Rene Kolga, CISSP, heads Product Management and Business Development for North America at Nyotron. Prior to working at Nyotron, Rene was Head of Product at ThinAir. Rene also spent eight years at Symantec where he managed multiple enterprise security product lines in the areas of encryption and endpoint security. Additionally, Rene led dozens...

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...

CJ Koluch is a sales leader at Concentric AI, where he works with enterprise organizations to help them discover, classify, and secure sensitive data across cloud and on-prem environments. He partners closely with CISOs and security teams to reduce risk, improve data governance, and operationalize modern data security programs. CJ is passiona...

Sindhura is a cybersecurity engineer specializing in emerging threat analysis and enterprise security architecture. With a practitioner's focus on translating complex security research into actionable guidance, Sindhura brings the grounded, real-world perspective to quantum security that is too often absent from discussions dominated by acade...

Jeramy Kopacko serves as the Field CISO for Sophos North America, where Jeramy helps organizations understand and manage business risk in cybersecurity. Jeramy has led technical strategy and enablement across Sophos’ security solutions and services, most recently supporting strategic accounts in the state of Pennsylvania and the New York City...

Oren Koren is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Veriti. Oren brings 19 years of experience in cybersecurity, advanced threat analysis, and product management,. Prior to founding Veriti, Oren was a Senior Product Manager at Check Point Software Technologies, where he led AI-based innovations and advanced data analytics projects redef...

Yanek Korff has served in information technology or security roles for over 20 years. Starting out as a student help desk tech in a musty library basement in college he is now co-founder and Chief of Staff at Expel, a DC-area cybersecurity company that makes security easy to understand, use, and continuously improve.

Yanek began his pr...

Rich Korn, a Senior Security Solution Specialist for Comcast Business Global, has been in the industry for almost 30 years, selling hardware/software and services. Rich spent most of that time working in the Agent Community, founding CDW’s Agent Program in 1999. In 2018, Rich brought his skill set to Masergy, which was subsequently acquired b...

Tsvi Korren, CISSP, has been an IT security professional for over 25 years. In previous positions at DEC and CA Inc., he consulted with various industry verticals on the process and organizational aspects of security. As the Field CTO at Aqua, he is tasked with delivering commercial and open source solutions that make Cloud Native workloads t...

Jeffrey is a former banking security practitioner possessing over 24-years’ experience in the financial services sector and ten security domains. As a BSO and ISO, he specialized in developing cybersecurity and fraud programs. He currently manages a council with FS-ISAC assisting over 3,800 members achieve cyber-security maturity.

Currently Joanne acts as the Chief Information Officer for Mitchell College with responsibility for academic, administrative, and enterprise computing and library information services. Joanne also serves as principal in her consulting services company, 1MountainRoad, which specializes in strategic business process re-engineering; aspirant and...

Charismatic, enthusiastic thought leader, strategy planner and achiever.

Robert Kraczek, Global Strategist with One Identity, has more than three decades of security experience, with a specialization in Identity Security. Over the years, Robert has worked with, implemented solutions, and advised customers in all major industries as well as local, state and federal governments. Robert’s responsibilities include wor...

Born with a screwdriver in his hand, Andy has been digging into the internals of technology since he opened his eyes and in the security industry since the era of dial-up. Proudly a generalist, Andy has turned his hand at a wide swath of security industry focuses on both the offensive and defensive sides over the last 25 years. When he’s not ...

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...

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...

Chris Kreft, CISSP, is a GRC Manager at Steelcase with over 20 years of IT experience, including a decade-long tenure leading key security engineering, identity, and risk initiatives. In the past year, he spearheaded Steelcase's CMMC compliance through navigating federal terminology, defining enclave boundaries, and architecting practical ris...

Ondrej Krehel, CEO & Founder of LIFARS is recognized world-wide for his Digital Forensic expertise. He actively participates in many high-profile engagements around the world whereby his proprietary methodology is leveraged to achieve the most rapid root-cause analysis and remediation.
He’s the former Chief Information Security Officer ...

Alex Kreilein is Vice President of Product Security & Public Sector Solutions at Qualys (NASDAQ: QLYS), where he ensures Qualys products are secure, resilient, and provably trustworthy for government and regulated industry use. He leads initiatives across Security by Design, DevSecOps, FedRAMP, the Qualys Product Security Incident Response Te...

Kyle Krejci is a highly skilled and experienced Security Engineer at Team Cymru with over a decade of experience in Network Security and Engineering. He has a strong background in the field of cybersecurity and is passionate about using his expertise to help organizations better protect themselves against cyber threats.

Kyle has gained...

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...

Devin Krugly is the senior security executive with an ardent focus in establishing and maturing an enterprise security strategy to reduce cyber risk by strengthening attack surface and risk management programs. Devin has over 21 years of experience with numerous Fortune 500 companies as a practitioner and consultant in managing technical and ...

Carlos has over 15 years of experience in IT security, with extensive knowledge in network, server, and endpoint security. He advises clients on malware prevention, endpoint visibility, host and network intrusion prevention, vulnerability and configuration management, firewalls\perimeter protection, and SIEM. He is an authority on Cylance, a ...

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...

Kathleen Kuczma (she/her) is a Senior Solutions Consultant with Recorded Future. Her prior experience includes 3.5 years as an Intelligence Analyst within the U.S. Department of Defense where she specialized in counterterrorism, digital forensics, and nation-state cyber threats. In her current role, Kathleen uses her intelligence background t...

Jack Kufahl serves as the Chief Information Security Officer for Michigan Medicine at the University of Michigan. With over 20 years in information technology leadership, he is a founding officer of the Michigan Healthcare Cybersecurity Council (MiHCC), a public-private partnership supporting Michigan’s healthcare sector. Jack is a graduate o...

With more than 25 years of experience, Kuivala was most recently the Vice President of General IT and User Experience at NXP Semiconductors. Prior to this role, Kuivala was a long-time security executive at Nokia, serving as the company's CISO and CSO throughout his tenure of more than a decade. He helped form a streamlined and co-operative s...

Seth is a director in Promontory’s cyber practice, where he advises clients on all aspects of tactical and strategic cybersecurity. He has more than 20 years of experience providing dynamic, secure, and cost-effective security solutions and programs. He has served in senior information security positions at companies ranging from startups to ...

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...

Hitesh has more than 15 years of identifying and remediating security risks across networking, cybersecurity, and cloud solutions. He is one of a select few architects globally certified at the highest level of the Fortinet Security Fabric ecosystem.

Shreyas Kumar is a Professor of Practice in Computer Science & Engineering at Texas A&M University, specializing in Cybersecurity, AI, and Risk Management. With 22 years of industry experience, he has held security engineering and leadership roles at Uber, Adobe, and Oracle. His research focuses on cyber warfare and AI-driven security.

Paul Kurtz is an internationally recognized expert on cybersecurity and the Chief Cybersecurity Advisor/Field CTO at Splunk. Paul began working cybersecurity issues on the National Security Council at the White House in the late 1990s. He served in senior positions on the White House's National Security and Homeland Security Councils under Pr...

John E. Kveragas, Jr., CPA, CISA, is a seasoned Internal Audit Executive with over 20 years’ experience in IT, operational, financial, and compliance auditing in multiple industries. John has extensive expertise with building effective internal audit functions, training and development, and managing regulatory exams with positive outcomes for...

Bill Kwak has almost 20 years of combined IT and Information Security experience in the healthcare, banking & financial, government, and consulting sectors.

Dr. Fred Kwong has been in the information security and technology field for the past 20 years in working in education, financial, telecommunication, healthcare, and insurance sectors. He is an award-winning thought leader in security and currently works at DeVry University where he currently serves as the VP and Chief Information Security O...

William (Bill) Kyrouz is Information Security Director at Paul Weiss, one of America’s most prestigious law firms. Bill has worked in the legal industry for about twenty years, with a four year stint in Higher Education Technology , and has served in dedicated Information Security roles for the last 12. Prior to Information Security he work...

Jessica LaBouve, eCPPTv2, CEH, has spent her entire career specializing in offensive security. She started as a penetration tester performing application, network-level assessments, and social engineering. This experience ultimately led her to become a Solutions Architect at Bishop Fox, where she helped facilitate the scoping and sale of offe...

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...

Ricardo Lafosse is responsible for IT risk governance, software and product security, incident management, technical disaster recovery, and determining enterprise-wide security policies and procedures. Lafosse regularly presents on security topics at global conferences, including Defcon, MirCon, and ISACA CACS. Lafosse has more than 15 years ...

Hugo Lai is the Chief Information Security Officer at Temple University Health System. Over the years, Hugo has honed his expertise within the healthcare market, leading cybersecurity programs for healthcare organizations of various sizes. Before transitioning to healthcare, Hugo was a cybersecurity consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton, supporti...

Alicia Laing Clarke is the Director of Cyber Security, Risk and Privacy (Head of Security) for PGA Tour Superstores. Alicia oversees PGA Tour Superstore (PGATSS) Cyber Protection, Risk, Compliance and Privacy of all PGATSS assets and data. She is responsible for protecting PGATSS from cyber activities and leading PGATSS’s response to cyber th...

Hema Lakkaraju has worked in the healthcare industry for 10 years in software and IT compliance.

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...

Scott Laliberte, President of ISSA Delaware Valley Chapter for over 10 years, has grown the chapter significantly by creating a collaborative community for Cyber Security professionals to share their knowledge and experience and satisfy their CPE needs. Scott also leads Protiviti’s Emerging Technology practice where he enables clients to leve...