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Lisa Perdelwitz brings over 20 years of global leadership and cybersecurity expertise. She is the Founder and CEO of Ligilo, a leadership consultancy, is a Board Advisor for the Cyber Resilience ISAC (CR-ISAC), and serves part-time in the Air National Guard. Lisa has led global security organizations, advised C-suite executives and boards on managing cybersecurity risk, shaped federal policies, and developed multinational cyber defense and warfare strategies. Throughout, she consistently focuses on creating competitive advantage by developing and investing in leaders who build resilient, high-performing tech teams and cultures.
Adam is a leading expert on threat modeling, and a consultant, expert witness, author and game designer. He has decades of experience delivering security. His experience ranges across the business world from founding startups to nearly a decade at Microsoft.
Beyond consulting and training, Shostack serves as an advisor to a variety of companies and academic institutions, and as an Affiliate Professor at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington.
Chris Hetner is a senior executive and board director specializing in cybersecurity, risk management, and regulatory compliance. He advises the NACD, chairs cybersecurity and privacy at Nasdaq, and serves on several boards and advisory roles, including MIT Sloan and Simulint. Formerly, he held leadership positions at the SEC, Moody’s, Marsh, EY, GE Capital, and Citi, and contributed to U.S. Treasury and Homeland Security initiatives. Hetner is recognized for elevating cyber risk and AI governance to executive and board levels, aligning cybersecurity strategies with business goals, and launching programs across public and private sectors.
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.
Dennis is the Founder and CEO of Vector9 Consultants, a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) that provides strategic cybersecurity guidance for critical infrastructure entities at greatest risk. Previous to this, he was the VP/CISO for the two largest energy/utility companies in the U.S. (Duke Energy and Exelon Corporation). Prior to these two CISO roles, he served as the Senior Advisor for Cybersecurity within the Office of the Secretary of Defense. In 2005, Dennis retired from the USAF, where he held key leadership positions in national-priority programs in cybersecurity, information warfare, and satellite communications.
Helen Patton is a strategic cybersecurity advisor at Cisco. Previously, she served as a CISO for the Cisco Security Business Group, and an Advisory CISO, providing strategic insights to the security community. She was the CISO at The Ohio State University and spent ten years in risk and resiliency at JPMorgan Chase. Helen is a founding member for the Cybersecurity Canon and the National Technology Security Coalition.
Russell is a Managing Partner at Cyverity, an information security consulting firm specializing in governance and fractional CISO that is based in Venice, Florida. He is the former CIO and CISO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and Principal Instructor and Author with the SANS Institute. Russell has developed cybersecurity programs from the ground up and also led extensive cybersecurity teams. Russell actively seeks opportunities to add value to organizations and measurably increase their overall security posture.
Stephen is the CEO and a board member of Summit Technology Laboratory (STL), a deep tech projection mapping start-up based out of Irvine CA. Stephen serves on the boards of Education Loan Finance (ELFi), a not-for-profit student loan financial holding company, Support Systems Associates INC (SSAI) a medium size defense contractor and the Jack and Jill Late Stage Cancer Foundation (JAJF), a national charity. Stephen served 32 years in the United States Air Force Special Operations community retiring as a Major General. He is a combat pilot with multiple deployments in Bosnia, Somalia, Haiti, Afghanistan and Iraq with leadership tours at the squadron, group, wing and Task Force level.
Dave is the founder and principal consultant with Voodoo Security, an information security consulting firm with broad expertise. He is also a senior instructor, analyst and course author for the SANS Institute and a VMware vExpert with extensive experience designing and configuring secure virtualized infrastructures. In addition, Dave has served as co-chair of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Top Threats Working Group and founded the CSA Atlanta Chapter. Dave has consulted with hundreds of organizations in the areas of security, regulatory compliance, network architecture and engineering. He has also worked as a security architect, analyst and manager for several Fortune 500 companies.
