Ed Bellis

CTO, CoFounder at Kenna Security (acquired by Cisco)

Detailed Info

Ed Bellis, Co-founder and CTO of Kenna Security, now a part of Cisco, leads data science for Cisco Threat Detection & Response. Ed Bellis is a security industry veteran and expert. Bellis founded Kenna Security to deliver a data-driven, risk-based approach to vulnerability management and help IT teams prioritize their actions to meaningfully reduce cybersecurity risk.

Ed is the former CISO of Orbitz and the former Vice President, Corporate Information Security at Bank of America before that. He is an advisor to Blue Lava, Oak9, Picus Security, and Tensility Ventures. He also is a member of the Board of Directors for Polymer DLP.

Ed is a contributing author to the book, Beautiful Security (Oram, Andy & Viega, John, O’Reilly Media, 2009) and Modern Vulnerability Management (Roytman & Bellis, Artech, 2023). Ed is a frequent speaker at industry conferences including RSA and Black Hat, and a cybersecurity contributor to Forbes, Dark Reading, SC Magazine, and other publications.

Vertical Tag

• Cybersecurity & Digital Infra

Functional Expertise Tag

• Cybersecurity / Data Privacy

Superpower

CybersecurityProduct

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Cisco, Ford