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Amid war, a cybersecurity expert spearheads a digital mission to educate children in Ukraine.
In this episode, Joe Sullivan sheds light on Ukraine Friends' Digital Wings initiative, which aims to provide repurposed laptops to children affected by the conflict, enabling them to continue their education remotely. He highlights the expansion of humanitarian efforts beyond the Ukrainian crisis, advocating for cybersecurity transparency, leadership in business decisions, and investing in people focusing on learning from failures.
Tune in to learn more about Joe Sullivan's mission to provide digital education for children in a war-torn nation!
Joe Sullivan is the CEO of Ukraine Friends, a nonprofit organization providing humanitarian aid to the people of Ukraine. He also advises several startups, does security consulting projects, and mentors security leaders.
Joe has worked at the intersection of government, technology, and security since the mid-1990s. He spent 8 years working for the USDJ, eventually 100% focused on technology-related crimes, received national recognition from the DOJ for outstanding service as a federal prosecutor, and worked on many first-of-their-kind cybercrime cases, including supporting the digital aspects of the 9/11 investigation. Joe was recruited to eBay in 2002 to build out their Crime team and later took on responsibilities at PayPal. In 2008, Joe moved to Facebook, where he became their CSO. He was recruited from there to join Uber in 2015, to be their first CSO. His experiences at Uber are well-documented publicly, for better and for worse, including with a chapter dedicated to his life and time at the company in the best-selling book 'SuperPumped'. After Uber, Joe was the CSO at Cloudflare from 2018 through 2022.
Joe has testified before the US Congress twice, been a commissioner on the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention, a board member on the National Cyber Security Alliance, a many-time opening plenary speaker at the Dallas Crimes Against Children Conference, a participant in a White House anti-online-bullying effort, advisor to the Department of Homeland Security, and in 2016 accepted and served an appointment from President Obama to his Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity.
