About Bill Hau
Bill carved his fulfilling path on both the offensive and defensive side of cybersecurity operations after spending years in the corporate world. He has assessed and tested the security of mission-critical IT systems, investigated some of the world’s biggest hacks and continues to teach companies and governments how to prevent cyber breaches.
Bill Hau is truly passionate about defending the innocent from all the bad that is out there in the cyber world.
He has spent the past decade immersed in the field of information warfare-assessing/ breaking into computer systems and helping governments and organizations defend themselves from massive sustained cyber-attacks. His mission has taken him all over the world working with different cultures across many geographical/political boundaries. He has lead incident response teams for attacks perpetrated by a variety of threat actors, including nation states, organized crime groups, as well as hacktivist groups. Many these attacks have been reported in the world’s press.
His management experience includes the building and training teams on a global scale, for organizations such as Cylance, Mandiant/FireEye, Foundstone, IBM, Internet Security Systems, and McAfee/Intel.
Bill has taught and presented at many venues worldwide, including universities, corporate headquarters, government facilities, and Black Hat (Las Vegas).
Selected references
Top 10 Mistakes Incident Response Teams make
How prepared are EMEA organisations in responding to a data breach