Tracy L. Lechner leads Brownstein’s Cybersecurity and Technology Transactions, Licensing, Advanced Media and Privacy practice groups. With more than a decade of in-house experience in the media industry, Tracy has a unique, inside understanding of the complexities that organizations face in monetizing their data and protecting their assets. S...

Katie Ledoux is the Chief Information Security Officer at Attentive, an AI-powered mobile marketing platform, where she oversees the company’s Security and IT functions. She has a proven track record of building high-performing teams and advising emerging companies through technology and operational challenges. She holds an MBA from the MIT S...

Jake Lee is a Principal Solutions Engineer at Sumo Logic, where he partners with security and operations leaders across North America to design and apply visibility, detection, and investigation strategies for their complex cloud and hybrid environments. His day-to-day work includes hands-on SIEM implementation, solution strategy, and deployi...

With nearly 10 years at HubSpot, Jared leads automation initiatives within the Corporate Security team, elevating security measures to new levels. With extensive experience in the cybersecurity field, he is dedicated to building automated solutions to safeguard HubSpot's environment, driven by a passion for detection and incident response.

Tim Leehealey is the Co-founder and VP of Strategy at Strike48, an agentic operations platform for security and IT teams. With 25+ years in security operations and forensics, Tim has spent his career at the intersection of detection engineering and data architecture. His career spans both finance and technology, starting with six years in ban...

Vice Admiral (Ret.) Mike LeFever, USN, currently serves as Chief Executive Officer for Concentric. Concentric is a risk management consultancy that specializes in delivering strategic security and intelligence services. In addition, he is a member of the network of national security experts for “The Cipher Brief,” a digital based conversatio...

Walter Lefmann is recently retired from Director of Security at CTC Trading Group LLC, a capital markets trading firm. That role has included Information Security, Physical Security and Life Safety, Privacy, and BCP/DR.
He has been practicing cybersecurity with varying focus for his entire professional career. The balance has shifted ba...

Alan brings 25 years of cybersecurity leadership spanning enterprise B2B and B2B2C markets. Before founding StrongestLayer, he held senior roles at Proofpoint, McAfee, Intel Security, and HyTrust, focused on advanced threat protection, insider risk management, and behavioral analytics. At Intel Security he directed global product strategy acr...

Taylor Lehmann is the VP and Chief Information Security Officer at athenahealth, a healthcare information technology organization with headquarters in Watertown, MA and operations around the world. Taylor has been in information security and risk management for over 15 years. He was most recently the CISO at Wellforce, an eastern MA-based, Tu...

Cedric Leighton is a CNN Military Analyst and a retired United States Air Force Colonel. On CNN, he has provided incisive commentaries on the Israel-Hamas War, the War in Ukraine, the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, and numerous other conflicts around the world. His analysis has been seen by millions of viewers around the world and provided...

CEO of Neuvik and author of the book “Understand, Manage, and Measure Cyber Risk”. Past adventures include growing a cyber research and development company, serving as Chief of Staff and Associate Director of Cyber for the U.S. Department of Defense, and sparking a fondness for technology problem-solving at IBM.

Adam is the Chief Information Security Officer for Paycor, one of the largest independently held Human Capital Management companies in America. He oversees Information Security for Paycor’s 1,400 associates, as well as Paycor’s 30,000 clients of their award-winning SaaS product. In past positions, he has served in leadership roles including T...

Michael joined Island in October 2024 as Field CTO, bringing over 30 years of data networking, operations, and cybersecurity domain expertise.

He formerly served as Head of Technical Marketing and Chief Cybersecurity Evangelist at SentinelOne where he was responsible for messaging and strategic development of their XDR product roadmap ...

Bart Lenaerts is a Senior Threat Intelligence Product Marketing Manager with Infoblox. Bart is a 20+ year veteran in Network Systems & Security with a focus in Digital Risk Management and Automated Investigations.

Anthony Leniuk is a Senior Solutions Architect at eSentire with over nine years in managed detection and response. A former SOC analyst and shift lead, he now helps security leaders close visibility gaps across expanding attack surfaces, drawing on firsthand experience of how modern attacks unfold and how teams detect and contain them.

Steven is the Head of Security, CISSP, CIPP/US. He has presented for SC Magazine and in Las Vegas regarding Cybersecuirty and Security Awareness.

Marc Lerch, CISSP, is a Senior Solutions Engineer at SpyCloud, where he helps enterprise security teams operationalize dark web and breach intelligence to prevent account takeover and identity-based fraud. He brings 20 years of engineering experience and over nine years in cybersecurity, with deep specialization in threat intelligence and com...

Phil Lerner has been a professor at St. John’s University for the past 10 years. He is the first Distinguished Engineer at United Healthcare Group. He has 26 years of progressive cyber, network and systems security experience in vast enterprises as a customer side senior technology leader. Phil provides consultative guidance and programmatic ...

Intuitive, result-driven Cybersecurity Leader with notable success directing a broad range of enterprise Cybersecurity initiatives with over 15 years of experience in the financial cybersecurity vertical. Defining Cybersecurity strategy and roadmap, implementing cloud security, managing an annual budget of over $4 million. Effective managemen...

Yaron Levi is the CISO for Dolby Laboratories. Prior to joining Blue KC, he was CISO of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City; a Director of Information Security for Cerner Corporation; an Information Security Business Partner for Intuit; an Information Security Architect and Product Manager for eBay; and a Director of Cloud Security for ...

With over 35 years' experience in healthcare administration, IT, and security, Benjamin Levin has held executive roles, overseen complex operations, implemented regulatory programs, and delivered advanced tech solutions for nationwide health systems. Semi-retired, Mr. Levin advises venture capital and emerging healthcare tech companies on

Alan Levine is the former CISO for two Fortune 500 companies, Alcoa and Arconic, with 20 years experience leading global cyber security programs. He has a BA from John Jay College of Criminal Justice, an MA from City College of New York, and is ABD from Carnegie Mellon University. Alan is currently an independent cyber security advisor, bas...

Ben Levitan serves as CEO of Cedalion Partners, a Management Advisory firm to Investors, Boards, and CEOs. Ben serves as Board Director of OGSystems, a GEOINT solutions company, and Bricata, a cybersecurity company. Ben has more than 25 years of leadership experience, having served as CEO or COO of five companies—in venture, growth equity, an...

Gil Levonai is a cybersecurity and technology executive with deep experience in enterprise security and high-growth cyber companies. He has held leadership roles at imper.ai, Hunters, and Zerto, helping bring innovative security technologies to market and translating complex cyber capabilities into real-world impact for organizations. He brin...

Florence focuses on creating cyber and E&O risk management programs for companies in a wide array of industries. She works with clients to understand their business goals, then assesses and develops programs or alternative risk transfer solutions that match their risk management objectives. Her expertise lies in identifying exposures, program...

Mr. Levy brings years of experience helping organizations address cybersecurity challenges. Prior to making the transition to Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for healthcare organizations, he consulted on cybersecurity topics for organizations around the world based in the United States and Singapore. Now Mr. Levy leads RSM’s North A...

Zach is a seasoned IT executive with a distinguished career spanning strategic IT management, cybersecurity, risk mitigation, and budget oversight. As the AVP IT and CISO for a private higher education institution, Zach has orchestrated transformative initiatives that have fortified the institution's cybersecurity landscape while driving stra...

With more than 20 years in the cybersecurity industry as a security engineer, consultant, and principal sales engineer, Zachary Lewis is now the Director of Insider Risk Management at EchoMark, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company pioneering a new standard in information protection. His experience spans a range of technologies from firewall...

Frank Leyva is a Systems Engineer with Radware, a market leader in cybersecurity with a focus on Network and Application level availability, and security. Prior to that, he was a subject matter expert in network security defense with a leading anti-malware company, performing advanced threat analysis, deep packet inspection, and creating hack...

Hong-Lok Li is the Chief Technology Officer at the Alma Mater Society of UBC Vancouver (representing 60,000+ UBC students). He has a strong technical background and 20+ years of experience in large organizations in a multi-platform, integrated computing environment. Hong is a Chartered Engineer (CEng) who earned his Master of Science (MSc.) i...

Marina is a Security Engineer on the Automox SecOps team where she is passionate about all things security. Previously, she worked as a Threat Researcher, focusing on detections and prevention rules for commodity threats and common living off the land attacks (LOLbins). Before that, Marina served as a Sr. Threat Analyst on a managed SOC, tria...

William serves as the leader of AAA Washington’s information security and compliance efforts. He is responsible to establish a responsive, dynamic, and flexible cybersecurity program to meet continually changing information security, regulatory, and compliance needs in the organization.  William has been with AAA Washington since August of 20...

Daniel M Likarish is professor Regis University CC&IS and Director of the CIAS. His research interests are in personalized experiential learning. He supports Colorado Cyber Patriot and Cyber Girls. Dan is the academic advocate for ISSA and ISACA. He is on the CISE Board and regional coordinator for the RMCCDC.