Royce Allen

With 25 plus years in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Leadership, Royce is known for providing secure architecture, policy, compliance, services. She has been instrumental in establishing several organizations that lead the way in developing cyber analytics for analyzing large volumes of cyber data. She continues to use and adopt innovated methodologies like blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, and virtual reality in healthcare industry. Her diverse technical and security expertise has afforded her the recognition as one of the Top 100 IT professionals in Federal IT and as an Influencer for the government.

Prior to joining the Department, Royce Allen served as Chief, Office of Oversight and Compliance for the National Security Agency, Information Assurance (IA) Directorate (IAD) and Cybersecurity (CS) programs.

Royce has been speaking and leading organizations for over 15 years on several technologies and cybersecurity on topics like Zero Trust Architecture, Cloud, machine learning, big data, cyber analytics, analysis, enterprise architecture, security engineering, and system authorization. She led a development team that produced over 100s of analytics capabilities and tools using cloud and traditional technologies. These tools enabled cyber missions and countered threats throughout federal agencies.

Royce Allen, holds a Masters in Security and Organizational Management, Webster University, St Louis, MO and Bachelors of Science, Networking and Information Systems, Strayer University, Alexandria, VA.

Featured Topics:

Technology, Data Privacy and Cyber Security

Safeguarding and protecting Privacy data has become one of the most talked about and complex topics on most news circuits, in congress, and during happy hour. But it is not just a government problem, each year there are thousands of conferences that host from 5k to 40k people within a 3 to 5 day period. How is the data being secured?

• Laws and regulations that a conference planner should be familiar with
• The questions that you should be asking and steps that should be taken when selecting a Vendor for providing IT Services.
• The key principles and actions that should be taken to protect participants data against unauthorized, or malicious attacks.

Making a Career Change – When is the Right Time?

Whether or not you are pursuing a passion or side hustle, confused about quitting your job for a new one, or just looking for a change, know that it’s not a straightforward decision. It requires careful planning and thinking. Transitions are not just about doing something different. A career transition is a lifestyle redesign that often entails rethinking how you want to feel at the end of the day, how you want to spend your time, and how this relates to your longer term goals. When you feel this need for change, it isn’t necessarily related to a fancier title or more money, but your inner voice whispering that you could do more, be more, experience and achieve more.

• Making a smooth transition
• Designing your next career
• Creating career goals
• Evaluating the environment or business culture

The Culture of Diversity and Inclusion

True diversity isn’t about checking the box. It’s about recruiting a workforce that includes individuals with different worldviews, ethnicities, religions, backgrounds, abilities and ages. This is a challenge many companies face when trying to create a well-rounded culture. Diversity and inclusion isn’t a one-size-fits-all approach as each culture has their own unique circumstances. It is important that companies and Human Resources prioritize having policies in place to demonstrate what is acceptable.

• Building a Culture of Diversity
• Demonstrating Inclusion in your company
• Fostering a team of diversity and inclusion
• Identifying the opportunities

Expanding Your Diversity and Inclusion in Technology

It is no secret that tech has had a long-standing diversity and inclusion problem. It is arguably a root cause of many larger issues that plague technology, including implications for justice and fairness; and increases discrimination against people of color. Now, amid building social pressure, the industry is pledging to take new steps to narrow its persistent diversity gap.

• What can you do to expand your Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in technology
• Steps to a diversified technology department
• Benefits to expanding technology perspectives in cultures and generations
• Recruitment and retention strategy targeted at talent
• Recruiting under-represented groups and retaining them.

Women in the Technology

As a woman rising in today’s executive workforce, you need every edge you can get. While studies continue to underscore positive correlations between companies with gender-diverse leadership teams and profitability, women executives are still far scarcer than their male counterparts. For example, a recent study found that 75% of businesses have at least one woman in a senior management position, but the proportion of upper-level roles held by women is still only at 24% and 1% in technology. I have often found myself as the only woman in the room.

• How to advance into executive leadership roles
• Handling challenges as you advance
• Steps you can take immediately to increase your visibility and professional reputation to create a roadmap for your future success.

Understanding Cybersecurity and AI

Cybersecurity is the practice of protecting critical systems and sensitive information from digital attacks. Also known as information technology (IT) security, cybersecurity measures are designed to combat threats against networked systems and applications, whether those threats originate from inside or outside of an organization.

• Avoiding costs and expenses of responding to a breach
• Costs of downtime and lost revenue
• Long-term reputational damage to a business
• Creating a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy, governed by best practices and automated using advanced analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning