Illena Armstrong Email & Phone Number

Illena Armstrong is a global business and media development leader. With help from the talented teams she has managed over the years, she successfully built and maintained a range of award-winning, digitally-driven multimedia, intelligence/research, and educational offerings serving targeted audiences. Along with her current role as President of CSA, she serves as a Fellow with the International Association of Certified ISAOs (IACI) and is Co-Chair of the IACI Global Security Resilience Alliance (GSRA) which serves as the IACI Advisory Board. As well, she is on the Board of Advisors for Cybersecurity Ventures, a top researcher/publisher covering the global cyber economy, and is an Executive Advisory Board Member with the United Cybersecurity Alliance which offers various educational/skills development programs that promote diversity, inclusion and equality in the cybersecurity workforce. She also is a member of Chief, a private network that supports and strengthens women in executive leadership, and a member of the Forte Group, an advocacy and education non-profit organization. Prior to these positions, she was VP, Editorial, at SC Media, a cybersecurity-focused business media brand. There she spearheaded and managed content strategy and played a key leadership role driving the brand’s overall business/commercial growth with help from a team scattered across the US and UK. Leveraging her brand-building, digital media, editorial, design, website, marketing/PR, social media, event, cybersecurity, and overall business development experience, she has established myriad award-winning offerings, such as virtual events, video/podcast series, in-person events, social media channels, and hardcopy/digital magazines/ebooks. Working closely with other brand and sales colleagues, she also launched research-based products, multi-tiered custom solutions, awards programs, and other offerings. On her watch, SC won more than 40 awards from such industry groups as the American Society of Business Publication Editors, Trade Association Business Publications International, Folio and MIN Online. She was listed in Cyber Defense Magazine's "Top 25 Women in Cybersecurity" for 2019 (https://cyberdefenseawards.com/top-25-women-in-cybersecurity/) and has spoken at various industry events, including RSA Conference, National Credit Union-ISAO Annual Conference, ACCOSCA/CU Difference Tour, Techno Security Conference, a plethora of virtual events, and others. Prior to these endeavors, she worked for various newspapers and other publications at which she received still more honors.

Listed skills include Magazines, Editorial, Publications, Publishing, and 46 others.