Manama: Bahrain-based cybersecurity company, CTM360®, has named Ian Cook, a highly respected pioneer in both information security & cybersecurity, as part of its global advisory board.
With over three decades of experience in the security field, Ian Cook, CEO & Founder of Corbels Security Services, has built a reputation as a strategic advisor and has held senior technical positions in many illustrious organizations, including Citigroup, Barclays, Team Cymru, etc.
Ian is a long-standing active member of the ‘Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST), mentors at several UK cyber accelerator programs and provides vCISO services to early-stage startups.
According to Steve Katz, who became the world’s first CISO in 1994, when banking giant Citigroup (then Citi Corp. Inc.) suffered a series of cyber-attacks from a Russian hacker: “While working with me at Citi Corp, Ian, who is one of the brightest minds I know, and a consummate information security professional, was the first to create a Threat Intelligence Unit using Government intelligence procedures, thereby hugely enhancing the organization’s security.”
Former FBI special agent and diplomat Edward P Gibson stated:…
