James Higgins

Jim Higgins has spent 30+ years in High Technology most of which has been in the field of cybersecurity. He is a technology and business visionary with senior leadership experience in product security, information security engineering, and cloud enterprise. Jim consults across industry and governments to bring companies together on critical security issues and drive meaningful change across the internet. He assisted the Linux Foundation in starting the Open Source Security Foundation to help increase awareness and promote technical solutions to address one of the internet's largest risks, validation of Open Source software. Jim has worked at such companies as Chevron, Eastman Kodak and spent the last 10 years at Google. He is currently the CISO of Snap Inc.