As Co-Founder and CEO of Cysurance, Kirsten Bay brings over 25 years of experience in risk intelligence, information management, and policy expertise across a variety of sectors. Ms. Bay leverages her experience in finance and cyber security to bring new insights to the cyber insurance market.

Throughout her career, Kirsten has been appointed to congressional committees to developing cyber policies, initiatives, and recommendations for the intelligence community. She has developed recommendations in partnership with the Center for North American Studies (CNAS) and Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) for White House policy, and collaborated on information studies for MIT-Harvard and several federal agencies.

Ms. Bay has gone before a parliamentary subcommittee on recreating trust in the global economy, presented national security, critical infrastructure, and cyber insurance concepts at conferences such as Black Hat, Secured Americas, Enterprise Architecture Institute, SC World Congress, and the Eurim Information Management Committee. She has also spoken on applied economics and its relationship to both cyber and national security around the world.

In the last 15 years, Ms. Bay has been the CEO of big data and cyber security companies, leading the strategy and development of next-generation analytics and attack detection technologies.