Practical assessment leadership for professional audiences.
Conference sessions, executive briefings, panels, webinars, and podcasts grounded in real assessment experience.
Shawn Bilak
Shawn Bilak is the founder of Bilak Security Solutions and a Lead Certified CMMC Assessor. His career spans U.S. Navy service, federal cybersecurity assessment leadership at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, critical infrastructure cyber assurance, national cybersecurity guidance, and today's CMMC ecosystem.
He co-led the U.S. Department of Energy's C2M2–CMMC Supplemental Guidance and contributed to the Cybersecurity Threat Profile Development Guide.
Request Shawn for an EventSessions built around assessment reality.
Lessons from a First CMMC Assessment Team
Bridging the gap between documentation and operational reality.
Evidence Before Assertion
What objective evidence looks like and why it determines assessment outcomes.
Assessment Leadership and Consistency
Building repeatable, fair, and defensible assessment practices.
From C2M2 to CMMC
How maturity models and formal assessments can reinforce one another.
Preparing Executives for Assessment Day
What leadership must know about risk, evidence, scope, and accountability.
Assessment Notes from the Field
Practical observations, recurring evidence patterns, and avoidable readiness mistakes.
A track record of translating cyber risk and assessment practice for industry audiences.
Cyber Resilience Quantification
Workshop presenter with Axio, helping participants model cyber risk in financial terms through hands-on exercises and report development.
Transforming Cybersecurity Assessments
Joined Axio leaders to discuss multi-assessment environments, systems of record, inherited controls, assessment efficiency, and defensible decision-making.
Collective Defense: The Critical Role of Cross-Sector Collaboration in Telecom and Energy
Panel participant representing the utility sector on cross-sector threat intelligence sharing, incident preparedness, cybersecurity resilience, and secure collaboration.
Cybersecurity in Focus: Lessons Learned from the Energy Sector
Keynote panelist while serving as Southern Company's cyber lead for federal cybersecurity, sharing cybersecurity strategies and lessons from the energy sector.