10 Great Cyber Security People To Follow On LinkedIn, No Matter Your Expertise

LinkedIn is an outstanding online platform where you can meet and network with professionals from any industry and from all over the World.

3 million users share weekly content on the platform, with 80% of total users considering this professional networking an important aspect for their career.

LinkedIn allows users to share and exchange with other professionals, around topics within their interest or to discover innovative and interesting different views. A user will be able to find people to help him/her in his/her #cyber #security career, or even to help a company with its cyber security strategy and roadmap. With over 500 million people on the site as per April 2017 and 2 new member per second, in 200 countries [Source], who should you follow to get reliable and trustworthy information, in an era of fake news, especially around such a hot topic as cyber security or infosec ?

This list will steer you to the right people to follow, in the cyber security space, no matter your expertise or your industry.

The list is based on the TOP 50 cyber security most influential professionals,globally, and personal experience.

Global Cyber Security Experts

You will likely have various questions about cyber security and how to be safe online. The cyber risks and related challenges are growing as much as the technological tsunami that we are living nowadays.

Here are the LinkedIn experts who you should follow to get some views on main security topics, tips, and news.

Troels Oerting, Barclays Group CISO

He is the first on the list of cyber security most influential professionals in the UK, by IFSEC Global. Troels Oerting, Group Chief Security Officer & Group Chief Information Security Officer at Barclays has been appointed 2017 Chairman of the Board at the Global Cyber Alliance (GCA).

Troels posts often on LinkedIn and he usually posts important news about cyber incidents or general insightful topics.

Eugene Kaspersky, Chairman and CEO, Kaspersky Labs

Eugene Kaspersky is the founder of one of the world’s biggest cyber security companies. How can’t you not follow him ?

Eugene post more technical and practical tips around cyber security topics like DDos attacks, the recent Petya attack, etc. He is the first on the list of cyber security most influential professionals internationally, by IFSEC

Eugene visited, even recently the #InterpolWorld conference in #Singapore.

Grant Lecky, Founder Security Partners’ Forum

Extremely connected and influential in the security industry, in Canada as well as internationally, Grant Lecky is definitely a professional to follow. He has been attributed the title of one the most influential cyber security professionals by IFSEC Global in the category Security management, education and thought leadership international.

Grant supports the cyber security community by starting new initiatives and providing great advice. He can be an extreme help for anyone who would like to develop his cyber security #career.

Bonnie Butlin, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Security Partners’ Forum

Bonnie Butlin is co-founder and executive director of the Security Partners’ Forum (SPF), a platform for professionals in the security, resilience, public safety, defence, intelligence and law enforcement domains across Canada and internationally. She has the TOP position as a key influencer in the same category with Grant.

She has been named to Canadian Who’s Who and is undeniably making an impact in the cyber security space, in alignment with initiatives to encourage women in cyber security.

Rebecca Herold, President, SIMBUS360 | CEO, The Privacy Professor

Rebecca has over 25 years of systems engineering, information security, privacy and compliance experience. Rebecca is an entrepreneur; she is CEO and Founder of The Privacy Professor? consultancy she established in 2004, and is Co-Founder and President of SIMBUS, LLC, and information security, privacy, technology & compliance management cloud service for organizations of all sizes, in all industries, in all locations.

Rebecca can answer all your questions when it comes to #privacy, especially around your health data. She is THE reference. Her posts are targeting privacy challenges and bringing up important topics and tips to protect your PHI from being stolen.

Magda Chelly, CyberFeminist, CISSP,Managing Director at Responsible Cyber Pte. Ltd.

Magda Lilia Chelly, is managing her company and training by day, and hacking by night (Ethically). She calls herself a cyberfeminist, as she tried to encourage more women into cyber security. Magda spend most of her time raising security awareness at a global scale, and supporting chief information security officers in their cyber security strategy and roadmap. She is currently based in Singapore, with a global reach through her company in 19 locations worldwide.

Her posts are mixed between technical news, like her post about acoustic hacking, as well as general cyber security awareness tips, important to everyone.

She has also a YouTube channel and Woman In Cyber platform. She is considered as a global TOP 50 cyber security influencer, internationally.

Keren Elazari, Cyber Security Researcher and Analyst

Keren Elazari is a cyber security analyst and senior researcher at the Tel Aviv University Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center with an emphasis on hackers and technology and their social implications [Source: Wikipedia].

Keren is very technical, and her posts are related to advanced hacking techniques or related events, like BSides. She is impressively knowledgeable and admirable. Keren is very active as well on #Twitter.

Dave Lewis, Global Security Advocate for Akamai Technologies

Dave Lewis has over 20 years industry experience. He has wide experience in IT operations and management. Currently, Dave is a global security advocate and is a former (ISC)2 Board Member. Dave shares great insights on his LinkedIn as well as on #Twitter, using his brilliant pseudonym Gattaca. He is actively writing about hackers, breaches and security topics. Dave is also one of the board of directors for BSides Las Vegas.

Iftach Ian Amit, Senior Manager, Amazon

Iftach Ian Amit, Iftach (Ian) Amit, has an extensive experience in hands-on and strategic roles, working across a diversity of security fields. At Amazon, Ian is a senior manager. He sits on the board of BSides Las Vegas with Dave.

He is more active on Twitter and shares very good infosec content. He engages extraordinary with the public, sharing his views on cyber security topics.

Chris Nickerson, Co-founder BSides Security Movement

Chris is an International Infosec leader known for Red Teaming, and founder of PTES and BSides. His movement is shaping the cyber security landscape. He is passionately contagious when he talks about cyber security and hacking topics. He shares general cyber security topics and tips, as well as technical articles.

This list is not exhaustive. We have many exceptional and amazing cyber security professionals to follow. Just keep tuned to get more news from the industry, and learn from cyber security evangelists, hacktivists and CyberFeminists.

Be sure to follow me on LinkedIn, where I share breaking news and information.

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Who is Magda CHELLY :

Magda Lilia Chelly, is the Managing Director of Responsible Cyber Pte. by day, and a cyber feminist hacker by night.

Magda calls herself a cyber feminist and a cyber evangelist. She is involved in public speaking and international conferences as a keynote speaker where she addresses industries' challenges with cyber security as well as diversity in the sector and the presence of women.

Magda spends most of her time raising security awareness around the World. In addition of managing her business, she acts as chief information security officer for various companies.

She is currently based in Singapore, with a global reach through her company in 19 locations worldwide. She speaks five languages fluently, and has a PhD in Telecommunication Engineering with a subsequent specialization in cyber security with a CISSP certification.

She also was recently nominated as global leader of the year at the Women in IT Awards 2017, and TOP 50 cyber security influencer worldwide.

Her educational passion led to the foundation of a cyber security diploma in Singapore, and a global partnership with K2 Partnering Solutions, for cyber educational programs, and organizational design.

On the other note, these are some references on Magda’s impact in Singapore, and internationally.

1 She is awarded TOP 50 International cyber security influencer, internationally as per below link: https://www.ifsecglobal.com/top-50-influencers-security-fire-2017-cybersecurity/

2. She is a trainer with Singapore Business Federation. See link: https://www.sbi.org.sg/event/steps-to-build-a-cyber-security-strategy-2/?instance_id=778

3. She is an official contributor on one of the major worldwide known cyber security platforms Cybrary.it. See link: https://www.cybrary.it/2017/04/cyber-feminist-hacker-course-contributor-magda-chelly

4. Her Woman In Cyber platform is live: https://woman-in-cyber.com

5. She has a YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4eYUiud5dTiTONRl_Gw-QA