Ben Read is the Director of Strategic Threat Intelligence at Wiz.io and an Adjunct Lecturer at the Alperovich Institute at Johns Hopkins’ School of Advanced International Studies. He previously spent eight years as the Head of Cyber Espionage Collection and Analysis at Mandiant Intelligence. While there he ran the team responsible for tracking and reporting on state-backed hackers from China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, and many other countries. He was an analyst on the same team at iSIGHT Partners before it was acquired by FireEye in January 2016. Prior to iSIGHT, Mr. Read worked as a special assistant at the National Security Council’s European Affairs Directorate.
Mr. Read holds a master’s in International Affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, where he specialized in International Security Policy, and a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and German Studies from Amherst College.
