Jack Cable (software developer)

Jack Cable
Employer
AwardsTime Magazine's 25 Most Influential Teens (2018)[1]
Websitehttps://cablej.io/ Edit this on Wikidata

Jack Cable (born February 18, 2000) is an American computer security researcher and software developer who currently serves as a Senior Technical Advisor at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. He is best known for his participation in bug bounty programs, including placing first in the U.S. Department of Defense's Hack the Air Force challenge.[2] Cable began working for the Pentagon's Defense Digital Service in the summer of 2018.[3]

After discovering and reporting severe vulnerabilities in several states' electoral infrastructure, Cable joined the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in the summer of 2020.[4] There, Cable served as a technical advisor to help protect state election systems against foreign hacking attempts.[5] Cable rejoined CISA in 2023 to help lead the agency's Secure by Design initiative.[6]

For his work, Cable was named one of Time Magazine's 25 Most Influential Teens of 2018.[1] Cable has spoken on vulnerability disclosure and election security at conferences including the DEF CON Voting Village,[7] Black Hat Briefings,[8] and the Wall Street Journal's Future of Everything Festival.[9] In 2019, Cable helped launch Stanford's bug bounty program, one of the first in higher education.[10]

  1. ^ a b "TIME's 25 Most Influential Teens of 2018". Time Magazine. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  2. ^ "This 17-year-old hacked the Air Force". NPR Marketplace. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  3. ^ "How a New Trier Student Became an Internationally Known Ethical Hacker". Chicago Magazine. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  4. ^ "Putin Is Well on His Way to Stealing the Next Election". The Atlantic. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
  5. ^ "Meet the 20-year-old super-hacker who was the youngest member of the Pentagon's 'SWAT team of nerds' and is now fighting for election security with Homeland Security". Business Insider. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
  6. ^ @CISAgov (January 19, 2023). "We're delighted to welcome top cyber talent like senior technical advisor Jack Cable to the team!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  7. ^ "DEF CON 27 Voting Village Report" (PDF). DEF CON. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  8. ^ "Black Hat CISO Summit". Black Hat. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  9. ^ "WSJ Future Of Everything Festival - Speakers". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  10. ^ "Stanford Bug Bounty Launch". Stanford University IT. Retrieved 3 November 2019.