SecureWorld Texas Virtual Conference 2021

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.

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.

Practice Lead for Technical Account Management at AttackIQ. Cory has 20+ years' experience in IT focusing on security, seven+ years with the DoD. He has spent the last two years at AttackIQ delivering Security Optimization (BAS).

Krishna has more than 25 years of experience leading Engineering and Business Strategy teams, including evaluating and integrating several key Thales acquisitions. Krishna has a Ph.D. in Computer Science and has worked on various topics, from compilers for supercomputers to operating systems for smart cards, leading skunkworks innovation projects to corporate entrepreneurship initiatives and M&A. He is currently responsible for marketing Thales’ Encryption products.

George Finney is the Chief Security Officer for Southern Methodist University and the author of “No More Magic Wands: Transformative Cybersecurity Change for Everyone.” He previously worked with several startups and global telecommunications firms designing networks, writing policy, hardening servers, and educating users. George is a member of the Texas CISO Council, an Advisory Council member for SecureWorld, and a board member of the Palo Alto Networks FUEL User Group.

Deepthi Menon serves as Director of Information Security at Ambra Health. Ambra Health is an innovative software company that provides solutions for medical image sharing of DICOM and non-DICOM data between patients, physicians, and hospitals. Deepthi has more than 12 years of experience in information security. She has her Masters in Information Security from the University of Houston. In last 12 years, Deepthi has held several different security roles, from Network Security Architect to Leading Security Operations Center to Directory of Security. Deepthi is one of the founding members of Tech Ladies and a champion for women in technology and security. On a personal front, Deepthi is a trained Indian classical dancer (dancing preferably when no one is watching) and an avid fan of mystery novels and movies. Deepthi has a lovely 10-year-old daughter and loves spending time with her.

Karl Bernard, CISSP, is an IT Security Architect at UTHealth with 30 years of IT experience, with 20 years in Information Security. His experience runs the full gamut of IT Security: he has implemented new technologies, such as network monitoring products and web application firewalls; performed risk assessments; coordinated large DR tests; led incident response tabletops; started and managed a web application firewall and system vulnerability management program; and trained and mentored colleagues to run these programs.

Jason Rivera has over 15 years of experience innovating at the intersection of security operations and technology. He was a former Intelligence Officer/Captain in the U.S. Army, had assignments with the National Security Agency (NSA) and U.S. Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM), and served in combat tours overseas. He has experience in the private sector and built threat intelligence and cybersecurity programs for large Fortune 500 companies and U.S. government agencies. He received his M.A. in Security Studies from Georgetown University, M.A. in Economics from the University of Oklahoma, and his B.A. in Political Science & Economics from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Akshay Kumar serves as the product lead for Hadoop Distributed File Systems (HDFS) and cloud storage modules, in addition to growing key partnerships with companies like AWS and IBM. Prior to joining PKWARE via the Dataguise acquisition in 2020, Akshay built his data security background as a solutions architect, where he implemented hybrid deployments and helped clients become GDPR/PCI/PHI compliant. In addition, Akshay gained data center infrastructure experience from being a software engineer at Arista Networks, where he oversaw large-scale server maintenance and lab network utility. Akshay holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from University of California, Davis.

Eric Botts is Director, Global Cyber Security Program, and Assistant Professor of International Studies at the University of St. Thomas, teaching courses on Cyber Warfare, Cyber Ethics, Enterprise Cybersecurity, and Digital Governance. Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Houston Downtown, teaching a course on Organizational Resilience in the Master of Security Management program in the College of Business. He is a lecturer at the Women’s Institute of Houston teaching a course entitled The World According to Eric. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from St. Mary's University and a Master of Security Management degree 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, Eric retired and went to work in the private sector. 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. He is a founding board member of the Foreign Policy Alliance and has spoken on foreign policy issues to civic groups, colleges, and the media. He works as a security project manager and consultant for Swailes & Co. Inc., specializing in cybersecurity, risk management, business continuity, due diligence, travel security, and investigations. In the cybersecurity community, he sits on the SecureWorld Advisory Council. He has authored and published two novels: "Conversations with An Alien" (2004) and "The Circle - Portrait of an American Family" (2015), writing under the pen name Eric Cristofer.

Eve Maler is a globally recognized strategist, innovator, and communicator on digital identity, security, privacy, and consent, with a passion for fostering successful ecosystems and individual empowerment. She has 20 years of experience innovating and leading standards such as SAML and User-Managed Access (UMA), and has also served as a Forrester Research security and risk analyst. She leads the ForgeRock Labs team investigating and prototyping innovative approaches to solving customers' identity challenges, along with driving ForgeRock's industry standards leadership.

For nearly a decade, Russell has worked with SecureLink customers and organizations looking to improve third-party security. He has been an integral part of the implementation, support, and solution engineering for customers ranging from large healthcare vendors to small towns. In his current role, Russell and his team help organizations identify the SecureLink products and product features that can be leveraged to both improve security and streamline workflows.

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.

Andrew Jarrett of the TEEX Cyber Readiness Center is a former firefighter, current member of a Type II/Type III Incident Management Team (IMT) and has recently been deployed as a member of Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM) Incident Support Teams (ISTs) for COVID response. As the Cyber Enterprise Program Manager at the TEEX CRC, he helps organizations assess their cybersecurity risk posture, develop pre-incident plans for cybersecurity, and organize their resources for response and recovery. He has also developed and delivered a number of FEMA-certified cybersecurity courses focused on the FEMA mission set of preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery.

Edwin Doyle communicates with international leaders in cybersecurity, cyber forensics, and cyber law enforcement, across the world. Taking best practices for threat mitigation from the industry’s finest CISOs and from police and military cyber command, Edwin’s responsibilities include sharing cyber defense tactics with media, government agencies, and enterprise corporations, via keynote and panel discussions.

Edwin’s unconventional background in education allows him to clearly explain technical topics to a diverse audience. With over 20 years of cybersecurity experience, Edwin holds a unique understanding of the security risks and challenges that organizations must overcome.

Mike Stacy is the Global Cloud and Information Protection Director at Proofpoint. 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.

Jonathan has been a third-party risk practitioner since 2004. He is co-founder and former president of the Third-Party Risk Association. He has deep experience building and running third-party risk programs in finance and healthcare. He started with RiskRecon in April, 2020.

Jasmine Noel is Senior Product Marketing Manager at ReversingLabs. Her career began as an industry analyst covering IT technologies. She then founded Ptak, Noel & Associates to provide research and marketing services to Fortune500 and startup technology firms. Prior to ReversingLabs, Noel also held product marketing roles in growth companies, including Veracode, Corvil, and NS1.

For nearly a decade, Russell has worked with SecureLink customers and organizations looking to improve third-party security. He has been an integral part of the implementation, support, and solution engineering for customers ranging from large healthcare vendors to small towns. In his current role, Russell and his team help organizations identify the SecureLink products and product features that can be leveraged to both improve security and streamline workflows.

Dan is a Solutions Engineer for Okta and aligns identity-related technical requirements to business outcomes for Okta US West commercial customers and prospects. He is an Okta-certified consultant and developer familiar with Zero Trust methods used by Okta's ecosystem of customers, partners, and prospects.

Tom has 15 years of experience in the security industry, beginning his career as an Analyst at what is now the U.K. MOD Joint Cyber Unit. After seven years in the military, he left to join Sourcefire as a Security Engineer. Cisco acquired Sourcefire in 2013, and he joined a small global team working with Cisco's top 28 accounts, ultimately leading him to move to the U.S. Wanting to go back to his open source roots, Tom joined Corelight in April.

Jonathan has been a third-party risk practitioner since 2004. He is co-founder and former president of the Third-Party Risk Association. He has deep experience building and running third-party risk programs in finance and healthcare. He started with RiskRecon in April, 2020.

Mia Boom-Ibes is Vice President, Security Innovation, Strategy and Analytics, ATSV for Allstate Insurance Company. In this role, she is responsible for Allstate's cybersecurity strategy and priorities. She manages relationships with key business and technology stakeholders to ensure alignment and oversees architectural standards to enable consistency across the enterprise.

Prior to becoming a vice president at Allstate in July of 2017, Mia was a director in Allstate Information Security with responsibility for setting the strategy and direction for information security governance, risk and compliance efforts across the corporation. She spearheaded the creation of the company’s first Enterprise Information Security Policy and Information Security Risk Management program aligned with industry best practices and frameworks. In addition, Mia has designed and built security governance programs to obtain or retain PCI compliance status at multiple institutions.

Mia began her Allstate career in 2012 as an information security compliance and consulting manager, quickly progressing to roles of increasing leadership. She previously served in information security roles at John Deere Financial, PwC Consulting and Discover Financial Services.

Mia holds CISSP and CISM certifications and bachelor’s degree from the College of Saint Benedict. As the proud mother of four sons, Mia leads an active lifestyle balancing her work responsibilities, learning new skills in mixed martial arts and enjoying time with her husband and children.

Jim Johnson has been working to end cybercrime for the past two decades. His career started at Blue Coat, where he helped customers with their struggles to mitigate risk in the early days of web filtering. Since then, he has worked with customers of all sizes and verticals providing solutions from F5, Forescout, and now Arctic Wolf. As the Director of Systems Engineering, he interfaces with several companies struggling with the operational aspects of cybersecurity.

Jason Rivera has over 15 years of experience innovating at the intersection of security operations and technology. He was a former Intelligence Officer/Captain in the U.S. Army, had assignments with the National Security Agency (NSA) and U.S. Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM), and served in combat tours overseas. He has experience in the private sector and built threat intelligence and cybersecurity programs for large Fortune 500 companies and U.S. government agencies. He received his M.A. in Security Studies from Georgetown University, M.A. in Economics from the University of Oklahoma, and his B.A. in Political Science & Economics from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Tim Mackey is a principal security strategist within the Synopsys CyRC (Cybersecurity Research Center). He joined Synopsys as part of the Black Duck Software acquisition where he worked to bring integrated security scanning technology to Red Hat OpenShift and the Kubernetes container orchestration platforms. As a security strategist, Tim applies his skills in distributed systems engineering, mission critical engineering, performance monitoring, large-scale data center operations, and global data privacy regulations to customer problems. He takes the lessons learned from those activities and delivers talks globally at well-known events such as RSA, Black Hat, Open Source Summit, KubeCon, OSCON, DevSecCon, DevOpsCon, Red Hat Summit, and Interop. Tim is also an O'Reilly Media published author and has been covered in publications around the globe including USA Today, Fortune, NBC News, CNN, Forbes, Dark Reading, TEISS, InfoSecurity Magazine, and The Straits Times. Follow Tim at @TimInTech on Twitter and at mackeytim on LinkedIn.

Travis Dye is a Principal Solutions Architect for Armis focusing on strategic customers with challenging security projects. His passion is to help organizations with large and complex network environments find effective, real-world approaches to improve their network security programs. Prior to his current role he worked with security teams to help them implement SOC technologies and workflows focused on their most valuable assets to give them the agility to quickly identify and mitigate serious threats and vulnerabilities.

Chris Hass is an extremely driven and proven information security professional with extensive experience in Malware Reverse Engineering, Threat Intelligence, and Offensive Security Operations. In his current role, Chris serves as Director of Information Security and Research at Automox. In addition to being a former cybersecurity analyst for the NSA, he also served as a principal research engineer at LogRhythm and helped fight off malware authors using AI/ML at Cylance. His unique experience makes him adept at understanding today's current threat landscape, and works passionately to secure Automox and its customers from today's cyber attacks.

Steve Kinman is a dedicated technology leader, with 20+ years of innovative, compliance-driven security strategy knowledge and the ability to deliver scalable, principle-based security and privacy programs focused on business requirements. Most recently, he led a security program transformation at Zalando SE in Berlin, Germany, joining as the first CISO for the now Dax listed publicly traded company in 2018 to help solve GDPR challenges. Steve is currently the Field CISO of Snyk, a developer-first security platform.

KC Condit has been an information security practitioner and IT leader for 30 years with a diverse resume including hospitality, financial services, retail, and private, post-secondary education. He is currently the CISO for G6 Hospitality, LLC, and is responsible for information security, data privacy, IT risk management, and IT compliance for the Motel 6 and Studio 6 brands in the U.S. and Canada along with the Hotel 6 brand in India. Since 2011, KC has made 3rd party risk management an area of particular focus, developing low-cost approaches and creative, risk-based solutions.

Daniel J. Lohrmann is an internationally recognized cybersecurity leader, technologist, keynote speaker, and author. He has been a keynote speaker at global security and technology conferences from South Africa to Dubai and from Washington D.C. to Moscow. During his distinguished career, Dan has served global organizations in the public and private sectors in a variety of executive leadership capacities, receiving numerous national awards including: CSO of the Year, Public Official of the Year and Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leader. In 2017, Dan was awarded the cybersecurity breakthrough CISO of the year for global security products and services companies.

He led Michigan government’s cybersecurity and technology infrastructure teams from May 2002 to August 2014, including enterprise-wide Chief Security Officer (CSO), Chief Technology Officer (CTO), and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) roles in Michigan.

Dan currently serves as the CSO and Chief Strategist for Security Mentor, Inc., where he leads the development and implementation of Security Mentor’s industry-leading cyber training, consulting, and workshops for end-users, managers, and executives in the public and private sectors. He has advised senior leaders at the White House, National Governor’s Association (NGA), National Association of State CIOs (NASCIO), U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), federal, state and local government agencies, Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, and non-profit institutions.

Dan has more than 30 years of experience in the computer industry, beginning his career with the National Security Agency. He worked for three years in England as a senior network engineer for Lockheed Martin (formerly Loral Aerospace) and for four years as a technical director for ManTech International in a US/UK military facility.

He is the author of two books: "Virtual Integrity: Faithfully Navigating the Brave New Web" and "BYOD For You: The Guide to Bring Your Own Device to Work." He is the co-author of the upcoming (November 2021) Wiley book, "Cyber Mayday and the Day After: A Leader’s Guide to Preparing, Managing and Recovering from the Inevitable."

Dan holds a Master's Degree in Computer Science (CS) from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and a Bachelor's Degree in CS from Valparaiso University in Indiana.