Mandy Andress
CISO, Elastic
Mandy Andress has spent more than 25 years at the crossroads of business, technology, and security, a career defined by boundless curiosity first sparked as a teenager behind the keyboard of her Texas Instruments-99/4A. Since then, she’s earned an alphabet of degrees and designations – CISSP, CPA, JD, and CISO, where she’s led Elastic’s security posture since 2018. Mandy marries a deep technical background in system auditing, core security, architecture design, and security programming with legal expertise as a Member of the Texas Bar to act as a bridge between rapidly evolving security regulations and her teams in the trenches.