Bio: Ben Smith is an information security and risk management expert, as well as an avid family historian and genetic genealogist. He recently completed a decade-long tenure as Field Chief Technology Officer with RSA Security, the world's oldest cybersecurity brand.

Smith holds industry certifications in information security (CISSP [Emeritus]) and risk management (CRISC [Retired]); he is an acknowledged contributor to NIST SP 1800-1, -3, and -7; and he is a past Chair and current Board Advisor for the non-profit Cybersecurity Canon Project.

He is a patent holder, and previously served as a corporate representative to NIST's National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) and as an invited mentor supporting the MACH37 cybersecurity accelerator program. He is a Contributing Author of four of the “97 Things Every Information Security Professional Should Know” [O'Reilly, 2021] as well as the Technical Reviewer of “Mastering the Art of Sales Engineering” [Packt, 2024].