Rick Howard

Chief Security Officer Palo Alto Networks Rick is the Chief Security Officer for Palo Alto Networks where he is responsible for building a Threat Intelligence Team to support the product line and acting as a thought leader and company evangelist in the cyber security community space. Prior to joining Palo Alto Networks, Rick was the Chief Information Security Officer for TASC and led the development of TASC’s strategic vision, security architecture and technical roadmaps for information security. As the GM of a commercial cyber security intelligence service at Verisign (iDefense), he led a multinational network of security experts who delivered cyber security intelligence products to Fortune 500 companies. He also led the intelligence-gathering activities at Counterpane Internet Security and ran Counterpane’s global network of Security Operations Centers. He served in the US Army for 23 years in various command and staff positions involving information technology and computer security and spent the last 2 years of his career as the US Army’s Computer Emergency Response Team Chief (ACERT). He coordinated network defense, network intelligence and network attack operations for the Army’s global network and retired as a lieutenant colonel in 2004. Rick holds a Master of Computer Science degree from the Naval Postgraduate School and an engineering degree from the US Military Academy. He also taught computer science at the Academy from 1990 to 1995. He has published many academic papers on technology and security and has contributed as an executive editor to two books: “Cyber Fraud: Tactics, Techniques and Procedures” and “Cyber Security Essentials.”

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