Bob Lord
Head of Consumer Working Group, Hacklore.org
Bob Lord is a cybersecurity executive and public-interest technologist with deep experience building and defending high profile digital systems. He has led major secure by design initiatives at the Institute for Security and Technology (IST) and at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), where he served as a Senior Technical Advisor focused on shifting more responsibility for customer safety to software manufacturers. He was the first Chief Security Officer (CSO) at the Democratic National Committee (DNC), boosting the security of the Committee along with state parties and campaigns. Earlier in his career he was the CISO at Yahoo and the first security hire at X/Twitter, where he built and led the Information Security program from the ground up.
