Profile of Ben Johnson

Co-founder and CTO, Obsidian Security

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Ben Johnson is CTO and co-founder of Obsidian Security. Prior to founding Obsidian, he co-founded Carbon Black and most recently served as the company's chief security strategist. As the company's original CTO, he led efforts to create the powerful capabilities that helped define the next-generation endpoint security space. Prior to Carbon Black, Ben was an NSA computer scientist and later worked as a cyber engineer in an advanced intrusion operations division for the intelligence community.

Johnson has extensive experience building complex systems for environments where speed and reliability are paramount. His background also includes a great deal of technical "agility," having worked on advanced operational teams supporting US national security missions and writing complex calculation engines for the financial sector.

Johnson earned a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Chicago and a master's degree in computer science from Johns Hopkins University. He also taught "Entrepreneurship in Technology" in the Masters Program of Computer Science at the University of Chicago in 2016 and 2017.

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Tax Reform, Cybersecurity-Style

1/18/2018
How the security industry can be more effective and efficient by recognizing four hidden "taxes" in the buying and selling process.
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Cloud Security's Shared Responsibility Is Foggy

9/14/2017
Security is a two-way street. The cloud provider isn't the only one that must take precautions.
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Cybersecurity Self-Esteem: 4 Things Confident Teams Are Doing

8/31/2016
By increasing our cybersecurity self-esteem, we can truly make a difference in raising our collective cybersecurity resiliency.
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Shifting The Economic Balance Of Cyberattacks

6/27/2016
Our goal should be to simply make the cost of conducting a cyberattack so expensive that cybercriminals view attacking our organization as a bad return on investment.
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A Real World Analogy For Patterns of Attack

6/20/2016
Patterns reveal exponentially more relevant information about attempted malfeasance than singular indicators of an attack ever could.
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Patterns Of Attack Offer Exponentially More Insight Than ‘Indicators’

6/13/2016
In the cyberworld, patterns of attack provide investigators with context and the precise sequence of events as a cybercrime unfolds.
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‘Must Haves’ & ‘Must Dos’ For The First Federal CISO

3/11/2016
Offensive and defensive experience, public/private sector know-how, ‘mini-NSA’ mindset and vision are top traits we need in a chief information security officer.
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