Jack Jones

Jack Jones has worked in information security for over 35 years, serving as a CISO with three different companies, including a Fortune 100 company. His work was recognized in 2006 with the ISSA Excellence in the Field of Security Practices award, and in 2012 he received the CSO Compass award. As an Adjunct Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, he teaches in the CRO and CISO executive programs. Jones also created the Factor Analysis of Information Risk (FAIR) model, since adopted as an international standard. Jones is the Chief Risk Scientist at RiskLens and Chairman of the FAIR Institute, an award-winning global non-profit organization. He also co-authored a book entitled Measuring and Managing Information Risk: a FAIR Approach which was inducted into the 2016 Cyber Security Canon.