Neil Daswani is a Co-Director of the Stanford Advanced Cybersecurity Certification Program. He has served in a variety of research, development, teaching, and executive roles at QuantumScape, Symantec, LifeLock, Twitter, and Google. Neil has been both a security entrepreneur having co-founded Dasient, which was acquired by Twitter, and has also served as a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at LifeLock, Symantec’s Consumer Business Unit, and QuantumScape. Neil holds a dozen U.S. patents and has published dozens of technical articles in top industry and academic conferences. He is also co-author of two books on cybersecurity: “Big Breaches: Cybersecurity Lessons for Everyone” and “Foundations of Security: What Every Programmer Needs to Know.” He earned Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science at Stanford University, and he holds a B.S. in Computer Science with honors with distinction from Columbia University.
