New technologies bring new risks to the supply chain

Author's Biography

Jennifer Bisceglie is the founder and CEO of Interos, Inc. She started the company with the vision that the future of doing business would be built on data, artificial intelligence and machine learning around global business relationships. Her drive to be the world’s leading authority on supply chain transparency and assurance is embedded in the DNA of the company she built. With more than 25 years’ specialised experience in supply chain risk management (SCRM), vendor risk management, big data analytics, cyber security and supply chain strategy, Jennifer is a recognised leader in the development of integrated solutions that deliver mission readiness and operational excellence through the identification, visualisation and prioritisation of opportunities and threats to an organisation’s global business network. In addition to her visionary work and success in the software industry, Jennifer is a sought-after speaker on the topic, and is a leading voice on economic opportunity for women. Through her involvement with the W(omen) 20, Women Impacting Public Policy (WIPP), WIPP International and Quantum Leaps, she travels the world promoting women’s economic empowerment through opportunity, collaboration and entrepreneurship.

Mark Weatherford is the global information security strategist at Booking Holdings, where he works with their brand companies that include Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, Kayak, BookingGo and OpenTable to create secure technology travel products for their millions of customers around the world. He has held a variety of executive level cyber security roles including chief cyber security strategist at vArmour, a principal at the Chertoff Group and chief security officer at the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), where he led the cyber security programme and worked with over 3,000 electric utility companies across North America. In 2008, he was appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to serve as California’s first Chief Information Security Officer and in 2011 he was appointed by President Obama as the Department of Homeland Security’s first Deputy Under Secretary for Cybersecurity. As a former US Navy cryptology officer, Mark led the US Navy’s Computer Network Defense operations and the Naval Computer Incident Response Team (NAVCIRT). Mark is an investor and on the advisory boards at several security technology start-up companies.