Security issues have grown well beyond our day jobs. Our dependence on software is growing faster than our ability to secure it. In our efforts to find the grown-ups who are paying attention to these risks, one painful truth has become clear: The Cavalry Isn't Coming. Our fate falls to us or to no one. The Cavalry is a global group of concerned citizens who work towards ensuring the trustworthiness of the computerized devices that increasingly surround us. Now that the security of connected and software enabled devices have become public safety issues, The Cavalry is working towards solutions that preserve and improve lives through security. It's time to engage policy conversations, inform decision makers, carry out research and share our successes (and failures) where information security intersects with life, society and culture. We will cover why this is a growing movement, how The Cavalry hopes to effect change and what we are working towards. We will take you from inception to today, as well as where we're going.