Joe Gervais is CISO of Brightside Benefit. Previous roles have included Technical Director / Red Team Ops at Symantec, Principal InfoSec Engineer, and Lead Penetration Tester. He has 25+ years of security- and software engineering experience, mostly working with US government/DoD, and served as an Intelligence Analyst, Intelligence Chief, and Counterintelligence Specialist in the United States Marine Corps. Joe has been breaking into systems (and helping to secure them) since the early 1980s. His education includes a bachelors degree in Cognitive Science, a masters degree in Information Assurance, and is currently pursuing his PhD in Human Systems Engineering at Arizona State University.