CISO Conversations: Ryan Davis – The Unknown Is Where Security Meets Reality
Starting as a young hacker provides a solid grounding in how to defend. Ryan Davis, now CISO at New Charter Technologies, successfully made the transition.
The journey
Ryan Davis became interested in computers at an early age, before the internet changed the world. As a child, his mother ran a secretarial college from the family home in the 1980s. “We had six personal computers in the house, and I had plenty of time to tinker with them at a formative age. There was no internet, so I had to learn what to do by trial and error. As I grew older, that desire for tinkering grew into a desire to explore beyond the intended confines of the system and make it do something that was never intended.”
Davis is now a CISO, but he started as a hacker. “I did some things that, in retrospect, would probably be considered illegal,”...
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