History
AltGreen Research was born as a split off from another company, while business analytics continues to serve it’s purpose, Ward Spangenberg realized that his knowledge and network could likely do more good in the world by providing information security and business consulting than continuing to build Big Data solutions. Technology is always changing and not all companies are quite ready to invest whole heartedly in building their security teams. Ward also found that even when those companies were ready to invest, they couldn’t find the talent they needed and had no where to turn. This information made him eager to cultivate his own consultancy, one that would effectively intersect his expertise with his clients respective interests, and offer them access to other consultants.
AltGreen Research opened its doors in 2018. Since then, we’ve engaged with multiple clients that would otherwise not be able to hire a qualified security candidate the ability to work with an experienced CISO and security team, without increasing their organization's headcount. Many organizations don't need a fulltime CISO, they need an independent security professional to lead their organization by assessing cybersecurity issues, building a cybersecurity program, and ensuring the achievement of proper security milestones.
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Founder
Principal Consultant, Founder
Ward Spangenberg
Ward provides customers with security architecture, threat and vulnerability management, incident response, and advisory services related to Security Operations.
He is an industry recognized cyber security technologist with over 20 years in the security industry. Ward is also an accomplished speaker, and author. Ward’s responsibilities have had him interacting at all levels of an organization, helping address security, privacy and operational requirements. Ward has continued rounding out his experiences by leading product development and operations and working in sales directly and as support.
Ward’s roles have included directing and building security operations at Zynga, Uber, and JustAnswer. He has served in security advising roles at Apple, Amazon and Microsoft. Ward also brought his knowledge of industry and contacts to HackerOne, the industry’s first vulnerability coordination and bug bounty program, to begin driving companies to develop and deploy responsible disclosure programs.
He has a broad background in security solutions and managing confidentiality, security, and privacy issues from both a business and technical perspective. He has extensive experience in information quality assurance and is highly skilled in vulnerability assessment and pen-test methodologies. Finally, Ward is an accomplished security researcher.