Ariel Evans

Ariel Evans is a cybersecurity, cyber risk and AI governance expert, serial entrepreneur and award-winning author. She is CEO and co-founder of RiskQ Inc., which helps organizations measure cyber risk in dollars, prove audit readiness and run privacy and regulatory compliance. She holds a U.S. patent (11,750,633 B2) for a method of quantifying cyber risk at the level of individual digital assets.

She is also the founder of Cyber Intelligence 4U (CIU), an executive education and research organization that has educated more than 5,000 business leaders. CIU runs certificate programs with Seton Hall and Pace universities and convenes an advisory board of about 400 CISOs and senior security, privacy and legal leaders. Many of them contributed to her books.

Her Routledge books turn complex cyber topics into practical guidance for executives, boards, insurers and risk professionals. They are Managing Cyber Risk; Enterprise Cybersecurity in Digital Business; Navigating Supply Chain Cyber Risk (with Ajay Singh and Alex Golbin); and AI Governance: The Executive Handbook for Safe and Responsible AI (with Ajay Singh). Books on privacy by design, quantum, and ransomware are forthcoming.

Her work has been recognized with the EU Commission award for Innovation in Cyber Risk and a Gartner Cool Vendor designation in Privacy Management. She speaks regularly to boards, regulators and industry groups on cyber risk, third-party risk and AI governance.