Symposium Speaker: Diana Kelley

Diana Kelley is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for Protect AI. 

She also serves on the boards of Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS), the Executive Women’s Forum (EWF), InfoSec World, Cyber Future Foundation, TechTarget Security Editorial, and DevNet AI/ML. 

Kelley was Cybersecurity Field CTO for Microsoft, Global Executive Security Advisor at IBM Security, GM at Symantec, VP at Burton Group (now Gartner), a Manager at KPMG, CTO and co-founder of SecurityCurve, and Chief vCISO at SaltCybersecurity.

Her extensive volunteer work has included serving on the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Ethics & Plagiarism Committee, Cybersecurity Committee Advisor at CompTIA, CTO and Board Member at Sightline Security, Advisory Board Chair at WOPLLI Technologies, Advisory Council member at  Bridgewater State University’s Bartlett College of Science and Mathematics, and RSA Conference (RSAC) U.S. Program Committee.

She is a sought-after keynote speaker, the host of BrightTALK’s The (Security) Balancing Act, co-author of the books Practical Cybersecurity Architecture and Cryptographic Libraries for Developers, instructor for the LinkedIn Learning classes Security in AI and ML and Introduction to MLSecOps.

She has also been a lecturer at Boston College's Masters program in cybersecurity, one of AuditBoard's Top 25 Resilient CISOs in 2024, a 2023 Global Cyber Security Hall of Fame Inductee, the EWF 2020 Executive of the Year and EWF Conference Chair 2021-Present, an SCMedia Power Player, and one of Cybersecurity Ventures 100 Fascinating Females Fighting Cybercrime (PDF).