Gerard Johansen is an incident response professional with over 15 years' experience in areas such as penetration testing, vulnerability management, threat assessment modeling, and incident response. Beginning his information security career as a cyber crime investigator, he has built on that experience while working as a consultant and security analyst for clients and organizations ranging from healthcare to finance. Gerard is a graduate of Norwich University's Master of Science in Information Assurance program and a certified information systems security professional.

He is currently employed as a senior incident response consultant with a large technology company, focusing on incident detection, response, and threat intelligence integration.