Kenneth F. Belva is a full-time consultant to Fortune 500 companies on cyber security matters. In a prior role he ran a cyber security program for the NYC presence of a global financial institution. He is a result-oriented information security professional with almost 20 years of experience in areas of governance, policies, application, database and network security architecture in complex, international financial organizations. His experience includes top-down and bottom-up perspectives of risk analysis and information security from business and technical perspectives in domestic and global environments. Demonstrated strengths include excellent writing skills, public speaking, inter-personal skills, managerial skills and analytical ability. Mr. Belva was previously on the board of the New York Metro Chapter of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) where he served in various capacities over the past 9 years. He has spoken and moderated at the United Nations, Goldman Sachs, OWASP AppSecUSA 2015 as well as constant speaking engagements with almost all major cyber security professional organizations in the New York city area. He taught as an Adjunct Professor in the Business Computer Systems Department at the State University of New York at Farmingdale. Mr. Belva is credited by Microsoft and IBM for discovering vulnerabilities in their software. Most recently he was issued a US patent on new techniques for automated Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) discovery.
