Gregory Rasner (CISSP, CIPM, ITIL, CCNA) is the founder and CEO of Third Party Threat Hunting LLC, bringing his extensive expertise in third-party, supply chain, and cybersecurity risk to the market. He authored the books “Cybersecurity & Third-Party Risk: Threat Hunting” (Wiley, 2021) and “Zero Trust and Third-Party Risk” (Wiley, 2023), “Privileged Access Management: Strategies for Zero Trust in the Enterprise” (Apress, 2025), developed the internationally recognized training and certification program “Third-Party Cyber Risk Assessor” TPRCA (Third Party Risk Association, 2023) and other training programs. He is a regular keynote speaker and panelist on cybersecurity and risk management topics, also contributing to blogs, podcasts, and online articles. Greg has held leadership roles across the finance, healthcare, biotech, high-tech, and manufacturing sectors and earned his B.A. from Claremont McKenna College.
Maria Rasner (CISM, CCZK, CCSK, TAISE) – has years of extensive Identity and Access Management and Privileged Access Management experience. Maria is the co-author of the book “Privileged Access Management: Strategies for Zero Trust in the Enterprise” (Apress, 2025). She has run governance, remediation, implementation of small and large IAM and PAM programs, both on-premises and in the cloud. Her experience and certifications include cloud IAM and PAM experience in AWS and Azure cloud environments. Maria has several articles on the topic of Cloud PAM Security published in ISSA Online Journal and IDSA website. Maria has strong enthusiasm for continuous learning, always exploring new developments in AI. She has taken the Google AI Essentials training as well as Stanford University's Deep Learning Specialization course. Maria is a member of Cloud Security Alliance's AI Controls Framework Working Group responsible for the publication of AI Controls Matrix (AICM). She’s also certified in TAISE (Trusted AI Safery Expert).