Maril Vernon, Senior Application Security Architect at Aquia. What does that mean? Maril (@SheWhoHacks) or the “One Woman Purple Team'' is an award-winning Ethical Hacker and Purple Team Program Manager — a niche in offensive security testing that has recently gained popularity demonstrating cyber resilience in the advanced threat landscape. Maril is also Co-host of The Cyber Queens Podcast, an all-female podcast aimed at increasing female and LGBTQ diversity in cybersecurity. She also volunteers as the COO of Teach Kids Tech, a non-profit organization with the goal of getting technology and educational resources to children in underprivileged communities and increasing technical capability and cyber awareness in tomorrow’s workforce. Maril has been named one of the ‘Epic Women in Cyber,’ “Top 10 Women Championing Cybersecurity,” and is a 2023 Women’s CyberJustu Award nominee. She is also an SME and contributing writer to CSO Online magazine on cyber resilience, Red Team best practices and industry trends.