Primary Job Title Chief Information Security Officer Primary Organization IQT
Location Boston, Massachusetts, United States Regions Greater Boston Area, East Coast, New England Gender Male Also Known As Dan Geer
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An entrepreneur, author, scientist, consultant, teacher, and architect, Daniel Geer is Chief Information Security Officer at In-Q-Tel. He is a widely noted author in scientific journals and the technology press, and has co-authored several books on risk management and information security.
Previously, Dan served as CTO of @stake, a leading
digital security consulting firm. Dan also ran the development arm of MIT's Project Athena, where his staff on his watch pioneered Kerberos, the X Window System, and much of what we take for granted in distributed computing.
In past positions as a consultant and an officer in a number of startups, he has provided industry leaders with high-level strategies in all matters of digital security and in promising areas of security research. He is a widely noted author in scientific journals and the technology press, and has co-authored several books on risk management and information security.
