Kyle currently serves as Executive Director of Global Attack Surface Management at Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), a Fortune 200 organization with over 100,000 employees operating in 80 countries. His deep technical knowledge, grounded in over 20 years of IT and security experience, aides him in leading a team that continuously drives down the attack surface across security architecture, application security, and vulnerability management. Kyle has also served as a cloud security expert at AWS, lead a security practice at a VAR, and has successfully co-founded and sold a consulting services startup.

According to Verizon’s 2024 Data Breach Investigations Report, ransomware remains the top threat across 92% of industries, with roughly one-third of all breaches involving ransomware or some other extortion technique. In this symposium, we’ll use digital forensics and incident response reports from real-world incidents to walk through the tactics, techniques and procedures of top ransomware gangs and share lessons learned to help you avoid the same fate.

According to Verizon’s 2024 Data Breach Investigations Report, ransomware remains the top threat across 92% of industries, with roughly one-third of all breaches involving ransomware or some other extortion technique. In this symposium, we’ll use digital forensics and incident response reports from real-world incidents to walk through the tactics, techniques and procedures of top ransomware gangs and share lessons learned to help you avoid the same fate.

Knowing you need a new security tool or service is easy, but explaining the need to non-tech execs and getting the budget in place is often far from simple.

The April Privacy Briefing will feature our IANS Faculty panel, which includes privacy expert Jodi Daniels and artificial intelligence and infosec leader Jason Robbins. This informal discussion will center around how infosec leaders can partner across the organization to support the implementation of critical privacy regulations. We will cover recent law updates and upcoming rulings that impact your privacy strategy.

Security architecture teams often face burnout from juggling too much engineering work or being pulled into non-architectural tasks. Misalignment with enterprise architects and challenges in demonstrating value to the organization further compound the problem. This symposium provides actionable insights on elevating your architecture program to improve maturity and focus and enable high-quality results.

Improve staff hiring and retention to attract and keep top security talent. Gain valuable insights on security staff roles and job satisfaction with market data from the 2025 Cybersecurity Staff Compensation Report.

Jesse spent a 40-year career in information security spanning roles with the US Defense Department, a Big 4 accounting firm, a US Government focused consulting firm and an engineering services subsidiary of a large conglomerate. Most recently, Jesse was an Engineering Leader in the Global Information Security group of a systemically large bank. Throughout his career, Jesse specialized in system security engineering, DLP, classification and project management.

Download this ransomware defense strategy playbook designed as a checklist to help organizations more effectively prepare for and respond to ransomware events.