Phil Venables is a computer scientist who has been the chief information security officer (CISO) at Google Cloud since 2020.
[6] In 1996, Venables became a member of the Highlands Group (DARPA-Office of Net Assessment), an advisory firm for the Department of Defense.
[9] He has been CISO at Google Cloud since 2020, and since 2021, he has been director at HackerOne,[10] supply chain technology company Interos,[11] and NIST's Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board.
[12] Over the years, Venables has served on multiple non-profit boards, including New York University Tandon School of Engineering,[13] and New York University Stern School of Business' Business Volatility and Risk Institute,[14] as well as co-chairing the board of consumer financial information protection organization Sheltered Harbor,[15] and also co-founded and directed various initiatives of the U.S. Financial Services Sector.
[3] He also holds several information security-related patents, including designing a virtual wallet with cryptographic currency for securities settlement, and creating a method for assessing how vulnerable a network is to cyberthreats.