Leveraging over 20 years of utility experience, David Batz brings significant industry knowledge in understanding and applying appropriate security solutions to address emerging threats and issues. In addition, Mr. Batz leverages a decade of energy regulatory compliance as well as physical and cyber security policy experience and engagement with federal agencies including Department of Energy (DoE), and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

He is a member of InfraGard, and serves on the SANS Institute Advisory Board. He has authored various articles and presented at numerous events domestically and internationally on securing critical infrastructure, industrial systems and standardization topics for prominent industry associations including NIST, the National Academies of Sciences, and the World Economic Forum to name a few. Mr. Batz is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), and has multiple security certifications.