Dawn Cappelli

VP Global Security and Chief Information Security Officer, Rockwell Automation

Dawn Cappelli is Rockwell Automation’s VP Global Security and CISO. She joined Rockwell in 2013 as Insider Risk Director and became CISO in 2016. Previously she was Founder and Director of Carnegie Mellon’s CERT Insider Threat Center. She is a leader in insider threat mitigation and has worked with government and industry leaders on national strategy issues. She has worked in cybersecurity since 2001 in partnership with the DOD, DHS, US Secret Service, other federal agencies, the intelligence community, private industry and academia. Previously she developed software for nuclear power plants for Westinghouse, and for Carnegie Mellon. She co-authored the book The CERT Guide to Insider Threats: How to Prevent, Detect and Respond to Information Technology Crimes (Theft, Sabotage, Fraud).