Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2024: The Aerospace Corp.’s Jim Myers
Jim Myers Senior Vice President, Civil Systems Group, The Aerospace Corp. Jim Myers’ biggest recent achievement is supporting the extension of the SPARTA space cybersecurity framework across the U.S. space enterprise. Since its 2022 introduction, SPARTA has attracted significant interest and use from commercial and civil space organizations and has become a key part of
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2024: Palo Alto Networks’ Eric Trexler
Eric Trexler Senior Vice President of US Public Sector, Palo Alto Networks Eric Trexler’s biggest recent achievement is pulling together a stellar, highly-effective U.S. public sector team at Palo Alto Networks. “There are no silver bullets in cybersecurity,” he said. “It’s an endless marathon, where you have to run faster and harder to simply stay
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2024: Northrop Grumman’s Ed Devinney
Ed Devinney Corporate Director, Cyber Programs, Northrop Grumman After serving in the Navy, including commanding USS COLE (DDG-67) and holding leadership roles at the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command, retired Navy Capt. Ed Devinney now plays a key role in Northrop Grumman’s global cyber efforts and its partnerships with the government. He works
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2024: HashiCorp’s Melissa Palmer
Melissa Palmer President, HashiCorp In her first year and a half as president of HashiCorp’s public sector business, Melissa Palmer’s charter was to replicate the company’s private sector successes in the public sector market, helping customers modernize and scale their use of cloud technologies. Her initial focus was to revamp how HashiCorp supports its public
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2024: GrammaTech’s Ray DeMeo
Ray DeMeo Chief Growth Officer, GrammaTech Ray DeMeo took leadership of company growth and product direction at GrammaTech with a mission to advance the resilience of customers’ defense, critical infrastructure and space assets. He is doing so by applying GrammaTech’s highly relevant cybersecurity capabilities that are built on decades of close collaboration with government. “It’s
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2024: Booz Allen Hamilton’s Imran Umar
Imran Umar Vice President & Zero Trust Initiatives Lead, Booz Allen Hamilton As agencies initially struggled to operationalize zero trust, Imran Umar led the development of the Booz Allen zero trust accelerator program, providing federal agencies a method to rapidly assess their current zero trust maturity against CISA and DOD CIO zero trust guidance, identify
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2024: DHS’ Hemant Baidwan
Hemant Baidwan Chief Information Security Officer, Department of Homeland Security Hemant Baidwan is responsible for securing and strengthening the department’s cybersecurity posture by implementing and managing the DHS Information Security Program and ensuring compliance with applicable federal laws, executive orders, directives, policies and regulations. He oversees critical information security programs for DHS, including national security
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2024: DHS’ Sonny Bhagowalia
Sanjeev “Sonny” Bhagowalia, DHS Assistant Commissioner, Office of Information and Technology and Chief Information Officer, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Department of Homeland Security Sonny Bhagowalia is humbled by the amount of effort exerted by the dedicated Office of Information and Technology (workforce, Chief Information Security Officer team, and the trusted partners that work with
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2024: Zscaler’s Stephen Kovac
Stephen Kovac Global Chief Compliance Officer, Zscaler Stephen Kovac’s biggest recent accomplishment was achieving 33 public sector and 58 global authorizations, making Zscaler the most accredited security cloud in the world. With over 400 public sector organizations as customers, including 12 of the 15 cabinet agencies, Zscaler has become a standard in zero trust government implementation.
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2024: FBI’s Cynthia Kaiser
Cynthia Kaiser Deputy Assistant Director, FBI Cyber Division Cynthia Kaiser’s biggest recent achievement was leading FBI efforts — and working alongside the FBI’s partners — to hunt down, understand and ultimately stop foreign cyber operations from compromising critical infrastructure. This past year, the FBI and its partners identified cyber actors located in China, Russia and
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2024: SAIC’s Dan Edwards
Dan Edwards Director, Cybersecurity, Digital Innovation, SAIC Dan Edwards recently rolled out a Continuous Authorization to Operate capability at SAIC, which provides one of the most robust governance risk and control solutions available today designed with agency requirements in mind. The solution streamlines and increases auditability, speeds up cloud adoption and drives down costs by
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2024: ManTech’s Chris Cleary
Chris Cleary Vice President of Global Cyber Practice, ManTech ManTech has been the leader in full-spectrum cyber for more than two decades, and the company continues to expand its portfolio of capabilities, according to Chris Cleary. Cyber isn’t only about security; it’s just as much about warfare, and ManTech is upping its game as the
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2024: Everfox’s George Kamis
George Kamis Chief Technology Officer, Everfox George Kamis is a distinguished cybersecurity expert recognized as one of the Top Chief Technology Officers to Watch in 2023 for his pioneering work on cross domain solutions innovations. This year, he was nominated for his ongoing efforts to enable Everfox to meet the increasingly stringent National Security Agency
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2024: Noblis’ Stephynie Velez
Stephynie Velez Deputy Director, Cyber Innovation and Research Center, Noblis As the deputy director of Noblis’ Cyber Innovation and Research Center, Stephynie Velez leads groundbreaking projects that shape the future of cyber capabilities and defense strategies. With two decades of experience managing complex technology innovation projects, she thrives in high-stakes environments that demand adaptability and
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2024: Illumio’s Natalio Pincever
Natalio Pincever Vice President of Product Management, Illumio Natalio Pincever drives integrations across Illumio’s product portfolio, most recently through a partnership with Netskope, bringing together the power of both zero trust segmentation and zero trust network access. Pincever has been pivotal in overseeing technology integrations, ensuring his team’s efforts cut across all products to enhance
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2024: ODNI’s Adele Merritt
Adele Merritt Intelligence Community Chief Information Officer, Office of Director of National Intelligence Adele Merritt’s biggest recent achievement was the publication of the inaugural “Vision for the IC Information Environment: An Information Technology Roadmap” in May 2024. Co-signed by the Director of National Intelligence, the roadmap presents a unified vision for investments the intelligence community
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2024: GDIT’s Ryan Deslauriers
Ryan Deslauriers Cyber Security Director, GDIT An important part of Ryan Deslauriers’ role is working in concert with the government, partners and auditors to help federal agencies successfully navigate security audits, cybersecurity inspections and other security accreditation activities. He’s very proud of the technical leadership his team provides and the trusted partnerships it built with
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2024: Nightwing’s Jon Check
Jon Check Vice President, Cyber Protection Solutions, Nightwing Nightwing’s most significant recent achievement is the smooth transition to the new company while maintaining high performance and delivering outstanding service that consistently surpasses customer expectations. This success is why the team is excited about Nightwing’s future, according to Jon Check. “Jon Check’s vision and dedication to
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2024: Coalfire Federal’s William Malone
William Malone President, Coalfire Federal As the defense industrial base remains under constant cyberattack, Bill Malone’s leadership has been instrumental in the development of Coalfire Federal’s CMMC practice. In 2024, Coalfire Federal continues to help the Defense Industrial Base achieve NIST 800-171 compliance and prepare for CMMC certification. “As one of the first CMMC Certified
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2024: ICF’s Mike Boggs
Mike Boggs Vice President, Security and Resilience, ICF Mike Boggs said he’s extremely proud of the incredible work his team is doing to help clients meet their critical missions. Their biggest recent achievement was the targeted expansion within the Homeland Security portfolio. The team provides advanced data science and analysis services to protect the nation
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2024: Axonius Federal Systems’ Tom Kennedy
Tom Kennedy Vice President, Axonius Federal Systems Agencies are still stumped by asset management, though it’s been a challenge for most for years. Axonius Federal Systems’ greatest achievement this year will be continuing its rapid growth and adoption in the federal market the company averaged more than 100% growth each year since inception, bringing Axonius
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2024: Space Force’s Brig. Gen. Shay Warakomski
Brig. Gen. Zachary “Shay” Warakomski Senior Cyber Officer, U.S. Space Force Brig. Gen. Zachary “Shay” Warakomski advises the chief of space operations on the U.S. Space Force’s cyber, spectrum and warfighting communications policy, strategy and operations. This summer, he will take on duties as the assistant deputy chief of space operations for operations, cyber and
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2024: HII Mission Technologies’ Mark Heck
Mark Heck Director, Growth and Strategy, Cyber, Electronic Warfare and Space, HII Mission Technologies Mark Heck leads business development and operations in support of Defense Department, intelligence community, federal, civil and commercial cybersecurity markets. He has been transitioning CEW&S into an account-based strategy, which is yielding positive results in key market areas while also leveraging
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2024: Accenture Federal Services’ Amanda Satterwhite
Amanda Satterwhite Managing Director of Cyber Growth & Strategy, Accenture Federal Services In 2023, Amanda Satterwhite took on the role of leading Accenture Federal Services’ Cyber Growth & Strategy, focusing on developing a 2024 strategy centered on zero trust, post-quantum cryptography, and securing critical infrastructure, with a proactive approach to secure AI initiatives. As the
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