Tim Mather is Chief Security Strategist at PatternEx, a security start-up working on bringing artificial intelligence to information security. He is a long-time information security practitioner, having also served in senior security roles previously at Cadence Design Systems, Splunk and Symantec as CISO; at RSA Security at Chief Security Strategist; and, as head of information security at VeriSign and Apple. He has co-authored two books on information security: “*Cloud Security and Privacy: An Enterprise Perspective on Risks and Compliance*” (O'Reilly) and “*The Executive Guide to Information Security: Threats, Challenges, and Solutions*” (Addison-Wesley). Tim is a CISSP, CISA, and CISM. He holds Master’s Degrees in Information Assurance from Brandeis University, National Security Studies from Georgetown University, and International Policy Studies from Monterey Institute of International Studies. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Economics from the University of California at Berkeley. Tim has extensive public speaking experience at major information security conferences.