Christopher Pierson

Chief Security Officer and General Counsel, Viewpost

A strategic business & technology leader, recognized cybersecurity expert, and creator of new technology, Pierson blends cybersecurity, privacy, and risk with his passion for building operational teams driven to execute and deliver - at both startups and large global companies. He has 20 years of experience building companies and cybersecurity programs - specializing in operations, design and architecture, data breach response, security ops, financial crime/fraud ops, and intelligence/national security. He has served in general counsel and compliance capacities working closely with Boards on corporate matters and strategic business opportunities. Pierson has a proven track record of success and has been awarded Best CSO from FireEye, CSO50 in 2015 & 2016, and is a Distinguished Fellow of the Ponemon Institute. Pierson also serves on the Department of Homeland Security Data Privacy & Integrity Advisory Committee and Cybersecurity Subcommittee. Pierson is a frequent keynote speaker on cybersecurity and is regularly quoted by the media.

Deception Technology: When It Works, It Works. But What about When It Goes Wrong?

Presented by Tom Field , Tom Kellermann , Christopher Pierson , David Pollino • June 13, 2017

Deception is the most successful strategy in military history. Just as armies used deceit to conquer continents, cyber-deception is being used by more and more organizations to exploit a hacker's greatest weakness - being a human, after all, behind a keyboard. Deception techniques such as honeypots are not a new. But...

Panel: EMV and the Evolution of Payments Fraud

Presented by Ed O'Neill , Christopher Pierson • June 1, 2017

With payments innovations picking up speed and the push toward faster payments in the U.S., the modernization of payment methods has changed and will continue to change the type of fraud perpetrated against bank deposit accounts. These accounts hold the funds used to make payments by consumers and businesses. This...

Deception Technology: When It Works, It Works. But What about When It Goes Wrong?

Presented by Todd Carroll , Christopher Pierson , Robert Villanueva • June 1, 2017

Deception Technology: When It Works, It Works. But What about When It Goes Wrong?

Presented by Tom Kellermann , Richard Parry , Christopher Pierson • April 28, 2017

Deception Technology: When It Works, It Works. But What about When It Goes Wrong?

Presented by Jimmy Lummis , Allen O'Rourke , Christopher Pierson • April 13, 2017

The Evolution of Payments Fraud and the Emerging Threat Landscape

Presented by John Buzzard , Mark Gelhardt , David Lott , Christopher Pierson • April 13, 2017

As information-security threats intensify, organizations risk becoming disoriented - focused more on grappling with complex technology, an explosion of data, increased regulation and a debilitating skills shortage. The rollout of EMV technology is just one piece of that, as it has changed the face of payments fraud....

Business Email Compromise and Account Takeover - An Easy Backdoor to Corporate America's Funds

Presented by Christopher Pierson • July 11, 2016

Security safeguards and controls can only get you so far. At some point, an employee is going to click, open something, or take action on a request that is fraudulent and bypass all of these controls. We will discuss both business email compromise fraud and account takeover in depth as we consider the...

Panel: Data Breach Outlook: Tracking the Next, Seemingly Inevitable Attack

Presented by Malcolm Harkins , Christopher Pierson , Matthew Rosenquist , Dominique Shelton • March 29, 2016

It's a boom time for cybercrime and cyber-espionage, aided by at least two factors. First, many organizations' websites and databases sport well-known technical weaknesses, while employees remain all to susceptible to low-cost social-engineering attacks. Second, attackers can pummel these technical and human targets...