The Chief Information Security Officer
Barry Kouns is a security and risk management expert with over 25 years of experience in information security consulting, risk assessment and quality management. Barry formed and operates SQM-Advisors, an information security, risk assessment and IT service management firm that has led eight organisations to ISO/IEC 27001:2005 certification. He is frequently quoted in magazines and news articles on information security and has held the position of Trainer for the British Standards Institute (BSI). He holds a BS in Statistics and an MS in Industrial Engineering Management. Barry has earned the CISSP designation and is a trained ISO/IEC/27001 Lead Auditor and ISMS Implementer, and is ITIL Foundation certified.  Jake Kouns has an MBA with a concentration in Information Security from James Madison University. He holds a number of certifications including CISSP, CISM, CISA and CGEIT. He is currently Director of Cyber Security and Technology Risks Underwriting for Markel Corporation, a specialty insurance company. He has presented at many well-known security conferences including RSA, CISO Executive Summit, EntNet IEEE GlobeCom, CanSecWest, and SyScan. He is the co-author of Information Technology Risk Management in Enterprise Environments, and has also been interviewed numerous times as an expert in the security industry. Jake is the co-founder, CEO, and CFO of the Open Security Foundation (OSF), a non-profit organisation that oversees the operations of the Open Source Vulnerbility Database (OSVDB.org) and DataLossDB.