Speaker Directory
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    Peter Samoray
    Sr. Director, Cybersecurity, PCI Energy Solutions

    Peter Samoray serves as a Senior Director of Cybersecurity at PCI Energy Solutions overseeing all aspects of strategic and operational security services. Peter comes from a very diverse security background with over 18 years of cybersecurity and technology experience across multiple industry sectors serving in various areas including operatio...

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    Amirali Sanatinia
    PhD Candidate / Research Assistant, Northeastern University

    Amirali Sanatinia is a Computer Science PhD candidate at Northeastern and holds a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from St. Andrews University. His research focuses on security and privacy, and has been covered by publications such as MIT Technology Review, Ars Technica, and Threatpost. He is a recipient of RSAC Security Scholar and the C...

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    Kierk Sanderlin
    Director of Engineering, Check Point Software

    Kierk Sanderlin is the Director of Engineering at Check Point Software Technologies. He has been in the cyber security space for almost 20 years and has been a regular speaker at various cyber security events across the region.

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    Russ Sanderlin
    Director & VDMR Subject Matter Expert, Qualys

    Russ Sanderlin is a seasoned cybersecurity strategist with 20+ years of experience helping global organizations advance their vulnerability and exposure management programs. As a Director and VMDR Subject Matter Expert at Qualys, he bridges technical depth with customer and product leadership to drive operational maturity and deliver meaningf...

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    Christopher Sanders
    President, The Palatin Group LTD

    Mr. Sanders is currently the President of The Palatin Group LTD, an intelligence and corporate security advisory headquartered in Arlington, VA with offices in Bratislava, Slovakia and Zurich, Switzerland with partner offices around the globe. A seasoned security management consultant and executive with over 25 years of domestic and internati...

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    Jimmy Sanders
    Head of Information Security, Netflix DVD

    Jimmy has spent the better part of two decades securing data and systems from cyber threats. In addition to his duties at DVD.com, Jimmy has served as the San Francisco Bay Area chapter president of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) since 2014. He is also on the ISSA International Board of Directors. Furthermore, he has been...

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    George Sandford
    Sr. Manager, Customer Success Security Team, Gigamon
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    Kurt Sanger
    Director, Integrated Cybersecurity Partners, LLC
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    Mark Sangster
    Vice President and Industry Security Strategist, eSentire

    Mark Sangster is the author of "NO SAFE HARBOR: The Inside Truth About Cybercrime and How to Protect Your Business." He is an award-winning speaker at international conferences and prestigious stages including the Harvard Law School and RSA Conference, and author on various subjects related to cybersecurity. His thought provoking work and per...

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    Dr. Andy Santana
    VP, Cloud Security Manager, BankUnited

    Dr. Andy Santana, CISSP is VP, Cloud Security Manager at BankUnited, where he leads security engineering, architecture, and First Line IT risk management across cloud, application, and data protection programs aligned to NIST and SOX. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Florida Atlantic University, teaching graduate level cybersecurity and IT ...

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    Kevin Santarina
    Sr. Presales Systems Engineer, Arctic Wolf Networks
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    Anahi Santiago
    CISO, ChristianaCare Health System

    Anahi Santiago is the Chief Information Security Officer at ChristianaCare Health System, the largest healthcare provider in the state of Delaware. Prior to CCHS, she spent over 10 years as the Information Security and Privacy Officer at Einstein Healthcare Network. In her role as CISO, Anahi has overall responsibility for the organization's ...

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    Anahi Santiago, Moderator
    CISO, ChristianaCare Health System

    Anahi Santiago is the Chief Information Security Officer at ChristianaCare Health System, the largest healthcare provider in the state of Delaware. Prior to CCHS, she spent over 10 years as the Information Security and Privacy Officer at Einstein Healthcare Network. In her role as CISO, Anahi has overall responsibility for the organization's ...

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    Douglas Santos
    Director, Advanced Threat Intelligence, Fortinet

    With more than two decades of experience in the cybersecurity field, I possess a unique blend of sales soft skills and deep technical acumen, making me a well-rounded individual who is at ease working in both technical and non-technical environments. My keen understanding of the cyber threat landscape allows me to communicate potential threat...

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    John Sapp Jr.
    CISO & VP, Information Security, Texas Mutual Insurance Company

    John is widely recognized by industry peers and leaders as a visionary and strategic information security professional who is focused on innovative implementations of InfoSec and IT Risk implementations. He is a frequent speaker at some of the largest technology and healthcare industry events.

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    Adib Sarakby
    Sr. Sales Engineer, Mimecast

    Adib Sarakby joined Mimecast as a Service Delivery and, after a year, was promoted to a Sales Engineer role. He works closely with the Sales, Marketing, and Educational teams to continually enhance Mimecast's products and promote Cyber Resilience. Email Security is Adib's passion, and as the threat landscape evolves, he splits his time betwee...

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    Leslie Saravia, Moderator
    Director, Security & Compliance, Overhead Door Corporation
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    Kaustubh Sarkar
    Lead Product Security Engineer, Salesforce

    As Lead Product Security Engineer at Salesforce, Kaustubh works closely with engineers from the Salesforce AI Platform to ship secure-by-design products. Kaustubh leverages strong relationships with product teams and other stakeholders to reduce overall risk and security debt for the platform. He also helps scale security impact via automatio...

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    Joe Sarkisian
    Manager, Lead Penetration Tester, Wolf & Company

    Joe serves as a Manager on Wolf & Company’s Information Technology Assurance Team. Joe is responsible for coordinating and conducting penetration testing services for clients in a variety of industries including financial, healthcare, and software. His expertise consists of internal and external network penetration testing, social engineering...

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    Pari Sarnot
    Risk Advisory Practice - Cyber Privacy and Risk, Grant Thornton LLP (US)

    Privacy Consulting Director with Blueprint Technologies- Over 10 years of international consulting and industry experience, with Fortune 500 clients across US and Europe. Consulting Practice Lead including Managed Services for Strategy and Risk, focused on clients in Technology, Retail and Payment sectors.

    Possess a strong understandin...

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    Kim Sassaman
    CISO, UHS of Delaware, Inc.
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    Dvir Sasson
    Director of Security Research, Reco
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    Patti Sauder
    Senior Sales Engineer, Cylance
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    Rhett Saunders
    Executive Director of Cybersecurity & Infrastructure, Focus on the Family

    Rhett served the Federal Reserve, and while there, led regular Enterprise Risk Management discussions between the Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury with a focus on cybersecurity. He is a former NSA cryptoanalyst and a U.S. Army veteran, having served multiple joint intelligence communities, both foreign and domestic government agencies in int...

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    Allen Sautter
    Principal Security Advisor, AWS; Former CISO, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
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    Aleksandra Savic
    Cloud AI Security Architect, Google Cloud

    Aleksandra blends security expertise, sales knowledge, and consultative skills to help companies establish and demonstrate cloud security. Aleksandra has a passion for learning new technologies and a commitment to customer service. She has contributed to the design and implementation of Bridgecrew's products, a leading security as code platfo...

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    William Sawyer
    Manager, CyberSecurity and Privacy, PwC

    Bill Sawyer is a Manager in PwC's Advisory Services. As a member of PwC’s Security Architecture Center of Excellence, he is responsible for developing and delivering PwC’s Security Architecture security offerings. Across his 17 year career, Bill’s experience in both consulting and industry includes application security, security architecture ...

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    Jacqueline Scarlett
    VP, Information Security, Financial Institution

    Over 20 years of experience within information technology management and information security applied within operations, cyber training and awareness and enterprise risk assessment and process auditing and partnering with financial services, automotive and legal industries. Proven track record developing, implementing strategies and systems ...

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    Maria Scarmardo, Host
    President, InfraGard North Texas Members Alliance
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    Elizabeth Schaedler
    Security Advisor, Splunk

    Elizabeth Schaedler is a seasoned Splunk Security Advisor, specializing in helping organizations align their security strategies with business risk objectives. She has extensive expertise in leveraging risk-based alerting to address complex challenges such as fraud prevention. With over 20 years of experience in data center operations and cyb...

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    Nick Schappacher
    SVP & Deputy CISO, KeyBank

    Head of Information Security Governance

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    Tara Schaufler
    Information Security Awareness and Training Program Manager, Princeton University

    Tara Schaufler is the Information Security Awareness and Training Program Manager at Princeton University. Tara has worked at Princeton for 17 years, spending the last 10 focusing on training and technical communications, and over the past five years has built a robust security awareness and training program from the ground up. She is a membe...

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    Chris Scheels, Moderator
    Vice President, Gurucul

    Chris has been aligning people, processes and technology to drive companies forward for over 20 years. He has a decade of cybersecurity experience in product marketing and product management. His passion is helping businesses succeed through the strategic use of technology. Most recently he was helping customers accelerate their Zero Trust jo...

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    Stephanie Scheuermann
    Director, Cyber Threat Management, Ford Motor Company

    Stephanie Scheuermann is the Director of Cyber Threat Management at Ford Motor Company, where she heads Data Protection Services. Her journey at Ford began in 1996, and after various roles within Ford Credit, she made a significant shift in 2004 to focus exclusively on cybersecurity. Since then, under her leadership, Stephanie has been instru...

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    Matt Scheurer
    Chair, CiNPA Security SIG, Financial Services industry

    Matt Scheurer is a Systems Security Engineer working in the Financial Services industry and serves as Chair of the Cincinnati Networking Professionals Association Security Special Interest Group (CiNPA Security SIG). He holds a CompTIA Security+ Certification and possesses multiple Microsoft Certifications including MCP, MCPS, MCTS, MCSA, and...

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    John Schiel
    Principal InfoSec Engineer, CenturyLink

    John has over 12 years of hands-on experience in network and information security and security architecture. John was the primary DDoS architect and provided direction and support to Network Operations on how to best protect CenturyLink’s network from DDoS attacks. He has decades of cross functional network and application experience and toda...

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    Nick Schilbe
    Sr. Director of Security Solutions, SentinelOne

    Avid Video game player turned video game hacker turned professional hacker. Joined WhiteHat Security at a young age and quickly became the head of their Threat Research Center. While at WhiteHat, Nick performed penetration tests on thousands of websites while creating new attack techniques to evolve the WhiteHat Sentinel platform. In 2014 ...

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    Craig Schippers
    Principal Engineer, Trend Micro, Inc.

    Craig Schippers is a CISSP Certified Principal Sales Engineer at Trend Micro. He has worked in the Security Industry for approximately 17 years assisting customers with their Infrastructure Security needs. He lives in the Kettle Falls, WA.

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    Michael Schladt
    Principal Cybersecurity Researcher, General Electric Gas Power

    Mike Schladt, CISSP, GREM, is an information security researcher and engineer with over 12 years' experience performing malware analysis, reverse engineering, digital forensics, and incident response. Previous roles include leading malware analysis at the USAF National Air and Space Intelligence Center, as well as heading the development of e...

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    Kara Schlageter
    CISO, Discovery Education

    Kara is a cybersecurity executive with 20+ years of experience leading security, risk, and operations in large, highly regulated financial institutions. She’s built and scaled global teams, managed $100M+ portfolios, and led complex IAM and GRC programs that reduced risk and strengthened regulatory posture. Recently stepping into the role of ...

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    Justin Schluessler
    Data Protection Officer, Compassion International

    Justin Schluessler has served with Compassion International, a global child development non-profit, for 21 years. Starting in IT and then transitioning to Risk Management, Justin was the organization’s very first information security employee—building a comprehensive security and compliance program from the ground up. In his current role as ...

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    Paul Schmeltzer
    Partner, Clark Hill PLC
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    Bruce Schneier
    Security and Cryptography Expert and Author

    Bruce Schneier is an internationally-renowned security technologist, called a security guru by the Economist. He is the author of 14 books—including the best-seller "Click Here to Kill Everybody"—as well as hundreds of articles, essays, and academic papers. His influential newsletter Crypto-Gram and blog Schneier on Security are read by over ...

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    Ian Schneller
    Information Security Advisory; Former CISO at HCSC

    With more than 34 years of experience in information security and executive leadership, Ian Schneller has built a career advancing strategic cybersecurity and resilience across government, defense, finance, and healthcare sectors. His background includes three tenures as a large enterprise Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and recogni...

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    Ian Schneller, Moderator
    Information Security Advisory; Former CISO at HCSC

    With more than 34 years of experience in information security and executive leadership, Ian Schneller has built a career advancing strategic cybersecurity and resilience across government, defense, finance, and healthcare sectors. His background includes three tenures as a large enterprise Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and recogni...

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    Scott Schober
    President / CEO of BVS, Cybersecurity Expert, Author, BVS

    Scott Schober is the president and CEO of Berkeley Varitronics Systems, an experienced provider of wireless test and security solutions. He is considered one of the foremost wireless technology and cybersecurity experts in the world, and is regularly interviewed for leading national publications, as well as appearing on major network televisi...

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    Rich Schofield
    Principal Security Architect, Sysdig

    Rich Schofield is a Principal Security Architect at Sysdig. Based in Boston. Rich has over 25 years experience in DevOps and Security at companies large and small, including HPE, Opsware and BBN. Over the past 4 years at Sysdig he has focused on security and visibility for Cloud and Kubernetes environments.

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    Adam Schrock
    Managing Director, Grant Thornton