Ira Winkler

CISO & VP, CYE

Ira Winkler, CISSP, is the Chief Information Security Officer at CYE and Director of the Human Security Engineering Consortium. He is recognized as one of the most influential cybersecurity professionals globally and has received the CSO COMPASS Award from CSO magazine. He authored two reference books on security awareness: *You Can Stop Stupid* and *Security Awareness for Dummies*. He began his career at the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) as an intelligence and computer systems analyst, later holding several leadership roles, including former Chief Security Architect at Walmart. He supports security awareness programs in organizations of all sizes worldwide.