Mary Gardner’s background provides a wealth of security, compliance, and risk management expertise from a variety of industries, including healthcare, finance, and transportation/logistics. She joined F5 as chief information security officer (CIS)) from Seattle Children’s, where she served as CISO. She has also held security leadership positi...

Jim Garrett is an IT executive, leader, architect, and governance expert with enterprise executive experience at the Saint Francis Health System, State of Missouri, New York State, 3M, Honeywell, Ingram Micro, Washington Mutual, and Maytag. Also significant healthcare consulting experience at MediSys Health Network, Salinas Valley Memorial He...

Dave Garrison is an experienced professional in data and network security and information systems management with over 30 years of expertise, having worked at Texas Instruments, Sun Microsystems, and later in Ecommerce and website development at BroadVision and US Bancorp, emphasizing the integration of security in design. He further develope...

Charles Garzoni is deputy CISO Centene Corporation and responsible for cyber defense operations. His career spanned multiple industries, law enforcement, and the military specializing in building teams to investigate, analyze, and attribute both nation-state and criminal cyber attacks. Over his career he has worked hundreds of high-profile i...

Erik comes to Tanium from AppDynamics (part of Cisco), where he spent almost five years in field sales. For the past two years, he was the CTO for the East Sales Team, which is responsible for generating more than half of the company's revenue with a focus on large financial firms in the region. Prior to that he built out and headed the Busin...

With over 25 years of experience in technology, Adam Gates serves as a technical member of Cybereason Sales Engineering Team providing support for customers and partners in North America. Prior to Cybereason, Adam has held various senior system engineering positions and consulting roles at Dell, Microsoft, IBM, Atos, Malwarebytes, and Mimecas...

Stephen Gates brings more than 15 years of information security experience to his role as Principal Security SME at Horizon3.ai. He is a subject matter expert 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 information that...

Stanton Gatewood is the US Department of Homeland Security /CISA - Region 4 Cyber Security Coordinator/Advisor - State of Georgia. Gatewood is the former Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for the State of Georgia, Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia and the University of Georgia.

He has more than 35 years of cy...

Chris Gaun is a seasoned product leader with a track record of scaling AI technologies in the enterprise. Currently the VP of Product Strategy at Island.io, Chris previously spearheaded the core EY.ai agentic platform, transforming traditional services into autonomous agents and delivering AI strategies for global consulting clients. As the f...

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...

Adam Gavish is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of DoControl. Adam brings 15 years of experience in product management, software engineering, and network security. Prior to founding DoControl, Adam was a Product Manager at Google Cloud, where he led ideation, execution, and strategy of Assured Workloads (GovCloud) customer experienc...

Chamon Gayton is a highly motivated and accomplished cybersecurity professional and retired military veteran, bringing over 17 years of proven experience in security operations, governance, risk and compliance (GRC), and information assurance within both federal and private sector environments. Specializing in leading enterprise-wide security...

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...

Kenneth Geers (PhD, CISSP): NATO Cyber Centre Ambassador, Atlantic Council Senior Fellow, Digital Society Institute-Berlin Affiliate, TSN University of Kyiv Professor, Ukraine. 20 years US Government (US Army, NSA, NCIS, NATO); FireEye Senior Global Threat Analyst. Author “Strategic Cyber Security”, Editor “Cyber War in Perspective”, Editor “...

Teressa Gehrke is the Founder of PopCykol, a trusted online safety resource for families and kids. PopCykol stands for Protecting Our Precious Curious Kids Online. PopCykol teaches internet safety concepts in a fun, easy, and interactive style.

She has worked in cybersecurity since 2014 as a technical writer, user experience designer,...

Gina is a Product Marketing Manager at Automox with over 20 years' experience in cybersecurity, endpoint management, and data storage. Gina develops messaging and content that resonates directly with our customers' challenges and is constantly seeking new ways to communicate how technology can make their lives easier.

Colonel Gelhardt, at the pinnacle of his military career was selection to work at The White House as the CIO, supporting President Clinton, the VP, the White House Staff, and the U.S. Secret Service managing all the classified automation and telecommunications. Colonel Gelhardt is a combat veteran. Colonel Gelhardt is a well-known speaker and...

Torsten George is a security evangelist at Centrify and frequent speaker on cybersecurity, identity and access management, and risk management strategies worldwide. He regularly provides commentary and byline articles for media outlets, covering topics such as data breaches, incident response best practices, and effective cybersecurity defens...

Brittany George, CISA, CISM, PCIP, QSA, has over two decades of experience, including former Big Four experience with a focus on public company audits. Her current focus includes cybersecurity, system and organization controls (SOC) reporting, evaluation and testing of IT general controls (ITGCs) and regulatory compliance (including Payment C...

Brittany George, CISA, CISM, PCIP, QSA, has over two decades of experience, including former Big Four experience with a focus on public company audits. Her current focus includes cybersecurity, system and organization controls (SOC) reporting, evaluation and testing of IT general controls (ITGCs) and regulatory compliance (including Payment C...

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...

Dave is an accomplished security and IT leader with a strong track record of building and elevating security programs in highly regulated industries. With expertise in strategy, process improvement, regulatory compliance, and risk management, Dave has enabled organizations to grow securely while improving operational efficiencies and reducing...

Ghazi currently serves as a principal in RSM’s security, privacy, and risk practice with more than 15 years of infrastructure security, system implementation and application security review experience. He leads RSM’s security, privacy and risk practice for the Central Region and leads RSM’s critical infrastructure practice nationally. In his ...

Jessie Gibbons is a dynamic IT professional specializing in cybersecurity, with a strong focus on partner and account management. With over twenty years of experience, he has excelled in nurturing strategic partnerships and managing key client accounts within the cybersecurity sector. Leveraging his expertise, Jessie has successfully cultivat...

Simon Gibson is a Fellow Security Architect at Gigamon. He provides security strategy and technology roadmap direction for Gigamon products that secure physical and virtual network traffic. Simon has been working on Internet infrastructure for nearly 20 years. From small ISP’s , to developing streaming media technology at AOL/Time Warner and ...

As Director of Information Security, at NSF, Tony Giles leads the teams that audit and certify organization’s information security systems. Giles is an ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 20000-1 and ISO 9001 Lead Auditor and is involved with the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program (CMMC). Giles has spent nearly two decades of his career wi...

Accomplished cybersecurity industry leader with 20+ years of experience in the IT industry specializing in creating and leading hyper performing teams to achieve key company metrics and KPI’s. He is widely known across the industry as a successful product and operational leader specializing in creating, rebuilding, and realigning business seg...

Kristen Gilmore is a senior business development director at INSPYR Solutions, a top-tier technology solutions company. With over 20 years of experience in IT staffing solutions in the Houston market, Kristen is a proven sales leader who has cultivated a strong reputation for building and expanding customer relationships. Kristen is well-vers...

Conor Gilsenan is a software engineer who has spent the past eight years focusing on security. He has worn many hats, including: programmer, architect, specification author, and UX contributor. He believes that UX is a critical and historically discounted component of any security solution, and is passionate about putting users first. He is t...

Matthew Gioia is Associate Director for IT Security & Compliance at St. Louis Community College where he works with students, faculty, and staff to secure student and employee data. Matthew believes the community is best served with an education partner focused on helping every student establish and work towards achievable goals, and that dev...

Scott M. Giordano is an attorney with more than 25 years of legal, technology, and risk management consulting experience. IAPP Fellow, CISSP, CCSP, Scott is also former General Counsel at Spirion LLC, where he specialized in global data protection, tech, compliance, investigations, governance, and risk. Scott is a member of the bar in Washing...

David Girvin is an AI Security Research and Technical Advocate at Sumo Logic with a background in offensive security, AppSec architecture, and AI exploitation. Before joining Sumo Logic, he worked in security engineering roles at 1Password and Red Canary, focusing on application security, threat modeling, and real-world attack surface reducti...

Chris Glanden is an experienced cybersecurity strategist and the Founder & CEO of BarCode Security, a full-service consulting firm he launched in November 2023. Through BarCode, Glanden provides advisory services, pentesting, training, and incident response with a team of seasoned industry experts.

In 2020, Glanden started the BarCode ...

RVP of Sales serving Western North America & LATAM for the global digital leader ForgeRock. Leading a team of security sales professionals, responsible for managing some the world’s largest enterprises throughout Western Canada & USA, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Columbia, Mexico and Brazil.

Connie brings over 19+ years of digital identity...

Brian Gleeson is charged with bringing to market Proofpoint’s People-centric Security Service Edge solutions. He comes to Proofpoint from Check Point, where he focused on a wide portfolio of product offerings, including network, mobile, endpoint, IoT, and cloud security. Since 2013, he published more than 50 though-leadership papers and blogs...

As head of Cybersecurity Strategy, Nathaniel is responsible for thought leadership and Illumio’s cybersecurity technology strategy. Prior to Illumio, Nathaniel managed and secured networks, investigated and prosecuted cybercrime at the U.S. Department of Justice, and served as director for cybersecurity policy on the National Security Council...

Carol Glennon is the Senior Director of Offensive Security at Walgreens Boots Alliance, a trusted global leader with a 170-year heritage in healthcare, pharmacy and retail. Carol is a seasoned and strategic leader in the field of cybersecurity, incident response, and DevSecOps.
Some of her key achievements include leading innovative pur...

30+ years experience in auditing and investigating white-collar crimes. Currently employed by Texas Office of Attorney General Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. Assisted Harris County DA in successfully prosecuting a case of cash theft of $150,000. Hold ACFE, CIA, and CGFM certifications. Past President of Houston Chapter, ACFE. Business Administr...