Karen Walsh is a lawyer and former internal auditor turned cybersecurity and privacy regulatory compliance subject matter expert. She worked in financial services for 12 years and spent 11 years teaching at the college level. She’s worked with leadership teams as a contract compliance manager, developing programs and guiding staff to establish best practices. During her time teaching at the University of Hartford, she received the “Sustained Excellence in Teaching Award for Part-Time Faculty.” She’s been published by the ISACA Journal, Dark Reading, HelpNet Security, Nextgov, Security Boulevard, Security Magazine, TechAeris, and Techspective. She also writes for GeekMom where she discusses her passion for Star Wars, Marvel, and LEGO.

An experienced web application developer, having worked on multiple enterprise-level applications, hundreds of websites, business solutions and many unique and innovative web applications. Web application development areas of expertise include HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap, PHP, and MySQL. Anything to do with web creation and digital experience. Passionate about everything to do with web application development, programming to online marketing with a strong focus on social media and SEO. Understanding technology provides a means to better connect with users. It also opens so many doors. Knowledge is the key to success, and I want to help you experience what technology has to offer. I'm passionate about web technologies and look forward to sharing my knowledge and experience with you!

Cristian Calinescu is a Microsoft certified Senior Infrastructure Engineer and Infrastructure Security Operations Manager. His areas of expertise are Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, 2012 R2, 2016, 2019, Microsoft Active Directory, Azure Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange (2003 - 2019), Virtualization (Hyper-V, VMWare), Linux OS, PowerShell (including scripting). Cristian has been involved in various maintenance and/or implementation projects based on the technologies mentioned above. He has also participated in network design and implementations projects as well as assisting customers migrating to the latest technologies.

May Ladd has 20 Years experience as Senior Consultant, Trainer and Director in the field of Information Security, Data Protection, eDiscovery, Data Governance, Enterprise Content Management (ECM) including Records Management and Document Management. He has worked for a complete cross range of companies within the public and private sectors including: Government, Education, Finance, Legal, Health, Oil/Gas, Professional Services, Charity and Not for Profit. Supported the Implementation of ISO27001 compliance for several organizations. He has 10+ years training experience across UK, Europe, Middle East and SE Asia covering information security, document management, records management and data protection. His qualifications include: • MSc Advanced Software Engineering - Aston University, Birmingham (UK) – Chartered Engineer Accreditation • BSc Mathematical Sciences with Computer Science – City, University of London (UK) • HND Mathematics, Statistics and Computing - Manchester Metropolitan University (UK)

Deyan Tsanov has worked for large organizations over the last 10+ years. His experience includes technical support, cyber security operational activities, data risk analysis and evaluation, information security risk management, security controls implementation, and others. Graduated within the Information Security subject, he has additionally gained a variety of industry certifications to contribute to his subject matter expertise including Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), Information System Security Management Professional (ISSMP), Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP), Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP), Practitioner Certificate in Information Risk Management (PCiIRM), Security+ and others. Deyan sees Information Security Risk Management (ISRM) as an ever-evolving process that is key to preserving data, establishing successful information security programs, and being an inevitable pillar in each decision related to organizations’ strategy.