Rick is the CEO and cofounder of the Cybercanon Project, an all-volunteer nonprofit seeking to be the infosec community’s first source for curated and timeless cybersecurity wisdom (a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame for cybersecurity books). His prior jobs include Chief Security Officer and podcast host at The Cyberwire (a cybersecurity podcasting network), CSO for Palo Alto Networks (a security vendor), CISO for TASC (a government contractor), GM for iDefense (a commercial cyber threat intelligence service at Verisign), Global SOC Director for Counterpane (one of the original MSSPs), and Chief of the U.S. Army’s Computer Emergency Response Team where he coordinated defense, intelligence and attack operations for the Army's global network. He was one of the founding organizers of the Cyber Threat Alliance (an ISAC for security vendors) and is an advisor to Tidal Cyber (a startup that operationalizes the MITRE ATT&CK framework), the Center for Internet Security (a nonprofit setting cyber benchmarks), and Resilience (a security vendor that forecasts risk using insurance data). Rick holds a Master of Computer Science from the Naval Postgraduate School and an engineering degree from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, where he taught computer science from 1993 to 1999. He is currently a seminar instructor in Carnegie Mellon University’s CISO-Executive Program, where he teaches a biannual module on Cybersecurity First Principles. He has published one book on cybersecurity and has served as the executive editor for two others.