Eric O’Neill is a former FBI counterintelligence operative who helped capture notorious spy, Robert Hanssen. In his talks, Eric uses real-life spy stories and recent cyber-attacks to show how careful diligence, counter-espionage techniques, and restraint in social media can help identify spies, hackers, cyber criminals and trusted insiders who threaten every stroke of your keyboard.

Presentation examples include:

• Cybersecurity in the Age of Espionage
• Data, the Currency of our Lives: How to Protect It
  
• Cyber Spies are Holding your Data Hostage: How to Stop Them
• The Human Element: The Weakest Link in Every Security System is Not a Computer
• Surviving the Age of Social Media: Protect Yourself from Social Media Spies and Fraudsters

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As a CIA intelligence officer, Christina Hillsberg wrote analytic assessments for the President and other senior-level policymakers. She specialized in African politics and leaders and was one of the Intelligence Community's few Swahili and Zulu linguists. Christina later worked in the CIA's Directorate of Operations, clandestinely recruiting assets and collecting intelligence in the field. During her final field station tour, she was the top female intelligence producer of all time for that region. After leaving CIA, Christina set up Amazon's first Insider Threat program and established new processes for utilizing intelligence tradecraft to analyze cyber threats. Christina, together with husband Ryan, also a former CIA officer, is the author of License to Parent: How My Career as a Spy Helped Me Raise Resourceful, Self-Sufficient Kids..

Presentation examples include:

• Communication:  Leveraging CIA techniques to improve your writing and communication skills
• Women in Tech: How to use CIA techniques to be successful as a woman in a male-dominated field
• The CIA Way of Parenting:  How to use CIA principles to raise well-rounded, security-conscious kids
• Threat analysis:  How to apply CIA analytic techniques to cyber security programs in the private sector

Tracy served the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center Weapons of Mass Destruction Group, for which she travelled to war zones and received numerous service awards from both CIA and foreign intelligence offices. After leaving CIA, Tracy became a Special Agent at the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office specializing in Chinese counterintelligence operations. Tracy now works as an author, adjunct professor of Criminal Justice at Texas Christian University, and sits on the Board of Directors of Girl Security. She is the author of The Unexpected Spy, has appeared on Good Morning America and Fox News, and she has written national security pieces for Salon, the NY Post, HuffPo and other publications.

Presentation examples include:

• Gender equality in national security, law enforcement and your organization
• Lessons learned from battling terrorism, foreign and domestic
• Identifying and defending against emerging threats