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Dr. Gerald Auger
Opening Keynote, Tuesday, September 29, 2026
Dr. Gerald Auger, PhD is the founder and CEO of Simply Cyber, a cybersecurity education and media platform empowering professionals at every stage of their career journey. With 20 years of experience in cybersecurity, specializing in GRC, Gerald hosts the Daily Cyber Threat Brief, a live daily cybersecurity news program now exceeding 1,133 consecutive episodes and recognized as the SANS Difference Makers 2024 Podcast of the Year. Simply Cyber reaches over 250,000 YouTube subscribers, 75,000 LinkedIn followers, and a thriving Discord community of 17,000 members. Gerald also serves as Adjunct Professor at The Citadel and Director of Strategy at Kairos Sec. He holds a PhD in Cyber Operations from Dakota State University.
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1,133 Days: What Daily Execution Taught Me About Cyber Resilience
What does it take to show up every single day, no excuses, no days off, for over 1,100 consecutive episodes of a live cybersecurity broadcast? The same thing it takes to run a resilient critical infrastructure security program: systems over heroics, accountability over intention, and community over solo effort.
In this keynote, Dr. Gerald Auger, PhD draws on over 1,133 consecutive episodes of the Daily Cyber Threat Brief and 20 years of GRC experience to deliver a candid, practitioner-grounded take on what cyber resilience actually looks like in practice. This isn't a theoretical framework. It's hard-won operational truth from someone who has built redundancy, documented process, and community accountability into a daily mission-critical operation.
Attendees will walk away with a fresh perspective on why resilience isn't an incident response capability. It's an organizational habit. And just like a broadcast that can't miss, neither can the systems protecting your critical infrastructure.
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