Faculty Directory

AJ is the CISO for Hunter Strategy where he leads their Cyber Security consulting practice advising clients in public, private, and government spaces. His core skills include cyber security leadership, security architecture, third-party vendor risk management, program management, and general governance practices.

Prior to his current role, AJ has developed information security programs from the ground up leading extensive cybersecurity teams in support of globally distributed companies. AJ actively seeks opportunities to add value to organizations and measurably increase their overall security posture. As an active member in the information security community AJ is a member of ISSA, Infragard, and a regular at local events such as SecDSM and SecKC.

John is an IT Security Engineer for Verizon Wireless and is a member of OWASP, ISC2, and ISSA. In his career, John has architected solutions that allowed companies to be PCI-DSS compliant, protected 100 million customers sensitive information and over 6 billion sensitive data elements, and created one of the first complete Enterprise Mobile Application Security policy for a major telecom company. He has also served by developing high-performance aircraft test systems for the US Department of Defense aircrafts such as B-1, B-2, and YF-22.

Dr. Ondrej Krehel is the Founder, CEO, and Digital Forensics Lead of LIFARS LLC, an international cybersecurity and digital forensics firm. He is also the Co-Founder and an Advisory Board Member of QuBit Conference, an events and training company dedicated to connecting the information security community. Ondrej is an accomplished speaker having lectured for FBI Training Academy and the National Executive Institute. He also serves as a member of New York Metro Infragard, as the Chapter Leader of OWASP NYC, and as a Distinguished Fellow with the Ponemon Institute.

Eric is a Senior Security Consultant at Secure Ideas, an information security consulting company that focuses on security testing, assessments, and training. He has spent close to 20 years working with Microsoft infrastructures for large Fortune 100 companies. Since its release, his core focus has been Active Directory. He was the technical leader and responsible for the engineering and architecture of one of the most complex and largest AD infrastructures used by one of the world’s largest banks. This included ongoing maintenance and major enhancements of not only a highly secure authentication environment, but also of all the supporting tool sets required to monitor its health and integrity.

Peter is the Managing Director at ClearSky Security, an information security solutions firm that focuses on threat intelligence services. He also serves as the Managing Partner at HypAdvisor Consulting, LLC, an advisory firm for technology companies. He is also an Advisor to the Pacific Northwest National Lab. Formerly, as the Lead Software Analyst for Morgan Stanley, he published industry-leading investment reports and led over 18 public transactions. In total, Peter was a Wall Street analyst for 15 years, which offered him the opportunity to work top executives in both public and private companies. As a visible voice for the software industry, Kuper is an active speaker to many professional and government groups.

Justin has over twenty years of experience in system administration, software development,
and information security. His core skills include regulatory and contractual compliance,
program management, payment card standards, and general governance and privacy practices
and frameworks.

He founded episki, a cloud-based governance tool geared toward helping mid-market
organizations manage their security programs. Justin also performs fractional CISO and
security consulting services for various clients in multiple industries, including areas
involving GRC, DevSecOps, Privacy, and other matters.

Before his current roles, Justin consulted with Fortune 1000 companies in information
systems, audit, governance, and cybersecurity. He has led the governance and security
practices for leading eCommerce and large financial services companies. Additionally,
Justin has spoken at conferences concerning risk management, the payment card industry
(PCI), security leadership, and general information security practices.

Dustin is the Co-founder and Chief Product & Technology Officer (CPTO) at Katilyst, a company which enhances companies' security cultures through engaging security champion programs. Previously, Dustin spent over a decade in technical roles as a software engineer and application architect in retail, US Department of Defense (DoD), and video game industries before moving into cybersecurity executive leadership and successfully implementing cybersecurity, application security, and security culture programs at large and small companies.

Ryan is the Founder and CEO of Neuvik, a cybersecurity research and development consultancy. He has spent the better part of two decades enhancing cyber programs at the world's largest institutions — from the Department of Defense to some of the most successful private and commercial organizations. He focuses largely on providing advanced capabilities for CISO's, as well as testing for best possible security practices at board of directors' requests.

Ryan’s C-level work experience also includes developing Board level metrics to measure and manage enterprise cyber risk, developing and instructing C-Suite cyber risk management courses, and establishing functional reporting metrics for assessing cyber readiness.

Dave is a Global Advisory CISO for Duo Security, a Cisco subsidiary. He has almost two decades of industry expertise with extensive experience in IT operations and management. Dave is the Founder of the security news site Liquidmatrix Security Digest and co-host of the Liquidmatrix podcast. He is also the Director & Co-Founder of OpenCERT Canada, Canada’s first open national Computer Emergency Response Team. Dave has worked finance, healthcare, entertainment, manufacturing, and critical infrastructure verticals. He also has experience consulting for federal organizations working as a Security Consultant and defense contractor to the FBI, US Navy, Social Security Administration, US Postal Service, and the US Department of Defense.

Shannon is the Founder and CEO of ThirdScore. This followed her role as VP, Security at Adobe, where she led Product and Software Security. Shannon is also the Founder of DevSecOps, a non-profit organization committed to uniting security with DevOps and Agile practices via experimentation and education. Shannon is an award-winning security innovator and leader experienced in developing emerging security programs for Fortune 500 companies including Intuit, ServiceNow, Sony, Sempra, Savvis, Cable & Wireless, 99 Cents Only, Exodus, and Bank of America.

Anna is the Vice President Risk Officer Digital at the Navy Federal Credit Union. She returned to Navy Federal in 2023 from her previous time here from 2019 to 2021, when she was as Vice President of Vulnerability, Risk and Enterprise Security Services. Prior to her current role, Anna was the Senior Vice President Advance Cyber Defense and Digital Forensics and Incident Report teams at Booz Allen Hamilton Commercial sector. Before her time with NFCU and Booz Allen, Anna managed Global Information Security Engineering and Operations for Marriott International. In her earlier career days, Anna held various positions in the security field with Accenture and Sun Microsystems/Oracle.  As a technology executive, Anna is focusing on empowering innovation, fostering collaboration, and promoting risk-based approach to security. Her mission is to protect and enable the business by transforming the culture from “No” to “KNOW”. 

Josh is executive director of GuardedRisk, a firm devoted to the security and compliance of law firms, insurance companies, data processors and their clients. An internationally recognized digital forensics expert, Josh has strategized and performed on government corruption, bad compliance, protecting mission-critical data, and everything in between. Likewise, he has presented on topics ranging from Facial Recognition and National Security to audiences from government agencies, law enforcement, Fortune 5 companies, and many others.

Steve is a partner in Artico Search’s cybersecurity practice. He is an expert in security executive recruiting and compensation focused on recruiting best-in-class CISOs and their teams across various industries. He leads strategic partnerships and initiatives including Artico’s annual CISO compensation & budget survey conducted in collaboration with IANS.

Prior to Artico, Steve served in Caldwell Partner's cybersecurity practice and at Russell Reynolds associates.

Raffy is VP of Research and Intelligence at Forcepoint where he leads Forcepoint X-Labs, a specialized group dedicated to behavior-based security research and development of predictive intelligence to Forcepoint's human-centric product portfolio. Bringing more than 20 years of cybersecurity experience across engineering, analytics, research, and strategy, Raffy is one of the industry's most respected authorities on security data analytics, big data, and visualization. As such, he serves as an advisor to many technology startups. He is the author of Applied Security Visualization and is a frequent speaker at global academic and industry events. Additionally, Raffy has held key roles at IBM Research, ArcSight, and Splunk.

Gary is the Chief Information Security Officer at AIG where he leads the global cybersecurity risk management program while working closely the Executive Leadership Team to drive information security strategy for the company. Additionally, Gary provides start-up advising as a member of the Forgepoint Capital Cybersecurity Advisory Council, and serves on two non-profit Boards. Prior to AIG, Gary served as a Senior Vice President at USAA and was their first Chief Security Officer where he was responsible for building out a holistic security program spanning Information Security, Fraud Operations, Privacy, Business Continuation, Physical Security, and Corporate Investigations. Gary spent a short time with Deloitte in their federal practice after a 25-year career as an Air Force officer where he served in a variety of leadership and staff positions within the information technology career field including: telecommunications, satellite communications, deployed network operations, and cybersecurity.  Most notably, Gary was on the front line of cyberspace operations for the Department of Defense where he supported the establishment and evolution of the Joint Task Force Global Network Operations, the organization that was the focal point for the operation and security of DoD information systems and networks, and pre-cursor to establishment of the US Cyber Command. 

Stephen serves as an independent Security Consultant performing security assessments, developing information security programs and strategies, and creating remediation plans for select clients. He is also Co-Founder of Community of Practice, a Silicon-Valley-based membership organization for Engineering VPs and CTOs. Stephen has experience including building and leading worldwide teams and designing some of the world's largest Internet services.