Reddit, Inc.

Leading Reddit's software security team which focuses on AppSec, ProdSec, and a secure by default developer experience.

Head of Software Security

I'm designing and implementing security systems into all facets of Reddit's business. Protecting our company's employees and our website's users is my team's main focus.

Principal Security Architect

Aviso Ventures

Limited Partner

Bank of America

A senior security leader responsible for a large team, focused on Infrastructure Security Testing.
Responsibilities have included:

Management of our Vulnerability Scanning program continuously scanning millions of endpoints and thousands of web applications,
Enterprise Remediation Governance - partnering with our infrastructure owners to remediate vulnerabilities within given SLAs,
Management of our baseline compliance monitoring program, and
Management of our Internet Hygiene and perimeter analysis.

Previously led our cloud, container, and DevOps security programs for a hybrid, multi-cloud architecture.

SVP, Sr Security Manager, Cyber Security Defense

If it's a Cloud, Containerization, or DevOps initiative it's on my desk.

My job to work with all security control owners to operationalize their control in all major public cloud providers and Kubernetes or OpenShift environments.

SVP, Cyber Security Technology - Cloud Security Architect

Liquidmatrix Security Digest

- Write articles about current events in the security world and my personal take on them.
- Host a weekly podcast about current events in the security industry.

Writer & Podcast Co-Host

Goldman Sachs

- One of 3 CISOs of consumer facing divisions at Goldman. (Honest Dollar, Marcus, and GS Bank)

Vice President

Honest Dollar

Acting CISO, built an Information Security program from the ground up at a Financial Tech startup.
- Build secure SDLC, testing, and monitoring around a FinTech application running in Google Cloud on Kubernetes hosting a ReactJS, Go, iOS/Android application and backend financial connections.
- Manage creation and maintenance of policies
- Prove secure foundations during acquisition due diligence by Goldman Sachs

Head of Security [ Acquired by Goldman Sachs NYSE: GS ]

WhiteHat Security

Transitioned out of people management for my last stint at WhiteHat and really focused on industry leadership, sales enablement, content creation, partnership building, and new product launches.

This includes but is not limited to:
- Remediation Assistance & Guidance
- Secure Development Training
- Risk Based Vulnerability Prioritization
- SDLC Architecture Review
- AppSec Program Building
- Asset Discovery

Launched and co-hosted a weekly video podcast, entitled HackerKast, with the Founder of WhiteHat Security, Jeremiah Grossman, and VP of WhiteHat Labs, Robert "RSnake" Hansen.

Director, Security Services & Research

Started and built Whitehat’s first satellite office - focusing on hiring dozens of new security engineers in Houston while maintaining the Silicon Valley SaaS startup culture. Took the team from 0-65+

Hired, trained, and managed the team and helped handle WhiteHat’s exploding customer base which went from a few hundred websites to tens of thousands during this period.

Launched our new product lines beyond our bread and butter web app security testing which included Static Code Analysis and other early development lifecycle integrations to better address the DevOps movement.

Acting figurehead representing WhiteHat Security at many local and national security events presenting on his technical security research as well as emerging threats and trends in the web application security field. (mattjay.github.io/talks)

Sr. Manager, Threat Research Center

- Lead a team of application security testers and engineers

Threat Research Center Supervisor

Web Application penetration tester for the Threat Research Center at WhiteHat Security responsible for identification of security vulnerabilities across tens of thousands of web applications.

Application Security Specialist

San Jose State University

- Taught the web application security section of a undergraduate level class on information security.

Instructor

Adelphi University

- Taught the web application security section of a undergraduate senior seminar on information security.

VerSprite, LLC

Security Consultant

Over the last two decades, I’ve helped make hundreds of organizations more secure.

My mission is to leave the Internet a more secure place than I found it.

I’m helping organizations handle billions of users' information securely and increasing brand’s trust among their customers.

I’m currently the Security Architect of Reddit.

My portfolio:

→ I’m the security architect of Reddit where I help design security into all facets of the business for the 4th largest social network in the US and a top 20 most visited website globally
→ I teach company’s how to protect against cyber attacks and save tens of millions of dollars in losses.
→ I coach entrepreneurs and CISOs that need help with infrastructure, application, cloud, and security policies.
→ I advise early-stage companies in cyber security best practices and help pass technical due diligence from investors and potential acquirers.
→ I invest in early-stage private technology companies focusing on cybersecurity, software infrastructure, employee productivity, and B2B/SaaS.
→ I volunteer for a selection of non-profits who’s missions I connect with who wouldn’t otherwise be able to afford technical and specifically security consulting services..

My results:

→ 50,000k+ applications with less vulnerabilities than when I found them
→ 1B+ users data security reliant on systems I designed or secured
→ $100M+ of startup exits using my security due diligence
→ 0 advertisements or cold calls
→ 100% due diligence success rate

If you want to work with me, get in touch:

Email: mattjohansen@proton.me
Twitter: @mattjay

Matt Johansen

RAD Security

Vice President, Sales & Customer Success

Revalia Bio

Angel Investor

Brinqa

Vice President of Customer Success

Bugcrowd

I drive Bugcrowd’s global renewal business and Customer Success & Sales Strategy initiatives. Collaborating cross-functionally with the Product, Engineering, Operations and Marketing teams, I’m responsible for ensuring everyone is working toward the same goals: delivering impactful programs and delighting customers. 

My Objective is to: 
1) Leverage and implement industry best practices to help customers get started efficiently with Bugcrowd.
2) Help customers quickly adopt our platform and expand usage across their enterprise to drive greater security, leading to greater ROI on their Bugcrowd investment. 
3) Prescriptively and proactively show our customers additional use cases that can drive the next set of insights and the next “oh sh*t” moment”. 
4) Lead an amazing team of dynamic Account Managers and CSMs to deliver on Bugcrowd’s promise, secure renewals and help our customer solve the hardest problems. 
5) Scale and further automate mundane tasks to enable Bugcrowd’s Account Management team to focus on what matters: serving our customer base.

Vice President, Account Management & Customer Success

Senior Director, Customer Success, Account Management, Sales Strategy

Responsible for driving revenue and go-to-market efforts of dynamic and efficient Inside Sales and Account Management teams. Ensuring new customers are set up for success from day one and continue to derive value from their public, private, on-going, or time-boxed bug bounty programs. Partnering with Marketing, Communications, Operations, and Finance to bring it all together for our incredibly happy customers!

Senior Director of North American MidMarket Sales & Account Management

Bugcrowd runs safe & controlled crowd-sourced security testing programs. We connect organizations to a curated community of security researchers to run private or public, on-going or time-boxed programs, whatever fits the business needs.

Director of Sales

Brought on as first dedicated sales person to head up sales & growth initiatives. 

We're hiring a ton of sales, marketing, pre-sales, customer success, technical customer success & engineering. We're hiring. A lot: bugcrowd.com/careers

Bugcrowd is crowdsourced security. We run managed bug bounty programs for websites and mobile apps. Google, Facebook and Paypal run bug bounty programs... Thanks to Bugcrowd now your business can too!

Bugcrowd runs safe, secure, fully outsourced security bug bounties, where our friendly security researchers are rewarded to be the first to find and report each security flaw in your application.

Bugcrowd was accepted into the 2013 intake of the Startmate Tech Accelerator program and has been backed by Icon Venture Partners.

Sales Manager

Rapid7

After spending 1.5 years abroad establishing Rapid7's EMEA presence, based in London & Amsterdam, I've returned to the US to help build another territory; Eastern Canada.

Managed Summer Sales Intern program, leading 2 interns in business development and lead gen for new Rapid7 solutions & our UNITED Summit, working with Marketing & Sales leadership.

Successfully completed and implemented Force Management sales training & methodology.

Team Lead - East Central Sales

Worked to establish Rapid7's EMEA presence, based first in London then moving to Amsterdam to hire & develop a staff of multi-lingual sales, pre-sales and client services staff. Grew our EURA business by 32% YOY.

Team Lead - EURA Sales

Team Lead - Southeast Sales

Business Development

Let's talk about securing k8s-thru-cloud in real-time!

Energetic & passionate sales professional with US & European sales management experience. Focused on customer success and building long lasting customer relationships.

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