SecureWorld Houston 2023

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.

Michael Gregg is the state of North Dakota’s Chief Information Security Officer. The state CISO is responsible for establishing and leading the strategic direction of cyber security for the state and advising the governor and legislators on key cyber issues.

With Michael’s cyber experience span being over a period of two decades, he has been a pioneer of helping people interested in becoming IT professionals as well as seasoned IT professionals achieve by sharing knowledge by means of authoring over 25 IT cyber security books. He enjoys contributing his time and talents where there is a need to help others learn and grow by holding board, committee, and advisory positions for non-profit organizations. He holds a Bachelors degree, Masters degree, and many security certifications.

Mario Chiock possesses over 37 years of experience in Oil Field operations, IT, Security, Risk, Privacy and Auditing. Prior to his current role as Schlumberger Fellow, Mario was the CISO at Schlumberger where he was responsible for developing the company’s worldwide, long-term cyber security strategy. He is recognized for his leadership and management in all aspects of cybersecurity throughout the company as well as within the community.

Through his vision, he successfully transitioned Schlumberger from legacy firewalls to a more robust infrastructure based on next-generation firewalls. His experience in successfully deploying advanced technologies and approaches also spans Incident Response, Advance Threat Prevention, Digital Right Management to watermark & fingerprint sensitive documents. He also implemented federation services to minimize 3rd party risk and created the extended security team to foster collaboration with other IT groups. Mario is also known for applying his Lean Six Sigma expertise for measuring performance and creating

Outside of Schlumberger, Mario has been an active member of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) for over 20 years; he has held numerous board positions in the Austin, Capital of Texas Chapter, as well as the South Texas Chapter in Houston. He was president of the South Texas Chapter in 2007, bringing in the “Chapter of the Year” award. He continues to serve on the board. Mario is also an active volunteer trainer for Security Certifications such as CISM, CISA & CRISC certifications, and has mentored many successful CSO & CISO in Austin & Houston area. He is also very active with Evanta as speaker and instructor for their CISO Institute. In 2015 he was a speaker for the SPE and API conference and in 2016 he was a panelist at the GEO2016 conference in Bahrain. In 2018 was awarded the South Central Region InfraGard Award for “INMA Leadership!”.

Mario was recognized as one of the top 25 out of more than 10,000 security executives in the ExecRank 2013 Security Executive Rankings, he also won the 2012 Central Information Security Executive (ISE) “People Choice Award”, in 2014 he is a recipient of the CSO40 – 2014 award, named “ISSA Fellow”, won ISC2 Americas Information Security Leadership Awards (ISLA) and won the “ISSA Honor Roll” award. In 2017 he received the Infragard Houston award of excellence for the Private-Public Partnership in Cybersecurity. He is an active member of the Houston Security community and gives security talks, training and volunteers his IT security expertise to local non-profit organizations. He is currently a board member of the Houston InfraGard Chapter, has served in Executive & Technical Advisory boards of many security companies such as WatchFire (Now IBM), ISS (now IBM), Qualys, and currently is active on the Palo Alto Networks advisory board, he is also serving in the Google Cloud Platform advisory board and strategic advisor to Onapsis as well as Board member.

Mario has a CISSP, CISM & CISA Certifications, and is past chair for the American Petroleum Institute Information (API) Security Sub-Committee and was involved in the formation of the Oil & Gas ISAC. Co-Author of "Navigating the Digital Age, Second Edition."

Ben DiMolfetta is a Professional Services Director and AppSec Client Solutions Architect for Winmill Software, a technology services company headquartered in New York City. With over 30 years of industry experience, Ben is a highly qualified AppSec implementation architect, systems developer, project manager and educator, and holds the following industry recognized certifications: Checkmarx Engineer (CxCE), Project Management Professional (PMP), CompTIA Data+ Practitioner, and Technical Trainer (CTT+). Ben is a 1990 graduate of Binghamton University (SUNY), where he earned a BS in Computer Science/Information Science.

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.

Harvey O. Perriott currently serves as the Regional Director for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Region VI headquartered in Irving, TX. His staff overseas risk management, and both physical and cyber security activities for private and public sector partners across five states including Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. He regularly interacts with state and local Homeland Security officials and is the CISA Director’s representative to Region VI stakeholders.

Prior to this assignment, he served as the Chief, Protective Security for CISA Region VI providing leadership and management to a team of 13 Protective Security Advisors (PSAs) across 5 states. His PSAs supported infrastructure risk management and acted as emergency management and physical security advisors to Federal, State, local, and Tribal officials. Prior to this assignment, he served as the Protective Security Advisor for the North Texas District from 2006-2017.

From November 2004 until June 2006, Mr. Perriott served as the Staff Director for the Office of Infrastructure Protection’s Risk Management Division located in Washington, DC. In this capacity he facilitated the daily operations of a division consisting of 130 federal and contract personnel.

Mr. Perriott brings extensive experience and training to the agency in the fields of security, counterterrorism, and special operations. With over 25 years’ experience in U.S. Special Operations, Mr. Perriott has been involved in various military operations directed at counterterrorism activities. Mr. Perriott was recognized for his contributions to Operation ENDURING FREEDOM with a Bronze Star Medal. He has served within CISA or its predecessors for 17 years.

Mr. Perriott holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resource Management and a Physical Security Professional certification with the ASIS; he has an in-depth knowledge of technical and physical security, threat and vulnerability assessments, analysis of requirements, and the development of operational plans. He has been married for over 33 years, with two children and one grandson.

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 course entitled The World According to Eric dealing with current events in geopolitics. Mr. Botts received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from St. Mary’s University and Master of Security Management from the University of Houston Downtown. After serving for 31 years in the U.S. Department of State as a Foreign Service Officer (Santo Domingo, Seoul, Dublin, and Nassau), Assistant Director of the Houston Passport Agency and an Information Systems Security Officer. During his federal career he served as Program Chairman of the Gulf Coast Federal Safety Council, and as a member of the Federal Executive Board. Mr. Botts teaching experience includes the University of Houston Downtown for courses in cybersecurity and organizational resilience in the Masters of Security Management Program.

Mr. Botts retired and went to work in the private sector. In the private sector Mr. Botts worked as a security project manager and consultant for Swailes & Co. Inc. specializing in cyber security, risk management, business continuity, due diligence, travel security, and investigations until 2020. Mr. Botts is a founding board member of the Foreign Policy Alliance and has spoken on foreign policy issues to civic groups, colleges, and the media. In the cyber security community, he sits on the Secure World Advisory Council, is a member of the Internet Governance Forum USA. He authored and published two novels Conversations with An Alien (2004) and The Circle - Portrait of an American Family (2015).

Carlos I. Torres is an assistant professor in the Information Systems and Business Analytics department at the Hankamer School of Business at Baylor University. He received his PhD in Business Administration with a concentration in Information Systems from Washington State University. He also holds a MIB from Florida International University, MBA from Universidad de Los Andes in Colombia, as well as a bachelor’s degree in computer science (Summa Cum Laude honors) from Universidad Industrial de Santander in Colombia.

Torres’ research focuses on behavioral factors related to information technology, including information security and privacy, computer self-efficacy (CSE) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). His work has appeared in journals such as AIS transactions in Replication Research, as well as in several conference proceedings such as AMCIS, HICSS, ICIS (WISP), and DRW. Carlos currently has several papers under review at premier IS Journals.

Torres has extensive industry experience as well in information technology product management. He worked in the Americas and Europe, leading 3G and 4G wireless network implementations and business case evaluations. He also led the design and successful launch into the market of value-added services and new products over wireless networks, as well as developed value-creation initiatives through marketing innovation and big data analytics in the Telecom Latin American market.

Dr. Katie Evans is a Professor of Mathematics and the Dean of Science and Engineering at Houston Christian University (HCU). Prior to HCU, she was on faculty at Louisiana Tech University for 16 years in the College of Engineering and Science, where she served in various administrative roles and is now Professor Emerita. Dr. Evans serves in leadership of the Grand Challenges Scholars Program, founded by the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. She earned her B.S. in Mathematics from Morehead State University and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Mathematics at Virginia Tech, followed by a postdoctoral position in Mechanical Engineering at Oregon State University.

Deniz Gurkan received her BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from Bilkent University, in Ankara, Turkey, in 1996 and 1998, respectively. Her PhD is also in Electrical Engineering, received from the University of Southern California in 2003. She briefly worked as a lecturer at the California State University in Long Beach, Electrical Engineering and the Claremont Graduate University, Applied Mathematics departments while also conducting research explorations as a post-doc at the USC's Information Sciences Institute. She then joined the faculty at the University of Houston in 2004. In her tenure at UH, her research has evolved into fiber-optic sensors, sensor networking, distributed systems, network measurements, network infrastructure, and software-defined networks. She is now the director of the UH Networking Lab which has a software-defined infrastructure (SDI) testbed where networking research is conducted with advanced software development practices and sponsored by federal agencies as well as industry by more than $2.5 million during the last five years. Her lab develops and maintains a suite of software frameworks that range from network resource orchestration to advanced services for learning platforms. She develops and utilizes her own materials for teaching computer networking foundations with a strong focus on lower layer fundamentals and functional protocol observations in a lab environment. Her course modules include content for basic networking, network programming, network troubleshooting, and cybersecurity in the network layer. Her recent research interests are on network security, network traffic modeling, network resource management, and network function design and development. Her research has been funded by federal programs and industry, resulting in over 60 peer-reviewed articles in leading journals and supervision of over 70 students at MS and PhD levels. She is the faculty advisor of the UH Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS) student chapter. She is also an active member of her community through her volunteering role as a leader in the BSA Scouting troops of both of her children, as a mentor and a judge in organizations such as the NCWIT (National Center for Women and Information Technology), in teaching networking to high school teachers and students formally through NSF-RET and informally by outreach, and through running workshops on career advancement in various venues such as the AAUW (American Association of University Women) STEM outreach to middle schools.

Mario Chiock possesses over 37 years of experience in Oil Field operations, IT, Security, Risk, Privacy and Auditing. Prior to his current role as Schlumberger Fellow, Mario was the CISO at Schlumberger where he was responsible for developing the company’s worldwide, long-term cyber security strategy. He is recognized for his leadership and management in all aspects of cybersecurity throughout the company as well as within the community.

Through his vision, he successfully transitioned Schlumberger from legacy firewalls to a more robust infrastructure based on next-generation firewalls. His experience in successfully deploying advanced technologies and approaches also spans Incident Response, Advance Threat Prevention, Digital Right Management to watermark & fingerprint sensitive documents. He also implemented federation services to minimize 3rd party risk and created the extended security team to foster collaboration with other IT groups. Mario is also known for applying his Lean Six Sigma expertise for measuring performance and creating

Outside of Schlumberger, Mario has been an active member of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) for over 20 years; he has held numerous board positions in the Austin, Capital of Texas Chapter, as well as the South Texas Chapter in Houston. He was president of the South Texas Chapter in 2007, bringing in the “Chapter of the Year” award. He continues to serve on the board. Mario is also an active volunteer trainer for Security Certifications such as CISM, CISA & CRISC certifications, and has mentored many successful CSO & CISO in Austin & Houston area. He is also very active with Evanta as speaker and instructor for their CISO Institute. In 2015 he was a speaker for the SPE and API conference and in 2016 he was a panelist at the GEO2016 conference in Bahrain. In 2018 was awarded the South Central Region InfraGard Award for “INMA Leadership!”.

Mario was recognized as one of the top 25 out of more than 10,000 security executives in the ExecRank 2013 Security Executive Rankings, he also won the 2012 Central Information Security Executive (ISE) “People Choice Award”, in 2014 he is a recipient of the CSO40 – 2014 award, named “ISSA Fellow”, won ISC2 Americas Information Security Leadership Awards (ISLA) and won the “ISSA Honor Roll” award. In 2017 he received the Infragard Houston award of excellence for the Private-Public Partnership in Cybersecurity. He is an active member of the Houston Security community and gives security talks, training and volunteers his IT security expertise to local non-profit organizations. He is currently a board member of the Houston InfraGard Chapter, has served in Executive & Technical Advisory boards of many security companies such as WatchFire (Now IBM), ISS (now IBM), Qualys, and currently is active on the Palo Alto Networks advisory board, he is also serving in the Google Cloud Platform advisory board and strategic advisor to Onapsis as well as Board member.

Mario has a CISSP, CISM & CISA Certifications, and is past chair for the American Petroleum Institute Information (API) Security Sub-Committee and was involved in the formation of the Oil & Gas ISAC. Co-Author of "Navigating the Digital Age, Second Edition."

Karen Harris is an IT professional with over 20 years global banking and finance technical operations and strategy expertise, including threat modeling and cyber intelligence delivery. Prior to JP Morgan Chase, Karen recently worked at Capital One and Bank of America, where as senior architect and threat modeling manager she helped implement threat modeling tools, policies, and threat modeling training programs.

Annie Jamshed is a Cyber Security Professional with Bachelor in Electrical Engineering and Master in Cyber Security. She has more than four years' experience working in Security Operations Center performing incident response, forensics and threat intelligence. She is currently working at JP Morgan Chase as a Security Architect and a threat modeling practitioner. Annie is very active in the Houston area Cyber Security community. She serves as President for WiCyS Houston Affiliate and Speaker Wrangler for HouSecCon. She holds CISM, GNFA, GCTI, and CompTIA Sec+.

Lisa Plaggemier is Executive Director at the National Cybersecurity Alliance. She is a recognized thought leader in security awareness and education with a track record of engaging and empowering people to protect themselves, their families, and their organizations. Lisa is a University of Michigan graduate (Go Blue!) and while she wasn’t born in Austin, Texas, she got there as fast as she could.