Pete Lindstrom, Principal Consulting Analyst
Pete Lindstrom is a cyber strategist, innovator, and economist with Spire Security. He has extensive expertise in cybersecurity and is best known as an authority in strategic cybersecurity areas such as strategic cybersecurity metrics, cyber risk quantification, and measuring efficiency and effectiveness. He leverages these skills to advise enterprises on methods and approaches to optimize their cybersecurity programs and architectures.
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Throughout his career, Pete has performed hundreds of audits and assessments of cybersecurity programs as well as evaluations, feasibility studies, and market analyses of numerous cybersecurity solutions, including early studies on control frameworks for Web 2.0, virtualization, and cloud security. He developed and works with the Four Disciplines of Security Management as a cybersecurity reference program to simplify the complexities of cybersecurity into building blocks that can be applied to all environments.
Pete has over 25 years of industry experience as an IT auditor, IT security operations manager, and cybersecurity industry analyst. He served as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps and received a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration (Finance) from the University of Notre Dame and is a Certified Information Systems Security Practitioner (CISSP).
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Expertise:
- Cybersecurity strategy and program management.
- Cyber risk management and measurement, metrics, key risk indicators, economics, and cybersecurity effectiveness analysis.
- Governance, risk, and compliance management.
- Cybersecurity innovation for digital transformation.
- Zero trust architecture.
- Product development, risk, and threat modeling with control design.
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