Top Cybersecurity Leaders

Security magazine’s Top Cybersecurity Leaders 2024 award program highlights the accomplishments of ten visionary information security leaders across sectors.

Renee Forney, Director, ISSO Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) at Meta, impacts people’s lives through technology.

Ossie Munroe, Deputy CIO at Bloomberg, shares his leadership style and the importance of cybersecurity mentorship.

Lester Godsey, Chief Information Security Officer at Maricopa County, discusses his cybersecurity career.

Ryan Field, CISO at Bank of Hawaii, discusses the importance of building a strong security community.

Executive Director and General Manager at AT&T Cybersecurity Shannon Brewster discusses his cybersecurity career and the role of mentorship in the industry.

Dr. Ryma Abassi, Director of ISET’Com, leads her institution in strengthening cybersecurity education.

HQ Information Security Officer at Millicom (Tigo) Jorge Mario Ochoa shares the importance of education and finding your passion in the cybersecurity field.

U.S. Government Accountability Office Director of Information Technology & Cybersecurity Jennifer Franks discusses her career and the importance of mentorship.

Hao-Wei Chen, Information Security Director at Audible, discusses cybersecurity awareness and international collaboration.

Sushila Nair, Vice President, Head of Cybersecurity Services, Americas at Capgemini, emphasizes the importance of people in cybersecurity.

Security magazine’s 2023 Top Cybersecurity Leaders award program highlights the accomplishments of innovative information security professionals across sectors.

Jadee Hanson, CIO and CISO at Code42, takes a human-centric approach to insider risk management and cybersecurity best practices.

Alex Holden uses actionable threat intelligence to identify some of the world’s largest data breaches and unearth ransomware collective operations.

Pam Nigro, VP, Security at Medecision, emphasizes the importance of building security in at the ground level of enterprise networks.

Ariel Weintraub, Head of Enterprise Cyber Security at MassMutual, has spent her career building cybersecurity programs and recruiting diverse cyber talent.

Phillimon Zongo, CEO and Co-Founder at the Cyber Leadership Institute, emphasizes information sharing and mentorship through his cybersecurity leadership.

James Edgar, SVP and CISO at FLEETCOR, has matured cybersecurity programs by foregrounding compliance and instilling a culture of security across organizations.

Hardeep Mehrotara uses his cybersecurity acumen to bolster the cybersecurity posture of the property management sector, defense industry and Canada as a 

Meet Security magazine’s Top Cybersecurity Leaders of 2022 — 12 security professionals who are bridging the cybersecurity skills gap, championing diversity and focusing on making the industry safer and more successful as a whole.