Adriana Sanford, with multiple law degrees from Georgetown and Notre Dame, specializes in insider threats, fraud prevention, data privacy, and managing multijurisdictional legal conflicts. Fluent in four languages, she conducts compliance reviews across Latin America, navigating regulatory matters, data privacy requirements, and industry standards.

Sanford is affiliated with the American Program Bureau and has delivered keynote addresses at 150+ industry conferences. She is often described as an ‘audience grabber’ and as having “the unique ability to speak to students, captains of industry, and academicians all in the same audience.” The former Fortune 5 in-house counsel co-authored "A Guide to Surviving Storms, Challenges, and Ethical Risks" and "Ética empresarial: Una perspectiva global” (Business Ethics: A Global Perspective). These books were adopted by the Institute for Supply Management and are also available to ISACA members worldwide. Additionally, as a regular senior analyst for CNN en Español, Sanford reached 93 million Spanish-speaking viewers throughout the Americas. She recently served as the Executive Director for the Los Angeles Chapter of the Information Security Systems Association (ISSA-LA), the largest nonprofit for cybersecurity professionals in Southern California and the founding chapter of ISSA International.