Jake Kouns

Jake Kouns has an MBA with a concentration in Information Security from James Madison University. He holds a number of certifications including CISSP, CISM, CISA and CGEIT. He is currently Director of Cyber Security and Technology Risks Underwritig for Markel Corporation, a specialty insurance company. He has presented at many well-known security conferences including RSA, CISO Executive Summit, EntNet IEEE GlobeCom, CanSecWest, and SyScan. He is the co-author of Information Technology Risk Management in Enterprise Environments, and has also been interviewed numerous times as an expert in the security industry. Jake is the co-founder, CEO, and CFO of the Open Security Foundation (OSF), a non-profit organisation that oversees the operations of the Open Source Vulnerbility Database (OSVDB.org) and DataLossDB.