Jeremy Rosenberg

Jeremy Rosenberg is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The supplied sources do not give an appointment date.

Career path

Rosenberg's career has centred on security leadership at research universities.

He served as CISO at the University of California, Berkeley.

He was also a member of Brookhaven National Laboratory's cybersecurity IT audit committee.

At Yale University he held the combined post of assistant vice president for IT and CISO.

Yale's cybersecurity office introduced him to the campus as its CISO through its Bee Cyber Fit podcast, in an episode titled Meet Yale's Chief Information Security Officer, Jeremy Rosenberg.

The sources give no start or end dates for the Berkeley, Brookhaven and Yale positions, so the order in which he held them is not established.

He went on to become CISO at MIT.

Priorities as Yale's CISO

In the episode that opened the fourth series of Bee Cyber Fit, Rosenberg discussed the progress of Yale's cybersecurity program. That progress included bringing the team to full staffing levels and launching passwordless authentication.

The conversation also covered how the program was adapting to emerging technologies such as AI.

Rosenberg stressed building sound security practices into daily operations. He also called for continued awareness of cyber risk, particularly where older technologies remained in use on campus.

The episode reviewed university-wide training programs and outreach tailored to individual departments, both aimed at building lasting cyber habits.

Looking ahead, the discussion set out plans to expand Yale's ambassador program and broaden community engagement. These plans included interactive trivia games and the New Year, New You campaign.

The episode also addressed bringing the new NIST cybersecurity framework into Yale's security roadmap.

Talking cyber fitness

The first-series interview on Bee Cyber Fit focused on practical steps that strengthen everyday cyber fitness.

Rosenberg explained what his work involved in protecting Yale's data and systems. He also described how attackers trick people into handing over information.

He discussed why the community had become more exposed to cybercriminals and how attackers were raising the bar in their targeting.

He made the case for unique passwords across different accounts. He also offered a key question that each listener could ask to build cyber fitness.

He also told the story of falling for a phishing scam, presenting it as a teaching example of what the experience had shown him.

The episode used the human factor as its explanatory theme for listeners.