Bio

Chris Rouland is Founder and CEO of Phosphorus Cybersecurity Inc. A 25-year veteran of the information security industry, Chris is a renowned leader in cybersecurity innovation and disruption. In his career, Chris has founded and led several multi-million dollar companies including Bastille, the first company to enable enterprise security teams to assess and mitigate the risk associated with the growing Internet of Things, and Endgame, which recently sold to Elastic for $247MM. Chris also stood up the X-Force at Internet Security Systems in 1998, as well as serving as CTO up to the $1.6B sale to IBM where he was appointed CTO and Distinguished Engineer.. Chris is a sought-after speaker with appearances at prestigious global security conferences including RSA, Black Hat, and HITB GSEC, and has been featured as a security expert and contributor for national broadcast and print media outlets including CNN, Forbes, and The Wall Street Journal. Chris holds twenty patents and a Masters Degree from the Georgia Institute of technology.