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.

Tino Sokic is a Cyber Security Professional with an emphasis on users’ privacy who has been in the IT field for over ten years. The combination of law school and IT certifications with a Systems Engineer background has produced a need to raise awareness of the technologies that surround people’s lives. As a Cyber Security Awareness and an Open Source Intelligence trainer, Tino has the ability to provide easy-to-follow curriculums consisting of hands-on examples and real-life stories. His focus is on the human side of technology. Tino is a co-founder of the Croatian regional biggest website that provides free tutorials and how to’s about technology and attends various Cyber Security conferences across Europe as a Guest Speaker. Also, he is a column writer for one of the first Croatian IT magazines and a regular guest on Cyber Security questions on the National TV.

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)

Mark Murphy works as a Security Engineer at Cyderes. Before that, he spent years in various analyst and consultant roles. He has experience developing enterprise incident response plans for Fortune 500 companies, investigating global incidents, and leading global incident response efforts. He has a bachelor’s degree in IT Network Management and two master's Degrees: one in Information Security management and the other in Digital Forensics. He also holds a number of professional certifications and has experience teaching at different colleges and universities.

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.

For almost 20 years my career has largely been invested in management consulting where I have worked with C-suite Executives and have led large-scale IT strategy, enterprise architecture and cyber security projects for global commercial and government clients across industries such as banking, defense, mining, utilities and retail. I have also designed and executed numerous digital strategies, cloud migration reviews, cyber security roadmaps, enterprise architecture, business optimization, infrastructure and service delivery strategies that improved organization processes and created competitive advantage. My book "The Ultimate Guide to Business Process Management" is an Amazon dot com best-seller and has sold more than 25,000 copies world wide.