Passion for Solving Problems is Key to Security – Will Lin – CSP #16
Will Lin, founding team member at ForgePoint Capital and co-creator of the CISO community Security Tinkerers, discusses his passion for technology and how it led him to a career helping security companies launch, as well as his work supporting CISOs through collaboration and knowledge sharing.
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1. Passion for Solving Problems is Key to Security – Will Lin – CSP #16
Will Lin, founding team member at ForgePoint Capital and co-creator of the CISO community Security Tinkerers, discusses his passion for technology and how it led him to a career helping security companies launch, as well as his work supporting CISOs through collaboration and knowledge sharing.
This segment is sponsored by Cybereason. Visit https://www.cybereason.com/cisostories to learn more about them!
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Will is a member of the ForgePoint founding team and has been involved in every aspect of the firm’s evolution. Since ForgePoint Capital’s founding in 2015, Will has risen from Vice President to Managing Director in five years—a meteoric career advancement. As Managing Director, he is a senior member of the team responsible for leading investments, growing the members of the investment team, expanding the trusted network of industry relationships and supporting fundraising efforts. He started his career at Citi’s Investment Banking Group and subsequently joined Trident Capital where he supported investments in cybersecurity and infrastructure software. Will currently serves on the boards of Attivo Networks, Bishop Fox, Concourse Labs, LoginRadius, Remediant, Symmetry Systems, Uptycs and an unannounced company.
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Sam Curry is CSO at Cybereason and is a Visiting Fellow at the National Security Institute. Previously, Sam was CTO and CISO for Arbor Networks (NetScout) and was CSO and SVP R&D at MicroStrategy in addition to holding senior security roles at McAfee and CA. He spent 7 years at RSA, the Security Division of EMC as Chief Technologist and SVP of Product. Sam also has over 20 patents in security from his time as a security architect, has been a leader in two successful startups and is a board member of the Cybersecurity Coalition, of SSH Communications and of Sequitur Labs.
