Rick is the CEO of the Cybercanon Project, an all-volunteer nonprofit seeking to be the Infosec Community’s first source for curated and timeless cybersecurity wisdom. His prior jobs include Chief Security Officer and podcast host at The Cyberwire (a cybersecurity podcasting network), CSO for Palo Alto Networks (a security vendor), CISO for TASC (government contractor), GM for iDefense (A commercial cyber threat intelligence service at Verisign), Global SOC Director for Counterpane (one of the original MSSPs), and Chief of the U.S. Army’s Computer Emergency Response Team where he coordinated network defense, network intelligence and network attack operations for the Army’s global network. He was one of the founding organizers of the Cyber Threat Alliance (an ISAC for security vendors) and he is one of the co-founders of the Cybercanon Project; a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame for cybersecurity books. He is an advisor to Tidal Cyber (a startup that operationalizes the MITRE ATT&CK framework), the Center for Internet Security (a nonprofit setting cyber benchmarks), and Resilience (a security vendor that forecasts risk using insurance data). Rick holds a Master of Computer Science degree from the Naval Postgraduate School and an engineering degree from the US Military Academy. He taught computer science at the Academy from 1993 to 1999 and is a seminar instructor at Carnegie Mellon University’s CISO-Executive Program teaching a bi-annual module on Cybersecurity First Principles. He has published one book on cybersecurity and has been the executive editor for two others.