Summary
Ron Dilley is a Field CISO and security architect with over two decades of hands-on experience building and pressure-testing enterprise cybersecurity programs, from SOCs to deception and detection engineering. He combines CISO-level leadership with deep technical chops in high-scale telemetry, incident response, and AI-driven security tooling, translating exercises into audit-ready remediation plans that drive measurable improvement. A CISSP and IANS Research faculty member, Ron focuses on practical AI security—red teaming models and agents, designing governance and telemetry that make risks measurable rather than theoretical. He’s proven in complex environments (Warner Bros., AT&T, Amgen) and now partners with CISOs to run adaptive, real-time crisis simulations that mirror real-world failure modes like identity sprawl and logging gaps. Notably, his work emphasizes engineering-first controls and measurable outcomes: if you can’t measure it, you shouldn’t deploy it. Based in California, he blends independent R&D with enterprise scale delivery to keep innovations usable under operational pressure.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at California Lutheran University
English