The job of chief information security officer involves a lot of worrying. A CISO has to anticipate all the ways hackers can target weak spots in a company's network or trick its employees and customers into handing over data. Doing this job in the crypto industry—which is an especially lucrative playground for hackers—would seem even more stressful, but Coinbase's CISO, Jeff Lunglhofer, doesn't see it that way.
I spoke with Lunglhofer on the sidelines at Consensus, and he told me crypto may involve unique technology—blockchains, smart contracts, and so on—but that the nature of his job has been the same through his decades-long career: Identify the people and places a hacker will target, and do his best to deny them the opportunity.
