Communicating Your Cyber Incident Response Plan and Post Attack Changes in Policies and Procedures to Internal and External Stakeholders

Sean Coyne, Senior Security Consultant at Large, Crucyble

Ebony Vaz is the Founder and CEO of Above Promotions, a marketing technology and public relations company specializing in crisis communications for cybersecurity incidents. She is a business marketing book author and the co-author of published research on reducing human error-related information security incidents and understanding human memory limitations and password authentication practices. Vaz interweaves her engineering background and government research with her public relations and marketing expertise to help implement science and technology into storytelling for internal and public awareness campaigns, growth strategies, new products, and events. She continuously serves as the Membership Director of InfraGard Tampa Members Alliance, an Impact Board Member for Synapse, a Foreign Direct Investment Sub-Committee Member of the Global Coalition Committee with Pasco EDC, and a member of the Tampa Bay Chapter of (ISC)2. She has also obtained certificates in Cybersecurity for Critical Urban Infrastructure from MIT and a Post-Crisis Leadership from the USF Muma College of Business.

Julie Joseph oversees global IT Communications at Equinix delivering strategic and creative campaigns to drive the IT agenda forward with internal and external stakeholders. She also leads executive communications for Chief Information Officer, Milind Wagle. Joseph’s role sits at the intersection of IT and corporate communications priorities, to create awareness for various digital transformation initiatives as well as to enable the technology tools and platform adoption at Equinix. She is passionate about crafting impactful and measurable campaigns that connect with relevant audiences. She comes from the communications agency world, where before Equinix she was a Senior Vice President for B2B technology at Porter Novelli, a global Omnicom Public Relations firm. Before moving to the U.S., Julie worked for over a decade with global tech clients in India, shaping her truly global perspective for communications. She has led PR campaigns for key enterprise companies such as HP, NetApp, SanDisk, Intuit, Oracle, Mu Sigma, Hitachi Data Systems, Applied Materials, EMC, AMD, RSA, Analog Devices, Infosys, McAfee, Qualcomm, Microsoft Research, etc. Her background includes degrees in engineering and communications.