Justine Bone - detailed bio

Justine Bone is a cybersecurity executive, entrepreneur, mother, traveler, and yoga aficionado. 

Justine’s cybersecurity career began in Government Intelligence and includes executive leadership within the financial, healthcare, and media sectors along with founding several cybersecurity companies. Her company MedSec became widely known in 2016 after extensive media coverage of its research around pacemaker vulnerabilities, resulting in an FDA recall and a paradigm shift for the medical device industry. 

As Global Chief Information Security Officer at Dow Jones, a News Corporation company and publisher of the Wall Street Journal, Justine evolved the role of CISO beyond internal-only responsibilities. Along with steering the company’s information security strategies, she and her team helped define and deliver News Corporation-wide products and solutions, ensuring quality implementation and regulatory compliance whilst helping to increase revenue, profitability, and overall business value. Previously to Dow Jones Justine was Global Head of Risk Management at Bloomberg L.P. where she managed the global Physical Security program in addition to establishing and managing the Information Security Group.

Justine currently sits on HP’s Security Advisory Board, where she helps drive innovation and communication strategy around security capabilities for HP’s line of products. She is an experienced international media and conference presenter, an invited member of the BlackHat USA review board, and a faculty member of the Institute for Applied Network Security (IANS).

Justine began her private sector career as a vulnerability researcher with Internet Security Systems (now IBM) X-Force after training with the National Security Agency in Ft Meade, Maryland, and holding an analyst position with New Zealand’s Government Communications Security Bureau. She also has a background in the performing arts as an ex-dancer with the Royal New Zealand Ballet company.

Justine and her family live in and are slowly renovating three homes in South Miami Beach, Ormond Beach, and midtown Manhattan.