About the Speaker
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    Donna Gomez
    Security Risk and Compliance Analyst, Johnson County Park & Recreation District

    Donna Gomez, CRISC, is the Security Risk and Compliance Analyst at Johnson County (KS) Park & Recreation District. Previously, Donna served as the Critical Infrastructure Protection Senior Manager and Risk Compliance Analyst for a municipally owned utility. Donna has been an information security professional since 1999, where she began documenting processes for IT and customer support staff, then training people to not click on suspicious attachments in emails. She served as Past President of the InfraGard Kansas City Members Alliance and is past President of the Greater Kansas City Chapter of ISACA. Donna serves on several of the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) Working Groups including the Metrics Subcommittee, Security Awareness, and Business Resiliency. Donna also serves as a member of the MARC Cybersecurity Task Force and volunteers with the ISACA Foundation as a mentor and promote diversity and inclusion in the Cyber Risk and Audit profession. She is the Director of Membership & Recruitment for the Kansas City Metroplex for Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS).

    She previously served as a member of the ASIS Professional Standards Board drafting team developing the Security Awareness Standard published in 2020. Her passion is to continue expanding the information sharing community and build partnerships to help strengthen the security resiliency and awareness of anyone responsible for protecting the critical infrastructure.