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Leonard Jacobs is President/CEO of Netsecuris LLC., a leading Managed Cyber Defense and Incident Response Provider to businesses. Netsecuris specializing in providing cyber security protections to the utilities, financial services, manufacturing, and government sectors. Leonard founded Netsecuris in July 2000.

Leonard has 37 years of hands-on technology management experience including over 21 years in cyber security. He has spoken on many cyber security topics at conferences around the world and has written many cyber security whitepapers.  Leonard is considered an expert in Industrial Control System cyber security. His first employment, after college, was with a major minicomputer manufacturer in the 1980s; which was a major supplier of industrial control systems to power plants and steel mills.

Additionally, Leonard was employed as field engineer for several biomedical systems manufacturers, an IT Manager in healthcare, as the CISO at a major financial institution, and various roles at a major utility working mostly on industrial control systems cyber security. He holds a MS degree in Cybersecurity Technology from University of Maryland, a MBA degree from University of Phoenix, and a BA degree from University of Florida. Leonard holds a CISSP certification from ISC2 and Certified SCADA Security Architect certification from IACRB. 

Leonard served as co-chair on a U.S. government-funded cyber security working group tackling major cyber security issues. Leonard also serves on various industry-based cyber security working groups.  He has taught cybersecurity analysis bootcamps, cyber range activities at a major university, and cybersecurity certification exam preparation courses.