Andreas Schneider, born and raised in Munich, Germany, entered the field of IT Security at an early stage in 2000. Trained as a Mainframe System Programmer, he took responsibility for a regional bank institute’s entire mainframe landscape security. He then grew his specialization in the field of IT Security and IT Risk Management throughout various related roles like Consultant, Specialist and CISO, while transforming IT Security across different businesses and company sizes, including startup, regional and multinational within banking, IT and media. With more than 20 years of international specialist experience including CISO roles in Switzerland, Andreas currently acts as Field CISO EMEA of Lacework and is member of several Advisory boards. He is progressing Cyber Security to become more agile, more user focused and embed security by design into digital products. He further holds several well-respected professional certifications, such as the C-CISO, CISM, CISSP, CRISC, and is also certified in ISO 27001 and ITIL V3. He lives with his wife and two sons in Zurich, Switzerland.