Neil Daswani

Author of "Big Breaches: Cybersecurity Lessons for Everyone"

Dr. Neil Daswani is Co-Director of the Stanford Advanced Cybersecurity Program, President of Daswani Enterprises, his security consulting and training firm and author of cybersecurity book Big Breaches: Cybersecurity Lessons for Everyone. He has served in a variety of research, development, teaching, and executive management roles at Symantec, LifeLock, Twitter, Dasient, Google, Stanford University, NTT DoCoMo USA Labs, Yodlee, and Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore). At Symantec, he was Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for the Consumer Business Unit, and at LifeLock he was the companywide CISO. Neil has served as Executive-in-Residence at Trinity Ventures (funders of Auth0, New Relic, Aruba, Starbucks, and Bulletproof). He is an investor in and advisor to several cybersecurity startup companies and venture capital funds, including Benhamou Global Ventures, Firebolt, Gravity Ranch Ventures, Security Leadership Capital, and Swift VC.


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