Gene Meltser is the Chief Information Security Officer for the State of Connecticut. Gene has over 20 years in security industry, as technical leader, consultant and penetration tester. Prior to joining the State of CT, Gene was the VP of Security Advisory Services at New York City based NCC Group, where he was responsible for leading all aspects of technical security consulting for NCC Group’s East Coast consulting practice.
Prior to NCC, Gene was a Consulting Practice director at Neohapsis, a pure play security consultancy based in Chicago, IL, which was acquired by Cisco in 2015.
Prior to Neohapsis, Gene has led and delivered strategic and technical consulting projects and for @stake, a pure play security consultancy based on Boston, MA.