Danny Connelly has 20 years of cybersecurity experience split between offensive computing as an ethical hacker and defending some of the nation's most important networks used in COVID response. As a highly regarded thought leader and trusted cybersecurity adviser, Connelly provided guidance and formulated strategies to combat emerging threats for agencies across the federal government. Prior to joining Zscaler, Connelly was the associate CISO, operations branch chief, for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). During his 11-year tenure at CDC, Connelly was responsible for implementing operational capabilities to support incident response, forensics, cyber-threat intel, and insider threat functions.