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Christopher Yula brings three decades of cybersecurity and IT leadership to CyberSecOp, where he guides organizations through the converging challenges of AI-driven threats, evolving regulatory frameworks, and increasingly complex attack surfaces. As VP of Strategy, he collaborates with CISOs and Security Architects to formulate resilient security programs that address today’s critical concerns: zero trust implementation, supply chain risk, cloud security maturity, and board-level cyber risk communication.
With deep expertise spanning Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC), Christopher helps security leaders navigate the intricate landscape of security frameworks and standards such as NIST, CMMC, SOC2, GDPR and emerging AI governance requirements. His consultative approach transforms compliance obligations into strategic business enablers, bridging the persistent gap between technical security teams and executive leadership.
A trusted advisor to CIOs, CISOs and Security Directors, Christopher specializes in building security programs that balance innovation velocity with risk management—recognizing that in today’s threat environment, resilience isn’t about preventing every breach, but about intelligent preparation, rapid detection, and decisive response. His collaborative methodology emphasizes that effective cybersecurity is fundamentally a people and process challenge, not merely a technology problem.

Setu Parimi is the co-founder and CTO of RiskProfiler. Previously, he led teams at Amazon Web Services, advancing open-source security and cloud security consulting. He has open-sourced multiple security projects and is a frequent speaker and trainer, presenting at Black Hat, DEF CON, and other leading security conferences.

Sharon is a master technology storyteller and editor with omnichannel experience: books and print magazines, digital, webcast, blogging, podcast, live events and video and associated brand-specific social media content. From 1999 to 2003, she acquired and edited technology books and certification exam prep guides.
After a year spent in publicity and editorial at mass-market book publishers, she returned to tech publishing and, since 2004, explored B2C and B2B news, issues and trends in consumer, lifestyle, software, software development, AI, ML, networks, big data, hardware, security, storage, cloud, equity, inclusion, diversity, women in tech, career development, IT management, H-1B visa issues and immigration, education, training and learning.
Her previous role was as the managing editor at Techstrong Group in charge of Cloud Native Now, DevOps.com, Security Boulevard and Techstrong ITSM and their brand-specific social media. She currently serves as editorial director for CyberRisk Alliance’s channel brands, ChannelE2E and MSSP Alert and acting editorial director for SC Media UK. Drop me a note and let’s talk!