Paul de Souza

Paul de Souza is the founder of the Cyber Security Forum Initiative (CSFI). He serves as an advisor for the MCPA (Military Cyber Professionals Association). He is a recipient of the MCPA Order of Thor Medal, which recognizes significant contributions on behalf of the American military cyber profession. He is a visiting researcher at CENTRIC (Centre of Excellence in Terrorism, Resilience, Intelligence & Organized Crime Research), a part of Sheffield Hallam University, U.K., and as a guest lecturer at the Swedish Defense University (SEDU) Försvarshögskolanand. He serves on the Institute of World Politics Board of Advisors for the Cyber Intelligence Initiative (Ci2) in Washington, D.C., as a Negev Hi-Tech Faculty Startup Accelerator Advisor for the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel; and as an Advisory Board member for Intell Corp. De Souza has been a Visiting Research Fellow at the National Security Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel (INSS), and has completed the Executive Certificate Program in Counter-Terrorism Studies from the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya in Israel. He is also a Cybersecurity Exec Ed alum at Harvard Kennedy School.