CISO Conversations: Timothy Youngblood; 4x Fortune 500 CISO/CSO

Timothy Youngblood didn’t set out to be a CISO, but he became CISO at four major enterprises, took on angel investing and won the Most Valued Member award at the Summer Investor Capital Expo of the world’s largest angel group last summer.

The path to security leadership

Some rivers rush headlong to their destination, others meander slowly without seeming to recognize where they will inevitably end. Tim Youngblood is that latter type. Why and how did he choose a career in cybersecurity?

“I think it chose me,” he says. “I came from a single family home in Atlanta. We didn’t have much money, but I had a friend – I called him my rich friend – whose father bought an IBM PC when I was 10 years old. I’d go over, and we played with it. Every day. I loved it. Until his mother said, ‘Hey, I didn ...