Speaker Bio

Tracy A. Bills is the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST.org). FIRST aspires to bring together incident response and security teams from every country across the world to ensure a safe internet for all.
Tracy is also a Senior Cybersecurity Operations Researcher at the CERT Division of the Software Engineering Institute, a Federally Funded Research and Development Center hosted at Carnegie Mellon University. She has over 25 years of combined experience in cybersecurity and intelligence analysis. She has helped build and mature national-level cybersecurity information sharing programs. Tracy has worked extensively to assist both public and private computer security incident response teams (CSIRTs) and security oper-ations centers (SOCs) to develop, implement, and refine effective processes. Currently, her focus is on helping countries build their national-level incident management capabili-ties and capacity.