Steve Thomas is the founder and CEO of HackNotice and a threat intelligence engineer with 15+ years of experience monitoring adversaries, ransomware groups, and the cybercrime economy. In 2013, he built, bootstrapped, and sold one of the earliest threat intelligence startups. He has founded multiple security companies across identity theft and third-party risk and helped pioneer approaches to managing vendor exposure. Today, he leads HackNotice’s mission to deliver operational adversary intelligence for third-party risk by showing which third parties are under pressure, who is behind it, how they operate, and what to prioritize as the threat landscape changes daily.