Hey, every­one! I’m Kip Boyle, the Cyber Risk Strate­gist.

I’m an expert in cyber risk man­age­ment and the Pres­i­dent of Cyber Risk Oppor­tu­ni­ties, LLC.

As a for­mer Chief Infor­ma­tion Secu­ri­ty Offi­cer (CISO), I will help you quick­ly turn nasty cyber secu­ri­ty headaches into ful­ly man­aged busi­ness risks so your busi­ness can go faster!

My blog, and my busi­ness, is all about help­ing you take a strate­gic approach to deal­ing with your cyber risks. Click here to learn more.

Here are my most sig­nif­i­cant roles:

• CISO at PEMCO Insur­ance, a $350 mil­lion per­son­al-lines prop­er­ty and casu­al­ty insur­ance com­pa­ny
• CSO at PEMCO Cor­po­ra­tion, a IT ser­vice provider for Seat­tle-based finan­cial insti­tu­tions
• CSO at PEMCO Tech­nolo­gies, a lead­ing cred­it and deb­it card trans­ac­tion proces­sor for the cred­it union indus­try
• Project Leader in the Infor­ma­tion Secu­ri­ty Group at Stan­ford Research Insti­tute (SRI) Inter­na­tion­al
• Man­ag­er of IT Oper­a­tions for Expe­d­i­tors Inter­na­tion­al, a $9 bil­lion glob­al logis­tics firm
• Infor­ma­tion Secu­ri­ty Offi­cer in the US Air Force, most notably as the Direc­tor of Wide Area Net­work secu­ri­ty for the F‑22 Advanced Tac­ti­cal Fight­er
• Senior Secu­ri­ty Archi­tect at a high-end man­aged web host­ing, pri­vate net­work­ing, and Con­tent Deliv­ery Net­work provider

I earned the Cer­ti­fied Infor­ma­tion Sys­tems Man­ag­er (CISM) and Cer­ti­fied Infor­ma­tion Secu­ri­ty Sys­tems Pro­fes­sion­al (CISSP) cre­den­tials.

I’m a co-author of chap­ter 68, “Out­sourc­ing Secu­ri­ty Func­tions,” in The Com­put­er Secu­ri­ty Hand­book, 5th & 6th Edi­tions.

And, I’ve taught infor­ma­tion secu­ri­ty skills to hun­dreds of stu­dents all over the world in venues such as:

• Infor­ma­tion Secu­ri­ty Forum (ISF)
• Inter­na­tion­al Infor­ma­tion Integri­ty Insti­tute (I‑4)
• Secure­World
• IANS
• Nor­wich Uni­ver­si­ty, Mas­ter of Sci­ence in Infor­ma­tion Assur­ance
• The Open Group
• SANS Insti­tute
• US Air Force
• Nation­al Aero­nau­tics and Space Admin­is­tra­tion (NASA)
• Motoro­la Uni­ver­si­ty
• Uni­ver­si­ty of Wash­ing­ton, Con­tin­u­ing Pro­fes­sion­al Edu­ca­tion pro­gram
• Hong Kong Jock­ey Club
• MIS Train­ing Insti­tute
• Wash­ing­ton State Depart­ment of Infor­ma­tion Ser­vices (DIS)

OK, if you’re still read­ing, I earned my B.S. in Com­put­er Infor­ma­tion Sys­tems at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Tam­pa, an M.S. in Man­age­ment at Troy State Uni­ver­si­ty, and a grad­u­ate cer­tifi­cate in Exec­u­tive Lead­er­ship from Seat­tle Uni­ver­si­ty.