Diana Kelley

Diana is the Cybersecurity Field CTO for Microsoft and a cybersecurity architect, executive advisor and author. At Microsoft she leverages her 25+ years of cyber-risk and security experience to provide advice and guidance to CSOs, CIOs and CISOs at some of the world’s largest companies and is a contributor to the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR).

In addition to her work at Microsoft, she serves on the ACM Ethics & Plagiarism Committee, is an Industry Mentor at CyberSecurity Factory, and guest lecturer at Boston College’s Master of Science in Cybersecurity program. Diana is CTO and Director of the non-profit Sightline Security, a member of the RSA US Program Committee for 2018 and 2019, was an IEEE “Rock Star of Risk” in 2016, keynotes frequently at major conferences, and co-authored the book Cryptographic Libraries for Developers.

She worked at IBM where she built and managed the IBM Security Research publication process.