Mary Siero

Mary is an executive-level Risk Assessment & Strategy Consultant and the President of Innovative IT, an information technology consulting firm. She is currently a faculty member with MISTI. Mary has over 35 years of experience in engineering and technology from industries such as Healthcare, Government, Gaming and Hospitality, Consumer Products, Manufacturing, and Education. Her career includes ten years in healthcare as a Chief Information Officer and five years in the gaming industry as Vice President of IT Operations, both heavily regulated industries.

She is active in the information system security community and provided testimony on the record for the State of Nevada Information Technology Board regarding The Current and Future Cyber Threats. She is a sought-after speaker and routinely presents at national conferences on information technology topics and holds several professional IT security certifications. Mary is the recipient of the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of the Year Award and served as an Advisory Board member for the University of Nevada at Las Vegas Cybersecurity Curriculum Development Program.

She is a Charter Member of the FBI Citizen's Academy Alumni Association in Las Vegas, a board member for the Las Vegas Chapter of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA), the Legislative Committee Chair for the Las Vegas Chapter of the Society for Information Management (SIM), on the Awards Committee for the InfraGard Southern Nevada Members Alliance, and is a member in good standing of the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC)2, the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS), the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), and the Southern Nevada InfraGard Members Alliance.