Eric O'Neill
About Eric O'Neill
“Eric was a dynamic speaker and was amiable and approachable to all attendees!”
Speech topics
Cloud Security in the Age of Cyber-Espionage
Come hear a spy hunter’s perspective on what your company can do to protect itself in a time when innovation is providing a feeding frenzy for cyberspies:
- Learn how as we innovate digitally, we open the doors to equally inventive cyber attacks that continually disrupt the security industry.
- Discover why thinking like a spy hunter can allow companies to predict attacks before they cause the most damage.
- Learn why security must be baked into the cloud using an entirely new approach to defeat ever evolving, sophisticated attacks
- Hear thrilling spy stories and examples from a former undercover operative that helped catch America’s first cyberspy.
Speaking videos
Books by Eric O'Neill
“Spies, Lies, and Cybercrime: Cybersecurity Tactics to Outsmart Hackers and Disarm Scammers” (2025)
Spies, Lies, and Cybercrime: Cybersecurity Tactics to Outsmart Hackers and Disarm Scammers
“Gray Day: My Undercover Mission to Expose America's First Cyber Spy” (2019)
Eric O’Neill was only twenty-six when he was tapped for the case of a lifetime: a one-on-one undercover investigation of the FBI’s top target, a man suspected of spying for the Russians for nearly two decades, giving up nuclear secrets, compromising intelligence, and betraying US assets. With zero training in face-to-face investigation, O’Neill found himself in a windowless, high-security office in the newly formed Information Assurance Section, tasked officially with helping the FBI secure its outdated computer system against hackers and spies—and unofficially with collecting evidence against his new boss, Robert Hanssen, an exacting and rage-prone veteran agent with a fondness for handguns. In the months that follow, O’Neill’s self-esteem and young marriage unravel under the pressure of life in Room 9930, and he questions the very purpose of his mission. But as Hanssen outmaneuvers an intelligence community struggling to keep up with the new reality of cybersecurity, he also teaches O’Neill the game of spycraft. The student will just have to learn to outplay his teacher if he wants to win. A tension-packed stew of power, paranoia, and psychological manipulation, Gray Day is also a cautionary tale of how the United States allowed Russia to become dominant in cyberespionage—and how we might begin to catch up.
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