Speakers
Shawnee Delaney, Founder and CEO, Vaillance Group
Shawnee Delaney spent nearly a decade with the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) as a decorated Clandestine Services Officer conducting Human Intelligence (HUMINT) operations all over the world. She served four combat zone tours in Iraq and Afghanistan as a Case Officer and Detachment Chief and served as a Supervisory Branch Chief in Europe. After leaving DIA, Delaney supported the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in the protection of U.S. critical infrastructure and industrial control systems for the Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT). Shawnee has built insider threat programs for major Fortune 500 companies. She holds an M.A. in International Policy Studies with a Specialization in Counter-Terrorism and Counter-Proliferation, an M.S. in Cyber Security and is working towards a Masters in Industrial-Organizational Psychology. She has written articles or been cited on insider threats in publications such as the Cipher Brief, USA Today, Fox Business, Yahoo Finance, SPYSCAPE, Business Insider, the Hill, Associated Press, Benzinga, and the Financial Times. Today Delaney serves as Founder and CEO of Vaillance Group, and she is a member of the SPYEX collection of secret intelligence elites.