Benjamin Stephan
CISO at Sandisk
Irvine, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Stephan is a CISO with 12 years of executive information security experience and a technical foundation that began as a software programmer and hardware technician. He has led large-scale security programs for global enterprises including Western Digital, The Coca‑Cola Company, Fiserv, and PNNL, protecting hundreds of thousands of endpoints, managing budgets up to $60M, and standing up 24/7 SOCs across complex environments. Known for translating technical detail into board-level strategy, he has modernized risk management, incident response, and cloud security while driving cross-functional initiatives like AI risk governance and OT integration in manufacturing. He combines hands-on skills—contributing Android client fixes to an open-source Nextcloud project—with enterprise leadership, having improved ROI through technology rationalization and recovered significant budget via consolidation. Fluent in Spanish and experienced in public-sector collaboration with DHS/DoE, he blends government-grade controls with commercial agility to secure IP, operations, and revenue.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Engineering – BSE Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science in Engineering – BSE Electrical Engineering at Arizona State UniversityCISO Certification Program (Certified CISO), CISO Certification Program (Certified CISO) at Carnegie Mellon University - Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy
English, Spanish
Github Skills (8)
javas10
rss10
android10
java10
ui-design9
dialogfragment9
android-sdk9
open-source8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nextcloud/news-android
Nov 2015 - Jan 2016
📱🗞️ Android client for the Nextcloud news/feed reader app
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:11 commits, 9 PRs, 36 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily focused on enhancing the Android client for the Nextcloud news/feed reader app. Their contributions involved implementing new features related to feed management, such as removing and renaming feeds within a dialog. They also addressed UI improvements and bug fixes, including updating dialog themes and preventing app crashes during image downloads. The user made code cleanups and refactoring.
nextcloudnews-feedandroidnewspapernextcloud-news
b3nson/disk.o
May 2017 - May 2020
Contributions:14 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
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