Mark Weatherford is SVP and Chief Cybersecurity Strategist at vArmour, the data center and cloud security company. He has more than 20 years of security operations leadership, and executive-level policy experience, in some of the largest and most critical public and private sector organizations in the world. His experience includes roles at the Chertoff Group, an appointment by President Obama as Deputy Under Secretary for Cybersecurity at the US Department of Homeland Security, VP and CSO at the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), an appointment by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger as CISO for the state of California, and CISO for the state of Colorado.