Patterson has worked in information-technology for more than two decades, focusing on information-security for the past several years, specializing in the development of incident-response teams, programs and processes. Before joining Avertium, he was a Senior Security Consultant for Haven Information Security, a Senior Security Engineer for A...

Tom Stone is a seasoned cyber security advisor with more than 20 years of experience across the industry with a specialized focus on email and collaboration. Currently, Tom leads business development for Avanan, a Check Point Company, the world’s leading provider of advanced cyber security solutions. In his role, Tom works closely with custom...

Juman Doleh-Alomary is the Director of Cybersecurity GRC at Little Caesar's Enterprises and an active volunteer board member of the ISACA Detroit and the CSA-Detroit Boards.  With over 15 years of experience in audit, security, investigation, compliance, and privacy policy/standards, Juman most recently held the position of Director of IT Aud...

Solomon has over 20 years' experience as a security leader at such companies as Microsoft, IBM, VMware, and Facebook.

Chris LaFleur has spent the last three years working to prevent and eradicate threat actors such as Ryuk, Conti, and Lockbit. Chris began his career at Trend Micro in Threat Support, and is now running the Incident Response team. He was a key part of the making a method on how to predict customer attacks with the Smart Protection Early warnin...

Shawn Heckmaster, Chief Information Security Officer for Forrest T. Jones & Company in Kansas City, MO has over 30 years of progressive information technology and security experience. He has worked across multiple private and government sectors, from the Department of the Army, Department of Defense, Black & Veatch and the Jones family of co...

Experienced Cybersecurity leader with over 20 years serving various industries. Background includes leading teams in Information Assurance, Security Operations, Threat & Vulnerability Management and Cybersecurity Consulting.

Marc Rogers is Senior Director of Cybersecurity Strategy at Okta. With a career that spans more than twenty years, he has been hacking since the 80’s and is now a white-hat hacker renowned for hacking technology like Apple's TouchID and the Tesla Model S. Prior to Okta, Marc served as the Head of Security for Cloudflare and spent a decade man...

Severin worked at Siemplify for nearly 3 years, 2.5 years of which were spent at TIP where he was team led for a team that was responsible for all integrations that Siemplify had. Nowadays he is focusing his work on Sales Engineering at Google Cloud Security and has been doing so for nearly half a year. Prior to that, Severin was working for ...

Karly Tarsia is a Content Strategist at SecureWorld. Her focus is on bringing smart minds together to discuss challenges and insights the InfoSec community finds helpful and informative. Karly’s career began after she graduated from the University of Oregon in public relations where she worked with clients in technology, financial and consume...

With over 34 years of industry experience, Robert “Teall” Rist has been immersed in all things security since originally beginning his career in law enforcement. In the 27 years since, he has joined multiple start ups and enterprise companies such as Verizon, CA Technologies, NetIQ, and IBM. While at IBM, Robert was a black-belt level subject...

Tamara Shoemaker is a diligent and self-motivated Cyber Security Specialist offering 25 years of combined experience in Cyber Security and Administrative Management for large and small corporations aiming to amplify the use and knowledge of security. Relentless dedication to leading teams to balance meticulous attention to quality with a sens...

Michael Roytman is a recognized expert in cybersecurity data science. At Kenna Security, Michael is responsible for building the company's core analytics functionality focusing on security metrics, risk measurement, and vulnerability measurement.

Named one of Forbes' 30 Under 30, Michael's strong entrepreneurship skills include foundin...

Roger is a 22-year veteran product manager who specializes in capturing customer and partner concerns, staying abreast of industry trends including regulatory changes, and translating that information into cross-functional development teams to solve the cybersecurity business problems of today and tomorrow. At OpenText Security Solutions, he ...

Michael leads the Digital Forensics and Incident Response team at Avertium. The team is dedicated to helping clients investigate and recover from IT security incidents on a daily basis.

Michael has over 20 years’ experience in the IT industry and has been conducting digital investigations since joining the NSW Police State Electronic E...

Yepes is the Chief Information Security Officer for the State of Colorado. Before joining the Governor’s Office for the State of Colorado, Ray served as the Chief Information Security Officer for the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, the third largest agency in the Lone Star State. Ray holds a Master of Science in criminal j...

Jaimin Shah is an experienced security and technology leader in developing global information security and privacy program with diverse experience in various industries including Real Estate, Airline, Retail, Banking and Hospitality. Jaimin has over 25 years of extensive, strategic leadership experience in being a trusted advisor in the field...

Sonja Hammond is the Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer at National Veterinary Associates. As an information and cyber security leader, Sonja brings experience from the financial, healthcare, manufacturing, and computing industries. An additional benefit that Sonja possesses is an information technology (IT) background with ha...

Dave Belanger has over 25 years of experience in Security and Technology Leadership roles. Dave is the Chief Security Officer for Bestow. In his prior roles, he served as Information Security Officer for a Technology Company operating in the corrections and public safety industry and as CISO for Maxor National Pharmacy Services. He was also t...

SA Rienerth serves on the Cyber Fraud Task Force (CFTF).

Joe leads America's Sales Strategy at Rubrik, working with enterprise customers and federal agencies on leveraging the Rubrik Data Security platform to drive cyber resiliency. Joe is an accomplished technology executive with 20 years’ experience. Previously, he served in sales and leadership positions at NetApp, Splunk, and EMC. Joe resides ...

Paul has been working at Imperva for 10 years and he has seen it all. He started in IT Security roles in the mid-90s helping customers visualize, protect, and secure their environments. Having previously worked at companies like e-Security, Novell, Varonis, and various other startups, Paul has personally implemented security solutions on five...

Bryant Schuck is a Senior Product Manager for Checkmarx, where he is responsible for both the API Security and IAST products. Bryant has several years of experience in product management, software engineering, and agile ranging from being a co-founder of a startup to running teams for Fortune 500 companies. In his free time, Bryant enjoys tin...

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CEO of Neuvik and author of the book “Understand, Manage, and Measure Cyber Risk”. Past adventures include growing a cyber research and development company, serving as Chief of Staff and Associate Director of Cyber for the U.S. Department of Defense, and sparking a fondness for technology problem-solving at IBM.

With nearly a decade of experience in the cybersecurity industry, Alex Berger joined Open Systems to lead Product Marketing in 2021. Throughout his career, he has worked on a wide range of solutions spanning identity and access management, network security, cloud workload protection, data access governance and more. In his spare time, he enjo...

Rebecca L. Rakoski, Esq., is the managing partner at XPAN Law Partners. Rebecca counsels and defends public and private corporations, and their boards, during data breaches and responds to state/federal regulatory compliance and enforcement actions. She manages the intersection of state, federal, and international regulations that affect the ...

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 suppo...

Dr. Srinivas Vadlamani is a hands-on expert in designing databases, big data management systems, and security solutions. He is the cofounder and CTO of Cyral, a venture-backed data security startup. He was most recently the founder and chief architect at Imanis Data, a big data protection pioneer that was acquired by Cohesity. He was previous...

Bob Skinner has worked for over 30 years in Information Technology and Security in highly complex and regulated industries such Financial Services & Banking, Defense, Telecommunications, and Airline Transportation. His technical experience includes Systems Administration, Database Design, Application Development, and IT Auditing. As a consu...

Chad Maskill has two decades of experience in consultation and client management. In his current role, Chad reaches out to assist businesses in hardening their environment preventing ransomware and malicious attacks. Chad has devoted his career to implementing client driven solutions, working with everyone from Ford Motor Company, Tesla, Infi...

Dan Janiczek is a seasoned Solutions Architect who takes a unique approach to engaging with customers on complex security problems. Coming from a background in Psychology he brings a fresh perspective to the unique challenges faced by organizations today, understanding the people and technology components of a successful security program. As ...

Brian is a seasoned litigation attorney representing clients of all sizes - from sole proprietorships to Fortune 500 companies - in complex litigation matters. He has guided clients through all stages of the litigation process, including trials and arbitrations in both state and federal courts and before multiple administrative agencies throu...

Michael Stone is a Senior Solutions Engineer and joined Automox in 2021. His passion is helping organizations reduce their potential attack surfaces beginning with a simple philosophy: Start by Locking the Front Door! Michael has focused on the field of cybersecurity with a focus on endpoint management for over 15 years with a number of indus...

Christopher Fielder has been in the cybersecurity world for over 20 years with experience from a range of military, government, and corporate environments. Christopher holds 18 industry certifications including the CISSP, GPEN, GISP, GCFE, GSEC, GCIH, CEH, and more; along with a Master’s Degree in Information Security. Today he is the Field C...

Rodrique has been with Check Point Software for nine years. He has more than 18 years of industry experience in IT networking and network security. The past four years, he has been focused on cloud security, supporting the Check Point field as a Data Center Virtualization and Cloud Security Solution Architect within the Americas.

Mark Scrano is an information security manager at Cobalt, the leading pentest as a service company, where he focuses on maintaining network security, threat management and mitigation, vulnerability assessments, amongst other responsibilities. With over 15 years of experience he’s worked at notable companies including Vimeo, Paxos, and General...

As a federal prosecutor in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia, Laura is a member of the Cyber and Intellectual Property Section. She has investigated and prosecuted a variety of cyber-enabled crimes, including ransomware attacks, corporate sabotage, and computer hacking, as well as cyber fraud schemes, su...

Terrence "Terry" McGraw is a retired Lieutenant Colonel from the United States Army and now serves as a senior executive Incident Response Consultant. He has more than 20 years of experience providing expertise in cybersecurity architectural design and operations in both commercial and government sectors.

Terry previously served as pre...

Ivan Righi is a Senior Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst at Digital Shadows, where he conducts research on cyber-threats affecting Digital Shadows' customers. Ivan earned his Master of Science degree in Cybersecurity from the University of Dallas, and holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Abilene Christian University. He also has a graduate...

Zach Bulliner has been a Special Agent with the Secret Service since 2002, when he started in the Nashville Field Office. In 2008, he was transferred to Washington D.C., where he spent three years in the Cyber Intelligence Section (CIS) at Secret Service Headquarters before spending six years on Presidential Protection. He served on President...

Motley Matrix is a unique digital marketing, social media and cyber intelligence small business. Current contracts support defense community collaborations, organizations within the CVE space, law enforcement and homeland security directives. Presentations and products leverage social media intelligence, cyber-social threat investigation, ope...

Jim Doggett is high energy leader focused on embedding risk management, security, and compliance into the business fabric to efficiently manage risks. Retired partner from EY where he spent 27 years helping clients through financial audits and building and sustaining security, risk and controls. Served as global leader of Information Risk and...

Bob Reny is a recent addition to the CTO team at Exabeam. His 27 years of experience in information technology starting in systems administration and security in the US Air Force. This started a path for all things security, focusing on computer and networks. Bob has done network security design, firewall architecture, IPS deployment, network...

Josh Reed has over 15 years law enforcement experience and began working with the USSS in 2013. He is a certified computer, mobile device, skimming device examiner, and holds several professional certifications. He is an instructor at the National Computer Forensic Institute (NCFI) and has testified multiple times in state, local, and federal...

Lynn Dohm brings more than 25 years of organizational and leadership experience to the WiCyS team as the Executive Director. She has long been committed to cybersecurity education and for the last 14 years held active roles in grant-funded programs and nonprofits that assist in providing educational solutions for the cybersecurity workforce. ...

Jordan Fischer leads Octillo Law's Global Privacy Team, where she represents clients in cross-border data management, creating cost-effective and business-oriented approaches to cybersecurity, data privacy, and technology compliance. Recognized as a Super Lawyers Rising Star – Technology Law, Jordan practices in many jurisdictions throughout ...

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 Com...

Ran is an Enterprise Security Expert with many years of experience helping Fortune 500 companies secure their data and applications. Ran has detailed knowledge of Enterprise Security best practices and technologies and has been focused on the creation and deployment of solutions protecting networks, systems, and information assets with focus ...

Chad Barr is the Director of Governance & Compliance for the Risk Advisory Services practice at AccessIT Group (AITG) AITG). Chad is an experienced information security leader with an extensive background in security
engineering, project management, network administration and compliance. Through his many years of experience, Chad has es...

Frank is the CISO at EnPro Industries (NPO). He is passionate about striking balance between the responsible use of technology and effective risk management. In his role, Frank is responsible for defining, championing, and executing the cybersecurity and regulatory compliance strategies, programs, and initiatives globally, in deep collaborati...

Vitaliy Shtym is a Cybersecurity Practitioner with over 10 years of experience, 5 of which have been at Trend Micro. Vitaliy has been in multiple customer facing roles to address cybersecurity challenges in organization of all sizes. He focuses on architecting optimal security solutions for customers leveraging Public and Hybrid Cloud. With p...

Jovonni Pharr is a software/hardware engineer with a focus on Research & Development (R&D) in emerging technologies. He enjoys building solutions in Electronics, Materials Science, and Intelligent Systems. Some of his research focuses on areas in Computer Science, Human Behavioral Psychology, and Artificial Intelligence. He Graduated from Gor...

Aaron Rose is a Cyber Security Evangelist, Security Architect & Member of the Office of the CTO at Check Point Software Technologies. A subject matter expert in Cloud, Internet of Things, and Application security; Aaron has focused his career on securing organizations & their resources beyond the perimeter of the traditional network firewall...

Rob Vanderberry is celebrating his 26th year of technology sales and consultation, experienced in selling solutions to businesses and public sector organizations as manufacturer rep, distributor and reseller. Rob has a passion for helping organizations achieve successful business outcomes through optimized blends of technology, knowledge and...

Leo Howell is a visionary information security leader who is passionate about the "I" in IT as he believes that data leveraged as a strategic asset is a major competitive benefit to any organization. Leo has over 24 years of service in IT and currently serves as the chief information security officer for Georgia Institute of Technology where ...

Brett Price is a Senior Cybersecurity Consultant for the Risk Advisory Services practice at AccessIT Group (AITG). Brett is a knowledgeable cybersecurity consultant with over twenty years of experience and an extensive background in security consulting, network engineering/administration and cybersecurity best practices. Brett’s skills range ...

David Ortega been a cybersecurity professional for more than 20 years with deep expertise in digital innovation utilizing modern cloud, data, and security solutions. David has had the pleasure of working with various industry leaders in finance, healthcare, government, higher education, and manufacturing services. His highly sought-after expe...

As VP of Legal and Compliance for Certes Networks, Simon assists with Regulatory and Compliance matters, Intellectual Property and interpretation of Security and Compliance Framework requirements. Simon has extensive international experience as a technology lawyer, working in multiple jurisdictions including the European Union, Japan, India ...

Justin Harris is a 20+ year technology veteran with a wide range of vertical industry exposure that has a knack for understanding how market trends introduce market needs. In his role as Director of Product at Delinea he leads the Vault portfolio of products such as Secret Server and DevOps Secure Vault. Justin’s area of expertise includes br...

A seasoned information technology leader with over 25 years of information security experience. Capable of translating low level security details into executive level business decisions. Believes good compliance does not mean good security, nor does good security mean good risk management. Passionate for employee development. Experience inclu...

Executive with multi-industry and multi-national IT service delivery experience. Global consulting background with expert level understanding and experience in IT strategy & governance, directing large, complex change initiatives. Business advisor developing lasting relationships by taking responsibility for customer satisfaction and conveyin...

Superior problem-solving skills and experience securing complex systems. A skilled Incident Manager of hosted systems with an emphasis on supporting both Linux and Windows Operating Systems secure availability.

With more than 10 years of experience in the telecommunications industry & specifically 6 years in the Cybersecurity space. Experienced, thought leader, cybersecurity professional with operational experience in building successful processes and leading projects in vulnerability scanning, vulnerability management, access management, privacy an...

Wally Bitaut has worked in the content and collaboration industry for over 30 years, starting with FileNet Corporation (now an IBM Company) in Executive Leadership roles across Marketing, Sales, Product Management, Professional Services, and as a Board member. Today, Wally is the Global VP of Business Development at Seclore. His focus is to c...

Ferreira helps enterprises develop and maintain proactive security programs. He has over two decades of IT security experience and works with organizations to understand their assets, identify security gaps, and define the people, processes and technology that can facilitate mitigation and support business goals. He focuses on the development...

Jonathan Brito oversees Third-Party Risk Management at Synctera. Synctera connects community banks with FinTechs, allowing the bank to grow and the FinTech to launch quickly. Our processes streamline day-to-day processes like reconciliation, operations, and regulatory compliance for FinTech Banking. Jonathan Brito possesses over a decade of e...

Isaac Hannagan is a security professional with nearly a decade of experience spanning SIEM and the security industry supporting, architecting, and scaling solutions and services. Isaac has spent several years working in the SIEM vendor space supporting LogRhythm’s strategic enterprise environments as a Technical Account Manager before helping...

Mr. Wormser has over 20 years of military and international security experience. He spent a decade in the French military where he was deployed to a host of foreign countries, serving as a team leader of a long-range reconnaissance and patrol unit (LRRP), conducting counter-narcotics and anti-terrorism operations, and training of host-country...

Mr. Sanders is currently the President of The Palatin Group LTD, an intelligence and corporate security advisory headquartered in Arlington, VA with offices in Bratislava, Slovakia and Zurich, Switzerland with partner offices around the globe. A seasoned security management consultant and executive with over 25 years of domestic and internati...

David is an Information Technology professional with over 20 years of experience in pre-sales engineering and software deployment in the Identity Access Management space. He has worked for many of the top IAM companies over his career and enjoys sharing his deep knowledge and experience to make customers successful.

Phread Cichowski has over 35 years of experience ranging from software development to data center management. Having worked for some of the leading technology companies in the world, his broad range of experience allows him to provide a well-balanced perspective leveraging bleeding-edge technology in critical high-availability IT environments...

Kara advises and counsels clients on the development and implementation of enterprise-wide data security and privacy programs and regulatory compliance under federal, state and international privacy laws, including the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Virginia Consumer Dat...

Winston has almost 20 years of experience in the ICT industry; designing and implementing network security solutions for large enterprise environments. Today, he is a Security Engineering Manager with Check Point Software and is currently supporting a unique set of strategic accounts. He provides thought leadership; helping his customers unde...

Mike is a Senior Sales Engineer at Orca Security who is responsible for helping organizations identify risks in their cloud environments and enhance their cloud security posture. Prior to joining Orca, Mike spent five years at Splunk where he partnered with organizations on their cloud journey in areas that included Security and Observability...

Jon's background is in Computer Science and was a software developer building web and mobile applications before moving into the security industry. He has been working with SIEM technologies for over a decade and has worked with hundreds of customers over that time building out SOC and SOC teams.

Over the last decade, Steve Boone has helped hundreds of global clients with their strategic adoption of secure DevOps best practices. A frequent speaker at DevOps Enterprise Summit, and DevOps World, Steve has shared his expertise on Secure Continuous Delivery, Value Stream Management, and Agile best practices. Today, Steve is the Head of Pr...

Jake is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Recorded Future and has held various roles across the security space in consulting, marketing, and sales. Prior to joining the private sector, he served as a Navy Intelligence Analyst with an extensive background in counterterrorism, cyber threat intelligence, and open-source intelligence investig...

Tony Allegrati is an experienced Sales Engineer with over 15 years of sales in both medium and enterprise accounts. Specialties: Presales demonstrations, evaluation, installations, training and support of IT security technology. 3+ years of work experience with Cloud Technologies and security for Cloud.

21+ year veteran high tech leader with a proven track record of revenue generation in sales and demand generation in marketing. Successful in creating and conveying solution messaging for business and technical decision makers, analysts and channel partners. Energized teacher for field enablement.

Carlton Jones is Vice President of Northeast Enterprise Field Team. Over 20 years of Security leadership experience, in Fusion Centers, Incident Response, Insider Threat, and Attack Surface Management. Carlton designs solutions at scale for the largest brands and technology providers in the world. His background as a practitioner and consulta...

Mick Leach is the Head of Security Operations at Abnormal Security. Prior to joining Abnormal, he held several security positions with Fortune 500 organizations, including Alliance Data and Nationwide Insurance and served in the United States Army for over 8 years.

Mick is a seasoned IT security leader with an extensive background in...

Nick Dulavitz, Global Director of Channel Solutions Engineering, has been with CyberArk for the past 8 years. Nick has worked with some of the largest global organizations helping them to achieve their identity security goals. In his current role, he is responsible for leading a global team that focuses on technical go to market enablement f...

A 1980 graduate of St. Joseph's University, Mike has a 30+ year career of marketing and selling technology goods and services to SMB and Fortune 500 clients. While resident in the Great Philadelphia area, Mike has sold services nationwide. After owning his own business for 18+ year in technology services, Mike has been selling incident respon...

Elizabeth Sylve is Senior Business Consultant for Enterprise Businesses at CSC where she helps and advises Senior IT and Cyber Security Professionals mitigate risk in front of the firewall. She is also a speaker for Global Antifraud and Phishing Solutions, former 8-year VP of IT Technology consultant at FuturTech Consulting, LLC, and has 24 y...

Krista Arndt is the Director of Security GRC at Voyager Digital. Krista enjoys helping organizations manage the challenge of maintaining an effective Cybersecurity program while enabling business initiatives within the confines of heavily regulated and emerging industries. Krista has over 13 years of Cybersecurity experience within regulated ...

Valentina Flores is CEO of Red Sentry, a vulnerability scanning and penetration testing company that keeps organizations secure 24/7/365 by actually mimicking hackers. Formerly a cybercrime detective on a federal task force, Valentina fought against these criminals her whole career, and has unique insight into the minds and tactics of attacke...

James Bearce is Vice President of Professional Services at AccessIT Group, bringing more than 20 years of information technology and cybersecurity development, operations and leadership experience in the financial services industry and in cybersecurity advisory and managed services. Prior to joining AccessIT Group, Jim was responsible for lea...

Jim officially started working in security as an analyst at a large MSSP. This experience enabled him to gain employment at large global organizations as an analyst before becoming an incident handler. It was in his capacity as an incident handler where he witnessed, first hand, nation state attacks. This left such a profound impact on Jim th...

Sean Boulter is a technical leader with Salt Security where he helps his customers protect their APIs from abuse and keep their customers’ data secure. His career in IT and consulting spans three decades and covers a wide variety of infrastructure platforms and several industries including fintech, finserv, insurance, healthcare, medtech, and...

Matt is the Chief Executive Officer at SEVN-X. As a certified forensic analyst, former Law Enforcement Officer, and expert field operator, Matt lead's SEVN-X's Incident Response, Forensics, and Physical Security practices.

Nick is a startup veteran and Internet technology entrepreneur with over 25 years of application development, testing, and cyber security experience. He is recognized as an industry expert in API development, API management, and API security. At Salt, Nick is helping guide and positively influence how organizations protect themselves from tod...

Gus Chiarello is the Director of Security Architecture and part of the technology consulting leadership team at AccessIT Group (AITG). Gus has over 10 years of experience in risk management and 16 years in IT professional services leading the development of AppSec MDR, MSP, and MSSP service practices. Through leveraging his background in both...

Ray is the Director of Netskope Threat Labs, which specializes in cloud-focused threat research. His background is in software anti-tamper, malware detection and classification, cloud security, sequential detection, and machine learning.

From writing detection rules and automations for SOC teams to assisting with compliance initiatives, cloud security has always been the focus of Stephen's career. Currently Stephen serves as a Senior Solutions Engineer at Orca helping customers architect and operationalize the Orca platform, as well as providing risk assessment reviews and gu...

Trenton has had the privilege of working with teams of skilled hackers to legally compromise some of the largest organizations in the world. Trenton has also worked on several high-profile incident-response engagements to help provide the adversarial mindset as organizations respond and recover. While his focus is currently offensive research...

Eric Gauthier, CISSP, is a technology leader with 20 years’ experience working at the intersection of Information Security, IT, and DevOps. Eric is both a technical architecture and security leader having held positions in various settings including the corporate, academic, and service provider spaces building security programs, leading secur...

Selva Vinothe Mahimaidas is an Information Security Leader with more than 20 years of experience in all phases of information security. Selva currently serves as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, an American publisher of textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, reference works, and fict...

Andrew holds over 22 years of experience in the banking, financial services, and healthcare industries. He is experienced in all facets of IT/IS Security & Risk Management including acquisitions and disaffiliations, and has a track record of developing and implementing security strategies from inception through execution. In addition to his c...

Sandra Cavazos serves as VP, Product Security and Privacy at Comcast. She leads Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL), including threat modeling, pen testing, SDL coaching, DevSecOps tooling, security developer training, and executive reporting. Sandra began her career as an engineer at Intel’s largest wafer manufacturing facility, improving qua...

Tal is the CEO and co-founder of Gytpol. In her teenage years, she was a professional hacker, always on the hunt to crack open what seemed impossible, always on the lookout for IT challenges. As part of her army service, she was recruited to the Israel Air-Force having her sights set on becoming a fighter pilot. Later, the IDF re-assigned her...

Michael Howden brings broad and deep experience in technology, strategy, and security with almost 30 years of experience focusing on global upgrades, migrations, and consolidations for several hundred large enterprises. He is a transformational change agent, leading teams of top tier consultants, building world-class cybersecurity programs fo...

Terry Olaes is director of North America systems engineering at Skybox Security. With more than 20 years of experience in IT, his expertise includes IT/OT convergence, audit and compliance, data breaches, and incident management. Working on the ground floor at a manufacturing plant, serving as a systems engineer, and managing large security t...

Sean works with organizations across the globe partnering with them to provide tailored Consulting security services enabling security teams to keep up with the rapid pace of change in the cyber threat landscape. With over a decade of experience working with enterprise level solutions, Sean specializes in implementing proactive and defense cy...

Trevor is a Global Security Strategist with Google Cloud Security. Trevor leverages extensive experience in public sector, financials, retail / logistics, manufacturing, healthcare, and high tech to solve complex security analytics challenges. A former leader with Anomali, and companies like Splunk, ArcSight, and Fortinet, Trevor brings insig...

Stephen Clark has over 25 years experience in the information security space having spent time at Check Point, Cisco, and Palo Alto Networks. Stephen also spent time working in the security consulting field working primarily with the Fortune 1000.

He is presently the Director of Cloud Security Sales for Fortinet. Today he helps manag...

Prior Federal Employment
United States Border Patrol (USBP) – Casa Granda Station, AZ
Employed as an agent of the U.S. Border Patrol, July 1997 – January 2000
Training: US Border Patrol Academy (6 months), Charlestown, SC

Current Federal Employment
United States Secret Service (USSS) – Boston Field Office

Jonathan Trull is a longtime security practitioner and CISO with over 18 years of experience in the cybersecurity industry and is currently the Senior Vice President of Customer Solutions Architecture and Engineering at Qualys. His career has spanned operational CISO and infosec roles with the State of Colorado, Qualys, Optiv, and Microsoft....

Mike Meltz has worked in the IT Security and infrastructure space for over 25 years and he specializes in the design and implementation of enterprise-level Cybersecurity technologies and business process improvements. His goal is to remain focused on creating a secure and quality-driven user experience while helping the organization grow and ...

Abel Morales is a Senior Security Engineer based in Atlanta, GA. Prior to Exabeam, Abel has over ten years of experience in information security in companies such as Verizon, Syniverse, McKesson and InterContinental Exchange (NYSE). In his previous role, he was responsible for managing incidents, performing technical analysis, and communicati...

Darren is a risk management and information security leader with diverse global experience in operational, technical, management, and presales roles. He has had the pleasure to build and lead multiple diverse, dynamic, high-performing teams. Throughout his career, he has provided consultative thought leadership, strategic direction, and tacti...

Before founding Tines in early-2018, Eoin worked in various enterprise security teams. He was a senior engineer in eBay Inc.’s Global Threat Management team, and most recently as DocuSign’s senior director of security operations, he led the company’s incident response, security tooling, threat intel/hunting, and forensics programs. Eoin has t...

Brian is a Philadelphia based Distinguished Sales Engineer with 20+ years of experience in Cybersecurity and Intelligence. Brian leads Deep Instinct’s security engineering team, overseeing North and South American territories. He is a thought leader and technology evangelist with a wealth of knowledge on AI, Deep Learning, and Machine Learnin...

Lokesh Aggarwal has over 20+ years of hands-on experience in developing technology plans, prioritizing IT initiatives and coordinating the evaluation, deployment, and management of current and future technologies. He has a track record of guiding large scale transformations and projects through the development of IT capability roadmaps, deplo...

Rich Schofield is a Principal Security Architect at Sysdig. Based in Boston. Rich has over 25 years experience in DevOps and Security at companies large and small, including HPE, Opsware and BBN. Over the past 4 years at Sysdig he has focused on security and visibility for Cloud and Kubernetes environments.

Greg McCarthy is the first Chief Information Security Officer for the City of Boston and career public servant. Since joining the City of Boston’s Cybersecurity Team in 2010, Greg has managed the implementation of numerous information security solutions, developed the City's first cybersecurity awareness program for employees and successfully...

April, also known as The STEM Broker, is currently the Global Diversity & Inclusion Advisor and Board Member of the XR Safety Initiative (XRSI), the first global non-profit with the mission of helping build safe and inclusive realities. In her role, she continues to advise the CyberXR Coalition, launched by XRSI, where she helped lead the lau...

Christine is an Information Security leader with experience in the security, governance, and technology domains. Christine is currently the Director of the Global Cyber Governance Center at Cboe Global Markets, one of the world’s largest exchange holding companies. Christine holds a Master's in Management and Leadership from Webster Universit...

Dr. Sendze is a technology leader with more than 20 years of delivering business value by enabling high-performing teams. Dr. Sendze currently serves as a technology manager and leverages organizational psychology to drive organizational change and talent engagement and retention strategies in the technology workforce. She holds a B.A and an ...

Kennetra Pulliams has more than 20 years of experience as a broadcast journalist. She graduated from The University of Texas at Austin. Her career has taken her from Texas to Virginia to Kansas City. Kennetra spent more than a decade working at Spectrum Sports, a regional broadcast network. There, she had to opportunity to cover the Kansas Ci...

Dr. Cooper holds a doctorate in Computer Science. She holds a Master of Science in Criminal Justice and a Master of Arts in Business Administration. She has earned several security certifications; Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Systems Security Auditor (CISSA), and Certified Data Privacy Solu...

Keith Daly is currently a Senior Principal Sales Engineer for ForgeRock.

Over the past 20 years, Keith has been on all sides of the Identity Management space in numerous industries, with roles ranging from systems architect within leading corporations, to developer and team lead at systems integrators, to technical sales and engineerin...

David has been with Team Cymru since 2007. Prior, he served in the US Marine Corps as a Non-Commissioned Officer. He then worked at Indiana University where he helped to build some of the most powerful computational systems of their day. He transitioned to cybersecurity and helped launch the Research and Education Networking ISAC. At Team Cym...

Rick Rutledge is currently a Sales Engineer at Armis where he is helping customers monitor unmanageable devices for anomalous activity. Previously, Rick was an SE with Phantom Cyber for over six years, working to automate security responses for many of the largest companies around the United States. Rick has also been an SE with Tufin Technol...

Jared Ablon is the President and co-founder of HackEDU. His experience includes serving as a CISO, leading cybersecurity teams at the Department of Defense, and founding two companies. Jared has a CISSP, MBA and an MS in Applied and Computational Mathematics focusing on computer/cyber security, and was named CISO of the Year by the Los Angele...

With over 21 years of federal law enforcement experience, ATSAIC McGee leads U.S. Secret Service (USSS) efforts to increase public and private partnership in the investigation of complex transnational criminal investigations involving the use of digital assets.

In an executive developmental role, ATSAIC McGee served as the Advisor to t...

Bob Adams is a Cyber Security Strategist at Mimecast. Originally joining Mimecast nearly 7 years ago as a Sales Engineer, Bob was recruited to Product Management after developing various unique ways of investigating cyber-attacks and highlighting Mimecast’s services. Bob now continues to use his time to help educate companies on protecting th...

Del is a recently retired, senior leader with 20 years of Federal Government service having served in Washington, D.C. and internationally. Concurrently, he served 23 years as a commissioned Army officer in austere and hostile environments around the globe. Command assignments in both conventional and special operations forces. He is recogniz...

Derek Melber is an accomplished Chief Technology and Security Strategist, Advisor, and Professional Speaker with more than 25 years of success across the computer & network security industries. As a 17X Microsoft MVP, leveraging extensive experience in unifying products, marketing, sales, and content, he is a valuable advisor for any organiza...

Neal Humphrey has been active in the security industry for nearly 20 years. He has reviewed Security from the Application layer, to the Transport Layer, to Cyber Threat Intelligence, and finally to the Human. Over the last 20 years he has worked with customers from the Global 100 down to the SMB market to identify and solve Cyber Security O...

Prior to his role as Director of Cybersecurity at MassPort, Jarret has served as Deputy Director of Corporate Security for over 2 years where he focused on maintaining a
safe and secure environment at all Massport facilities while working with departments, law enforcement partners, and stakeholders to strengthen our capabilities to prev...

Dr. Caroline McGroary is a Chartered Accountant and an Assistant Professor of Accounting at Dublin City University (DCU), Ireland. She has a Ph.D. in Professional Accounting Education and was recently awarded a Fulbright Scholarship by the Fulbright Commission of Ireland. Caroline will spend the coming year at Boston College as a Fulbright Sc...

Simon Taylor is the CEO of HYCU where he creates and executes on the vision and strategy for one of the world's leading multi-cloud backup and recovery SaaS businesses. Prior to HYCU, Simon held senior executive positions at Comtrade Software including President and CEO as well as Chief Strategy Officer of The Comtrade Group where he evaluate...

Kwan is the Principal Data Scientist on the Rapid7 Labs Research and Advocacy team. He routinely monitors and analyzes large-scale honeypot and Internet-scan data using statistical and machine learning methods. Recently, Kwan helped Rapid7 launch Project Doppler, a platform tool that enables customers to assess their public internet exposure....

Kevin is the founder and director of the Master of Science in Cybersecurity Policy and Governance Program at Boston College, and an Assistant Professor of the Practice at Boston College Law School and in Boston College’s Carroll School of Management’s Business Law and Society Department. Along with his teaching at Boston College, Kevin is a C...

Chris has over 25 years’ experience in the IT field and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). He has served as a senior project manager and engineer for several federal and municipal governments’ IT projects, as a network and systems engineer for IBM's Education and Training Division, and as an adjunct faculty mem...

Jon Fredrickson is Vice President & Chief Risk Officer for Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island. He graduated from the University of Rhode Island with a B. A. in Economics. During the past 15 years of working in the IT security field, Jon has developed a pragmatic approach to implementing cyber security solutions and assisting his organiz...

Danny Jenkins is the CEO and Co-Founder of ThreatLocker, a cybersecurity firm providing Zero Trust endpoint security. Danny is a leading expert in cybersecurity with over two decades of experience in building and securing corporate networks, including many roles on red teams and blue teams. He is dedicated to educating industry professionals ...

Bill Bowman has been the first CISO at five different organizations over the last 20 years. He has been in Educational Technology, Financial Technology, and B2B Growth companies. He was the founding President for the (ISC)2 Eastern Massachusetts organization 10 years ago. Bill lives in Framingham with his wife and five children.

Katherine Chipdey manages the Enterprise Solutions Engineer Team here at Automox, where she is working to simplify IT operations, increase security, and bridge that gap between security and IT for their prospects and customers alike. In this role, Katherine has most enjoyed using her background and experiences in the the field to speak with h...

Stephen has worked in the IT Industry since 2000 and in the security industry for the previous eight. Based out of the Twin Cities, Stephen has spent time at some of the largest organizations including Target, US Bank, Honeywell, and United Health Group. In his current role at Varonis, Stephen works with organizations around the US helping or...

10+ years of managed security expertise.

Jamie Zajac has over 10 years of experience in security and data protection roles and is currently the Vice President of Product Management for Recorded Future, an advanced security intelligence company. Jamie holds a B.S. in Meteorology and Computer Science from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and a MBA from UMass.

Michael is an Army veteran with over 13 years' experience and has a passion for architecting security programs, leading people, and developing world-class security teams. During his career, Michael previously partnered with the USDA CISO to develop one of the largest consolidations of security services in the federal government. Michael also ...

Ashley is a Solutions Engineer at Tessian, providing customers with solutions to address their email security objectives. She is responsible for leading technical product demonstrations and evaluations, and is an expert in email security, endpoint security, insider threats, and behavior analytics and Human Layer Security. Prior to joining Tes...

Chris Griffith leads product management for Balbix. Chris brings over 15 years as a product, business development and strategy leader in security and technology. Prior to Balbix, Chris led tech alliances for Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s (HPE) security portfolio. Chris also ran product management for HPE’s Data Security business and drove stra...

Lisa Plaggemier is the Executive Director at the National Cybersecurity Alliance. Lisa is a trailblazer in security awareness and education and is a prominent security influencer with a proven track record of engaging and empowering businesses and their employees to protect themselves and their data. Lisa has held executive roles with the For...

David Barker is Head of Application Security for GoodLeap LLC, a Fintech company providing a point-of-sale platform for sustainable home solutions. GoodLeap marks David’s fourth creation of a Code-to-Cloud Application Security program. His pedigree includes companies like Dell EMC, Stanley Black & Decker, and PTC. David has both an MBA and an...

Richard Berthao is the CISA Cybersecurity Advisor (CSA) for Connecticut. He manages the major cyber engagements in Connecticut with additional support to Region 1, championing cyber resilience to public and private sector partners. His career began over 25 years ago as an IT specialist in the private sector. Additionally, he spent 19 years as...

Chris is currently Vice President, Cyber Operations and Analysis, for Dell Technologies. In this role, Chris leads the strategy and optimization of Dell's Cyber Security Operations (CSIRT, eFI, Security Assurance and Vulnerability Management) globally. Prior to joining Dell, Chris served at the first CISO for the Wendy's company, where he spe...

Margaret White is currently Senior Vice President, Business Information Security Officer (BISO) for Wells Fargo’s Enterprise Functions. In this role, Margaret leads execution of cybersecurity posture and strategy for enterprise-wide cybersecurity engagements and provides bi-directional transparency to Enterprise Functions CEOs and CIOs. Prior...

Peter Liu has been with Qualys in the Pre-Sales TAM role for over four years. He loves helping customers evaluate Qualys to make the decision to adopt Qualys as a security platform that allows you to tackle current security challenges such as vulnerability management or global IT asset management. Prior to Qualys, he spent six years in the di...

FBI Special Agent Kevin Brennan is currently assigned to the Seattle Field Office to investigate computer intrusions. He is also an FBI cyber instructor, teaching about cybercrime investigations to local, state, federal, and international law enforcement agencies. Prior to joining the FBI in 2006, he worked for IBM Global Services.

Loris Degioanni is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and founder of Sysdig, the secure DevOps leader. He is also the creator of the popular open source troubleshooting tool, sysdig, and the open source container security tool, Falco. Prior to founding Sysdig, Loris co-created Wireshark, the open source network analyzer, which today has 20+ m...

Evan Tegethoff is Vice President of Solutions Consulting at BitSight. He previously held leadership roles in Risk and Compliance Practice Management at Optiv, Accuvant, and Forsythe Technologies. He has developed Third Party Risk approaches for numerous large organizations. Additionally, he led consulting teams focused on compliance, risk man...

Justin Henkel is an information security thought leader, subject matter expert, and Head of OneTrust's Security Center of Excellence. Justin has a proven track record planning, developing, building, and monitoring portfolios of work to secure IT infrastructure to meet federal and state cybersecurity standards, guidelines, and best practices. ...

Named Top Tech Person To Follow by LinkedIn, Named Top 5 Cybersecurity Exec to Watch, Georgetown U Faculty, 2X Presidential Appointee, FORBES Contributor, Cybersecurity, Emerging Tech SME, Influencer

Nick Olmsted is a senior systems engineer with Arctic Wolf who brings 19 years of experience architecting, implementing, and developing secure technology solutions for enterprises. Nick started his career as a developer learning how to develop secure applications for clients around the globe. He then moved into a systems engineer role to help...

Michael brings over 24 years of experience with the Secret Service that includes leadership roles both in the protective arena and investigative front. Currently, he leads the Secret Service's Outreach Program, focusing on private and public sector partner growth. He is also the Executive Director for the Secret Service's Cyber Investigative ...

Curtis has spent the past 10 years in technical sales and product management. Prior to Rezilion, Curtis spent 6 years at Symantec to manage their emerging mobile security products and went on to lead the Symantec product portfolio in their Asia Pacific region based in Singapore. Curtis transferred to Symantec HQ in Mountain View, California i...

Michael Gorelik is CTO of Morphisec, where he leads the malware research operation and sets technology strategy. He has extensive experience leading diverse cybersecurity software development projects and experience in the software industry in general. Prior to Morphisec, Michael was the VP R&D at MotionLogic GmbH and before that served in se...

Tom Bowyer is a versatile Security Engineer who enjoys working with engineering, product, and infrastructure teams to ensure safe and efficient code lands in production. He has extensive experience deploying, securing and breaking SaaS applications on different operating systems and cloud hosting providers. Tom also enjoys building and breaki...

Greg Maples, CISSP, is Principal Security Architect for Gigamon. He has been involved in computer networking since his involvement in the original ARPANet project that became the Internet. He has been specializing in security protocols and web/DDOS issues for many years, and has more recently been focusing on threat detection in a Zero-Trust ...

Tim Keeler worked at Genentech/Roche from 2000 to 2012 and was a leader on the Security Incident Response Team. After this experience, Tim moved deeper into the Enterprise Security realm, leaving Roche in 2012 to focus on security consulting. His clients included UCSF, Genentech/Roche, Gilead Sciences, and CardioDX. Tim is a GX-certified Secu...

Tom has 15 years of experience in the security industry, beginning his career as an Analyst at what is now the U.K. MOD Joint Cyber Unit. After seven years in the military, he left to join Sourcefire as a Security Engineer. Cisco acquired Sourcefire in 2013, and he joined a small global team working with Cisco's top 28 accounts, ultimately le...

Dan is a Solutions Engineer for Okta and aligns identity-related technical requirements to business outcomes for Okta US West commercial customers and prospects. He is an Okta-certified consultant and developer familiar with Zero Trust methods used by Okta's ecosystem of customers, partners, and prospects.

Jim Johnson has been working to end cybercrime for the past two decades. His career started at Blue Coat, where he helped customers with their struggles to mitigate risk in the early days of web filtering. Since then, he has worked with customers of all sizes and verticals providing solutions from F5, Forescout, and now Arctic Wolf. As the Di...

Maggie MacAlpine is a security strategist at Cybereason and one of the co-founders of the DEF CON Voting Village. Over the course of 10 years spent in the field of cybersecurity, MacAlpine has been a contributing researcher on the "Security Analysis of the Estonian Internet Voting System" in partnership with the University of Michigan, co-aut...

Cyber Liability National Practice Leader (current).
IT Security / IT Auditor at RLI for 8 years.
Network / security consulting / auditor for financial institutions, government for 9 years.
Network / firewall administrator in healthcare for 7 years.

Designations - CPCU, RPLU+, CISSP, CISM, CISA, CRISC, CSXF, MBA

Akshay Kumar serves as the product lead for Hadoop Distributed File Systems (HDFS) and cloud storage modules, in addition to growing key partnerships with companies like AWS and IBM. Prior to joining PKWARE via the Dataguise acquisition in 2020, Akshay built his data security background as a solutions architect, where he implemented hybrid de...

Steve Kinman is a dedicated technology leader, with 20+ years of innovative, compliance-driven security strategy knowledge and the ability to deliver scalable, principle-based security and privacy programs focused on business requirements. Most recently, he led a security program transformation at Zalando SE in Berlin, Germany, joining as the...

Keith has been a team lead for a security operations center, where he was a mentor and an incident response and threat intelligence subject matter expert and facilitated tabletop exercises. He currently works in a GRC role. He has the CISSP and Certified Threat Intelligence Analyst certifications. He also serves as a Cyber Teen Education chai...

Jasmine Noel is Senior Product Marketing Manager at ReversingLabs. Her career began as an industry analyst covering IT technologies. She then founded Ptak, Noel & Associates to provide research and marketing services to Fortune500 and startup technology firms. Prior to ReversingLabs, Noel also held product marketing roles in growth companies,...

Travis Dye is a Principal Solutions Architect for Armis focusing on strategic customers with challenging security projects. His passion is to help organizations with large and complex network environments find effective, real-world approaches to improve their network security programs. Prior to his current role he worked with security teams t...

Eve Maler is a globally recognized strategist, innovator, and communicator on digital identity, security, privacy, and consent, with a passion for fostering successful ecosystems and individual empowerment. She has 20 years of experience innovating and leading standards such as SAML and User-Managed Access (UMA), and has also served as a Forr...

Krishna has more than 25 years of experience leading Engineering and Business Strategy teams, including evaluating and integrating several key Thales acquisitions. Krishna has a Ph.D. in Computer Science and has worked on various topics, from compilers for supercomputers to operating systems for smart cards, leading skunkworks innovation proj...

Matt is Director of Threat Hunting Operations at ReversingLabs where he helps to operationalize the implementation of ReversingLabs tools and massive dataset to help make networks more secure. Matt is a dedicated blue teamer and threat hunter. Prior to his role at ReversingLabs, Matt held many roles supporting threat research and security ope...

Toby Zimmerer is a Director of Cybersecurity Due Diligence in the Transaction Advisory Services Practice of RSM US, where he assists organizations with identifying and addressing the potential cybersecurity risks during mergers and acquisitions. He has over 22 years of professional experience developing information security strategies, design...

John Wilke is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Okta who is currently focused on aligning the impact of Okta's SaaS solutions with the core business goals of Okta's most strategic customers. He was previously responsible for the expansion of Okta's Business Value team for the West Coast and Asia Pacific regions.

Practice Lead for Technical Account Management at AttackIQ. Cory has 20+ years' experience in IT focusing on security, seven+ years with the DoD. He has spent the last two years at AttackIQ delivering Security Optimization (BAS).

John Prewett is a security technologist with over 20 years’ experience helping private sector, government agencies, and educational institutions identify risk and improve their security postures. John's latest passion is code writing, software engineering best practice, and otherwise improving the overall relationship between security practit...

Joey Peloquin is an information and cyber security veteran, evolving over the years to specialize in multiple domains, including network, application, mobile, and for the last seven years, cloud security and architecture. Joey has held a variety of leadership roles over his career including security product ownership, head of consulting servi...

Alec Alvarado has a unique blend of both private and public sector cyber threat intelligence (CTI) experience with 10 years serving in multiple all-source intelligence positions with the United States Army Reserve and 5 years in varying CTI positions with Digital Shadows. A career sparked by a discovered passion for intelligence analysis and ...

Bridget Kravchenko is the Senior Director, Chief Information Security Officer for Meritor, responsible for information security, IT risk, and compliance globally. She has responsibility for developing a strategic security plan, security metrics, security programs, risk management, and incident response.

Bridget has served in a CISO or...

Chief Security Officer for the Michigan Department of Technology, Management & Budget, Laura Clark brings a unique blend of strengths that include leadership, vision, and strategic and tactical planning, along with the ability to promote collaboration at all levels to support high-level, critical state-wide projects to successful completion.<...

Karl Bernard, CISSP, is an IT Security Architect at UTHealth with 30 years of IT experience, with 20 years in Information Security. His experience runs the full gamut of IT Security: he has implemented new technologies, such as network monitoring products and web application firewalls; performed risk assessments; coordinated large DR tests; l...

Shafia is a Manager of Information Security at Morningstar, where she is responsible for the Information Security program management and governance. This requires working across security operations, threat intel, application security, compliance, and with the product teams to ensure secure, resilient, and recoverable applications. Prior to Mo...

Tim Mackey is a principal security strategist within the Synopsys CyRC (Cybersecurity Research Center). He joined Synopsys as part of the Black Duck Software acquisition where he worked to bring integrated security scanning technology to Red Hat OpenShift and the Kubernetes container orchestration platforms. As a security strategist, Tim appl...

Sam Curry is CSO at Cybereason and has over 25 years of IT security industry experience. Curry served as CTO and CSO at Arbor Networks, where he was responsible for the development and implementation of Arbor’s technology, security, and innovation roadmap. Previously, he spent more than seven years at RSA (the Security Division of EMC) in a v...

Alex Jones is an Information Security professional with eight plus years of direct security and compliance experience. He also has an extensive background in media, audio, and communications prior to working in the security field. He is currently the Information Security Manager for the leading Pentest as a Service Company, Cobalt.io. Prior t...

Jason Rivera has over 15 years of experience innovating at the intersection of security operations and technology. He was a former Intelligence Officer/Captain in the U.S. Army, had assignments with the National Security Agency (NSA) and U.S. Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM), and served in combat tours overseas. He has experience in the private sec...

Jeremy Sheridan is the Assistant Director of the Office of Investigations at the United States Secret Service. In this role, he leads more than 160 Secret Service field offices and directs the Secret Service's network of Cyber Fraud Task Forces (CFTFs) in their investigations of sophisticated computer and financial crimes. He also works to en...

Pascal Geenens helps execute Radware's thought leadership on today’s security threat landscape. Pascal brings over two decades of experience in many aspects of IT. As part of the Radware Security Research team, he develops and maintains the IoT honeypots and actively researches IoT malware. Pascal discovered and reported on BrickerBot, perfor...

Mike Schladt, CISSP, GREM, is an information security researcher and engineer with over 12 years' experience performing malware analysis, reverse engineering, digital forensics, and incident response. Previous roles include leading malware analysis at the USAF National Air and Space Intelligence Center, as well as heading the development of e...

Deepthi Menon serves as Director of Information Security at Ambra Health. Ambra Health is an innovative software company that provides solutions for medical image sharing of DICOM and non-DICOM data between patients, physicians, and hospitals. Deepthi has more than 12 years of experience in information security. She has her Masters in Informa...

Eric Botts is Director, Global Cyber Security Program, and Assistant Professor of International Studies at the University of St. Thomas, teaching courses on Cyber Warfare, Cyber Ethics, Enterprise Cybersecurity, and Digital Governance. Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Houston Downtown, teaching a course on Organizational Resilience in th...

Andrew Jarrett of the TEEX Cyber Readiness Center is a former firefighter, current member of a Type II/Type III Incident Management Team (IMT) and has recently been deployed as a member of Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM) Incident Support Teams (ISTs) for COVID response. As the Cyber Enterprise Program Manager at the TEEX CRC, he...

For nearly a decade, Russell has worked with SecureLink customers and organizations looking to improve third-party security. He has been an integral part of the implementation, support, and solution engineering for customers ranging from large healthcare vendors to small towns. In his current role, Russell and his team help organizations iden...

Marcus Gwyn has worked in cybersecurity sales for 10 years and in the Federal space for five of those years. He is the lead Sales Engineer on the SonicWall Federal team and has worked with Federal customers in Civilian, DOD, and Intel spaces. Marcus enjoys following trends in the threat landscape and learning more about cybersecurity. In his ...

Marina is a Security Engineer on the Automox SecOps team where she is passionate about all things security. Previously, she worked as a Threat Researcher, focusing on detections and prevention rules for commodity threats and common living off the land attacks (LOLbins). Before that, Marina served as a Sr. Threat Analyst on a managed SOC, tria...

James is a Security Solutions Architect and one of Radware’s thought leaders in Network and Application Security. He's been with Radware for nearly 10 years. James is a self-described geek and enjoys learning about application security and building web applications using the latest technologies. In his off time, James enjoys hiking, surfing, ...

Throughout his 14 years in cybersecurity, Kevin has been an Analyst and Engineer in various organizations, such as the U.S. Navy, First Data, and Lowe’s. Previously, he served as the Global Information Security Officer at Guess? Inc. and a Product Manager for McAfee.

Baseer Balazadeh has worked in IT management and implementation for more than 15 years. His experiences range from hands-on work on application architectures to development with DevOps best practices to network security and application migration into the public cloud IaaS. He has a bachelor's degree in computer system networking engineering f...

Joel Caminer is the Director of Cybersecurity Education at NYU Tandon. Joel has 20+ years of experience in Financial Services, IT, and Consulting, and has led many strategic initiatives across the IT Risk and cybersecurity spectrum. He previously served as the Global Head of Technology Risk Management at TD Securities; VP of Information Risk ...

Liat Krawczyk is Assistant Vice President for Emerging Tech at the NYCEDC where she led the workforce arm of Cyber NYC, NYC's signature program to grow its cybersecurity ecosystem. She is also the founder and head of the women.nyc Childcare Innovation Lab. Prior to joining NYCEDC, Liat grew startups, social-enterprises, and innovation ecosyst...

Jim Routh serves as a security & risk advisor and Board member for several companies, and is the former CISO for MassMutual, CSO at Aetna, and Global Head of Application and Mobile Security for JP Morgan Chase. He also was the CISO for KPMG, DTCC, and American Express and has more than 30 years of experience in information technology and info...

Geoff Brown was appointed Chief Information Security Officer for the City of New York in 2016, a position focused on cybersecurity and aggregate information risk across all 100+ NYC departments and agencies. In July 2017, Mayor de Blasio established New York City Cyber Command, led by Geoff and charged with setting Citywide cybersecurity poli...

Nasir Memon is Vice Dean for Academics & Student Affairs, Head of Tandon Online, and a Professor of Computer Science at NYU Tandon. He introduced cybersecurity studies to NYU Tandon in 1999. He is co-founder of NYU's Center for Cyber Security (CCS) & the founder of the OSIRIS Lab, CSAW, and NYU Tandon Bridge & Cyber Fellows programs at NYU. H...

Tom currently leads the ExtraHop Public Sector technical practice as Director of Systems Engineering. He has spent most of his 20-year career looking at networks, protocols, and packets in one way or another. Tom has a passion for utilizing data-driven techniques to solve the complex problems faced by modern IT practitioners. When he's not wo...

Tina Thorstenson, Public Sector Strategist, sits on the Public Sector Industry Business Unit at CrowdStrike, where she provides strategic advisory services related to enterprise cybersecurity solutions for Public Sector organizations across Federal, State and Local, Higher Education, and Healthcare. Just prior to joining CrowdStrike, she serv...

Jonathan has been a third-party risk practitioner since 2004. He is co-founder and former president of the Third-Party Risk Association. He has deep experience building and running third-party risk programs in finance and healthcare. He started with RiskRecon in April, 2020.

Deborah Watson is a Resident CISO at Proofpoint with more than 20 years of experience as a cybersecurity leader focused on corporate information security strategy, compliance, security architecture, and data privacy and protection. Deborah led cybersecurity strategy programs for public and private sector organizations across the Fortune 1000....

With over 12 years of technical consulting and solution engineering experience in the field of Enterprise Networking & Security, Keval has enjoyed architecting and transforming businesses. Prior to Gigamon, Keval spent a decade at Cisco. He holds a Masters in Science, Electrical Engineering, from University of Southern California and a Master...

Sowmya Karmali is a Director of Product Management at CrowdStrike and is responsible for Falcon Horizon (CSPM) and Falcon Discover for Cloud. She has over 20 years of product development and management experience covering cloud, data, and IoT, and has worked in startups and large organizations. Prior to CrowdStrike, Sowmya held product leader...

With over 20 years of product management experience at Cisco, Websense, and most recently Sophos before joining CrowdStrike in 2017, Spencer has been instrumental in leading the Intel/Falcon X and Mobile solutions. Spencer holds a B.S. in Molecular Biology from the University of Portsmouth.

Michael Rasmussen is an internationally recognized pundit on governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC). With 27+ years of experience, he helps organizations improve risk and compliance processes, design and implement GRC architecture, and select technologies that are effective, efficient, and agile. As a sought-after keynote speaker, ...

Igor is a 25-year Kansas City IT professional with background across Telecom, Fin-Tech, and Security Technology companies focusing on Software Development, Enterprise Architecture, Security, and Identity and Access Management. A member of Okta's Enterprise Solutions team since 2019, Igor has been helping companies in the Central region to vis...

Rich has built a 25-year career in Silicon Valley bringing new B2B software technologies to market including Big Data, Analytics, Business Intelligence, Java development tools, interactive development environments. and web application servers. He has held sales, product management, product marketing, solutions marketing, partner marketing, GM...

Mike Asaro is an Insider Threat Management and DLP Specialist at Proofpoint. Before joining Proofpoint earlier this year, he spent almost 10 years with an industry leading traditional DLP vendor. Throughout his career in cybersecurity, he’s managed and supported many organizations in the Southwest region across multiple verticals. As a San Di...

Prakash Nagpal is VP of Marketing at Appaegis, where he is responsible for bringing the next generation of Zero Trust Secure Application Access solutions to market. His mission is to help customers realize the vision of securing applications and data without compromising user experience, with a Zero Trust application centric approach to secur...

Joel Hollenbeck is a Cyber Security Visionary with the Office of the CTO at Check Point Software Technologies Inc., the worldwide leader in securing the internet. His background includes over 20 years of experience deploying application protection and network-based security. Joel has been securing networks and systems since 1994, including de...

Steve is a Sr. Solutions Engineer at Okta helping enterprise customers with their identity and access management needs. In his previous life, Steve has served as a CISO / VP of Information Security, Data Center Manager, and held various Security, Windows, and Network Engineering roles.

Donovan is a Solutions Engineer at SpyCloud and has been in the tech industry since the mid nineties. He has worked in various industries and for companies ranging from start-ups to those listed in the Fortune 50. His career has taken him all over the world, including a four-year stint in South-Africa where he worked for the South-African gov...

Brian Linder is an Emerging Threats Expert and Evangelist in Check Point’s Office of the CTO, specializing in the Modern Secured Workforce. Brian has appeared multiple times on CNBC, FOX, ABC, NBC, CBS, and NPR Radio, and hosts Check Point’s CoffeeTalk Podcast and Weaponizers Underground, and has teamed on keynote CyberTalks at Check Point’s ...

A Senior Sales Engineer for LogRhythm, Michael McGinnis has worked in IT Security for over 15 years, specializing in SIEM technology for the past 10. Michael’s experience began as a Security Architect for the largest hospital network in the Midwest where he developed and matured a security posture that is the framework used by many hospital s...

Product marketing specialist with over 15 years of experience at emerging and growing cybersecurity and SaaS companies. Currently heading up product marketing at Siemplify. SecOps solution specialist. Remote work advocate.

As the Director of Cyber Security for Waddell & Reed, Pedro is tasked with leading IR, SECOPS, Vulnerability Management, Security Automation, and IAM. Pedro has previously provided security services for the DoD, IRS, DST, and SS&C.

Jay Bivens started his technology career working in IT stationed aboard the USS WASP (LHD-1) back in 1993. With a background expertise in email security and Advanced Threat Protection, his career spans several areas including Cloud Access Security Brokers, Web Application Firewalls, and Application Delivery Controllers. Jay has earned GIAC Ce...

John Weiler is currently the CEO and CIO of a congressionally charted IT "do tank" called IT-AAC. He has forged partnerships with two dozen leading non-profits and federal agencies committed to the Digital Transformation of the federal IT sector.

He has 40 years of IT Management, Solution Engineering, and Architecture experiences, cove...

Ryan Aleman is a Director of Solutions Architect at Armis. In this role, Ryan is at the forefront of the developing landscape of unagentable devices. With an extensive background in security and technical environment management, Ryan has worked extensively to find passive, agentless security solutions in the medical, industrial, and IoT space...

John Swensson is the Customer Success Manager at CloudPassage and is responsible for all customer support initiatives. John’s information security career spans two decades and includes a broad number of business environments. John and the CloudPassage teams have worked together creating groundbreaking security solutions across a range of indu...

Harrison holds a Bachelor's in Computer Science from Harvard University.

Chris Pin serves as PKWARE’s VP, Security and Privacy. In this role, Chris drives value and awareness for all PKWARE customers regarding the various challenges that both privacy and security regulations bring to the data-driven world. He works closely with all customers and potential customers to help them better understand how PKWARE solutio...

Jose Barajas is Technical Director, NA Sales Engineering AttackIQ. He has over a decade of experience as a security researcher reverse-engineering malware and developing security controls and analytics. At AttackIQ, he now focuses on improving security control efficacy through attacker behavior emulation and establishing continuous security v...

Christopher A. Hart is the founder of Hart Solutions LLP, which specializes in improving safety in a variety of contexts, including the safety of automation in motor vehicles, workplace safety, and process safety in potentially hazardous industries.

Mr. Hart is also Chairman of the Washington Metrorail Safety Commission, a three-jurisd...

Bruno Almeida is a Sales Engineer at Gigamon, where he partners with customers to help them ensure continuous security and monitoring of cloud and data center services during their digital transformation journeys. He has over a decade of experience in the IT infrastructure space. Before joining Gigamon, Bruno worked for several firms in the m...

Crane Hassold is the Director of Threat Intelligence at Abnormal Security, where he leads a team responsible for researching enterprise-focused cyber threats. Prior to joining the private sector in 2015, Crane served as an Analyst at the Federal Bureau of Investigation for more than 11 years, providing strategic and tactical analytical suppor...

Larry Chinski has over 20 years in the Identity and Access Management industry and travels globally to help complex organizations understand emerging trends, the current threat landscape, and how to leverage technology platforms to resolve issues related to cybersecurity as well as operational efficiency.

Todd Bearman is the Chief Information Security Officer for TE Connectivity with responsibility for Information Security globally across nearly 150 countries with 75,000 employees.

Todd is responsible for ensuring collaboration and risk management across the corporate functions and business units where he leverages his leadership, techn...

Mariana is the Director of Email Security Products at Darktrace, with a primary focus on the capabilities of AI cyber defenses against email-borne attacks. Mariana works closely with the development, analyst, and marketing teams to advise technical and non-technical audiences on how best to augment cyber resilience within the email domain, an...

Chris Christensen is the Cybersecurity Business Consultant for Honeywell Building Solutions (Americas) and specializes in securing Operational Technology (OT) and Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Chris passionately believes that cybersecurity is everyone's shared responsibility and through awareness, education, accountability and positive rei...

Alex Kirk is an open source security veteran, with a combined 17 years at Sourcefire, Cisco, Tenable, and now Corelight, where he serves as Global Principal for Suricata. Formerly a malware zookeeper and IDS signature writer, today he spends his time helping SOC analysts and advising on security policy for government agencies, universities, a...

Stephen Gates brings more than 15 years of information security experience to his role as Security Evangelist and Senior Solution Specialist at Checkmarx. He is an SME with an extensive hands-on background in security and is a well-known writer, blogger, presenter, and published author who is dedicated to conveying facts, figures, and informa...

Tommy Todd is Vice President of Security at Code42 with over 20 years of cybersecurity experience, primarily focused on data privacy and data protection strategies. Prior to Code42, Tommy served in security roles at Symantec, Ionic Security, and Optiv as well as many other firms. Throughout his career, he has acted as a leader, mentor, engine...

An experienced security architect, specializing in Identity Governance, Access Management, and Multi-Factor Authentication, C. Michael Tracy has over 20 years of diverse technology experience with roles at Microsoft, Wells Fargo Bank, HID Global, and DigitalPersona. At SpyCloud, C. Michael helps clients safeguard the identities of their emplo...

Professor Scott J. Shackelford serves on the faculty of Indiana University where he is Cybersecurity Program Chair along with being the Executive Director of the Ostrom Workshop. He is also an Affiliated Scholar at both the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and Stanford’s Center for Internet and Soci...

Tina is currently the Sr. Director of Information Security at Sleep Number Corporation and has held executive cybersecurity leadership positions at Best Buy, Shutterfly, and Target Corporation. Tina holds a B.A. in Organizational Behavior from St. Scholastica and an MBA from Augsburg University. Tina also maintains active CISSP and CIPP/US ce...

Theodore Peterson, CISSP, has over 30 years of IT and Information Security experience. He has a BA from the University of Minnesota and an MBA from Augsburg College. He currently is the Director Information Security for Datasite.

Joseph Carson has more than 25 years of experience in enterprise security, an InfoSec Award winner, author of "Privileged Account Management for Dummies" and "Cybersecurity for Dummies." He is a CISSP and an active member of the cyber community, speaking at conferences globally. He’s an advisor to several governments, as well as to critical i...

Piyali Das has a proven 16-year track record of leading Information Security and Information Technology enterprise-wide initiatives. This includes success in risk-based prioritization of security initiatives and the resolution of complex issues cost effectively. She has also directed complex cross-functional projects across the enterprise res...

As Principal Threat Research Engineer in LogRhythm Labs, Brian works to keep abreast of current cyberthreats and news, develop threat detection and response content, and demonstrate how we detect and respond to threats. In this role, he regularly engages with the LogRhythm Community and offers advice and solutions to remediate common security...

Sajed Naseem ("Saj") is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of New Jersey Courts. He has over 20 years of experience with information security and IT across many industries. As the CISO of the New Jersey Courts, he has focused on Cybersecurity Readiness & Performance, Information Governance, and Network Security. Sajed holds Masters...

Erich Kron is a veteran information security professional with over 20 years’ experience in the medical, aerospace manufacturing and defense fields. He is the former security manager for the 2nd Regional Cyber Center-Western Hemisphere and holds CISSP, CISSP-ISSAP, MCITP and ITIL v3 certifications, among others. He has managed the technical i...

Mike works with customers and oversees technical strategy for areas which include cloud security, advanced email defense, SOAR, browsing security, and SDP. Prior to joining Proofpoint, Mike held numerous technical leadership and product strategy roles across a variety of solutions.

Chris is Director of Technology & Strategy, as well as the Deputy CTO, at BitSight Technologies, guiding enterprises in assessing risk metrics and managing third-party relationships. He's been in cybersecurity for over 35 years, in both technical roles as a developer for the DoD intelligence community, and in executive positions, such as CSO ...

Terry Ray is the SVP and Imperva Fellow for Imperva Inc. As a technology fellow, Terry supports all of Imperva’s business functions with his years of industry experience and expertise. Previously he served as Chief Technology Officer where he was responsible for developing and articulating the company’s technical vision and strategy, as well ...

Sudeep Venkatesh is a noted expert on data protection, bringing two decades of industry and technology experience in this area. His expertise spans the protection of data in both structured and unstructured data ecosystems, with an emphasis on solving real-world business problems through encryption, authentication and key management. He has a...

Former software engineer and penetration tester, nowadays Sr. Security Automation Engineer at GitLab.

George has 35 years of industry experience planning, designing, installing, and analyzing LAN, WAN infrastructures, peripherals, and tools for wired and wireless infrastructures. An enthusiast for technology and customers alike, he keeps his skills sharp by looking around corners to see what technology and business challenges are coming down ...

Ms. Meera Rao is a Senior Director of Product Management, focusing on DevOps solutions at Synopsys, Inc. Ms. Meera has over 20 years of experience in software development organizations in a variety of roles including Architect, Lead Developer, and Project Manager, and Security Architect. Ms. Meera has been working as a trusted adviser to Fort...

Morgan is an internationally recognized expert on cybersecurity strategy, cyberterrorism, national security and intelligence. He currently serves as Chief Security Advisor for SentinelOne, Senior Fellow at The Center for Digital Government, and is the chief technology analyst for Fox News and Fox Business. Morgan's landmark testimony before C...

Belinda Enoma is a privacy and cybersecurity consultant with a legal and technology background. She offers virtual privacy and cybersecurity services including risk mitigation solutions and building privacy programs from scratch. She is a writer, corporate trainer, lifestyle strategist, mentor, and coach to women in the cybersecurity and data...

Roger Grimes is a 30-year computer security consultant, instructor, holder of dozens of computer certifications and an award-winning author of 10 books and over 1,000 magazine articles on computer security. He has worked at some of the world’s largest computer security companies, including Foundstone, McAfee and Microsoft. Grimes holds a bach...

Nimmy Reichenberg oversees strategy and marketing for Siemplify, the leading independent provider of Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR). A cybersecurity industry veteran, Nimmy has more than 15 years of experience helping enterprises around the world tackle their security challenges. Nimmy started his careers as a securit...

Riley is a Security Community Evangelist at Code42, where he enjoys educating Security and IT teams through engaging technical content and presentation. Previously, Riley served in both customer support and customer education roles at Code42. In his spare time, he enjoys photography, travel, and relaxing at the lake in northern Wisconsin with...

As a Senior Security Consultant, Justin Wynn is responsible for actively compromising and reporting on virtual environments typically encountered at Fortune 500 companies. Justin performs wireless, physical, red team and social engineering engagements. Justin also conducts research to include the production of open-source models for printing/...

Gary DeMercurio runs one of the largest groups in Coalfire Labs as a Director, where he leads Coalfire’s “Center of Excellence” for Red Teaming, Social Engineering and Physical Penetration. At Coalfire, Gary manages day-to-day business involved with FedRAMP, PCI, HIPPA, and penetration testing, while helping to spearhead the physical and soci...

Amber Vanderburg is a multi award winning international businessperson, keynote speaker, and founder of The Pathwayz Group. In 2016, she left her job in corporate HR to become the only female, only American, and only blonde Academy elite football coach for the Adidas Gameday Academy/Paris Saint Germain Academy in Bangalore, India. She worked ...

As Field CTO at Varonis, Brian supports a wide range of security and technology initiatives by helping Varonis’ customers and partner get the most out of the company’s products. In his 20-year technical career, Brian served as a developer, tech architect, engineer and product manager for companies in financial services, legal, and cybersecuri...

Dave has been working in IT since the last millennium. In his current role, he manages the device management system for medical devices. He has worked primarily in healthcare throughout his IT career.

Brian Anderson has over 16 years' experience in technology, working with networks, systems, application development, and security specializing in automation. Brian has worked to architect, attack, integrate, and secure networks and applications for emergency notification systems, government environments, healthcare organizations, transactiona...

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 & strategic consulting firm delivering solutions to public and private sectors. He also serves as...

Mark Sangster is the author of "NO SAFE HARBOR: The Inside Truth About Cybercrime and How to Protect Your Business." He is an award-winning speaker at international conferences and prestigious stages including the Harvard Law School and RSA Conference, and author on various subjects related to cybersecurity. His thought provoking work and per...

Jason is an accomplished technology executive with over 25 years of experience driving innovation and transformation initiatives across global organizations. Jason collaborates with CIOs, CTOs, and other technology leaders on strategies aimed at enabling business outcomes.

Jason is currently the Global Field Chief Technology Officer fo...

Eric Bodkin leads the delivery of Endpoint Recovery Services for CrowdStrike. Based out of the greater Denver area, Eric leads service engagements focused on the rapid recovery and remediation of endpoints in response to a cyber incident. Eric has more than 15 years of experience in incident response, forensic investigation, cybersecurity ope...

Jonathan Echavarria is an Enterprise Architect at ReliaQuest that has spent his career building and breaking a variety of environments. In his current role, Echavarria leverages this experience to orchestrate business strategy alignment with technological enablement. During his time at ReliaQuest, Jonathan has held various positions with resp...

Chris Pittman has worked in enterprise information technology since 1993 and has specialized in cyber security for the last 14 years. He worked in security and controls and incident response for the Ford Motor Company before moving to the security vendor space in 2008. As a sales engineer at BlackBerry Cylance, he provides technical and secur...

Rori is an expert in organizational change management with a focus on security awareness and driving human behavior.

Lonnie Benavides is an accomplished cybersecurity leader with more than 20 years' industry experience, and is currently the Head of Infrastructure and Application Security at OneLogin. Lonnie began his career as a communications encryption specialist in the U.S. Air Force, and went on to conclude his military service as a Technical Lead of th...

Brennan is the head of Information Security for Columbia Sportswear Company and a 20-year veteran of cybersecurity in verticals including apparel, logistics, healthcare, and financial services.

Paul Rich joined JPMorgan Chase & Co. in 2019 as Executive Director, Data Management & Protection, with the mission of tackling the management of all unstructured data within the company. Paul is passionate about data security, privacy, principle-based design and goal-setting, and has over thirty years of technology experience. During the mor...

Mike DeNapoli has spent over two decades working with companies from mom and pop shops to Fortune 100 organizations;advising on issues from Business Continuity Planning, to Cloud Transformation, to Real-World Cybersecurity. He is currently a Senior Solution Architect with Cymulate Breach and Attack Simulation;helping customers and partners k...

Nigel Thompson is responsible for the product position and messaging of BlackBerry® Spark. He is a regular thought leadership speaker, experienced on topics impacting governments and businesses worldwide, including cybersecurity trends, workflow reformation and harnessing IoT to accelerate digital transformation.

As BlackBerry has tr...

Jeremiah Sahlberg has more than 20 years of security experience. Sahlberg is an executive security consultant and advises clients on establishing security programs and compliance management. He holds CISSP, CISM, PCI QSA and HITRUST certifications.

Previously, Sahlberg held the Senior Director of Protect Operations at NBCUniversal a...

David Hawkins has been in the security industry for just over 20 years. His background includes both IT security as well as physical security. David has served as the Technical Vice Chair of the Open Security Exchange, co-authoring the PHISBITs security protocol which was intended to help integrate physical and IT security.

On the Info...

Brian Robison is the Senior Director, Product Marketing and Chief Evangelist at BlackBerry (formerly Cylance), where he educates the world that preventing cybersecurity threats is actually possible and a much better approach than detecting and responding after an attack. With over 20 years' of cybersecurity experience, Robison is a regular sp...

Kevin Bocek is a leading subject matter expert in machine identity protection. With more than 16 years in the IT security industry, Kevin has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The Washington Post, among many others. Before joining Venafi in 2012, Kevin spent almost two decades working for several leading IT secu...

Katrina Watts works as a Threat Analyst with the ONG-ISAC and focuses on curating and sharing qualitative intelligence related to cyber threats to the oil and natural gas supply chain. Prior to joining the ONG-ISAC, Katrina worked as an Incident Response Analyst for a mid-size corporation and separately as a contractor. Additionally, Katrina ...

Travis has been with Devon Energy for 20 years, being a pioneering member of the Information Security team. Currently, Travis supports the Incident Response, Hunt, and Intelligence functions at Devon, serves on the ONG-ISAC Information Sharing committee, and holds multiple industry security certifications.

Dr. Shaneé Dawkins is a Computer Scientist in the Visualization and Usability Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). She performs research focusing on human centered design and leads the NIST Phish Scale research effort. Shaneé received her M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science at Auburn University, and B.S. in Compu...

Ansh Patnaik, former Chief Product Officer for Chronicle, is now the head of product marketing for Google Cloud Security. Previously, he was VP of Product Management at Oracle where he defined and launched their Security Analytics Cloud service. Over the last 20 years, Ansh has held product management, marketing and sales engineering roles at...

With over 20 years of experience in technology, Adam Gates serves as a senior technical member of Malwarebytes Field Sales Team providing support for customers in North America. Prior to Malwarebytes, Adam has held various senior system engineering positions and consulting roles at Dell, Microsoft, IBM, Atos, and Mimecast. Adam lives in Dalla...

Myriah Jaworski leads Octillo Law's Privacy Litigation Team, where she represents clients in data breach actions, technology disputes, and in the defense of consumer class actions and related regulatory investigations stemming from alleged privacy torts and violations of the TCPA, BIPA, IRPA, and other state and federal privacy laws. Myriah a...

Stuart served as a Board Member of ONG-ISAC for over five years and became Chairman in June 2018. He has attended the FBI CISO Academy, has served as President of the award-winning South Texas Chapter of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA), and is a member of ISACA and InfraGard. Stuart has developed and led information securi...

Angela Haun became the Executive Director of the Oil and Natural Gas Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ONG-ISAC) in September 2018. Ms. Haun joined the ISAC after a 20-year career as a Special Agent with the FBI. She brought extensive experience in cybersecurity and protecting critical assets from her work at the FBI, along with her le...

Brad Beutlich is an information security professional who has worked with numerous U.S. based companies over the past 20 years, providing security solutions ranging from end-point to data security. The last 13 years, he has worked for Entrust providing security solutions that protect customer data, financial transactions, and IoT device manuf...

Sivan Tehila is the Director of Solution Architecture at Perimeter 81, a leading Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) provider, and a cybersecurity expert with over 14 years of industry experience. Sivan served in the IDF as an Intelligence Officer and then in various field positions, including Information Security Officer, CISO of the Research ...

Chris Hass is an extremely driven and proven information security professional with extensive experience in Malware Reverse Engineering, Threat Intelligence, and Offensive Security Operations. In his current role, Chris serves as Director of Information Security and Research at Automox. In addition to being a former cybersecurity analyst for ...

Julia Voo is a Cyber Fellow and leads the team behind Belfer's National Cyber Power Index. She was formerly the Research Director for the China Cyber Policy Initiative.

Her areas of research concern geotech strategy including the Digital Silk Road, industrial policy, and technical standards for strategic technologies.

Voo has re...

Tony Anscombe is Global Security Evangelist and Industry Partnerships Ambassador for EST, where he serves to increase ESET’s public awareness initiatives and strengthen relationships with new and existing partners.

Anscombe joined ESET from Avast (which acquired his former employer AVG) where he held the title of Senior Security Evange...

Tom Utley is a senior presales systems engineer with Arctic Wolf Networks based out of the Charlotte area. Tom is a subject matter expert in Managed Detection & Response (MDR) and Managed Risk for mid-size enterprise organizations. Prior to Arctic Wolf, Tom held senior engineering positions at Sandvine as a sales engineer and solution archite...

Allan Liska is a senior security architect at Recorded Future. Allan has more than 15 years of experience in information security and has worked as both a security practitioner and an ethical hacker. Through his work at Symantec, iSIGHT Partners, FireEye, and Recorded Future, Allan has helped countless organizations improve their security pos...

Richard Melick has spent over a decade advancing through the security industry with his considerable experience and considerable focus on the stories surrounding ransomware, hacking, and cyber attacks. He has been a security speaker on five continents and has even advised royalty on how to make and distribute ransomware.

Etay Maor is Chief Security Officer at IntSights. As CSO, Etay leads the security advisory practice at IntSights where he works with CISOs and other senior cybersecurity executives to develop risk management-based cybersecurity programs. Etay has extensive experience in cybersecurity having worked at IBM, Trusteer, and RSA. Etay holds a BA in...

Gina Scinta is a Senior Solutions Architect with the Thales, DIS, Cloud Protection and Licensing business line. She has over 30 years of experience in the IT profession, encompassing pre/post sales engineering support for Commercial and Federal territories. For the past 10 years, she has focused on providing solutions for protecting data usin...

Rick has more than 15 years' experience working in information security. Before joining Digital Shadows, he was a vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research, providing strategic guidance on security architecture, operations, and data privacy. Rick also served as an intelligence analyst in the US Army. He is currently co-chair ...

Chris Goettl is the Director of Product Management for security products at Ivanti. Chris has over 15 years of experience working in IT, where he supports and implements security solutions for Ivanti customers and guides the security strategy and vision for Ivanti security products. He is also a security evangelist speaking at security events...

Lee is a Cloud Security Specialist engaging with Check Point customers in the southeast to enable and accelerate their digital transformation and cloud initiatives, by designing secure, compliant solutions to protect their corporate assets and data in the public cloud.

Before joining Check Point, Lee held Sales, Management and Business...

Eric Skinner is VP of Market Strategy at Trend Micro, helping shape Trend’s solution offerings, growth plans and go-to-market approach. Previously at Trend Micro, Eric has been responsible for global product marketing. Prior to Trend Micro, Eric held senior management positions in a health care mobile startup and at digital identity solutions...

Tim O’Connor works for Cadre Information Security as the lead of knowledge services and vCISO team member. He is a professional public speaker, has been working in IT for 20+ years and holds a number of certifications including PCI-QSA, CISA, CISSP, CTT+, MCSE, CISSO, CWNE, Security+ and CISSM. Tim has authored over a dozen books, has written...

Detective First Lieutenant Jim Ellis is the commander of the Michigan State Police Cyber Section within the Intelligence Operations Division. He leads a cyber team of 56 MSP members located at 7 offices throughout Michigan. He has oversight over the Michigan Cyber Command Center (MC3), Computer Crimes Unit (CCU), and the Michigan region of th...

Edward Roberts leads Product Marketing for Imperva Advanced Bot Protection. Prior to Imperva he led marketing at Distil Networks and has over twenty years of experience in technology marketing. Previously he worked for Juniper Networks, heading up Product Marketing for the Counter Security team. Before that he ran marketing for Mykonos Softw...

Ran Rosin Joined Imperva two years ago and is currently leading the Cloud Data Security solution. Prior to joining Imperva, Ran founded and lead two start-ups in the area of mobile Application and IoT.

Phillip Wylie is the Lead Curriculum Developer for Point3 Federal, Adjunct Instructor at Dallas College, and The Pwn School Project founder. With over 22 years of experience, he has spent the last eight plus years as a pentester. His passion for mentoring and education inspired him to start teaching and to found The Pwn School Project, a bi-m...

Tod Beardsley is the director of research at Rapid7. He has over 20 years of hands-on security experience, stretching from in-band telephony switching to modern IoT implementations. He has held IT Ops and IT Security positions in large organizations such as 3Com, Dell, and Westinghouse, as both an offensive and defensive practitioner. Today, ...

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 suppo...

Eric Wolff is a Senior Product Marketing Manager for Thales application-layer data protection and solutions for public cloud security. He has over 20 years’ experience in threat intelligence management, network security, application acceleration, enterprise-class storage area networking, storage virtualization, data-management applications, a...

Kelsey Nelson is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Okta, leading workforce IT and security solutions, including getting beyond the buzzword of "Zero Trust." Prior to joining Okta, she led product and business communications at tech startups varying from enterprise software to edtech to consumer music hardware, and prior to that taught sec...

David Masson is Darktrace’s Director of Enterprise Security, and has over two decades of experience working in fast moving security and intelligence environments in the UK, Canada and worldwide. With skills developed in the civilian, military and diplomatic worlds, he has been influential in the efficient and effective resolution of various u...

Susan has over 20 years of healthcare experience in Human Resources and Compliance. Susan joined the Provation team in 2017 and brings her experience of building and growing high-performing teams with a dynamic, results-oriented culture and strong leadership. Susan also has experience in healthcare compliance specifically in HIPAA and HITECH ...

Paul Lanzi, is the co-founder and COO of Remediant. Remediant is a cybersecurity startup focused on delivering a new approach Privileged Access Management. Paul and his co-founder at Remediant, Tim Keeler, worked together in the IT departments of several biotechs including Genentech, Roche and Gilead Sciences before starting Remediant. At eac...

Adam has over 20 years of experience in technology and serves as a senior technical member of the Malwarebytes field sales organization, providing expertise to customers in the Eastern U.S. Prior to joining Malwarebytes almost 5 years ago, Adam’s travels took him from various operational roles to other pre-sales engineering roles with Symante...