Daniel Ayala (@buddhake) is the Founder, and Managing Partner for Secratic, a strategic information security, and privacy consultancy focused on helping companies protect data and information, and be prepared before incidents happen.  Throughout his 24 year career, he has led security organisations large and small in banking and financial services, pharmaceutical, information, library, and technology companies around the world, taught university-level courses, and both writes and speaks regularly on the topics of security, privacy, data ethics, and compliance.