Bob Maley

Bob Maley, Inventor, CISO, Author, Futurist and OODA Loop fanatic is currently the Chief Security Officer at Black Kite, a technology company that specializes in cybersecurity intelligence gathering and analysis used in assessing potential impact of cyber events at third parties.

Bob has been involved in security for most of his career, initially in physical security as a law enforcement officer. He has acquired a broad range of experience and expertise in all areas of security. This includes third-party security, risk assessment, architecture, design, policy development, deployment, incident response and investigation and enterprise solution deployments in areas including intrusion detection, data protection, compliance, and incident reporting and response.

Prior to assuming the Chief Security Officer role at Black Kite Bob was the head of PayPal’s Global Third-Party Security & Inspections team, developing the program from the ground up into a state-of-the-art risk management program.

In a previous role as chief information security officer for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, he led the Pennsylvania Information Security Architecture program to win the 2007 award for outstanding achievement in information technology by the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO).

Bob has been named a CSO of the Year finalist for the SC Magazine Awards and was nominated as the Information Security Executive of the Year, North America. Additionally, his team was a finalist in the SC Magazine Awards for Best Security Team. Bob’s certifications include CRISC, CTPRP, OpenFAIR and CCSK. His expertise has been quoted in numerous articles, including Forbes, Payments.com, StateTech Magazine, SC Magazine, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Dark Reading and numerous others. He has been published in numerous whitepapers, the IEEE Journal, and his first book, What Every Engineer Should Know About Cybersecurity and Digital Forensics, will be released in December.