Faculty Directory

Rich is CEO and Analyst for Securosis, an information security research and advisory firm, in addition to Founder and Vice President of Product at DisruptOPS, a cloud environment monitoring platform. Prior to founding Securosis, he was Research Vice President for Gartner’s security team where he also served as Research Co-Chair for the Gartner Security Summit. Additionally, Rich has served as an independent consultant, web application developer, software development manager, and a systems and network administrator.

Josh is the owner and president of Eyra Security, an information security and business improvement consulting firm that specializes in helping startups and organizations in transition take advantage of lean and agile methods, open source technology and varied frameworks used for security, risk management and compliance. He also serves on the GIAC Advisory Board. Additionally, as an active member in the information security community, Josh is a member of ISSA, Agile Iowa, OWASP, DC612, Central Iowa Area Linux Users Group and Infragard.

Shamla is a CXO Advisor at Netskope and a former Managing Partner and Global CISO at IBM.  She is a public company Board Director at QBE and WisdomTree.  Her experience spans 40+ years in a variety of sectors and 6 continents, making her an expert in cross-cultural collaboration and working across industries. She is recognized as a leader that enables priorities of the business using technology innovation and cybersecurity.  Her background includes authoring and teaching several courses at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law in technology, security, and privacy law.  Shamla coaches professionals on leadership, board communication and how to align security with strategic business initiatives.

Chris is the Co-Founder and CEO of LARES Consulting, an information security consulting firm that leverages a blend of assessment, testing, and coaching. He also serves on the Board of Directors at CREST, an international not-for-profit accreditation and certification body that represents and supports the technical information security market.

 Russell Okoth is a Business & Technology Executive. He is the Founder and Consultant at Cyberdiligent, a Dallas-based Information Security Governance and Risk Advisory firm, where he provides strategic guidance to Boards, C-suites, and Executives. Russell has over twenty years of experience in information security, cybersecurity, risk management, and regulatory compliance across technology, retail, telecommunications, finance, insurance, and fintech industries. Russell has held notable leadership roles, including Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Data Privacy Officer at Pacific Premier Bank and CISO at Apex Fintech Solutions.

Davi Ottenheimer is a leading authority on post-quantum cryptography (PQC) transition strategy, helping enterprises navigate the shift from classical to quantum-resistant cryptographic infrastructure. As founder of Ottenheimer GmbH and creator of pqprobe — a quantum cryptography discovery and inventory management toolkit — Davi enables organizations across healthcare, financial services, aerospace, and the public sector to assess their cryptographic exposure and build actionable PQC migration roadmaps. Ottenheimer GmbH also delivers counter-drone strategy and trust engineering for critical infrastructure.

Davi's career in security spans three decades at industry giants — from delivering the first VMware-based remote desktop for IBM/RedHat in 1999, to protecting two billion users at Yahoo! during the mobile phone revolution, to pioneering regulated software security at MongoDB where he served as its first CISO. In 2006, Davi foresaw the future of IoT security, patenting the "PIN login" for devices, and he helped lead app-level key management standards. A decade later he delivered field-level encryption for NoSQL databases.

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.

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.

Carlos is a Principal Consultant and Research Team Lead for TrustedSec, an information security consulting company. Carlos was the Director of Reverse Engineering and Integrations for a major Vulnerability Management company where he lead the team efforts in reversing protocols and vulnerabilities for the expansion of vulnerability scanning products, he also lead the team search and reporting of zero-day vulnerabilities on multiple consumer and enterprise products. Carlos is also an independent trainer having trained both offense and defensive principals to private and government customer.

Ken leads as the Chief Digital & Information Officer at Reladyne. He is responsible for defining and executing its business technology strategy and leading its digital transformation initiatives. Ken previously served as CIO for U.S. Silica, Global Partners, SGR Energy, and MRE Consulting, where he contributed to tremendous growth and transformation. He is a strategic business partner who leverages emerging technology solutions, vendor partnerships, and people development across multi-industry verticals – logistics, retail, manufacturing, oil and gas, and consulting to accelerate the pace of bottom-line results.

Mike is the Chief Technology Officer at Security Risk Advisors, an information security advisory and SOC services firm. With over a decade of healthcare C-level experience, Mike has overseen and managed software development, SOC, and innovation groups in the information security realm. He has had the unique experience of fulfilling CISO and CTO roles in the healthcare payer, provider, and medical device manufacturer spaces. Mike is also a Microsoft MVP, with a focus on AI in Cyber Security.

Sakshi is the Global CISO and Cybersecurity Consulting Practice Leader at Compunnel, where she is responsible for internal security strategy and risk management, as well as providing cybersecurity advisory services to clients. She is also a trusted board and venture capital advisor. Previously, she played a pivotal leadership role at Deloitte Global, overseeing the security of organizational assets for a workforce comprising approximately 457,000 professionals across more than 150 countries and territories.

Chris is a Principal Consulting Engineer at BitSight Technologies, an information security risk management company that created the security ratings platform market. He has 35 years in information security and served in a variety of technical and management roles ranging from a programmer for the US intelligence community to founder and CEO of his own consultancy. Chris’s experience has spanned many industries working in organizations as large as IBM in addition to small startups. Although he spent almost a decade building the IoT security practice at IBM and running an Industrial Control and automotive security practice at Booz Allen, his current focus has shifted to enterprise risk. Bringing his broad experience in information security, Chris also serves as a mentor and advisor to science and technology organizations.

Ashish has over 13 years of experience in the cybersecurity industry, with the last seven focused primarily on helping enterprises manage security risk at scale in a cloud-first world. Most recently, he was the CISO of a global cloud-first tech company. Ashish is also a keynote speaker and host of the wildly popular Cloud Security Podcast, a SANS trainer for cloud security and an outspoken opinion leader on all things cloud security and DevSecOps. He is a frequent contributor on topics related to public cloud transformation, cloud security, DevSecOps, security leadership, future tech and the associated security challenges for practitioners and CISOs.