What Happened?
Carlsbad, CA-based NSS Labs has Promoted John Pirc as Chief Technology Officer
About the Company
NSS Labs, Inc. is the world`s leading information security company. Focused exclusively on IT security, NSS is known as the world’s security product testing laboratory, offering in-depth security product test reports, research, and analyst services. Upon this foundation, NSS has built the Cyber Advanced Warning SystemTM – a revolutionary cloud-based security and risk management platform that lets clients see where they are at risk. Through these unique offerings, NSS delivers unparalleled cyber risk management guidance. CEOs, CIOs, CISOs, and information security professionals from many of the largest and most demanding enterprises around the world rely on NSS to help them succeed in getting the most out of their security investments.
About the Person
As Chief Technology Officer, John Pirc is responsible for aligning the technology vision with the business strategy for all aspects of NSS Labs including advanced R&D, engineering and all real-time threat data analytics that are applied to NSS Labs’ live testing harness and threat forecasting. Pirc is a noted security intelligence and cybercrime expert, an author and a renowned speaker, with more than 15 years of experience across all areas of security. The co-author of two books, “Blackhatonomics: An Inside Look at the Economics of Cybercrime” (published in December 2012), and “Cyber Crime and Espionage” (published in February 2011), Pirc has been named a security thought leader from the SANS Institute and speaks at top tier security conferences worldwide. Pirc’s extensive expertise in the security field includes roles in cybersecurity research and development for the Central Intelligence Agency, Chief Technology Officer at CSG LTD, Product Manager at Cisco, Product Line Executive for Security Products at IBM Internet Security Systems, Director of McAfee's Network Defense Business Unit and, most recently, Director of Security Intelligence at HP Enterprise Security Products, where he led the strategy for next generation security products. In addition to a bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Pirc holds the NSA-IAM and CEH certifications.
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