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Joe Saunders

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Founder and CEO

Joe Saunders has more than 25 years of leadership, business building, and startup experience having served in a variety of business development and general management roles for high growth companies. Prior to founding RunSafe Security, Joe served as director of Thomson Reuters Special Services, where he led analytical solutions to help law enforcement agencies identify national security threats. Joe previously led the digital technology division of AIMS Worldwide and was a member of the management team at TARGUSinfo, which was acquired by Neustar for $750M in 2011.

Joe started his career as a consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers building quantitative models for financial institutions. Joe has a BS degree in mathematics from University of Michigan, a MS in predictive analytics from Northwestern University, and an MBA from George Mason University. He is the founder of Children’s Voice International, a 501(c) 3 non-profit that restores the rights of abandoned, neglected, trafficked, and exiled children worldwide.

RunSafe Security is the pioneer of a patented cyberhardening transformation process designed to disrupt attackers and protect vulnerable embedded systems and devices. With the ability to make each device functionally identical but logically unique, RunSafe Security renders threats inert by eliminating attack vectors, significantly reducing vulnerabilities, and denying malware the uniformity required to propagate. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, with an office in Huntsville, Alabama, RunSafe Security’s customers span the critical infrastructure, IIoT, automotive, medical, and national security industries.

CEO Insights: Why Cybersecurity is an enablement of IIoT

Lucian Fogoros: How would you rate the level of cybersecurity awareness among industry in general? What level of uptake do you see regarding the level of cybersecurity best practices and systems? Joseph Saunders: With the many…

The Antidote to Industrial IoT’s Kryptonite

Today’s industrial infrastructure is stronger and smarter than ever before. As manufacturers seek greater scalability and efficiency, they’ve automated and digitized their machines to achieve unprecedented power. But these “super” machines have a critical weakness –…