The mission of the Institute's Working Groups is to research new areas of extension of the FAIR standards and framework.
Examples of research projects include modeling of loss data and assessing materiality; measuring controls effectiveness and mapping to the FAIR ontology; threats-to-risk mapping; assessing and managing third-party risk; and cyber insurance underwriting.
Working Groups
About the Working Groups
Working groups include both active researchers and observers. They are supported by Technical Advisor Safe Security and other Industry Advisors that have deep subject matter expertise. New research projects are approved by the Managing Director.
Active working groups are listed below.
GenAI Workgroup
Abhi Arikapudi
Sr. Director, Security Engineering
Databricks
Chip Block
CEO/CTO
Kiwi Futures, LLC
Bernadette Dunn
Director, FAIR Enablement
FAIR Institute
Daniel Holland
Deputy CISO
Tampa General Hospital
Abhishek Iyer
Manager, Risk and Compliance
CarGurus
OMAR KHAWAJA
VP SECURITY, FIELD CISO
Databricks
Tamara Lauterbach
Sr. GRC Specialist
Gong
Jacqueline Lebo
Risk Advisory Manager
SAFE SECURITY
Patricia Lee
Principal
Leap Trace Consulting LLC
Jack Leidecker
CISO
Gong
Mark McKinney
Risk Advisory
SAFE SECURITY
Arun Pamulapati
Sr. Staff Security Field Eng.
Databricks
BRANDON SLOANE
INFORMATION SECURITY RISK MANAGEMENT LEAD
Third Party Risk Workgroup
Lindsay Baker
Staff Engineer, GRC
Instacart
Bernadette Dunn
Director, FAIR Enablement
FAIR Institute
Patrick Hynes
Risk Advisor
Safe Security
Abhishek Iyer
Manager, Risk and Compliance
CarGurus
AKASH JAIN
Director, Risk and Compliance
Safe Security
MAREK JAKUBCZAK
SUPPLIER CYBER SECURITY RISK & ASSURANCE DIRECTOR
GSK
Jack Jones
Chairman Emeritus
FAIR Institute
Markus Kaufmann
Executive Director, Risk Information Officer
Kaiser Permanente
Florian Matt
Group Third-Party Risk Management Lead
Helvetia
Gaston Pumar
Global Head of Security Governance
AboitizPower
Prakash Satiani
Global Head Of Third Party Security Risk Management And AI Enablement
Legend Biotech
ANDREW SHEA
Founder
CRFQ
Jonathan Tran
Lead Security Risk Analyst
TriNet
Todd Tucker
Managing Director
FAIR Institute
RAM Vemula
Product Management, Head of Partnerships
Safe Security
MIKE WILSON
CISO
MOLINA HEALTHCARE
Cary Wise
Director, North America
C-Risk