Tyler Shields
IANS Faculty
Tyler is Vice President of Strategy for Sonatype, a security and DevOps software vendor, headquartered in Fulton, Maryland. His previous roles include starting, leading, and growing security technology companies including CA Technologies, Signal Sciences, Veracode, Symantec, LURHQ, and @Stake. Tyler is an active investor, board member, and advisor to numerous young cyber security firms.
Expertise
- Application Security
- DevSecOps
- Cloud Security
- Containers
- Mobile Device Security
Achievements & Contributions
- Authored and published research papers on the detection of rootkit and anti-debugging technology with static analysis techniques
- Authored the world’s first mobile spyware system targeting Blackberry phones
- Expert commentator featured in Rolling Stone, Bloomberg, Forbes, Reuters, and the LA Times
- Contributor to multiple television and radio interviews for both National Public Radio and the BBC
Certifications & Credentials
- MBA - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- MS, Computer Science - James Madison University
- BS, Information Technology - Rochester Institute of Technology