CISOs: Always be a Student, Always be Learning – Phil Attfield – CSP #24
Phil Attfield, CEO and founder at Sequitur Labs, discusses his engineering roots and curius nature that led him to developing software tools and in-house products for modeling, synthesis and verification of telecom and network equipment hardware at Nortel. Phil the challenges involved in development of large-scale security policy and management frameworks and the key security elements of the IoT device lifecycle from design, to build, to sustaining securely. This segment is sponsored by Cybereason. Visit https://www.cybereason.com/cisostories to learn more about them!
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Phil Attfield brings a strong background in computing, networking, security and systems modeling. He has more than 20 years of industry experience in large enterprises and small entrepreneurial firms.
Starting his career at Nortel, Phil was a member of its scientific staff and developed software tools and in-house products for modeling, synthesis and verification of telecom and network equipment hardware.
Later, Phil founded Signal 9 Solutions, a firm that pioneered PC/desktop firewalls and created the Conseal brand of security products. Phil served as CEO until the company was acquired by McAfee® during the rapid broadband expansion phase of the Internet. Phil then joined the Phantom Works/R&D division of The Boeing Company where he led the team responsible for the development of a large-scale security policy and management framework.
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Sam Curry is CSO at Cybereason and is a Visiting Fellow at the National Security Institute. Previously, Sam was CTO and CISO for Arbor Networks (NetScout) and was CSO and SVP R&D at MicroStrategy in addition to holding senior security roles at McAfee and CA. He spent 7 years at RSA, the Security Division of EMC as Chief Technologist and SVP of Product. Sam also has over 20 patents in security from his time as a security architect, has been a leader in two successful startups and is a board member of the Cybersecurity Coalition, of SSH Communications and of Sequitur Labs.
