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Erin Owens is the Executive Director and Chief Research Scientist for the CYBER DEFENSE CENTER and FORCE LABS.

Mr. Owens is a practicing professional and exponential potential coach (known as Professor | El Capitan | Coach). He is known for his exceptional professional career, research, publications, discoveries, speaker and workshop facilitator at DefCon and several other national conferences, as a university professor, and as a community STEM coach.

•Professional researcher, hacker, and red team leader. Discovered and researched 2 of the top 10 healthcare breaches.
•13X CISO for commercial banks and some of the nation’s energy firms and largest healthcare providers.
•~$1B in aggregate career cost savings and avoidance for companies in breach response cases and cyber security initiatives.
•Industry expert of Cyber Defense preparedness and response protocols during wartime including wartime readiness, cyber false flags, war crimes, and attribution fault analysis.
•Author of several research papers, white papers, and publications such as Cyber False Flags Publication | https://cyberdefensecenter.org/news/f/cyber-false-flags---who-is-really-attacking-you or Cyber Attacks May Now be Considered War Crimes | https://cyberdefensecenter.org/news/f/cyber-attacks-may-now-be-considered-war-crimes
•ACC/CSU Pueblo Cyber Security Professor, ACC/Force4 collegiate competition team coach, ACC cyber club mentor, CU Denver GenCyber Summer Camp Mentor (https://www.ucdenver.edu/gencyber/personnel) CU Denver Cybersecurity club sponsor (Transamerica Student Club), Rocky Mountain Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition mentor, CU Denver Information Systems Advisory Council member.
•Drone and Robotics Hacking Village leader (https://dronewarz.org) and facilitator at DefCon 24-28 and keynote/presenter/panelist at several national cyber security conferences.
•Subject of the only known case study for a regulatory performance improvement of over 2 full points with the FDIC (4 to 1) and the only successful PCI data breach case rebuttal to a certified PFI report with the accusatory bank, processor, and 3 card brands.
•Led one of the top 10 largest fraud case investigation in history for healthcare (over $70MM).
•Security and Risk programs featured on FDIC and American Banking Association roadshows.
•Forensic, incident response, litigation support, and fraud cases for as many as 3000 custodians.
•Helping organizations raise an aggregate of over $1B in venture/private equity capital where cyber security was considered a show stopper.
•Litigation Support Case study featured by Gartner with validated cost savings and avoidance in excess of $50MM and litigation risk exposure reductions in excess of $750MM.
•Success story featured by Unified Compliance Framework for performance of a creative compliance analysis that saved a bank more than $3MM in annual operating expenses and positioned the bank for a regulator facilitated acquisition that nearly tripled the banks total assets. (Success Stories Archives - Unified Compliance)