richard-seirsen

Richard Seiersen

IANS Faculty

Expertise

  • Metrics
  • Team Building
  • Quantitative Risk Management
  • Governance Risk & Compliance
  • DevSecOps

Profile

Richard is the Chief Risk Officer at Resilience. Prior to joining Resilience in 2021, he was the co-founder and president of Soluble, a cloud security company sold to Lacework in October 2021. He was previously the CISO of Twilio, GE Healthcare and Lending Club. He is the co-author of “How To Measure Anything In Cybersecurity Risk” (July 2016) and author of “The Metrics Manifesto: Confronting Security with Data” (March 2022).

Expertise

  • Metrics
  • Team Building
  • Quantitative Risk Management
  • Governance Risk & Compliance
  • DevSecOps

Qualifications

Achievements & Contributions
  • Author of The Metrics Manifesto: Confronting Security with Data (2020)
  • Co-Author of How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk (2016)
  • Speaker at information security conferences such as RSA and Black Hat
  • Former Adjunct Faculty at Carnegie Mellon Universityin their DoD CISO program
  • Former CISO & SVP at LendingClub, a peer-to-peer lending company
  • Former CISO & VP of Trust at Twilio Inc., a cloud communications platform SaaS company
  • Former VP & General Manager of Cyber Security and Privacy at GE Healthcare
  • Former Director of Cyber Security at Kaiser Permanente
Certifications & Credentials
  • Graduate Coursework, Predictive Analytics – Northwestern University
  • MA, Counseling: Emphasis Decision Analysis - John F. Kennedy University
  • BM, Classical Guitar Performance – California State University, Northridge
  • CISSP – (ISC)2
  • CREA – Information Assurance Certification Review Board (IACRB)
  • GIAC Systems and Network Auditor – GIAC

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