Current Role/Responsibility
Greg Young is Vice President for Cybersecurity for Trend Micro. His research is focused on enterprise security, especially for networks, clouds & virtualization, IoT/operational technology (OT/SCADA), and microsegmentation.
His second role is with Corporate Development, identifying and assessing the markets, technologies and companies that would further Trend Micro’s ability to help our customers best secure themselves.
He has been a trusted adviser to thousands of companies around the world.
Bio
Greg has over 30 years of experience cyber-security. His experience includes product companies, the private and public sectors. He spent his military career in technology security, and was CISO for the Federal Department of Communications. Most recently he was a Research Vice President at Gartner, where he spent 13 years covering security for network and clouds, and authored more than 20 Magic Quadrants.
He has headed large security consulting practices, was chief security architect for a security product company, served as an officer in the armed forces, and is a graduate of the Canadian Forces School of Intelligence and Security.
He received the Confederation Medal from the Governor General of Canada for his work with smart card security, and his recognition includes mention in Network World’s “12 Most Powerful Security Companies”, and was listed in Sys-Con’s “100 Most Powerful Voices In Security”. Greg is co-host of The Real Cybersecurity Podcast.