Neal O'Farrell

Neal is widely regarded as one of the world's very first security and privacy experts, and has been fighting cybercrime and identity theft around the world for more than 35 years.

Neal started his career in the deep end, protecting the networks and secrets of the highest value targets - banks, governments, and the intelligence community. He was also one of the first generation of security entrepreneurs to take on the NSA, an experience chronicled in his book 'The Man from Intrepid."

Neal started his career in security protecting European banks and governments from the first generation of hackers, including winning the first ever contract to encrypt Ireland's entire national ATM network in 1988. He was also a member of the first Federal Communications Commissions's Cybersecurity Roundtable, where he helped develop one of the first online security planning tools for small firms.

He was also the only security expert invited to advise the Congressionally-mandated Stock Act who has participated in in-depth interviews on national security and privacy issues with nearly sixty organizations including the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, and Department of Justice.