Dr. Neil Daswani

Co-Director of the Stanford Advanced Security Certification program & President, Daswani Enterprises

Neil has held a variety of research, development, teaching, and executive roles at Symantec, LifeLock, Twitter, Dasient, Google, Stanford University, NTT DoCoMo USA Labs, Yodlee, and Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore). At Symantec, he was CISO for the Consumer Business Unit, and at LifeLock he was the company-wide CISO. Neil has served as an Executive-In-Residence at Trinity Ventures (funders of Auth0, New Relic, Aruba, Starbucks, and Bulletproof). He is an investor in and advisor to several cybersecurity startup companies and venture capital funds, including Benhamou Global Ventures, Firebolt, Gravity Ranch Ventures, Security Leadership Capital, and Swift VC. Neil is also co-author of Foundations of Security: What Every Programmer Needs to Know (Apress ISBN 978-1590597842).