Ben Johnson is co-founder and CTO of Obsidian Security, a stealth startup based in Southern California. Prior to Obsidian, Ben co-founded and was CTO of Carbon Black, a next-generation endpoint security leader, after working in cyber for NSA and spending seven years in the intelligence community. Ben is on the boards of several startups and also taught “Entrepreneurship in Technology” at the University of Chicago. He enjoys entrepreneurship, technology, and security, is passionate about arming information security professions with intelligence and technology, and enjoys networking with security professionals.