Rich is a Researcher and CEO of Securosis, and the SVP of Cloud Security at FireMon where he focuses on leading-edge cloud security research and implementation. Rich joined FireMon through the acquisition of DisruptOps, a cloud security automation platform based on his research while as CEO of Securosis. He has over 25 years of security experience and currently specializes in cloud security and DevSecOps, having starting working hands-on in cloud over 10 years ago. He is an AWS Community Builder and the principle course designer of the Cloud Security Alliance CCSK training class. He is the primary author of the latest version of the CSA Security Guidance, has taught cloud security and incident response at Black Hat for over 10 years, and actively works on developing hands-on cloud security techniques. Prior to founding Securosis and DisruptOps, Rich was a Research Vice President at Gartner on the security team. Prior to his seven years at Gartner, Rich worked as an independent consultant, web application developer, software development manager at the University of Colorado, and systems and network administrator.