Ryan Leirvik

The world faces significant challenges with cybersecurity. For nearly two decades, Ryan Leirvik has focused on solving complex cyber challenges from within some of the world's largest organizations. “Understanding, Managing, and Measuring Cyber Risk” is designed as an extremely straightforward approach individuals, executives, and commercial organizations can follow to simplify the complexities and start managing associated risks.

Currently the founder and CEO of Neuvik, a cybersecurity consultancy, Ryan and his leadership team provide advanced cybersecurity capabilities for clients – starting with understanding how reliable IT systems break. In previous roles, Ryan was a Chief of Staff at the Pentagon, an Associate Director of Cyber in the Office of the US Secretary of Defense, a cybersecurity strategy consultant with McKinsey&Company, and an MBA intern at IBM.

Ryan has a Masters of IT from Virginia Tech, an MBA from Case Western Reserve University, a Bachelor of Science from Purdue University, plus a variety of training from Harvard University, Stanford University, SANS Institute, The Data Warehouse Institute, and National Defense University. He has won DEF CON "Capture the Flag" competitions, spoken at hacking conferences, and contributed to a number of publications.