Adam Austin is the Co-owner and Cybersecurity Lead at Totem.Tech, a minority veteran-owned Prime DoD contractor. Mr. Austin has over a decade of experience securing classified, unclassified, and HIPAA-environment US Government IT systems, having worked with NASA, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Systems (CMS), and all branches of the Department of Defense. Adam holds a Master’s in information assurance from Capitol Technology University, is CISA, CISM, and Security+ certified, and is a CMMC Registered Practitioner (CMMC-RP). Adam's mission is to leverage his experience to help small businesses in regulatory environments implement affordable, compliant, risk-based cybersecurity programs.