February 2023 Chapter Meeting

The Need to Understand Cyber Risk Quantification (CRQ) to Prioritize Risk

Greg Spicer, Co-Founder, Ostrich

 Greg Spicer is the Co-Founder of Ostrich Cyber-Risk.  Greg has several years of experience in cybersecurity, working with organizations to provide solutions to their cybersecurity challenges.  He has worked in many sectors, including Legal, Finance, Insurance, Manufacturing, and Healthcare.  He was most recently CRO of Braintrace, a Salt Lake City MDR provider, before their successful sale to Sophos in July 2021.  

Greg is a thought leader in the Cyber Risk Management and Cyber Risk Quantification (CRQ) spaces, speaking and moderating panels for ISSA, ISACA, ILTA and other cybersecurity events nationwide.

Kate Kuehn, Chief Trust Officer, Aon

Kate Kuehn has been an active thought leader in Security & Advanced Network Technologies for over 20 years. As the Chief Trust Officer (CTrO) for cyber security at Aon, she aligns global cyber initiatives with internal practice and policy to drive trust, transformation, and risk mitigation internally, with clients, and within the entire cyber community.

Early in her career, she had been given the opportunity to work with and lead some of the most innovative technologies that have shaped our industries. She led some of the industry’s first projects in DDOS, Ethernet as a network (CPA), SaaS and IaaS, and was on the front line with some of the earliest attacks against the financial services markets. Kate has purposely executed multiple roles across her career from CISO, CEO, Board of Director, Advisor, strategic business development / alliances, leading sales and engineering teams, and now as a CTrO (Chief Trust Officer). Before her role at Aon, she has worked for companies including vArmour, Senseon, BT Group plc, and Verizon. The culmination of her experience ensures Kate always brings expertise and a fresh perspective on emerging trends within cybersecurity.

Kate has two main passions in life: bleeding-edge technology that helps secure our world and developing world-class people and companies. Kate is a trusted advisor in the industry and holds positions on several boards including Redshield and Cybermainacs. She is currently an Advisory Board Member for vArmour, Senseon, rThreat, and Net Thunder. She was also recently appointed to the IEEE steering committee for Cyber Security, and collaborates regularly with ISSA, SINET & WSTA.

In addition to professional endeavors, Kate loves to give back to her community. She is active in a number of STEM initiatives including CORNCON, the Docent Group and the University of California, Berkeley. Kate also spends time as a volleyball coach at her children’s school.

 Ira Winkler, Field CISO CYE Security & Author

Ira Winkler, CISSP is the Field CISO for CYE Security and author of You Can Stop Stupid, Security Awareness for Dummies, and Advanced Persistent Security.  He is considered one of the world’s most influential security professionals, and has been named a “Modern Day James Bond” by the media.  He did this by performing espionage simulations, where he physically and technically “broke into” some of the largest companies in the World and investigating crimes against them, and telling them how to cost effectively protect their information and computer infrastructure.  He continues to perform these espionage simulations, as well as assisting organizations in developing cost effective security programs.  Ira also won the Hall of Fame award from the Information Systems Security Association, as well as several other prestigious industry awards. CSO Magazine named Ira a CSO Compass Award winner as The Awareness Crusader. Most recently, Ira was named 2021 Top Cybersecurity Leader by Security Magazine.