SecureWorld Southeast Virtual Conference 2021

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.

JD Sherry is a seasoned technology executive and is responsible for providing vision and awareness regarding the latest trends in cybersecurity, risk and compliance. Well-versed in enterprise security and data center architecture, as a former practitioner and CEO, JD has successfully implemented large-scale public, private, and hybrid clouds emphasizing security architecture best practices to meet strict compliance standards.

Over the last decade, he has established himself as a trusted senior advisor for the protection of Payment Card Industry (PCI), Health Information Privacy Act (HIPAA), and Personally Identifiable Information (PII) data. JD interfaces regularly with TV/media/press to provide expert insight on the state of cybersecurity and how individuals and organizations can adequately protect themselves from loss. JD has held Top Secret clearance and has an MBA/IT degree from Jones University and a B.S. degree from the University of Nebraska.

Brian Linder is an Emerging Threats Expert and Evangelist in Check Point’s Office of the CTO, specializing in the Modern Secured Workforce. Brian has appeared multiple times on CNBC, FOX, ABC, NBC, CBS, and NPR Radio, and hosts Check Point’s CoffeeTalk Podcast and Weaponizers Underground, and has teamed on keynote CyberTalks at Check Point’s CPX360 events. For 20+ years, Brian has been an advisor at the C-level to firms big and small in financial, legal and telecommunications, on next generation cybersecurity solutions and strategies for cloud, mobile, and network. Brian holds a B.S. in computer science from Drexel University and an M.S. in Information Science from the Pennsylvania State University.

Tamika Bass is an Information Security professional with more than 17 years’ experience in information security, including information security governance and risk management. Tamika is passionate about improving communication and understanding of information security in the industry. Tamika is an active speaker, college professor and enjoys spending her time educating technical staff on the importance of communicating effectively in the Information Technology space. Tamika holds the following certifications: CISA,CRISC, HCISPP, CBCP.

Rick is CISO of Carolina Complete Health, a state healthcare plan, for Centene Corporate. Rick has run ethical hacking, application security, incident response & forensics, and risk management teams throughout his 25 years in IT Security. Rick has been the first CISO for two companies. He has also consulted as a virtual CISO for many industries and companies around the world. Other notable roles over last 20 years have been as a Risk Management consultant at Gartner, Chief Scientist for Lockheed Martin’s Center for Cyber Security Innovation, and Managing Principal in the Professional Security Services practice at Verizon.

Rebecca L. Rakoski, Esq., is the managing partner at XPAN Law Partners. Rebecca counsels and defends public and private corporations, and their boards, during data breaches and responds to state/federal regulatory compliance and enforcement actions. She manages the intersection of state, federal, and international regulations that affect the transfer, storage, and collection of data to aggressively mitigate her client's litigation risks. As an experienced litigator, she has handled hundreds of matters in state and federal courts. Rebecca advises her clients on a proactive, multi-jurisdictional approach to identify and address data privacy and cybersecurity compliance gaps and potential liabilities. She works with clients to create and tailor a security and privacy governance program that fits their specific needs in order to limit their regulatory exposure.

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, and also served on the Complex Business Litigation Committee that drafted and revised the Court Rules involving electronic discovery in complex litigation matters. She has been appointed in several litigation matters by the New Jersey Superior Court as a Discovery Special Master.

Rebecca is on the Board of Governors for Temple University Health Systems, and is an adjunct professor at Drexel University’s Thomas R. Kline School of Law and Rowan University.

Glenn Kapetansky has a passion for building systems, organizations, and teams, and has done so across a number of business sectors, technologies, and roles. For over 20 years, Glenn has advised senior executives and built teams throughout the delivery cycle: strategy, architecture, development, quality assurance, deployment, operational support, financials, and project planning. His credentials were earned in such diverse industries as healthcare, finance, energy, consumer products, and telecommunications. Glenn's current focus areas—as Senior Principal and Chief Security Officer at Trexin Group—are agile management, data protection, and audit/regulatory compliance.

Glenn speaks and publishes on occasion. He has been named numerous times in various Who's Who, and is a repeat recipient of Bell Labs' Arno Penzias Award for Innovation in the Marketplace. He is active in CIO Roundtables, CISO Chicago, the Chicago Life Sciences Consortium, and the Technology Leaders' Association. Glenn's certifications and memberships include IEEE, ISC2 (CISSP), ISACA (CISA), and ITIL (SM).

Roger Grimes is a 30-year computer security consultant, instructor, holder of dozens of computer certifications and an award-winning author of 10 books and over 1,000 magazine articles on computer security. He has worked at some of the world’s largest computer security companies, including Foundstone, McAfee and Microsoft. Grimes holds a bachelor’s degree from Old Dominion University. He has been the weekly security columnist for InfoWorld and CSO magazines since 2005.

Mariana is the Director of Email Security Products at Darktrace, with a primary focus on the capabilities of AI cyber defenses against email-borne attacks. Mariana works closely with the development, analyst, and marketing teams to advise technical and non-technical audiences on how best to augment cyber resilience within the email domain, and how to implement AI technology as a means of defense. She speaks regularly at international events, with a specialty in presenting on sophisticated, AI-powered email attacks. She holds an MBA from the University of Chicago, and speaks several languages including French, Italian, and Portuguese.

Stephen Gates brings more than 15 years of information security experience to his role as Security Evangelist and Senior Solution Specialist at Checkmarx. He is an SME with an extensive hands-on background in security and is a well-known writer, blogger, presenter, and published author who is dedicated to conveying facts, figures, and information that brings awareness to the security issues all organizations face.

Paul Rich joined JPMorgan Chase & Co. in 2019 as Executive Director, Data Management & Protection, with the mission of tackling the management of all unstructured data within the company. Paul is passionate about data security, privacy, principle-based design and goal-setting, and has over thirty years of technology experience. During the more than twenty years Paul spent working for Microsoft he was on the team that launched the company’s first iterations of commercial cloud services—what would eventually become Office 365. He oversaw the design and development of key security and compliance features of Office 365 as well as the integration of encryption to the Exchange and SharePoint Online cloud services. Paul has been a regular speaker at Microsoft and industry events on the topics of cloud security, privacy, encryption, trust, and transparency.

Brian Robison is the Senior Director, Product Marketing and Chief Evangelist at BlackBerry (formerly Cylance), where he educates the world that preventing cybersecurity threats is actually possible and a much better approach than detecting and responding after an attack. With over 20 years' of cybersecurity experience, Robison is a regular speaker at industry events such as RSA, Black Hat, and thought leadership forums. Prior to joining BlackBerry, Robison worked to defend organizations from mobile security threats—three years as a director at Citrix XenMobile and two years driving enterprise strategy at Good Technology. Robison also spent over six years at McAfee with a special focus on end-point security leading efforts. During this time, he also managed vulnerability and policy compliance solutions.

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.

Professor Scott J. Shackelford serves on the faculty of Indiana University where he is Cybersecurity Program Chair along with being the Executive Director of the Ostrom Workshop. He is also an Affiliated Scholar at both the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society, as well as a Senior Fellow at the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research, and a Term Member at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Professor Shackelford has written more than 100 articles, book chapters, essays, and op-eds for diverse publications. Similarly, his research has been covered by an array of outlets, including Politico, NPR, CNN, Forbes, Time, the Washington Post, and the L.A. Times. He is also the author of "The Internet of Things: What Everyone Needs to Know" (Oxford University Press, 2020), "Governing New Frontiers in the Information Age: Toward Cyber Peace" (Cambridge University Press, 2020), and "Managing Cyber Attacks in International Law, Business, and Relations: In Search of Cyber Peace" (Cambridge University Press, 2014).

Both his academic work and teaching have been recognized with numerous awards, including a Harvard University Research Fellowship, a Stanford University Hoover Institution National Fellowship, a Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study Distinguished Fellowship, the 2014 Indiana University Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, and the 2015 Elinor Ostrom Award.

Christopher A. Hart is the founder of Hart Solutions LLP, which specializes in improving safety in a variety of contexts, including the safety of automation in motor vehicles, workplace safety, and process safety in potentially hazardous industries.

Mr. Hart is also Chairman of the Washington Metrorail Safety Commission, a three-jurisdictional agency (MD, VA, DC) that was created in 2019 to oversee the safety of the Washington area subway system. In addition, in 2019 he was asked by the Federal Aviation Administration to lead the Joint Authorities Technical Review that was created bring together the certification authorities of 10 countries, as well as NASA, to review the robustness of the FAA certification of the flight control systems of the Boeing 737 MAX and make recommendations as needed to improve the certification process. Also, he was recently asked to join the Board of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, the organization that accredits hospitals, to help improve healthcare safety. After an Uber test vehicle struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, AZ, in 2018, and Uber terminated such tests on public streets, Mr. Hart was included in the team of experts that Uber engaged to recommend how to safely resume street testing, which it has done.

From 2009 until 2018 Mr. Hart was Chairman, Vice Chairman, and a Member of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), having been nominated by President Obama and confirmed by the Senate. The NTSB investigates major transportation accidents in all modes of transportation, determines the probable causes of the accidents, and makes recommendations to prevent recurrences. He was previously a Member of the NTSB in 1990, having been nominated by (the first) President Bush.

Mr. Hart has a law degree from Harvard Law School and a Master's degree and a Bachelor's degree (magna cum laude) in Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University. He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar and the Lawyer-Pilots Bar Association, and he is a pilot with commercial, multi-engine, and instrument ratings as well as a Cessna Citation SIC Type Rating.

Mike Muscatell is a seasoned IT veteran with more than 21 years in the Information Security field. He is a certified ethical hacker (CEH). Was honored as top 100 professionals in the Information Security field by Strathmore's for 2014. Member of a number of security organizations, including InfraGard and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Cyber Committee.

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.

Tina is currently the Sr. Director of Information Security at Sleep Number Corporation and has held executive cybersecurity leadership positions at Best Buy, Shutterfly, and Target Corporation. Tina holds a B.A. in Organizational Behavior from St. Scholastica and an MBA from Augsburg University. Tina also maintains active CISSP and CIPP/US certifications and is an adjunct cybersecurity instructor at Dunwoody College in Minneapolis, and serves on their advisory board. She is also currently the Vice President of the newly-formed Minnesota Chapter of the WiCyS (Women in CyberSecurity) National Organization.

John Swensson is the Customer Success Manager at CloudPassage and is responsible for all customer support initiatives. John’s information security career spans two decades and includes a broad number of business environments. John and the CloudPassage teams have worked together creating groundbreaking security solutions across a range of industries and public sectors, with heavy focus on financial services, federal government, and high-tech.

Ms. Meera Rao is a Senior Director of Product Management, focusing on DevOps solutions at Synopsys, Inc. Ms. Meera has over 20 years of experience in software development organizations in a variety of roles including Architect, Lead Developer, and Project Manager, and Security Architect. Ms. Meera has been working as a trusted adviser to Fortune 500 companies, helping them achieve realistic goals for practical CI/CD & DevSecOps. She advises organizations in defining, implementing, maturing, scaling and measuring DevSecOps. Ms. Meera is very passionate about getting more women working in the technology industry. Ms. Meera participates, presents, and speaks at several conferences, spreading her knowledge of security and the importance of women in the technology workforce. Meera was awarded the SecDevOps Trailblazer award from SecuritySerious in London in 2018. Meera was a finalist in the Computing Women in IT Excellence Awards 2019 for Role Model of the Year.

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.

Donovan is a Solutions Engineer at SpyCloud and has been in the tech industry since the mid nineties. He has worked in various industries and for companies ranging from start-ups to those listed in the Fortune 50. His career has taken him all over the world, including a four-year stint in South-Africa where he worked for the South-African government. He is passionate about security and educating people about safeguarding their online identity and digital footprint.

Steve is a Sr. Solutions Engineer at Okta helping enterprise customers with their identity and access management needs. In his previous life, Steve has served as a CISO / VP of Information Security, Data Center Manager, and held various Security, Windows, and Network Engineering roles.

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.

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.

Belinda Enoma is a privacy and cybersecurity consultant with a legal and technology background. She offers virtual privacy and cybersecurity services including risk mitigation solutions and building privacy programs from scratch. She is a writer, corporate trainer, lifestyle strategist, mentor, and coach to women in the cybersecurity and data protection industry. Her published work includes “Data breach in the travel sector and strategies for risk mitigation,” (Journal of Data Privacy and Protection, Volume 3.4, 2020). Belinda is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US) and has an LLM from Benjamin N. Cardozo Law School, New York.

Jay Bivens started his technology career working in IT stationed aboard the USS WASP (LHD-1) back in 1993. With a background expertise in email security and Advanced Threat Protection, his career spans several areas including Cloud Access Security Brokers, Web Application Firewalls, and Application Delivery Controllers. Jay has earned GIAC Certified Forensic Analyst along with Reverse Engineering Malware certifications. Currently, Jay works as a subject matter expert for Gigamon’s Network Detection and Response solution, along with preaching the value of pervasive visibility in physical networks and private and public cloud environments.

Mike Asaro is an Insider Threat Management and DLP Specialist at Proofpoint. Before joining Proofpoint earlier this year, he spent almost 10 years with an industry leading traditional DLP vendor. Throughout his career in cybersecurity, he’s managed and supported many organizations in the Southwest region across multiple verticals. As a San Diego native, Mike currently resides in San Diego helping companies modernize their approach to Data Protection.

Rich has built a 25-year career in Silicon Valley bringing new B2B software technologies to market including Big Data, Analytics, Business Intelligence, Java development tools, interactive development environments. and web application servers. He has held sales, product management, product marketing, solutions marketing, partner marketing, GM, VP, and CMO positions.

Rich is passionate about communicating the business value of technology differentiation. For Rich, marketing is a collaborative endeavor and it’s the journey of “digging in," "figuring it out," and "pulling it all together" with a diverse group of smart people that gets him out of bed and out the door every morning.

In his role as the leader of Information Security at Harvard Medical School, Joe Zurba has been responsible for defining and building capabilities to meet the requirements of an extraordinarily diverse community of clinical and research faculty, students, and staff. Joe develops strategy, improves capabilities, and manages risk for all information security, Identity and Access Management, and IT compliance efforts across the school. Joe also serves on several committees in his role as the school’s information security leader. He is a non-scientific, voting member of the Harvard Medical School Institutional Review Board (IRB), which oversees human subjects research. He is also a co-chair of Harvard Catalyst subcommittee on Emerging Technologies, Ethics, and Research Data. His expertise is often sought in the creation of University policy, programs, and other initiatives that seek to benefit from his experiences working with biomedical and basic science research. Joe has worked for over 20 years in Information Security roles within Higher education, Health Care, High Tech Manufacturing, and Technology. Prior to his current role, he served as Research Information Security Officer in the Partners Healthcare Information Security and Privacy Office and 11 years previously in information security at Harvard Medical School and Director of IT Security at Harvard University Information Technology. He currently holds certifications as a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA).