Dr. Bilyana Lilly, CISSP is a cybersecurity professional with over 20 years of experience in technology 
and defense. Dr. Lilly is an Associate Director at Accenture and serves on the Advisory Boards of the 
venture capital firm Night Dragon and the cybersecurity firm RunSafe Security. She chairs the Democratic 
Resilience Track of the Warsaw Security Forum. Her previous roles include a Director at the Krebs and 
Stamos Group and a Manager at Deloitte's Financial Cybersecurity Practice where she delivered 
solutions to clients in the financial and technology sectors. Dr. Lilly holds a PhD in policy analysis, and 
three master’s degrees, including an honors degree from Oxford University. She has over two dozen 
publications and three books. Her book "Russian Information Warfare" became a bestseller and is on 
display at the Pentagon. Her debut novel "Digital Mindhunters" recently became available on Amazon. 
Dr. Lilly is a mentor and a speaker at RSA, DefCon, CyCon, and the Executive Women’s Forum. She 
has been cited in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and Foreign Policy, among others. She 
has been denounced by Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, chased by a Russian soldier, and called a 
cyber expert by Tom Hanks.