Speaker Directory
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    Rick Doten
    VC and Startup Advisory Board Member / AI Governance and Ethics Researcher

    Rick is the former VP and NC Healthplan CISO for Centene. He now focuses on AI Governance and Ethics research and advising venture capital firms and numerous cybersecurity startups. He is an award-winning CISO, frequent speaker, podcast guest, and writer of papers for topics ranging from cybersecurity, neurodiversity, and AI governance and se...

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    Stephen Dougherty
    Principal Investigator, Rexxfield; CEO, Dougherty Intelligence & Investigations

    Stephen is an accomplished U.S. Secret Service investigator with 9-plus years of experience leading complex cybercrime, financial fraud, and international cybercrime investigations. He is recognized for pioneering the U.S. Secret Service’s Business Email Compromise Mission Desk, resulting in the recovery of nearly $500 million in victim funds...

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    Steven Dougherty
    Sales Engineer, Gigamon
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    George Douglas
    Sr. Director, BISO, Compass Group

    Experienced Senior Director with a proven track record in the Security and Artificial Intelligence domains, particularly within the Group Purchasing Organization (GPO) space. Brings expertise in strategic planning, AI-driven analytics, cybersecurity frameworks, team leadership, and operational excellence.

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    Florian Doumenc
    CEO, Trout Software

    As the CEO of Trout Software, I lead a team of talented and diverse professionals who are passionate about delivering innovative and integrated security solutions for industrial and defense companies. With over seven years of experience in the cybersecurity field, I have a strong background in information technology, cloud engineering, and qu...

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    Nicole Dove
    Head of Security, Riot Games

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

    As Head of Security for Riot Games, she is responsible for building a scalable security program including a team of BISOs to support the company’s expansion into entertainment, music and esports.
    Nicole perf...

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    Russell Dowdell
    Sr. Director of Product Management for Privileged Access, Imprivata
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    Matt Downing
    Director, Threat Hunting Operations, ReversingLabs

    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...

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    Frank Downs
    Director, Cyber Information Security Practices at ISACA and DoD Instructor

    Downs, an 11-year cybersecurity specialist, graduated with a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Maryland, after which he promptly joined the US Department of Defense as a subject matter expert, working with computer networks on a daily basis. Realizing that English and cybersecurity were two very different concepts, Frank pro...

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    Eddie Doyle
    Global Security Strategist, Check Point Software Technologies

    Eddie Doyle works with enterprise organizations, university think tanks and corporate leaders to articulate the complex subject of cyber security in an engaging manner, championing his customer’s initiatives to fruition and finding the holy grail of cyber security… making cyber a profit center for the business.

    LinkedIn recognizes Eddi...

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    Michael Doyle
    Principal Consultant, Secure Development Practice Lead, Synopsys
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    Elaine Doyle
    VP, Data Security Architecture, Salesforce
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    Dwayne Dreakford
    Solutions Architect, Sonatype
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    Scott D. Dresen
    CISO, Corewell Health

    Scott D. Dresen, MBA, FACHE, FHIMSS, CISSP, CISM is the chief information security officer of Corewell Health. As the CISO, Scott is accountable as the strategic leader responsible for implementing and operating the enterprise information security program across all Corewell Health divisions, and shares responsibility for leading the enterpri...

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    Dale Drew
    Chief Security Officer, Zayo Group

    Dale is currently the Chief Security Officer of Zayo Group, Inc, a global telecommunications service provider based in Boulder, Colorado. Dale is an accomplished and experienced corporate security executive with 31 years of experience in developing critical global security programs, having worked in Federal/State Law Enforcement and with Inte...

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    Doug Drewry
    Director of IT, CISO, Blueprint
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    Kevin Dreyer
    IT Director & CISO, Maple Reinders Group

    Kevin Dreyer is an IT Director and CISO with over 25 years of industry experience for a General Contractor securing a national network and its 400 users across a hybrid cloud infrastructure. He fell in love with computers at age 12 when a cousin introduced him to programming, and has never looked back. Having dropped out of college due to the...

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    Philipp Drieger
    Global Principal Machine Learning Architect, Splunk
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    Eleni Drier
    Vice President, ISSA South Texas
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    Wesley Drone
    Director, Threat Research & Intelligence, Proofpoint
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    Shaun Drutar
    Security Manager, Fujitsu

    A leading security practitioner with over 18 year of experience in cybersecurity, forensics, and incident
    response. Shaun leads security practice and persuits for a global technology organization.

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    Mario Duarte
    CISO, Aembit

    Mario has 20+ years of experience as a security professional working in the tech, retail, health care, and financial sectors. He has built and managed security teams and developed and implemented security programs for private and public organizations. He serves as an advisory board member at several cybersecurity companies as well as an inves...

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    Monica Dubeau
    Director, Privacy Program, IBM Security
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    Dubie Dubendorfer
    Strategic Evangelist, Varonis
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    Joshua Dubik
    Strategic Cybersecurity Advisor, OpenText Cybersecurity

    Drawing on over a decade of evolution across the cyber landscape, Josh offers a rare perspective that bridges deep technical rigor with high-stakes business strategy. His path from the "trenches" of application security and threat modeling to executive leadership involved scaling large-scale service delivery teams and managing significant ann...

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    Earl Duby
    VP & CISO, Lear Corporation; Board Member, Michigan InfraGard Members Alliance
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    Gennady Duchovich
    Principal Cybersecurity Advisor, 1SEC Solutions Inc

    Gennady Duchovich is an Information Security leader with more than two decades of experience in IT governance and security operations. His unique background combines military service with extensive industry expertise. Gennady specializes in driving transformation and adoption of next-generation cybersecurity solutions, aligning security polic...

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    Nick Duda
    Security Architect, HubSpot

    With over 25 years of experience in the cybersecurity industry, he has dedicated a decade to HubSpot, concentrating on safeguarding the corporate environment through the deployment of various cutting-edge security tools. Nick holds multiple vendor certifications, including Netskopes NSCO&A and NSCI&I. As a client of various security vendors, ...

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    Michael Duff
    Chief Information Security Officer, Stanford University

    Michael completed his undergraduate and graduate degrees in physics and computer science at MIT. He founded a web-based EMR startup and later served as CTO of the acquiring organization. Michael taught computer science courses at Miami University, and then led the information security program at SRI International for the next 11 years. He joi...

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    Frank Duff
    Cybersecurity Engineer, MITRE

    Frank Duff is a principal cyber operations engineer at MITRE. His work has focused in endpoint security and cyber deception. He is the current principle investigator of the Leveraging External Transformational Solutions research and development effort that seeks to assist the integration of innovative commercial cybersecurity solutions into o...

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    Chris Duffey
    Industry Technical Specialist Lead, Splunk

    Chris Duffey is a Splunk Industry Technical Lead specializing in OT cybersecurity. With a focus on security and observability, Chris guides organizations in leveraging Splunk's capabilities to safeguard critical operational technology environments. He has developed specialized content and integrations such as the OT Security Add-on for Splunk...

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    Jennifer Dukarski
    The Geek Lawyer, Butzel Long

    Emerging Tech, Media, IP, Privacy & Cyber Shareholder

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    Curtis Dukes
    Executive Vice President & General Manager, Center for Internet Security
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    Nick Dulavitz
    Global Director, Channel Solutions Engineering, CyberArk

    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...

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    David Dumas
    Secretary, Board of Directors, ISSA New England
    David Dumas, CISSP, CISM, ISSA Distinguished Fellow. David is a Senior Principal in Security Risk Management for Verizon's Wireline Security Operations group. He has 32 years in the security field, working at Digital Equipment and Verizon. He has been on the ISSA New England Chapter Board since 1998.
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    Antona Dumas
    Associate, XPAN Law Group

    Antonia M. Dumas is an associate at XPAN Law Group, a certified Women’s Business Enterprise (“WBE”) and Women Owned Small Business (“WOSB”). At XPAN, Antonia works with clients to create proactive, streamlined, and global approaches to cybersecurity and data privacy. She performs audits, assessments and gap analysis of a client’s existing con...

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    John DuMont
    Digital Forensics Investigator, Verizon RISK Team

    John DuMont is a Senior Investigative Response Consultant for the Verizon RISK Team. In this capacity, John responds to an array of cybersecurity incidents, performs forensic examinations, and assists organizations in implementing IR policies and procedures. Prior to Verizon, John worked as a defense contractor performing computer network de...

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    Trevor Dunlap
    Principal Research Scientist, Chainguard

    Trevor Dunlap is a Principal Research Scientist at Chainguard. Trevor obtained a Ph.D. in Computer Science focusing on automatically enhancing vulnerability data to help provide richer information. He has been involved in research ranging from access control, robocalls, and the use of large language models in security domains. Beyond his tech...

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    Greg Dunlavey
    Supervising Investigator, New York County District Attorney's Office

    Greg Dunlavey is a Supervising Investigator for the New York County District Attorney. Assigned to the Cybercrime and Identity Theft Bureau, his squad investigates sim swaps, DeFi exploits, and NFT thefts, as well as identity theft, business email compromise schemes and cyberstalking. He has been an Investigator for 12 years, previously servi...

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    Ernest Dunn
    Regional Partner – Mid Atlantic, GuidePoint Security
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    Lewie Dunsworth
    CISO, H&R Block
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    Naimah J. Duporte, Esq.
    Incident Response & Data Privacy Compliance Attorney

    Experienced Data Privacy and Compliance Attorney, with a focus on Incident Response, and data analysis and classification standards. Background in criminal law, European Union law, and international law.

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    John P. Durkin
    Regional Director, Region 2, DHS CISA

    John P. Durkin is the Regional Director for Region 2 within the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), where he leads the effort to protect and enhance the resilience of the nation’s physical and cyber infrastructure for New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Prior to this position, he was CISA’s Chi...

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    Samantha Dutton
    President , DuHart Consulting

    Dr. Samantha Dutton is the President of DuHart Consulting where she works with her husband in addressing cybersecurity business needs, as it impacts the human factor. She is also an Associate Dean and the Director of the Social Work Program in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Phoenix. She is a Licensed Clinic...

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    Andrew Dutton
    CISO, DuHart Consulting

    Strategic Global Cybersecurity leader that is accomplished in complex multinational organizations. Strong interpersonal skills and communicator. Extensive experience in cybersecurity, compliance, governance, architecture. Expert in deployment of enterprise standards, processes, and policies. Strong project management experience. Dedicated and...

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    Travis Dye
    Principal Solutions Architect, Armis

    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...

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    Kevin Dye
    Resident Agent in Charge, United States Secret Service/Dayton

    Kevin is the new manager of the Southern District of Ohio Financial and Electronic Crimes Task Force. The task force is responsible for criminal investigations of electronic crimes from Columbus, Ohio to Northern Kentucky and partners with hundreds of task force members from numerous federal, state and local law enforcement agencies. He retur...

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    James Dyer
    Head of Threat Intelligence Lead, KnowBe4

    James Dyer is the Head of Threat Intelligence Lead at KnowBe4, where he spearheads a research team focused on a wide range of cybersecurity domains, including social engineering, open-source intelligence (OSINT), organizational human-risk assessment, and the emerging ways cybercriminals are leveraging artificial intelligence.