Top 100 Cybersecurity Influencers In 2024

04 Mar Top 100 Cybersecurity Influencers In 2024

This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine

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Sausalito, Calif. – Mar. 4, 2024

Journalists and authors figure prominently on Feedspot’s list of the “Top 100 Cybersecurity Influencers in 2024” that published last week.

Kim Zetter, author of “Countdown To Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World’s First Digital Weapon” and an investigative journalist for media outlets including WIRED, The New York Times Magazine, Politico, The Washington Post, and others, is No. 1 on the list.

Steve Morgan, founder of Cybersecurity Ventures and editor-in-chief at Cybercrime Magazine, was the next journalist on the list, coming in at No. 3.

Other well-known bloggers, reporters, event producers and media contributors on the list include:

Troy Hunt, creator of the popular haveibeenpwned.com site;

Best-selling author and renowned security technologist Bruce Schneier;

Black Hat and DEF CON conferences founder Jeff Moss;

Eric Geller, senior cybersecurity reporter at The Messenger;

Nicole Perlroth, author of The New York Times bestseller “This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends”;

Dan Goodin, security editor at Ars TECHNICA;

Dustin Volz, cyber and intelligence reporter at The Wall Street Journal;

Kim Nash, deputy editor at The Wall Street Journal / Pro Cybersecurity;

Tim Starks, cybersecurity reporter at The Washington Post;

Mohit Kumar, founder of The Hacker News;

Ryan Naraine, writer at SecurityWeek.

When ranking these cybersecurity influencers, Feedspot considered not just their following, but also engagement, as well as overall influence in the cybersecurity space. Feedspot is a content reader that indexes two million new articles every day. They have 4 million registered users and 60,000 customers in more than 150 countries.

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