Jack Cable (software developer)
American computer security researcher and software developer
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jack Cable (born February 18, 2000[citation needed]) is an American computer security researcher and software developer. He is the CEO and co-founder of Corridor, an AI security startup.[2] He is best known for his participation in bug bounty programs, including placing first in the U.S. Department of Defense's Hack the Air Force challenge in 2017.[3] He previously served as a Senior Technical Advisor at the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
For his work, Cable was named one of Time Magazine's 25 Most Influential Teens of 2018.[1] Cable has spoken on vulnerability disclosure and election security at conferences including the DEF CON Voting Village,[4] Black Hat Briefings,[5] and the Wall Street Journal's Future of Everything Festival.[6]
Early life and education
Cable grew up in the Chicago suburbs and attended New Trier High School.[7] He began programming in middle school and discovered bug bounty programs at the age of 15 after finding a vulnerability in a financial website.[3][8] Cable received a B.S. in computer science from Stanford University[9] in 2021.
Career
While in college, Cable founded a cybersecurity consulting firm, Lightning Security.[1] Cable began working for the Pentagon's Defense Digital Service in the summer of 2018.[7] In 2019, Cable helped launch Stanford's bug bounty program, one of the first in higher education.[10]
After discovering and reporting severe vulnerabilities in several states' electoral infrastructure, Cable joined the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in the summer of 2020.[11] There, Cable served as a technical advisor to help protect state election systems against foreign hacking attempts.[12]
Cable joined cybersecurity consulting firm Krebs Stamos Group in 2021 as a Security Architect.[13] Also in 2021, Cable identified a workaround in a ransomware payment system to save victims $27,000,[14] for which he was acknowledged by U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas.[15] Cable launched Ransomwhere, a crowdsourced ransomware payment tracker that aims to address the ransomware visibility problem.[16][17]
Cable rejoined CISA in 2023 to help lead the agency's Secure by Design initiative.[18]
Publications and articles
- "Every Computer Science Degree Should Require a Course in Cybersecurity". Harvard Business Review. Published August 27, 2019.[19]
- "Why the U.S. government needs you to hack it". Fast Company. Published December 17, 2019.[20]
- "Preventing Ransomware Attacks at Scale". Harvard Business Review. Published April 23, 2024.[21]