Jake Kouns holds a Master of Business Administration with a concentration in information security from James Madison University. He holds a number of certifications including CISSP®, CISM®, CISA®, and CGEIT®. Jake co-founded Risk Based Security, Inc., and is currently the Chief Innovation Officer at Flashpoint. He is well known from his presentations at security conferences including RSA, CISO Executive Summit, EntNet IEEE GLOBECOM, CanSecWest, and SyScan. Jake is also the co-founder of RVAsec, a Richmond, Virginia information security conference that has grown to host more than 500 attendees. He is the co-author of Information Technology Risk Management in Enterprise Environments and has also been interviewed numerous times as an expert in the security industry.