John Allman has been working in the security industry since 1993. He received his first CISSP in 2002 and renewed it again in 2018. He has a degree in cybersecurity and an MBA in IT. John has been working as a CISO since 2016. John started as an artificial intelligence developer in the early 1990s, but was moved into cybersecurity as the result of a need within the company. He has been working in the field ever since. John has many hobbies including photography, woodworking, and astronomy.