Serial cybersecurity entrepreneur Amit Yoran has seen it all.
Founding director of the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) program in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the West Point grad served executive stints at Symantec (SYMC) and RSA before joining Tenable Network Security as CEO in early 2017. Yoran has seen cyberthreats from the vantage point of the federal government, a publicly traded company, and two private firms.
“It’s been a schizophrenic career,” he says, laughing. “But it’s given me the balance and view of cybersecurity from several perspectives.”
Some things still haven’t changed, to his chagrin. A significant slice of corporate executives continues to neglect pervasive digital threats. “After the Equifax data breach [in 2017] and the WannaCry [ransomware] attack [in 2017], there needs to be more emphasis [on the topic],” Yoran tells Barron’s.
A treasure trove of data—Social Security numbers, birthdays, addresses, driver’s licenses, and other personal information—was swiped from 146.6 million consumers in the Equifax (EFX) breach, the company disclosed in a filing with the Securities and Exchange…
