Ward Spangenberg

Ward provides customers with security architecture, threat and vulnerability management, incident response, and advisory services related to Security Operations.

He is an industry recognized cyber security technologist with over 20 years in the security industry. Ward is also an accomplished speaker, and author. Ward’s responsibilities have had him interacting at all levels of an organization, helping address security, privacy and operational requirements. Ward has continued rounding out his experiences by leading product development and operations and working in sales directly and as support.

Ward’s roles have included directing and building security operations at Zynga, Uber, and JustAnswer. He has served in security advising roles at Apple, Amazon and Microsoft. Ward also brought his knowledge of industry and contacts to HackerOne, the industry’s first vulnerability coordination and bug bounty program, to begin driving companies to develop and deploy responsible disclosure programs.

He has a broad background in security solutions and managing confidentiality, security, and privacy issues from both a business and technical perspective. He has extensive experience in information quality assurance and is highly skilled in vulnerability assessment and pen-test methodologies. Finally, Ward is an accomplished security researcher.