John’s current role is that of Director- Security Solutions for the West area at Forsythe Technology. John brings over 19 years outstanding security industry accomplishments and credibility. John was most recently the Co-Founder and CSO of Bricata, LLC and prior to that was the CTO at NSS Labs. Previously, John had responsibility for all Security products at Hewlett Packard/TippingPoint/HP Security Research as well as Director of product management with both IBM Security and Cisco running billion-dollar product portfolios. John is a published author and frequently takes the stage to speak at Security industry functions. John’s greatest professional achievements include working for the Central Intelligence Agency, authoring three books, being published in Time Magazine, speaking at RSA SF & Asia and being featured on live TV with CNBC, giving his expert opinion on Syria’s cyber capabilities.