About Speaker

As chief cyber resilience officer and field chief technology officer at eSentire, Tia Hopkins is focused on engaging with the cybersecurity community, providing thought leadership, supporting strategic customer and partner engagements, and working closely with the sales, marketing, product, engineering and customer success teams to drive security outcome-focused initiatives. She has spent the past 20+ years of her career in various IT and IT security roles and has over a decade of experience in the managed services space. Outside of her role at eSentire, Hopkins is also an adjunct professor of cybersecurity at Yeshiva University and is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in cybersecurity leadership.

Hopkins holds a B.Sc. in information technology, a, M.Sc. in information security and assurance, a M.Sc. in cybersecurity and information assurance and a Master of Business Administration. She was recognized by SC Media as a 2019 Reboot Leadership Award recipient in the Outstanding Educator category. In 2020, Hopkins was awarded The Software Report’s Top 25 Women Leaders in Cybersecurity and the Cyber Defense Magazine’s Top 100 Women in Cybersecurity, and in 2021 she was recognized by IFSEC Global as a top global influencer in the Security Executives category. She has been most recently recognized as Team Leader of the Year at the SANS Institute 2023 Difference Makers Awards.