Larisa Thomas is currently serving as Chief Information Security Officer for the City of Lakewood where she established an Information Security Program based on NIST Cyber Security Framework. She is an accomplished information security leader with 20+ years of experience building teams and managing security, governance, risk & compliance. Prior to Lakewood, she worked for organizations in the financial services, manufacturing, insurance and retail sectors. Larisa is passionate about cybersecurity education and believes that security is truly everyone’s responsibility. She is continually working towards building security into business processes and IT solutions from the start.