Nebraska’s cybersecurity leadership bench reflects the state’s strength across healthcare, financial services, transportation, critical infrastructure, and defense-adjacent environments. The women in this feature are leading security programs inside hospitals, banks, railroads, government, and enterprise technology organizations where resilience, governance, and operational discipline all matter. Together, they show how Nebraska continues to produce cybersecurity leaders with both technical depth and enterprise-wide influence.
Lisa Bazis — Chief Information Security Officer & Executive Director of Enterprise Technology, Nebraska Medicine
Lisa Bazis is Chief Information Security Officer and Executive Director of Enterprise Technology at Nebraska Medicine, where she leads cybersecurity alongside broader enterprise technology responsibilities in one of the state’s most important healthcare environments. Her career at Nebraska Medicine and the University of Nebraska Medical Center spans network engineering, security engineering, and senior security leadership, giving her a long view of how to secure academic healthcare systems while supporting clinical innovation, research, and digital transformation. Her profile stands out for its blend of cyber leadership, infrastructure experience, regulatory fluency, and board-level advisory work in a mission-driven healthcare setting.
Jennifer Hunt — Senior Director, Deputy CISO, Altria
Jennifer Hunt brings one of the most expansive enterprise security backgrounds in this Nebraska group, with leadership experience spanning Altria, Blackbaud, BNP Paribas, Bank of the West, Physicians Mutual, and KPMG. Based in Omaha during several major chapters of her career, she has led teams across data protection, production security, cyber operations, resilience, governance, compliance, insider threat, and AI-related risk. Her work consistently sits at the intersection of strategic planning and operational execution, particularly in regulated environments where security, audit readiness, and business continuity all need to work together.
Abby Eccher-Young — Former Chief Information Security Officer, State of Nebraska
Abby Eccher-Young served as Chief Information Security Officer for the State of Nebraska, where she led statewide cybersecurity strategy and execution across agencies with varied risk profiles, different levels of maturity, and significant public accountability. Her public-sector leadership also includes serving as CIO for the City of Lincoln and Lancaster County, where she oversaw technology modernization, cybersecurity, and critical infrastructure initiatives during a period of rapid change. Her profile brings a distinctive governance-focused lens to this feature, grounded in public service, executive alignment, and high-stakes institutional transformation.
Kary Cameron — Director, Information Security, FNBO
Kary Cameron is Director of Information Security at FNBO, where she rose through the organization from banking and customer-facing roles into senior information security leadership. That progression gives her an especially practical perspective on how people, processes, data, and customer trust intersect inside a financial institution. Her recent work in information security has focused on safeguarding data, shaping procedures, equipping employees to become security champions, and translating technical and business realities into stronger controls and better protection for bank and customer assets.
Jacquelynn Samayoa — Chief Information Security Officer, Peraton
Jacquelynn Samayoa is CISO at Peraton in Bellevue, Nebraska, following roles in software security, DevSecOps, and information security at Union Pacific, Peraton, and Dark Wolf Solutions, alongside more than a decade in U.S. Air Force cyber and intelligence roles. Her background spans cyber warfare intelligence, software security engineering, DevSecOps, and mission-oriented security work, giving her a particularly strong profile in defense and national-security-adjacent environments. She represents a newer generation of senior cyber leadership shaped by both military and private-sector experience.
Amalie Combs — SVP & Deputy CISO, Corebridge Financial
Amalie Combs is SVP and Deputy CISO at Corebridge Financial, following security operations leadership roles at Bank of the West and earlier work in critical infrastructure protection at Omaha Public Power District. Her background covers cyber operations, monitoring, incident response, disaster recovery, and regulatory security requirements, including work tied to power infrastructure and banking environments. That combination gives her strong credibility across both operational security and resilience-focused leadership, particularly in sectors where uptime, response discipline, and regulatory scrutiny are central.
Lori Lentsch — General Director & Deputy CISO, Union Pacific Railroad
Lori Lentsch is General Director and Deputy CISO at Union Pacific Railroad, where she leads teams responsible for endpoint security, access provisioning, vulnerability identification, data protection, and regulatory compliance. Her long tenure at Union Pacific includes earlier work as a cyber security engineer, where she helped implement privilege management and data protection programs and supported SOX reviews and remediation. She brings deep institutional knowledge and critical infrastructure experience to a role that sits squarely at the center of operational security, governance, and enterprise coordination.
Nebraska’s Cyber Leadership Across Sectors
What makes Nebraska’s cybersecurity leadership especially compelling is its range. These leaders are operating in healthcare systems, banks, railroads, government agencies, and national-security-linked organizations where security is closely tied to trust, continuity, and public impact. The result is a strong statewide profile built not just on technical skill, but on operational leadership, regulatory maturity, and the ability to guide complex institutions through risk and change.
Explore more profiles of the amazing women shaping cybersecurity across numerous industries in our Women’s Month collection.