Jake Kouns is the CISO for Risk Based Security that provides
vulnerability and data breach intelligence to help organizations
address their real risks. He oversees the operations of OSVDB.org and
DataLossDB.org. Mr. Kouns has presented at many well-known security
conferences including RSA, Black Hat, DEF CON, CISO Executive Summit,
EntNet IEEE GlobeCom, FIRST, CanSecWest, SOURCE, SyScan and many more.
He is the co-author of the book Information Technology Risk Management
in Enterprise Environments, Wiley, 2010 and The Chief Information
Security Officer, IT Governance, 2011. He has briefed the DHS and
Pentagon on Cyber Liability Insurance issues and is frequently
interviewed as an expert in the security industry by Information Week,
eWeek, Processor.com, Federal Computer Week, Government Computer News
and SC Magazine. He has appeared on CNN as well as the Brian Lehrer
Show and was featured on the cover of SCMagazine. He holds both a
Bachelor of Business Administration and a Master of Business
Administration with a concentration in Information Security from James
Madison University. In addition, he holds a number of certifications
including ISC2's CISSP, and ISACA's CISM, CISA and CGEIT.