Excellent speaker, professional and personal.
This was a great session. I wish it had been longer.
New ideas of how I can approach communicating back at my workplace.
Validated storytelling for me – it is what I do!
— CSI Conference, November 5, 2007
K is the founder and Chief Inspiration Officer at Native Intelligence, Inc., a firm that provides award-winning, effective, and entertaining security awareness courses, programs, and materials. K is a requested speaker at security conferences and events throughout the US. In March 2006, the Federal Information Systems Security Educators' Association honored K as their Security Educator of the Year.
Recently, K facilitated the Computer Security Institute's Security Awareness Peer Group (2008-2009). She has presented at events and conferences that include Security Awareness Day for Johnson County Kansas (October 2009), the Computer Security Institute Security Exchange (CSI SX) Conference in Las Vegas (2008), the New York Cyber Security Conference (2006 and 2007), the Annual CSI Computer Security Conferences in Washington DC (2005, 2007), and various Information Assurance and Security Conferences held by FISSEA, FIAC, and eGOV. She has been a speaker for Security Awareness Day events held by the Internal Revenue Service, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Defense Logistics Agency, the Indian Health Service, and the Census Bureau.
K holds a degree from Johns Hopkins University, and is the author of the chapter on Security Awareness Programs in the three-volume "Handbook of Information Security" as well as the chapter on Awareness in the "Computer Security Handbook." She is a named contributor to NIST Special Publication 800-16, "Information Technology Security Training Requirements: A Role- and Performance-Based Model."
Several hundred thousand people worldwide have taken security awareness courses that K has developed. K's courses have been translated into several languages, including Japanese, German, Italian, and Spanish. K has developed awareness programs and materials that include program plans, surveys and analysis, general and role-based e-learning courses, newsletters, screen savers, posters, contests, security awareness motivational and reward items, and creation of security mascots, logos, and themes.
Her most requested presentations include:
K's official title, as printed on her Native Intelligence, Inc. business card is: President, Chief Inspiration Officer, Cookie Baker, Lifeguard at Think Tank, Writer, Artist, Grand Pooh Bah Lord-High-Everything-Else, and Head Janitor.
