Faculty Directory
Chris Farris
Chris Farris
Chris is the CEO and owner of PrimeHarbor Technologies, focusing on helping companies protect themselves in the public cloud. Chris has been involved in IT for over 30 years and built the cloud security programs at a number of well known media companies. He's also active in the cloud security community helping to warn the world about the dangers of public buckets and long term credentials.
Summer Fowler
Summer Fowler
Summer is a three-time CISO in the autonomous vehicle industry currently at Torc Robotics, which specializes in AI software for long-haul trucking. She is also a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University where she teaches a graduate course in cybersecurity
policy and multiple courses on cybersecurity metrics and product cybersecurity for executive education programs. In addition, Summer serves on the board of directors for Brentwood Bank, a regional bank in Pittsburgh, PA. She is
also an active board member for the Forte Group, an advocacy and education non-profit focused on amplifying women in technology, cybersecurity, and privacy. Summer is often requested to speak at conferences and events, and she has
provided expert testimony on cybersecurity risk in the US Congress.
Prior to her role at Torc Robotics, Summer worked at Motional and Argo AI, both AI companies focused on robo-taxi technology. She also led cybersecurity risk and resilience at Carnegie Mellon University's CERT program and Johns Hopkins University's
Applied Physics Lab. Summer started her career as a software engineer at Northrop Grumman Corporation after receiving her MS and BS in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh.
Jack Freund
Jack Freund
Dr. Jack Freund is a nationally recognized cyber risk leader with over two decades of experience designing, operationalizing, and maturing technology risk and cybersecurity programs. He currently serves as Head of Technology Risk at Acrisure, where he leads second-line risk governance for cybersecurity, disaster recovery, and emerging technologies. As Executive Fellow at Cyentia Institute, Jack advises organizations on cyber risk quantification, GRC strategy, board reporting, and regulatory readiness. Jack is widely known for co-authoring the book on the FAIR Standard, establishing the foundation for quantitative cyber risk measurement.