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Mary McCord

Acting Assistant Attorney General and Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for National Security U.S. Department of Justice

Mary B. McCord is the Acting Assistant Attorney General and Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for National Security at the U.S. Department of Justice. Ms. McCord oversees nearly 400 employees responsible for protecting the country against international and domestic terrorism, espionage, cyber, and other national security threats. She also works closely with the nation’s 93 United States Attorney’s Offices in the investigation and prosecution of national security matters in their districts.

Ms. McCord joined the National Security Division in 2014 from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, where she served for nearly 20 years, most recently as the Criminal Division Chief. In that capacity, she supervised the prosecution of all criminal matters in federal district court. Ms. McCord also served for more than five years as a Deputy Chief in the Appellate Division, where she supervised and argued hundreds of cases in the U.S. and District of Columbia Courts of Appeals. Ms. McCord graduated from Georgetown University Law School, and clerked for Judge Thomas Hogan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

Aaron Sramek

Security Engineering Manager enSilo

Aaron Sramek, Security Engineering Manager at enSilo, has over 20 years of experience in network, systems, and application security. Aaron has worked to architect and secure networks and applications for naval defense systems, Emergency Notification Systems, and large international distributed data center environments. At enSilo, Aaron is focused on the evolution of malware and advanced threat containment systems.

Edmund Cronin

Edmund Cronin, VP of Business Development, Cyber Threat Team, has over 20 years’ experience as a negotiator, marketing and business development executive. He has a reputation of providing exemplary service building relationships. With a commitment to excellence and follow through, Edmund has helped multiple businesses raise capital, level up ventures and be acquired. Edmund’s experience ranges from cybersecurity to renewable energy and encompasses providing forward-thinking complete solutions and ground-breaking strategy.

At the beginning of his career, he led the computer telephony integration division at Ingram Micro during its inception. However, while creating customer specific High Performance Computing (HPC) environments at BlackSky it became clear the growing threat of cyberterrorism needed to be addressed. Hardening these HPC environments became the most difficult task for companies whose IP was military classified TOP SECRET and under constant attack.

Edmund’s passion has always taken some form of stopping the “bad guys”. As the VP of Business Development, Cyber Threat Team, Edmund is responsible for driving revenue and driving strategic direction and aligning business plans with business’ cybersecurity objectives.