Sebastian Goodwin

Sebastian Goodwin is CISO at Nutanix. In this role, he is responsible for security, compliance, and technology risk management. Sebastian also teaches a course in Managing Cyber Risk at U.C. Berkeley. Prior to his current role at Nutanix, he served as Head of Product Marketing for endpoint security at Palo Alto Networks. Prior to that, Sebastian was CISO for a large multinational company and spent 10 years in consulting roles with IBM Business Consulting Services and several boutique firms.

Sebastian is a recognized cybersecurity industry leader and the author of two books on Windows Server security as well as co-author of the Security+ certification exam. He has taught numerous courses on security and technology and has served as an advisor to successful cybersecurity start-ups. He holds a BS in Applied Economics from the University of San Francisco, an MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, and served as a Cybersecurity Policy Fellow at New America. His research interests include AI in cybersecurity, organizational behavior and executive leadership impacts on cybersecurity, quantified risk decision models, and security in the hybrid cloud.