Benjamin Harris

Benjamin is the CEO and Founder of watchTowr. watchTowr is the AI-driven Preemptive Exposure Management capability trusted by Fortune 500 companies and critical infrastructure providers. By continuously preempting, validating, and autonomously mitigating emerging threats, watchTowr ensures security teams can always outpace attackers.When exploitation happens in hours, watchTowr delivers what no one else can: time to respond.Benjamin holds numerous active and valid industry qualifications, including CREST CCSAM, CCSAS, CCT INF, CCT APP, CRT and CPSA, and the ISC CISSP and CCSP certifications. In addition, Benjamin was previously an appointed examination assessor and board member for CREST (a global industry body for penetration testing).Through Benjamin's experience and close professional relationships with numerous global and Asia-based banks, Benjamin has built significant experience with global and regional banking regulatory authorities and their requirements including; Monetary Authority of Singapore Technology Risk Management (TRM) Guidelines, Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) Penetration Testing Guidelines, Bank of England CBEST, TIBER in its various forms, and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority C-RAF/iCAST.Benjamin provided significant input and guidance on Singapore's financial industry sector red teaming exercise guidelines - known as the ABS Adversarial Attack Simulation Exercises (AASE) guidelines - used within MAS's Technology Risk Management guidelines.Benjamin was named within Forbes’ 30u30 for Enterprise Technology in 2022, and Prestige’s 40u40 in 2023.