Speaker Directory
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    Josh Behnke
    Manager of Pre-Sales Engineering, Concentric AI

    Josh Behnke is the Manager of Pre-Sales Engineering at Concentric AI. With a career spanning over three decades, Josh offers a rare perspective gained from sitting on both sides of the table—serving as a veteran security practitioner and a strategic leader at industry giants like CrowdStrike, Proofpoint, and GuidePoint Security.

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    Christopher Beier
    Principal Product Marketing Manager, Sumo Logic
    Christopher Beier has been on the front lines of cybersecurity since 1993, from defending submarine networks to defining the next generation of AI-driven SIEM and threat analytics. His work spans EDR, NDR, identity, and anti-fraud technologies, giving him a unique perspective on how today’s defenders stay ahead of attackers. He’s a U.S. Navy vet...
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    Anna Belak
    Director, Office of Cybersecurity Strategy, Sysdig

    Anna has 10 years of experience researching and advising organizations on cloud adoption with a focus on security best practices. As a Gartner Analyst, Anna spent six years helping more than 500 enterprises with vulnerability management, security monitoring, and DevSecOps initiatives. Anna's research and talks have been used to transform orga...

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    David Belanger
    CSO, Bestow

    Dave Belanger has over 25 years of experience in Security and Technology Leadership roles. Dave is the Chief Security Officer for Bestow. In his prior roles, he served as Information Security Officer for a Technology Company operating in the corrections and public safety industry and as CISO for Maxor National Pharmacy Services. He was also t...

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    Jake Bell
    GTM Tech Lead, Rubrik
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    Chris Bell
    VP of Strategic Accounts, Seceon

    IT and managed security sales specialist with over fifteen years of experience. Proficient at gathering business requirements, analyzing business needs, and presenting technology strategies and solutions that align with business objectives. My main goal is to help the enterprise increase user productivity, decrease risk and control costs.

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    Megan Bell
    Founder, Mumuration, Inc.

    Megan Bell has 20+ years of experience in building data products and services, and 15+ working with regulated data. Currently, she consults on data anonymization, privacy-by-design, and security/ privacy analytics, as well as training programs for InfoSec analytics. Previously, she led a consulting practice focused on investigations, forensic...

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    Yan Bellerose
    Cloud Security Architect, Google Cloud

    What happens when you let a tech architect loose on ambitious business goals for more than 20 years? You get Yan Bellerose, Cyber Security Architect at Google! He has been turning ambitious business strategies into technical realities (and ensuring they don't become IT nightmares). His playground is cloud computing, cybersecurity, telecom and...

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    Stephen Bellville
    Secretary, ISC2 Seattle Chapter

    With a deep passion for cybersecurity, Stephen achieved his CISSP certification in 2012 and completed a Masters in Cybersecurity Management and Policy from the University of Maryland. His distinguished career in the Marine Corps has provided him with challenging and rewarding experiences. Stephen is excited to utilize his expertise to support...

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    Ismael Ben Lahmar Gonzalez
    Global Cybersecurity Solutions Architect, Google Cloud

    Ismael works as a Global Security Architect, helping enterprises transform and evolve their cybersecurity strategy and implementation. While in the last years he has been working with both public sector and private industries around the world on how to create and digest Threat Intelligence to empower Security Operations, he has shifted to a w...

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    Jim Benanti
    Sr. Partner, Consulting Engineer, Arbor Networks

    Jim comes to Arbor with over 20 years in the security field as a Pre-Sales Engineer, Sales Representative, Competitive Analyst, and Solutions Consultant. He has been with Arbor for the past six years, where he currently is a Sr. Partner Consulting Engineer.
    Jim received his Bachelor’s degree from Clarion University of Pennsylvania and h...

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    Lonnie Benavides
    Head of Infrastructure and Application Security, OneLogin

    Lonnie Benavides is an accomplished cybersecurity leader with more than 20 years' industry experience, and is currently the Head of Infrastructure and Application Security at OneLogin. Lonnie began his career as a communications encryption specialist in the U.S. Air Force, and went on to conclude his military service as a Technical Lead of th...

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    Kristen Beneduce
    Deputy CISO, Corporate Security Engineer, Nextdoor
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    Benjamin Benhan
    Global Privacy and InfoSec Attorney, eBay

    With over six years of experience in privacy and data governance, Ben is a passionate and driven global privacy and infosec attorney at eBay, where he helps the company navigate the complex and evolving regulatory landscape of data protection and cyber security. He has a strong background in computer science, cyber security, network engineeri...

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    Eva Benn
    Program Manager 2, Microsoft

    Eva Benn is a Program Manager at Microsoft, responsible for coordinating some of the enterprise’s most critical governance, risk and compliance (GRC) efforts. With over 4 years of consulting experience, Eva brings a strong background GRC and Cyber program development, 3rd party risk management and RSA Archer technology solution enablement. He...

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    Bob Bennett
    Chief Innovation Officer, City of Kansas City, MO

    Bob Bennett became the Chief Innovation Officer for the City of Kansas City, Missouri, in January 2016 after a 25-year career in the US Army. He leads the Smart City initiatives, a suite of projects including: data analysis, Public Wi-Fi, digital kiosk installation, and smart lighting programs in the city’s downtown core. Kansas City’s initia...

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    Andy Bennett
    Director, Center of Excellence in Digital Forensics

    Andy is a native Texan with nearly 20 years of experience in IT, DF, and Cyber Security Issues. He is passionate about security works every day as the Director of the Center of Excellence in Digital Forensics to share that passion with others.

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    Scott Bennett
    VP, Applications, Lear Corporation

    Scott Bennett leads Lear Corporation’s global applications as the Vice President of Applications, Deployment and Development. Prior to joining Lear Corporation, he served as the Global Chief Information Officer to International Automotive Components Group, a $6 billion Tier 1 automotive supplier. Before that, Scott was the North America CIO...

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    Joe Bennett
    SVP, CIO, Adient

    Joe Bennett is the Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer for Adient. A security leader known for developing and implementing strategic plans to support business objectives, Joe blends leadership and team building to execute an overall security program. As Chief Information Security Officer, Joe has built a security framework t...

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    Greg Bennett
    Program Manager, Air Force CyberWorx, Center for Technology, Research and Commercialization

    Air Force Officer for 22 years culminating as the Director of Research for a Department of Defense and Dept. of Homeland Security interagency research center delivering capability to the Homeland Security Enterprise and the Air Force. He was the CEO for a small business in Colorado Springs for 14 years and is currently the program manager and...

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    Jimmy Benoit
    VP, Cybersecurity & Program Management, PBS
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    Patrick Benoit
    CISO, Brink's Inc.

    Patrick was previosuly the Global Head of Cyber Governance, Risk, and Compliance / Business Information Security Officer for CBRE. He was formerly the Deputy CISO for Cheetah Digital. He has been an Executive Business Partner at Experian; a Customer Delivery Executive and Service Delivery Leader at Dell; and owned a technology consulting comp...

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    Ryan Benson
    Sr. Solutions Engineer, Cloudflare

    Ryan Benson is a seasoned networking & security engineer, technologist, and industry thought-leader with more than 20 years of experience in the field. He is an Electrical Engineer originally from Louisiana, with experience guiding clients in the energy, defense, government, and mostly large commercial enterprise space in the Southeast U.S. <...

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    Scott Benson
    Director of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure, Mud Bay, Inc.

    Scott Benson is the Director of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure at Mud Bay, with over 25 years of experience in the field. He holds certifications such as CISSP, CEH, and PCIP. Scott leads a team responsible for cybersecurity, infrastructure, and help desk services, ensuring successful business outcomes and compliance with industry standards...

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    Tyson Benson
    Sr. Cybersecurity Product Analyst, ZF Group
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    David Benton
    Director, The American Society of Digital Forensics & eDiscovery (ASDFED)

    In 1994, David began his investigative career as a Counterintelligence Special Agent. During his tour, he conducted numerous investigations across multiple continents. After the military, he joined the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and left as a supervisor on their computer evidence recovery team. He worked for a fortune 25 company and late...

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    Susan Berezny
    Director, Information Security, Royal Canadian Mint

    Susan Berezny is the Director of Information Security at the Royal Canadian Mint. She is responsible for developing a cybersecurity strategy and managing a risk-based security program aligned with business objectives. Prior to joining the Mint, Susan was with The Ottawa Hospital for 23 years in several roles, including Information Security Of...

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    Matthew Berg
    Director, Sales Engineering North America, Open Systems
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    Sue Bergamo
    CIO & CISO, BTE Partners

    A global CIO & CISO, Sue brings broad technology and operational experience to help companies secure and grow through innovation, and optimization in cloud, on-prem environments and acquisition. She’s held strategic positions at Microsoft, ActiveCampaign, Precisely, Episerver, Aramark, and CVS Pharmacy. Sue is the author of "So, You Want to b...

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    Alex Berger
    Sr. Director, Product Marketing, Open Systems

    With nearly a decade of experience in the cybersecurity industry, Alex Berger joined Open Systems to lead Product Marketing in 2021. Throughout his career, he has worked on a wide range of solutions spanning identity and access management, network security, cloud workload protection, data access governance and more. In his spare time, he enjo...

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    Asher Bergman
    Threat Intelligence Consultant, North America West, Recorded Future

    Asher is a consultant with a broad set of expertise in SaaS customer success, intelligence analysis and strategy, and stakeholder management. Before his current role, he was an analyst working within this ambiguous, expansive idea of risk: financial risk, security and cyber risks, reputational risks, etc. He's fully embraced this concept in h...

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    John Berisford
    Sr. Security Architect, SecureWorks
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    Jack Berkowitz
    Chief Data Officer, Securiti AI, a Veeam company

    Jack Berkowitz, Chief Data Officer at Securiti AI, plays a strategic role in helping enterprises unleash the power of Data and AI safely with Securiti’s pioneering Data Command Center. Berkowitz spent the previous five years as the CDO for ADP, where he guided AI strategy and led the development of cloud-native Data and ML solutions that leve...

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    Amanda Berlin
    Director of Incident Detection Engineering, Blumira

    Amanda Berlin is the Director of Incident Detection Engineering at Blumira, bringing nearly two decades of experience to her position. At Blumira she leads a team of incident detection engineers who are responsible for creating new detections based on threat intelligence and research for the Blumira platform.An accomplished author, speaker, a...

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    Justin Berman
    CISO, Zenefits

    Justin is the CISO at Zenefits. Previously he lead security at Flatiron Health, lead security architecture at Bridgewater Associates, and built business at Aspect Security. He focuses on data and adversary driven approaches to security, and on centering security in business value.

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    Karl Bernard
    IT Security Architect, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth)

    Karl Bernard, CISSP, is an IT Security Architect at UTHealth with 30 years of IT experience, with 20 years in Information Security. His experience runs the full gamut of IT Security: he has implemented new technologies, such as network monitoring products and web application firewalls; performed risk assessments; coordinated large DR tests; l...

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    Jake Bernardes
    CISO, Whistic

    Jake is a technology leader with significant experience in funding rounds, delivering security transformation and building best in class security functions.

    Passionate, innovative & pragmatic with an understanding of what makes businesses tick and how to take them from start up or growth phase to enterprise level security capabilities,...

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    Alex Berninger
    Sr. Manager, Intelligence, Zscaler

    Alex has worked in the threat intelligence field for 18 years and specializes in taking complicated technical jargon and translating it into a form that is engaging, approachable, and actionable to the end reader. Within cybersecurity intelligence, she has worked a variety of roles, including threat hunter, analyst, product owner, customer su...

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    Jake Bernstein, Esq.
    Global AI & Innovation Partner, K&L Gates LLP

    Jake Bernstein is a practicing attorney and CISSP who counsels clients trying to understand their cybersecurity risks and the legal duties that arise from those risks. In his decade-plus of practice, Jake has acted as both regulator as an Assistant Attorney General with the Washington State Attorney General's Office and as private defense cou...

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    Brandon Berry
    Executive Director, Head of Digital Governance, Risk, and Compliance, Amgen

    Brandon Berry is Executive Director, Head of Digital Governance, Risk, and Compliance at Amgen, where he is a member of the Cybersecurity & Digital Trust (CDT) Leadership Team. Brandon leads Amgen's Digital Governance, Risk and Compliance team, responsible for the strategy, governance, and oversight of enterprise technology and cybersecurity ...

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    Jacob Berry
    CISO, Jit

    Jacob Berry has always been drawn to the mechanics of how things work—whether it’s the inner workings of a security system, the precision of a well-tuned motorcycle, or the balance of flavors in a perfectly crafted dish. With over 15 years in cybersecurity, he’s built a career on breaking things down, refining them, and pushing the boundaries...

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    Alan Berry
    SVP & CISO, Centene Corporation

    Alan Berry leads the Cyber Incident Response, Security Strategy, and Threat and Vulnerability Management teams, as well as the Business Resilience and Crisis Management teams. Alan brings 30 years of experience in cyber operations, communications, and command and control. Prior to joining Centene in November of 2017, Alan led the Disaster Rec...

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    Dr. Paul Berryman
    Information Security Awareness Lead, Brown & Brown Insurance

    Paul has a passion for security, education, and bad puns, bringing them together whenever possible. He has spent the last 2 decades protecting people from the usual suspects of hackers, criminals, and bored teenagers and is focused on teaching how to connect with people through storytelling and energizing presentations to change behaviors. He...

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    Richard Berthao
    Director, Cybersecurity Architecture, Draper Labs; Colonel, U.S. Army Reserve; President, New England Chapter, MCPA

    Richard Berthao is the Director of Cybersecurity Architecture for Draper Laboratory. He previously served more than 20 years in the federal government. This service began with over 19 years as an IT Director in the Massachusetts National Guard, Department of Defense (DoD). He continued as a Cybersecurity Advisor for Connecticut & Massachusett...

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    Lonnie Best
    Manager, Detection & Response Services, Rapid7

    Lonnie Best has spent over 13 years in security, with his introduction to the field working physical security at a commercial nuclear power generating plant, and the last 6+ of those years helping organizations detect and respond to security incidents as part of Rapid7's Managed Detection and Response (MDR) practice. His experience during tha...

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    Brad Beutlich
    Vice President, Western and LATAM Sales, Entrust

    Brad Beutlich is an information security professional who has worked with numerous U.S. based companies over the past 20 years, providing security solutions ranging from end-point to data security. The last 13 years, he has worked for Entrust providing security solutions that protect customer data, financial transactions, and IoT device manuf...

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    Patrick "Suess" Beyer
    Network Intrusion Forensic Analyst, U.S. Secret Service
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    SK Bhachech
    VP, InfraGard Boston