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Jack Cable
Google Scholar ID: G99mZ_0AAAAJ
Corridor
Citations & Impact
Citations
116
H-index
5
i10-index
4
Publications
11
Co-authors
9
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Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Led CISA's Secure by Design Pledge, securing commitments from over 250 software manufacturers including Google, Microsoft, and AWS.
- Authored the Securing Open Source Software Act—the first legislation focused specifically on open source software security.
- Led development and deployment of Crossfeed, CISA’s first passive, opt-out vulnerability scanning program, covering all 50 states and over 2,500 counties ahead of the 2020 election.
- Advised IT-ISAC on rebuilding ties between the hacker community and election vendors, resulting in the first vulnerability disclosure policies for voting machines.
- Launched Ransomwhere, the first public tracker of ransomware payments.
- Discovered a temporary workaround for a nascent ransomware strain, saving 50 victims $27,000 and earning recognition from the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security.
- Organized a sign-on letter reaffirming the importance of security research in response to a Supreme Court amicus brief, signed by over 50 stakeholders including Congressman Jim Langevin; cited in the petitioner’s reply brief.
- Published 'Showing the Receipts: Understanding the Modern Ransomware Ecosystem' (Symposium on Electronic Crime Research, October 2024).
- Co-authored 'Money Over Morals: A Business Analysis of Conti Ransomware' (Symposium on Electronic Crime Research, December 2022), which received a Best Paper Award.
- Co-authored 'A Systematization of Voter Registration Security' (Journal of Cybersecurity).
- Co-authored 'A Tale of Two Markets: Investigating the Ransomware Payments Economy'.
Research Experience
- Currently CEO and Co-founder at Corridor.
- Former Senior Technical Advisor at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), leading efforts on Secure by Design and open source software security.
- Served as a TechCongress Fellow for Senator Gary Peters, advising on cybersecurity policy including election and open source software security.
- Previously worked as a Security Architect at Krebs Stamos Group.
- Served as an Election Security Technical Advisor at CISA, where he created Crossfeed to scan election infrastructure nationwide.
- Joined the Defense Digital Service right after high school following his win in the Hack the Air Force challenge; helped run the Hack the Pentagon bug bounty program and advised on the DoD Vulnerability Disclosure Program.
