John Simmons is the regional lead for the FortiGuard Incident Response team in the Americas. He is responsible for the leading customer engagements involving cybersecurity incidents.

He has led dozens of cybersecurity incident engagements in various sectors of business with over 15 years of experience in cybersecurity.

He holds the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), GIAC Certified Incident Handler GCIH, CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+) and Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) certifications.

He has vast experience performing forensics and incident response during various customer engagements including ransomware, business email compromise, state-sponsored Advanced Persistent Threat (APT), and corporate espionage.