David "Dave" Venable (born January 11, 1978) is a former
intelligence officer
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with the
United States
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National Security Agency
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, and current cyber security professional and businessman.
He is an author and speaker on the topics of
cyber security
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,
cyberwarfare
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, and
international security
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; has developed security-related internet protocols; is a US patent holder; and has been named as one of the most influential people in security.
Early life and education
Venable was born in and grew up in
Little Rock, Arkansas
(The Little Rock, The "Little Rock")
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, and later attended the
University of Arkansas
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, majoring in mathematics. After college, he joined the
United States Air Force
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and studied
Korean
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**Korean dialects and the Jeju language
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at the
Defense Language Institute
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in
Monterey
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,
California
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, a
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educational and research institution which provides linguistic and cultural instruction to the DoD and other Federal Agencies. Venable has also pursued graduate education in mathematics at the
University of Texas
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, and international relations at
Harvard University
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.
Career
Until 2005 Venable served in several intelligence roles with the National Security Agency
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, including Computer Network Exploitation Computer network operations (CNO) is a broad term that has both military and civilian application. Conventional wisdom is that information is power, and more and more of the information necessary to make decisions is digitized and conveyed over an e ...
, Cyberwarfare
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, Information Operations
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, and Digital Network Intelligence Digital Network Intelligence or DNI is a term used in the United States Intelligence Community that refers to "intelligence from intercepted digital data communications transmitted between, or resident on, networked computers."
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in support of global anti-terrorism operations. He has also taught about these subjects while serving as adjunct faculty at the National Cryptologic School
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, a school within the National Security Agency that provides training to members of the United States Intelligence Community.[
After leaving federal service Venable founded and served as CEO of Vanda Security, a Dallas-based security consultancy, which ultimately became the security professional services practice of Masergy Communications where Venable currently serves as Vice President of Cyber Security. Venable regularly speaks at industry and government conferences including ]Black Hat Briefings
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and the Warsaw Security Forum
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, serves as a cyber security expert with think tanks and policy research institutes, serves on The Colony, Texas
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technology board, and is a cybersecurity expert and speaker with the United States Department of State
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.
Bibliography
Venable frequently contributes to and appears in ''Forbes
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'', ''Harvard Business Review
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'', ''Bloomberg Businessweek
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'', ''InformationWeek
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'', IDG Connect, and other media outlets in matters pertaining to cyber security, cyberwarfare, and international security.
Patents
References
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1978 births
Living people
American technology writers
People associated with computer security
Writers from Little Rock, Arkansas
Businesspeople from Little Rock, Arkansas
Military personnel from Little Rock, Arkansas
National Security Agency people
United States Air Force airmen
Defense Language Institute alumni
University of Texas alumni
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
American technology chief executives