Tim is fortunate to be a Director in the Office of the CISO for Google Cloud with a focus on the retail sector. Most recently Tim was CISO for Mandiant where Tim and his team got to defend Mandiant and Google Cloud from some of the most sophisticated adversaries in the world. Tim has 40 years in the technology space, starting his professional career in 1984, and has been privileged to work in security since 1994. Over the course of these years he's had the opportunity to work in all aspects of cyber security and has a particular passion for cyber threat intelligence, reverse engineering, and incident response and breach investigation. He's also authored or co-authored 17 books to date as well as spoken frequently internationally at some of the largest cyber security conferences in the world. Ultimately, Tim has a passion for finding and developing talent as he believes that leaving the world a little better than we found it is everyone's responsibility.