Our Hacking Games Communities

Virtue is our professional network. We have some of the world's most transformative CISOs, cyber experts, and entrepreneurs who want to help inspire the next generation to be ethical hackers.

C.Y.B.E.R. is our Youth Council. Our founding members are the brightest minds in hacking, and are harnessing their curiosity in an ethical way, inspiring others like them to become a force for good.

Virtu-os is our community of technology companies committed to creating a generation of ethical hackers.

Virtu-os is our community of technology companies committed to creating a generation of ethical hackers. We partner with like-minded brands who want to inspire millions of young people to join the fight against cybercrime.

As part of our Virtu-os community, members can help shape the future of cyber-security with access to The Hacking Games content, talent development, Virtue community members, and many more benefits.

 

If you would like to join Virtu-os and get the benefits of The Hacking Games community, please get in touch

Cybersecurity giant Sophos has joined Virtu-os as our inaugural sponsor

Virtue is a community of cybersecurity specialists and ethical hackers committed to creating a generation of ethical hackers to make the world safer.

Virtue features 100+ members, featuring Ethical Hackers, entrepreneurs, CISOs, Researchers, Journalists, academics and Law Enforcement with deep insight and access to the cyber industry.  Certain Virtue members will make themselves available for media or speaking engagements.

If you would like to join Virtue please contact us below

Our Virtue Members

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Chris Wysopal

The original ethical hacker, Chris is an entrepreneur, computer security expert and co-founder and CTO of Veracode. He was a member of the high-profile hacker think tank the L0pht where he was a vulnerability researcher.

Becky Pinkard

Becky Pinkard

Barclays MD, Global Cyber Operations. 2023 Infosec Hall of Fame inductee, recipient of the 2022 Global Cyber Security Leadership Award – Editor’s Choice (Global), previously appointed to the ‘100 Global CISOs for 2020’ list and awarded ‘CISO of the Year, 2020’ by SC Awards Europe, Becky Pinkard is a renowned practitioner and commentator on the information security sector, and has been working in information technology and security since 1996.

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Marcus Hutchins

Dubbed ‘The Hacker who Saved the Internet’, Marcus is best known for discovering the kill-switch for the WannaCry virus. He currently works for Kryptos Logic.

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Shawnee Delaney

A decorated Clandestine Services Officer and founder and CEO of Vaillance Group. She spent nearly a decade with the DIA conducting human intelligence operations all over the world. She served 4 combat zone tours in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Bryan Seely

Bryan is a famed Cyber Security Keynote Speaker, Ethical Hacker, Former US Marine, and Author. 

Starting in 2015 with Tedx, his incredible story is being told in talks around the world. Bryan’s speeches are typically geared towards helping consumers and corporate leadership understand the threats that are out there, and educate them on things that they can do to mitigate those risks.

Marie Brattberg

Marie Brattberg

Marie has profound experience in building tech companies as a founder, an individual contributor, as a manager and as an executive. She’s led global teams for more than 15 years.

Her last 10 years have been focused in cyber security and intelligence, building Recorded Future from a small startup out of Gothenburg/Boston to what it is today, the world’s largest intelligence company, with $300M+ in ARR, 1800+ clients (including worlds largest companies & 40+ governments) across the globe and 1000+ coworkers across 5 global locations.

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James Chappell

James Chappell has led teams in information security and cybersecurity since 1997, working across the private sector and government organisations.

He’s currently the Chief Security Officer at Harmonic Security, and the Director of Antares Cyber Security, providing a range of services related to the global cybersecurity industry.

Sebastien Borget

Sebastien Borget

Sébastien Borget is the Co-founder and COO of The Sandbox, a virtual platform where players can create, play, own, govern and monetize their experiences. Sebastien also became the President of the Blockchain Game Alliance in 2020, a non-profit organization of 500 key members of the industry. He was recently named #4 in the Top #100 2022 most influential people in crypto by CoinTelegraph

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Chris Kubecka

Chris Kubecka is a computer security researcher and cyberwarfare specialist. In 2012, she was responsible for getting the Saudi Aramco network running again after it was hit by one of the world’s most devastating Shamoon cyberattacks. Kubecka also helped halt a second wave of July 2009 cyberattacks against South Korea.

Chris has worked for the US Air Force as a Loadmaster, the United States Space Command and is now CEO of HypaSec, a security firm she founded in 2015.

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Astrid Oosenbrug

Astrid Oosenbrug is a Member of Parliament (2012-2017), Public Affairs Officer at ESET.nl, and in numerous NGOs. She has been critical of privacy infringements by new investigative laws and has strongly advocated for the implementation of Responsible Disclosure policies within (and outside) the Dutch government. She is a co-founder of DIVD.nl (Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure) and a co-founder and CEO of DIVD.Academy, an institution aimed at enhancing knowledge, skills, and ethical awareness as well as connecting young (hacker) talent.

Eduardo Vela

Eduardo Vela

“Eduardo “sirdarckcat” Vela Nava leads Google’s Product Security Response Team, and is a well known security researcher.

Loves collecting vulnerabilities and having fun with mitigations.

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Will McKeen

Will McKeen is a Supervisory Special Agent with the FBI’s Cyber Division where he provides national support to investigations into a wide range of cybercrime investigations.

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Hazel McPherson

CISO at ALD Automotive UK, leading the information security strategy and governance for the largest vehicle leasing and fleet management company in Europe. 

A certified C|CISO, CISSP, ITIL Expert, and Chartered IT Professional (CITP), with a Master of Science in Cyber Security and an Executive MBA. Passionate about advancing the field of information security and empowering women in the industry.

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Lisa Ventura

Lisa Ventura MBE is an award-winning cyber security specialist, published writer/author, and keynote speaker. She is the Founder of Cyber Security Unity, a global community organisation that is dedicated to bringing individuals and organisations together who actively work in cyber security to help combat the growing cyber threat.

She has specialist knowledge in the human factors of cyber security, cyberpsychology, neurodiversity and AI in cyber, and is also a Co-Founder of International Imposter Syndrome Awareness Day.

David Jacoby

David Jacoby

David is one of Sweden’s boldest hackers and IT security experts. He has over 25 years of experience in professional hacking and has won several awards both as a speaker and for his unique research and dedicated work to stop digital crime.

He has been a technical advisor to some of Sweden’s most successful IT security companies. In 2021, the Anti-Theft Association gave David his token of merit for his work to stop digital crime.

Paul Scott

Paul Scott

Paul is the Global CISO of Omnicom. A qualified and security cleared information security and IT risk management leader, with over 20 years experience operating within complex business environments. 

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Madeline Eckert

Madeline is the Senior Program Manager with Microsoft’s Security Response Center. She builds strong relationships within the researcher community and supporting the MSRC through hacker mediation.
 
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Daniel Kelley

Daniel is a reformed black hat hacker who has contributed to 100+ bug bounty programs, and ghostwrites for cybersecurity teams.

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Rob Mann

Sarah Morales

Sarah Morales

Sarah is the Senior Program Manager, Privacy, Safety & Security at Google. She has 15+ years experience as a strategic program manager, with a track record of spearheading and delivering on complex, multifaceted initiatives in cybersecurity, workforce development, community engagement and customer support systems. 

 

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Edite Ligere

Edite Ligere is a barrister at 1 Crown Office Row Chambers in London. 

Edite is a member of the Parliamentary Internet, Communications and Technology Forum, the Bar Council’s and the Law Society’s joint Cybersecurity Working Group, Vice Chair of the Bar Council’s Law Reform Committee and Chair of the Windsor Benefit Trust.

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Floor Jansen

Floor gained experience in the field of drug and human trafficking, at the border police and the National Crime Squad. Since 2012 she has worked at the National High Tech Crime Unit in advising and management roles.

As part of InterCOP and the stakeholders’ pathway, Floor helps build a network of stakeholders that diverts youngsters away from cybercrime in all stages of the pathway, from low to high risk.

Robin Oldham

Robin Oldham

Robin Oldham is the founder of Cydea, a positive cyber security consultancy, and previously led BAE Systems’ Security Advisory & Technical Services business

Robin helps businesses defend themselves from cyber attacks and has over fifteen years of experience including advising numerous boards on how to manage crises resulting from cyber-attack, including high-profile attacks in the telco and financial services sectors.

Rob Harrison

Rob Harrison

Rob is a seasoned Cyber Security and technology leader, and is SVP Product Management at Sophos. He is passionate about building accessible cybersecurity solutions.

Rob has a wealth of experience, having worked in technology and security leadership roles for over 20 years across government, national security, anti-financial crime, and commercial industries. 

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Stephane Duguin

CEO of Cyber Peace Institute. Humanitarian, Entrepreneur, investigator, he spent 2 decades tracking how criminal groups and terrorists weaponise disruptive technologies. At Europol, he led major international counter cybercrirme, terrorism, and threat operations.

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James McKinlay

James is a UK-based security leader with 25 years of international experience in IT. He promotes fit-for-purpose security strategies based on real-world experience of criminal attacks.

He has a long history of successful vulnerability management programs in the software development, infrastructure, and web application domains. 

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Sam Humphries

Head of International Security Strategy at Exabeam. She has been entrenched in the industry for 25 years and has helped hundreds of organisations recover and learn from cyberattacks.

Tim Grieveson

Tim Grieveson

Tim is the Senior Vice President – Global Cyber Security Risk Advisor at Bitsight, helping organisations transform how they measure and manage their cybersecurity performance and risk based on years of experience as a CSO, CISO, CIO and Senior Technology Leader.

His career spans more than 24 years of Technology Leadership and 17 years Security experience.

Luke Beeson

Luke Beeson

Luke is Aviva’s Group CISO and Chair of the Chartered Institute of Information Security. In this latter role he act as a voice for the security industry: raising awareness of the challenges, fostering industry collaboration and innovation, and supporting the drive to create an industry that can cope with any future challenges. 

Today Luke leads security at Aviva, but has previously held security leadership roles at BT and Honeywell.

Tim Gallo

Tim Gallo

Tim is a Cyber Security, Intelligence, and Services professional dedicated to helping clients define their operations and architecture.

Google’s Head of Global Solutions Architects, Tim leads a dynamic team who focus on Cyber Threat Intelligence and Risk. 

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Tim Orchard

One of the UK’s first penetration testers, he has since cultivated cybersecurity teams and businesses for prominent companies such as BT, BAE Systems, and Siemens. He co-founded CREST and served as the CTO of WithSecure.

Ruari Kidd

Ruari Kidd

Ruari is the Portfolio Director of the award-winning DTX/UCX series of events. His experience consists of 19yrs working in B2B Media across Publishing, Digital and Events for Reed Business Information, Imago Techmedia and Clarion Events. 

Jason Straight

Jason Straight

Jason is the Senior Managing Director, Chief Privacy Officer at Ankura.

He was previously the managing director at Kroll. He led a diverse team of experts specializing in computer forensics, network intrusion, data breach investigations. He worked directly with many of the National Law Journal’s Top 250 law firms and Fortune 500 corporations.

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Dirk Dekker

Drik is the co-founder and CEO at real-estate developer Being. Next to his role as executive, he’s mainly involved in the company longterm strategy, strategic alliances, acquisitions and investments. Dirk is deeply involved in making (fact based) ‘positive impact’ within our company and within real-estate developments.

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Zino Haro

Zino Haro is an American tech entrepreneur, fashion designer, and cybersecurity researcher.

She has spoken at Reuters, Google, and Defcon. Zino has addressed fashion-focused audiences of 35 Million people on live interviews and was named a 30 Under 30 Hispanic Executive for work on Uni-ke.

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Paul Caiazzo

26-year track record delivering results across security, corporate leadership, marketing, and business development. Won ‘CISO of the Year’ in 2021 and has built partnerships with some of the world’s biggest companies.

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Zara Perumal

CTO and Co-Founder at Overwatch Data. Uses ML to understand, contextualize and recommend events across OSINT data feeds to to enable them to take action.

Previously worked at Google’s Threat Analysis Group and did research at MIT LIDS / CSAIL.

Claudio Bolla

Claudio Bolla

Claudio is a seasoned cybersecurity professional with over two decades of experience in the industry. Currently, he leads the information security strategy, risk management, and governance at INEOS, the largest private chemical company in the world. 

Buck Rogers

Buck Rogers

Prof Buck Rogers had a 15-year career in the Royal Navy, with a breakthrough into Cyber via BT.
Buck then held several senior leadership roles at the Ministry of Defence\Central
Government (Cyber Investigations, incident response, vulnerability management and
Critical Infrastructure protection).

He then joined the Bank of England, where he was Chief Information Security Officer and, latterly, Chief Security Officer (covering Cyber, Physical and Personnel Security)

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Peter Lahousse

Peter’s passion for promoting digital safety and combating cybercrime drives his daily activities. As the founder of Cybercrimeinfo (ccinfo.nl), he is dedicated to spreading knowledge and awareness about cyber threats.

Peter collaborates with government agencies, police, and businesses to make our digital world safer. Additionally, he is fascinated by the underground dynamics of the dark web and how this knowledge can contribute to more effective cyber defense strategies. 

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Greg Francis

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Toby Wilmington

Toby Wilmington has spent the last decade managing and building some of the largest global security operations. Having worked for BAE Systems, Recorded Future and NATO, he has also advised governmental departments, critical infrastructure and military.

Toby is now the CEO of qomodo, a company looking to protect the ever-extending Internet of Things against the growing risk of cyber attacks by taking their knowledge of advanced threat detection and response, and embedded it within these technologies that are making it closer to high stake network environments.

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Kelly Shortridge

Kelly Shortridge is Senior Director of Portfolio Product Management at Fastly and lead author of Security Chaos Engineering: Sustaining Resilience in Software and Systems (O’Reilly Media). Shortridge is best known as an expert on resilience in complex systems, the application of behavioral economics to cybersecurity, and bringing security out of the dark ages. Shortridge is a frequent keynote speaker, advisor, and author and has been a successful enterprise product leader, entrepreneur (with an exit to Crowdstrike), and investment banker.

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Hugo van den Toorn

Hugo is the Chief Information Security Officer at HEMA and as such responsible for Information Security of the global organisation.

With a strong technical foundation, he combines his passion for security, teaching and hacking with a drive to continuously improve and optimize processes and technology and inspiring and coaching others from the security community to the board.

Calvin Gan

Calvin Gan

F-Secure Senior Manager. Mentoring and managing operations for a team of technical researchers while being a public spokesperson in the domain of cyber threats. 

Strategic planner and leader for a team of technical analysts and researchers focusing on cyber security domains

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Mike Somers

Director of Sandinista Consulting. 15 years experience, having provided vCISO placement to Critical National Infrastructure businesses – both UK and Ireland

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Stephane Konarkowski

A seasoned cybersecurity expert with a career spanning back to 2004. With extensive experience on both the vendor and customer sides, Stephane has a unique perspective on the cybersecurity landscape. Driven by an innate curiosity, he has always sought to understand systems by attempting to break them, gaining invaluable insights into their workings. 

Rodrigo Marcos

Rodrigo Marcos

Rodrigo caught the hacking bug when he was 14 years old, after he hacked into his dad’s computer. After discovering his passion for white-hat hacking he started his career in the offensive security industry, eventually founding SECFORCE where he is currently CEO. 

Having published a number of books, articles and tools in the topic of penetration testing and IT security, Rodrigo is a sought after speaker who has participated in conferences and seminars all around the world.

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Barry Van Kampen

Barry van Kampen is the chairman of DIVD Academy, an enthusiastic hacker and creative thinker full of ideas and energy.

He knows that we have the privilege of sharing our knowledge with these young people. They usually do not have criminal intentions, but their actions are criminal. As long as their intentions are good, Barry wants to help them by providing a legal framework and ethical morals, while also nourishing their curiosity with legal matters.

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Nabil Heikal

Nabil has over 20 years progressive track record in information security of Corporate, Consumer & private Banking businesses with broad experience in large scale IT Security projects. 

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David Cahill

Having 20 years Information Security experience within the Irish financial services space, David Cahill is now Enterprise Security Architecture Manager for An Post.

In recent months David has been heavily involved in the security architecture & security policy requirements for a number enterprise projects across the An Post.

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Vito Rallo

Vito is the

He was soldering his first modem to connect to the “internet before the internet”, and is here today to advise on how to secure businesses. Vito has had a 30 year journey across network security, wireless, web2.0, cloud, ethical hacking, smartphone and hardware security, internet of things, Industrial OT, blockchain and DEFI.

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Paul Brucciani

Paul is the Managing Director of Cresco Cyber Consulting. 

He has 20 years of marketing, sales, product development, consulting and customer relationship management experience to global organisations in the Legal, Financial Services, Telecoms and Energy sectors.

Dan Cuthbert

Daniel Cuthbert

Daniel Cuthbert is Global Head of Cyber Security Research at Grupo Banco Santander. With a career spanning 20+ years in penetration testing, red teaming and secure software design. He is the original co-author of the OWASP Testing Guide, released in 2003 and now the co-author of the OWASP Application Security Verification Standard (ASVS). Dan is also a BlackHat US Guest Review Board member.

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Rosie Anderson

Head of Strategic Solutions for th4ts3cur1ty.company. She is a founding member of BSides Lancashire and is the Head of Inudstry Mentoring with CAPSLOCK

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Mia Temple

CEO of Humm Creative. Uniquely attuned to a diverse range of guests, from defense to corporate. 

HUMM Creative’s mission: To foster an inclusive event + design culture, creating bespoke experiences that enrich communities and establish lasting connections.

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Sean Atkinson

Sean has 15+ years of experience in IT Cyber Security. He has worked from the bottom up for BT and, more recently, helped to rebuild more boutique cyber security companies such as Secarma Group and The SecOps Group.

Sean has been the commercial lead on some of the largest Technology projects in the UK with NCSC, GCHQ and multiple CNI clients.

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Ryan Protheroe

Ryan Protheroe is the Cluster Manager for Midlands Cyber, where he leads business development and orchestrates events and activities aimed at fostering growth within the cyber industry. Passionate about elevating local organisations in the West Midlands, he collaborates with businesses to expand their reach both nationally and internationally.

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Keith Biggin

Keith is the Global Solution Architecture Director at Exabeam. In 2022 he was awarded Exabeam’s MVP award.

C.Y.B.E.R. (Council of Young Bright Energetic Resources) is our Youth Council. Our founding members are the brightest minds in hacking and are ethically harnessing their curiosity, inspiring others like them to become a force for good.

They’ve united with The Hacking Game for a specific mission – they want to help inspire their peers get interested in cyber.

 

Our Founding C.Y.B.E.R. Members

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Bia Sci Lab

Bia is a Founder, CEO, and Keynote speaker. She started ‘Girls Who Hack’ to teach the skill of hacking to other girls so that they can change the future. 

She is an incredible role model for the young hacking community. She’s particularly interested in election security and teaching STEAM. She says that she finds hacking exciting, fun, and challenging and decided to share her knowledge with others.

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Marco Liberale

Marco is a 13-year-old who has developed a major interest in ethical hacking.  He was the youngest-ever speaker in the history of the Black Hat Conference in 2022.

He enjoys sharing his knowledge about ransomware and cybersecurity on his blog.

He says that while his age might be viewed as a limitation in some fields, in ethical hacking, it has not been a barrier. Instead, it provides a different perspective on tackling cybersecurity challenges. It’s a complex field that requires continuous learning due to the ever-evolving nature of technology and cybersecurity threats.