Senior security leaders Dan Payne of ManTech and Lisa Reidy of General Dynamics discuss how leadership careers in industrial security actually advance—and why they rarely follow a clean or predictable path. Through a moderated conversation, they walk through the real routes they’ve seen lead to senior roles, including paths that start outside traditional security functions. The discussion focuses on what separates forward momentum from quiet stagnation: the decisions that build credibility beyond the security silo, the tradeoffs that shape long-term opportunity, and the moments where leaders either step into broader responsibility—or get boxed in by it.
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What to Expect at
NSI Impact '26
What to Expect at
NSI Impact '26
April 20 - April 22
Chantilly, VA
Westfields Marriott
Impact is a Unique Program – You Should Be There.
A national security forum that brings together executives, industrial security practitioners, national security experts and top government officials to promote best operating practices and excellence across the Defense Industrial Base.
"Great program! Wonderful speakers and excellent networking."
Tammy BreedingFSO, ManTech 
"I found the presentations by various SMEs excellent and gained valuable insights into best practices. Appreciated networking with colleagues from both industry and government."
Rick SecondoPhysical Security Operations Manager, MITRE 
"I always learn about upcoming changes that affect my role, information I might have otherwise missed."
Amanda HaydenFSO, Rapid Response Monitoring Services 
"Great for networking. Excellent program to expand your knowledge of all aspects of security."
Savannah KastIndustrial Security Specialist, Boeing 
"Attending NSI IMPACT gives security professionals A LOT to think about. It has motivated me to be an even better FSO."
Allyson DaytonFSO, Freedom Space Technologies 
"Great discussion of key personnel security topics and issues, got us thinking outside the box to solve new challenges."
Kumar GnanamurthyCEO, iWorks Corporation 
Attend Sessions on National Security | Threats | Risk
Keynote: China's Strategy to Hack Anything American
General (Ret.) Tim Haugh, former Director, NSA and Commander of U.S. Cyber Command
General (Ret.) Haugh, former Director of the NSA and Commander of U.S. Cyber Command, delivers a clear-eyed assessment of how China is positioning inside U.S. networks—not just to steal data, but to create disruption at scale when it matters most. Drawing on real-world examples from critical infrastructure and national cyber defense, he explains why seemingly small targets matter, how adversaries stay hidden in plain sight, and what leaders must prioritize now to protect operations, continuity, and national security in an era of persistent cyber conflict.
Attendees will leave with a sharper grasp of China’s cyber strategy to disrupt American life through pervasive and persistent access, and why seemingly small targets matter so much.
The Insider Risk Communication Problem—and How to Solve It
Bob Trono, Vice President & CSO, Lockheed Martin
Even well-built insider risk programs break down in the same place: employees notice things, but signals don’t move. Not because people don’t care but because the insider risk program’s messaging doesn’t resolve the questions that stop action: Is this reportable? Am I overreacting? Will I get someone in trouble unfairly? Will this come back on me? What happens after I say something?
The Chief Security Officer of Lockheed Martin examines how insider risk communication has to work in real conditions, when people are busy, uncertain, and wary of being labeled suspicious, disloyal, or intrusive. The focus is practical: how to define “reportable” in a way employees can actually use, how to frame reporting as responsible risk management rather than accusation, and how to address privacy and proportionality so people trust the program enough to speak up early.
This session also tackles the handoff reality FSOs and ITPSOs live with: the first report often lands with a supervisor, HR, or a local security contact and can stall or get distorted if routing expectations aren’t consistent.
Attendees will leave understanding the top communication fails that impact an insider risk program, and what to change in messaging, channels, and reinforcement to get people more comfortable and informed.
AI-Enabled Threats: What Breaks First
Trust, Triage, & Response Under Higher Velocity
Invited – Jeanette Manfra, VP, Head of Risk and Compliance, Google Cloud
Jeanette Manfra, VP and Head of Risk and Compliance at Google Cloud, examines what changes when AI compresses the attack cycle, making deception more believable, exploitation faster, and “normal” signals less reliable. This session focuses on where that pressure shows up first inside real programs: trust and verification breakdowns (including executive impersonation and engineered urgency), triage overload as volume and ambiguity rise, and response decisions that have to be made with less certainty and less time. Rather than a tour of AI tools, the discussion centers on operational failure modes security leaders are already seeing like impersonation and social engineering that bypass traditional skepticism, faster discovery and exploitation, and automation that shrinks the window for containment and coordination.
Attendees will leave knowing which assumptions are most likely to fail, what gets stressed first in typical operating models, and what to adjust now in verification practices, escalation thresholds, and response readiness.
Facing a New Era of Threats Beyond Earth
Invited – General Shawn Bratton, Vice Chief of Space Operations U.S. Space Force
Gen. Shawn N. Bratton, Vice Chief of Space Operations for the U.S. Space Force, addresses what it means for space to be a contested operational domain—and why that reality now shapes resilience, deterrence, and risk across every other domain. Grounded in operational realities, this session examines how adversaries are probing U.S. space capabilities, why dependencies on space systems have become strategic pressure points, and where older assumptions about protection, attribution, and response no longer hold. The focus is on decision-making under uncertainty: what leaders need to understand about space risk, what kinds of disruptions matter most, and how strategic competition in space changes the way the U.S. must think about continuity and advantage.
Attendees will leave with a clearer sense of how the threat environment is evolving in space, what that implies for national security risk and resilience, and which priorities matter most as space becomes inseparable from operations everywhere else.
Nation-States are Using the DIB Supply Chain to Reach Their Targets
How Trusted Connections Create Prime and Sub-Level Exposure
Invited – Bailey Bickley, Chief DIB Defense, NSA Cybersecurity Collaboration Center
How Trusted Connections Create Prime and Sub Level Exposure
Bailey Bickley, Chief of DIB Defense at the NSA Cybersecurity Collaboration Center, explains why nation-state cyber operations increasingly reach primes through the broader Defense Industrial Base—by exploiting the trusted connections that link subcontractors, suppliers, and partners to higher-value environments. Drawing on observed threat activity and collaborative defense efforts, he walks through how adversaries pick entry points, establish persistence, and create leverage across programs without needing a “direct hit” on the prime. This session focuses on what this looks like in practice: the common attack paths that run through suppliers and third parties, the conditions that make a company attractive as a stepping stone, and the warning signs that routine access is being used for something else.
Attendees will leave with a clearer understanding of how supply-chain targeting unfolds, where exposure concentrates across tiers, and what security leaders at both primes and subs should prioritize now to reduce avoidable risk while staying usable and credible partners in a contested ecosystem.
Attend Sessions on NISPOM Compliance | Inspections | Policy
How DCSA Leadership Is Setting Direction for 2026-2027
What DCSA’s Emphasis Means for Near and Long-Term Business Decisions
Executive Leadership, Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency
What DCSA’s Emphasis Means for Near and Long-Term Decisions
The incoming Director of the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency outlines how DCSA leadership is setting direction for cleared industry oversight in 2026—and what that emphasis is likely to mean once it reaches inspections, contracting pressure, and day-to-day execution. Grounded in inspection realities and national security risk, this session focuses on where leadership attention is concentrating, which expectations are firm versus still evolving, and how consistency, evidence, and program credibility are being weighed across a diverse contractor base. Rather than restating policy or future initiatives, the discussion centers on how security and business leaders should interpret early signals, where limited effort and investment are most likely to pay off, and which long-standing assumptions may no longer hold.
Attendees will leave with a clearer perspective on what DCSA leadership is emphasizing now, where adjustments are most likely to matter, and what to reconsider early—before expectations harden or rework becomes unavoidable.
Judgment Calls in an Evolving Security Clearance Landscape
How PERSEC Decisions Are Likely to Be Evaluated
Perry Russell-Hunter, Director, Defense Office of Hearings & Appeals
How PERSEC Decisions Are Likely to Be Evaluated
Perry Russell Hunter, Director of the Defense Office of Hearings and Appeals, examines how security clearance decisions are being evaluated as expectations continue to evolve—and where contractor judgment is most often tested. Grounded in adjudicative trends and real case drivers, this session focuses on how reporting, mitigation, timeliness, and documentation are weighed in practice, and where well-intentioned decisions can begin to drift from adjudicative reality. Rather than walking through process, the discussion centers on the judgment calls contractors make early—often with incomplete information—and how those decisions are later interpreted once more context is available.
Attendees will leave clearer on when reasonable, case-by-case clearance decisions begin compounding into real program risk, which judgment patterns tend to drift as volume increases, and how to adjust course early—before those patterns trigger program disruption, leadership escalation, or difficult corrections across a cleared workforce.
DCSA Industrial Security 2026: How Oversight Is Being Applied
Matt Redding, Associate Dir., Industrial Security, DCSA
Matt Redding, Associate Director for Industrial Security at the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency, addresses how DCSA is applying industrial security oversight heading into 2026—and where cleared industry continues to struggle with interpretation in practice. Grounded in inspection data and field-level oversight experience, this session focuses on where expectations are firmly set, where professional judgment still matters, and how consistency and evidence are being evaluated across a diverse contractor base. Rather than restating policy, the discussion centers on the friction points FSOs encounter most often: evidence sufficiency, variance across inspections, and how risk is weighed when programs don’t fit neatly into a checklist. Time is reserved for direct audience Q&A, giving attendees the opportunity to surface real questions, test assumptions, and hear how DCSA is thinking about recurring issues before they become findings.
Attendees will leave with clearer insight into how oversight is being applied now, which assumptions most often get programs into trouble, and what to reconsider before those assumptions are tested during inspection or become difficult to unwind operationally.
The NISP Conversations That Shape Inspection Reality
What Could Go Wrong If You’re Not Paying Attention
Ike Rivers, CSO, Astranis Space Technologies, NISPPAC Industry Spokesperson
LaToya Coleman, Executive Director, Security, ManTech
What Could Go Wrong If You’re Not Paying Attention
Ike Rivers, Chief Security Officer at Astranis Space Technologies and an Industry Spokesperson for NISPPAC, joins fellow NISPPAC Industry Members to walk through the NISP conversations that are influencing expectations long before they surface as formal guidance or inspection criteria. Grounded in direct participation in government–industry dialogue, this session focuses on where interpretation is forming, which assumptions are being challenged, and how today’s debates quietly set tomorrow’s enforcement posture. Rather than reviewing rules, the discussion centers on where security leaders can misread direction, rely on outdated assumptions, or miss early signals that later become findings or rework.
Attendees will leave with a clearer sense of where NISP expectations are likely to move next, which conversations deserve their attention now, and how to adjust judgment and priorities before those shifts show up as inspection findings or operational surprises.
Why Information Trust Is Breaking Down—and Who Feels the Impact First
Michael David Thomas, Director, Information Security Oversight Office
Implications for Defense Industry Security and Workforce Behavior
Michael David Thomas, Director of the Information Security Oversight Office, brings an oversight-level perspective to a problem that now cuts across government operations, industry execution, and public confidence: strain on information trust. Drawing on ISOO’s role in classification policy and governmentwide controlled information programs, he examines how information protection practices shape credibility—where inconsistency, unclear authority, and uneven application create doubt and friction, and why that matters beyond compliance. This session is not a “how-to” on markings or process; it is a senior-level view of what disciplined information stewardship looks like when trust itself is under pressure.
Attendees will leave better equipped to recognize how information protection practices affect trust, cooperation, and risk—and to communicate classification and information control decisions in ways that preserve credibility with operators, leaders, and business stakeholders, not just other security professionals.
Attend Sessions on Career Advancement and Job Satisfaction
Carving Your Path to Senior Leadership in Industrial Security
What Moves Careers Forward—and What Quietly Holds Them Back
Dan Payne, CSO, ManTech International
Lisa Reidy, CSO, General Dynamics
What Moves Careers Forward —What Quietly Holds Them Back
Attendees will leave with sharper clarity on how senior leadership paths are carved in practice, what accelerates momentum, what stalls it, what those in senior roles look for in up and coming leaders.
Leading a High Performing Security Team of Any Size
Why Some Organizations Get Better the Longer They Stay Intact.
Robert Rixman, CSO, Leonardo DRS
Why Some Organizations Get Better the Longer They Stay Intact.
Robert Rixmann, Chief Security Officer at Leonardo DRS, examines what it takes to lead a security organization that performs consistently under pressure, and retains the people who make that performance possible. This session focuses on the leadership and operating practices that allow security teams to scale, adapt, and remain stable over time: clear expectations, defined ownership, and decision frameworks that reduce burnout and rework. Drawing from defense-industry environments where turnover directly impacts inspection readiness, institutional knowledge, and program continuity, Rixmann explores how leadership choices influence whether experienced staff stay engaged, or quietly exit. Attendees will gain a grounded view of how high-performing security teams operate in practice, and how effective leadership drives both execution and retention across security organizations of any size.
Attendees will gain a grounded view of how high-performing security teams operate in practice, what holds them together, keeps morale high and why being part of one leads to stronger retention of talent.
Participate in Security Operations Leadership Forums
Operationalizing Your Inspection Readiness Loop Across an Enterprise
Patricia Brokenik, Security Director, General Dynamics MS
Lynn Bailey, FSO, Johns Hopkins University, APL
Enterprise inspection readiness doesn’t fail because teams don’t know what’s required. It fails when readiness can’t be operated at scale, when confidence depends on a few strong sites, informal workarounds, or leaders who “just know where the bodies are.” This forum is for security operations leaders who live inside that tension.
Listen in on a working conversation among peers who are actively managing the tradeoffs that rarely get discussed out loud: enterprise standards versus local reality, visibility versus trust, governance versus speed, and consistency without over-engineering the field.
Each speaker will address three questions directly: what practices have genuinely held up in their environment—and why; what approaches broke down once scale, complexity, or pressure increased; and what challenges they are still actively working through today.
Then the conversation opens up for Q&A because the value of this format is in the probing. The “how did you decide,” the “what do you watch to know it’s real,” the “where did this start to break,” and the “what would you do differently if you had to run it again.”
If you already run a mature program, you’ll leave with one or two insights that sharpen how you make decisions: where to intervene, where to let variance exist, and how to defend those choices with confidence. If you’re scaling into this challenge, you’ll leave with a clearer sense of what actually breaks at enterprise level, what’s worth standardizing early, and where restraint matters as much as control.
Implementing Trusted Workforce 2.0 At Scale
Curtis Chappell, VP Security, Thales Defense & Security
Jennie Hardy, Security Director, SAIC
Catherine Palazzolo, VP, Assistant General Counsel, SAIC
Wining the Battle Over Complexity - Lessons Learned
Trusted Workforce 2.0 becomes operationally demanding once scale, velocity, and ambiguity converge. Not because requirements are unclear, but because decisions start to matter more than process. Signals multiply, reporting expectations collide, ownership spans Security, Legal, HR, and Cyber, and leaders are left balancing trust, privacy, and defensibility across a population that never stops moving.
This forum is for leaders operating at that level of complexity, regardless of where you are on the journey.
Bringing together security and cross-functional perspectives from Thales and SAIC, the conversation centers on how Continuous Vetting and SEAD-3 are handled when programs move beyond initial implementation and into sustained, enterprise execution. The focus is on judgment: how leaders interpret signals at volume, where they draw boundaries that hold up under scrutiny, and how they align across functions without slowing the organization down.
The value of this forum is the opportunity to listen to experienced practitioners work through real operating tensions: what holds together under pressure, where friction consistently appears, and how tradeoffs are evaluated when there is no clean answer. Legal participation adds a dimension many security leaders rarely get direct access to: how risk, privacy, and organizational exposure are weighed alongside operational necessity as programs scale.
If you’re already operating at scale, you’ll leave with concrete suggestions or adjustments you can leverage for optimizing your program, as well as insight into how your colleagues explain choices across functions and senior leadership. If you’re scaling into this challenge, you’ll leave with a clearer view of where enterprise implementations typically strain first and which early decisions matter most to avoid rebuilding the program later.
Getting IT, HR and Other Partners On Board
LaToya Coleman, Executive Director, Security, ManTech
Marc Ryan, Director of Corporate Security, Astrion
Translating Shared Responsibility Into Shared Accountability
Security execution starts to strain once responsibility is genuinely shared. Not because roles are undefined, but because ownership spans Security, HR, IT, Legal, and Programs, and no single function can compel outcomes without creating friction somewhere else. Expectations exist. Controls exist. Evidence exists. What’s harder is making execution hold together day after day without relying on heroics or constant escalation.
This forum is a working conversation among senior operators who live inside that tension. It brings security leaders together with the cross-functional partners they depend on, not to align on principles, but to examine how execution actually works once security stops being a single-owner function. The value comes from contrast: different operating models, different fault lines, and different answers to the same underlying question….How do I make shared responsibility real without slowing everything down?
The discussion stays focused on the judgments leaders are forced to make at scale. Where ownership is made explicit and where it remains intentionally ambiguous. How expectations are set so work moves without Security chasing every handoff. When governance tightens, when it backs off, and what leaders watch to know execution is holding before inspection pressure exposes the gaps. You’ll hear how boundaries are defended, where friction is tolerated, and which breakdowns are accepted because fixing them would cost more than they’re worth.
If you already run a mature, cross-functional program, this forum sharpens how you think about ownership, escalation, and defensibility especially in areas where execution depends more on judgment than policy. If you’re scaling into this challenge, it offers a clearer view of where shared responsibility most often fails first, which early decisions are hard to unwind later, and how experienced leaders reason about operating security through other teams without turning it into constant negotiation.
Managing Security Across Multiple Sites and Programs Without Losing Control
Kathy Andrews, Director Of Security, Northrop Grumman
Phil Mazzocco, National Security Compliance Operations, Snowflake
Mastering the Art of Judgment vs. Structure
Security control starts to strain once scale introduces distance. Multiple sites, multiple programs, different customers, different operating tempos, and leaders are forced to manage consistency without direct presence. Standards exist. Oversight exists. Reporting exists. What’s harder is knowing where control is genuinely holding, where it’s assumed, and where it’s quietly degrading at the edges.
This forum is a peer-level working conversation among senior security operators who run portfolios, not single facilities. It brings together leaders operating from different vantage points—enterprise governance, corporate oversight, and field execution—to compare how control is sustained when authority is indirect and local conditions vary. The value is in seeing how experienced teams draw lines differently: what they centralize, what they leave local, and how they keep those choices defensible over time.
The discussion stays inside the decisions leaders actually wrestle with. How minimums are defined so they travel without becoming brittle. What oversight data is trusted enough to act on and what’s treated as directional at best. When trust replaces verification, when it doesn’t, and how leaders know the difference. You’ll hear how operators set escalation thresholds, preserve decision rights, and recognize early signs of drift before inspection pressure or an incident forces attention.
If you already operate at enterprise scale, this forum sharpens how you think about control across distance, where tighter standardization buys real leverage, where discretion is necessary, and how to explain those tradeoffs under scrutiny. If you’re scaling into multi-site oversight, it offers a realistic view of where consistency usually breaks first, which early assumptions don’t survive growth, and how seasoned leaders adjust their posture before loss of control becomes visible.
Attend Sessions on Facility and Program Execution
Inspection Readiness
Without the Scramble
Run a Lean Program and Gain Control
Without Overengineering
Nicky Acchione, Senior Security Dir., FSO, Pure Storage
Kat Tran, Director of Security, FSO, ANSER
Getting Ahead and Staying There When You Run a Lean Program
Inspection readiness starts to weaken in lean programs well before anyone says the word “inspection.” Not because requirements are unclear, but because control rests on memory, informal habits, and a handful of systems that only hold when nothing unusual happens. The moment scope creeps, priorities collide, or attention is pulled elsewhere, confidence becomes situational rather than durable.
This session features FSOs who have run lean programs and carried inspection outcomes personally. It’s grounded in the realities of operating without staff depth, dedicated inspection support, or excess tooling, and in the decisions required to make readiness survive those constraints. Hear how other FSOs reason through tradeoffs most people never document: what they chose to formalize, what they deliberately kept simple, and what they stopped doing because it created more fragility than control.
The discussion stays focused on judgment under constraint. How FSOs decide when reliance on personal knowledge crosses the line from efficiency to risk. Where documentation adds resilience and where it becomes theater. How much structure is enough to make readiness portable across interruptions, turnover, and competing responsibilities, without turning the program into something they can’t sustain.
If you currently run a lean program, this forum sharpens how you think about proportional control, defensibility, and where your readiness may be more brittle than it appears. If you’re operating with slightly more support or absorbing additional scope it offers a grounded view of which lean-program lessons still apply, which assumptions stop holding, and how experienced FSOs adjust without overbuilding or losing credibility.
The FSO’s True Role in
Defining CUI Execution
Be a Leader Before Role Creep Sets In
and You're Stuck
Rachel Bassford, CUI Consultant, DEFCERT – Former FSO
Define Your CUI Role Now Before It's Defined for You—Under Pessure.
Non-classified CUI responsibility doesn’t arrive all at once—it creeps. It shows up first as questions, then exceptions, then “temporary” gaps. If no one defines the boundaries early, it eventually consolidates under pressure, and the FSO becomes the default owner when something breaks.
This session reflects a hard-earned point of view from deep, practical experience with how CUI execution actually unfolds inside organizations. The premise is simple: waiting for clarity invites role creep. Leading early is not about taking on more responsibility, it’s about shaping where responsibility stops, how execution is shared, and who is resourced to carry it.
The focus is on judgment and leverage. How FSOs use their understanding of contracts, inspections, and evidence to establish authority without absorbing ownership. How they engage IT not as a downstream service provider, but as a partner with real capabilities (and real incentives) to contribute. The discussion explores how reciprocal alignment is created in practice, so CUI execution strengthens the organization instead of becoming the FSO’s recurring emergency.
If non-classified CUI is already bleeding into your role, this session sharpens how you think about timing, boundaries, and when to step forward before urgency removes your options. If it hasn’t reached that point yet, it offers a clear view of where the slope leads and how experienced FSOs intervene early to prevent CUI from becoming an unowned problem that eventually lands in your lap.
Get Control of CMMC Without Overengineering
How FSOs & Contracts Teams Create a Defensible, Proportionate Program
Logan Therrien, CSO, KIERI – Former Security Dir., U.S. Navy
How FSOs & Contract Teams Create a Defensible, Proportionate Program
CMMC has moved unevenly for years, and most FSOs and Contracts teams have learned to track it without overreacting. But the pressure is shifting. Contract language is tightening, interpretations are starting to harden, and the window to shape scope deliberately is beginning to close. The risk now isn’t being late, it’s letting urgency or worst-case interpretations decide for you.
This session reflects judgment shaped by repeated, hands-on CMMC work in lean organizations without dedicated teams, excess tooling, or margin for rework. Most CMMC programs will struggle not because requirements are misunderstood, but because early decisions aren’t made. Scope drifts. Evidence expands. Work starts before boundaries are set, and once momentum builds, it’s hard to pull back.
The focus is on front-end judgment, not build-out. How FSOs and Contracts teams decide what a contract actually commits the organization to and what it doesn’t, before interpretations harden into obligations. How to lock a proportional scope early, before assessment anxiety inflates expectations. Where restraint is defensible, where it isn’t, and how to avoid doing work now that won’t age well later. The discussion stays grounded in decisions that cost nothing to make but are expensive to miss.
The emphasis is also on leverage. How FSOs frame CMMC posture in a way leadership can stand behind. How Contracts avoids over-flowing obligations the organization doesn’t actually have, and reduces downstream disputes when assessments begin. How Security and Contracts align early so obligation, scope, and evidence stay coherent as pressure increases. The goal isn’t speed or completeness; it’s control over how CMMC enters the organization.
If you’ve been tracking CMMC but holding off on heavy investment, this session sharpens how you think about timing, proportionality, and what you can decide now without committing resources. If firmer signals are starting to appear in your contracts, it offers a clear view of where programs most often drift first and how experienced FSOs and Contracts teams keep CMMC credible, explainable, and contained before pressure removes their options.
Should You Attend? Probably.
The NSI Impact Program is unique –attended by industry, government, all sizes of defense contractors and a range of seniority levels. Defense industry security leaders passionate about raising the level of operating excellence across the defense industrial base.
Unique Networking Experience
Unique Networking Experience
Walk away with new, career-lasting connections.
NSI Impact provides a unique environment – not too large, not too small – to connect with a diverse cross-section of the national security community from organizations large and small, in various roles and different stages of career and experience.
Walk away with new, career-lasting connections. NSI Impact provides a unique environment – not too large, not too small – to connect with a diverse cross-section of the national security community from organizations large and small, in various roles and different stages of career and experience.
Will You Get Value? Yes.
You’ll learn from an impressive cross-section of the national security community including accomplished industrial security practitioners, security executives, operations leaders, top national security experts in government and industry, top officials from DCSA and DOHA.
1-Day Expo
1-Day Expo
The relaxed atmosphere at NSI IMPACT makes it easy to meaningfully connect with vendors. Ask questions, listen in, learn without pressure so you can decide which solutions are likely to make your job easier and your work more efficient.
The relaxed atmosphere at NSI IMPACT makes it easy to meaningfully connect with vendors. Ask questions, listen in, learn without pressure so you can decide which solutions will make your job easier and your work more efficient.
Ready for Impact “Mini-Mentoring”?
Impact speakers are on your side. They are ready to give candid guidance, share their best advice and teach you lessons they learned the hard way because they want to see you succeed.
Security Awareness Fair
Security Awareness Fair
Connect with government teams whose mission it is to support your program. Discover free resources available to make your job easier and your program more successful.
Connect with government teams whose mission it is to support your program. Discover free resources available to make your job easier and your program more successful.
"Impact brings together a diverse mix of SMEs to deliver real-time updates and helpful discussion of industry issues."
Dannie LyversITPSO, GA Institute of Technology 
The information you get on security threats, solutions to problems with NBIS, DISS, and help navigating the personnel and facility clearance process makes NSI Impact well worth attending."
Charles MorrisCorporate Security Manager, AFSO, Airbus U.S. Space and Defense 
"Invaluable information for industry and government security professionals responsible for protecting critical assets."
Rudy DuBordEHSS Director, Juniper Networks 
""Great collaboration with other industrial security professionals."
Risa PowellFSO/ITPSO, SiloSmashers, Inc 
"A great forum to meet with other FSOs and pick their brain on how they handled similar challenges you're facing in your organization."
Amanda HaydenFSO, Rapid Response Monitoring Services
Put Peer Experience to Work for Better Execution, Stronger Judgment, Smarter Tradeoffs
Be the Knowledgeable Voice Leadership and Colleagues Trust
Run Your Program with Fewer Surprises and More Control