Richard Seiersen
IANS Faculty
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
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