About the Speaker
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    Lorna Koppel
    CISO, Tufts University

    Lorna Koppel is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for Tufts University, where she provides executive leadership for information security, privacy, and compliance across a highly diverse academic, research, clinical, administrative, and student environment. In this role, she is responsible for enterprise security strategy, risk management, policy and governance, regulatory alignment, and the university’s overall security posture, including detection and response. Prior to Tufts, Lorna held the senior security leadership roles at Iron Mountain, Kohler Co., and BT-Infonet Services Corp., and earlier in her career worked at CSC and Meso Inc. She also served in the United States Air Force Weather Service. Lorna holds degrees from Bowling Green State University, Penn State, and the University at Albany.