About the Speaker
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    Erin Joe
    Sr. Executive Service, Office of Private Sector (Retired), FBI

    Erin Joe, Office of the CISO, Google Cloud, formerly SVP, Strategy and Alliances at Mandiant, draws from her 25-year career serving as a transformational leader guiding organizational change as well as an Executive Leadership Coach developing other leaders. Erin is responsible for supporting the cyber industry, clients, and partners as a thought leader with insights into threats, strategies to protect, approaches to change, preparing for crisis, and improving business resilience. Prior to Mandiant, Erin was a top-ranking FBI executive driving federal cyber response strategies and operations in partnership with the private sector. This includes co-authoring the FBI's first integrated strategy for Cyber, Counterterrorism, and Counterintelligence as well as implementing cyber operations executed in collaboration with Intelligence and Law Enforcement Communities, allied nations, and private industry. Erin was an FBI Special Agent and leader in four FBI Field Offices and five divisions at FBI Headquarters. Her career highlights include large scale crisis management along with trial and investigative work related to the Oklahoma City Bombing, 9/11, terrorist attacks against US Embassies, nation state cyber attacks against US critical infrastructure, and threats to US elections. During her six years in the FBI’s Senior Executive Service, Erin improved intelligence sharing, threat preparedness, and operational collaboration with Fortune 500 company C-suite executives, and U.S. and foreign government counterparts. As Director of the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center, Erin delivered the current threat picture across government, chaired the board of the seven federal cyber centers, and assessed risk for international operations. Erin holds cyber security certifications and completed Executive Programs at the Naval Post Graduate School, Carnegie Mellon University, Kellogg School of Business, Harvard Business School, Ross School of Business, and the University of Southern California. She is a licensed attorney in Texas, lives with her family in Northern Virginia, and enjoys her advisory board and adjunct professor roles.