 years of experience in cybersecurity, Sarah Armstrong-Smith has had a long and impactful career. Operating at the forefront of the cybersecurity industry, she has guided businesses through digital attacks and taught organisations how to better protect their data. She specialises in disaster recovery, crisis management and female representation in STEM.
Having worked with Microsoft EMEA since 2020, Sarah now works across digital transformation and cloud adoption. She offers advice to business customers across Europe on cybersecurity strategies and bolstering cyber defences.
Her second book Understand the Cyber Attacker Mindset was published in March 2024.
5. Sushila Nair
- Job Title: Vice President, Head of Cybersecurity Services at Capgemini Americas
- Location: Virginia (United States)
- Sector: Consulting
Sushila Nair holds more than 25 years of experience as a thought leader, practitioner and presenter in information security. With her strong background in audit and compliance, she has been a notable leader in business strategy development, sales enablement and product development across numerous Fortune 500 companies.
4. Kory Daniels
- Job Title: Chief Information Security Officer at Trustwave
- Location: New York (United States)
- Sector: Cybersecurity
Kory Daniels holds a robust commitment to excellence as Trustwave’s CISO. His work within the company has seen him spearhead initiatives in risk management, corporate resilience, strategic growth and digital trust. In his leadership role, his teams at Trustwave are vital in advancing the company’s compliance and cyber defence—all working to maintain the trust of its clients and the wider industry.
Prior to Trustwave, Kory worked for IBM as part of its Security Services Division, assessing and transforming clients to build upon their security plans and technology targets.
3. Phil Venables
- Job Title: VP at Google / Chief Information Security Officer at Google Cloud
- Location: New York (United States)
- Sector: Technology
A specialist in information and cybersecurity, cloud services, enterprise risk and technology risk, Phil Venables boasts significant experience across multiple industries around the world. His current work at Google Cloud sees him lead risk, security, compliance and privacy teams.
Since 2021, Phil has also worked on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) as part of the team that advises the President of the United States on policy matters where the understanding of science, technology and innovation is crucial.
2. Danny Jenkins
- Job Title: CEO and co-founder at ThreatLocker
- Location: Orlando, Florida (United States)
- Sector: Cybersecurity
Danny Jenkins is a leading cybersecurity expert with more than two decades of experience in building and securing corporate networks. His dedication to educating industry professionals about the latest cyber threats is unmatched, as he frequently speaks on the topics of ransomware, zero trust and zero-day vulnerabilities.
Renowned for his leadership in IT and cybersecurity, Danny holds in-depth technical knowledge of corporate IT systems, active directory, networks and databases.
He co-founded Orlando-based cybersecurity firm ThreatLocker, before becoming CEO in 2017. ThreatLocker provides zero-trust endpoint security and uses a complex set of rules to determine what can be executed on a network, stopping anything that has not been approved.
1. Bret Arsenault
- Job Title: Corporate Vice President and Chief Cybersecurity Advisor at Microsoft
- Location: Washington (United States)
- Sector: Technology
Bret Arsenault has worked at Microsoft for nearly 35 years and has seen a lot of changes to the digital world during that time. As an information security leader, he currently acts as a key advisor to senior and security leadership teams across sectors like engineering, products, risk and resiliency.
At Microsoft, Bret is Chief Cybersecurity Advisor responsible for escalating the company’s impact across the entire ecosystem. He helps the company advance the way it designs, builds, tests and operates its technology to ensure it delivers solutions of the highest security standards, particularly within a fast-paced era of AI.
Having held a career-long reputation for turning insights into action, Bret is a transformational cybersecurity leader. He has consistently been a driving force for strategic impact and developing world-class security solutions around the world.
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