Speaker Directory
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    Wolfgang Rohde
    Executive Partner of Innovation, AiSuNe

    Dr. Rohde, a pioneer in applying cutting-edge technologies, co-founded IBM’s Web Services and SOA Excellence Team for Europe. He later developed Cloud solutions for an international solution provider. As global Director of Research at Siemens Digital, he focused on AI, GenAI, Blockchain, Cybersecurity, and Autonomous Factories in manufacturin...

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    Timothy Rohrbaugh
    CISO, JetBlue Airways
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    Michael Roling
    Lead Technical Project Manager, US eDirect

    Michael Roling was the Chief Information Security Officer for the Office of Administration, Information Technology Services Division, for the State of Missouri since 2009. He led the Office of Cyber Security and was responsible for overseeing the information security posture for the State of Missouri.

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    Delbert A. Roll
    Retired U.S. Army, former member of the Intelligence Community

    Del is a recently retired, senior leader with 20 years of Federal Government service having served in Washington, D.C. and internationally. Concurrently, he served 23 years as a commissioned Army officer in austere and hostile environments around the globe. Command assignments in both conventional and special operations forces. He is recogniz...

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    Tim Rolston
    CISO, ModSquad
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    Mike Roman
    Sr. Sales Engineer, Orca Security

    Mike is a Senior Sales Engineer at Orca Security who is responsible for helping organizations identify risks in their cloud environments and enhance their cloud security posture. Prior to joining Orca, Mike spent five years at Splunk where he partnered with organizations on their cloud journey in areas that included Security and Observability...

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    Peter Roman
    Senior Counsel, Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section, Criminal Division, U.S. Justice Department

    Peter Roman is a federal cybercrimes prosecutor and a former Oracle DBA and UNIX system administrator. After 14 years working in IT, and following the events of September 11, 2001, Mr. Roman went back to school and became a lawyer so that he could become a prosecutor. Now, he melds his cyber and legal experience working for the Department of ...

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    Monica Romei
    Board Secretary, WiCyS Delaware Valley; SOC Sr. Manager, Security Risk Advisors

    Monica leads a global team of 150 cybersecurity analysts, providing 24x7x365 monitoring and response services. She oversees the delivery of Enterprise and XDR SOC services using SRA’s SCALR™ XDR platform, enhancing security capabilities while minimizing costs.

    Monica specializes in talent leadership, performance and project management...

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    Kevin Romero
    Sales Engineer, ReliaQuest
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    Ryan Roobian
    Global Principal Solutions Architect - Cyber Intelligence & Risk, Google Cloud

    Ryan Roobian has over 25 years of experience in various specialties in IT including Cybersecurity. As a Global Solutions Architect at Google Cloud Security, Ryan serves as a subject matter expert for all security products and services within the Google Cloud portfolio. In his current role, Ryan works with strategic customers around the world ...

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    Olivia Rose
    Co-Founder and Principal, Williams Rose AI Cyber Advisory; Former CISO of Amplitude, Mailchimp

    Olivia Rose is an award-winning cybersecurity executive whose 25-year career has centered on security leadership, governance and organizational transformation. She has held CISO roles at Mailchimp and Amplitude, where she built and led security programs through periods of rapid growth and change.

    Her work has increasingly focused on he...

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    Aaron Rose
    Security Architect, US Public Sector, Office of the CTO, Check Point Software Technologies

    Aaron Rose is a Cyber Security Evangelist, Security Architect & Member of the Office of the CTO at Check Point Software Technologies. A subject matter expert in Cloud, Internet of Things, and Application security; Aaron has focused his career on securing organizations & their resources beyond the perimeter of the traditional network firewall...

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    Sheryl Rose
    Chief Information Security Officer, Catholic Health Initiatives

    Sheryl Rose, an experienced IT security and audit professional, has been Chief Information Security Officer since 2010 at Catholic Health Initiatives, a nonprofit, faith-based health system that is the nation's third largest, comprised of 103 hospitals and a variety of other health-based facilities spanning the inpatient and outpatient contin...

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    Adam Rosen
    VP, Product Strategy, Netwrix

    Adam Rosen serves as Vice President of Product Strategy at Netwrix. An expert on managing and securing data, Adam has helped organizations of all sizes implement controls and policies to meet security, compliance, and efficiency objectives. In his current capacity, he manages Netwrix’s portfolio of data security and data privacy technologies ...

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    Ran Rosin
    Director, Product Management, Imperva

    Ran Rosin Joined Imperva two years ago and is currently leading the Cloud Data Security solution. Prior to joining Imperva, Ran founded and lead two start-ups in the area of mobile Application and IoT.

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    John Roskoph
    SVP, IT, Caesars Entertainment
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    Frank Ross
    Director, Cybersecurity, Anderson Corporation

    Frank Ross is Director of Cybersecurity at Andersen Corporation, with previous experience leading Enterprise Information Security and Enterprise Architecture. He specializes in business enablement, data protection, and defensible architecture while empowering teams to deliver secure and effective technology solutions. Frank brings a strong fo...

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    Joan Ross
    Cybersecurity Technologist, CISO, and Threat Intelligence Professional

    Joan Ross is a respected industry thought leader who develops advanced security strategies, publishes and speaks on implementing threat intelligence. Joan is a former Chief Security Officer for two technology companies, coming up the security ranks as an encryption engineer and cloud security architect. As an early CISSP holder from back in t...

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    Donna Ross
    CISO, Radian Group Inc.

    Dynamic leader and board member demonstrating over 20 years of diverse risk, compliance, information security, technology, and operations experience within the manufacturing, insurance, banking, financial services, and retail sector. Adept in developing and implementing strategic technology and risk solutions, performing research and analysis...

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    Brian Rossmeisl
    Sr. Security Architect, AccessIT Group
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    Clar Rosso
    CEO, (ISC)2

    Clar Rosso has more than two decades of experience helping global professional associations and certifying bodies grow and strengthen member value. As CEO of (ISC)², she has established a forward-looking strategic framework and set bold goals for the future of the association. Under her direction, (ISC)² has established a Diversity, Equity, a...

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    Amanda Rousseau
    Sr. Malware Researcher, Endgame
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    Jim Routh
    Private Sector Security & Risk Advisor and Board Member; Former Risk Leader, Mass Mutual and Aetna

    Jim Routh serves as a security & risk advisor and Board member for several companies, and is the former CISO for MassMutual, CSO at Aetna, and Global Head of Application and Mobile Security for JP Morgan Chase. He also was the CISO for KPMG, DTCC, and American Express and has more than 30 years of experience in information technology and info...

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    Mary Rowley
    Cyber Third-Party Risk Manager, AbbVie

    Mary’s several years of leadership experience encompasses many areas of cybersecurity with a focus on IT risk management, IT audit, security awareness training, vulnerability management and incident response. Her extensive information security background includes working at Henry Ford Health System, Comerica Bank, WorkForce Software, Learning...

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    Rebecca Royal
    Product Marketing Manager, imper.ai

    Rebecca Royal is a Product Marketing Manager at imper.ai, focused on preventing workforce impersonation and AI-driven social engineering attacks that bypass traditional authentication controls. After training to become a SOC analyst, she developed a strong focus on defensive security and the practical challenges faced by security teams. Her w...

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    Brian Roye
    Sr. Security Consultant, Critical Start

    Cybersecurity professional with 20+ years of experience in solutioning and supporting across operations, client delivery, architecture, sales engineering, and management. Focus has been around security services, especially managed services and consulting as delivered from the provider. Experiences in working with clients from all industries a...

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    Michael Roytman
    Chief Data Scientist, Kenna Security (a Cisco company)

    Michael Roytman is a recognized expert in cybersecurity data science. At Kenna Security, Michael is responsible for building the company's core analytics functionality focusing on security metrics, risk measurement, and vulnerability measurement.

    Named one of Forbes' 30 Under 30, Michael's strong entrepreneurship skills include foundin...

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    Mike Roytshteyn
    Information Security Director, Palm Beach State College

    Michail Roytshteyn is the Director of Information Security at Palm Beach State College in Lake Worth, FL. He is a Compliance and Risk Management Professional with a solid technical background and a highly analytical mind. He has been involved in the Information Technology field for more than 15 years, of which the last 10 years were in a prof...

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    Joe Ruck
    Head of Field Architecture, Gambit Security
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    Jeremy Rucker
    Partner & Attorney, Pierson Ferdinand LLP

    Jeremy Rucker is a partner in the law firm Pierson Ferdinand LLP and leads businesses through the evolving and complex landscape of data privacy, security, and incident response. Jeremy regularly counsels clients in all industries on the emerging federal, state, and international data laws and regulations and also serves as a breach coach to ...

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    Jared Ruckle
    Senior Director, Cohesity

    Jared has more than 25 years experience in the tech industry and currently works as Cohesity’s senior director of product marketing.

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    Bob Rudis
    Sr. Director, Chief Security Data Scientist, Rapid7

    Bob Rudis has over 20 years of experience using data to help defend global Fortune 100 companies and is currently [Master] Chief Data Scientist at Rapid7, where he specializes in research on internet-scale exposure. He was formerly a Security Data Scientist & Managing Principal at Verizon, overseeing the team that produces the annual Data Bre...

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    Dave Ruedger
    CISO, RMS

    Dave Ruedger is the Chief Information Security Officer for Risk Management Solutions based out of Newark, CA. RMS is a premier provider of catastrophe risk models for the insurance industry that help organizations forecast losses for hurricane, earthquake, flood, wildfire, terrorism and cyber risk in a cloud hosted SaaS environment. Dave ho...

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    David Ruess
    Information Security & Incident Response Team Lead, Wawa Inc.
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    Sarah Rugnetta
    Partner, Buffalo, Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

    Sarah serves as a vice chair of the Constangy Cyber Team and practices in New York. She leads the provision of compliance advisory services for the Cyber Team, advising clients on strategies to mitigate risk associated with data privacy and security through business-oriented approaches. Sarah has more than 15 years of experience working in th...

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    David Ruiz
    Cybersecurity Manager, Fayetteville Public Works Commission
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    Brad Russell
    Sr. Systems Engineer, Code42

    Brad started his career in IT consulting after graduating from Vanguard University with a B.A. in Business Administration. From there, he moved to Cylance Inc. as an IT Manager/Systems Administrator and later into product development. From Cylance, he went to SentinelOne as a TAM for companies such as Nike and Salesforce, helping shape their ...

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    Christopher Russell
    Enterprise Account Engineer, Trend Micro

    As an enterprise account engineer at Trend Micro Inc., Christopher Russell focuses on Hybrid Cloud and Data Security, xGEN Endpoint Security, and Network Security. Chris acts as a liaison between enterprise customers, the Trend Micro sales team, and the Trend Micro product teams, providing a hands-on, real-world perspective. Prior to joining ...

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    Drew Russell
    Sr. Manager, Identity Resilience, Rubrik

    Drew Russell is the Head of Sales Engineering, Identity at Rubrik, where he focuses on helping organizations fortify their Identity Providers (IdPs) and master real-world incident response. With more than 15 years of industry experience—including nearly a decade at Rubrik—Drew has been a driving force behind the company’s expansion into new p...

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    Nicholas Russo
    Sr. Service Provider Solution Architect, TrendAI

    Nick Russo is a Sr. Service Provider Solution Architect at TrendAI with 18 years of experience building technical delivery teams and developing strong processes and technical enablement in service provider environments. His expertise in complex service provider ecosystems, hybrid cloud security, cyber risk, and DevSecOps makes him a trusted a...

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    Paul Russo
    Enterprise Security Engineer, Tenable

    Paul is a passionate technologist focusing on solutions at the intersection of business and technology. He has over 20 years of industry experience architecting, deploying and consulting on enterprise solutions. In his current role as a Sr. Security Engineer for Tenable he helps organizations reduce risk due to Cyber Exposure.

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    Rick Rutledge
    Sales Engineer, Armis

    Rick Rutledge has been in the Security space for more than 15 years. He has moved from working in the N.O.C. of a fortune 500 company to designing network and security infrastructure of a fortune 20 company to selling security solutions to hundreds of companies across all verticals and sizes. His previous experience with both support and de...

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    Melissa Ruzzi
    Director of AI, AppOmni

    Melissa Ruzzi is Director of AI at AppOmni, a SaaS security company protecting 101 million+ users secured over 260 million exposed data records, analyzes 60 billion cyber events a month and has 100+ employees worldwide. She’s fascinated by the challenges involved in applying machine learning in cybersecurity and the constant changing threat l...

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    Vladislav Ryaboy
    CISO, Life Extension

    Vladislav Ryaboy has spent the past 20 years deepening his expertise in information security. His background includes establishing efficient security operations centers (SOCs), leading secure application development (DevSecOps), and managing complex incident response teams (IR). These experiences have broadly impacted various areas of modern ...

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    Bill Ryan
    Regional Director, Region 3, CISA

    William J. Ryan (Bill) was appointed Regional Director (RD) for Region 3 in 2016. Region 3 is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA, and serves Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, DC. As CISA RD, Bill sets strategic level guidance for, and maintains an operational view of, the region’s cyber and physical inf...

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    Pete Ryan
    Director of ClearPass Sales East, HPE Aruba

    Pete Ryan is a sales professional with over 25 years of experience in building and leading motivated sales teams in the networking and networking security industry. He accepted his current position as ClearPass Sales Director for the East for Aruba HPE in 2013. In this role, he is responsible for strategy, promotion and sales execution on the...

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    Robert Ryba
    Sr. IT Audit / Advisory, Wyndham Destinations

    Robert Ryba has spoken at cyber conferences such as the (ISC)2 Security Congress. He is a Certified Public Accountant and Certified Information Systems Auditor with an Internal Audit and Cybersecurity background. As a millennial who is deeply passionate about information technology, he is motivated to learn why millennials are so indifferent...

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    Dr. Raj Sachdev
    Professor, Researcher, Lawyer, Education

    Dr. Raj Sachdev is a professor, researcher, and‎ internationally qualified lawyer (USA and England/Wales). He holds‎ several degrees in business and law and has guest spoken at such institutions as Oxford, Cambridge, Stanford and major industry conferences including having given a TEDx talk. Over the last 15‎ years, he has taught 50‎+ differe...