SecureWorld Central Virtual Conference 2021

Tom has been part of the SecureWorld team for over 14 years. He has launched several of the regional conferences we hold today. Tom is currently responsible for SecureWorld Digital, which provides educational content to the SecureWorld audience. He produces, executes, and moderates the majority of the Remote Sessions webcasts while also working closely with the SecureWorld event directors to build relevant agendas at the regional conferences.

Ms. Alexander has over 30 years of experience in the cybersecurity profession. She has held several positions as CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) for which she developed and managed corporate security programs. She is now working as a CISO and Cyber Risk Practice lead for NeuEon, Inc., assisting companies large and small to improve their cyber risk and security programs through effective business alignment.

Ms. Alexander is a leader within the cyber profession, where her contributions include being twice-elected as Information Systems Security Association's (ISSA) International President, chief architect for the Cyber Security Career Lifecycle, and a long-standing Director on the International Board. She is also the inaugural President and past Board Member of the ISSA Education and Research Foundation. She has been instrumental in establishing the annual ISSA/ESG research project to better understand challenges face by cybersecurity professionals worldwide.

Naeem Babri is a cybersecurity practitioner who works at T-Mobile, focusing on cyber risk assessments, information security, and cyber security controls. Naeem has worked in IT and cybersecurity for the last 20+ years. His expertise in information security, IT operations, and support has led to various roles at T-Mobile, formerly Sprint. His various Board services include serving as President and advisor of ISSA-KC since 2014, board member for InfraGard, and as an advisor for various conferences. Naeem is an avid runner, enjoys photography, and is an arts patron in addition to his various community projects. He holds a Master's degree in Computer Resource Management and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Computer Science.

Jimmy has spent the better part of two decades securing data and systems from cyber threats. In addition to his duties at DVD.com, Jimmy has served as the San Francisco Bay Area chapter president of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) since 2014. He is also on the ISSA International Board of Directors. Furthermore, he has been a speaker at BlackHat, SecureWorld, InfoSec World, as well as other notable events. Prior to DVD.com, Jimmy has also held senior security management roles at organizations that include Samsung, Fiserv, and SAP. He is a Cyber Security Committee advisor for Merritt College, Ohlone College as well as on advisory board for other colleges and non-profit movements. Jimmy Sanders maintains the certifications of Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified in Risk Information and Information Systems Control (CRISC), and Certified Information Systems Manager (CISM). He holds degrees in Psychology and Behavioral Science from San Jose State University.

Mike works with customers and oversees technical strategy for areas which include cloud security, advanced email defense, SOAR, browsing security, and SDP. Prior to joining Proofpoint, Mike held numerous technical leadership and product strategy roles across a variety of solutions.

Gary DeMercurio runs one of the largest groups in Coalfire Labs as a Director, where he leads Coalfire’s “Center of Excellence” for Red Teaming, Social Engineering and Physical Penetration. At Coalfire, Gary manages day-to-day business involved with FedRAMP, PCI, HIPPA, and penetration testing, while helping to spearhead the physical and social engineering portion of testing. Gary is also a proud member of Coalfire Veterans.

As a Senior Security Consultant, Justin Wynn is responsible for actively compromising and reporting on virtual environments typically encountered at Fortune 500 companies. Justin performs wireless, physical, red team and social engineering engagements. Justin also conducts research to include the production of open-source models for printing/milling to aid in red team engagements, with specific regard to tool gaps in the locksport industry as well as master keys for access control/elevator overrides.

Gary S. Chan helps organizations innovate, stay secure, and meet compliance using information security as the vehicle. He has architected anti-fraud systems for state agencies, led the information security teams for a large-cap technology company, leads the information security department for a large multi-state healthcare system, owns an information security consulting company, and is an evaluator and mentor for cybersecurity start-ups. He served as President of the FBI St. Louis Citizens Academy Alumni Association and is on the board of the Greater St. Louis Area Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. An adaptable individual with international experience, Gary has been based out of Asia, Europe, and the U.S. and has a refined ability to resolve conflict through negotiations and mediations. He holds four security certifications and a degree in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from MIT.

Chris Pin serves as PKWARE’s VP, Security and Privacy. In this role, Chris drives value and awareness for all PKWARE customers regarding the various challenges that both privacy and security regulations bring to the data-driven world. He works closely with all customers and potential customers to help them better understand how PKWARE solutions best fit into their environments and processes. He also works very closely with many other departments such as Sales, Marketing, Partners, and Product to help build brand awareness and product insights.

With over 15 years of experience, Chris’s career began at the Pentagon where he supported the Army Headquarters as a Systems Engineer. Following his tenure at the Pentagon, he transitioned into global architecture and engineering for SOCOM, focusing on global networks and security. This is where he developed a deep understanding of what it takes to operate global networks at scale while ensuring the best security and privacy without jeopardizing the end-user experience.

Prior to joining PKWARE as part of the Dataguise acquisition, Chris spent four years at Costco leading the data center migration of the e-commerce domain before transitioning into Privacy and Compliance where he was a PCI-ISA and assisted through yearly PCI assessments. Most notably, Chris also led Costco’s GDPR and CCPA efforts on a global scale, working with teams across the company, Infosec, development, policy, legal, employee education, change review, marketing, HR, buyers, and more.

Chris has a CIPM certification and studied Aviation Management at Dowling College. When not working, he enjoys spending time with family, flying drones, kayaking, and adventuring the Pacific Northwest.

James Christiansen is Netskope’s vice president of cloud security transformation and leader of the Global Chief Strategy Office. He is focused on enhancing Netskope’s global clients understand the challenges and solutions of cloud deployments by helping drive thought leadership in cloud security transformation.

James brings extensive expertise as a global leader in information security. Prior to joining Netskope, he was vice president CISO at Teradata where he led the global security, physical, and information security teams. Previously, James was vice president of information risk management at Optiv, chief information risk officer for Evantix, and CISO at Experian Americas, General Motors, and Visa International.

As a sought-after expert speaker on security, James has been featured at numerous prestigious events, including the Business Roundtable, Research Board, American Bar Association, American Banker, the RSA Conference, BankInfoSecurity, ISSA, ISACA, HIMSS, and MIS Training Institute. He has also been featured in The New York Times and quoted as an expert in USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, United States Cybersecurity Magazine, Bloomberg, and Healthcare IT News.

James is a patent inventor and has received three innovation awards in cyber security, GRC, and cloud computing. He is the author of the Internet Survival Series and contributing author of CISO Essentials, as well as numerous industry papers.

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.

Dr. Mike Lloyd has more than 25 years of experience in the modeling and control of fast-moving, complex systems. He has been granted 21 patents on security, network assessment, and dynamic network control. Before joining RedSeal, Mike Lloyd was Chief Technology Officer at RouteScience Technologies (acquired by Avaya), where he pioneered self-optimizing networks. Mike served as principal architect at Cisco on the technology used to overlay MPLS VPN services across service provider backbones. He joined Cisco through the acquisition of Netsys Technologies, where he was the senior network modeling engineer.

Dr. Mike Lloyd holds a degree in mathematics from Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, and a PhD in stochastic epidemic modeling from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Britney began the first decade of her security career in the U.S. Army where she managed over 90 teams and traveled to assess the security of international government partners. She oversaw the Information Security Department for AMC Theatres where she was responsible for the development and implementation of the global strategy. She has since transitioned to Cardinal Health, initially leading Cyber Operations and now performing as the Director of Information Security Business Partnerships, providing Business Support, Security Awareness, and Compliance Operations across the Globe. Britney is a certified CISSP, CISM, PMP, SSAP. and holds certifications for CompTIA S+, CCSK, and IT Business Management. She holds a BS in Applied & Discrete Mathematics and an MS in Cybersecurity. Britney was also named an IT Security Power Player by SC Magazine and named as the Security Professional of the Year by ASIS Kansas City Chapter in 2020.

Kevin Hardcastle, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for Washington University in St. Louis, is a member of the CIO Leadership team and serves a key role in University leadership, working closely with senior administration, academic leaders and the campus community. The CISO is responsible for the development and delivery of a holistic information security strategy to optimize the security posture through collaboration with campus-wide resources, facilitate information security governance, advise senior leadership on security direction and direct program functions of risk and incident management, compliance, information security operations, and information security policy development and education.

Cindi Carter is a global, multi-industry Cybersecurity and Information Technology Executive who consistently seeks the optimal outcome for any endeavor. As a transformational leader from startups to enterprises, she excels at building cybersecurity practices in highly-regulated industries, turning strategic goals into actionable outcomes, and highly collaborative engagement across the organization for managing cyber risk.

At Check Point Software Technologies, Cindi is a Chief Information Security Officer in the Office of the CISO, leading Check Point's Healthcare Center of Excellence where human safety is essential to care.

Cindi is the founding President of Women in Security - Kansas City, was honored in SC Media magazine’s “Women to Watch in Cyber Security," and was also featured in Cybersecurity Venture’s book, “Women Know Cyber: 100 Fascinating Females Fighting Cybercrime.” She presents at conferences worldwide, holds several recognized IT, security, and project management certifications, and has a Master of Science degree in Information Technology.

With over 20 years of product management experience at Cisco, Websense, and most recently Sophos before joining CrowdStrike in 2017, Spencer has been instrumental in leading the Intel/Falcon X and Mobile solutions. Spencer holds a B.S. in Molecular Biology from the University of Portsmouth.

Sowmya Karmali is a Director of Product Management at CrowdStrike and is responsible for Falcon Horizon (CSPM) and Falcon Discover for Cloud. She has over 20 years of product development and management experience covering cloud, data, and IoT, and has worked in startups and large organizations. Prior to CrowdStrike, Sowmya held product leadership roles for a multitude of cloud services at Microsoft Azure and Cloudera.

Terry Ray is the SVP and Imperva Fellow for Imperva Inc. As a technology fellow, Terry supports all of Imperva’s business functions with his years of industry experience and expertise. Previously he served as Chief Technology Officer where he was responsible for developing and articulating the company’s technical vision and strategy, as well as, maintaining a deep knowledge of the Application and Data Security Solution and Threats Landscape.

Earlier in his tenure at Imperva, he held the role of Chief Product Strategist where he consulted directly with Imperva’s strategic global customers on industry best practices, threat landscape, application and data security implementation and industry regulations. He continues to operate as an executive sponsor to strategic customers who benefit from having a bridge between both company’s executive teams. He was the first U.S.-based employee, and during his 15 years at Imperva, he has worked hundreds of data security projects to meet the security requirements of customers and regulators from every industry.

Terry is a frequent speaker for RSA, ISSA, OWASP, ISACA, IANS, CDM, NLIT, The American Petroleum Institute, and other professional security and audit organizations in the Americas and abroad. Terry also provides expert commentary to the media and has been quoted in Security Week, SC Magazine, CBS News, the BBC, and others.

Randy Raw is Chief Information Security Officer at Veterans United Home Loans in Columbia, Missouri. He has more than 25 years of experience in both public entities and private industry, having built several Information Security programs from the ground up. He is a proponent of risk-based, layered security measures that utilize both preventative and detective approaches to achieve the right solution for the organization. Randy is a CISSP and is active in the Central Missouri InfoSec community. He has spoken at SecureWorld on many technical topics and turns his focus towards helping others move from the technical trenches to a leadership role.

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 his pug Mimi.

Igor is a 25-year Kansas City IT professional with background across Telecom, Fin-Tech, and Security Technology companies focusing on Software Development, Enterprise Architecture, Security, and Identity and Access Management. A member of Okta's Enterprise Solutions team since 2019, Igor has been helping companies in the Central region to visualize and architect Okta's technology to achieve a variety of Workforce and Customer Identity needs.

Prakash Nagpal is VP of Marketing at Appaegis, where he is responsible for bringing the next generation of Zero Trust Secure Application Access solutions to market. His mission is to help customers realize the vision of securing applications and data without compromising user experience, with a Zero Trust application centric approach to security. He has spent over two decades in various leadership roles in technology including marketing, product marketing product management, and engineering in networking, security, and cloud-based services. He has brought several security products to market, including UEBA, security intelligence platforms, data security solutions, and perimeter defense products.

With over 20 years of product management experience at Cisco, Websense, and most recently Sophos before joining CrowdStrike in 2017, Spencer has been instrumental in leading the Intel/Falcon X and Mobile solutions. Spencer holds a B.S. in Molecular Biology from the University of Portsmouth.

With over 12 years of technical consulting and solution engineering experience in the field of Enterprise Networking & Security, Keval has enjoyed architecting and transforming businesses. Prior to Gigamon, Keval spent a decade at Cisco. He holds a Masters in Science, Electrical Engineering, from University of Southern California and a Master’s in Business, Administration & Management, from Washington University in St. Louis, as well as a BS in Electrical Engineering from Pune University, India. Keval resides in Kansas City with his two children and wife. He enjoys playing sports, primarily soccer, where he learned how important a "team" matters to success.

John has over 17 years of experience investigating, and leading teams investigating, data breaches and cybersecurity incidents within the government and civilian security sectors. Currently, John heads the Verizon Threat Research Advisory Center (VTRAC) research, development, and innovation effort. In this role, he focuses on researching cybersecurity incidents, performing digital forensic examinations, advising on data breach containment and eradication efforts, and creating data breach response preparedness training and breach simulation exercises for customers worldwide. Prior to joining Verizon, John served 12 years with the U.S. Army investigating security-related incidents with eight years specifically focused on network intrusion investigations and forensic examinations.

A Senior Sales Engineer for LogRhythm, Michael McGinnis has worked in IT Security for over 15 years, specializing in SIEM technology for the past 10. Michael’s experience began as a Security Architect for the largest hospital network in the Midwest where he developed and matured a security posture that is the framework used by many hospital systems throughout the country. Michael has been a Principal Engineer for multiple Security Vendors. Michael’s SIEM methodologies and strategies have been referenced by organizations throughout the world. During the implementation of the Affordable Care Act Marketplace, Michael was specifically brought in to help identify log collection strategies. Out of all his accomplishments, Michael is most proud of his amazing wife and three beautiful children.

Joel Hollenbeck is a Cyber Security Visionary with the Office of the CTO at Check Point Software Technologies Inc., the worldwide leader in securing the internet. His background includes over 20 years of experience deploying application protection and network-based security. Joel has been securing networks and systems since 1994, including developing and executing on strategies to connect some of the most sensitive networks for the federal government and financial institutions to the internet in the earliest days of commercial internet connectivity. Joel has served as a consulting Security Architect with Check Point, advising a wide variety of clients across many verticals on security best practices, security architecture, and deriving the maximum value from investments in security. Prior to joining Check Point, Joel held various security engineering, leadership, and executive roles within organizations local to St. Louis.

Alex Kirk is an open source security veteran, with a combined 17 years at Sourcefire, Cisco, Tenable, and now Corelight, where he serves as Global Principal for Suricata. Formerly a malware zookeeper and IDS signature writer, today he spends his time helping SOC analysts and advising on security policy for government agencies, universities, and large corporations around the world.

Product marketing specialist with over 15 years of experience at emerging and growing cybersecurity and SaaS companies. Currently heading up product marketing at Siemplify. SecOps solution specialist. Remote work advocate.

Rebecca L. Rakoski is the managing partner at XPAN Law Partners, LLC. Rebecca advises her clients on a proactive, multi jurisdictional approach to identify and address data privacy and cybersecurity compliance gaps and potential liabilities. She uses her extensive experience to work with her clients to create and tailor a security and privacy governance program that fits their specific needs in order to limit their regulatory exposure.

Rebecca counsels and aggressively defends public and private corporations, and their boards, during data breaches and responds to state/federal regulatory compliance and enforcement actions. As an experienced litigator, Rebecca has handled hundreds of matters in state and federal courts. Rebecca skillfully manages the intersection of state, federal, and international regulations that affect the transfer, storage, and collection of data to minimize her client's litigation risks.

Rebecca regularly negotiates complex contractual provisions that are impacted by domestic and international data privacy regulations including the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, and the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation. She understands how the nature of the data can affect the role her client plays in the data transaction and uses that knowledge to mitigate corporate liability.
As a thought leader in the area of data privacy and cybersecurity, Rebecca serves on the New Jersey State Bar Association's Cyber Task Force. Rebecca is Vice-Chair Elect for the New Jersey State Bar Association's Bankruptcy Law Section.

Rebecca has been appointed and served in multiple highly complex litigation matters by the New Jersey Superior Court as a Special Master in the areas of technology and eDiscovery. She also served on the Complex Business Litigation Committee that drafted and revised the New Jersey Court Rules involving electronic discovery. Rebecca was on the eDiscovery committee of her prior law firm and created its eDiscovery subgroup.

Rebecca is on the Board of Governors for Temple University Health Systems and is also the Acting Dean of Online Learning and an adjunct professor at Drexel University’s Thomas R. Kline School of Law.

Randy Raw is Chief Information Security Officer at Veterans United Home Loans in Columbia, Missouri. He has more than 25 years of experience in both public entities and private industry, having built several Information Security programs from the ground up. He is a proponent of risk-based, layered security measures that utilize both preventative and detective approaches to achieve the right solution for the organization. Randy is a CISSP and is active in the Central Missouri InfoSec community. He has spoken at SecureWorld on many technical topics and turns his focus towards helping others move from the technical trenches to a leadership role.

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 and mid-sized companies to Fortune 100 enterprises. Shawn has been named a Cybersecurity Law Trailblazer by the National Law Journal, SuperLawyers Top 100 Lawyers in DFW, and Best Lawyers in Dallas. He serves as the Practitioner Editor for Bloomberg Law’s Texas Privacy & Data Security Law, among many other activities.