Every audit, risk analysis, privacy impact assessment, and security incident is a riddle to be solved centered around the mystery of how 1s and 0s become social media challenges and Cat memes. These riddles are untangled by people.  The human element. Computers are fast but lack the ability to make the leaps available to the human mind. Notable names and invisible individuals have brought us to where we are today.  In this talk, we will discuss and discover some of the sung and unsung heroes of bits and bytes that shape the world today.