In response to the pandemic stay-at-home orders impacting most of our members, we launched the Lockdown Lunch & Learn (3L) in April 2020. Two years later, in the midst of our country opening back up to the post-pandemic environment, we ended this program at the 100th episode mark.
It was a weekly virtual discussion, same time and same place each week, led by experts across our community. Interaction encouraged. This service of the MCPA was open to MCPA members and invited guests only, and much continuing professional education (CPE) credit was earned. We thank Lockheed Martin for sponsoring this program!
3L Speakers
(listed alphabetically by last name with ranks/descriptions from when the talk happened)
Arnold Abraham, Esq.
Former Associate Director of Intelligence at USCYBERCOM, founer of Cyber Law LLC, and MCPA Advisor. LinkedIn.
Colonel Carlos Alford
Cyberspace Force Development Chief at the Headquarters of the US Air Force.
Dr. Abe Baggili
Director of the Connecticut Institute of Technology. LinkedIn.
Michaela Barnett
Founder and Cheif Executive Officer of Blacks in Cybersecurity. LinkedIn.
Rear Admiral (Ret) Paul Becker
Former J2 of the Joint Staff, President and CEO of The Becker T3 Group LLC, and MCPA Advisor. LinkedIn.
Christine Billingsley
Event and Marketing professional, MCPA Chief Operating Officer (COO), DEF CON Arcade Party creator, and 3L MC. LinkedIn.
Joe Billingsley
Director of Strategic Engagement at the National Defense University (NDU) College of Information and Cyberspace (CIC), former Army Strategist and Cyber Officer, and MCPA founder. LinkedIn.
Major General (Ret) Joe Brendler
Former Chief of Staff and J5 of USCYBERCOM, founder of Brendler Consulting, and MCPA Advisor. LinkedIn.
Major David R. Bustamante
Cyber Security Director for USMC Combat Service Support Schools, Army National Guard Cyber Warfare Officer, and MCPA Chief of Staff and Director. LinkedIn.
Dr. Bill Butler
Cybersecurity Professor and USMC vet. LinkedIn.
Jack Cable
Noted white hat hacker. LinkedIn.
Colonel (Ret) Carm Cicalese
Former Army Cyberspace and Information Operations (IO) Chief, former MCPA Chief of Staff, and President of CYBER CIC LLC. LinkedIn.
Chris Cleary
1st Principal Cyber Advisor (PCA) for the Department of the Navy, 1st CISO of the Department of the Navy and MCPA Director. LinkedIn.
August Cole
Co-Author of popular books Ghost Fleet and Burn In. LinkedIn.
Vice Air Marshal (Ret) Sean Corbett
Former Deputy Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and Senior Intelligence Officer of the Royal Air Force (RAF). LinkedIn.
Major General (Ret) Kim Crider
Retired Chief Technology Innovation Officer at US Space Force. LinkedIn.
Dr. Chase Cunningham
Retired Navy Chief Cryptologist, and Principal Security & Risk Analyst at Forrester Research. LinkedIn.
Captain (Ret) Ed Devinney
Former USCYBERCOM Director for Corporate Partnerships and Technology Outreach and Commander of the USS Cole. LinkedIn.
Lieutenant Colonel (Ret) Mark Duke
Faculty at the National Defense University (NDU) College of Information and Cyberspace (CIC) and US Army veteran. LinkedIn.
Colonel (Ret) Matt Dunlop, PhD
CISO and VP for Cybersecurity at UnderArmour. LinkedIn.
Major General (Ret) George Franz
Former Director of Ops at USCYBERCOM, Managing Director at Accenture Federal, and MCPA Advisor. LinkedIn.
Sean Gallagher
Noted tech author, Senior Threat Researcher at SophosLabs, and former US Navy Computer Security Officer. LinkedIn.
Lieutenant Colonel (Ret) Steve Gary
Former Cyber Intelligence and IO lead at Special Operations Command (SOCOM), Professor of Practice at USF, and MCPA Tampa Chapter President.
Chip George
VP for Public Sector at Nutanix, former VP at Splunk, and US Navy veteran. LinkedIn.
Lieutenant General (Ret) Karen Gibson
Former Deputy Director of National Intelligence (DNI). LinkedIn.
Major General Matt Glavy
Commander of US Marine Corps Forces Cyber Command.
Lieutenant Colonel Woody Groton
CIO of the New Hampshire Army National Guard and Exercise Director of Cyber Yankee. LinkedIn.
Cyndi Gula
Managing Partner at Gula Tech Adventures. LinkedIn.
Ron Gula
Tech entrepreneur and USAF veteran. LinkedIn.
Daryl Haegley
Director of Mission Assurance & Cyber Deterrence a the Office of the Principal Cyber Advisor (OPCA) to the Secretary of Defense. LinkedIn.
Major General Stephen Hager
Deputy Commander of Operations, Cyber National Mission Force.
Rear Admiral (Ret) Janice Hamby
Former Joint Staff J6, Deputy DoD CIO and CoS, Chancellor of the College of Information and Cyberspace at NDU, and MCPA Advisor. LinkedIn.
Captain (Ret) G. Mark Hardy
National Security Corporation President, Co Host of CISO Tradecraft, and former Naval Officer. LinkedIn.
Jay Healey
Cyber conflict scholar, author "A Fierce Domain, Cyber Conflict 1986 to 2012", and MCPA Advisor. LinkedIn.
Lieutenant General (Ret) Rhett Hernandez
First Commander of Army Cyber Command (ARCYBER) and MCPA Advisor. LinkedIn.
Major (Ret) Esteban Jimenez
Director of Cyber Programs at Constellation Technologies Inc, MCPA Fort Meade Chapter Ops Officer, and former Cyber Ops Planner at MARFORCYBER. LinkedIn.
Major General (Ret) Jim Keffer
Former Chief of Staff of USCYBERCOM and current Director for Cyber at Lockheed Martin, and MCPA Advisor. LinkedIn.
Leslie Kershaw
Founder of CyWren Solutions and the US Army's first female Interactive On-Net Operator (ION). LinkedIn.
Bill Kimble
CEO of Cyber Defense Technologies, Co-Founder of VetCon, and USMC veteran. LinkedIn.
Chris Kubecka
Founder and CEO of HypaSec and USAF veteran. Linkedin.
Congressman Jim Langevin
Congressional Cyber Caucus Co-Chair. Official Page.
Mark Lavi
Principal DevOps Advocate at Nutanix. LinkedIn.
Robert M. Lee
Founder and CEO of Dragos, and USAF vet. LinkedIn.
Lieutenant General (Ret) Mary Legere
Leadership at Accenture, and former Army G2 and Commander of INSCOM. LinkedIn.
Rear Admiral (Ret) Bill Leigher
Former Deputy Commander of Navy Cyber Command and Director of Warfare Integration for Information Dominance on the CNO staff, and MCPA Advisor. LinkedIn.
Dr. Cassandra C. Lewis
Chancellor of the National Defense University's College of Information and Cyberspace, our nation's cyber war college. LinkedIn.
Major Amanda Mason
MCPA Board of Directors and J2 (Director of Intel), JFHQ-Air, NGDC. LinkedIn.
Major General (Ret) Earl Matthews
Former Director of Cyber Ops at USAF, current VP of Strategy at Mandiant Security Validation, and MCPA Advisor. LinkedIn.
Rear Admiral John Mauger
Assistant USCG Commandant for Capability (CG-7) and former USCYBERCOM J7. LinkedIn.
Rear Admiral (Ret) Mark Montgomery
Executive Director of the US Cyberspace Commission and MCPA Advisor. LinkedIn.
Jeff Moss
Founder of the DEF CON and Black Hat security conferences, Commissioner on the Global Council on the Stability of Cyberspace (GCSC), former member of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC), and former Chief Security Officer (CSO) of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). LinkedIn.
Major General (Ret) Punch Moulton
Former Director of Operations (J3) of US European Command. LinkedIn.
Major General (Ret) Paul Nielsen, PhD
Director of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University and former Commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). LinkedIn.
Theresa Payton
Former White House CIO and author of "Manipulated: Inside the Cyberwar to Hijack Elections and Distort the Truth". LinkedIn.
Dr. Tomás Peña
Chief Technologist of Cyber Operations, Space and Airborne Systems at L3Harris Technologies, USAF veteran, and Editor in Chief of the MCPA's peer reviewed journal Military Cyber Affairs. LinkedIn.
Lt Col Bryan Pettigrew
Civil Air Patrol National Cyber Mission Team Deputy Director for Mission Support. LinkedIn.
Fred Piry
Former Supervisory Special Agent for the U.S. State Department and Principle at Active Crisis Consulting. LinkedIn.
Heidi Potter
Co-founder of the Shmoo Group.
Command Sergeant Major (Ret) David Redmon
Former Senior Enlisted Advisor (SEL) of both NSA and USCYBERCOM, and MCPA Advisor. LinkedIn.
Lieutenant Colonel Brad Rhodes
Colorado Army National Guard Cyber Warfare Officer, Head of Cybersecurity at zvelo, Inc, Lead for Cyber Shield, and Co-Lead for HammerCon. LinkedIn.
Marc Rogers
DEF CON Head of Security, Co-Founder of the CTI (Cyber Threat Intelligence) League, and VP of Cybersecurity Strategy at Okta. LinkedIn.
Colonel Brian Russell
Cyber Operations Officer at Marines Corps Forces Cyber Command. LinkedIn.
Rear Admiral (Ret) Scott Sanders
Former Deputy Commander of 2nd and Co Founder of Tobacco Barn Distillery. LinkedIn.
Lieutenant Colonel (Ret) Joseph Schafer, PhD
Professor at the National Defense University (NDU) College of Information and Cyberspace (CIC) and MCPA National Capital Region (NCR) Chapter President. LinkedIn.
Lieutenant General Jack Shanahan
1st Director of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) and MCPA Advisor. LinkedIn.
Major General (Ret) Mike Skinner
Former US Air Force Reserve's Senior Officer in a variety of assignments and MCPA Advisor. LinkedIn.
Brigadier General (Ret) Bernie Skoch
Commissioner of the CyberPatriot National Youth Cyber Education Program, former senior USAF communications officer, and MCPA Advisor. LinkedIn.
Dr. Brad Sims
President of Capitol Technology University and MCPA Advisor. LinkedIn.
Dr. Peter W. Singer
Co-Author of popular books Ghost Fleet and Burn In. LinkedIn.
Rear Admiral (Ret) Andy Singer
Former J2 of PACOM and Deputy J2 of INDOPACOM, Navy N2N6, and current MCPA Advisor. LinkedIn.
Captain Nico Smith
Director of Red Team Operations at Black In Cybersecurity. LinkedIn.
1st Lieutenant Christine de Souza
Cyber Warfare Operations Officer in the Maryland Air National Guard and Cyberspace Operations Strategist for SOS International in support of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). LinkedIn.
Brigadier General Paul Stanton, PhD
Deputy Director of Operations at USCYBERCOM. LinkedIn.
Lieutenant General (Ret) Vince Stewart
Former Deputy Commander of USCYBERCOM, Commander of MARFORCYBER, Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, and current MCPA Advisor. LinkedIn.
Colonel Jaak Tarien
Director of the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE). LinkedIn.
Mike Thomas
Cyber Systems Researcher at MIT Lincoln Labs and former senior technical leader at NSA and USCYBERCOM. LinkedIn.
Brigadier General (Ret) Greg Touhill
1st Federal CISO and current President of AppGate Federal Group, and MCPA Advisor. LinkedIn.
Colonel (Ret) Carlos Vega
Executive Security Advisor at IBM Security and Co-Founder of the Army Cyber Institute. LinkedIn.
Lieutenant Colonel Roman Vitkovitsky
Director, Cyberpace Operations at United States Marine Corps. LinkedIn.
Brigadier General (Ret) Guy Walsh
First Executive Director of the National Security Collaboration Center, former lead for Strategic Initiatives at USCYBERCOM, and MCPA Advisor. LinkedIn.
Tarah Wheeler
Cyber Project Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. LinkedIn.
Colonel Teri Williams
Commander of the 91st Cyber Brigade and OIC of Cyber Shield. LinkedIn.
Major General (Ret) Ed Wilson
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD) for Cyber Policy, Commander of the 24th Air Force, and current MCPA Advisor. LinkedIn.
Thomas Wingfield, Esq.
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD) for Cyber Policy (former). LinkedIn.
Neil "Grifter" Wyler
Threat Hunting and Incident Response at RSA, Senior NetOps Lead at Black Hat, and Dept Head at DEF CON. LinkedIn.
Major General Garrett Yee
Assistant to the Director of the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). LinkedIn.
Master Sergeant Richard Zepeda
Spectrum Coordinator at the HQMC.
Philip Zimmermann
The creator of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)