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Aaron Turner

IANS Faculty

Expertise

  • Identity & Access Management (IAM)
  • Applied Machine Learning
  • Mobile Device Security
  • Embedded System Vulnerabilities
  • International Cybersecurity Risk Management
Profile | Expertise | Achievements | Qualifications | Upcoming Events | Publications

Profile

Aaron is a three-decade veteran of the cybersecurity community, having worked on projects covering every aspect of the industry, from helping build security technologies while at Microsoft to his work on offensive cyber projects for the U.S. government. He has spent the last 15 years on a series of cybersecurity startups, building technologies and developing companies to help teams solve some of the toughest cybersecurity problems.

Expertise

  • Identity & Access Management (IAM)
  • Applied Machine Learning
  • Mobile Device Security
  • Embedded System Vulnerabilities
  • International Cybersecurity Risk Management

Qualifications

Achievements & Contributions
  • Congressional witness to help set policy for US critical infrastructure protection
  • Winner of SC Media's 2019 Top Executive Leaders of the Last 30 Years award
  • Information security leader for the Government of Luxemborg’s Technoport® business incubation program
  • Testified before the US House of Representatives to help shape national critical infrastructure protection strategy in 2007
  • Interviewed for NBC Washington News and AP News on cellular network vulnerabilities
  • VP of Security Research and Development at Verifone after 2015 Terreo acquisition
  • Former Co-Founder and CEO of Terreo, an IoT security company focused on credit card skimming detection
  • Former Co-Founder and CEO of RFinity, a mobile payment technology company that was eventually sold to a global mobile network operator in 2010
  • Former Security Strategist at the Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory investigating the impact of system vulnerabilities in commodity software on public utilities funded by the DHS, DOE, and DOD. He was on the team which conducted the ‘Aurora’ attack against a simulated power grid.
  • Founding Member of many Microsoft information security teams (1999-2006) and coordinated field security testing of Microsoft technologies such as Active Directory, SQL Server, Exchange Server, BitLocker, Windows Update, and Windows Firewall.
  • Recognized by Bill Gates for technical excellence and leadership during security incidents involving Microsoft technologies in 2000 and 2003
Certifications & Credentials
  • JD Candidate – Dedman School of Law, Southern Methodist University
  • BA, Spanish Linguistics – Brigham Young University

Upcoming Events

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May 22 2025

2025 Q2 Symposium: IAM: Increase Efficiencies and Scale Your Program Using Automation and More

The complexities of IAM are often referred to as "intractable problems" for a reason -- burdensome and broken processes can overwhelm teams. Traditionally, IAM programs rely on manual processes that are cumbersome, time-consuming and difficult to manage and scale. In this symposium, we explore how to transform key areas of your IAM program to streamline operations and boost team efficiency.

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