Roberta Anderson is a 25-year cybersecurity veteran, Air Force veteran, and published author whose career spans the DoD, Fortune 500, healthcare, and government. She served as the City of Colorado Springs' first CISO, where she built the city's information security program from scratch, and today serves as VP of Information Security at national telehealth company.

Her credentials—CISSP, CRISC, CDPSE, Security+, Network+—represent the full arc of a GRC and risk management career. She holds an M.S. in Cybersecurity and Information Assurance from National University and a B.S. in Cybercrime Investigation from Colorado Technical University. She is the author of Breaking the Firewall: How Women in Cybersecurity Rise from Entry-Level to the C-Suite (2026) and AI for Beginners in the Digital Age (2025). For more than two decades, she has mentored women in cybersecurity—resume by resume, negotiation by negotiation, promotion by promotion. She is a member of WiCyS, ISC2, ISACA, and ISSA.