An independent researcher and public-interest technologist, Stephen Cobb has spent over four decades working at the intersection of digital technology and human behavior. The author of multiple publications on cybersecurity and data privacy, he has been a CISSP since 1996 and holds a masters in security and risk management from the University of Leicester. Stephen co-founded two successful cybersecurity and data privacy companies and was the 2019 recipient of the CompTIA Tech Champion Award. He now lives in Coventry, the city in England in which he was born, together with partner Chey, the author of Network Security for Dummies, and cat Lola, who has not written anything, yet.