Securityworks Team

Bryan Fish - President & Chief Risk Evangelist
With almost 15 years of Information Security experience, Bryan founded Securityworks in 2002 as a consulting firm specialized in strategic risk management. Prior to Securityworks, Bryan was a Senior Consultant at Lucent Technologies and International Networks Services. During his years of consulting he has earned various industry certification (e.g., CISSP) and advised approximately dozens diverse enterprises, spanning a wide variety of industry verticals such as financial, health care, telecommunications, transportation, manufacturing, energy, government, technology and retail.

This depth of domain experience and exposure is a key to Securityworks, and drives our vision for practical solutions that help our customers solve their IT Security, Risk, and Compliance management pains. In 2004, Bryan identified an opportunity for pioneering a new approach to IT Risk Management and re-focused the company’s energy toward this vision.

Bryan graduated with a B.S. in Computer Engineering and an M.S. in Computer Science with a specialization in Information Security from Texas A&M University. During his Master’s program, Bryan was responsible for the Advanced Hacker “Attack & Defend” Lab for the graduate-level computer science program, and this accomplishment was showcased during a National Security Agency (NSA) conference. Bryan’s professional expertise has been tapped for numerous publications including “The Handbook of Information Security Management,” and he has been an expert speaker at numerous industry events such as IEEE and IANS.

Steve Brewer - Vice President, Engineering & Architecture
Steve is responsible for Securityworks’ development, architecture and quality assurance functions. Prior to Securityworks, Steve led product development for RadioTime, Inc, a consumer-focused radio search engine or "Google for Radio" for helping people find and listen to online radio - anytime, anywhere.

Prior to RadioTime, Steve held key contributor and management roles at Hotels.com and Expedia, Inc. including software developer, development manager and product manager. Steve’s expertise and passion for user-centered usability and design principals has made him a frequent contributor and collaborator on developer and blog forums under various alter ego alias’.

Steve graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science and Mathematics from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.

Ryan Shopp - Marketing & Business Development Advisor
With almost 15 years of IT Infrastructure Management software domain expertise spanning sales and marketing, Ryan is a key advisor and contributor on all of Securityworks’ outbound communications and relationships. Prior to joining Securityworks, Ryan held executive roles in business development, product marketing & strategy for AlterPoint - a leading provider of Network Governance solutions.

Previously, Ryan held executive and key contributer roles at netVMG (acquired by Internap) - a pioneer in WAN optimization, Centrata (acquired by Lontra) - a pioneer in Data Center Automation and International Network Services (acquired by Lucent) where his key roles included leading product management and marketing for the VitalSuite Product Portfolio including the award-winning VitalNet Network Performance Management solution and helping lead the the South Central U.S. sales team to be recognized as the top annual revenue producing territory world-wide. Ryan also was a consultant and contributor to the early development days of Solarwinds Network Management Tools. Prior to these IT software vendor roles, Ryan gained hands-on IT administrative and operational expertise through consulting on projects for AT&T, EDS, Verizon and United Healthcare during which time he earned various industry technical certifications from Cisco, Nortel, and PMG (now NetQoS).

Ryan graduated with a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University.