George Finney
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University Technology Leader of the Year
George Finney is the chief information security officer at Southern Methodist University. As the university’s CISO, Finney has built a world-class security culture at SMU by utilizing fun and informative security awareness campaigns, community building activities and mentoring. He is also an award-winning author on information security and zero trust concepts that provide guidance in an easy to understand and fun way.