🐙 Gal Shpantzer

Gal Shpantzer is a leading cybersecurity expert and a faculty member at IANS. He has been a full-time security consultant since 2000, providing advice to early-stage tech startups, security vendors, Ivy League universities, non-profits, and Fortune 50 clients. Gal owns and operates a boutique consultancy focused on vCISO and Observability Pipeline services, which enable modern, scalable, user-friendly, auditable, and forensically ready security programs.

His expertise includes:

• vCISO/Security Leadership
• Security Architecture
• Observability pipelines
• M&A Security
• Vendor selection
• SIEM, Splunk, Big Data
• Incident Response
• Vulnerability Assessment/Management

Gal has contributed to global security/privacy standards in the energy sector (NIST 7628, ES-C2M2) and has architected and deployed high-speed streaming analytics data pipelines and multi-petabyte data lakes for Fortune 100 companies. He has also served as an expert witness in a billion-dollar GSA protest related to managed security services and has been a co-editor of SANS Newsbites since 2002.123

Gal is active in the cybersecurity community, contributing to various forums and podcasts, including the IANS Cyber Intel Podcast, where he provides actionable, practical guidance for CISOs and Information Security professionals.25 His LinkedIn profile is under the username "riskmanagement," reflecting his focus on risk management and cybersecurity.4