Ep. 80 Nick Selby
Nick Selby Talks Data...Big Data What happens when you use data instead of anecdotes to study the information behind police shootings? You get facts and not rhetoric. You get a place to start a real conversation about situations that need a deeper look.It's amazing what Nick Selby and his team are doing with data research to get to the bottom of the real story. You can't argue with facts and physics and when those get backed up by data, you have a pretty solid foundation for understanding. You have to go look at the study that the team put together here: Police Killings In Context About Nick Selby Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder StreetCred CEO and co-Founder Nick Selby was sworn as a police officer in 2010, and currently serves as an investigator at a police agency in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. His focus is on crimes that leverage the Internet, such as fraud, organized retail crime, identity theft and child exploitation. He was an information security analyst and consultant for ten years, and has worked in physical security and intelligence consulting in various roles since 1993. He is co-author of Blackhatonomics: An Inside Look at the Economics of Cybercrime (Syngress, 2012) and technical editor of Investigating Internet Crimes (Syngress, 2013). In 2005 he established the information security practice at industry analyst firm The 451 Group, where he conducted in-depth interviews with and consulted more than 1000 technology vendors, and a range of Fortune 1000 and government clients. In 2007 he was appointed 451’s VP of Research Operations. Since 2008 he has focused on law enforcement intelligence, while managing a boutique consultancy that provided cyber-incident response services to Fortune 250 companies. He co-founded StreetCred Software, Inc., in 2012. Nick has consulted hundreds of venture-backed startups on understanding their competitive landscape, on product development and feature enhancements, user interface and security. He has consulted US and European governments, more than 80 investment banks, more than 20 venture capital firms: on the investment side, to better understand the technology and landscape of the companies into which they invested, and on the operations side on securing their intellectual property and processes.