Speaker Directory
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    Emma Sutcliffe
    Senior Director, Data Security Standards, PCI Security Standards Council

    Emma Sutcliffe oversees a number of PCI Security Standards, including the PCI DSS and PA-DSS. She chairs the PCI SSC’s Technical Working Group (TWG) and the Tokenization Working Group, where she works closely with the Payment Brands and Affiliate members to develop standards, supporting documentation and guidance papers. Sutcliffe has over 15...

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    LTC John Sutherland, PhD
    Sr. Client Technology Architect, CenturyLink

    John is a Senior Technology Architect at CenturyLink, a retired US Army intelligence officer, a former Defense Attaché, and SE Asian Foreign Area Officer fluent in Vietnamese with over 26 years of experience in information security and political-military operations. CISM, CISSP.

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    Cory Sutliff
    Technical Director, AttackIQ

    Practice Lead for Technical Account Management at AttackIQ. Cory has 20+ years' experience in IT focusing on security, seven+ years with the DoD. He has spent the last two years at AttackIQ delivering Security Optimization (BAS).

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    Samuel Sutton
    Computer Scientist, FBI, Houston Cyber Squad

    Samuel Sutton is an FBI Computer Scientist. Since 1992 he has worked in Headquarters and Field Offices across the country. He is currently assigned to a Cyber Squad of the Houston Office. Specializing in Computer Security, Network Forensics, "Enhanced Network Capabilities", and Information Security Management, his skills have been applied to ...

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    Aaron Sutton
    Technical Solutions Lead - Financial Services, Office of the CISO, Google Cloud

    Aaron works with large financial institutions in North America, Europe, and the UK to ensure they are able to safely and securely use Google Cloud for their critical workloads. Aaron has significant experience in the implementation and configuration of Google Cloud security products, and leads the development of security artifacts to meet str...

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    Vladimir Svidesskis
    Director, Head of Security, Compliance and Risk, Vaco
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    Brandon Swafford
    CTO, Insider Threat, Engineering, Forcepoint

    Brandon has 12 years of experience in legal, counterintelligence, and financial security across worldwide organizations. He has worked with hedge funds, the US Intelligence community, and the International Monetary Fund.

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    Ted Swailes
    Chief Digital Forensic Investigator, Swailes Computer Forensics

    As a digital forensic expert and licensed private investigator in the state of Texas, Ted Swailes has over twenty-four (24) years of investigative and technical security experience working with major corporations and law firms. He has brought expertise and support services to engagements in intellectual property theft investigations, non com...

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    Aravind Swaminathan
    Partner, Cybersecurity & Data Privacy, White Collar, Investigations, Securities Litigation & Compliance, Orrick LLP

    Aravind Swaminathan is global co-chair of the firm's Cybersecurity & Data Privacy team, which was named Privacy Practice Group of the Year in 2016 by Law360, and is nationally ranked by The Legal 500 in two categories. Aravind earned "particular praise" from Legal 500, as part of a team known for being "extremely responsive and client focused...

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    Scott Swanson
    Board Member & Sector Chief Program Leader, InfraGard Chicago Members Alliance

    Scott Swanson is a former cleared national security intelligence professional who has focused for the past decade on Business Risk Intelligence and Financial Crimes as a thought leader and practitioner. He currently works for PwC’s Financial Crimes Unit, is certified in Fraud Investigations, Mobile Forensics, Anti-Money Laundering, and focuse...

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    Christer Swartz
    Director, Industry Solutions, Illumio

    Christer Swartz is Director of Industry Solutions for Illumio. He has spent many years in the Cyber industry, beginning with a small startup called Cisco. He was part of Netflix’s design of internet video-streaming, without breaking the internet, then with Palo Alto Networks. He focuses on the details of cybersecurity to specific industries, ...

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    Andrew Sweet
    Head of Global Sales, AppOmni

    Andrew Sweet is a distinguished cybersecurity leader and market strategist who has spent the last decade at the forefront of cloud security evolution. A pioneer in the space, Andrew has been instrumental in defining and bringing to market critical security categories, specifically Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) and SaaS Security Pos...

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    John Swensson
    Enterprise Customer Success Manager, CloudPassage

    John Swensson is the Customer Success Manager at CloudPassage and is responsible for all customer support initiatives. John’s information security career spans two decades and includes a broad number of business environments. John and the CloudPassage teams have worked together creating groundbreaking security solutions across a range of indu...

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    Scott Sweren
    Security Principal, Insight
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    David Swift
    Sr. Cybersecurity Solutions Architect, Securonix
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    Craig Swinteck
    IS Manager, Town of Castle Rock

    Craig Swinteck has a comprehensive background in IT operations and cybersecurity, with a career spanning across entrepreneurship, small businesses to global corporations, serving the public in local and federal government, and providing cybersecurity guidance in challenging industries such as Finance, Healthcare, and Manufacturing. Craig’s pa...

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    William Swofford
    DevSecOps Engineer, Lockheed Martin

    Navy Veteran with a current role as a Dev Sec Ops engineer focusing in infrastructure resiliency. Past careers in banking software, web application, and construction worker while through college. (Construction applies more to security than I ever thought) Also love coffee.

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    Elizabeth Sylves
    Sr. Consultant, North America, CSC

    Elizabeth Sylve is Senior Business Consultant for Enterprise Businesses at CSC where she helps and advises Senior IT and Cyber Security Professionals mitigate risk in front of the firewall. She is also a speaker for Global Antifraud and Phishing Solutions, former 8-year VP of IT Technology consultant at FuturTech Consulting, LLC, and has 24 y...

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    Annamaria Szakonyi
    Director of Cybersecurity, Saint Louis University
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    Joseph Szczerba
    Charlotte Supervisory Intelligence Analyst for Cyber, FBI
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    Joseph Szmadzinski
    CEO, IT Management Resources

    Joseph R. Szmadzinski has served as interim and permanent CIO (over 12 times) or as an advisor to the chief executive teams/ officers to troubleshoot, restructure, and manage client systems during turnaround, growth, and profit improvement efforts. Joe has served clients in a wide variety of industries, including financial services, transport...

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    Michael T. Metzler
    Sr. Compliance Officer, CenturyLink Business

    Michael (CISSP, CGEIT, CISM) has over 35 years of industry experience delivering security consulting service internationally in security policy, security risk management, network design, and troubleshooting. He has designed global networks and provided security consultation for many corporations, as well as for U.S. Defense contractors and f...

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    Marc Tabago
    Solutions Engineer, Trend Micro

    As a Solutions Engineer, Marc Tabago works with enterprises to solidify and strengthen their digital security policies against malicious threat actors. However, he believes that having a concrete digital security posture starts at the use case level, driven and experienced by its users and not simply read off a PowerPoint slide. Once the dust...

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    Hemanth Tadepalli
    Sr. Cybersecurity and Compliance SME, May Mobility

    Hemanth Tadepalli serves as the Senior Cybersecurity & Compliance Subject Matter Expert (SME) at May Mobility, a company revolutionizing transportation through advanced autonomous vehicle technology. His career spans notable roles at prestigious organizations, including management consulting firm AlixPartners, cybersecurity leader Mandiant, t...

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    Erez Tadmor
    CTO, Tufin

    Erez Tadmor holds a two-decade career in the ever-evolving information security field, marked by his diverse background in managing various product portfolios and verticals. His expertise spans cloud and network security, automation & orchestration, IAM, fraud detection and prevention. As Tufin's Field CTO, he bridges the gap between customer...

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    Aryan Taheri
    Certified Ethical Hacker & Principal Architect, Cybersecurity

    Aryan is highly unorthodox and has been a key contributor on multiple disruptive efforts at T-Mobile USA, including BI Retail Dashboards, Managing & Security Mobile Point of Sale Tablets, and SLT devices. He's created T-Mobile's Zero Trust Strategy, and more recently has been tapped to join a select tiger team to deliver MFA Everywhere for Re...

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    Eliott Tallqvist
    Product Marketing, Hoxhunt
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    Kim Tang
    VP of Risk Management, Blue Yonder
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    Krishna Tangirala
    Sr. Director, Information Security Operations / Deputy CISO, Temple University Health System
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    Dana Tannatt
    Sr. Sales Engineer, Thales

    Dana Tannatt graduated from Norwich University with a master’s degree in information security and assurance. He is also a member of the Upsilon Pi Epsilon honor society for Computing and Information Disciplines. He has been a Security and Privacy software specialist for more than 18 years. He has extensive experience with Identity Access Gove...

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    Josh Tanner
    Director of IT (Cybersecurity & IT Operations), evolvedMD
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    Renee Tarun
    Deputy CISO, Fortinet
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    Sule Tatar
    Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Arctic Wolf

    Sule Tatar is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Arctic Wolf, where she does research on security trends and brings groundbreaking cybersecurity products and services to market. She has extensive experience in the B2B cybersecurity space and holds a bachelor's degree in computer engineering and an MBA.

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    Tyler Tate
    Sr. Systems Engineer, Palo Alto Networks
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    Sandy Taylor
    CISO, USC

    Strategic and people centric information security leader with 20+ years of experience with notable success in designing, planning, analysis, and implementation of large and complex security initiatives across federated organizations. Strength in providing comprehensive and practical security risk reduction plans and roadmaps to the business. ...

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    Brice Taylor
    Special Agent, FBI
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    Scott Taylor
    Director of Cyber Resilience, Field Solution Architects, Everpure

    Scott Taylor is a senior technology leader with over 23 years of experience across end-user, partner, and manufacturer environments within the IT industry. He currently serves as Director, Cyber Resilience, Field Solutions Architect at Everpure, where he leads technical strategy and helps drive customer success through innovative security and...

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    Mike Taylor
    Technology Learning & Adoption Practitioner, Nationwide

    Mike Taylor is a learning designer, speaker, and consultant who helps organizations make cybersecurity awareness stick. With 20+ years of experience spanning instructional design, marketing, and technology, Mike specializes in transforming forgettable training into engaging, behavior-changing programs. He has led learning innovation at Fortun...

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    Lena Taylor
    VP, CISO, Crocs

    Currently CISO at Crocs, Inc., based out of Broomfield, CO – a global brand in the footwear and accessories market. As CISO, she is responsible for securing assets within the enterprise, retail, and distribution business, including global security operations and the governance/risk/compliance functions. Lena currently also serves on the Boa...

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    Tony Taylor
    CISO, Land O'Lakes

    Tony Taylor is Chief Information Security Officer at Land O'Lakes, Inc., where he leads the enterprise cybersecurity program responsible for safeguarding the company’s global digital ecosystem, including the technologies that support modern agriculture, food production, and supply chain operations.

    Tony brings more than 30 years of lea...

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    Simon Taylor
    CEO & Founder, HYCU, Inc.

    Simon Taylor is the CEO of HYCU where he creates and executes on the vision and strategy for one of the world's leading multi-cloud backup and recovery SaaS businesses. Prior to HYCU, Simon held senior executive positions at Comtrade Software including President and CEO as well as Chief Strategy Officer of The Comtrade Group where he evaluate...

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    Monica Taylor Boggan
    Head of the Business Information Security Office (BISO), WM

    Monica Taylor Boggan is the Head of the Business Information Security Office (BISO) at WM, where she drives the alignment of cybersecurity with core business priorities across WM’s Digital, Corporate, Customer, Operations & Sustainability, and Healthcare Solutions divisions. Her work centers on building stronger third-party risk capabilities,...

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    Natasha Taymourian
    Consulting Systems Engineer, Cisco
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    Andrei Tchouvelev
    Chief Innovation Officer, Syxsense

    Andrei Tchouvelev, Syxsense Chief Innovation Officer, is a critical thinker, ideator, speaker, evangelist, and an accomplished executive with a breadth of strategic and operational expertise. Andrei has an extensive knowledge of the technology space, and a wealth of market positioning and business acceleration experience. His current role as ...

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    Evan Tegethoff
    VP of Solutions Consulting, BitSight

    Evan Tegethoff is Vice President of Solutions Consulting at BitSight. He previously held leadership roles in Risk and Compliance Practice Management at Optiv, Accuvant, and Forsythe Technologies. He has developed Third Party Risk approaches for numerous large organizations. Additionally, he led consulting teams focused on compliance, risk man...

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    Sivan Tehila
    Director of Solution Architecture, Perimeter 81

    Sivan Tehila is the Director of Solution Architecture at Perimeter 81, a leading Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) provider, and a cybersecurity expert with over 14 years of industry experience. Sivan served in the IDF as an Intelligence Officer and then in various field positions, including Information Security Officer, CISO of the Research ...

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    Lori Temples
    Deputy CISO, GreenSky
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    Rich Temples
    CISO, Graybar