Laura Galante profiles advanced cyber threats and network breaches and investigates the political, military and financial implications of cyber operations.

Richard Ledgett is deputy director and senior civilian leader of the National Security Agency. He acts as the agency’s chief operating officer, responsible for guiding and directing studies, operations and policy.

Chris Domas is an embedded systems engineer and cybersecurity researcher.

Sebastián Bortnik's work is focused on preventing cyber attacks.

Ralph Langner is a German control system security consultant. He has received worldwide recognition for his analysis of the Stuxnet malware.

Danielle Citron writes, speaks and teaches her academic loves: privacy, free speech and civil rights. Through her work with privacy organizations, she also puts these ideas into practice.

Ajay Banga is CEO of Mastercard and a member of its board of directors, and will become executive chairman of the board of directors in January 2021.

Yasmin Green is the director of research and development for Jigsaw, a unit within Alphabet Inc. focused on solving global security challenges through technology.

IBM's Caleb Barlow is focused on how we solve the cyber security problem by changing the economics for the bad guys.

Daniel Suarez concocts thrilling reads from terrifying (and not-so-farfetched) near-future scenarios.

Evgeny Morozov wants to know how the Internet has changed the conduct of global affairs, because it certainly has ... but perhaps not in all the ways we think.

An advocate of human-computer symbiosis, Shyam Sankar looks for clues in big and disparate data sets.