About the Authors

Rick Shaw:

Awareity’s Founder and CEO, Rick Shaw has over 27 years of
experience with managing risks, technology, processes, clients and
people at both large and small organizations. In addition to Rick’s
experiences, hundreds of case studies, incidents and failures have
played a key part in Rick’s vision and the development of Awareity’s
unique and forward thinking management tools and services that
focus on Controls and People rather than systems and technology.

Rick has been a speaker at several government, financial and educational conferences as well as multiple industry association meetings (ARMA, AITP, HRAM, ACUTA, etc.).

Katie Weaver:

Awareity’s Marketing and Client Support Services Director,
Katie Weaver, graduated from the University of Nebraska in 2005
with a BA in Business Marketing.  Katie has been a member of
Awareity’s team since January 2006, researching lessons learned,
data breaches, case studies and news stories daily and helping
client organizations and others to prevent similar incidents from
occuring at their organizations. 

With a focus on school safety, education, security awareness and
workplace violence prevention, Katie is hoping to share the right
information with the right people at the right time.