Susan E. Sons currently serves as executive director of OmniSOC, the shared cybersecurity operations center for higher education and research. Susan was previously a chief security analyst at Indiana University's Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research (CACR). Susan was also the deputy director of the Research Security Operations Center (ResearchSOC) and supported Trusted CI, the NSF Cybersecurity Center of Excellence.

Susan is a passionate and experienced CISO and information security leader with a combined 18 years of experience providing strategic IT vision and cybersecurity leadership for multiple high-profile organizations.