Building an Intelligence-Led Security Program

About the Author

Allan Liska is the director of the Technology Alliance Program at iSIGHT Partners and an “accidental” security expert. While Allan has always been good at breaking things, he got his start professionally working as a customer service representative at GEnie Online Services (a long defunct early competitor to AOL), where he would spend his off hours figuring out how users had gain unauthorized access to the system, booting them off, and letting the developers know what needed to be patched. Unknowingly, this was leading him down the path of becoming a security professional. Since then he has work at companies like UUNET and Symantec, helping companies better secure their networks. He has also worked at Boeing trying to break ...