Will Gragido

An information security and risk management professional with over 17 year’s professional industry experience, Mr. Gragido brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to bear. Working in a variety of roles, Mr. Gragido has deep expertise and knowledge in operations, analysis, management, professional services & consultancy, pre-sales / architecture and business development within the information security industry. Mr.Gragido’s focus areas include but are not limited to the following:
• The art & science of information security and its practical application in business
• Information security risk management and its various enterprise / fiduciary counterparts
• Security program design, implementation, operation and optimization
• Risk Management framework design, implementation and operation
• Audit & Assessment methodologies
• Threat mitigation techniques, tools, technologies and philosophies, reverse engineering, malicious code analysis etc.
• Ethical hacking / penetration testing
• Threat landscape evaluation & commentary
• Information security evangelism


Mr.Gragido’s' passionate devotion to the field of information security has allowed him continually grow and achieve new levels of understanding in his chosen area of expertise. Mr. Gragido is a long standing member of the ISC2, ISACA, and ISSA. Mr. Gragido holds both a CISSP and CISA certification respectively while also holding accreditations with the National Security Agency in Information Security Assessment Methodology (IAM) and Information Security Evaluation Methodology (IEM). Mr. Gragido currently resides in the Chicago land area, is a graduate of DePaul University and is currently preparing for Graduate School.

Mr. Gragido co-authored Cybercrime and Espionage: An Analysis of the Subversive Multivector Threat and is currently the lead author on a new book due out on Singers Press in the spring of 2012 titled "Black atomics: An inside Look at the Economics of Cybercrime". Mr. Gragido has ample experience in malicious code & content analysis, botnet analysis, reverse engineering, audit, assessment, penetration testing, social engineering, governance, compliance, security program development, framework development, presales / sales presentation, positioning, qualification, territory management, cyber crime research, state sponsored research, APT / SMT respectively.

Additionally, Mr. Gragido possesses CISSP CISA NSA IAM /IEM accreditations.