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Meet Nisos—Human Risk Intelligence Experts

We help security teams identify, investigate, and prevent human-driven threats before they escalate.

Who Are We

Nisos is your Human Risk Management Partner

We’re a team of experts passionate about intelligence, investigation, and making a difference.

We recruit, train, and maintain a cadre of intelligence experts from US Intel, law enforcement, and the private sector with the skills and experiences that matter for unmasking threats to protect people and organizations.

Our Impact

It’s our mission to protect organizations from human-driven threats

Safeguarding their people, clients, users, and critical assets.

For nearly a decade, Nisos has helped leading brands protect their reputation, reduce risk, mitigate losses, avoid regulatory fines, navigate legal processes, and maintain their competitive advantage.

What We Do

Nisos provides intelligence-driven human risk management solutions

to solve critical “who, what, why, how” questions. These challenges include protecting your executives from threats, identifying and preventing employment fraud and insider threats, and the human element of third-party risks.

How We Do It

Nisos applies real-world experience

to right the balance of power between threat actors and their targets – you. Our elite team of intelligence experts use advanced tradecraft and tools to surface intelligence other firms can’t, helping to reduce your risk.

We assess, monitor, and investigate as an extension of your team, delivering human risk intelligence without noise.

Working Towards a Safer Tomorrow

Elevating Security and Intelligence Communities

Nisos is a trusted partner for the security and intelligence communities. Our analysts regularly
contribute to industry research, share their insights through media outlets, and speak at security conferences.

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Research

Analysts perform research, publish insights, and provide recommendations to help our community better understand and overcome adversaries, threats, and challenges together.
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Learning Together

Our team members regularly speak at conferences worldwide to share insights and learnings. We host events and create content to promote community development, including educational webinars, and podcasts.

Investigations

We partner with investigative journalists to shine a light on threats faced by organizations around the world. We help law enforcement bring those who lurk in the shadows to justice.

A Legacy of Protecting Organizations from Human-Driven Threats

As cyber operators and intelligence professionals in the U.S. Government, our co-founders observed corporations who represented the backbone of our society and were routinely falling victim to sophisticated threat actors. These adversaries were traversing the digital and physical planes with ease, using opportunistic and targeted attacks to disable systems, foster distrust, and cause harm.
We founded Nisos with the mission to provide companies with adversary insights so they could better defend themselves. Today we help make the world safer by operating as an extension of our clients’ teams to help them make critical decisions, protect their organizations and people, and drive real world consequences.
Landon Winkelvoss, Co-founder and
VP of Legal and Intelligence Advisory
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Meet our Leadership

Ryan LaSalle

Ryan LaSalle

CEO

Accenture
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Michael Spitzer

CFO

BAO Systems, Measure,
XO Communications
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Jennifer DeTrani

SVP and General Counsel

Wickr, Assistant US Attorney,
Cooley LLP
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Magen Gicinto

SVP of People Strategy and Culture

FirstService Residential, US Central Intelligence Agency
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Richard Byrd

SVP of Sales

Lockheed Martin, Forcepoint, HP
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Brandon Kappus

SVP of Client Success

US Government
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Nicki Doggart

SVP of Marketing

Red Canary, Rapid7, RSA
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Jared Hudson, VP of Intelligence Services

Jared Hudson

SVP of Operations and Intelligence Services

US Central Intelligence Agency
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Landon Winkelvoss

Co-Founder and VP of Legal and Intelligence Advisory

US Government
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Justin Zeefe, Nisos

Justin Zeefe

Co-Founder and Board Member

US Government, Williams & Connolly LLP
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Awards and Industry Recognition

Built In Best Places to work 2024
 
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Top InfoSec Innovators for 2023
 
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Cybersecurity Excellence Awards
 

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DCA Live Red Hot Cyber Company 2023
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Moxie Award
2024
 
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CyberTech 100 List 2023
 

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Our Partners

Cybercrime Atlas

Nisos was invited to join the Cybercrime Atlas, hosted by the World Economic Forum (WEF), to contribute a human risk perspective to cybercrime investigations and to collaborate with global stakeholders and experts to disrupt cybercriminal activity and mitigate the impact of cyber attacks globally,

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PSN

Premier Sports Network invited Nisos to become a strategic partner to help provide human risk and intelligence solutions to their elite sports industry membership. The top problems we help them solve are executive and key personnel protection, employment vetting, and event and venue risk assessments.
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Get Ahead of Human Risk