Steven Hernandez is an information assurance executive serving the past twenty years in a variety of contexts and missions. His rich background includes law enforcement, financial, education, healthcare, credentialing, heavy manufacturing, non-profits, and governments at the federal, state, and local levels. Steven’s experience ranges from the board room to leading tactical, day-to-day security operations as well as guiding and leading broad security initiatives such as the US government's Zero Trust Architecture approach across large and complex organizations. Presently he is the Chief Information Security Officer and Director of Information Assurance Services at the U.S. Department of Education. Steven also serves as the co-chair of the US Government Federal CISO Council and Government Chair of the ACT-IAC Cybersecurity Community of Interest. Prior to his position at Education, he held a variety of roles at the Office of Inspector General, US Department of Health and Human Services including CTO, CIO, CISO, Senior Official for Privacy and Chief Services Engineering Officer. He is an inaugural member of the United States Scholarship of Service Hall of Fame and an ardent supporter of the next generation of cybersecurity professionals through his teaching work as an Honorary Professor, Affiliate Faculty and guest lecturer at over a dozen Institutions of higher education.

Beau started his career as a security minded system/network administrator in the Electric Utility Industry who looked for every security related project possible and eventually evolved into a network security Subject Matter Expert for the National Laboratories. After years of living and breathing firewalls and network architecture/administration, SIEMs, application delivery controllers, network modeling, etc, He moved on to professional services roles that concentrated on risk analysis, product integration, and complex POCs for a software vendors and then moved into the Value Added Reseller (VAR) world. His current position at Thundercat Technology as a Systems Engineer, allows him to utilize his network security background and focus on best-of-breed technologies in a pre-sales role to provide Public Sector and Commercial customers with advanced security solutions. Given his background, Beau specializes in operational technology security and leads the operational security practice at Thundercat technology where he works with customers and vendors across the industry to provide solutions tailored to the unique challenges encountered in these critical systems.

Derek is an accomplished technology leader with over a decade of expertise in the Public Sector technology domain. His career began with Federal service at the U.S. House of Representatives, setting a solid foundation for his subsequent venture into the private sector. Derek's notable roles at leading companies such as Cisco, AppDynamics (a Cisco company), and Cribl, underscore his extensive experience and success both within both public sector and commercial markets.

Presently at Cribl, Derek leads the Public Sector Solutions Engineering team, dedicated to serving the U.S. Federal government, as well as state, local, and educational institutions across the United States. His leadership and experience in both government and private industry has been critical to navigating and understanding the unique technological needs and challenges of IT and Security professionals in the public sector space.