Katherine Elvira Britton is an attorney with a broad range of experience in regulatory compliance, corporate training and presentation and focuses her law practice on privacy and data security law, complex civil litigation, employment and human resources counseling, and consumer protection. Katherine advises clients and trains management and ...

Vlad Brodsky is the SVP, Chief Information Officer and Chief Information Security Officer at OTC Markets Group, a regulated publicly traded financial institution that operates the world’s largest OTC equity electronic marketplace. His responsibilities include leading the firm’s information security strategy, program, and processes as well as ...

Graham is a Pre-Sales Manager at Syxsense and has been working in the IT and Security industries for the last seven years. Before working at Syxsense, he was an IT Analyst for a major DOE and DOD Security manufacturing company. He currently holds the RHCE and Security Plus certifications.

Chuck Brooks is a leading evangelist for cybersecurity in both the public and private sectors. He is one of the original “plank holders” at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, worked on Capitol Hill, taught homeland security at Johns Hopkins University, and has advised several organizations including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ...

Benjamin D. Brooks is a cybersecurity professional United States Navy Veteran and Drilling Reservist, with over 20 years of information and cyber security experience across multiple industries, local, and the federated government. A CISSP and Ponemon Institute Distinguished Research Fellow, his work as founder of Preavalidis, LLC is based ar...

Dan Broussard is a seasoned cybersecurity executive with nearly three decades of experience leading high-performing enterprise sales organizations, building strategic channel ecosystems, and delivering sustained revenue growth across the cybersecurity and enterprise technology landscape. He is known for his ability to blend strategic vision w...

Jacob Brown is a Senior Solutions Architect with five+ years of experience in the security space working with clients ranging from from small startups to Fortune 50 corporations. With a background in data center, network, and cloud security, he is motivated by helping organizations implement security right where they are and streamlining that...

Josh Brown is currently the Senior Director of Cybersecurity Compliance at Ally Financial with an oversight role for cyber-threat related compliance activities as well as effective challenge and oversight of Ally’s cybersecurity threat posture. He joined Ally with his background in working broadly across the financial services sector and othe...

Joshua Brown is a CyberSecurity executive with over 25 years of experience building and transforming security programs across multiple companies. As the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of Spektrum Labs, Joshua is shepherding the product development of Spektrum Resilience, transforming the relationship between SecOps, resilience, an...

Tom Brown has held individual and leadership roles in sales engineering, customer success, and IT consulting over the past 20 years. As mobile, hybrid, and public cloud computing have become dominant models, his technical focus has evolved from endpoint and email security toward mobile and cloud-based, software-defined architectures deliverin...

Geoff Brown was appointed Chief Information Security Officer for the City of New York in 2016, a position focused on cybersecurity and aggregate information risk across all 100+ NYC departments and agencies. In July 2017, Mayor de Blasio established New York City Cyber Command, led by Geoff and charged with setting Citywide cybersecurity poli...

John Brown is a Senior Security Evangelist and member of the Team Cymru Outreach team. Prior to joining Team Cymru, he was CTO of a regional ISP that provided Internet and Voice services via fiber optic and microwave technologies. Mr. Brown has actively been involved with Internet technologies since 1984, when as a high school student he conn...

Bob presents to executive clients on their security posture and recommended economical approaches for improvement. He consults on all organizational aspects of information security: project initiations, security assessments, vendor reviews, contract negotiations, audit and regulatory engagements. +15 years of experience in the Information Sys...

Steve Brown is an energetic speaker, author, strategist, and advisor with over 30 years of experience in high tech. Speaking at events all over the world, Steve helps his audiences to understand the business and societal impacts of new technologies and how they will shape the future five, ten, and fifteen years from now.

Steve is passi...

Micah K. Brown is a member of the IT Security Engineering team at American Modern Insurance, part of the Munich RE Group. Over the past two years he has served as the lead Engineer on the DLP implementation for Data Loss Prevention for the Munich RE organizations located in North and South America. In this role Micah has learned the many intr...

Michael Brown, Rear Admiral, United States Navy (Retired) is the Founder and President, Spinnaker Security LLC, a cybersecurity consulting business focused on understanding, identifying and mitigating business risks associated with cybersecurity. Additionally, Brown brings executive leadership, including crisis management, from both public an...

Debra Brown brings over 25 years of experience in cybersecurity. Starting her career at Xerox and then honing her experience in high-growth startups like Ping Identity and Chainalysis, Debra excels in introducing innovative security technologies to the market. Her dedication extends beyond her professional sphere as she is also a passionate l...

Denise Browning is a Governance, Risk, and Compliance Manager with Little Caesars Enterprises. She is a seasoned IT professional with more than 20 years in Information Security in healthcare, automotive, retail, and hospitality industries. She is active with multiple professional organizations, including the Michigan Council of Women in Techn...

Riley is a Security Community Evangelist at Code42, where he enjoys educating Security and IT teams through engaging technical content and presentation. Previously, Riley served in both customer support and customer education roles at Code42. In his spare time, he enjoys photography, travel, and relaxing at the lake in northern Wisconsin with...

Madi Brumbelow (she/they) works as a Digital Forensics Analyst at Bank of America. She has been working at the Bank since June of 2020, when she started as an intern in the Technology Analyst Program. As a Digital Forensics Analyst, Madi works on investigations to reduce and mitigate risk to the Bank, its employees, and its customers. Madi re...

Nick Bruno is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and SVP of IT at SHL, a global HR SaaS provider specializing in talent acquisition and talent management solutions. He oversees information and cyber security, IT services and business systems, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps, along with business continuity management.

With ...

Andy Brush is the program director for Michigan Cyber Partners. In this role, Andy seeks to improve the cybersecurity posture of governments across the state by finding innovative ways of working together across sectors both locally and nationally. Prior to joining the State of Michigan, Andy served Washtenaw County for 17 years in various ro...

Tony, CyberUp’s Executive Director, has served the nonprofit community for more than 14 years. He spent nine years serving in the United States Army, where he was known as the youngest Military Police Sergeant in Brigade. Succeeding his time in the Military, Tony was appointed by the Governor of Missouri to serve on the Workforce Development ...

As the Cyber Practice Leader, Gabrielle Bryant focuses on the strategic and operational vision regarding how cyber exposures will impact our clients as well as researching methodologies to mitigate emerging cyber threats and their intersectionality with other lines of coverage.

Before becoming Cyber Practice Leader, Gabrielle Bryant wa...

Mr. John Bryant serves as the Region 7 Acting Chief of Cybersecurity for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Integrated Operations Division in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Region 7 is headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, and serves the states of Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska. CISA is the N...

Mr. John Bryant serves as a Cybersecurity Advisor for Region 7 (IA, KS, MO and NE) for the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Integrated Operations Division. Based in Kansas City, Missouri he supports the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) mission of partnering with industry and government to understand and manage ris...

Kyle Bubp is currently serving as Chief Information Security Officer at Avid Technology and is also a member of IANS Faculty. He's a seasoned cybersecurity leader with over 20 years of IT and security experience.
Kyle has worked for Fortune 200 enterprises, hosting providers, the FBI, the Department of Energy, and the Department of Defe...

Dafina Buçaj counsels and advises Octillo clients on the development and implementation of enterprise-wide data security and privacy programs and regulatory compliance under federal, state, and international privacy regulations. Her practice includes helping organizations build out data privacy and security regulatory assessments, information...

Eric Bucher has over 15 years of experience in the security industry with a technical concentration in financial fraud, advanced persistent threats, forensics, exfiltration, DLP, and overall attack surfaces.

Naomi Buckwalter, CISSP CISM, is the Director of Product Security for Contrast Security and author of the LinkedIn course: “Training today for tomorrow's solutions - Building the Next Generation of Cybersecurity Professionals”. She is also the founder and Executive Director of Cybersecurity Gatebreakers Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to cl...

Sarah Buerger serves as the Business Information Security Officer for The Kraft Heinz Company.

Bobby Buggs is a telecommunications professional that hails from Flint, MI. Bobby has worked in the mobile/wireless industry for over 19 years. Over the course of his career, Bobby has held numerous roles in both sales and technical disciplines. Bobby is also an MSU alumnus.

Ve is a technologist at heart who graduated University of Iowa during the dot com boom. He started as a software engineer in airlines at Unisys, then moved to ecommerce in 2005 where he implemented omni channel experiences. Since 2011, he's been a solutions engineer helping grow market share for technologies like ATG, Endeca, Oracle, Sitecore...

Preston Bukaty is an attorney and consultant working for IT Governance USA. He specializes in data privacy GRC projects, from data inventory audits to gap analysis, contract management, and remediation planning. His compliance background, and experience with operationalizing compliance for a variety of industries, give him a strong understand...

Ashley is a Solutions Engineer at Tessian, providing customers with solutions to address their email security objectives. She is responsible for leading technical product demonstrations and evaluations, and is an expert in email security, endpoint security, insider threats, and behavior analytics and Human Layer Security. Prior to joining Tes...

Zach Bulliner has been a Special Agent with the Secret Service since 2002, when he started in the Nashville Field Office. In 2008, he was transferred to Washington D.C., where he spent three years in the Cyber Intelligence Section (CIS) at Secret Service Headquarters before spending six years on Presidential Protection. He served on President...

Michael is an Ex-Army Green Beret turned application security engineer. Currently, he serves as the senior enlisted Cyber Network Defender for the North Carolina National Guard. In his civilian career, he is the Director of Application Security and content team lead for Security Journey, a SaaS-based application security training platform. He...

Robert Burda currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer for the Cybercrime Support Network (CSN). Mr. Burda started at CSN in 2019 as the Chief Strategy Officer. He served as the Interim CEO from June 2021 until July 2022, when he was formally appointed as CEO by the board of directors. Prior to becoming CEO, Mr. Burda led several key pr...