Jenn Behrens specializes in privacy, security and identity management. She is Partner and Executive Vice President of Privacy and Security for Kuma. Jenn focuses on supporting organizations in transition from compliance to commitment in privacy and security excellence, and led the privacy-engineering and risk management efforts for multiple NIST digital identity pilots, as well as in the commercial marketplace. She oversees Kuma’s Privacy and Security Teams, has been the CISO and CPO for multiple major healthcare systems, and has successfully led organizations through several security and privacy incidents. Jenn is a well-regarded privacy SME within the digital identity field, and has led engagements ranging from assessing privacy compliance with CJIS and HIPAA controls to evalutating law enforcement agency privacy programs to developing privacy policies for mobile drivers licences solutions to composing privacy guidance for agency consideration of automated decision making and artificial intelligence solutions. Jenn speaks on a variety of topics at industry forums, most recently sharing expertise on identifying and controlling privacy risk as implicated by the usage of biometrics.

Jenn served as the IDESG Plenary Chair, (formerly Privacy Committee Chair), and was most recently an IAPP Publications Advisory Board Member (formerly Women Leading Privacy Advisory Board Member.) She currently serves on the Champions Board of the National Girls Collaborative Project as the cybersecurity and privacy expert. Jenn previously served on the HIMSS Patient Identity Integrity Workgroup, and was a member of the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) Privacy-Enhancing Technology Community of Interest. Her expertise extends from HIPAA and HITRUST to PCI, SOC, MARS-E and NIST CSF/PF. Jenn is a sought-after speaker, presenting at conferences such as RSA, AFCEA FedID Summit (f/k/a GIS), IAPP Global Privacy Summit, Identiverse (f/k/a Cloud Identity Summit), NIST Workshops, Solove’s Privacy + Security Forum, IAPP Privacy.Security.Risk Conference, and more.

Jenn has BA (UVA), MSW (VCU), and PhD in Public Policy and Administration (VCU.) Jenn holds CIPP/G, CIPP/US, and CIPM credentials. Jenn is recognized by IAPP as Fellow of Information Privacy (FIP).