This document provides a list of the top 100 individuals and brands in cybersecurity based on their influence in conversations around the topic on Twitter over a 96 day period. It ranks the individuals and brands separately based on a PageRank methodology that considers the number and quality of references a user receives in tweets mentioning cybersecurity. For each of the top 25 individuals and brands, it shows their normalized PageRank score to indicate their level of influence. It then provides tables listing the names, Twitter handles, and normalized PageRank scores for individuals ranked 1-50 and 51-100, as well as for brands ranked 1-50.
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Top 100 Cybersecurity Influencers & Brands
1. Top 100 Brands & Individuals
An exhaustive list of thought leaders, including Firms,
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3. methodology
The PageRank based methodology we use to
extract influencers on a particular topic (tweets
mentioning #cybersecurity or “cybersecurity” in
this case) takes into account the number and
quality of contextual references that a user
receives.
These calculations are independent of a user's
number of followers, but we do filter our lists
based on how much a user is engaged in the
conversation and the influence they drive through
their networks.
If you want to learn more, read our article that
outlines influencer identification.
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5. Interactions between individuals and brands
in the Cybersecurity debate*
*Make sure you zoom in to see the full detail.
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BRANDS
INDIVIDUALS
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7. How do they stack up?
INDIVIDUALS - TOP 25
0 20 40 60 80 100
Elise Viebeck
Alex
Rep. Will Hurd
Kevin Mitnick
Spencer Ackerman
David Sanger
Ben FitzGerald
Marc Goodman
Gary Davis
Jose Pagliery
Hoff
Ron Miller
Dan Froomkin
Kevin Bankston
Rob Graham
Peter W. Singer
Sara Sorcher
Jennifer Granick
Charlie Osborne
Zack Whittaker
Eric Chabrow
Ben DiPietro
Gabey Goh
Eugene Kaspersky
Trevor Timm
Normalised PageRank
8. INDIVIDUALS 1 - 50
Rank Name Twitter Handle Normalized PageRank
1 Trevor Timm trevortimm 100.00
2 Eugene Kaspersky e_kaspersky 90.94
3 Gabey Goh gabeygoh 77.10
4 Ben DiPietro BenDiPietro1 65.01
5 Eric Chabrow GovInfoSecurity 47.56
6 Zack Whittaker zackwhittaker 43.12
7 Charlie Osborne ZDNetCharlie 39.33
8 Jennifer Granick granick 37.55
9 Sara Sorcher SaraSorcher 37.26
10 Peter W. Singer peterwsinger 36.19
11 Rob Graham ErrataRob 35.99
12 Kevin Bankston KevinBankston 35.23
13 Dan Froomkin froomkin 34.64
14 Ron Miller ron_miller 32.92
15 Hoff Beaker 32.67
16 Jose Pagliery Jose_Pagliery 30.75
17 Gary Davis garyjdavis 30.20
18 Marc Goodman FutureCrimes 29.15
19 Ben FitzGerald benatworkdc 28.95
20 David Sanger SangerNYT 28.51
21 Spencer Ackerman attackerman 27.98
22 Kevin Mitnick kevinmitnick 27.37
23 Rep. Will Hurd HurdOnTheHill 25.21
24 Alex alex 24.70
25 Elise Viebeck eliseviebeck 24.26
26 Mike DeCesare MikeDeCesare 24.00
27 Adam Segal adschina 23.84
28 Paul R. La Monica LaMonicaBuzz 23.69
29 David Emm emm_david 23.41
30 Shane Harris shaneharris 23.32
31 Damian Paletta damianpaletta 23.17
32 Robert Herjavec robertherjavec 22.83
33 Richard Bejtlich taosecurity 22.57
34 Jon Oltsik joltsik 21.51
35 Aliya Sternstein Aliya_NextGov 21.11
36 Chris Wysopal WeldPond 20.74
37 Reuben Paul RAPst4r 20.23
38 Neal Ungerleider nealunger 19.95
39 Mikko S. Niemelä mikkosniemela 19.48
40 Kimberly George kimberlyanngeo 18.88
41 Robert M. Lee RobertMLee 18.59
42 Ken Mingis kmingis 18.49
43 Chris Preimesberger editingwhiz 18.44
44 Julius juliusclark 17.68
45 Josh Goldfarb ananalytical 17.63
46 Rachael King sfwriter 17.62
47 Eric Geller ericgeller 17.26
48 John Carl Villanueva johncvillanueva 17.19
49 Bob Moritz Bob_Moritz 17.09
50 Craig Brown, Ph.D. craigbrownphd 16.93
9. INDIVIDUALS 51-100
Rank Name Twitter Handle Normalized PageRank
51 David Grant DW_Grant 16.76
52 Knol Infos knolinfos 16.47
53 Christopher Soghoian csoghoian 16.36
54 Andy Greenberg a_greenberg 16.19
55 Sean Kerner TechJournalist 15.42
56 Amy Zegart AmyZegart 15.29
57 Michael McFaul McFaul 15.17
58 Stephen Cobb zcobb 15.03
59 Jason Healey Jason_Healey 14.98
60 Sue Poremba sueporemba 14.83
61 Alex Stamos alexstamos 14.49
62 Megan Garcia meganegarcia 14.37
63 Jessica Davis jessicadavis 14.07
64 Doug Munro DoDRecruiterDC 13.57
65 Newley Purnell newley 13.37
66 Vala Afshar ValaAfshar 13.35
67 Matthew Green matthew_d_green 13.20
68 Jarno Limnéll JarnoLim 13.16
69 Michael Kaiser MKaiserNCSA 13.10
70 Montgomery Granger mjgranger1 13.02
71 Nicole Perlroth nicoleperlroth 12.93
72 Robert Stroud CRISC RobertEStroud 12.90
73 George V. Hulme georgevhulme 12.65
74 Steve Wilson Steve_Lockstep 12.61
75 Cyberwoman astepanovich 12.33
76 Paul Carsten PaulCarsten 12.32
77 Kim Zetter KimZetter 12.30
78 Tom Field SecurityEditor 12.23
79 Cory Johnson CoryTV 11.60
80 Joyce Carpenter jcatcw 11.30
81 Sarah Clarke S_Clarke22 11.17
82 David Auerbach AuerbachKeller 11.13
83 Günther H. Oettinger GOettingerEU 10.67
84 Darin Andersen darinandersen 10.52
85 Mathew J Schwartz euroinfosec 10.51
86 Michael Nelson MikeNelson 10.40
87 Kevin Jackson Kevin_Jackson 10.30
88 Michael Ball Unix_Guru 10.29
89 Joseph Menn josephmenn 10.27
90 Joseph Steinberg JosephSteinberg 10.18
91 Mark W. Bennett newfrontiercio 10.14
92 Tim Jarrett tojarrett 9.83
93 Michael B. Farrell mikebfarrell 9.74
94 Chris Young youngdchris 9.74
95 Patrick C Miller PatrickCMiller 9.65
96 Bob Carver cybersecboardrm 9.51
97 David Strom dstrom 9.43
98 rick tracy rick_tracy 9.33
99 Lysa Myers LysaMyers 9.10
100 Rick Holland rickhholland 8.85
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