SecureWorld AI Virtual Conference 2024

Itai Tevet is the CEO of Intezer, a leading provider of AI-powered technology for autonomous security operations. He previously led a government Computer Emergency Response Team of elite specialists in incident response, digital forensics, malware analysis, and reverse engineering. His experience led him to co-found Intezer in 2016, with a mission to research and develop technologies to transform the way we investigate and respond to cybersecurity incidents.

Mike Muscatell is a seasoned IT veteran with more than 21 years in the Information Security field. He is a certified ethical hacker (CEH). Was honored as top 100 professionals in the Information Security field by Strathmore's for 2014. Member of a number of security organizations, including InfraGard and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Cyber Committee.

Shirish is a Cybersecurity Partner at PwC and a seasoned and visionary cybersecurity executive with a distinguished career in leading global organizations to safeguard their technology and business assets using automation and advanced techniques (e.g., AI, ML). He has over 15 years of experience leading, managing and successfully delivering large multi-million-dollar initiatives in the areas of cyber risk management, regulatory programs, digital transformation for security organizations, and cyber governance. He has served as a trusted advisor to several security and business executives for mid-sized and large technology organizations, providing strategic and technical guidance, and implementing robust and transformative security programs.

Throughout his career, Shirish has demonstrated strong interpersonal skills, business acumen and a proven track record of driving efficiencies, scalability and risk reduction for security programs. Shirish is known for fostering a culture of security awareness, empowering business teams with tools and techniques to better identify and reduce risks, and a proactive and holistic approach to protecting critical data and assets.

Shirish’s expertise extends across a wide range of cybersecurity domains, including cyber risk management, third-party security, regulatory compliance (e.g., NIST 800-53, ISO 27001, PCI DSS), and application security. At PwC, Shirish has led the development of various cyber-AI solutions and services, where he consistently delivered measurable results, led market and sector growth, and delivered custom services for clients. Outside his cybersecurity role, Shirish has demonstrated strengths in the building and leading diverse high-performing teams and driving inclusive mindset.

Shirish holds a Master’s degree in Information Management, where he conducted research in the areas of cybersecurity and information assurance. He also holds multiple industry certifications, including ISO 27001 Lead Implementer, and is a regular speaker at industry conferences with published articles on cybersecurity topics such as software supply chain security.

Violet Sullivan works with insurance carriers, trade associations, and individual business clients from around the world providing expert guidance on cybersecurity threat management and response. She represents Crum & Forster within the legal, insurance, and risk management channels to develop long-term relationships, recurring revenue, and new business growth. Ms. Sullivan is a licensed attorney in Texas and Pennsylvania and a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US), with her JD and MBA degrees from Baylor University. In addition to her full-time role, Violet serves as a professor of Cybersecurity & Privacy Law for Baylor Law School’s LL.M. Degree in Litigation Management, the first of its kind nationwide. Her diverse practice experience at both the individual and policy levels has prepared her for developing new tools and approaches to solving what is fast-becoming a pervasive and costly challenge in modern industry: how to respond to a cybersecurity incident.

Early in her career, Violet worked on the incident responses for some of the largest and most notable data breaches to date, including: Home Depot, Sony, and Anthem. Her experience in managing scaled breach responses led to her expertise and proficiency in proactively preparing organizations for cyber incidents. In the past eight years, she has facilitated over 450 cyber incident simulations (tabletops) for public and private sector companies, including many Fortune 100 companies.

As a cybersecurity and privacy attorney, Violet provides consulting services to respond to the needs of various cybersecurity programs. She reviews and develops customized incident response plans to ensure organizations are prepared to respond efficiently and effectively to a data breach. Violet also helps improve internal coordination by facilitating customized tabletop simulations focused on "pressure-testing" an organization's incident response procedures and protocols. Each of these customer-facing services mentioned has been built and developed for the purpose of creating long-standing relationships that turn to Violet for guidance, referrals, questions, and future projects.

As a cybersecurity and privacy professor, Violet developed the entire curriculum for an innovative course on cybersecurity and privacy law for licensed attorneys working toward their LL.M. degree. The specific focus on litigation management has made Sullivan’s course and her lecture series uniquely valuable to experts across the United States.

Ms. Haywood brings a highly diverse skill set to businesses. For more than 17 years, prior to moving into Security, she specialized in Human Resources, Business Development, Risk Strategy, Contracts Management, and Program Audit. Combined with her eight years in Security Governance, Risk & Compliance, she is considered a multi-talented leader, supporting Fortune 500 companies and government organizations in an array of industries (e.g., Healthcare, Education, Financial, Federal, Technology). Ms. Haywood's knowledge and experience of security frameworks, governance standards (such as NIST 800-53, SOC1/2 Type 2, ISO 27001:2013, HIPPA-HITECH, PCI), and risk methodologies have led to her success in program development, management, and audits for companies. This applied skillset has resulted in a savings of more than $1.1 million in potential contract losses. Additionally, she’s designed and developed a Medical Device Cybersecurity program for one of the largest Healthcare organizations in the Dallas-Ft. Worth region of Texas. Ms. Haywood holds a certificate as a Cyber Security Practitioner.

Kip Boyle is the Virtual Chief Information Security Officer of Cyber Risk Opportunities, whose mission is to help executives become more proficient cyber risk managers. He has over 24 years of cybersecurity experience serving as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and in other IT risk management roles for organizations in the financial services, technology, telecom, military, civil engineering, and logistics industries.

Jake Bernstein is a practicing attorney and CISSP who counsels clients trying to understand their cybersecurity risks and the legal duties that arise from those risks. In his decade-plus of practice, Jake has acted as both regulator as an Assistant Attorney General with the Washington State Attorney General's Office and as private defense counsel representing companies subject to data security and privacy regulations enforced by federal, state, and international authorities.

Hemanth Tadepalli is a Cybersecurity Compliance Engineer at May Mobility, excelling in the realm of autonomous transportation services. With a rich professional background spanning roles at AlixPartners, Mandiant, Google, and SensCy, he specializes in ensuring compliance with stringent standards like ISO 27001, SOC 2, ISO/SAE 21434, and others. Hemanth co-founded MYCAP (Michigan Young Cybersecurity Analysts and Professionals), fostering budding talents in the cybersecurity domain. Appointed by the Michigan Department of State in 2022, he served on the Collegiate Advisory Task Force, determined and implemented recommendations to improve voter education and engagement among universities across the state of Michigan. The task force played an important role in election security, integrity, and combatting the result of misinformation being spread.

Hemanth has presented at the Detroit Automotive Cybersecurity Conference and various other prominent industry events, showcasing his expertise and thought leadership. He holds a Computer Science degree with a cybersecurity concentration and minors in Pre-Law, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship from Kettering University. Currently pursuing a Master's in Cybersecurity at the University of California, Berkeley, he continues to drive innovation and excellence in the cybersecurity landscape.

David has worked as an IT professional in Asset/Fund Management, property development, hospitality, entertainment, and now tech. His passion is to help people solve problems with technology that is easy to use, easy to manage and to have fun along the way. He is spending his time at Automox as the IT Operations Manager and Product evangelist, and continues to achievement hunt in baldur’s gate, cities skylines, and TFT.

Dawn Parzych is the Director of Developer and AI Product Marketing at Cloudflare. She makes technical information accessible avoiding buzzwords and jargon whenever possible. Dawn is an accomplished speaker, author, and traveler, having recently achieved her goal of visiting all 50 U.S. states.

Stephen Dougherty has over a decade of investigative experience. His career as a Financial Fraud Investigator in support of the federal government has played a pivotal role in criminal investigations, surrounding cyber-enabled financial crime, money laundering, human trafficking, identity theft, healthcare fraud, embezzlement, tax/government program fraud, dark web crimes, among others. Stephen’s main area of expertise is combatting money laundering in all its forms. Aside from this, Stephen has been proactive in identifying new and future trends in the world of financial crime. Such trends include the cyber security nexus of financial crimes and its ever-growing relationship in major financial crimes such as Business Email Compromise and the rise of the dark web and the use of virtual currency as a vehicle for facilitation of financial crimes. Stephen has been a leader and a mentor to other investigators teaching them how to uncover fraud internally and externally. Stephen is currently an investigator contracted to the U.S. Secret Service’s Global Investigative Operations Center (GIOC) in Washington D.C.

Kenneth Moras is a recognized leader in the cybersecurity Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) space, with extensive experience in building GRC teams from the ground up at Plaid and scaling large GRC programs at notable organizations such as Meta and Adobe. His expertise also extends to cybersecurity consulting for Fortune 500 companies during his tenure at KPMG. He holds various certifications, including CISSP, CISA, ISO 27001 LA, CDPSE, CEH, CHFI, and CCNA. Kenneth enjoys staying up-to-date with offensive strategies used by attackers and building proactive risk management programs that serve as business enablers.

Erik comes to Tanium from AppDynamics (part of Cisco), where he spent almost five years in field sales. For the past two years, he was the CTO for the East Sales Team, which is responsible for generating more than half of the company's revenue with a focus on large financial firms in the region. Prior to that he built out and headed the Business Value Consulting team for that region. He got his start in technology at Deutsche Bank years back where he helped lead the AM Platform and Data Services Global Organization serving as COO. From there he went to a SaaS SW company called INTTRA (large global trade / shipping logistics platform). At INTTRA, he started by leading the transformation of the company into becoming product and voice of customer led. After that, he became CTO heading all global technology. Following INTTRA, he went back to Financial Services spending time running Target State Architecture as the Global Head of Enterprise Infrastructure CTO Product Management at Morgan Stanley.

Dan is the Head of Machine Learning at Abnormal Security, responsible for leading a team of 40+ detection and ML engineers in building the data processing and ML layers in the platform. Prior to Abnormal, Dan worked at Twitter, first as a staff machine learning engineer in Cortex, and later as the manager of the web ads machine learning team. Before Twitter, Dan worked as a senior data scientist at Truemotion, where he developed smartphone sensor algorithms to price car insurance. He has a PhD in machine learning from the University of Oxford.

Hemanth Tadepalli is a Cybersecurity Compliance Engineer at May Mobility, excelling in the realm of autonomous transportation services. With a rich professional background spanning roles at AlixPartners, Mandiant, Google, and SensCy, he specializes in ensuring compliance with stringent standards like ISO 27001, SOC 2, ISO/SAE 21434, and others. Hemanth co-founded MYCAP (Michigan Young Cybersecurity Analysts and Professionals), fostering budding talents in the cybersecurity domain. Appointed by the Michigan Department of State in 2022, he served on the Collegiate Advisory Task Force, determined and implemented recommendations to improve voter education and engagement among universities across the state of Michigan. The task force played an important role in election security, integrity, and combatting the result of misinformation being spread.

Hemanth has presented at the Detroit Automotive Cybersecurity Conference and various other prominent industry events, showcasing his expertise and thought leadership. He holds a Computer Science degree with a cybersecurity concentration and minors in Pre-Law, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship from Kettering University. Currently pursuing a Master's in Cybersecurity at the University of California, Berkeley, he continues to drive innovation and excellence in the cybersecurity landscape.

Cedric Leighton is a CNN Military Analyst and a retired United States Air Force Colonel. On CNN, he has provided incisive commentaries on the Israel-Hamas War, the War in Ukraine, the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, and numerous other conflicts around the world. His analysis has been seen by millions of viewers around the world and provided much needed context to some of the most pressing national security issues of our time. As a U.S. Air Force officer, Colonel Leighton served at U.S. Special Operations Command, the Joint Staff, and the National Security Agency, where he helped train the nation's cyber warriors. A Middle East combat veteran, he is the recipient of numerous military awards, including the Defense Superior Service Medal and the Bronze Star. After serving 26 years as a U.S. Air Force Intelligence Officer, Col. Leighton founded a strategic risk consultancy and became the co-founder of CYFORIX, where he advises multinational businesses on developing better cyber strategies designed to reduce risk and unpredictability.

VJ Viswanathan is a seasoned technology executive recognized and awarded for innovation, business capability transformation, and thoughtful mentorship. Most recently, VJ is the founding partner at CYFORIX, a global cybersecurity research, advisory, and strategic consulting firm delivering solutions to public and private sectors. He also serves as the CEO at TORQE, a specialized advisory firm focused on analytics, automation, and convergent technologies. VJ is the co-host of ELEVATEINTEL, a podcast series at the nexus of technology, social, and defense.

With more than 25 years of pioneering enterprise technology, cybersecurity, privacy, and compliance & risk management experience, VJ has a detailed track record of designing, implementing, and leading highly successful programs, products, and services at multinational Fortune 100 brands spanning CPG, telecom, media, supply chain, healthcare, and finance segments. As a strategic thought leader, VJ has delivered the first of its kind "Supply Chain Security" & “Omni-channel Risk Management” frameworks. As a published author and featured keynote speaker at global industry events, he approaches disruptive digital paradigms with innovation, creativity, and active collaboration with his key industry peers, researchers, national & international law enforcement, and defense groups.

VJ is an active mentor at various incubators and accelerators groups, serves as an advisory board member for growth stage companies. As a strategic adviser to VC & PE firms, he specializes in developing market analysis, competitive product road maps, and guides in opportunity mapping. As a board member and subject matter advisor to CEOs and corporate directors, VJ evaluates and audits enterprise technology and cybersecurity programs for veracity and operational effectiveness.

VJ is passionate about animal rights and giving back to the technology and security industry. He has created a rescue and foster care group for large breed dogs. He is actively engaged with academic institutions and purpose-driven professional groups like Minorities in Cyber Security, where he serves as a board member and chair of mentorship programs to develop the next generation talent through coaching and facilitating scholarships for technology and cybersecurity education.

Brian Reed is Senior Director of Cybersecurity Strategy at Proofpoint. He comes to Proofpoint from Gartner where he focused on a wide variety of topics - cloud security, data security, incident response, insider threats and security awareness. Since 2015, he published over 50 thought-leading research notes at Gartner, including Cool Vendors reports, Market Guides for Digital Forensics and Incident Response Services and Security Awareness Training, Risk Management research, as well as the last two Gartner Magic Quadrants for Enterprise DLP. Prior to Gartner, he spent over 15 years in a variety of business development, product management, sales and system engineering roles, at companies including Sourcefire (acquired by Cisco), HP, McAfee and Internet Security Systems (acquired by IBM). He is well known in the information security industry and has spoken at numerous Gartner events, as well as other industry events globally. Brian also serves as an advisory board member and holds a BA degree from The University of Georgia and an MBA from Kennesaw State University.

Mr. Sullivan is a seasoned leader with over 20 years of cybersecurity experience. He has a robust track record in developing and deploying cybersecurity solutions at scale for the world’s leading companies. Christopher currently serves as the Managing Director at VoSec, a management consulting firm, and holds key positions as Vice President and Financial Services Sector Chief at InfraGard Atlanta. He is also a member of the AI Cross-Sector Counsel at InfraGard Atlanta.

At VoSec, Chris has spearheaded AI security governance strategy work for a Fortune 500 company, designed and run large-scale tabletop exercises with the FBI, DHS, Federal Reserve, and major financial, medical, and academic institutions. Additionally, he serves as the vCISO and vCOO for an AI-as-a-Service company that is currently in stealth mode. His extensive experience spans across cybersecurity risk and compliance, organizational design, and business management.

Chris's professional experience includes leading Nymi as CEO, where he transformed the biometric security wearables company to achieve global success. As SVP, CTO, and CISO at SecureAuth, he directed the integration of multiple security entities and led the company's technical strategy, resulting in significant advancements in AI-based threat detection and security solutions. He has briefed a US Congressional Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and the US Army Cyber School, and led the cybersecurity R&D labs for three different companies, driving significant advancements in the field. In 2022, he sold his last cybersecurity company and continues to advise boards and CEOs on business and cyber strategies.

Mick Leach is Field CISO of Abnormal Security, where he is responsible for threat hunting and analysis, customer engagement, and speaking at global industry conferences. Previously, he led security operations organizations at Abnormal, Alliance Data, and Nationwide Insurance, and also spent more than eight years serving in the U.S. Army’s famed Cavalry Regiments.

A passionate information security practitioner, Mick holds seven SANS/GIAC certifications, coupled with 20+ years of experience in the IT and security industries.