Set beneath the charm and wealth of Saratoga Springs, The Shady Side of Saratoga follows Catherine King, a senior FBI cybersecurity investigator, as she traces a pattern of “polite” system failures—delays, omissions, and curated data—back to a criminal enterprise at the National Horse Showcase at the Saratoga Race Course.
Rick Cobello is a former Chief Information Security Officer, enterprise IT executive, and cybersecurity advisor with more than four decades of experience securing large-scale systems for Fortune 5 companies, government agencies, healthcare organizations, and law enforcement. He has led cybersecurity, privacy, and continuity initiatives supporting millions of users and has taught cybersecurity and technology at the graduate level, including in Albany Law School’s Cybersecurity Master’s Program. Cobello uses his firsthand experience inside complex institutions to write fiction about crime hidden in plain sight.
Rick Cobello is a former Chief Information Security Officer, enterprise IT executive, and cybersecurity advisor with more than four decades of experience securing large-scale systems for Fortune 5 companies, government agencies, healthcare organizations, and law enforcement. He has led cybersecurity, privacy, and continuity initiatives supporting millions of users and has taught cybersecurity and technology at the graduate level, including in...
