Richard Johnson

Richard Johnson has held a variety of roles in the tech industry over the past two decades. From 2002 to 2004, they were an E-Payable System Administrator at General Electric. Richard then moved on to Beeline, where they were a Product Support Analyst from 2004 to 2006. After that, they were a Technical Support Analyst at Adecco UK from 2006 to 2009. From 2009 to 2017, they were a Senior Security Engineer and NOC Engineer at Enterprise Integration. Richard then worked at Akamai Technologies from 2017 to 2021 as both a Senior Security Architect and a Security Architect II. Most recently, they have been a Senior Technical Account Manager at Kasada since 2022.

Richard Johnson completed a BSc in Multi-Media Technology from Leeds Beckett University between 1997 and 2001. Richard has obtained several certifications since then, including Critical Thinking for Better Judgment and Decision-Making and Project Leadership from LinkedIn in February 2021, Unconscious Bias from LinkedIn in February 2021, (ISC)2 Security CISSP (ISC2-CISSP) from (ISC)² in June 2019, Checkpoint Certified Security Administrator (CCSA R75) from Pearson Vue in May 2013, AWS Certified Security – Specialty from Amazon Web Services (AWS) in March 2022, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner from Amazon Web Services (AWS) in December 2021, Certified Ethical Hacker (C|EH v7) from EC Council in July 2012, Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), Cisco Certified Network Associate - Security (CCNA-S) from Cisco in March 2011, and ITIL V3 Foundation from EXIN.