Wendy Knox Everette (@wendyck) is a Senior Security Advisor at Leviathan Security Group. She has more than 15 years of experience as a software developer, software quality assurance engineer, and information security professional. She’s been involved in all aspects of the system development life cycle (SDLC) from requirements definition through implementation and operation as well as compliance gap analysis and risk assessment. As an information security consultant, she’s guided clients through creation of risk management programs tailored to fit their size and has extensive experience both sending and receiving vendor security questionnaires.