Chief Security Officer.
Company Advisor. Board Member.
LOVE / Emerging tech, young companies, infrastructure as code, AI security and the future of the internet.
ALSO / Sunrise walks with my rescue pug mix, toddler beach days and buffalo wings
Chief Security Officer.
Company Advisor. Board Member.
LOVE / Emerging tech, young companies, infrastructure as code, AI security and the future of the internet.
ALSO / Sunrise walks with my rescue pug mix, toddler beach days and buffalo wings
ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER
I advise executives on cloud security and go to market, from Fortune 100 banks to biotech start-ups. Current clients include a number of young companies including: expanso (storage and compute at the edge, with inherent security and privacy properties, based on open source protocol bacalhau), LISN (AI-driven CISO decision-making tools); Andesite (AI-driven tech to decrease manual processes and increase meaningful insights for security analysts) and reco (heuristic-based SaaS security). Pro bono work serving on the Miami-Dade College BILT (business industry leadership team) and Black Girls Hack.
FORMER
Field CISO at Lacework, Deputy CISO at AWS, advisory board member to BalkanID (intelligent, fine-grained identity security and governance) and Security in all 3 branches of US Govt.
PREVIOUS ACADEMIC ROLES HELD
Penn State Law School, Pittsburgh, PA. Adjunct Professor and Fellow, Center for Computational and Data Sciences. (2020-21) / University of Maryland, Washington, DC. Adjunct Professor of Cybersecurity (2014-20) / University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. Adjunct Professor of Cybersecurity. (2017-18) / Federal Communications Commission. Washington, DC. Lead Cyber Advisor. (2017 – 18)
ACADEMIC ARTICLES ON
Security, AI, robotics, SEC regulations, constitutional criminal issues online including CSAM (child sexual abuse material) and terrorist speech.
EDUCATION / Harvard – JD, undergrad. WORK / Advising young companies including expanso.io and balkan.id. WORK EXPERIENCE / AWS, Lacework and USG. EXPERTISE / Incloud, tech, security and investments. MEDIA / Quoted in WSJ, VentureBeat and many others.
IN THE PRESS – FULL ARTICLES
AWS Security Profiles: Merritt Baer, Principal in OCISO (featured on Corey Quinn’s podcast)
Enterprise Level Security at Scale: Insights from AWS
Who is the Witness to an Internet Crime? The Confrontation Clause, Digital Forensics, and Child Pornography,30 SANTA CLARA COMPUTER & HIGH TECH. L.J. 31 (2014)
Wall Street Journal: Materiality Seen as Tough Task in new SEC Cyber Rules, Aug 2, 2023; Cyber Experience on Boards Still Seen as Critical in New SEC Rules, July 27, 2023)
Teiss, Navigating Your First 30 Days as a CISO, Dec 18, 2023
Go to Market / Introductions / Product validation / Product placement / Security trends / Threat landscape
How to grow up your security shop / Security in the cloud / How CISOs make decisions / How to talk to CISOs if you are a vendor
Market trends / Particular services / Something custom - feel free to ask!
We talk a lot about AI but don’t talk enough about the security of your AI.
Which vendors to choose: We talk a lot about features but we don’t talk enough about operationalizing the tech.
Security will feel different in the cloud. Let’s talk IaC, ephemerality, modularity, Serverless, managed services, architecture decisions, and formal reasoning.
Through a wide variety of mobile applications
A strategy is a general plan to achieve one or more long-term.
UI/UX Design, Art Direction, A design is a plan or specification for art.
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However, if you can precisely spot such toxic stocks, you may gain by resorting to an investing strategy called short selling. This strategy allows one to sell a stock first and then buy it when the price falls.
While short selling excels in bear markets, it typically loses money in bull markets.
So, just like identifying stocks with growth potential, pinpointing toxic stocks and offloading them at the right time is crucial to guard one’s portfolio from big losses or make profits by short selling them. Heska Corporation HSKA, Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc. TNDM, Credit Suisse Group CS,Zalando SE ZLNDY and Las Vegas Sands LVS are a few such toxic stocks.Screening Criteria
Through a wide variety of mobile applications, we’ve developed a unique visual system and strategy that can be applied across the spectrum of available applications.
A strategy is a general plan to achieve one or more long-term.
UI/UX Design, Art Direction, A design is a plan or specification for art.
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There are always some stocks, which illusively scale lofty heights in a given time period. However, the good show doesn’t last for these overblown toxic stocks as their current price is not justified by their fundamental strength.
Toxic companies are usually characterized by huge debt loads and are vulnerable to external shocks. Accurately identifying such bloated stocks and getting rid of them at the right time can protect your portfolio.
Overpricing of these toxic stocks can be attributed to either an irrational enthusiasm surrounding them or some serious fundamental drawbacks. If you own such bubble stocks for an inordinate period of time, you are bound to see a massive erosion of wealth.
However, if you can precisely spot such toxic stocks, you may gain by resorting to an investing strategy called short selling. This strategy allows one to sell a stock first and then buy it when the price falls.
While short selling excels in bear markets, it typically loses money in bull markets.
So, just like identifying stocks with growth potential, pinpointing toxic stocks and offloading them at the right time is crucial to guard one’s portfolio from big losses or make profits by short selling them. Heska Corporation HSKA, Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc. TNDM, Credit Suisse Group CS,Zalando SE ZLNDY and Las Vegas Sands LVS are a few such toxic stocks.Screening Criteria
Through a wide variety of mobile applications, we’ve developed a unique visual system and strategy that can be applied across the spectrum of available applications.
So, just like identifying stocks with growth potential, pinpointing toxic stocks and offloading them at the right time is crucial to guard one’s portfolio from big losses or make profits by short selling them.
Heska Corporation HSKA, Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc. TNDM, Credit Suisse Group CS,Zalando SE ZLNDY and Las Vegas Sands LVS are a few such toxic stocks.Screening Criteria
Through a wide variety of mobile applications, we’ve developed a unique visual system and strategy that can be applied across the spectrum of available applications.
A strategy is a general plan to achieve one or more long-term.
UI/UX Design, Art Direction, A design is a plan or specification for art.
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Quis ipsum suspendisse ultrices gravida. Risus commod viverra maecenas accumsan lacus vel facilisis. ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.
There are always some stocks, which illusively scale lofty heights in a given time period. However, the good show doesn’t last for these overblown toxic stocks as their current price is not justified by their fundamental strength.
Toxic companies are usually characterized by huge debt loads and are vulnerable to external shocks. Accurately identifying such bloated stocks and getting rid of them at the right time can protect your portfolio.
Overpricing of these toxic stocks can be attributed to either an irrational enthusiasm surrounding them or some serious fundamental drawbacks. If you own such bubble stocks for an inordinate period of time, you are bound to see a massive erosion of wealth.
However, if you can precisely spot such toxic stocks, you may gain by resorting to an investing strategy called short selling. This strategy allows one to sell a stock first and then buy it when the price falls.
While short selling excels in bear markets, it typically loses money in bull markets.
So, just like identifying stocks with growth potential, pinpointing toxic stocks and offloading them at the right time is crucial to guard one’s portfolio from big losses or make profits by short selling them. Heska Corporation HSKA, Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc. TNDM, Credit Suisse Group CS,Zalando SE ZLNDY and Las Vegas Sands LVS are a few such toxic stocks.Screening Criteria
Through a wide variety of mobile applications, we’ve developed a unique visual system and strategy that can be applied across the spectrum of available applications.
A strategy is a general plan to achieve one or more long-term.
UI/UX Design, Art Direction, A design is a plan or specification for art.
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Quis ipsum suspendisse ultrices gravida. Risus commod viverra maecenas accumsan lacus vel facilisis. ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.
There are always some stocks, which illusively scale lofty heights in a given time period. However, the good show doesn’t last for these overblown toxic stocks as their current price is not justified by their fundamental strength.
Toxic companies are usually characterized by huge debt loads and are vulnerable to external shocks. Accurately identifying such bloated stocks and getting rid of them at the right time can protect your portfolio.
Overpricing of these toxic stocks can be attributed to either an irrational enthusiasm surrounding them or some serious fundamental drawbacks. If you own such bubble stocks for an inordinate period of time, you are bound to see a massive erosion of wealth.
However, if you can precisely spot such toxic stocks, you may gain by resorting to an investing strategy called short selling. This strategy allows one to sell a stock first and then buy it when the price falls.
While short selling excels in bear markets, it typically loses money in bull markets.
So, just like identifying stocks with growth potential, pinpointing toxic stocks and offloading them at the right time is crucial to guard one’s portfolio from big losses or make profits by short selling them. Heska Corporation HSKA, Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc. TNDM, Credit Suisse Group CS,Zalando SE ZLNDY and Las Vegas Sands LVS are a few such toxic stocks.Screening Criteria
Through a wide variety of mobile applications, we’ve developed a unique visual system and strategy that can be applied across the spectrum of available applications.
A strategy is a general plan to achieve one or more long-term.
UI/UX Design, Art Direction, A design is a plan or specification for art.
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Quis ipsum suspendisse ultrices gravida. Risus commod viverra maecenas accumsan lacus vel facilisis. ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.
There are always some stocks, which illusively scale lofty heights in a given time period. However, the good show doesn’t last for these overblown toxic stocks as their current price is not justified by their fundamental strength.
Toxic companies are usually characterized by huge debt loads and are vulnerable to external shocks. Accurately identifying such bloated stocks and getting rid of them at the right time can protect your portfolio.
Overpricing of these toxic stocks can be attributed to either an irrational enthusiasm surrounding them or some serious fundamental drawbacks. If you own such bubble stocks for an inordinate period of time, you are bound to see a massive erosion of wealth.
However, if you can precisely spot such toxic stocks, you may gain by resorting to an investing strategy called short selling. This strategy allows one to sell a stock first and then buy it when the price falls.
While short selling excels in bear markets, it typically loses money in bull markets.
So, just like identifying stocks with growth potential, pinpointing toxic stocks and offloading them at the right time is crucial to guard one’s portfolio from big losses or make profits by short selling them. Heska Corporation HSKA, Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc. TNDM, Credit Suisse Group CS,Zalando SE ZLNDY and Las Vegas Sands LVS are a few such toxic stocks.Screening Criteria
Through a wide variety of mobile applications, we’ve developed a unique visual system and strategy that can be applied across the spectrum of available applications.
A strategy is a general plan to achieve one or more long-term.
UI/UX Design, Art Direction, A design is a plan or specification for art.
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Quis ipsum suspendisse ultrices gravida. Risus commod viverra maecenas accumsan lacus vel facilisis. ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.
There are always some stocks, which illusively scale lofty heights in a given time period. However, the good show doesn’t last for these overblown toxic stocks as their current price is not justified by their fundamental strength.
Toxic companies are usually characterized by huge debt loads and are vulnerable to external shocks. Accurately identifying such bloated stocks and getting rid of them at the right time can protect your portfolio.
Overpricing of these toxic stocks can be attributed to either an irrational enthusiasm surrounding them or some serious fundamental drawbacks. If you own such bubble stocks for an inordinate period of time, you are bound to see a massive erosion of wealth.
However, if you can precisely spot such toxic stocks, you may gain by resorting to an investing strategy called short selling. This strategy allows one to sell a stock first and then buy it when the price falls.
While short selling excels in bear markets, it typically loses money in bull markets.
So, just like identifying stocks with growth potential, pinpointing toxic stocks and offloading them at the right time is crucial to guard one’s portfolio from big losses or make profits by short selling them. Heska Corporation HSKA, Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc. TNDM, Credit Suisse Group CS,Zalando SE ZLNDY and Las Vegas Sands LVS are a few such toxic stocks.Screening Criteria
Here is a winning strategy that will help you to identify overhyped toxic stocks:
Most recent Debt/Equity Ratio greater than the median industry average: High debt/equity ratio implies high leverage. High leverage indicates a huge level of repayment that the company has to make in connection with the debt amount.