Meet the Trainer
James Arlen
James Arlen is a member of Salesforce’s security team focused on Public Cloud computing at one of the worlds largest SaaS/PaaS providers. Over the past twenty plus years, James has been delivering information security solutions to Fortune 500, TSE 100, and major public-sector organizations. In both consultant and staff member roles, James led business and technical teams of professionals in short-term projects as well as multi-year organizational change initiatives. James held key contributor roles as CISO or most senior security executive at dozens of international companies across the finance, critical infrastructure, manufacturing, and service industries. Additionally, James has been involved in information security policy, process, procedure, and architecture improvements for internationally known manufacturing and financial organizations.
James is best described as: “Infosec geek, hacker, social activist, author, speaker, and parent.” His areas of interest include organizational change, social engineering, blinky lights and shiny things. In addition to his work at Salesforce, James is a Contributing Analyst at the research firm Securosis, a part-time Professor at Mohawk College, blogger/podcaster with Liquidmatrix Security Digest, a frequent speaker at industry conferences, and is a prolific contributor to media and standards including a lead author contribution to the Cloud Security Alliance Security Guidance for Critical Areas of Cloud Computing V4. James holds the CISSP, CISA, and CRISC security certifications.