Larry Whiteside Jr

Co-Founder & President, Confide

A former United States Air Force Officer with over 25 years experience in building and running cybersecurity programs, Larry Whiteside Jr. is a veteran CISO, CSO, and CTO in the cybersecurity field with extensive experience in C-Level security roles across industries including DoD, Federal Government, Financial Services, Healthcare, and Critical Infrastructure. As the CISO of RegScale, a Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM) platform that overcomes the limitations in legacy Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) by bridging security, risk, and compliance, Larry leads internal security governance.He also contributes to RegScale’s go-to-market efforts integrated with Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success, helping RegScale generate and close new business, improve partner and customer enablement, and create excitement for the RegScale offering in the market. Larry routinely advises corporate security executives and companies across the Fortune 2000. He has helped CEOs and board members of private cybersecurity companies achieve their goals in sales, marketing, and customer service retention. A thought leader in the industry, Larry is frequently featured in articles about information security and risk management and is a sought-after speaker at conferences such as the Gartner Security Summit, RSA Conference, the SC World Congress, ISC2, Secure World, Black MEA, and InfoSec World. Larry is also the Co-Founder of Cyversity, a 501(c)3 non-profit association that is dedicated to increasing the number of minorities and women in the cybersecurity career field.