Bio
James McQuiggan spent 18 years in operational technology security at Siemens Energy, where the stakes of a misconfiguration aren’t a news headline: they’re a power grid outage. That background informs how he thinks about risk and how he communicates it to leadership.
He now works as an Advisory CISO focused on Human Risk Management, helping organizations move beyond checkbox security awareness training toward programs that measurably change behavior. He’s also working with clients on emerging threats from agentic AI systems and polymorphic attacks.
James holds a CISSP, leads an ISC2 chapter, teaches Cyber Threat Intelligence at Full Sail University, and hosts the Simply Secured podcast. He has a background in musical theatre, which tends to show in how he delivers a session — he is equal parts educator and entertainer.
