Steffanie Ak Schilling

Steffanie AK Schilling is a senior cyber consultant for Ernst & Young, where she specializes in Human Cyber Risk, Cultural Transformation, and Cyber Resiliency. She has won the SANS Institute’s Difference Maker and Innovator award for her unique sociological theory and best cyber practices. Steffanie is viewed as an interculturally responsive and transformative leader, sitting on the board for the SANS Security Awareness conference and serving her second term as the youngest ever VP of InfraGard NEO, a partnership between public and private critical infrastructure to increase national security. Her research aims to establish a baseline of cyber literacy and resiliency in the United States. Steffanie’s research will ultimately provide insight into how to reduce human cyber risk—an attack vector present in the majority of successful breaches—and also educate and motivate the American people to embrace cyber safety in their everyday lives.