About the IAPP

Russell Densmore is the global data protection leader for Raytheon Technologies. With over 30 years of experience, he brings a multidisciplinary understanding to data protection, data governance, data compliance, digital forensics, and enterprise risk management. He has been recognized by the U.S. Attorney General and the Federal Bureau of Investigation for support against cybercriminals.

Densmore is renowned for information security, cyber forensic investigations, privacy program management, and physical security. He has been recognized by the US Attorney General, and the Federal Bureau of Investigations for support against cyber criminals. He is a proven cybersecurity professional with a record of establishing and managing multiple cross-functional data protection teams.

Densmore co-chairs the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) cybersecurity, privacy subcommittee with long-time colleague and contributing author, Edward Yakabovicz.

Densmore is actively involved with the Privacy Engineering Section of the IAPP and as a privacy pioneer often speaks at IAPP and other privacy events to promote the profession.

Densmore chairs the OneTrust Privacy Connect chapter for Los Angeles as well as mentoring others on how to obtain the most benefit from privacy program management platforms.

Densmore holds a master's of engineering degree in cybersecurity policy & compliance from The George Washington University (GWU), and a bachelor of science degree in computer information systems/networking from Regis University.