Chester Wisniewski is Director, International Area CTO 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 Nineteen Eighties, and has since been a lifelong pursuit.
Chester works with Sophos X-Ops researchers around the globe to know the most recent tendencies, analysis and felony 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 data permits 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 recurrently 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 well known as one of many trade’s prime safety researchers and is recurrently consulted by press, showing on BBC Information, ABC, NBC, Bloomberg, Washington Publish, CBC, NPR, and extra.
When not busy combating cybercrime, Chester spends his free time cooking, biking, and mentoring new entrants to the safety subject via his volunteer work with InfoSec BC. Chester is obtainable on Mastodon (securitycafe.ca/@chetwisniewski).
For press inquiries, e-mail chesterw [AT] sophos [.] com.
