CypherCon 2026
“You Keep Using That Word… I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means: A Survey of CTI Terms”
April Lenhard
Abstract:
As practitioners in cybersecurity, we speak our own languages: not just coding languages (which at least tracks) but also business jargon, marketing languages, Pentagonese, and our own proprietary company shortspeak. Oh, and 1337. Let’s talk about talking.

April Lenhard
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An international lecturer from Mexico to Mongolia, April Lenhard is a cyber threat intelligence professional with a decade of experience working in both cybersecurity and national security policy. As a principal product manager of cyber threat intelligence at Qualys, she focuses on creating CTI strategy and building new products. April is also a faculty member at Georgetown University, where she created a graduate-level course on Cyber Threat Intelligence in National Security. She is currently a 2025 NextGen National Security Fellow at the Center for New American Security, and a Penn Kemble Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy.