Dominique West is a senior consultant for Ernst & Young based in Atlanta, GA. She has eight years of experience in Information Technology, five of which are in cybersecurity with her experience spanning over risk assessments, vulnerability assessments, incident and response, and cloud transformation & security across the commercial industries...

Kristy Westphal is a versatile information technology professional with specific experience in providing advisory and management services in information security and risk, and is currently employed as a Global Security Director. She was formerly employed as Vice President of Security Operations at a financial services company. Specializing in...

Michael Westra is the Connected Vehicle Cyber Security Technical Manager at Ford Motor Company focused on cybersecurity for connectivity into vehicles and connected technology, including embedded modems, infotainment, cloud, and mobile systems. Mike has 20 years at Ford, with roles including leading software architect for SYNC, Solution Archi...

Dan is a Principal Research Engineer at Expel, a 24x7 security operations platform. With nearly a decade of experience in security operations at scale, he's been exposed to a ton of different environments, unusual attacks, and challenging security problems. Lately, he's been focused on helping organizations protect their cloud and containeriz...

Jeff is the Director of Solutions Engineering at @RISK Technologies as a Technical Director sitting at the nexus of Sales, Deployment, Operations, and Product Development. Interacting directly with customer C-Suite and Technical Staff to drive sales, customer satisfaction, and innovation back into the platform. Jeff provides operational and c...

Deborah Wheeler is Delta’s Chief Information Security Officer. In this role, Wheeler leads Delta’s Information Security team responsible for the airline’s cybersecurity efforts that secure and protect information important to Delta and personal to its customers, while ensuring the overall cyber resiliency of the airline.

Wheeler’s 25 y...

James Wheeler is a fractional CFO and the founder of kept.pro, which provides an outsourced accounting department model for growing companies with $2M–$50M in annual revenue. He brings 15+ years of executive finance leadership across services and technology businesses and was twice a finalist for the San Diego Business Journal’s CFO of the Ye...

Bill is an Information Security professional with 30 years’ experience in IT, Fraud investigation, Information Security, and Risk Assessment processes. He is a member of the team responsible for Information Security architectural at a Fortune 50 company. He started as a bench technician while learning his way up to Information Security Manage...

Ravila Helen White is the Deputy Director of Strategic Programs – Enterprise Security Architecture for UHG. Prior to that, she headed up the information security programs for Providence Health & Services, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and drugstore.com. Ravila has more than 15 years of professional IT experience, with experience as a st...

With 30+ years of technology related experience, Linda White has possessed a wide variety of Information Security and IT related roles over three decades within the Enterprise, Government, and non-profit space. Linda currently serves as the Director of Information Security at Axiom Medical. Prior roles include various Information Security fun...

Jana White is the Chief Operating Officer of Alpine Security. Jana has an extensive background in banking, compliance, and loss prevention and serves as one of the virtual CISOs for Alpine Security clients. Jana has degrees in criminal justice and cybersecurity and is certified as a crime scene evidence technician. She also holds many cyber...

Margaret White is currently Senior Vice President, Business Information Security Officer (BISO) for Wells Fargo’s Enterprise Functions. In this role, Margaret leads execution of cybersecurity posture and strategy for enterprise-wide cybersecurity engagements and provides bi-directional transparency to Enterprise Functions CEOs and CIOs. Prior...

Meet Dillon White, a Solutions Engineering whiz and the driving force behind sales engineering at KMicro Tech. With a knack for hybrid cloud solutions and services, Dillon combines his extensive industry experience with a dash of innovation to spark business growth. Before diving into the tech world, Dillon served eight impactful years in the...

Mark Whitesell has been in the IT Security space for over 30 years. Mark has held leadership positions at RSA Security, Okta and Saviynt; and is widely considered an expert in identity management and governance space. Mark sits on the Advisory Board for ISSA Metro Atlanta, in addition to several other identity companies. Mark is a graduate...

Jeff Whitney is a Certified Computer Examiner at eDiscovery Inc. in Bellevue, Washington. Most of his work is for civil litigators on either the plaintiff or defense side and he has testifying experience.

Garrett Whitney is the Chief Information Officer at Delta Dental of Washington, the largest dental benefits provider in Washington State. He developed a passion for technology at an early age by learning to program Pascal, C, and 8086 Assembly languages prior to graduating high school. Garrett is a veteran of the United States Navy, specializ...

Glenn Whittemore is a Principal Solutions Architect, at Veracode, Inc. He attended college in Boston, MA majoring in Computer and Applied Sciences. His experience spans more than 15 years within IT Services and Application Security Industries. He has held various roles in customer support, server administration, and secure network monitoring....

Jeff Wichman has over 20 years of experience in information security, primarily focused on the Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) lifecycle. He has worked hundreds of incident response investigations, from relatively small business email compromises (BEC) to large-scale ransomware incidents.

Michael Wichmann is a seasoned leader with deep expertise in information security, technology, and management consulting within the financial services industry. As Chief of Staff at Wintrust Financial, a $65 billion publicly traded financial services company, he plays a critical role in protecting the organization and its customers from incre...

Jeff Wilbur is the Technical Director of the Internet Society’s Online Trust Alliance. He is responsible for integrating, developing, and extending the OTA initiative within the Internet Society’s overall mission and objectives. He has over 25 years of experience in high technology, all focused on bringing new, industry-transforming communica...

Mark Wilcox is a senior cybersecurity and risk executive with deep experience advising executive management and boards on cyber risk governance, regulatory compliance, artificial intelligence, and enterprise resilience within highly regulated environments. He currently serves as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer (CI...

Andrew Wild is the chief information security officer at QTS Data Centers, the only fully integrated data center, managed hosting and cloud services provider. Wild has spent more than 25 years developing effective, customer-driven information security, incident response, compliance and secure networking programs for technology and telecommuni...

Bill Wilder is a cloud computing veteran and CTO at Finomial, providing SaaS solutions to the global hedge fund industry from the public cloud. Bill is recognized by Microsoft as a 7-time Azure MVP awardee for his cloud expertise and community leadership. Bill is the author of Cloud Architecture Patterns (O’Reilly Media, 2012).

Andrew Wilder is currently the Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at Hillenbrand. Prior to this role, he spent 18 years at Nestle where his last role was Regional CISO for Americas, Asia, and Europe. In addition to being a CISO, Andrew is a Board Member and Adjunct Professor at Washington University’s Information Security E...

Kyle Wilhoit is an internationally recognized security researcher and threat research leader with more than a decade of experience helping research teams deliver original and organized threat intelligence and research. In his previous role as Director of Threat Research on Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, Kyle was responsible for leading teams of ...

John Wilke is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Okta who is currently focused on aligning the impact of Okta's SaaS solutions with the core business goals of Okta's most strategic customers. He was previously responsible for the expansion of Okta's Business Value team for the West Coast and Asia Pacific regions.

Senior professional with broad experience designing, building, and securing high-availability mission critical infrastructures for the infosec, financial services, energy, healthcare, travel, media, and retail sectors.

Roy Wilkinson, PhD, CISSP, CPCS, CHS-V, HISP, is a former CSO & CISO with 30+ years in Information Security and 25+ years in physical security. He is currently Principal for a virtual CIO/CISO practice with an executive advisory firm and was recently elected as Vice President of ISSA International. Dr. Wilkinson is a recognized security leade...

Michael leads the Digital Forensics and Incident Response team at Avertium. The team is dedicated to helping clients investigate and recover from IT security incidents on a daily basis.

Michael has over 20 years’ experience in the IT industry and has been conducting digital investigations since joining the NSW Police State Electronic E...

Troy Wilkinson began his career serving others as a Law Enforcement officer. He commanded a Joint Terrorism Task Force, was a lead bomb investigator, and violent crime and homicide detective. However, one of his greatest achievements came from his ability and skill investigating and prosecuting child exploitation and other electronic crimes. ...

Kayla is the CISO at Devo Technology, a cloud-native security data analytics platform. She is an analytical and results-driven professional with experience in management of cybersecurity incidents, compliance management, corporate risks, information security, project and program management, and organizational controls surrounding many differe...

With over 17 years in security and compliance, Charles is a technology evangelist enabling customers globally from a pre-sales and post-sales perspective to ensure proper deployment and configuration of endpoint, gateway, and datacenter security solutions.

Samara works for Cardinal Health, as a Threat Intelligence Engineer. As an engineer, Samara collects and assesses a wide range of threats to the healthcare industry. She specializes in MITRE ATT&CK, threat actor reporting, strategic program design/implementation, and fostering relationships within the organization. Samara is passionate about ...

An MBA and JMT Certified Team Member, Keyaan followed a unique path to becoming a risk leader. The story begins with service in the U.S. Army as chemical weapons specialist. Later, he worked in communications security for the Army Reserve Command Headquarters. Then, he spent more than a decade in various IT and security roles at the Centers f...

George Williams is a seasoned technology executive and retired Senior Army Officer with over two decades of distinguished leadership in IT operations, strategic planning, and organizational transformation. Currently serving as Chief Information Officer and Director of IT Services for the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board, George lead...

Walter Williams has over 20 years of experience in Information Security. He is the author of "Creating an Information Security Program from Scratch" (2021, CRC Press) and "Security for Service Oriented Architecture" (2014, CRC Press). He was a member of the program committee for MetricCon 8 and Metricon 10. He holds the CISSP and SSCP certifi...

Major General (Ret) Brett Williams co-founded IronNet Cybersecurity and is the President of the Operations, Training and Security Division. Providing strategic vision and the foundational security platform solutions for IronNet, General Williams also serves as the Chief Security Officer responsible for product, enterprise and physical securit...

Hayden Williams is a Senior Investigative Response Consultant for the Verizon RISK Team. In this capacity, Hayden responds to an array of cybersecurity incidents, performs forensic examinations, and assists organizations in implementing IR policies and procedures. Prior to Verizon Hayden worked as a DOD Special Agent performing Cyber invest...

Christopher is a leading voice in the convergence of operational IT practices and Identity, Audit, and Compliance programs. His career features 15 years as a practicing manager of data centers, operations & technical services and consulting teams for fortune 500 companies and DOD contractors; plus another 20 years of technical services, pro...

Ronald Williamson has over 20 years’ experience in Information Technology and Information Security. He has held roles within the banking, retail, and healthcare industry. Currently, he is Information Security Officer at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Driven by a belief in promoting a strategic vision and utilizing best practices to accompl...