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,...

Maarten Van Horenbeeck is Chief Information Security Officer of Zendesk since March 2018. He has also been a Board member of the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) since 2011, and is the Lead Expert to the IGF Best Practices Forum on Cybersecurity. From July 2015 to March 2018, he served as Vice President, Security Engineer...

André builds security organizations that scale and that enable business through alignment to strategy. Over the past 15+ years, he's focused on embedding security into the way products are designed, built, and delivered—not as a checkpoint, but as a strategic capability.

Most recently, he led a global Security Advisory organization sup...

Derek Van Natta brings a diverse and comprehensive background to the penetration testing team, having initially served as a network engineer and systems administrator in the Marine Corps before advancing into cybersecurity roles as a SOC analyst and incident responder. His expertise spans a range of environments, including external and intern...

Josh Vander Veen has worked in the counterintelligence profession for over 20 years and currently directs the Counterintelligence division at the Kansas City National Security Campus (KCNSC). Josh previously worked Multi-Discipline Counterintelligence (MDCI) activities within the Intelligence Community, and is a former U.S. Army CI Agent with...

Rob Vanderberry is celebrating his 26th year of technology sales and consultation, experienced in selling solutions to businesses and public sector organizations as manufacturer rep, distributor and reseller. Rob has a passion for helping organizations achieve successful business outcomes through optimized blends of technology, knowledge and...

Eric Vanderbur is a highly skilled computer security professional with a deep understanding of cybersecurity principles and a passion for protecting digital assets. With over 20 years of experience in the field, Eric has developed expertise in network security, endpoint security, cyber, threat intelligence, and incident response.

Throu...

Amber Vanderburg is a multi award winning international businessperson, keynote speaker, and founder of The Pathwayz Group. In 2016, she left her job in corporate HR to become the only female, only American, and only blonde Academy elite football coach for the Adidas Gameday Academy/Paris Saint Germain Academy in Bangalore, India. She worked ...

Ken Vanderpool helps organizations make identity and cybersecurity easier to understand, easier to manage, and stronger in practice. As Identity & Access Management Manager at Vetcor, he works closely with technical teams, business leaders, and end users to strengthen identity governance, modernize access controls, and build IAM processes tha...

Bob Varnadoe is a seasoned executive with over twenty-five years building IT and security programs. He has served in information security leadership in fortune 500 companies including as Chief Information Security Officer for NCR Corporation and Vice President of Information Security at Fiserv as well as Vice President of Risk Management at K...

As vice president, chief information security officer, Marc Varner is responsible for the global security strategy and program, ensuring all Lowe’s information assets and technologies are properly protected. He collaborates with senior technology and business leaders to implement the best security practices to protect and serve our customers ...

Yiannis Vassiliades is currently serving as CISO in Residence at Zscaler, the global leader in Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and Zero Trust IT Transformation. With over 25 years of experience in cybersecurity, Yiannis has been deeply committed to productizing transformative technologies that align with organizations’ strategic cybersecuri...

Chris Vaughn is an information security and risk management leader with two decades of experience developing information security strategies and programs for international organizations. He is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Unify Square, the leading provider of software and managed cloud services for Microsoft Skype for Bus...

As the Director of Cyber Security for Waddell & Reed, Pedro is tasked with leading IR, SECOPS, Vulnerability Management, Security Automation, and IAM. Pedro has previously provided security services for the DoD, IRS, DST, and SS&C.

As CMO at Phosphorus Cybersecurity, John has achieved more than 25 years of experience in high-tech security marketing, strategy, product marketing, product management, and consulting. A serial CMO and security visionary, he has helped build and lead some of the biggest brands in enterprise security, including Solera Networks, Blue Coat Syste...

As Field CTO at Varonis, Brian supports a wide range of security and technology initiatives by helping Varonis’ customers and partner get the most out of the company’s products. In his 20-year technical career, Brian served as a developer, tech architect, engineer and product manager for companies in financial services, legal, and cybersecuri...

Steve is a Sr. Solutions Engineer at Okta helping enterprise customers with their identity and access management needs. In his previous life, Steve has served as a CISO / VP of Information Security, Data Center Manager, and held various Security, Windows, and Network Engineering roles.

Andrei is a Principal Solutions Engineer who has served Okta's enterprise customer base for over six years. Andrei is committed to helping organizations understand what they can achieve with Okta and is experienced in all stages of the product lifecycle, including demos/PoCs, system architecture, product implementation, and user training. He...

Sai Prasad Veluru is an AI researcher and software engineer with expertise in artificial intelligence, distributed systems, cloud computing, and enterprise software engineering. His work focuses on building scalable, secure, and intelligent systems that solve real-world business challenges. He has authored multiple peer-reviewed research publ...

Sudeep Venkatesh is a noted expert on data protection, bringing two decades of industry and technology experience in this area. His expertise spans the protection of data in both structured and unstructured data ecosystems, with an emphasis on solving real-world business problems through encryption, authentication and key management. He has a...

Melissa Ventrone focuses her practice on class action privacy litigation, privacy breach response (pre- and post-event), payment card industry (PCI) standards and investigation, and advising clients in identifying, evaluating and managing first- and third-party data privacy and security risks. Melissa has represented numerous clients in litig...

Sean has over three decades of experience in the Information Technology field, with a focus on information security best practices and compliance. He currently serves as the Head of Information Security and Compliance at KinderCare, one of the nation’s largest accredited early learning education systems, implementing and maintaining the compa...

Bryce Verdier (CISSP, CEH) is currently a Senior Software Developer at GroupOn. In previous roles, he’s also been a Systems Engineer with an automation and DevOps minded focus, and an Information Security Engineer, focusing on host-based security.

Jerry Vergeront is the founder and attorney at Vergeront Law, PLLC. With over 25 years in Information Security before becoming an attorney, he brings an industry understanding to data security, privacy, and compliance law.

Arvin Verma is a highly motivated cybersecurity professional, with over 14 years of experience across a multitude of cyber and IT domains. He has worked in multiple industries spanning over 5 Fortune 500 companies and Big 4 consulting. He is currently a vCISO within the SMB segment.
In addition, Arvin proudly served in the US Navy Rese...

Joe is a risk management professional with experience across many security, risk and compliance domains. Past roles include advising on GRC software implementations at highly regulated customers and supporting data protection efforts at Aptible, a HITRUST Certified Platform-as-a-Service. Joe currently leads the Trust & Security function at Co...

Frank Vesce is a seasoned technology and cybersecurity executive with more than 25 years of experience across financial services, insurance, and technology startups. He currently serves as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Allvue Systems, a leading provider of AI-powered, cloud-based software serving the private capital and alterna...

Frank Vianzon works for a large corporation as the Director of Security Architecture and Engineering. He also writes and teaches courses for Red Rocks Cybersecurity Program, including Vulnerability Assessment. Frank has also served on the Board for the Denver Chapter of OWASP.

Donna Vieira , CRISC, has been an Information Security Awareness Professional for since 1999. She is a Certified Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) through ISACA, which is designed for IT professional with hands-on experience with risk identification, assessment, evaluation, response and monitoring.

I seek simple solutions to complex problems. As a cybersecurity entrepreneur (currently Keystrike, 2 prior exits), a computer science professor (NSF CAREER recipient, 65+ peer-reviewed papers, multiple awards), or as a public speaker (my TEDx talks on hacking have 2+ million views), I innovate and execute in the service of society. I'm also a...

Jonathan Villa has 19 years of experience as a technology consultant including 18 years of direct information security experience. For over 10 years Jonathan consulted to a large municipality across several competencies including PCI compliance and training, application architecture and security, vulnerability management, secure coding, web a...