James Arlen, CISA, is a senior consultant at Leviathan Security Group providing security consulting services to the utility and financial verticals. He has been involved with implementing a practical level of information security in Fortune 500, TSE 100, and major public-sector corporations for 18+ years. James is also a contributing analyst with Securosis and has a recurring column on Liquidmatrix Security Digest. Best described as: "Infosec geek, hacker, social activist, author, speaker, and parent." His areas of interest include organizational change, social engineering, blinky lights and shiny things.
Work
Advisory / Board
Resume
Please send me an email if you’d like a copy of my resume.
Elsewhere
Writing
Appearances
- Previous Talks - Videos
- Previous Talks - Slides
- Recently: Security Zone 2012, SecTor 2012, DEF CON 20, Shmoocon 2012, Security Zone 2011, SecTor 2011, DEF CON 19, 2, 3, BlackHat Briefings USA 2011
- Upcoming: Thotcon 0x4
- Bloomberg - Super Bowl Blackout Wasn’t Caused by Cyberattack (2013-02-05)
- CSO Magazine - Department of Energy hack exposes major vulnerabilities (2013-02-05)
- Gawker - Here’s How Hackers Could Have Blacked Out the Superdome Last Night (Even Though They Probably Didn’t) (2013-02-04)
- CSO Magazine - Employees put critical infrastructure security at risk (2013-01-25)
- CSO Magazine - Smart TV hack highlights risk of ‘The Internet of Everything’ (2012-12-14)
- CSO Magazine - Security experts scoff at Mars rover hack threat (2012-08-22)
- CSO Magazine - BYOD means users want a ‘Goldilocks’ answer for device security (2012-08-01)
- CSO Magazine - Data Breach bill leaves lots of wiggle room (2012-07-02)
- Law.com - Cyber-Threat Cooperation Emerging Between US Industry and Government (2012-05-11)
- CSO Magazine - Amid breach fallout, Global Payments struggles with public message (2012-04-03)
- CSO Magazine - FBI call participants ‘made it easy’ for Anonymous to break in (2012-02-13)
- CSO Magazine - Facebook alliance with Websense not enough, experts say (2011-10-06)
- Marketplace - Hackers say Wall Street traders are vulnerable (2011-08-04)
- threatpost - The Next Security Scandal Will Be An Attack on High Frequency Trading Systems (2011-07-28)
- c|net - Automated stock trading poses fraud risk, researcher says (2011-07-27)
Socially
Contact
email: james@arlen.co
phone: 415-692-4799
twitter: @myrcurial
availability: calendar