Pete has been involved as an Owner or C-level in IT and Security for over 30 years, with the last 20 years as CISO in two Fortune 100 organizations.  Pete has extensive experience in Pen testing physical and network projects with a 100% success rate.  Pete has been the incident commander of over 120 incidents and his work has been featured in the Verizon Breach report.  He has managed two “clouds” through the FEDRAMP/NIST800-53 process and Gartner had the security of his cloud designs ranked #1 and #2 in the industry.  Pete has been working with Artificial Intelligence for over 10 years starting with a DARPA-funded project and has written books, and magazine articles and has been interviewed and shown AI demonstrations over 200 times on TV as an AI expert for Good Morning America, Fox Business, BBC and all major networks.  Pete is currently the Global CISO for Check Point Software, a leading security provider specializing in the highest-efficacy Firewalls, Endpoints, Cloud, and Email risk reduction tools and strategies.  Pete is a member of the FBI Infragard and Secret Service Electronic Crimes Task Force.  Pete resides in Breckenridge Colorado and Islamorada Florida….and one of his kids is in Cybersecurity and just attained a CCIE certification!