Jennifer Hesterman

Jennifer Hesterman is a retired Air Force colonel, counterterrorism expert and consultant to operational technology cybersecurity consulting firm ABS Group. She is also an award-winning author, instructor and practitioner. After retiring in 2007, she started work as a private contractor in Washington, D.C., studying international and domestic terrorist organizations, transnational threats, organized crime and the terrorist and criminal exploitation of the Internet. She is a senior fellow at the Center for Cyber and Homeland Security at George Washington University and advises the Homeland Security Training Institute at the College of DuPage in Chicago.