CISO Conversations: Chris Wheeler – Trust Is the Job, From the Navy to the C-Suite
Chris Wheeler is the CISO at Resilience. He has a long history in cybersecurity: a threat researcher and analyst at Efflux Systems and then threat analytics manager at Arbor Networks. He joined Resilience as threat intelligence lead but left in 2020 to become VP and SOAR lead at Morgan Stanley. He returned to Resilience four years later, first as VP of information security, and subsequently CISO.
It is fair to suggest he has security in his blood. His father was a university IT administrator. “He was always kind of tinkering with these different systems, and I inherited the same kind of curiosity and interest in information technology.”
Cybersecurity and becoming a leader
Navy trainingWheeler’s focus on the security side of IT emerged after he joined the US Navy in 2010. He stayed for six years, describing the Naval Academy as effectively ‘an undergraduate institution’; and the time spent as...
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