Jeremiah Salzberg, Chief Security Technologist, CDW

Jeremiah Salzberg, Chief Security Technologist, CDW

Jeremiah Salzberg is a security leader with over 25 years of security leadership experience in the financial, telecommunications, and manufacturing sectors. He has held security positions responsible for engineering and architecture, pen testing and incident response, as well as numerous CISO-level positions. In his role as chief security technologist for CDW, Jeremiah is charged with evaluating current and emerging security technologies to ensure that clients are able to effectively address their cybersecurity challenges, and take a forward-leaning approach to prevention, detection and response. He also engages with CDW clients to discuss their security strategies and speaks across the country on security topics.

• Taught hacking exposed courses at Blackhat and to the NSA

• Hunted hackers worldwide for a large financial

• Led network pentesting line of service for the top pentesting firm of its day

• Reduced agent based computer fraud by 99% for a large money transfer company

• Helped obtain PCI certification for large food manufacturing and shipping company

• Transformed security as a CSO at a bank taking them from weekly compromises and OCC MRAs to no compromises in 4 years and moved to be a reference bank by the OCC