Shad Gunderson has been working with identity management since 2001. In addition to working as a practitioner and consultant in the field, he has worked at CA and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Security Services. Shad joined Centrify three years ago as the System Engineer for the Midwest region.

Parrish is currently the CISO at MVB Financial Corp. and is the former SVP & CISO of Sunflower Bank. He has more than 25 years of technology experience and more than 14 years in cybersecurity. During this time, Parrish has worked in various functions of technology, risk management, infrastructure services and support, audit and compliance, in...

Rex leads product for Bits AI Security Analyst, Datadog's AI agent for automating security investigations within Cloud SIEM.

Vatsal Gupta is a Senior Security Engineer at Apple with 13 years in identity, access management, and cybersecurity. His current focus is authorization architecture for agentic AI systems and policy-based access control. He contributes to the OpenID Foundation AuthZEN Working Group, the CSA IAM Working Group, and OWASP AISVS. He has spoken at...

Ankit Gupta is a cybersecurity leader with more than 15 years of experience in cloud security, identity protection, and threat detection. He currently leads enterprise security initiatives at Exeter Finance, focusing on building resilient, future-ready architectures. Ankit holds multiple industry certifications, including CISSP and CCSP, and ...

Deniz Gurkan received her BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from Bilkent University, in Ankara, Turkey, in 1996 and 1998, respectively. Her PhD is also in Electrical Engineering, received from the University of Southern California in 2003. She briefly worked as a lecturer at the California State University in Long Beach, Electrical ...

Jagathi is a global executive, strategic operator and advisor with over two decades of experience across technology, governance and large scale transformation. She has held senior leadership roles at Thomson Reuters, PwC and venture backed firms, leading global teams and scaling operations in highly regulated environments. Today, she advises ...

Dr. Guru Gurushankar is a global leader with over 28 years of experience in the healthcare industry. He currently serves at ColorTokens, where he focuses on leveraging his extensive knowledge to support the company in serving global customers worldwide. Previously, he led Corporate Development at Royal Philips, overseeing strategy, M&A, and p...

Courtney Guss is Director of Crisis Management at Semperis, with more than 20 years of experience spanning cybersecurity, risk management, and crisis response. She specializes in helping organizations navigate high-impact incidents—from ransomware attacks to regulatory reporting—by orchestrating clear, business-aligned response strategies. Co...

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...

Bill Guyer is a seasoned veteran of the IT security battle. With more than 30 years experience at all levels of technology support and strategy, Bill brings a comprehensive, expert, and people focused point of view to the industry. Bill has achieved multiple certifications including CISSP, ITIL, and PMP, and has experience applying the concep...

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 ...

Stephen Gyarmati is a Director of Solutions Architecture at Cohesity responsible for the eastern United States and Canada. In his current role, he interfaces with large enterprise industry professionals to accelerate their adoption of the Cohesity data security and management platform. Stephen has worked in Systems Engineering roles in the Ne...

Andrew Gyenis is a Cybersecurity Account Executive at Darktrace, the world's leading machine learning company for cyber defense. He has worked extensively with clients across the numerous industry verticals, from Fortune 500 energy companies to the federal government, helping them deploy Darktrace's Enterprise Immune System, the only AI techn...

James is a Senior Investigative Response Consultant for the Verizon RISK Team. In this capacity, responds to an array of cybersecurity incidents, performs forensic examinations, and assists organizations in implementing IR policies and procedures.

Karen Habercoss is the Vice President, Chief Information Security and Privacy Officer for The University of Chicago Medicine health system. She is responsible for the enterprise strategy and operations of the health system Information Security and Privacy Office. Karen has a Master’s Degrees in Business Administration and Clinical Social Work...

Christopher Hadnagy, is the founder and CEO of Social-Engineer, LLC. Chris possesses over 16 years experience as a practitioner and researcher in the security field. His efforts in training, education, and awareness have helped to expose social engineering as the top threat to the security of organizations today.

Chris established the ...

Kurt Hagerman is a Field CISO in the North American Cloud Engineering group for Oracle. In this role, he provides cloud security advisory services in support Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and other Oracle cloud-based solutions and applications to C-level executives across multiple industry verticals.

Prior to Oracle, Kurt served as a CxO...

Maria Haight is a seasoned technology executive with extensive expertise in cybersecurity, IT transformation, talent development, and vendor management, having served as both a Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). She currently serves as the Global Information Security Officer at Joyson Safety Systems...

Pat is a Principal Solutions Engineer for Lacework and has been with the company for 3.5 years. He spent the previous ~10 years working for Boston based Cyber Security companies in similar roles and prior to that focused on implementation and consulting work for data automation workflows. Having been in security for the past 10 years and seei...

Cathy is a cybersecurity leader with 18 years of experience providing specialized IT Services to Fortune 500 companies and government agencies, specializing in Identity and Access Management, Information Security, Enterprise Applications and Business Process Management. Cathy brings a unique mix of Federal and Commercial cybersecurity experie...

Arabella is responsible for the go-to-market positioning and activation of the company’s Advanced Threat solutions at Arbor. Previously she was VP of Corporate Strategy where she led strategic planning and corporate development activities.

Arabella has over 20 years of experience in IT security and strategy. Prior to joining Arbor, Ara...

Rick Halm guides clients in preparing for, responding to, recovering, and learning from cybersecurity and privacy incidents. Rick's breadth of experience within the incident response landscape—from leading incident response at the cyber insurance level, to experience at one of the nation’s largest health insurers, to his time in private pract...

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

Alamdar Hamdani is the 24th United States Attorney (USA) for the Southern District of Texas. Nominated by President Biden in October 2022 and confirmed by the United States Senate in December 2022, Hamdani is the chief federal law enforcement officer for the Southern District of Texas (SDTX). The district was established in 1902 and encompass...

Arif Hameed is a seasoned and award-winning Cybersecurity leader with more than 20 years of technology experience. He is a Chief Information Security Officer and has had roles in Security Advisory, IT Risk and IT Audit at various Financial Institutions and Service Providers. He actively volunteers for professional associations including ISACA...

Mark Hamel has worked in technology for more than 30 years, with experience in Mobility, Mobile Security, and Cybersecurity. As a Principal Sales Engineer at BlackBerry Cybersecurity, he provides technical and security guidance to global enterprises interested in implementing AI-based endpoint security solutions. He holds a degree in Computer...

Mr. Hamilton is a former cybersecurity policy adviser to Washington State, CISO, City of Seattle, and VeriSign Managing Consultant.

Mark Hamilton is a Cloud Sales Manager for SentinelOne based in the Seattle area. His long selling career has included time with HP, Cisco, F5, and Palo Alto Networks. In this current role, he facilitates cloud security discussions between clients, partners, and sales teams.

Nate Hammes is a Field Solutions Architect for Pure Storage, responsible for driving Cyber Resiliency through Pure and Alliance vendor solutions. Nate has over 25 years of experience, from end user to IT Architect (with 15 of those years in technical pre-sales roles) in areas including Cyber Resilience, data protection, storage, virtualizati...

Jake Hammock is the Chief Information Security Officer, Assistant Chief Technology Officer and Security & Infrastructure Director at the City of Seattle, where he leads the Security & Infrastructure Division delivering citywide cybersecurity, enterprise infrastructure, cloud operations, IT service management, telecom and radio systems, fiber,...

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...

Stanley Hammond has been in the IT field for the past 20 years and in the information security since 2006. He is currently a Senior Security Engineer in the healthcare field in Massachusetts. Throughout his career he has worked for non-profits, non-government organizations, higher education, and both public and private sector organizations. H...

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...

Thomas Handlon - Chief Information Security Officer at Kennedy Health System, NJ. Thomas (Tom) Handlon is the chief information security officer at Kennedy Health System in NJ. Prior to Kennedy, he was director of information security at American Realty Capital, a financial investment firm. Tom has almost 20 years’ experience in informat...

Tarik Haniff is currently Lead Information Security Engineer at TIAA, specializing in Network Security, Cloud Security, Endpoint Security, and Identity and Access Management. Prior to TIAA, he was a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer at SAS Institute, the world’s largest privately held software company, where he specialized in Microsoft Azure Secu...

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...

Currently the Vice President of Cyber Services for AmTrustCyber, Courtney Hans brings a variety of experience into her work. In her early career, Courtney was an adventure travel guide with a short window to make a strong impression. Curiosity became her superpower as she learned how to uncover the inner motivations of diverse groups of guest...

Keith ‘Skip’ Hansen is the Vice President of IT Operations at APi Group Inc., a multi-billion-dollar parent company to more than 40 independently managed life safety, energy, specialty construction and infrastructure companies located in over 200 locations worldwide. Skip is responsible for aligning APi’s information technology strategy with ...

As chief information security officer at Code42, Jadee Hanson leads global risk and compliance,
security operations, incident response, and insider threat monitoring and investigations. To her
position, she brings more than 15 years of information security experience and a proven track
record of building security programs.