Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a security guru by the Economist. His research and expertise includes cryptography, cybersecurity, digital privacy, data integrity, artificial intelligence security and safety, Internet-of-Things security, corporate and government surveillance, digital fraud, blockchain and cryptocurrencies, cybersecurity policy, and the intersection of AI with democracy and governance. He has testified before Congress more than a half dozen times and served as an expert witness on a variety of cases, spanning class-action privacy lawsuits, contract disputes, and patent disputes.

Bruce is a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, and at the Munk School at the University of Toronto. He is the New York Times best-selling author of 14 books—including A Hacker's Mind and Rewiring Democracy—as well as hundreds of articles, essays, and academic papers. His influential newsletter Crypto-Gram and blog Schneier on Security are read by over 250,000 people. He is a fellow at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and AccessNow, and an advisory board member of EPIC and VerifiedVoting.org. He is the Chief of Security Architecture at Inrupt, Inc.

Jonathan Hochman, PhD, is a computer scientist and consulting and testifying expert specializing in software engineering, internet technologies, cybersecurity, digital identity, data privacy, e-commerce, digital advertising, search engine optimization (SEO), and pay-per-click advertising (PPC).

Since 2007, Jonathan has been retained by plaintiffs and defendants in hundreds of matters involving patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, contracts, defamation, online reputation, unfair competition, and fraud. He has testified in 24 trials and 76 depositions, including proceedings in U.S. federal and state courts, arbitrations, the Federal Court of Canada, and the District Court of Israel.

Jonathan earned his PhD in Computer Science from Yale University, where he is a Research Associate and has taught courses in cybersecurity, digital identity, privacy, and secure software development. He is also a named inventor on three U.S. patents and was a co-founder of CodeGuard, a cybersecurity company acquired by Sectigo.

Joseph Bonneau is a researcher focused on computer security, applied cryptography, decentralized systems and blockchains. His research has spanned a broad range of topics from human behavior to theoretical results in cryptography. He has pioneered multiple new applications of cryptography, including the academic study of blockchain systems, cryptographic approaches to transparency, and cryptographically verifiable lotteries. His technical expertise includes cryptocurrencies, encrypted messaging tools, TLS and encryption on the web. He's also a co-author of a popular, freely available textbook Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies.

Joseph (Joe) is currently an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Courant Institute, New York University. Previously, he has taught at Stanford, Princeton and the University of Melbourne. He served as a Research Partner at Andreessen-Horowitz (2022-2025), a Technology Fellow at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (2015-2017) and a research scientist at Google (2012-2013). He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge in 2012, and B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2006 and 2007.

Maritza Johnson conducts research on human-centered security and privacy, studying how people understand and make decisions about their digital privacy and how systems can be designed to serve them better. Her work spans usable privacy settings, social network privacy, smartphone permissions, and the privacy expectations people bring to connected devices in their homes. She has examined why online privacy controls so often fail the people who rely on them.

Maritza was the founding director of the Center for Digital Civil Society at the University of San Diego, where she also created an AI Ethics course for the Master of Science in Applied Artificial Intelligence program. Previously, she was a user experience researcher at Google, a technical privacy manager at Facebook, a researcher at the International Computer Science Institute affiliated with UC Berkeley, and a lecturer at UC Berkeley's School of Information. She is a contributor to "Toward Trustworthy AI Development: Mechanisms for Supporting Verifiable Claims" and has served on the National Academy of Sciences Forum on Cyber Resilience.

Maritza received her Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from Columbia University and her B.A. in Computer Science from the University of San Diego. Her research on the failure of online social network privacy settings won the Future of Privacy Forum's Privacy Papers for Policy Makers Award in 2011.

Serge Egelman conducts research to protect consumers and help people make more informed online privacy and security decisions. His work has touched on topics such as security warnings, authentication, and the privacy of data on mobile devices and within mobile applications. Serge's research findings have led to congressional testimony, spawned numerous lawsuits and regulatory actions, and been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Wired, CNET, NBC, and CBS.

Serge is the Research Director of the Usable Security and Privacy group at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), an independent research institute affiliated with UC Berkeley, and Chief Scientist at AppCensus, Inc., a startup performing on-demand privacy analysis of mobile apps for developers, regulators, and watchdog groups. He received his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University and his bachelor's degree from the University of Virginia. He has been recognized with the Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies, the USENIX Security Distinguished Paper Award, the Spanish Data Protection Authority's Emilio Aced Personal Data Protection Research Award, the CNIL-INRIA Privacy Research Award, and the Carnegie Mellon University CyLab Distinguished Alumni Award.

Stuart Schechter is a researcher in computer security and privacy, human behavior, and ethics. His research helped debunk such previously common practices such as mandatory (e.g., 90-day) password changes, password-complexity policies, security questions (e.g., favorite pet), and site-authentication images. His expertise includes privacy investigations, and he has built software to help track the flow of information from websites to third parties, as well as to analyze exported analytics data and configuration files (e.g., Google Tag Manager containers).

Stuart is currently an Associate in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. Previously, he was a lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley, a Researcher at Microsoft Research (2007-2016), and a member of the technical staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory (2004-2007). He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Harvard University In 2004, and his Bachelor of Science in Computer and Information Science (BSCIS) from The Ohio State University in 1996.

Jacky Mallett's research focuses on cyber defence, networks, distributed systems, and cryptocurrencies. Her research looks at the behaviour and constraints on complex networked systems, with applications in computer and economic systems. She has identified several feedback loops in banking regulation, including the Asset Backed Security loophole which lay behind the 2008 crisis. She is also the author of Threadneedle, the first computer simulation to accurately reproduce the behaviour of the fractional reserve banking system using double entry bookkeeping.

Jacky is currently an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Reykjavik University in Iceland, and Director of the Frostbyte Cybersecurity Research group there, which focuses on practical cyber defence for small countries. She teaches courses in Cyber Defence, Computer Networks, Industrial Control Security and Financial Analysis and Simulation. Previously she worked developing consumer networking solutions at Sony Research (Belgium), as a developer for High Frequency Trading company, Madison Tyler, and as a Manager at Nortel Networks in the X.25 and Frame Relay division. She served on the Supervisory Board of the Icelandic Central Bank by appointment of the Icelandic Parliament.

Sam Schreiber is a former engineering executive with more than 25 years of experience in fintech, cybersecurity, enterprise software, and production operations. He has led engineering organizations responsible for mission-critical payment systems, application security, audit compliance, DevOps, and large-scale software delivery at companies including Finastra, D+H, Eden, and BankServ.

Drawing on decades of executive leadership, engineering experience, project management and writing background, Sam provides technical consulting and expert support in litigation involving software development, security, enterprise systems, and engineering best practices, translating complex technical concepts into clear, well-supported analyses. Sam is currently a Partner at Hochman Consultants.

Sara Lazarus is a security practitioner whose experience spans incident response, security operations, and the design and assessment of enterprise security programs. Her hands-on work covers breach investigation and response, security operations center leadership, corporate IT security, and compliance across frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST 800-53, and CMMC.

Sara is the founder of Faded Jeans Technology LLC, where she helps companies build and strengthen security programs that can withstand both compliance audits and real-world threat actors. Before founding her firm, she led Incident Response and SecOps teams, including building a 24x7 Security Operations Center and incident response team responsible for Salesforce's GovCloud environments. She later served as the first Head of Security and IT at a high-growth fintech, where she built its security, DevOps, and corporate IT functions from the ground up. Sara holds an MBA from The Wharton School with a concentration in Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

At times a children's librarian, website developer, and proprietor of Neurodiversity.com, Kathleen Seidel currently provides research services to Computer Science Experts, LLC. Kathleen's activism against pseudoscientific autism causation hypotheses and treatments was the subject of a chapter in Dr. Paul Offit's 2008 book Autism's False Prophets, was praised by Dr. Simon Baron-Cohen in the British Medical Journal, and is described in her 2019 account, “Neurodiversity.com: A Decade of Advocacy.” She is co-author, with security technologist Bruce Schneier, of the 2016 paper, “A Worldwide Survey of Encryption Products,” and with historian David Perry, of the 2017 “Ruderman White Paper on Media Coverage of the Murder of People with Disabilities by Their Caregivers.” The award-winning author Andrew Solomon described her as “a brilliant diaskeuast” with a “meticulous intelligence, bracing precision, passion for accuracy, and sense of justice,” and Bruce Schneier praised her as “the best researcher I have ever found.” Kathleen received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature and Book Arts from U.C. Santa Cruz in 1977, and her Master of Library Science from Columbia University in 1978.

Patrick Zimmerman is a digital historian and ethnographer, data scientist, and web developer. As an independent consultant since 2017, Patrick has provided technical analysis for expert-witness reports on internet privacy and consumer data confidentiality since 2022, including several brought against major technology companies.

He currently serves as Vice President and Secretary of the Center for Equitable Policy in a Changing World. His recent projects include mapping climate risk in Seattle, an analysis of environmental and economic factors driving displacement in Puget Sound, an ongoing study mapping wildfire smoke and regional air quality, and a teaching tool examining how competing policy priorities reshape school district boundaries in Seattle Public Schools. His earlier scholarship on regionalism, linguistic politics, and online political organization formed the basis of his book, Faer Asturies: La política llingüística y la construcción frustrada del nacionalismu asturianu. Patrick received his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University, and his Bachelor’s from the University of Pennsylvania.