Sounil is a member of the IANS Faculty, and has over 30 years of hands-on experience creating, breaking and fixing computer and network systems. He is the creator of the Cyber Defense Matrix and the DIE Triad, guest lectures at Carnegie Mellon, and is a senior fellow at the National Security Institute, and advises many security startups. He’s the former Chief Security Scientist at Bank of America, a recipient of the SANS Institute Lifetime Achievement Award, and a frequent speaker at major information security conferences.
In his non-existent, imaginary free time, Sounil tries to beat his oldest son in Starcraft and Clash of Clans.
Sounil Yu joined IANS in 2020. As a member of our Faculty, he provides clients with deep domain-level expertise in the following areas: cyber resiliency, technology rationalization, security strategy & road mapping, measurement & metrics and safety engineering.