RVAsec 2023 Videos: Kate Collins & Colin Estep September 5, 2023
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Kate CollinsKate Collins

With fun and powerful examples from Disney’s The Mandalorian, InfoSec professionals will explore the new and different leadership skills required after the immense changes in the past few years. Global events including the pandemic, inflation, supply chain problems, digital transformation, and political turmoil, have caused new pressures, new threats, and changes moving faster than an N1-starfighter in hyperspace!

Explore the latest research and trends in leadership, discuss the impacts on the InfoSec industry, and refresh your leadership creed. People leaders, technical experts and InfoSec professionals at all levels will be challenged to assess their current leadership strengths and discover new ways to stretch and develop skills to meet the intense demands in Cyber leadership today and beyond. This is the Way!

About Kate – Kate Collins has over 28 years of leadership experience from front-line supervisor to CHRO, is a PCC executive coach, HR consultant, and leadership development expert. For the last 10 years, Kate has served as a leadership coach to Cyber, IT, Healthcare, Government, Academic, Insurance, Retail, and Finance professionals and has created custom leadership development programs for clients including a cyber-specific program Guidepoint Security. Other coaching client organizations include: Snowflake Inc., Guidepoint Security, DoD, Navy Federal Credit Union, Inova Health, Children’s National Hospital, StubHub, UFCW, and eOffices, Inc.
Additionally, Kate partners with a neuroscientist to support Healthcare and Cyber organizations in recovering from and preventing burnout. Kate travels nationally, and lives in Richmond, Virginia with her husband (a Cyber-professional), daughter, and 4 (yes, 4) dogs.

Colin EstepColin Estep

What if your organization could discover which of your employees are exfiltrating data prior to leaving? We analyzed the behavior of more than 3 million users, and will present the insights found for employees preparing to leave, the nature and quantity of the data they target, and the services they use.

About Colin – Colin Estep is currently a threat researcher at Netskope focused on developing user and entity behavior analytics for cloud environments. Colin was previously the CSO at Sift Security (acquired by Netskope), where he helped create a product to do breach detection for IaaS environments. He was a senior engineer on the security teams at Netflix and Apple before joining Sift.
Prior to Apple, he was an FBI Agent specializing in Cyber crime. As an Agent, he spent a fair amount of time coordinating with other countries to locate and arrest malware authors and botnet operators.