Gal Shpantzer is a renowned Information Security and Risk Management professional focused on making security less mysterious, less expensive, and less disruptive. He leads a team of subject matter experts that integrate security solutions tailored to a company's culture, business processes, and strategic goals, which minimizes the total cost of ownership for security solutions. His areas of expertise include ransomware prevention and response, budget and vendor negotiations, web application security, vulnerability management, identity management, authentication, managed security services, wireless security, network access control, log retention and management, user behavior analytics, full disk encryption, disaster recovery, business continuity planning, DNS security, and DDoS mitigation.

Gal Shpantzer is also a faculty member at IANS, a former mentor at Mach37 Cybersecurity Startup Accelerator, a former contributing analyst at Securosis, a former co-founder of the Security Outliers Research Project, a former VP of Partnerships and Strategic Alliances at a Security Consulting Company, and a former co-editor of SANS Newsbites at SANS Institute. His proactive and predictable approach towards security enables clients to reduce "firefighting" and emergency spending on reactive approaches to security incidents.