Speaker Directory
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    Andrew Johnson
    Solutions Architect, Washington Technology Solutions (WaTech)

    Andrew Johnson is a Solutions Architect based in Olympia, WA. Andrew serves as the Principal Architect overseeing the state’s adoption of zero trust, Secure Access Service Edge, SD-WAN, and Secure Service Edge. Andrew is responsible to interconnect state government with cloud-based resources and external business partners. Andrew spearheads t...

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    Gary Johnson
    Sr. Director of Cybersecurity and IT Infrastructure, Kansas City Power & Light

    Gary Johnson is a US Army veteran who has over 30 years of IT experience. He is the Sr. Director of Cybersecurity and IT Infrastructure for Kansas City Power & Light. Prior to that he spent 10 years at Cerner Corporation helping build their IT Infrastructure for the first five years and then led their security program the last five. He has a ...

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    Kurt Johnson
    Security Engineer, Check Point Software Technologies

    Check Point Security Engineer, three years;
    Pro Serve/Consultant, four years;
    Sr. Engineer in Financial Services, six years;
    Firewall Monkey, two years

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    Rex Johnson
    Director of Cybersecurity, BKD CPAs & Advisors

    Rex is a strategic and technical leader with more than 25 years of experience in security and privacy, enterprise risk management, security management and operations, IT governance, application development, internal and external audit, regulatory compliance, and controls assurance. He has served as the lead executive with responsibility for p...

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    Cody Johnson
    Intelligence Analyst, FBI
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    Dr. Natalie Johnson
    IT Security Administrator, Broward County Government; Co-Founder & Researcher, CyberMINDS Research Institute

    Dr. Johnson is a dedicated technology professional with 15+ years in compliance, security, and governance with a track record of success in security and strategic planning. Dr. Johnson’s research on the underrepresentation of Women of Color in InfoSec showcases her dedication to fostering inclusivity in the field. She has advanced degrees in ...

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    Chris Johnson
    Assistant Director of Technology Services, City of Independence, Missouri

    Chris Johnson is currently serving as the Assistant Director of Technology Services for the City of Independence, Missouri. In this role he is responsible for strategy and execution of all technology needs for the various City departments. These functions include HelpDesk, deskside support, applications management, data center/server admin, n...

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    Brandi Johnson
    Deputy CISO, Toyota Financial Savings Bank

    Dynamic, strategic, results-driven Cybersecurity executive with deep proven experience in ensuring the security of business systems. Uses thoughtful analysis to reduce enterprise risk, cyber risk, and operational risk by deploying focused proven solutions. Leader in Cybersecurity, emerging technologies, data platforms and Governance Risk and ...

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    Erin Johnston
    Enterprise Security Director, BISO, Salesforce

    Erin Johnston is a seasoned cybersecurity leader with over two decades of experience spanning the energy and technology sectors. Currently serving as an Enterprise Security BISO at Salesforce, Erin leads a high-impact team responsible for embedding risk-based controls that enable innovation without compromising security. Her team plays a pivo...

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    Tammylynne Jonas
    CIO, Self Esteem Brands

    Tammylynne Jonas (TLJ) is a seasoned digital and technology executive with almost 20 years of experience leading large, international teams. TLJ is the Global CIO for Self Esteem Brands, the parent company for Anytime Fitness. In this role, TLJ has responsibility for multiple franchise brands, with almost 5000 locations across almost 40 count...

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    Michael Jones
    Attorney, Trusted Counsel

    Michael is a corporate attorney with a strong background in intellectual property and business-oriented technology. As an Attorney with Trusted Counsel, Michael handles licensing and commercial agreement issues. He advises clients on IP and technology licensing, outsourcing and services agreements. He is responsible for negotiating complex te...

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    Stephen Jones
    Vice President Managed Services, GuidePoint Security

    Stephen is the Vice President of Managed Services at GuidePoint Security and began his career in Information Security, Information Technology Management, Vulnerability Management, and Security Operations Center (SOC) operations. Before joining GuidePoint Security, Stephen worked for ManTech International at a large federal agency managing SOC...

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    Alex Jones
    Information Security Manager, Cobalt.io

    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...

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    Carlton Jones
    Regional Vice President, Qualys

    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...

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    Kim Jones
    CISO, Western Union
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    Lisa Jones-Huff
    Sr. Director, Global Security Specialists, Elastic

    Lisa Jones Huff is a seasoned cybersecurity expert with over two decades of experience in the field. As the Senior Director of Global Security Specialists, SA Team at Elastic, she brings a wealth of knowledge and a consultative approach to the table.

    Lisa's passion lies in helping organizations identify and tackle their ongoing securit...

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    Jeffrey Jones, Moderator
    CISO, Milliman

    Jeff Jones is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for Milliman, Inc., an actuarial consulting and solutions firm headquartered in Seattle. Jeff is responsible for managing the information security program that encompasses 130 Practices in 80 cities, and supports over 8000 clients and more than 500M participants worldwide. Jeff was ...

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    Joseph Jones, Moderator
    Advisor, Strategic Security, Risk & Compliance Management, DataBee, a Comcast Company

    Joseph Jones is a cybersecurity leader at DataBee®, a Comcast Company, where he helps enterprise organizations transform their security and IT data points into integrated, accessible, and continuous intelligence. With deep expertise in cybersecurity, compliance, risk management, and control automation, Joseph has played a key role in bringing...

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    Justin Jordan
    Regional Sales Engineer, CrowdStrike

    As a skilled cybersecurity specialist with over 15 years of experience, Justin has honed his expertise in privileged access, identity security, and Endpoint Security Solutions. His background spans various industry-leading companies, including BeyondTrust, FireEye, and CrowdStrike. As a subject matter expert and advisor, he has contributed to...

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    Matthew Joseff
    Global Director, AI/ML Fraud Strategy and GTM, Splunk, a Cisco company

    With three decades of experience at the intersection of cybersecurity, fraud prevention, and technical sales, Matthew has consistently shown a rare ability to see the world not as it is, but as it could be. He's a veteran in the truest sense, a veteran who has helped companies and customers save millions by deploying innovative fraud solution...

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    Swathi Joshi
    Sr. Technical Program Manager - Incident Response, Netflix

    Swathi Joshi is a Senior Technical Program Manager, on the Security Incident Response Team at Netflix where she works on advancing the crisis management program and maturing the incident response function. Previously she worked at Mandiant as an Engagement Manager and as an Escalations manager, managing and solving most critical technical eff...

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    George Jouldjian
    Cyber Director, Elliott Davis

    George has 21 years of experience as an IT Security Professional who works with clients in a variety of industries to analyze and improve their overall security posture through penetration testing and threat assessments. He also advises organizations on cyber incident response and provides comprehensive cybersecurity consulting services. Geo...

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    Ed Jowett
    President, ISC2 Philadelphia Chapter
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    Cameron Joyce
    Sr. Solution Engineer, Arctic Wolf

    Cameron Joyce is a self proclaimed "full stack" engineer. Having spent close to a decade in Managed Services Cameron Joyce has implemented or managed just about every enterprise technology on the market. With a background in security, messaging, and datacenter architecture, Cameron Joyce now helps businesses select emerging technology solutio...

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    Moderator: Kristin Judge
    CEO & President, Cybercrime Support Network

    Kristin Judge founded the nonprofit Cybercrime Support Network in 2017 to be a voice for cybercrime victims. She's a national speaker, sharing cybersecurity best practices with elected officials, businesses, and consumers. She's appeared on the C-SPAN Network and local news outlets, and been called on by numerous technology publications, to s...

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    Everett Junco
    Sales Engineer, Torq

    Everett is a Sales Engineer at Torq who is passionate about all things AI and automation. He spent a few years at CrowdStrike, selling the latest and greatest they had to offer, and came over to Torq to help realize the agentic SOC vision, bringing domain expertise in SIEM, SOAR, and AI to bear to solve customer problems. His favorite color i...

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    Kat Jungck
    Principal Enterprise Security Architect, F5 Networks

    Kat is an experienced cybersecurity practitioner with a background in both enterprise cybersecurity and secure product development with deep domain experience in cloud security, identity and access management, and secure product development. Kat enjoys working with local cybersecurity chapters and programs to recruit and develop the next gen...

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    Jo Justice
    Director, BISO, Leidos

    As a Director-level BISO at Leidos, Jo Justice, with delegated CISO authority, leads risk-based security decision making. Additionally, she provides strategic cybersecurity leadership, architectural design direction, and risk-based governance oversight to align cybersecurity initiatives with enterprise business objectives.

    With more t...

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    Raynooka Kabir, Moderator
    Business Continuity Analyst, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
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    Mike Kachline
    Director of Operations, Peaksware

    With over fifteen years across large to small companies, Mike has written and maintained software using multiple languages. In addition to software development, Mike has managed both IT and customer service groups, as well as holding a key role in bringing multiple Point-of-Sale platforms to PA-DSS compliance.

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    Marina Kaganovich
    Americas Financial Services Executive Trust Lead, Office of the CISO, Google Cloud

    Marina engages Google Cloud’s financial services customers in the Americas on security topics throughout their cloud journey, focusing on regulatory compliance, risk management, governance and oversight, cybersecurity and privacy.

    Prior to joining Google, Marina held Legal and Compliance roles on Wall Street, overseeing the broker dea...

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    Benson Kamau
    Director, Technical Account Management, Tanium

    Benson has been in the tech space for more than 15 years. His background is in system engineering, where he helps install, configure, and maintain on premise and cloud infrastructure. He has held positions at Veracode, Edelman Financial Engines, and presently at Tanium.

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    George Kamide
    Co-Host, Bare Knuckles & Brass Tacks Podcast
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    George Kamide, Moderator
    Co-Founder, Mind Over Cyber
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    Santosh Kandala
    Director, Security Monitoring & Analytics, Microsoft

    Santosh Kandala is a passionate security leader with diverse experience in the areas of behavioral analytics, security monitoring, incident response, cloud scale detection, digital forensics, ethical hacking and investigations. When is he is not finding needles in the haystack, you will see him running half marathons in the trails around Puge...

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    Esmond Kane
    CISO, Advarra

    Esmond Kane brings more than two decades of expertise as a distinguished leader in information security, safeguarding vital sectors. With a rich leadership background at prestigious institutions like Harvard University, Mass General Brigham, and Steward Health Care, he also serves on the advisory boards of multiple companies, providing valuab...

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    Esmond Kane, Moderator
    CISO, Advarra

    Esmond Kane brings more than two decades of expertise as a distinguished leader in information security, safeguarding vital sectors. With a rich leadership background at prestigious institutions like Harvard University, Mass General Brigham, and Steward Health Care, he also serves on the advisory boards of multiple companies, providing valuab...

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    Simon Kang
    Principal TPM, Snowflake

    Simon Kang is a Principal Technical Program Manager at Snowflake focused on cybersecurity, enterprise AI governance, and practical security operating models. His experience spans cyber risk advisory, GRC, security program management, regulated cloud initiatives, enterprise AI rollout, and control automation. Simon works across security, produ...

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    Glenn Kapetansky
    Chief Security Officer & Technology Lead, Trexin Group

    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...

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    Glenn Kapetansky, Moderator
    Chief Security Officer & Technology Lead, Trexin Group

    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...

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    Eric Kapfhammer
    Founder and Executive Director, Metycus

    Eric Kapfhammer is a data scientist at Microsoft, where he focuses on applying statistical and machine learning approaches to computer and network security. Prior to joining Microsoft, Eric spent the previous decade in the quantitative trading space as a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager, leading teams of data scientists and software en...

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    Gaurav Kapil
    Sr. Director, Information Security, Blue Cross and Blue Shield
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    Craig Kaplan
    Cyber Security Account Executive, Darktrace

    Craig Kaplan is a Cyber Security Account Executive at Darktrace, the world’s leading machine learning company for cyber defense. He has worked extensively with clients across numerous industry verticals, from Financial Services to Healthcare, helping them deploy Darktrace’s Enterprise Immune System, the only AI technology capable of detecting...

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    Dan Kaplan
    Solutions Engineer, Okta

    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.

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    Ankit Kapoor, Moderator
    Senior Security Program Manager, Microsoft

    Ankit has been with Microsoft for over 12 years spanning roles from building and leading adoption of the most secure cloud native Microsoft managed Detection and Response platform. Over the years, he worked in several product teams as Cloud Compute and Security leader, ideated, defined and led cyber security initiatives from the ground up. In...

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    Christopher Kar
    InfoSec Advisor, Fort Bend ISD

    Mr. Kar is the Information Security Advisor for Fort Bend ISD, the 7th largest school district in TX with ~74,500 students, ~11,000 employees and contractors spanning 80+ educational and administrative campuses. Chris has previously held leadership roles at both public and private sector organizations including Memorial Hermann, the U.S. Hous...

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    Naomi Karake, Moderator
    Director of Operations, WiCyS Houston Affiliate
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    Yvette Karanja
    IT Support Analyst, Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI)