About the Speaker
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    Chris Sorensen
    Sr. Cybersecurity Researcher, GE Digital

    Chris Sorensen has been in the IT industry for over 30 years practicing a wide range of specialties in multiple industries. He started in the Defense industry as a system administrator and developer before progressing to the Education sector where he taught system administration and security. From there he moved into the Automotive world where he started to focus on security full time performing forensics and eDiscovery. He moved to his current company 10 years ago to continue leading investigations, incident response, and eDiscovery in the Global Corporate and Financial sectors. He also ran a very successful Security Awareness program for 5 years, before transitioning into the Power business to mentor application developers who were implementing a secure SDLC. He is currently a global manager for Security Awareness, Training, and Education at GE Digital. In his spare time, he teaches High School AP Computer Science and is an Adjunct Instructor at the University of Detroit Mercy teaching the Cybersecurity Masters Program.