Carlos I. Torres is an assistant professor in the Information Systems and Business Analytics department at the Hankamer School of Business at Baylor University. He received his PhD in Business Administration with a concentration in Information Systems from Washington State University. He also holds a MIB from Florida International University,...

Sonja Torseth is a Senior Training Consultant at Kalles Group. She designs communications strategy and learning experiences with a sharp focus on end-goals: to affect staff behavior change, especially for security risk mitigation. She has more than 10 years’ experience in communications, learning design, and project delivery, and holds a B.S....

Kenneth Townsend is a proven results-oriented CISO with a successful track record of delivering business value by leveraging technology and leading transformational cybersecurity strategies. Kenneth’s understanding of the digital technology stack across the enterprise and cyber risk management has allowed him to successfully operate in a vari...

An experienced security architect, specializing in Identity Governance, Access Management, and Multi-Factor Authentication, C. Michael Tracy has over 20 years of diverse technology experience with roles at Microsoft, Wells Fargo Bank, HID Global, and DigitalPersona. At SpyCloud, C. Michael helps clients safeguard the identities of their emplo...

Michael serves as a Senior Principal Sales Engineer at Ping Identity, bringing more than 14 years of deep-domain expertise to the identity landscape. His career is defined by a unique evolution—beginning in the rigorous world of Lithium-Ion battery research before pivoting to optimize digital ecosystems through web application testing and per...

Manoj Tripathi is a seasoned CISO and has decades of experience in security, technology and leadership, across SaaS, Products and Consulting companies. Manoj is passionate about security and technology topics and has presented on security program management strategy and secure development topics at various security conferences. He holds the C...

Founder and Principal Security Consultant of Night Lion Security, Vinny Troia brings 20+ years of IT security and development experience. He is also a featured speaker on ABC, CNBC, and Fox News.

"One afternoon, I drafted an email to the CEO and CISO of a major airline company. The title read – URGENT – Data breach in your network. Dur...

Joseph Tromba brings almost five years of experience in the energy industry and seven years of experience as an attorney. As an Enforcement attorney, he has made significant contributions to many different projects and initiatives at SERC and the ERO Enterprise.

With a background in business management in college then primarily intell...

Bob Troup is Executive Sales Manager for baramundi Software USA Inc., Headquartered in Framingham, MA,. Bob is a 30-year industry veteran in corporate networking and endpoint management sales and consulting with companies including, Ivanti, VMWare, Auria Corp., and Xyplex. He specializes in solutions and deployment consulting for complex netw...

Jonathan Trull is a longtime security practitioner and CISO with over 18 years of experience in the cybersecurity industry and is currently the Senior Vice President of Customer Solutions Architecture and Engineering at Qualys. His career has spanned operational CISO and infosec roles with the State of Colorado, Qualys, Optiv, and Microsoft....

Jason Trunk serves as Vice President and Field CTO at Island bringing over 25 years experience with emerging end-user compute technologies, application performance, server side code optimization, network decryption, and virtualization. Jason has held prior leadership roles at Amazon Web Services, BigPanda, JPMorganChase, AppDynamics, Mercury ...

With more than 25 years of experience in financial services, information security, and information technology, Peter has expertise in cybersecurity governance, risk management, and cybersecurity technologies.

Tim Tsujii is the elections director for Forsyth County. Prior to joining Forsyth County, Tsujii worked at the Guilford County Board of Elections from 2005 to 2016, serving as early voting director and eventually deputy director of elections.

He leads an organization responsible for conducting elections in Forsyth County, maintaining v...

Shawn Tuma is an internationally recognized cybersecurity, computer fraud and data privacy law attorney, areas in which he has practiced for two decades. He is Co-Chair of Spencer Fane’s Data Privacy & Cybersecurity Practice where he regularly serves as cybersecurity and privacy counsel advising a wide variety of businesses ranging from small...

Shawn Tuma is an internationally recognized cybersecurity, computer fraud and data privacy law attorney, areas in which he has practiced for two decades. He is Co-Chair of Spencer Fane’s Data Privacy & Cybersecurity Practice where he regularly serves as cybersecurity and privacy counsel advising a wide variety of businesses ranging from small...

I lead the Risk, Information Security, and Compliance Education & Awareness team for FIS, a financial services leader focused on payments, banking, and investments. My team is responsible for providing education & awareness for our 55,000+ colleagues located in offices across the globe. My career was focused in security and audit space previo...

Zach joined Mimecast in 2017 as an Enterprise Sales Engineer in Denver, CO. Previously, Zach worked in the enterprise space for AirWatch by VMware, where he focused on cloud-based Mobile Device Management solutions involving mobile security, content management, and email management. Most recently, he worked for Fuze, Inc., a $1 billion UCaaS ...

John Turner is an accomplished IT executive with more than 20 years of leadership and operational IT experience. As the director of cloud security enablement at Optiv, Turner’s team of cloud architects are responsible for helping to ensure the successful integrated delivery of cloud security solutions. Turner plays a key part in bringing diff...

Patrick Turner, VP & CIO at Schoolcraft College, oversees all areas of IT. Patrick has designed and implemented tier 3+ data centers. Patrick has presented on various topics at MMC, Cisco Academy and Data Center World conferences. Patrick holds MS (MIT) and BS (MTU) degrees in Mechanical Engineering.

Decorated professional and engaged team player specializing in B2B product, solution, and industry marketing within the cybersecurity, identity and access management (IAM), and high tech software industry. Highly creative and enjoy solving problems and attaining goals. Strong presenter bringing subject matter to life with examples in every-da...

Keith has more than 25 years of cybersecurity experience, including over a decade serving as a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) in the transportation sector.

Keith currently serves as CISO at The Friedkin Group, where he oversees cybersecurity for a highly diverse portfolio of companies spanning automotive, logistics, manufact...

Bryan Turriff is a seasoned technology and marketing professional with over 25 years of experience in data, security, and AI. He is currently the Founding Director of Product Marketing and Growth at Observo.ai, where he focuses on expanding the company's reach and impact in security and AI-driven data pipelines. His career spans product and m...

Lisa Tuttle has served as an executive leader of global organizations, managing technology teams with her engaging enthusiasm and unique combination of information security, privacy, legal, compliance, project management and business management expertise. As CISO of SPX Corporation, she provides technology vision and strategic leadership for ...

Wayne Tynes is a Sr. Sales Engineer at Mimecast and has been designing solutions on Microsoft’s enterprise software stack for over 20 years, including working for Microsoft as a field sales engineer and SharePoint product manager. Wayne spent 5 years as a Solutions Architect at Avanade and was responsible for their Managed Services business i...

After nearly 25 years of IT/ InfoSec work across a vast range of industries, experience has fueled my drive to deliver a better information security consulting practice. In 2007, I started VerSprite (aka VerSprite Security) with the idea of developing a team of 'security hybrids' - consummate security professionals that personify both technic...

Manjula is a seasoned professional with more than 15 years of experience in Governance, Risk and compliance, information technology auditing and business administration. As Director within the Office of CISO at Optiv, she is responsible for designing, building, and executing a robust and business aligned security governance, risk, compliance ...

Paul has more than 30 years of experience working in the Information Security space including 8 years with the US Air Force. Paul was a principal at Digital Signature Trust back in the 90’s working on Public Key Cryptography utilizing Hardware Security Modules to create Root certificates for the Browsers for trusted Root Certificates includin...

Harald Upegui is the Director of Information Security at HealthPoint, bringing more than 25 years of experience in technology, networking, and cybersecurity. Prior to leading HealthPoint’s cybersecurity program, Harald managed a combined IT Operations and Security Operations team, driving alignment between infrastructure and security initiati...

Chris Usserman is the Chief Technologist with Infoblox Federal. Chris has over 33 years’ experience in the U.S. Intelligence Community helping clients understand and incorporate cyber business intelligence to improve cyber security programs. With a focus on the U.S. Government and public sector, Chris brings a public/private perspective to en...

Tom Utley is a senior presales systems engineer with Arctic Wolf Networks based out of the Charlotte area. Tom is a subject matter expert in Managed Detection & Response (MDR) and Managed Risk for mid-size enterprise organizations. Prior to Arctic Wolf, Tom held senior engineering positions at Sandvine as a sales engineer and solution archite...

Jamison brings 25+ years of IT/Security experience spanning large organizations like Sprint, SUN Microsystems and Palo Alto Networks where he led the OT/IoT business development unit and startups like Infoblox where he was the security evangelist for many years. His deep desire to understand a customer’s internal and external problem set make...

Dr. Srinivas Vadlamani is a hands-on expert in designing databases, big data management systems, and security solutions. He is the cofounder and CTO of Cyral, a venture-backed data security startup. He was most recently the founder and chief architect at Imanis Data, a big data protection pioneer that was acquired by Cohesity. He was previous...

M.J. Vaidya is a Partner/Principal in the Advisory Services
practice of Ernst & Young (EY) LLP. He has over 20 years of
experience including holding CISO positions at Fortune 10 and
Fortune 200 companies. He also previously held leadership
positions at PwC, Deloitte, and Accenture. M.J. has provided
security and ...

Matteo Valles has been a Special Agent with the FBI for 30 years. His office of assignments have included Anchorage, AK; Boston, MA; Washington D.C.; Gulfport, MS; Vienna, Austria; Nairobi, Kenya; and now Atlanta, GA.
While based in Nairobi, Kenya for 3 years, SA Valles was in-charge of all FBI operations in East Africa, to includ...

Nir Valtman heads the application security of the software solutions for NCR Corporation. Before the acquisition of Retalix by NCR, Nir lead the security of the R&D in the company. As part of his previous positions, he was working in several application security, penetration testing and systems infrastructure security positions. Nir is a freq...

Melissa’s legal practice focuses on cybersecurity, privacy, and regulatory compliance. Her key strength is helping organizations achieve cyber resiliency through legal and regulatory compliance.

Before joining Newman Du Wors in 2018, she served more than 15 years as a Judge Advocate General officer in the United States Army where she s...

David has worked as an IT professional in Asset/Fund Management, property development, hospitality, entertainment, and now tech. His passion is to help people solve problems with technology that is easy to use, easy to manage and to have fun along the way. He is spending his time at Automox as the IT Operations Manager and Product evangelist,...