Speaker Directory
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    Derek Booth
    Special Agent, U.S. Secret Service

    U.S. Secret Service Supervisory Special Agent Derek Booth is a founding member and coordinator of the Mountain West Cyber Fraud Task Force (MWCFTF) which consists of 300+ members of federal, state and local law enforcement, network security personnel, private business owners, and academia partners in the Rocky Mountain Region. The MWCFTF’s m...

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    Billy Boozer
    VP of AI Strategy & Product Innovation, Dualboot Partners
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    Jonathan Borgesen
    Technical Director of Security, EchoStor

    As Technical Director of Security at EchoStor Technologies, Jonathan leads the organization’s comprehensive security practice. He focuses on building strong security programs that align with modern trends, ensuring customers meet both their security and business objectives.

    With more than 15 years of experience in the cybersecurity ind...

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    Brandon Borodach
    Field CTO, Sumo Logic

    Brandon K. Borodach is a cybersecurity thought leader and Field CTO at Sumo Logic, specializing in SIEM evolution, detection engineering, and cloud security. With deep expertise in security analytics, AI-driven threat detection, and multi-platform SIEM strategies, he has helped organizations modernize their security operations. Brandon has le...

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    Donald Borsay
    Director of Security Solutions, HCH Enterprises
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    Serge Borso
    Community Instructor, SANS Institute

    Serge Borso is the founder and CEO of SpyderSec, an organization specializing in penetration testing, security awareness training, and OSINT. He also resides on the board of directors for the Denver OWASP chapter and teaches with the SANS Institute. He is an expert in a variety of information security fields, having served in many roles in th...

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    Rick Bosworth
    Director, Product Marketing - Cloud, SentinelOne

    Rick Bosworth is an engineer turned product manager and marketer, bringing an uncommon technical perspective to enterprise GTM strategy and execution for almost two decades. At SentinelOne, his focus in cybersecurity—in particular cloud workloads, IoT, and user endpoint security—has provided expertise to the rapidly-evolving challenges across...

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    Eric C. Botts
    Director, Global Cybersecurity Program, University of St. Thomas

    Eric Botts is Director, Global Cybersecurity Program and Assistant Professor of International Studies at the University of St. Thomas teaching courses on Cyber Warfare, Cyber Ethics, Geopolitical Risk, Digital Governance, and Introduction to Enterprise Cybersecurity. Mr. Botts is a lecturer at the Women’s Institute of Houston teaching a cours...

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    Michael Boucher
    Executive Director, Global Information Security, JLL
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    Katie Boudreau
    Cyber Talent Director, Mastercard; Secretary & Founder, WiCyS St. Louis Metro
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    Shu Bouisset
    BISO, NCR Voyix
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    Brian Boulanger
    VP, Information Technology, Hart Medical Equipment
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    Sean Boulter
    Principal Security Engineer, Salt Security

    Sean Boulter is a technical leader with Salt Security where he helps his customers protect their APIs from abuse and keep their customers’ data secure. His career in IT and consulting spans three decades and covers a wide variety of infrastructure platforms and several industries including fintech, finserv, insurance, healthcare, medtech, and...

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    Justin Bourgeois
    Sales Engineer, Mimecast

    Justin Bourgeois is a Solution Engineer at Mimecast. He has a background in implementation project management, IT consulting and has spent his off time programming as a hobby. Justin’s main responsibility is educating people about the ever-evolving threat landscape that not only threatens their infrastructure but also their partners and the g...

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    Rodrique Boutros
    Global Telco/SI Architects, Americas Sales, Check Point

    Rodrique has been with Check Point Software for nine years. He has more than 18 years of industry experience in IT networking and network security. The past four years, he has been focused on cloud security, supporting the Check Point field as a Data Center Virtualization and Cloud Security Solution Architect within the Americas.

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    Bill Bowman
    Operating Partner | CISO, Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe

    Bill Bowman built the information security programs as the initial cybersecurity leader at Bright Horizons, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Eze Software, ZoomInfo, and Emburse. With over two decades of experience creating cybersecurity programs that meet rigorous certifications such as PCI, ISO 27001, ISO 27701, SOC 1, and SOC 2, he has consistent...

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    Tom Bowyer
    Senior Director, Security and Technical Operations, Automox

    I'm an innovative security leader with 15 years of technology experience in SaaS and Cloud companies. I am adept at aligning security with business strategy. I specialize in building and leading high-performing teams through empathy, empowerment, and honesty. My experience includes designing and implementing security programs encompassing Pro...

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    Rori Boyce-Werner
    Deputy CISO, Southern New Hampshire University

    Rori Boyce-Werner served previously as the Information Security Compliance Program Manager for the University of New Hampshire, and prior to that as the Associate Director of IT Client Services and Identity and Access Management Service Owner.

    She holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Business Administration and a Masters of Cybersecurity P...

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    April Boyd-Noronha
    Sr. Engineer, Information Security & Risk, and Cybersecurity Awareness Lead, Cardinal Health; Principal, The STEM Broker, LLC
    April Boyd-Noronha, also known as The STEM Broker, consults parents, educational and civic entities on actively engaging the NextGen as they pursue careers in STEM. She is currently the Global Diversity & Inclusion Advisor and Board Member of the XR Safety Initiative (XRSI), the first global non-profit with the mission of helping build safe and...
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    Doug Boykin
    Solutions Engineer, OneTrust

    Doug Boykin serves as a Privacy Engineer at OneTrust – the #1 most widely used privacy, security and third-party risk technology platform. In his role, Boykin advises many of the world's leading organizations on CCPA, GDPR and ePrivacy (Cookie Law) solution implementations, focused on formulating efficient and effective responses to data prot...

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    Chris Boykin
    Software Engineering Director, CyCognito

    Chris Boykin joined CyCognito in 2022, his first job on the vendor side, after spending over 20 years on the VAR side. Starting his career at NASA as an electronics technician, he eventually worked his way into computer networking, where he obtained the coveted CCIE certification. He has spent the last 15 years focusing on cybersecurity, wher...

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    Kip Boyle
    Co-Host, Cyber Risk Management Podcast; vCISO, Cyber Risk Opportunities LLC

    Kip Boyle is the Virtual Chief Information Security Officer of Cyber Risk Opportunities, whose mission is to help executives become more proficient cyber risk managers. He has over 24 years of cybersecurity experience serving as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and in other IT risk management roles for organizations in the financial ...

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    Ahanu Boyle
    Cyber Risk Analyst, Cyber Risk Opportunities LLC

    Ahanu is a cyber risk analyst with Cyber Risk Opportunities who brings years of hands-on information security experience to the enterprise AI challenge. They lead cyber risk management initiatives for organizations of all sizes, translating complex security concepts into actionable strategies that business leaders can implement.

    Since ...

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    Chris Braden
    Vice President, Global Channels & Alliances, eSentire

    Chris Braden is a veteran sales and channel executive, bringing over 20 years of experience building, leading, and executing successful programs around the world. In his current role as the Vice President, Global Channels and Alliances, he is responsible for eSentire's global channel program, overseeing strategic partner recruitment, internat...

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    Brandon Bradshaw
    Sales Engineer, Trend Micro

    Brandon has been with Trend Micro for three plus years, and has been in the IT Industry since the late 1990s. As a Sales Engineer, it's his passion to be the technical bridge between sales and customers.

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    Shawn Bradstreet
    Assistant to the Special Agent in Charge, United States Secret Service, San Francisco Field Office

    Shawn M. Bradstreet is the Assistant to the Special Agent in Charge at the San Francisco Field Office. In this capacity, Mr. Bradstreet is the supervisor of the San Francisco Electronic Crimes Task Force and previously supervised the Bay Area Financial Crimes Task Force. Mr. Bradstreet is a 17-year veteran of the U.S. Secret Service.

    M...

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    Sean Brady
    Sr. Director, Product Marketing, Arbor Networks
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    Dr. Nate Brady
    Executive Board Member, Chicago Chapter, (ISC)2
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    Paul Brager
    Technical Product Security Leader, Digital Technology, BHGE (Baker Hughes, a GE Company)

    Paul W. Brager, Jr has been a contributing member of the cyber security community for over twenty-three (23) years, with expert level knowledge of security architecture and defense-in-depth design, critical infrastructure/industrial cyber, IoT, and IIoT. He has extensive cyber experience in the oil and gas, manufacturing, power utility, chemi...

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    Vinod Brahmapuram
    CISO, State of Washington
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    Stefan Braicu
    Customer Success Manager, Outshift by Cisco
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    Michael Brainard
    CISO, Employees' Retirement System of Georgia
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    Berris Bramble
    Director of Information Security, Commercial Real Estate Industry

    Berris Bramble holds a Computer Science degree, is a founding member of the local InfraGard Technology Cross Sector Council, and regularly volunteers at local cyber conferences and events. He is a 20-year active member in the local InfraGard Houston chapter participating at the Board and leadership levels. He has spent the bulk of his caree...

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    Tracey Brand-Sanders
    CISO, UGI Corporation
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    Chris Brandt
    Field Solutions Architect, Cybersecurity & Resilience, Everpure

    Chris Brandt is a Consulting Field Solutions Architect for Cyber Security and Resilience at Everpure, formerly Pure Storage. He has spent his career in CIO and CTO level roles covering business strategy, IT operations, information security, enterprise software and network architecture. Along the way he built EMP-shielded data centers 225 feet...

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    Mike Brannon
    Director, Infrastructure & Security, National Gypsum

    Mike Brannon is an experienced IT professional and long-term employee at National Gypsum Company (NGC). His IT career began in 1977, and he joined NGC in 1985. Mike leads the teams that provide infrastructure and security: "We Keep National Gypsum Running."

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    James Brannon
    Sr. Systems Engineer, Veeam
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    Howard Brantly
    Strategic Partner Engineer - Enterprise, SpyCloud

    Howard Brantly is a seasoned cybersecurity expert and Strategic Partner Sales Engineer at SpyCloud, a leading identity-threat protection and anti-fraud software company dedicated to helping organizations proactively defend against account takeover and cybercrime. With more than three decades of experience spanning network security, sales engi...

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    Chuck Brantman
    Sales Engineer, Silverfort
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    Roger Brassard
    Sr. Product Manager – Email Threat Protection, OpenText Cybersecurity

    Roger is a 22-year veteran product manager who specializes in capturing customer and partner concerns, staying abreast of industry trends including regulatory changes, and translating that information into cross-functional development teams to solve the cybersecurity business problems of today and tomorrow. At OpenText Security Solutions, he ...

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    Ryan Braunstein
    Team Lead of Security Operations, Automox

    A passionate Security Engineer with seven years of experience, committed to safeguarding data and networks. Skilled in identifying vulnerabilities and mitigating threats, while collaborating with teams to develop comprehensive security policies. Enthusiastic about staying current with emerging technologies, ensuring the highest level of prote...

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    Gregg Braunton
    Global Head, Insider Threat, UBS

    A strategic security partner blended with deep operational, architecture, and compliance expertise. Innovative, strategic, and tactical security leadership utilizing "business aligned" and "data-driven" cybersecurity models and frameworks. Gregg has 20+ years extensive cyber expertise leading and delivering cybersecurity operations, architect...

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    Michael Bray
    CISO, Vancouver Clinic
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    Mason Brayman
    Acting SAIC of the Boston Field Office, United States Secret Service
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    Joshua Bregler
    Application Security Leader, McKinsey & Co.

    Joshua Bregler is a cybersecurity executive with deep expertise in application security, cloud architecture, and mission-critical systems. He currently serves as the Application Security Leader at McKinsey & Company, where he builds and scales firmwide application security capabilities, enabling secure product development and enterprise resil...

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    Kevin Brennan
    Special Agent, FBI, Seattle Field Office

    FBI Special Agent Kevin Brennan is currently assigned to the Seattle Field Office to investigate computer intrusions. He is also an FBI cyber instructor, teaching about cybercrime investigations to local, state, federal, and international law enforcement agencies. Prior to joining the FBI in 2006, he worked for IBM Global Services.

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    John Brennan
    Managing Partner, Holly Ventures

    John Brennan is the Managing Partner of Holly Ventures, a seed stage venture capital fund that exclusively invests in and supports cybersecurity entrepreneurs at their earliest stages. John has invested in over twenty security startups, with a focus on supporting founders from day one. Having previously served as a Senior Partner at YL Vent...

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    Tom Brennan
    CISO, Proactive Risk; Cyber Advisor, Mandelbaum Barrett PC