Ryan Hanenberg

Founder & Principal Advisor

Ryan is an intelligence, counterintelligence, and insider threat professional with over a decade of experience supporting investigative, cybersecurity, and organizational risk management operations across public and private sector environments.

As Founder and Principal Advisor of Greyline Advisory Group, Ryan specializes in insider threat, counterintelligence, investigations, and intelligence-informed risk assessment. His experience includes supporting executive decision-makers, leading complex investigative efforts, conducting digital forensic analysis, and helping organizations address emerging personnel, cyber, and foreign influence risks.

Ryan holds a Master's Degree in Digital Forensic Science and a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Forensics and Digital Investigations. His professional background spans the financial services, technology, defense, and artificial intelligence sectors.

Ryan founded Greyline Advisory Group in order to address a growing challenge facing modern organizations: adversaries increasingly combine cyber capabilities with human intelligence collection, social engineering, insider recruitment, and influence operations to gain access to sensitive information and critical assets. Greyline was established to help organizations bridge the gap between enterprise security and counterintelligence-informed risk management.

Based in the Seattle area, Ryan supports organizations nationwide through intelligence-driven advisory, investigative, and strategic risk services.