Ebony Vaz

Ebony Vaz is the Founder and CEO of Above Promotions, a marketing technology and public relations company specializing in crisis communications for cybersecurity incidents. She is a business marketing book author and the co-author of published research on reducing human error-related information security incidents and understanding human memory limitations and password authentication practices. Vaz interweaves her engineering background and government research with her public relations and marketing expertise to help implement science and technology into storytelling for internal and public awareness campaigns, growth strategies, new products, and events. She continuously serves as the Membership Director of InfraGard Tampa Members Alliance, an Impact Board Member for Synapse, a Foreign Direct Investment Sub-Committee Member of the Global Coalition Committee with Pasco EDC, and a member of the Tampa Bay Chapter of (ISC)2. She has also obtained certificates in Cybersecurity for Critical Urban Infrastructure from MIT and a Post-Crisis Leadership from the USF Muma College of Business.