SecureWorld Atlanta 2023

Larry Wilson was formerly the Chief Information Security Officer for Sumitomo Pharma Americas, Inc., Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and the University of Massachusetts (UMass) President's Office. In the CISO role, Larry was responsible for developing, implementing, and overseeing compliance with the SMPA / WPI / UMass Information Security Policy and Written Information Security Plan (WISP). In addition to designing and deploying the respective cybersecurity programs, Larry has developed and delivered cybersecurity training at multiple industry events, workshops, training venues, etc. Courses include Designing and Building a Cybersecurity Program, Designing and Building a Ransomware Program, and Designing and Building a Third-Party Risk Program. Larry has also worked with multiple companies in multiple industries to help design, build, and maintain their Cybersecurity Programs, Ransomware Program, and Third-Party Risk Programs.

Lisa Plaggemier is Executive Director at the National Cybersecurity Alliance. She is a recognized thought leader in security awareness and education with a track record of engaging and empowering people to protect themselves, their families, and their organizations. Lisa is a University of Michigan graduate (Go Blue!) and while she wasn’t born in Austin, Texas, she got there as fast as she could.

Tamika Bass is an Information Security professional with more than 17 years’ experience in information security, including information security governance and risk management. Tamika is passionate about improving communication and understanding of information security in the industry. Tamika is an active speaker, college professor and enjoys spending her time educating technical staff on the importance of communicating effectively in the Information Technology space. Tamika holds the following certifications: CISA,CRISC, HCISPP, CBCP.

A standard biography for Phillip would mention his years of experience in Privacy, Security, Governance, and Audit. It would tell of the business sectors he has worked with, and perhaps even the companies and professional organizations he’s been affiliated with for the last 25+ years. This is not the standard bio.

Telling stories and pulling connections together from places unexpected.

Using Poetry, Literature, and Fairy Tales to make points understood by those not in the tech field. When speaking at conferences, he aims to take the listeners on a journey leading them somewhere they weren’t expecting when the story began.

Phillip prefers people thinking of him more as someone who looks at the world differently but will help to get you where you need to be.

Alicia Laing Clarke is the Director of Cyber Security, Risk and Privacy (Head of Security) for PGA Tour Superstores. Alicia oversees PGA Tour Superstore (PGATSS) Cyber Protection, Risk, Compliance and Privacy of all PGATSS assets and data. She is responsible for protecting PGATSS from cyber activities and leading PGATSS’s response to cyber threats. Prior to assuming the role of Head of Security, Mrs. Laing Clarke was the Director of Risk and Vulnerability Management within the ACI Worldwide of the largest financial processor and services provider. Where she led and oversaw the development of cyber capabilities for all the ACI Worldwide running the vulnerability and penetration testing program. Mrs. Laing Clarke 20+ years security experience stem from various industries ranging from financial, retail, transportation, non-profit and health care. She has a strong background in developing security strategy and roadmaps and risk assessments. She has extensive knowledge and exposure in many network security techniques and solutions such as vulnerability assessment, key management and compliance, privacy, secure configuration, vendor management, BCP/BIA/DR, and other security technologies. She also provides subject matter expertise support for information security related issues to the business clients and to help identify pragmatic security solutions.

Mrs. Laing Clarke obtained her first degree which was a Bachelor of Science and Minor in Mathematics from CUNY Hunter College; as well as master’s in information security from James Madison University. She has acquired several security certifications that have demonstrated mastery as a Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP), CIS Auditor (CISA), and CIS Manager (CISM). Mrs. Laing Clarke is a wife, mother of two, loves to shop and travel the world.

Rebecca Finnin is an Assistant Vice President in the Chief Security Office of AT&T. During her tenure, she has served in a variety of information security and privacy roles.

Ms. Finnin has led teams to embed security features into the software defined network, developed tools to allow DevOps teams to self-identify relevant security requirements, secured AT&T contributions and use of open-source software, built applications to automatically derive a software bill of materials, performed vulnerability assessments of software and infrastructure, and delivered development projects to meet privacy requirements. Her current role involves assisting with product development efforts to turn unique AT&T solutions into secure new product offerings.

Prior to AT&T, Ms. Finnin spent almost a decade in public accounting and consulting at Deloitte.

Rick Bosworth is an engineer turned product manager and marketer, bringing an uncommon technical perspective to enterprise GTM strategy and execution for almost two decades. At SentinelOne, his focus in cybersecurity—in particular cloud workloads, IoT, and user endpoint security—has provided expertise to the rapidly-evolving challenges across multiple fronts.

Snehal Antani is CEO and Co-founder of Horizon3.ai, a cybersecurity company using AI to deliver Red Teaming and Penetration Testing as a Service. He also serves as a Highly Qualified Expert for the U.S. Department of Defense, driving digital transformation and data initiatives in support of Special Operations.

Andy is a seasoned cybersecurity professional with more than 20 years in the field. At the Walt Disney Company, Andy was a compliance and security architect, managing solutions for Disney's broad portfolio of businesses. He moved on to be a solutions architect for MobileIron and now Lookout, where he has been for the past five years.

Gary has more than 25 years' total IT industry experience, with the last 21 years focused on security. In addition, he has spent seven of those years as an SE Manager and SE Director. Gary currently works for Cloudflare supporting enterprise solutions for companies in the Southeast region.

Tamika Bass is an Information Security professional with more than 17 years’ experience in information security, including information security governance and risk management. Tamika is passionate about improving communication and understanding of information security in the industry. Tamika is an active speaker, college professor and enjoys spending her time educating technical staff on the importance of communicating effectively in the Information Technology space. Tamika holds the following certifications: CISA,CRISC, HCISPP, CBCP.

Kyle Krejci is a highly skilled and experienced Security Engineer at Team Cymru with over a decade of experience in Network Security and Engineering. He has a strong background in the field of cybersecurity and is passionate about using his expertise to help organizations better protect themselves against cyber threats.

Kyle has gained a reputation in the industry for his exceptional ability to conduct threat analysis research, and his findings have been published in several leading publications. He is also a sought-after speaker at cybersecurity conferences, where he shares his insights on the latest trends and best practices for protecting against cyber threats.

In addition to his professional work, Kyle is an advocate for maintaining a healthy work-life balance. He understands the importance of prioritizing personal time and spending his free time with his family or staying current on the latest cybersecurity news and developments.

Snehal Antani is CEO and Co-founder of Horizon3.ai, a cybersecurity company using AI to deliver Red Teaming and Penetration Testing as a Service. He also serves as a Highly Qualified Expert for the U.S. Department of Defense, driving digital transformation and data initiatives in support of Special Operations.

Pete Nicoletti has 31 years of IT and MSSP experience and has been a hands-on CISO for the last 18 years and recently joined Check Point as Field CISO of the Americas.

Pete’s experience and leadership was most recently at Cybraics Defense as CISO. This company is an advanced Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Analytics formed as a DARPA funded project. Pete is the former CISO of Hertz Global, successfully protecting the brand in over 150 countries, 20,000 employees, and 10,000 locations. Pete led Virtustream’s (now a Dell company) efforts as CISO to achieve FedRAMP and NIST 800-53 certification in record time and hosted dozens of US Federal Agencies on its most secure cloud design. Pete started the MSSP, security consulting, Pen/Vulnerability Testing Teams as VP of Security engineering at Terremark and successfully guided these services migration in the Verizon purchase. Pete has been a local S. Florida trailblazer for many years, starting a wireless ISP, a network engineering company and an award-winning CRM-telephony Integration Company.

Pete is a founder, leader, and member of numerous security groups and is a Board Member and Board Advisor. In 2017, Pete was honored to be selected as a “Top 100 Global Chief Security Officers.” Pete’s cloud security deployments and designs have been rated by Garter as #1 and #2 in the world, and he literally “wrote the book” on secure cloud reference designs as published in Intel Press: “Building the Infrastructure for Cloud Security: A Solutions View.”

Michael Holcomb is the Fellow and Director of Information Security for Fluor, one of the world's largest construction, engineering, and project services companies with 60,000 employees around the world. In his role at Fluor, Michael is responsible for vulnerability management, incident detection/response, penetration testing and industrial controls for the global organization. He also teaches cybersecurity as an adjunct instructor at Greenville Technical College and helps students, career transitioners, and others that are new to cybersecurity.

Paul came to security after many years working in hosting and managed services. He has a background in Windows Administration, networking, and public cloud.

Michael Marsilio is the Information Security and Compliance Officer for Paradies Lagardère, where he is responsible for information security, risk management, privacy and compliance. Michael plays a strategic role in protecting Paradies Lagardère IT resources, infrastructure and information assets, and helps drives global security initiatives. He has more than 25 years of experience in building and managing security and compliance programs for both public and private companies and has a substantial track record in PCI, PII, PHI, IT General Controls and developing cybersecurity policy for financial, retail and legal organizations.

Prior to joining Paradies Lagardère, Michael was the Global Director and CISO at DTI (now Epiq), the industry leader in the legal e-discovery space. Taking the organization’s security program from a green field to ISO 27001 certified data centers globally.

Ben Halpert is a man on a mission: to educate and empower today’s digital citizens in the workplace, at schools, and at home. By day, he is the CSO at Castle Black providing individuals cybersecurity, online privacy, and digital hygiene services with 24/7 human support. By night, he champions cyber ethics education throughout society via the 501(c)3 nonprofit Savvy Cyber Kids he founded in 2007.

Ben enjoys being on boards of organizations looking to enhance value and organizational resilience for the stakeholders they serve. Ben is honored to speak and keynote at conferences and events worldwide. He has presented at the World Economic Forum, NACD directorship training, RSA Security Conference, GISEC Global, InfoSec World, SecureWorld, Cyber Future Foundation, IEEE, ACM, CSO50, CIO/CISO Summits and many other events over his career. Ben was invited to present at TEDxKids@Vilnius (Raising Savvy Cyber Kids) and TEDxSaintThomas (Technology addiction and what you can do about it). Based on his early research and experience in the then emerging field of Cloud Computing,

Ben was invited to publish Auditing Cloud Computing: A Security and Privacy Guide through John Wiley & Sons. Ben was a contributing author to Readings and Cases in the Management of Information Security and the Encyclopedia of Information Ethics & Security, wrote the security column for Mobile Enterprise Magazine and has contributed to seven NIST special publications. Page 1 of 3 Through Savvy Cyber Kids, Ben provides cyber ethics educational and awareness sessions for parents, teachers, and students – from preschool through high school.

Ben is the award-winning author of The Savvy Cyber Kids at Home children’s book series (The Family Gets a Computer, The Defeat of the Cyber Bully, and Adventures Beyond the Screen). As a trusted voice on a variety of cyber security issues, Ben has made numerous TV and radio appearances and has been featured in newspapers and magazines such as The New York Times, Wired, Bloomberg, BBC, Kiplinger, Good Morning America, Good Day Atlanta, CNN HLN, Fox News, RogersTV, RTVI, 11 Alive, WSB-TV, among others.

As a skilled cybersecurity specialist with over 15 years of experience, Justin has honed his expertise in privileged access, identity security, and Endpoint Security Solutions. His background spans various industry-leading companies, including BeyondTrust, FireEye, and CrowdStrike. As a subject matter expert and advisor, he has contributed to the development of security solutions and offered best practices guidance for prominent global clients. His diverse experience encompasses network engineering, vulnerability assessments, and working as a Senior Engineer with an MSSP, equipping him with a comprehensive understanding of the cyber threat 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.

Nicole Dove is an award-winning cybersecurity leader, university lecturer & host of the Urban Girl Corporate World podcast.

As Head of Security for Riot Games, she is responsible for building a scalable security program including a team of BISOs to support the company’s expansion into entertainment, music and esports.
Nicole performed voice over work on two Grand Theft Auto titles, attended the 2016 White House Summit on the United State of Women, won the 2021 EWF Woman of Influence Award and completed Cybersecurity Leadership studies at Harvard University.

She produces and hosts the Urban Girl Corporate World podcast, creates Cybersecurity courses for LinkedIn Learning, is a frequent guest on tech podcasts and has given keynotes at tech conferences and organizations including Facebook, Yale School of Management, RSA, OWASP, Deloitte Consulting, and Goldman Sachs.

Susan Lam is a resourceful and multi-disciplined senior Enterprise Risk Management and Governance leader with a proven track record for developing and leading strategic initiatives and innovations in dynamic and fast-paced environments. She is currently the Chief Risk Officer at Bakkt responsible for Enterprise Risk Resilience which comprised of the Enterprise Risk Management and Cybersecurity programs. One of Susan’s primary responsibilities is to work with the various risk domain owners to proactively identify and address risks that may otherwise derail the company’s ability to meet its business goals and objectives. Prior to joining Bakkt, Susan was the VP for Security, Risk, and Compliance supporting Fiserv’s Digital Payments and Risk Solutions business. Susan also worked at Equifax as the VP of Information Security and Risk Management where led a team of Business Information Security Officers (BISO) supporting business units and overseeing the Merger & Acquisition process.

Jarell Oshodi is a licensed attorney, Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US), and Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM) with more than 12 years of experience helping a range of government agencies in privacy and data governance roles. She has worked at the Department of Veterans Affairs, the National Institutes of Health, and the Department of Justice, and currently at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as the Deputy Chief Privacy Officer. She is the Privacy Director for a non-profit called Black Girls in Cyber where she partnered with Google and IAPP to provide the privacy curriculum for their first Privacy Cohort that will enable 12 women to become Certified Information Privacy Technologists (CIPTs) and get jobs in the privacy field. She has also served as a keynote speaker, provided privacy awareness workshops, and created on-demand e-learning training modules for Fortune 500 companies.

She has used her expertise over the years to develop a proprietary privacy framework that teaches data privacy best practices within global organizations. Her trainings and workshops help companies enhance privacy compliance, build trust, and create a competitive edge. Her e-learning modules have helped create thousands of privacy champions around the world.

She holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance from Hampton University where she graduated magna cum laude and was honored as a 40 under 40 alumna. She also holds a Juris Doctorate from Mercer University. She is a proud New Orleans native living right outside Atlanta with her husband and two boys.