SecureWorld Financial Services Virtual Conference 2023

Taylor M. Crotty leads BlackRock Information Security’s Cyber Wargames team and is responsible for education, training and process development related to Cyber Incident Response & Recovery, measuring and managing cyber risks across the organization and Third Party Security for BlackRock’s critical service providers.

Taylor is focused on assuring the resiliency of BlackRock and key partners critical to BlackRock’s business operations before, during, and after a cyber event. She coordinates periodic, tabletop-style resilience exercises (“Wargames”) with BlackRock’s most critical provider partners, internal business functions, and at the sector level. Taylor also drives strategic workflow analysis initiatives for Information Security, leveraging deep technical expertise to identify and mitigate security risks across the Firm and optimize our ability to protect information.

Prior to assuming her current role, Taylor led BlackRock's Third Party Security program where she was responsible for assuring the security of outsourced workflows, establishing a stronger baseline level of protection with service providers through contracting and conducting security assessments of critical provider partners to ensure Firm and Client information was protected with the requisite care in accordance with industry best practices.

Taylor first developed a Third Party Security practice while working as a consultant with Security Risk Advisors. She administered Third Party Security programs for a large private healthcare company and a financial services company notable for being the nation’s primary provider of private-label credit cards.

Taylor serves as a board member for the University of Michigan College of Engineering Alumni Board. She has been formally invited to share her experience and thought leadership in the cyber resilience space as a speaker at various events and industry conferences.

Brenden Smith is the Chief Information Security Officer at FirstBank. Having spent the last 10 years at FirstBank he is passionate about their community involvement and “Banking for Good” philosophy. In his current role Brenden is focused on aligning security with the needs of the business to help drive better business outcomes through better partnership. His passions include dark web research and the ever evolving space of data privacy.

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.

Rebecca L. Rakoski is the managing partner at XPAN Law Partners, LLC. Rebecca advises her clients on a proactive, multi jurisdictional approach to identify and address data privacy and cybersecurity compliance gaps and potential liabilities. She uses her extensive experience to work with her clients to create and tailor a security and privacy governance program that fits their specific needs in order to limit their regulatory exposure.

Rebecca counsels and aggressively defends public and private corporations, and their boards, during data breaches and responds to state/federal regulatory compliance and enforcement actions. As an experienced litigator, Rebecca has handled hundreds of matters in state and federal courts. Rebecca skillfully manages the intersection of state, federal, and international regulations that affect the transfer, storage, and collection of data to minimize her client's litigation risks.

Rebecca regularly negotiates complex contractual provisions that are impacted by domestic and international data privacy regulations including the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, and the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation. She understands how the nature of the data can affect the role her client plays in the data transaction and uses that knowledge to mitigate corporate liability.
As a thought leader in the area of data privacy and cybersecurity, Rebecca serves on the New Jersey State Bar Association's Cyber Task Force. Rebecca is Vice-Chair Elect for the New Jersey State Bar Association's Bankruptcy Law Section.

Rebecca has been appointed and served in multiple highly complex litigation matters by the New Jersey Superior Court as a Special Master in the areas of technology and eDiscovery. She also served on the Complex Business Litigation Committee that drafted and revised the New Jersey Court Rules involving electronic discovery. Rebecca was on the eDiscovery committee of her prior law firm and created its eDiscovery subgroup.

Rebecca is on the Board of Governors for Temple University Health Systems and is also the Acting Dean of Online Learning and an adjunct professor at Drexel University’s Thomas R. Kline School of Law.

Glenn Kapetansky has a passion for building systems, organizations, and teams, and has done so across a number of business sectors, technologies, and roles. For over 20 years, Glenn has advised senior executives and built teams throughout the delivery cycle: strategy, architecture, development, quality assurance, deployment, operational support, financials, and project planning. His credentials were earned in such diverse industries as healthcare, finance, energy, consumer products, and telecommunications. Glenn's current focus areas—as Senior Principal and Chief Security Officer at Trexin Group—are agile management, data protection, and audit/regulatory compliance.

Glenn speaks and publishes on occasion. He has been named numerous times in various Who's Who, and is a repeat recipient of Bell Labs' Arno Penzias Award for Innovation in the Marketplace. He is active in CIO Roundtables, CISO Chicago, the Chicago Life Sciences Consortium, and the Technology Leaders' Association. Glenn's certifications and memberships include IEEE, ISC2 (CISSP), ISACA (CISA), and ITIL (SM).

Karen Harris is an IT professional with over 20 years global banking and finance technical operations and strategy expertise, including threat modeling and cyber intelligence delivery. Prior to JP Morgan Chase, Karen recently worked at Capital One and Bank of America, where as senior architect and threat modeling manager she helped implement threat modeling tools, policies, and threat modeling training programs.

Annie Jamshed is a Cyber Security Professional with Bachelor in Electrical Engineering and Master in Cyber Security. She has more than four years' experience working in Security Operations Center performing incident response, forensics and threat intelligence. She is currently working at JP Morgan Chase as a Security Architect and a threat modeling practitioner. Annie is very active in the Houston area Cyber Security community. She serves as President for WiCyS Houston Affiliate and Speaker Wrangler for HouSecCon. She holds CISM, GNFA, GCTI, and CompTIA Sec+.

Randy Raw is Chief Information Security Officer at Veterans United Home Loans in Columbia, Missouri. He has more than 25 years of experience in both public entities and private industry, having built several Information Security programs from the ground up. He is a proponent of risk-based, layered security measures that utilize both preventative and detective approaches to achieve the right solution for the organization. Randy is a CISSP and is active in the Central Missouri InfoSec community. He has spoken at SecureWorld on many technical topics and turns his focus towards helping others move from the technical trenches to a leadership role.

Allison Prout leads the contracting practice at Octillo, where she represents clients, including SaaS providers, data aggregators, and healthcare-covered entities, in complex technology transactions with a specialized focus on data privacy and security contractual requirements. She develops and implements contracting procedures for clients, including international businesses that span multiple legal jurisdictions. With business goals in mind, Allison also works with clients to develop data security and privacy programs to address compliance with data protection regulations, including the GDPR, CCPA, and other state, federal, and global privacy laws.

Brandon has more than nine years of strategic experience in the security risk field. As a Cyber Risk Advisor within EY's Cyber Transformation practice, he works closely with executives, CSOs and CISOs on developing mature cyber risk programs. He has worked with Global Fortune 100 companies to transform tactical security programs into holistic enterprise security risk management practices enabled through data driven insights and technology. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), and Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA).

Deidre Diamond is the founder and CEO of CyberSN, the largest cybersecurity talent acquisition technology and services firm in the U.S., transforming job searching and hiring for the cybersecurity industry. Standardizing all cybersecurity job functions into a common taxonomy of 45 roles, the CyberSN platform allows professionals to make anonymous, public profiles that match with employer-posted job descriptions using the same taxonomy. This innovation is disruptive and solves a serious national security issue. Deidre’s leadership style combines 25 years of experience working in technology and staffing, her love of the cybersecurity community, and a genuine enthusiasm for people. She has led large-scale sales and operations and built high-performance teams at Rapid7 and Motion Recruitment prior to founding her own organizations. She believes a company-culture established on ‘anything is possible’ attitudes and open communication frameworks, along with positive energy, career advancement, and kindness, enables her teams to have fun at work and reach beyond peak performance. She also encourages the use of EQ (Emotional Intelligence) skills: self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, social skills, and empathy. Deidre has also founded SecureDiversity.org, a non-profit organization working to raise awareness for, and increase the hiring of, women and underrepresented humans in the cybersecurity workforce. She has also spoken at some of the biggest tech summits, conferences, and podcasts in the world including ISC2 Congress, RSA, ISSA International, and Hacker Halted.

Founder of a strategic risk consultancy after serving 26 years in the US Air Force, Cedric Leighton oversaw numerous critical intelligence missions throughout his career. He served at US 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.

Currently, Cedric advises multinational businesses on cyber attacks and the management of complex global strategies to reduce risk and unpredictability.