Primary Job Title Founder & Director of Research Primary Organization SANS Institute
Location San Francisco, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Alan Paller founded SANS, a college and training school that has trained more than 145,000 cybersecurity technologists in 72 countries.
Paller oversees a global program that celebrates people responsible for remarkable improvement in cyber-risk reduction. He has testified before the Senate and House and was a charter member of the President’s
National Infrastructure Assurance Council.
In 2010, the Washington Post named Paller as one of seven people “worth knowing in cyber security.” He serves on the NASA Advisory Council, chaired the DHS 2012 Task Force on Cyber Skills and headed the FCC Task Force on Best Practices in Cybersecurity.
Earlier, Paller helped build one of the first large software companies, took it public and merged it into a larger company listed on the NY Stock Exchange.
