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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).

• Metrics
• Team Building
• Quantitative Risk Management
• Governance Risk & Compliance
• DevSecOps

• 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

• 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

Richard Seiersen joined the IANS Faculty in 2017. He delivers deep domain-level expertise to clients in the following areas: security metrics, team building, quantitative risk management, GRC, & DevSecOps.