Jon Zeolla

Jon Zeolla is the founder and CEO of Zenable, a tech company that’s streamlining cloud-native security. Jon aims to eliminate corporate toil and inefficiency by automating governance and simplifying data gathering and analysis.

He’s also a founder of Seiso where they partner with tech companies to implement low-friction security and compliance. His work at Seiso earned him the 2021 Start-Up Innovator of the Year Award.

Finally, he stays active in the community by sharing his expertise as a SANS Certified Instructor, CNCF Ambassador, and IANS Faculty member.

Feel free to connect on LinkedIn.

Check out Jon’s presentations and trainings.

Awards

• 2023 Best Places to Work - Seiso

• 2023 Cybersecurity Innovator Finalist - Seiso

• 2022 Best Places to Work - Seiso

• 2021 Start-Up Innovator of the Year - Seiso

• 2017 NTHS Honorary Member

Community Building

• CNCF - Cloud Native Security Pittsburgh (YouTube channel) founder since 2023

• Steel City InfoSec (aka DC412) founder since 2012; see prior events here

• BSides Pittsburgh organizer since 2014

• PittSec founder since 2018

• CNCF TAG-Security and Ambassador

• CNCF TAG Contributor Strategy’s Deaf & Hard of Hearing Working Group (resources here)

• AWS Community Builder

Volunteer Work

• Cloud Native Security Con 2024 - Program Committee Member

• KubeCon/CloudNativeCon North America 2023 - Cybersecurity Program Committee Member

• CNCF TAG-Security Member since 2020

  • 2023 Pixie security review (Pixie)

  • 2022 Cloud Native Security Controls Catalog (issue 635, blog)

  • 2021 Serverless Security White Paper (issue 546)

• Kubernetes SIG-Security Policy Working Group Member since 2022

  • 2023 Kubernetes Governance, Risk, and Compliance White Paper

• FBI Citizens Academy 2016 graduate

• NSF Grant #2000902 Advisory Board Member in 2022

• DataWorks Summit, CyberSecurity Track Chair in 2018

• CAMLIS Organizer in 2018

• Apache Software Foundation Committer since 2017

• CIS Apple iOS 7 Benchmark in 2013

• Forbes Road CTC Occupational Advisory Committee since 2012

• Pittsburgh Technology College advisory board 2011-2024

Open Source Software

• cookiecutter-python

• easy_infra

• goat

• zeek-kafka

• easy_sast

• Apache Metron (Archived)

Current Work

• Founder and CEO at Zenable

• Co-founder and CTO at Seiso

• Instructor at SANS

• Faculty member at IANS

Hobbies

• Weightlifting (>400 Wilks Coefficient, >1250lb combined at 180lb bw)

• Mountain Biking

• Chess

• Certifications and badges.