Dave Cullinane

TruSTAR Founder and CSA Chairman

Dave Cullinane is the Founder of TruSTAR Technology. Prior to TruSTAR, Dave served for 5+ years as the Chief Information Security Officer and VP of Global Fraud, Risk and Security for eBay and its many global businesses (StubHub, InternetAuction.co, GSI Commerce). He has more than 30 years of professional security experience building and managing cyber security and incident response teams.

Dave is also the past President and Chairman of the IT-Information Sharing and Analysis Center (IT-ISAC) – an organization for sharing security related information across companies in the IT industry, and was a founding member of the FS-ISAC for the financial services industry under Presidential Decision Directive 63. He served as a member of the IT Sector Coordinating Council and the National Council of ISACs. He has been selected to serve on the Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board for NIST, along with the Secretary of Commerce and representatives from other US Government agencies. He is also the Founder and Chairman of the Cloud Security Alliance.

Dave is an Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) Fellow, and has been elected to the ISSA Hall of Fame. He was awarded SC Magazine’s Global Award as Chief Security Officer of the Year for 2005 and CSO Magazine’s 2006 Compass Award as a “Visionary Leader of the Security Profession.” In 2012 he was awarded SecureWorld’s first Lifetime Achievement Award for his outstanding contributions to the advancement of the information security community.