About the Author
Carolyn Crandall is a technology executive with over 25 years of experience in
building emerging technology markets in security, networking and storage
industries. She has a demonstrated track record of successfully taking
companies from pre-IPO through to multibillion-dollar sales and has held
leadership positions at Cisco, Juniper Networks, Nimble Storage, Riverbed and
Seagate. Carolyn is recognized as a global thought leader on technology trends
and for building strategies that connect technology with customers to solve
difficult information technology challenges. Her current focus is on breach risk
mitigation by teaching organizations how to shift from a prevention-based
security infrastructure to one of an adaptive security defense delivered through
deception-based threat detection.Carolyn is the chief deception officer at Attivo Networks, as well as an active speaker, writer, and blogger.
She often speaks on security innovation at CISO forums, industry events and has been a guest on Fox
News. Carolyn has been recognized for several thought leadership awards including Business Woman
of Year: CEO Today, Hall of Femme Honoree: DMN, Reboot Leadership Honoree: CIO/C-Suite, Top 100
Power Women (CRN) and was profiled in 2019 in the San Jose Mercury News.
Carolyn can be reached online at [email protected] or @ctcrandall on twitter and at our
company website http://www.mycompany.com/