Author's Profile

Stairwell CEO and Founder Mike Wiacek founded Stairwell to help organizations outsmart any attacker with tailored, constantly adapting defenses that attackers can’t see. He honed his threat hunting skills at the NSA and the Department of Defense and later took his expertise in Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) to Google. At Google, he helped lead the response to the Operation Aurora nation-state attack, pioneered modern intrusion investigation techniques, and founded and led one of the first threat intelligence teams created outside of government agencies. He later co-founded Chronicle, which was spun out of Alphabet’s X, the moonshot factory.