Whenever I sit down for an in-depth interview, I always resist asking the subject how he or she got involved in information security. Working in information security isn’t something that most professionals have in their genes after all.

With some, the answer is expected: “I like to hack into things. I’m good at it. Why not make a living doing it?” And on the businesses end, executives often trace their security roots back to the late 1990s, when the world was learning to love the internet – and some opportunistic (I mean this as a complement) individuals were seeing the web as one-stop shopping, with that stop being the bedroom, back porch or however far a customer can stretch a laptop.

Detailed biographies, however, are few and far between; that’s why I’m pointing this one out.

Ironically, Jeremiah Grossman’s interest in computers began the same place mine did – in front of a Commodore 64. But it looks like he had a deeper interest in the technology than just using it to play Spy Hunter.