Jake Kouns

Jake Kouns is the CISO for Risk Based Security and is a business-focused technology and information security executive with an extensive knowledge base and international experience. He holds both a Bachelor of Business Administration and a Master of Business Administration with a concentration in Information Security from James Madison University. In addition, he holds a number of certifications including ISC2’s CISSP, and ISACA’s CISM, CISA and CGEIT.

Mr. Kouns has presented for Check Point Software Technologies as an expert in global firewall management and intrusion detection. He has presented at many well-known security conferences including the RSA Conference, CISO Executive Summit, EntNet IEEE GlobeCom, FIRST, CanSecWest, SOURCE, DEF CON and SyScan. He is the co-author of the book Security in an IPv6 Environment, Francis and Taylor, 2009, and Information Technology Risk Management in Enterprise Environments, Wiley, 2010. He has also been interviewed as an expert in the security industry by Information Week, eWeek, Processor.com, Federal Computer Week, Government Computer News and SC Magazine. He was featured on the cover of the April 2010 Issue of SCMagazine.