Dawn Cappelli

VP and CISO, Rockwell Automation

Dawn Cappelli, CISSP, is VP and CISO at Rockwell Automation. She is responsible for the company’s global information security program, using a risk-based approach to ensure the company’s products and infrastructure are secure. Cappelli’s team collaborates closely with the product security team, and is also responsible for the insider risk program, behavioral analytics and document retention. She was Founder and Director of Carnegie Mellon’s CERT Insider Threat Center. Before that she developed software for nuclear power plants for Westinghouse. She co-authored the book The CERT Guide to Insider Threats: How to Prevent, Detect, and Respond to Information Technology Crimes (Theft, Sabotage, Fraud), and is on the RSA Program Committee and DSAC Leadership Council for Intelligence and Threats.