VP, Cyber Services, Chubb Insurance
Russ Cohen has been with Chubb for ten years and currently serves as the Vice President of Cyber Services. His responsibilities include managing all policyholder services associated with Chubb’s pre- and post-incident cyber services, as well as supporting innovations in underwriting, data analytics and predictive modeling associated with enterprise cyber security risks. Russ previously spent seven years as Chubb’s Global Enterprise Security Architect, responsible for developing the company’s enterprise security architecture, strategies and methodology on cyber security. Russ has more than 15 years of cyber security and technology experience in a variety of roles, including as an ethical “white hat” hacker, a systems architecture consultant at a large pharmaceutical corporation and a senior consultant at one of the largest software companies in the world. He has also led classes on ethical hacking for employees of large corporations. Russ received a Master of Science in Information Systems from Drexel University. He holds a CISSP certification and is an active member of various security organizations, including Infragard, ISC2, FS-ISAC, and the Cloud Security Alliance. Russ is the author of the original Cyber COPE™- Transforming Cyber Underwriting advisory, published in 2016. Russ was recently recognized in Insurance Business Magazine’s Hot 100 award for 2017 (http://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/rankings/hot-100-2017)