Ed Amoroso, former AT&T CISO of 20 years, professor, author, and current CEO of TAG Infosphere, unpacks why executives’ personal digital lives have become the softest target for attackers. He breaks down how AI is reshaping both sides of the cyber battle, why deepfakes hit hardest with senior leaders, and why too many companies can’t even name their own security vendors.

About our guest:

Dr. Edward Amoroso is Chief Executive Officer of TAG Infosphere Inc, a global research and advisory company that supports enterprise cyber security teams and commercial security vendors around the world. Ed retired from AT&T after thirty-one years of service, beginning in Unix security R&D at Bell Labs and culminating as Senior Vice President and Chief Security Officer of AT&T from 2004 to 2016.

Ed has served as Research Professor at the Tandon School of Engineering at NYU since 2017. He has also been Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the Stevens Institute of Technology for the past thirty years, where he has introduced nearly two thousand graduate students to the topic of information security. Ed also serves the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University as a senior advisor. He is the author of seven books on cybersecurity and startups, as well as dozens of major research and technical papers and articles in peer-reviewed and major publications.

Ed has held groundbreaking leadership positions in multiple arenas, working in telecommunications and cybersecurity as developer, engineer and entrepreneur. He has advised US presidents and major institution executives as they navigate cyberthreats to create their own preemptive cyber intelligence.  With advanced degrees from Stevens Institute of Technology and Columbia Business School, Amoroso is a prolific writer, pioneering manager, college professor, computer scientist and inventor, holding ten patents connected to cybersecurity, including software protection designs used by the US Department of Defense.