Deborah Watson is a Resident CISO at Proofpoint with more than 20 years of experience as a cybersecurity leader focused on corporate information security strategy, compliance, security architecture, and data privacy and protection. Deborah led cybersecurity strategy programs for public and private sector organizations across the Fortune 1000....

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...

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 leader...

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.

Michael Rasmussen is an internationally recognized pundit on governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC). With 27+ years of experience, he helps organizations improve risk and compliance processes, design and implement GRC architecture, and select technologies that are effective, efficient, and agile. As a sought-after keynote speaker, ...

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 vis...

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...

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 Di...

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 secur...

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 de...

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.

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 gov...

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 ...

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 s...

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.

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.

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 Ce...

John Weiler is currently the CEO and CIO of a congressionally charted IT "do tank" called IT-AAC. He has forged partnerships with two dozen leading non-profits and federal agencies committed to the Digital Transformation of the federal IT sector.

He has 40 years of IT Management, Solution Engineering, and Architecture experiences, cove...

Ryan Aleman is a Director of Solutions Architect at Armis. In this role, Ryan is at the forefront of the developing landscape of unagentable devices. With an extensive background in security and technical environment management, Ryan has worked extensively to find passive, agentless security solutions in the medical, industrial, and IoT space...

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 indu...

Harrison holds a Bachelor's in Computer Science from Harvard University.

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 solutio...

Jose Barajas is Technical Director, NA Sales Engineering AttackIQ. He has over a decade of experience as a security researcher reverse-engineering malware and developing security controls and analytics. At AttackIQ, he now focuses on improving security control efficacy through attacker behavior emulation and establishing continuous security v...

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-jurisd...

Bruno Almeida is a Sales Engineer at Gigamon, where he partners with customers to help them ensure continuous security and monitoring of cloud and data center services during their digital transformation journeys. He has over a decade of experience in the IT infrastructure space. Before joining Gigamon, Bruno worked for several firms in the m...

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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, an...

Chris Christensen is the Cybersecurity Business Consultant for Honeywell Building Solutions (Americas) and specializes in securing Operational Technology (OT) and Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Chris passionately believes that cybersecurity is everyone's shared responsibility and through awareness, education, accountability and positive rei...

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, a...

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 informa...

Tommy Todd is Vice President of Security at Code42 with over 20 years of cybersecurity experience, primarily focused on data privacy and data protection strategies. Prior to Code42, Tommy served in security roles at Symantec, Ionic Security, and Optiv as well as many other firms. Throughout his career, he has acted as a leader, mentor, engine...

An experienced security architect, specializing in Identity Governance, Access Management, and Multi-Factor Authentication, C. Michael Tracy has over 20 years of diverse technology experience with roles at Microsoft, Wells Fargo Bank, HID Global, and DigitalPersona. At SpyCloud, C. Michael helps clients safeguard the identities of their emplo...

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 Soci...

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 ce...

Theodore Peterson, CISSP, has over 30 years of IT and Information Security experience. He has a BA from the University of Minnesota and an MBA from Augsburg College. He currently is the Director Information Security for Datasite.

Joseph Carson has more than 25 years of experience in enterprise security. He is an ethical hacker, an InfoSec award winner, and author of "Privileged Account Management for Dummies" and "Least Privilege Cybersecurity for Dummies." He is a CISSP and an active member of the cyber community, speaking at conferences globally. He’s a cybersecurit...

Piyali Das has a proven 16-year track record of leading Information Security and Information Technology enterprise-wide initiatives. This includes success in risk-based prioritization of security initiatives and the resolution of complex issues cost effectively. She has also directed complex cross-functional projects across the enterprise res...

As Principal Threat Research Engineer in LogRhythm Labs, Brian works to keep abreast of current cyberthreats and news, develop threat detection and response content, and demonstrate how we detect and respond to threats. In this role, he regularly engages with the LogRhythm Community and offers advice and solutions to remediate common security...

Sajed Naseem ("Saj") is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of New Jersey Courts. He has over 20 years of experience with information security and IT across many industries. As the CISO of the New Jersey Courts, he has focused on Cybersecurity Readiness & Performance, Information Governance, and Network Security. Sajed holds Masters...

Erich Kron is a veteran information security professional with over 20 years’ experience in the medical, aerospace manufacturing and defense fields. He is the former security manager for the 2nd Regional Cyber Center-Western Hemisphere and holds CISSP, CISSP-ISSAP, MCITP and ITIL v3 certifications, among others. He has managed the technical i...

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 v...

Chris is Director of Technology & Strategy, as well as the Deputy CTO, at BitSight Technologies, guiding enterprises in assessing risk metrics and managing third-party relationships. He's been in cybersecurity for over 35 years, in both technical roles as a developer for the DoD intelligence community, and in executive positions, such as CSO ...

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 ...

Sudeep Venkatesh is a noted expert on data protection, bringing two decades of industry and technology experience in this area. His expertise spans the protection of data in both structured and unstructured data ecosystems, with an emphasis on solving real-world business problems through encryption, authentication and key management. He has a...

Former software engineer and penetration tester, nowadays Sr. Security Automation Engineer at GitLab.

George has 35 years of industry experience planning, designing, installing, and analyzing LAN, WAN infrastructures, peripherals, and tools for wired and wireless infrastructures. An enthusiast for technology and customers alike, he keeps his skills sharp by looking around corners to see what technology and business challenges are coming down ...

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 Fort...

Morgan is an internationally recognized expert on cybersecurity strategy and cyberterrorism. As Chief Security Advisor for SentinelOne, Morgan brings his experience as a seasoned moderator, technology analyst, and former law enforcement advisor. Morgan is a Senior Fellow at The Center for Digital Government, and the chief technology analyst f...

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...

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 bach...

Nimmy Reichenberg oversees strategy and marketing for Siemplify, the leading independent provider of Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR). A cybersecurity industry veteran, Nimmy has more than 15 years of experience helping enterprises around the world tackle their security challenges. Nimmy started his careers as a securit...

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...

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/...

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 soci...

Amber Vanderburg is a multi award winning international businessperson, keynote speaker, and founder of The Pathwayz Group. In 2016, she left her job in corporate HR to become the only female, only American, and only blonde Academy elite football coach for the Adidas Gameday Academy/Paris Saint Germain Academy in Bangalore, India. She worked ...

As Field CTO at Varonis, Brian supports a wide range of security and technology initiatives by helping Varonis’ customers and partner get the most out of the company’s products. In his 20-year technical career, Brian served as a developer, tech architect, engineer and product manager for companies in financial services, legal, and cybersecuri...

Dave has been working in IT since the last millennium. In his current role, he manages the device management system for medical devices. He has worked primarily in healthcare throughout his IT career.

Brian Anderson has over 16 years' experience in technology, working with networks, systems, application development, and security specializing in automation. Brian has worked to architect, attack, integrate, and secure networks and applications for emergency notification systems, government environments, healthcare organizations, transactiona...

VJ Viswanathan is a seasoned technology executive recognized and awarded for innovation, business capability transformation and thoughtful mentorship. Most recently, VJ is the founding partner at CYFORIX, a global cybersecurity research, advisory & strategic consulting firm delivering solutions to public and private sectors. He also serves as...

Mark Sangster is the author of "NO SAFE HARBOR: The Inside Truth About Cybercrime and How to Protect Your Business." He is an award-winning speaker at international conferences and prestigious stages including the Harvard Law School and RSA Conference, and author on various subjects related to cybersecurity. His thought provoking work and per...

Jason is an accomplished technology executive with over 25 years of experience driving innovation and transformation initiatives across global organizations. Jason collaborates with CIOs, CTOs, and other technology leaders on strategies aimed at enabling business outcomes.

Jason is currently the Global Field Chief Technology Officer fo...

Eric Bodkin leads the delivery of Endpoint Recovery Services for CrowdStrike. Based out of the greater Denver area, Eric leads service engagements focused on the rapid recovery and remediation of endpoints in response to a cyber incident. Eric has more than 15 years of experience in incident response, forensic investigation, cybersecurity ope...

Jonathan Echavarria is an Enterprise Architect at ReliaQuest that has spent his career building and breaking a variety of environments. In his current role, Echavarria leverages this experience to orchestrate business strategy alignment with technological enablement. During his time at ReliaQuest, Jonathan has held various positions with resp...

Chris Pittman has worked in enterprise information technology since 1993 and has specialized in cyber security for the last 14 years. He worked in security and controls and incident response for the Ford Motor Company before moving to the security vendor space in 2008. As a sales engineer at BlackBerry Cylance, he provides technical and secur...

Rori is an expert in organizational change management with a focus on security awareness and driving human behavior.

Lonnie Benavides is an accomplished cybersecurity leader with more than 20 years' industry experience, and is currently the Head of Infrastructure and Application Security at OneLogin. Lonnie began his career as a communications encryption specialist in the U.S. Air Force, and went on to conclude his military service as a Technical Lead of th...

Brennan is the head of Information Security for Columbia Sportswear Company and a 20-year veteran of cybersecurity in verticals including apparel, logistics, healthcare, and financial services.

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 mor...

Mike DeNapoli has spent over two decades working with companies from mom and pop shops to Fortune 100 organizations;advising on issues from Business Continuity Planning, to Cloud Transformation, to Real-World Cybersecurity. He is currently a Senior Solution Architect with Cymulate Breach and Attack Simulation;helping customers and partners k...

Nigel Thompson is responsible for the product position and messaging of BlackBerry® Spark. He is a regular thought leadership speaker, experienced on topics impacting governments and businesses worldwide, including cybersecurity trends, workflow reformation and harnessing IoT to accelerate digital transformation.

As BlackBerry has tr...

Jeremiah Sahlberg has more than 20 years of security experience. Sahlberg is an executive security consultant and advises clients on establishing security programs and compliance management. He holds CISSP, CISM, PCI QSA and HITRUST certifications.

Previously, Sahlberg held the Senior Director of Protect Operations at NBCUniversal a...

David Hawkins has been in the security industry for just over 20 years. His background includes both IT security as well as physical security. David has served as the Technical Vice Chair of the Open Security Exchange, co-authoring the PHISBITs security protocol which was intended to help integrate physical and IT security.

On the Info...

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 sp...

Kevin Bocek is a leading subject matter expert in machine identity protection. With more than 16 years in the IT security industry, Kevin has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The Washington Post, among many others. Before joining Venafi in 2012, Kevin spent almost two decades working for several leading IT secu...

Katrina Watts works as a Threat Analyst with the ONG-ISAC and focuses on curating and sharing qualitative intelligence related to cyber threats to the oil and natural gas supply chain. Prior to joining the ONG-ISAC, Katrina worked as an Incident Response Analyst for a mid-size corporation and separately as a contractor. Additionally, Katrina ...

Travis has been with Devon Energy for 20 years, being a pioneering member of the Information Security team. Currently, Travis supports the Incident Response, Hunt, and Intelligence functions at Devon, serves on the ONG-ISAC Information Sharing committee, and holds multiple industry security certifications.

Dr. Shaneé Dawkins is a Computer Scientist in the Visualization and Usability Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). She performs research focusing on human centered design and leads the NIST Phish Scale research effort. Shaneé received her M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science at Auburn University, and B.S. in Compu...

Ansh Patnaik, former Chief Product Officer for Chronicle, is now the head of product marketing for Google Cloud Security. Previously, he was VP of Product Management at Oracle where he defined and launched their Security Analytics Cloud service. Over the last 20 years, Ansh has held product management, marketing and sales engineering roles at...

With over 20 years of experience in technology, Adam Gates serves as a senior technical member of Malwarebytes Field Sales Team providing support for customers in North America. Prior to Malwarebytes, Adam has held various senior system engineering positions and consulting roles at Dell, Microsoft, IBM, Atos, and Mimecast. Adam lives in Dalla...

Myriah leads Beckage’s Privacy Litigation Practice Group where she represents clients in data breach actions, technology vendor disputes, and the defense of consumer class actions and related regulatory investigations. Recognized as a Super Lawyers Rising Star – Litigation om 2019 and 2020, Myriah practices in many jurisdictions throughout th...

Stuart served as a Board Member of ONG-ISAC for over five years and became Chairman in June 2018. He has attended the FBI CISO Academy, has served as President of the award-winning South Texas Chapter of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA), and is a member of ISACA and InfraGard. Stuart has developed and led information securi...

Angela Haun became the Executive Director of the Oil and Natural Gas Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ONG-ISAC) in September 2018. Ms. Haun joined the ISAC after a 20-year career as a Special Agent with the FBI. She brought extensive experience in cybersecurity and protecting critical assets from her work at the FBI, along with her le...

Brad Beutlich is an information security professional who has worked with numerous U.S. based companies over the past 20 years, providing security solutions ranging from end-point to data security. The last 13 years, he has worked for Entrust providing security solutions that protect customer data, financial transactions, and IoT device manuf...

Sivan Tehila is the Director of Solution Architecture at Perimeter 81, a leading Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) provider, and a cybersecurity expert with over 14 years of industry experience. Sivan served in the IDF as an Intelligence Officer and then in various field positions, including Information Security Officer, CISO of the Research ...

Julia Voo is a Cyber Fellow and leads the team behind Belfer's National Cyber Power Index. She was formerly the Research Director for the China Cyber Policy Initiative.

Her areas of research concern geotech strategy including the Digital Silk Road, industrial policy, and technical standards for strategic technologies.

Voo has re...

Tony Anscombe is Global Security Evangelist and Industry Partnerships Ambassador for EST, where he serves to increase ESET’s public awareness initiatives and strengthen relationships with new and existing partners.

Anscombe joined ESET from Avast (which acquired his former employer AVG) where he held the title of Senior Security Evange...

Tom Utley is a senior presales systems engineer with Arctic Wolf Networks based out of the Charlotte area. Tom is a subject matter expert in Managed Detection & Response (MDR) and Managed Risk for mid-size enterprise organizations. Prior to Arctic Wolf, Tom held senior engineering positions at Sandvine as a sales engineer and solution archite...

Allan Liska is a senior security architect at Recorded Future. Allan has more than 15 years of experience in information security and has worked as both a security practitioner and an ethical hacker. Through his work at Symantec, iSIGHT Partners, FireEye, and Recorded Future, Allan has helped countless organizations improve their security pos...

Richard Melick has spent over a decade advancing through the security industry with his considerable experience and considerable focus on the stories surrounding ransomware, hacking, and cyber attacks. He has been a security speaker on five continents and has even advised royalty on how to make and distribute ransomware.

Etay Maor is Chief Security Officer at IntSights. As CSO, Etay leads the security advisory practice at IntSights where he works with CISOs and other senior cybersecurity executives to develop risk management-based cybersecurity programs. Etay has extensive experience in cybersecurity having worked at IBM, Trusteer, and RSA. Etay holds a BA in...

Gina Scinta is a Senior Solutions Architect with the Thales, DIS, Cloud Protection and Licensing business line. She has over 30 years of experience in the IT profession, encompassing pre/post sales engineering support for Commercial and Federal territories. For the past 10 years, she has focused on providing solutions for protecting data usin...

Rick has more than 15 years' experience working in information security. Before joining Digital Shadows, he was a vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research, providing strategic guidance on security architecture, operations, and data privacy. Rick also served as an intelligence analyst in the US Army. He is currently co-chair ...

Chris Goettl is the Director of Product Management for security products at Ivanti. Chris has over 15 years of experience working in IT, where he supports and implements security solutions for Ivanti customers and guides the security strategy and vision for Ivanti security products. He is also a security evangelist speaking at security events...

Lee is a Cloud Security Specialist engaging with Check Point customers in the southeast to enable and accelerate their digital transformation and cloud initiatives, by designing secure, compliant solutions to protect their corporate assets and data in the public cloud.

Before joining Check Point, Lee held Sales, Management and Business...

Eric Skinner is VP of Market Strategy at Trend Micro, helping shape Trend’s solution offerings, growth plans and go-to-market approach. Previously at Trend Micro, Eric has been responsible for global product marketing. Prior to Trend Micro, Eric held senior management positions in a health care mobile startup and at digital identity solutions...

Tim O’Connor works for Cadre Information Security as the lead of knowledge services and vCISO team member. He is a professional public speaker, has been working in IT for 20+ years and holds a number of certifications including PCI-QSA, CISA, CISSP, CTT+, MCSE, CISSO, CWNE, Security+ and CISSM. Tim has authored over a dozen books, has written...

Detective First Lieutenant Jim Ellis is the commander of the Michigan State Police Cyber Section within the Intelligence Operations Division. He leads a cyber team of 56 MSP members located at 7 offices throughout Michigan. He has oversight over the Michigan Cyber Command Center (MC3), Computer Crimes Unit (CCU), and the Michigan region of th...

Edward Roberts leads Product Marketing for Imperva Advanced Bot Protection. Prior to Imperva he led marketing at Distil Networks and has over twenty years of experience in technology marketing. Previously he worked for Juniper Networks, heading up Product Marketing for the Counter Security team. Before that he ran marketing for Mykonos Softw...

Ran Rosin Joined Imperva two years ago and is currently leading the Cloud Data Security solution. Prior to joining Imperva, Ran founded and lead two start-ups in the area of mobile Application and IoT.

Phillip Wylie is the Lead Curriculum Developer for Point3 Federal, Adjunct Instructor at Dallas College, and The Pwn School Project founder. With over 22 years of experience, he has spent the last eight plus years as a pentester. His passion for mentoring and education inspired him to start teaching and to found The Pwn School Project, a bi-m...

Tod Beardsley is the director of research at Rapid7. He has over 20 years of hands-on security experience, stretching from in-band telephony switching to modern IoT implementations. He has held IT Ops and IT Security positions in large organizations such as 3Com, Dell, and Westinghouse, as both an offensive and defensive practitioner. Today, ...

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 suppo...

Eric Wolff is a Senior Product Marketing Manager for Thales application-layer data protection and solutions for public cloud security. He has over 20 years’ experience in threat intelligence management, network security, application acceleration, enterprise-class storage area networking, storage virtualization, data-management applications, a...

Kelsey Nelson is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Okta, leading workforce IT and security solutions, including getting beyond the buzzword of "Zero Trust." Prior to joining Okta, she led product and business communications at tech startups varying from enterprise software to edtech to consumer music hardware, and prior to that taught sec...

David Masson is Darktrace’s Director of Enterprise Security, and has over two decades of experience working in fast moving security and intelligence environments in the UK, Canada and worldwide. With skills developed in the civilian, military and diplomatic worlds, he has been influential in the efficient and effective resolution of various u...

Susan has over 20 years of healthcare experience in Human Resources and Compliance. Susan joined the Provation team in 2017 and brings her experience of building and growing high-performing teams with a dynamic, results-oriented culture and strong leadership. Susan also has experience in healthcare compliance specifically in HIPAA and HITECH ...

Paul Lanzi, is the co-founder and COO of Remediant. Remediant is a cybersecurity startup focused on delivering a new approach Privileged Access Management. Paul and his co-founder at Remediant, Tim Keeler, worked together in the IT departments of several biotechs including Genentech, Roche and Gilead Sciences before starting Remediant. At eac...

Adam has over 20 years of experience in technology and serves as a senior technical member of the Malwarebytes field sales organization, providing expertise to customers in the Eastern U.S. Prior to joining Malwarebytes almost 5 years ago, Adam’s travels took him from various operational roles to other pre-sales engineering roles with Symante...

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 agenc...

Andre Alves has been helping companies to achieve safer environments for information exchange for over 10 years. Has always enjoyed tinkering with computers and being on the edge of new technologies, even back as a nerdy teenager in Brazil. Andre is a certified AWS Solutions Architect and Hybrid Cloud Security trainer.

Nathan Wenzler is the Chief Security Strategist at Tenable, the Cyber Exposure company. Nathan has over two decades of experience designing, implementing, and managing both technical and non-technical security solutions for IT and information security organizations. He has helped government agencies and Fortune 1000 companies alike build new ...

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-...

Born and raised in the Black Hills of South Dakota, Davitt has over 25 years of experience in the OEM, VAR & MSSP channels realm. From starting as a field services engineer fresh from school at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, and eventually defining and managing IT operations and strategy for numerous companies in a CTO capac...

Mike Lopez, Director of Cloud Services at AccessIT Group, has a history of designing cloud architecture with a security focused approach for government and fortune 500 clients. He has worked with private and public cloud environments including AWS, Azure, Oracle, and Google Cloud. Mike leads AccessIT Group’s Cloud practice by helping its cust...

Brian Carey is a Rapid7 Manager of Advisory Consulting, specializing in: Security Program Assessments, Security Program Development, Risk Management, Vulnerability Management Program Development, Security Awareness and Policy Development. Before joining Rapid7 Brian was Information Security Director and interim Security Officer at LafargeHolc...

Adam Winn is the platform product management lead for Cisco Umbrella. He got into cloud security product management in 2013 and never looked back. In 2016, he joined OpenDNS shortly before it was rebranded as Cisco Umbrella. He is a life-long California resident and a fan of live music (and can't wait for it to come back).

Yuk Fai Chan is Co-Leader of the OWASP Toronto chapter, where he actively promotes software security within the Toronto community. Professionally, Yuk Fai is a Co-Founder at Proack Security Inc., a Toronto-based information security consulting firm. He specializes in application security, penetration testing, threat modelling, security incide...

Bobby Modha is a Security Consultant with Security Compass. He specializes in security assessments in the application security space including web application, APIs and mobile app penetration testing. In his spare time, Bobby enjoys working on personal projects such as developing scripts and participating in capture-the-flags.

Jeremy Castleman is the Cloud Security Specialist supporting the Cloud Team for Check Point Software Technologies. Jeremy brings 15 years of experience in technology sales, marketing, business development and cloud migration services in the partner ecosystem. He has worked in multiple countries around the world, in various markets, and across...

Achint Sehgal, CIPP/E, CIPM, serves as a Global Head of Solutions Engineering for OneTrust Vendorpedia—a purpose-built software designed to operationalize third-party risk management. In his role, Sehgal advises companies throughout their third-party risk management implementations to help meet requirements relating to relevant standards, fra...

Robert Wong is EVP & CIO at Toronto Hydro, responsible for information technology, operational technology, cyber security, and telecommunications. Robert was also Chief Risk Officer, responsible for corporate enterprise risk management, strategic planning, corporate governance, and business continuity.
Robert is on the Board of Directo...

Nick Ritter is the leader for Product & Industrial Security teams within GE. He is responsible for the product security program across GE commercial products, third party and supply chain security, manufacturing security, application security, and attack simulation (Red Team). Nick is also a key risk advisor to GE’s global CISO. He has almost...

James Goepel is Treasurer and Member, Board of Directors for the CMMC-AB. He is also an adjunct professor of Cybersecurity at Drexel University and CEO of Fathom Cyber, a trusted agent for senior management and developer of defensible cybersecurity strategies. Jim earned his BSECE from Drexel and his JD and LLM degrees from George Mason Unive...

Ed is an Operational Risk Consultant working within the Technology Information Security group. He has been with Toastmasters International (TMI) since 1997 and has multiple certifications from TMI. Ed is a resourceful, creative, and solution-oriented person who was frequently able to come up with new and innovative approaches to his assigned ...

Devon Campbell is a Digital Forensic Examiner at TransPerfect Legal Solutions in the Forensic Technology and Consulting division. Devon has experience conducting forensic examinations of mobile devices, computers, social media data, cloud-based data, and email data. Prior to joining TransPerfect Legal Solutions, Devon earned her Master's degr...

Cybersecurity professional specializing in risk management and information security. She holds an MBA, a master’s in information technology leadership, and also has a CISSP certification. She has professional experience working in both higher education and finance industries and is currently employed as an IT Risk and Security Manager at Chat...

Tedrick Housh (CIPP/US, CIPP/E) leads the Global Privacy, Cybersecurity & Data Protection practice at Lathrop GPM. He advises companies on data – its collection, storage, protection, use, transfer and disclosure. He assists clients with data security incident response. He drafts Information Security Policies, Incident Response Plans, and the ...

With a background in computer programming, Steve Hengeli takes a problem-solving approach to privacy, data security, and technology transactions. Steve works with clients in a variety of highly-regulated and innovative industries to develop strategies to address U.S. and international regulations relating to privacy and information technolog...

Owner of consulting firm PBL, Nan Grube partners with businesses of all sizes to solve privacy, business, and litigation challenges with a view of larger picture and attention to detail. She has the compassion and capacity to help her clients during some of the most stressful business events they will encounter by explaining in understandabl...

Scott Laliberte, President of ISSA Delaware Valley Chapter for over 10 years, has grown the chapter significantly by creating a collaborative community for Cyber Security professionals to share their knowledge and experience and satisfy their CPE needs. Scott also leads Protiviti’s Emerging Technology practice where he enables clients to leve...

As Chief Technology Officer Jason leads the Product and Engineering teams at Ensighten. Being part of Ensighten’s development team over six years ago when the Tag Management Platform was first designed gives him a unique perspective and experience on all our solutions; he has hence been influential in designing and implementing the majority o...

Sunny Notani has worked as a Special Agent for the United States Secret Service for 18 years. SA Notani was initially assigned to the New York Field Office (NYFO) for eight years. During his time in the NYFO, SA Notani specialized in Financial Institution Fraud, Electronic Crimes, Network Intrusions, and Social Engineering. SA Notani was assi...

Steve Magowan is Director of Data Protection with the Royal Bank of Canada. A Veteran of the Canadian Airforce, since retiring Steve has spent the past 20 years engaged in a wide assortment of Risk Focused, Data Protection, Security Architecture & Enterprise Risk Management initiatives.

Including the remediation of active security...

MJ Couldridge is the Director of Business Development for the Canadian Cyber Threat Exchange. The CCTX is Canada’s threat sharing hub for all companies doing business in Canada. It provides analysis and enables collaboration of cyber security insights impacting Canada. Providing both a cross-industry and by-industry context, it serves small, ...

Sabrina Stanich is a Cyber Security Manager at Darktrace, the world’s leading machine learning company for cyber defense. She has worked extensively with clients across numerous industry verticals, from financial services to manufacturing, helping them deploy Darktrace’s Enterprise Immune System, the only AI technology capable of detecting an...

Will Mishra is a Cyber Security Manager at Darktrace, the world’s leading machine learning company for cyber defense. He has worked extensively with clients across numerous industry verticals, from financial services to healthcare, helping them deploy Darktrace’s Enterprise Immune System, the only AI technology capable of detecting and autono...

Taylor Lehmann is the VP and Chief Information Security Officer at athenahealth, a healthcare information technology organization with headquarters in Watertown, MA and operations around the world. Taylor has been in information security and risk management for over 15 years. He was most recently the CISO at Wellforce, an eastern MA-based, Tu...

Myles Kellerman is the Chief Cybersecurity Analyst at Alpine Security. He has over 15 years of IT/Cyber experience in the commercial and DoD sectors. Myles’ extensive background in cybersecurity includes a degree in Information System Security and multiple certifications including CISSP, CEH, CPT, CHFI, and CFR. Myles leads and performs many ...

Dr. Lauren E. Provost is an ethical hacker, author and professor. She directs The Ethical Hackers Cybersecurity organization, a virtual community for educators and industry providing comprehensive planning and risk management updates, network and cloud security knowledge and information on other cybersecurity topics such as general penetratio...

Sam Rastogi is a veteran of the security industry with 18+ years experience marketing leading security products at Illumio, Palo Alto Networks, Cisco Systems, HP Enterprise, McAfee, Juniper Networks, and Oracle. Sam is a Product Marketing Director at Illumio, where he is responsible for leading go-to-market and marketing activities for zero t...

Leland is the Vice President of Global Corporate Security for Bank of New York Mellon. He is responsible for physical protection and investigations of the southwest part of the United States, Mexico, Chile, Argentina, and Brazil (LaTAM).

Leland graduated with a Bachelor’s of Science degree from Sam Houston State University in Criminal ...

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Torry Crass currently serves as a Cyber Security Advisor at the North Carolina State Board of Elections and member of the CISO team at Woodstar Labs, a division of Associated Universities, Inc.

Torry has more than 20 years of experience in the IT field and over 10 years of cybersecurity experience. Prior to joining Woodstar Labs, Torry...

Brian Neesby is the CIO of the State Board of Elections. Prior to this role, he was the Chief Data Officer. Brian has served as a fact witness, been deposed several times, and executed declarations on behalf of the State Board concerning his knowledge of North Carolina’s Statewide Voter Registration Database. He investigated data discrepanc...

Michael Dickerson is currently the Director of Elections for Mecklenburg County and has held this position since 1998.
Prior to coming to Charlotte, Mr. Dickerson was with the Federal Election Commission as a Deputy Assistant Staff Director. Mr. Dickerson spent 14 years at the Federal Election Commission.

Currently he is a membe...

Karen Brinson Bell was appointed executive director of the State Board of Elections on May 13, 2019, and began her tenure on June 1. As the state’s chief elections official, she leads about 70 full-time employees at the state agency, which is charged with administering elections and overseeing the 100 county boards of elections, as well as ca...

Patrick Gannon has been the public information officer at the State Board of Elections since October 2016, just before the presidential election. He came to the State Board after a 17-year career in journalism, most recently as editor of The Insider State Government News Service and syndicated columnist covering state politics for the Capitol...

Boris Vishnevsky, MBA, CISSP, DIA is a board member and advisor of the Cloud Security Alliance- Delaware Valley Chapter, Distinguished IT Architect of the Open Group and is a frequent speaker and presenter, taking part in review panels and advising innovative Cyber Security Companies. Mr. Vishnevsky is a solutions principal advising companie...

As a Solutions Engineer, Marc Tabago works with enterprises to solidify and strengthen their digital security policies against malicious threat actors. However, he believes that having a concrete digital security posture starts at the use case level, driven and experienced by its users and not simply read off a PowerPoint slide. Once the dust...

Justin Bourgeois is a Solution Engineer at Mimecast. He has a background in implementation project management, IT consulting and has spent his off time programming as a hobby. Justin’s main responsibility is educating people about the ever-evolving threat landscape that not only threatens their infrastructure but also their partners and the g...

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 inform...

Michael is the Head of Cyber Risk at Expanse (one of Forbes' 25 fastest-growing venture-backed startups likely to reach a $1 billion valuation). He leads a large team of analysts who identify vulnerabilities in large Fortune 500 companies' and government agencies’ vast online presence. He also has 14 years of FBI experience as a Special Agent...

Tony Howlett is a published author and speaker on various security, compliance, and technology topics. He serves as President of (ISC)2 Austin Chapter and is an Advisory Board Member of GIAC/SANS. He is a certified AWS Solutions Architect and holds the CISSP and GNSA certifications, and a B.B.A in Management Information Systems. Tony is curre...

Ian’s impressive background and management expertise in digital marketing and advertising are fueling his success in driving adoption of Ensighten’s solutions worldwide. Ian started his career at Dun & Bradstreet Europe before working at Interpublic Group’s Draft Digital as Managing Director. After building his own premium publisher business,...

Samara works for Cardinal Health, as a Threat Intelligence Engineer. As an engineer, Samara collects and assesses a wide range of threats to the healthcare industry. She specializes in MITRE ATT&CK, threat actor reporting, strategic program design/implementation, and fostering relationships within the organization. Samara is passionate about ...

Melisa Ozcan is a Cyber Security Account Executive at Darktrace, the world’s leading AI company for cyber defense. At Darktrace, Melisa works with leading organizations in a range of industries from private equity to media and entertainment to deploy and operationalize cutting edge technologies. During Melisa’s tenure at Darktrace, the compan...

Dr. Kelley Misata, CEO of Sightline Security, President and Executive Director of OISF (Suricata), and former Director of Communication of The Tor Project - a cyber and information security executive with 15+ years of experience in cyber and information security, marketing, and communications. Expert in bridging the gap between technical and ...

Sgt. Davis is assigned to the Houston Police Department Criminal Intelligence Division – Fusion Center Unit a total of 10 ½ years both as an officer and supervisor. He has worked Financial Crimes, Human Trafficking, Counter-Terror, Violent Crimes, and Cyber cases. He is currently the Cyber/Analysis and Open Source Unit supervisor for the Ho...

Michael Butterfield is Security Architect at Check Point, where he supports 30+ engineering teams responsible for hundreds of customers across the Mid-Atlantic. He is primarily focused on helping enterprises design, consolidate, and integrate security controls into emerging technology platforms. Over an 18-year career in cybersecurity, Michae...

Andrew Hoover is a Senior Engineer with the CERT Division of Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute. As a member of the Cybersecurity Assurance Team, he performs risk and resilience management work for a variety of organizations, mostly relating to critical infrastructure protection. Andrew has 16 years of experience in i...

Katie Stewart is a senior member of the technical staff within the CERT® Division at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), a unit of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. She has more than 15 years of experience advising clients in engineering, information technology, and telecommunications industries. Katie’s current research int...

A cybersecurity professional and avid technologist advocate with 10 years of experience in effective cyber-security practices, advanced threat prevention, malware and incident response; Juan has worked with the likes of McAfee/Intel Security and Trend Micro in the past, fulfilling technical sales, advisory and customer success roles, and toda...

John Amaral is the Head of Product for Cisco Cloud Security. In this role, he is responsible for product management, planning and strategy for Cisco's leading cloud security offerings including Cisco Umbrella and Cisco Cloudlock. John joined Cisco through the acquisition of Cloudlock, where he was Head of Product; responsible for product deve...

Stacy Harper is a Partner with Spencer Fane LLP where she counsels organizations on regulatory compliance, health care reimbursment, and cybersecurity strategies. Stacy co-chairs the firm's data privacy and cybersecurity practice. as a former health care compliance officer, Stacy regularly works with clients to assess data-related risks, and ...

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 industrie...

Dr. Atefeh (Atty) Mashatan is the Founder and Director of the Cybersecurity Research Lab at Ryerson University. SC Magazine recognized her as one of top five Women of Influence in Security globally in 2019. She joined the School of Information Technology Management of Ryerson University in 2016 focusing on Information Systems Security, Crypto...

Rob Dalzell is a cybersecurity professional with over 30 years of information technology experience and 10 years of cybersecurity experience. He currently works in Cyber Security Defense for a global financial institution helping to transform the way it manages cyber security vulnerabilities. Rob has thrived in the following cybersecurity bas...

Prior to Covanta, Tammy was responsible for the cybersecurity program at Versum Materials, which included Information Risk Management, Plant Cybersecurity, as well as IT Security, Risk & Compliance activities. She was with Versum since their start-up in October 2016 and was responsible for standing up all security services required for the ne...

Pete Murphy is a well-established leader, builder and collaborator with high standards for personal integrity and a bias for action. He has demonstrated senior level leadership experience building, growing, improving and operating business systems and processes as a CIO, CTO, CISO, Risk Leader and Data and Analytics executive.
He speci...

Joshua Cloud is currently serving as the director of information security for NFI. He has over 20 years of infrastructure and security leadership experience spanning professional services, manufacturing, retail, and logistics industries in countries all over the world. Cloud is a transformational security leader with a business focus who evan...

Paul is an accomplished Security Professional with 14 years of experience in multiple information technology domains, specializing in computer network exploitation, computer network defense and security incident response. His expertise includes planning, coordinating and performing offensive computer operations.
Paul leads the firm’s ma...

Douglas has 13 years of penetration testing experience in the information technology field, focusing on information systems security and information security risk management. He is DHG’s cybersecurity subject leader and manager over all of the firm’s technical cybersecurity services, which includes internal, external, wireless and web applica...

Kevin Dreyer is an IT Director and CISO with over 25 years of industry experience for a General Contractor securing a national network and its 400 users across a hybrid cloud infrastructure. He fell in love with computers at age 12 when a cousin introduced him to programming, and has never looked back. Having dropped out of college due to the...

Jana White is the Chief Operating Officer of Alpine Security. Jana has an extensive background in banking, compliance, and loss prevention and serves as one of the virtual CISOs for Alpine Security clients. Jana has degrees in criminal justice and cybersecurity and is certified as a crime scene evidence technician. She also holds many cyber...

Olivera Zatezalo is the Chief Security Officer at Huawei Canada, and her responsibility is to ensure Huawei Canada’s operations is compliant with Canadian cyber security laws and regulations. With over 20 years of experience in the telecommunication industry, Olivera is best known for creating value through collaborative leadership style, agi...

Kenrick has been a member of the Toronto Police Service since April of 2006 and currently serves as an investigator in the Coordinated Cyber Centre (C3) section of Intelligence Services. Before this Kenrick spent 20 years in the Information Technology industry primarily in the financial services sector, holding positions of Senior Network Ana...

As the City of Chicago’s Chief Risk Officer, Ms. Puckett was responsible for implementing and managing the city’s enterprise risk management governance framework, including the implementation of policies and procedures to identify and manage organizational risks. A career risk manager, Ms. Puckett possesses over 15 years of experience managin...

Tanya Tipper-Luster has spoken at cyber conferences such as the (ISC)2 Security Congress and was featured as a cybersecurity expert in the Orlando Business Journal. She is a Cybersecurity Audit thought leader and visionary. She represents the alignment of emerging technology, critical business processes and key cybersecurity controls to infl...

Robert Ryba has spoken at cyber conferences such as the (ISC)2 Security Congress. He is a Certified Public Accountant and Certified Information Systems Auditor with an Internal Audit and Cybersecurity background. As a millennial who is deeply passionate about information technology, he is motivated to learn why millennials are so indifferent...

Ethan Strayer has spoken at cyber conferences such as the (ISC)2 Security Congress. Ethan is a Certified Information Systems Auditor, Cybersecurity and Information Technology (IT) Governance Risk and Compliance professional. He supports the Company's risk tolerance while also improving the IT posture of the organization. Ethan specializes in...

I lead the Risk, Information Security, and Compliance Education & Awareness team for FIS, a financial services leader focused on payments, banking, and investments. My team is responsible for providing education & awareness for our 55,000+ colleagues located in offices across the globe. My career was focused in security and audit space previo...

Brian is a seasoned leader, Chief Information Security Officer, and IT executive. His experience spans Insurance, Financial Services, Health Care, and Cloud Security. His specialty is optimizing Information Security and Risk Management / Compliance organizations, his passion is employee mentorship, continuous improvement and process developme...

Donna L. Ross was appointed to her current position as Senior Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer in July 2016. In this role she is responsible for Radian’s information security program and business compliance, as well as the enterprise project management and initiative governance programs.

Donna is a senior security and...

Nancy Hunter is the VP, CISO and Data Privacy Security Officer at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. With more than 25 years of experience in technology including 15 years in Information Security, Nancy joined the Federal Reserve Bank in 2017 where is accountable for Information Security Operations and Consulting, Information Risk Mana...

Mark Eggleston is a senior executive specializing in security and privacy programs. His unique background and expertise in IT program and people management, combined with his diverse experience in healthcare, has positioned him as a thought leader and frequent speaker.

Mark currently serves as Vice President, Chief Information Security...

Joshua is a Global Information Security Leader with 14 years of professional experience. Joshua currently serves as Equifax's Senior Director of Global Mainframe Security where he has responsibility for transforming zSeries platform security around the world. Prior to joining Equifax, Joshua served in security leadership roles, leading transf...

Ted Demopoulos’ professional background includes over 35 years of experience in Information Security and Business, including over 30 years as an independent consultant. Ted helped start a successful information security company, was the CTO at a "textbook failure" of a software startup, and has advised several other startups. He is a frequent...

Joel Lowe has more than 14 years of experience in remediating threats, vulnerability management, risk management, data privacy, and information security programs. These programs focus on overseeing private data protection, corporate governance, risk management strategy, Certification & Accreditation, Incident Response, forensics and executive...

The Canadian Cyber Threat Exchange (CCTX) is a sharing hub and collaboration organization that provides insight into cyber events directly impacting Canadian business, along with mitigation options and tools to combat identified threats. Learn about the CCTX and enjoy a special, CCTX-hosted guest presentation. Details available soon.

Ken Sigler has served as a full-time faculty member of the Computer Information Systems program at the Auburn Hills Michigan campus of Oakland Community College since 2001, while his primary research is in the area of cybersecurity education, policy, and management; software management; and software assurance. Ken serves as the Liaison for th...

Dan is a business results-focused information technology leader with a background in information security, infrastructure, and technical operations; experiences range from fledgling start-ups to enterprise corporate environments.

Tammy is the CEO and Founder of CyAlliance. She is a strategic advisor to companies, vendors and startups by leading, building and scaling security offerings while providing CISO as a Service and virtual CISO (vCISO) services for companies worldwide. With her 30 years of experience, she is noted by her peers to be a results-driven and passion...

Special Agent Adam Karcher has been with the FBI for over 16 years running cyber investigations and operations across the full spectrum of criminal and national security programs. SA Karcher's experience spans local field investigations to national and international strategic engagement against the most sophisticated cyber threats. His curren...

Matt Donato is a Co-Founder & Managing Partner of HuntSource- the preeminent Executive Search and Talent Solutions firm with a niche focus in Cyber Security & Data Intelligence. Matt possesses fifteen years of experience in executive recruiting, talent solutions, workforce planning, and talent management. He is a thought leader and recruiting...

Helen Oakley is a cybersecurity enthusiast, researcher and educator. Helen is a well-known expert in Toronto’s cybersecurity community, and a regular speaker at Elevate, SecTor, and corporate cybersecurity and technology events; she is currently on the advisory board for SiberX’s “Canadian Women in Cybersecurity” conference. Helen holds a lea...

The International Information System Security Certification Consortium, or (ISC)², is a non-profit organization which specializes in training and certifications for cybersecurity professionals. It has been described as the "world's largest IT security organization."

Joe's been in cyber since the internet was a piece of string tied between two soup cans! He's a former Army warrant officer (network warfare), MIT Lincoln Laboratory IAM, IBM (XForce Cyber Range) “The Cave” member, teaches professional ED at MIT with the Geospatial Cyber Security group, and has a Masters in Cyber from Utica College. His forme...

Michael Meyer, MPSTM, CISSP, CIPP/US, CIPM, FIP, CISM, CRVPM II, CRISC, CISA, is the Chief Risk and Innovation Officer of MRS BPO. He is responsible for overseeing the company’s enterprise innovation, risk management and security initiatives for its Fortune clients. Michael has been with MRS for over 20 years and previously served in the Chie...

Don McKeown is currently an information security manager for a provider of healthcare solutions that facilitate effective clinical decisions. There he developed and teaches a threat modeling course, teaches code scanning, contributes to corporate application security advisory committees, and consults for technical and product teams. Previousl...

Doug is the Chief Security and Privacy Officer at Lionbridge Technologies, a global leader in localization and data training. He has over 20 years of global experience in the enterprise security space and brings a balance of leadership, customer focus, and technical expertise to the table. He previously served as CSO of Nuance Communications ...

Gabriel Doncel joined Drexel University in 2019 where is currently Director of Information Security. He is also part of the University of Delaware and Wilmington University Adjunct Faculty. As a member of the Information Security team at Drexel, and working closely with the campus community and outside parties, his focus is to protect the peo...

An Information Security Executive with over 15 years of experience, Margarita Rivera has thrived her entire career on solving complex problems. Margarita has dedicated her professional journey to building Information Security Risk, Compliance and Privacy Programs and continues to do so as the Head of Information Security at LMC, a Lennar Corp...

Brendan Campbell is currently the leader for Manulife’s Global Technology Governance & Control function and has prior experience across audit, risk management, information security. He is a part of the Global Technology Executive team and is responsible for leading the execution of risk activities globally. In addition, he is responsible for ...

Mike has over 17 years of experience in the Information Security field, working in multiple industries around the Boston area. He has helped build and improve information security programs, deploy and manage awareness training to over 1,000 staff members, as well audit networks against the CIS Controls. He holds the CISSP certification, has a...

Adel Danesh has over 20 years of experience in IT and information security. Over the course of his professional career, he has been holding information security leadership roles in various organizations and spearheaded mission critical security and infrastructure projects. In his current job, Adel is a CISO at Analytics For Life, a medical re...

Dominique West is a senior consultant for Ernst & Young based in Atlanta, GA. She has eight years of experience in Information Technology, five of which are in cybersecurity with her experience spanning over risk assessments, vulnerability assessments, incident and response, and cloud transformation & security across the commercial industries...

Dan Pepper is a partner on BakerHostetler's Privacy and Data Protection team. Utilizing 25 years of comprehensive experience in information technology, data privacy, and cybersecurity law, Dan advises clients on proactive data security practices, data breach incident response, and regulatory compliance. He frequently handles security incident...

Michael Effiong is Head of Cybersecurity at Tango Networks, where he is in charge of the Cybersecurity department, developing policies, security awareness training, network architecture, vulnerability analysis, and governance and compliance. He reports to the COO/CISO. Michael holds a masters degree in cybersecurity from University of Dallas,...

Arif Hameed is Senior Director at Equifax, where he leads a team that handles client cybersecurity due diligence activities including questionnaires, audits, remediation support, security schedules, etc. Prior to his role at Equifax, he worked at two of the largest banks in Canada in Security Advisory, IT Risk, Third Party Cyber Risk, and IT ...

Imran has a business law practice with a specialization in technology, cybersecurity, and privacy law. As part of his cybersecurity practice, Imran works closely with clients to develop and implement practical strategies related to cyber threats and data breaches. He advises on legal risk assessments, compliance, due diligence and risk alloca...

J. Zhanna Malekos Smith, J.D., served as a captain in the U.S. Air Force Judge Advocate General’s Corps and is a delegate in Stanford University’s U.S.-Russia Forum. She received a B.A. from Wellesley College, an M.A. and A.K.C. from King’s College London, Department of War Studies, and J.D. from the University of California, Davis School of ...

Professor Larry Snyder has nearly two decades of experience in law enforcement, fraud, and auditing in the US Army and a variety of industries, and 15 years in the field of cybersecurity education. Larry believes that cybersecurity strategists must have a broad understanding of the cyber issues facing organizations, as well as the skills need...

Ryan Hausknecht specializes in red teaming as a Security Consultant at SpecterOps and is an instructor for cybersecurity at UNC Charlotte. He is a former Forensic Consultant, Information Security Analyst, and Penetration Tester who has dealt with clients ranging from local government to enterprise-sized businesses. Ryan graduated Summa Cum La...

Stephen Purpura is an American entrepreneur and an applied machine learning researcher. He has co-founded four companies that focus on evolving the future of work, including Context Relevant (renamed Versive and acquired by eSentire) and SkyEye LLC (also acquired). He holds degrees from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and th...

Karen Holmes is the Vice President and CISO at True Blue, where she is responsible for Cybersecurity, Technology Governance, Risk and Compliance, Networking, and Telecommunications. On a mission to drive automation and orchestration, she is focused on improving overall seamless and secure user experiences while creating an innovative atmosphe...

Garrett Whitney is the Chief Information Officer at Delta Dental of Washington, the largest dental benefits provider in Washington State. He developed a passion for technology at an early age by learning to program Pascal, C, and 8086 Assembly languages prior to graduating high school. Garrett is a veteran of the United States Navy, specializ...

Kat is an experienced cybersecurity practitioner with a background in both enterprise cybersecurity and secure product development with deep domain experience in cloud security, identity and access management, and secure product development. Kat enjoys working with local cybersecurity chapters and programs to recruit and develop the next gen...

Brian is an IT Executive with 25 years of experience from IT Operations and Support, Security, through Compliance, Risk Management, and Technology Innovation. As part of his tenure at Microsoft he has been supporting Supply Chain security and compliance for the last 7 years including hardware supply chain, software supply chain, and vendor /...

Sean has over 30 years of experience in the Information Technology field, with a focus on information security best practices and compliance. He currently serves as the Chief Information Security Officer at Atmosera, implementing and maintaining the company’s security posture, while providing security and compliance expert advisory to Atmoser...

Chief Technology Officer at Washington State Department of Labor and Industries. Expert level grasp on IT Security governance and management of security in application, infrastructure and cloud domains. Spearheaded teams to do FedRAMP assessments of major cloud service provider giants in the industry. Certifications include CISSP, CCSP, CISA,...

Austin McBride is a Threat Data Scientist at Cisco Umbrella who identifies unclassified threat vectors, discovers emerging trends in malware distribution, and analyzes and evaluates the impact of security threats on customers. His current research focuses on the significance of cryptocurrency in the ever-evolving threat landscape, which abets...

Burak is one of the co-founders and the technical lead at Cloud Privacy Labs. He has more than 25 years of experience as a software engineer and recently left his position at Red Hat as Principal Software Applications Engineer. His work includes large scale back-end applications for distributed environments and open-source tools for enterpris...

Jaymin Desai is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/E , CIPM) and the Third Party Risk Offering Manager at OneTrust—the #1 most widely used privacy, security, and third-party risk technology platform. In this role, Desai oversees a global professional services team of privacy certified consultants focused on formulating efficie...

As the Director of Product Security at Collibra, Clint Sowada is responsible for delivering secure applications and protecting customer’s data. He has been in the security industry for nearly a decade and has proven track record in building secure SDLC programs at companies that range from endpoint protection to large scale cloud service prov...

Ashish thrives on pragmatism, innovation and building teams that deliver a promise. He started his career over 20 years ago, as a computer scientist in upstate NY, and since then has been learning the 'art of impossible', by wearing multiple hats, including writing code, conducting pen tests, finding and fixing security bugs, building and shi...

Dr. Benjamin Edwards joined Cyentia at the beginning of 2019 as hire #1. He was formerly with IBM Research, where he worked in applying advanced machine learning techniques to solve real world security problems and shaped the next generation of analytical security models. Before that he received his Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico wit...

Jeff Raymond is a Seattle, WA based Cloud Security Engineer at Avanan. While working for companies ranging from security giants to start-ups, he has found his passion in protecting organizations from phishing attacks and securing their cloud applications. Outside of work, he can either be found snowboarding or wakesurfing (depending on the se...

Justin Schluessler has served with Compassion International, a global child development non-profit, for 21 years. Starting in IT and then transitioning to Risk Management, Justin was the organization’s very first information security employee—building a comprehensive security and compliance program from the ground up. In his current role as ...

Jerry Vergeront is the founder and attorney at Vergeront Law, PLLC. With over 25 years in Information Security before becoming an attorney, he brings an industry understanding to data security, privacy, and compliance law.

As VP Risk Management & Partner Relations Mr. Danks is responsible for understanding and managing business risks in the context of cybersecurity and privacy across Huawei USA businesses and toward external stakeholders. Further, he is responsible for developing and enhancing partner relationships towards key external stakeholders across acade...

Bruce Potter is the CISO at Expel. Previously, Bruce co-founded Ponte Technologies, a cybersecurity research and engineering company. He also served as the senior technical advisor to the members of President Obama’s Commission on Enhancing National Cyber Security, and co-founded the Shmoo Group in 1996.

Dr. Anand Singh is an information security executive with a history of bridging the gap between IT and business. He has led significant enterprise transformations on behalf of Fortune 20 companies. He has also driven success of several early stage companies and has shaped Information Security industry in his illustrious career. He is currentl...

Drew Simonis is a Vice President and serves as the Deputy CISO at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). He has worked in some of the largest and most complex environments in the public sector and the private sector with firms such as IBM, AT&T, EDS and Symantec. Prior to joining HPE, Drew spent 8 years as the CISO for Willis Group Holdings (now W...

Robert Walden is the Chief Information Officer at Epsilon where he is responsible for cybersecurity, data center and public cloud infrastructure services, and network services. Additionally, Robert is responsible for providing all IT workplace services for a global user base. Robert has been delivering business value through technology for ov...

Tia Strombeck, MBA, CISSP, currently manages a risk management team focused on governance and cross-organizational programs. Tia has 20+ years experience in information security. She has focused on building cross-organizational relationships to help other business teams understand the importance and value of security initiatives. She has work...

Michael Blaha is currently Sr. Director of Cloud Operations and Security at NucleusHealth. Throughout his career, Michael has made a focus of integrating security and cloud native principles into his delivery and operations teams in both the healthcare payer and healthcare Software-as-a-Service space.

A 20+ year information security veteran, Ian has served in many leadership positions to include CIO/CISO. Ian also led a multi-billion dollar mission charged with developing and operating advanced cyber capabilities for the Undersecretary of Defense (Intelligence), the DoD Chief Information Officer, and the Secretary of the Air Force. In this...

Craig Swinteck has a comprehensive background in IT operations and cybersecurity, with a career spanning across entrepreneurship, small businesses to global corporations, serving the public in local and federal government, and providing cybersecurity guidance in challenging industries such as Finance, Healthcare, and Manufacturing. Craig’s pa...

A technology focused senior level IT security professional with an excellent balance of business experience and knowledge of systems/network security. Always conducting oneself with integrity and ethical behavior following the motto of “Always do the right thing.”

Diana Hennel is currently the Chief Technology Officer for Catalyst Corporate Federal Credit Union. In her role, Diana is responsible for the long-term strategic direction and implementation of technology strategy, security, and processes. She oversees the corporate’s network operations, technology development and information systems securit...

Joshua Carlson is a privacy lawyer but also is a technologist and understands sytem engineering, he has for a long time held his CISSP, CIPP, CIPP/G, CIPP/E and provides guidance and advisory to organizations around the world.

Jay is a Co-founder and Chief Data Scientist at Cyentia Institute, a research firm dedicated to advancing the state of information security knowledge and practice through data-driven research. Prior to Cyentia, Jay served as the Lead Data Analyst on the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report and is the co-founder of the Society for Informa...

Special Agent (SA) Christopher A. Calarco has been in law enforcement for 25 years. He was previously a local and federal prosecutor, and has been an Agent for the FBI for over 20 years. SA Calarco has investigated a number of matters to include reactive violent crimes, gangs, organized crime, fraud and major theft. SA Calarco was also a m...

Scott Bennett leads Lear Corporation’s global applications as the Vice President of Applications, Deployment and Development. Prior to joining Lear Corporation, he served as the Global Chief Information Officer to International Automotive Components Group, a $6 billion Tier 1 automotive supplier. Before that, Scott was the North America CIO...

Zah joined Flagstar Bank Information Security & Privacy team in 2018 as a Senior Vice President and Chief Information Security & Privacy Officer. Prior to her CISO role, Zah was the head of ERM and the Operational Risk teams since 2013 when she joined Flagstar Bank. Zah was the Strategy Leader for Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) for the Bank si...

Janet is CEO and Founder of Center for Threat Intelligence. Janet established a team of intelligence experts to build a cutting-edge threat intelligence consulting, training and a certification program for Certified Threat Intelligence Professionals (CTIP). We are a proud provider for The National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE)...

Jason Rader joined Insight in 2015 as the National Practice Director of Security. He is charged with managing Insight’s security portfolio including strategic consulting offerings and technology focused solutions. Jason has over 20 years experience and has a deep understanding of the skills, tools, and methodologies required to deliver true s...

Dennis Hodges is the Chief Information Officer for Inteva Products, LLC, a position he has held since March 1, 2008. Prior to this assignment Dennis was Chief Information Officer for Delphi Interiors and Closures. Prior to joining Inteva, Dennis served as the Global Business Systems Director at Huntsman Corporation. He began his career at She...

Tammylynne Jonas (TLJ) is a seasoned digital and technology executive with almost 20 years of experience leading large, international teams. TLJ is the Global CIO for Self Esteem Brands, the parent company for Anytime Fitness. In this role, TLJ has responsibility for multiple franchise brands, with almost 5000 locations across almost 40 count...

Brenden Smith is the Chief Information Security Officer at FirstBank. Having spent the last 10 years at FirstBank he is passionate about their community involvement and “Banking for Good” philosophy. In his current role Brenden is focused on aligning security with the needs of the business to help drive better business outcomes through better...

Chris is a seasoned IT Strategist with 20 years of leadership experience in Project & Program Management, Technology & Infrastructure, and Security & Governance. He creates and scales internal technology operations for sustained hyper-growth, builds security operations for Managed Security Provider and spearheads Compliance certification pro...

Ronald Williamson has over 20 years’ experience in Information Technology and Information Security. He has held roles within the banking, retail, and healthcare industry. Currently, he is Information Security Officer at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Driven by a belief in promoting a strategic vision and utilizing best practices to accompl...

Bill Meredith has over 25 years of experience designing, implementing, and supporting IT solutions for large enterprises, of which 10 years have been in the cybersecurity area. He is a cybersecurity professional with experience across a diverse set of cyber domains and industries such as Cloud Security, Financial, Forensics Investigation, Te...

Kevin Beaver, CISSP is an information security consultant, writer, and professional speaker with Atlanta, GA-based Principle Logic, LLC. • With over 31 years in IT and 25 years in security, Kevin specializes in independent security assessments and virtual CISO consulting work to help businesses uncheck the boxes that keep creating a false sen...

Doug Boykin serves as a Privacy Engineer at OneTrust – the #1 most widely used privacy, security and third-party risk technology platform. In his role, Boykin advises many of the world's leading organizations on CCPA, GDPR and ePrivacy (Cookie Law) solution implementations, focused on formulating efficient and effective responses to data prot...

As a security practitioner of 30 years, Jack's experience began in the 80s with commercial and military venues, and expanding in early days of the Internet. It continued to be shaped by the growth of malware and data breaches as global threats against business, nations, and individuals. While developing some of the earliest proactive IPS syst...

Patrick is an Advisory CISO and formerly the Deputy CISO for Cheetah Digital. He is a security and privacy executive, writer, speaker, knowledge provider and seeker. He has been an Executive Business Partner at Experian; a Customer Delivery Executive and Service Delivery Leader at Dell; and owned a technology consulting company. He is certifi...

30+ years IT and Information Security practice. CIO/CISO at the first digital commercial bank in the US. Previously served as the Global Head of Wealth Technology for Thomson Reuters wealth management business line. Lead a team of over 380 developers and technologists supporting the TR BETA, BETA Online, and Thomson One products. Previously t...

Dale is currently the Chief Security Officer of Zayo Group, Inc, a global telecommunications service provider based in Boulder, Colorado. Dale is an accomplished and experienced corporate security executive with 31 years of experience in developing critical global security programs, having worked in Federal/State Law Enforcement and with Inte...

Rob is a passionate technologist focusing on solutions at the intersection of business and technology. He has over 20 years of industry experience architecting, deploying, and consulting on enterprise solutions. In his current role as a Sr. Security Engineer for Tenable, he helps organizations reduce risk due to Cyber Exposure.

Kelce S. Wilson was in the U.S. Air Force, both active duty and reserves, retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel. He has a B.S., M.S. and PhD in electrical engineering, an M.B.A., a J.D., US PTO patent practitioner registration, and is a certified privacy professional with CIPP-US, CIPP-E, and CIPM. During his military and engineering career he wor...

TJ is a subject matter expert on cloud security who has decades of experience solving enterprise problems with innovative solutions. His current project, Protego Labs, is two years in the making. With Protego, TJ has developed an award-winning platform that automates security for serverless applications. The combination of reduced development...

Partha has over 20 years of cyber security leadership experience in financial services industry. An active speaker and panelist in cyber security conferences around the world. Very much passionate about learning new technologies and writing on recent cyber trends. Currently heading up infrastructure security architecture for Bank of Montreal....

Rob Maynard is a sales engineer and DevOps SME for Trend Micro. He has been in the IT field for over 11 years working with various cloud, automation, and virtualization technologies. He lives in Michigan with his wife and two children.

Jennifer Reicherts is an Information Security Analyst with over 16 years of experience working in the Healthcare and Public Health sector. Her passions include IoT cybersecurity and threat intelligence. Jennifer is a Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) and an Executive Board Member of InfraGard Minnesota Member Alliance.

Michael Hiskey is a long-time data, analytics, cloud, and AI industry executive. An accomplished writer and speaker, he has published articles in Forbes, InfoWorld, TechCrunch, ITProPortal, etc. He spends his time thinking about how these innovations impact B2B organizations and their customers. Michael has a background in enterprise technolo...

Rebecca Harness is AVP & Chief Information Security Officer for Saint Louis University and Founder/Principal of Pericuro. Rebecca has an established 20+ year career in information technology with the past ten years specifically focused on information security and compliance. An accomplished entrepreneur, Rebecca has founded and led two succes...

Scott Hogg is CTO and a co-founder of HexaBuild.io, an IPv6 consulting and training firm. He is a CCIE #5133 and CISSP #4610 with over 25 years of network and security experience. He is the author of the a Cloud Guru course, “Rapidly Deploying IPv6 on AWS.” Scott is Chair Emeritus of the Rocky Mountain IPv6 Task Force (RMv6TF), and a member o...

Joe Marentette, MIM (WashU IT Network Engineer 3), has worked for the university for over 20 years. Joe leads the design and engineering of the WashU enterprise network and the research network. Joe has a long history of collaboration with the Information Security department, and most recently built the data collection network to capture netw...

Eddie Ho is the former COO and CIO for Los Alamos National Bank in New Mexico and CIO and CISO at OmniAmerican Bank in Texas. Prior to banking leadership roles, Eddie was in Technology Risk Management, cyber security, and Enterprise Architecture for IBM, Dell, Grant Thornton, and Blockbuster. Eddie is a board member for ePayAdvisors and is a ...

Marc Ashworth, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at First Bank, is a respected professional with over 25 years of experience in cyber and physical security, IT/security architecture, business and departmental strategy, budgeting, project management and is a public speaker. He is a board member of St. Louis Chapter ...

Frank Leyva is a Systems Engineer with Radware, a market leader in cybersecurity with a focus on Network and Application level availability, and security. Prior to that, he was a subject matter expert in network security defense with a leading anti-malware company, performing advanced threat analysis, deep packet inspection, and creating hack...

Rod Aday is the CISO, Head of Operational Risk and Information Security for Dexia Credit Local, NY Branch. He is an experienced security professional with many years of experience in information security/cybersecurity, business continuity, operational risk and information technology. As a CISO in the financial services sector, Rod has built I...

Mark is currently serving as the Chief Information Security Officer at Supreme Lending. Prior to Supreme Lending, Mark Served as the CISO at Prime Lending, Head of Information Security at MetroPCS (a T-Mobile division), VP of Information Technology and VP of Information Security at InCharge Institute, Head of NEC Information Security Consulti...

Beth Young has 20 years of cyber security experience. She is currently a Senior Security Incident Response Consultant with Aflac. Beth has previously worked for a financial services company and for one of the Information Sharing and Analysis centers. She just completed her Masters in Applied Data Science from Syracuse University. She has prev...

Chris McMahon is a Special Agent for the United States Secret Service. Prior to joining the Secret Service, Chris was a Prince George’s County, MD Police Officer. Chris is a well-seasoned criminal investigator specializing in cyber-enabled financial fraud, money laundering, credit card/ID fraud among other crimes. Chris began his Secret Servi...

Siam Luu has worked information security for over 8 years beginning as an analyst, graduating to an engineer, and currently is employed as a security architect. He has worked in both the public and private sectors in a myriad of different careers and locations in both technical and non-technical roles. At present, he has his CISSP certificati...

Melissa’s legal practice focuses on cybersecurity, privacy, and regulatory compliance. Her key strength is helping organizations achieve cyber resiliency through legal and regulatory compliance.

Before joining Newman Du Wors in 2018, she served more than 15 years as a Judge Advocate General officer in the United States Army where she s...

Quin DeVries is exploring the realm where technology and human behavior meet to create engaging user experiences. As a curious researcher, he is eager to tackle the challenges of today and the future.

His research background includes topics in design thinking and ideation in engineering, managerial accounting and neuropsychology, and ...

Alan Berry is the Vice President for Cybersecurity at Centene Corporation. He leads the Cyber Incident Response, Security Strategy, and Threat and Vulnerability Management teams, as well as the Business Resilience and Crisis Management teams. Alan brings 30 years of experience in cyber operations, communications, and command and control. Prio...

Matt Clapham is a Directory of Cybersecurity at GE Healthcare. He and his team make products more secure.

Michael Rogers is on a mission to make organizations more secure by executing on the basics of cybersecurity. He is a certified nerd with nearly 20 years of IT experience, and has spent the last decade developing his understanding of information security, business strategy, and communications. Mike earned his MBA from the Carlson School of Ma...

David is the leader of Husch Blackwell’s national privacy and data security practice group. Accredited by the International Association of Privacy Professionals as a Fellow of Information Privacy, Certified Information Privacy Professional/United States, and Certified Information Privacy Technologist, David brings to the table a deep engageme...

Marc Harwin is an Information Security Professional with more than 20 years of experience. He has worked to improve Information Security at multiple Fortune 500 organizations with a focus on:
- Security Operations
- Vulnerability Management
- Incident Response

Marc has a Master of Science in Information Systems from W...

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...

Jeff Wilbur is the Technical Director of the Internet Society’s Online Trust Alliance. He is responsible for integrating, developing, and extending the OTA initiative within the Internet Society’s overall mission and objectives. He has over 25 years of experience in high technology, all focused on bringing new, industry-transforming communica...

Selim Aissi is Senior Vice President & Chief Security Officer at Ellie Mae’. He is responsible for Ellie Mae’s Security Engineering, Operations, Strategy and Information Technology Risk & Compliance. Before joining Ellie Mae, Selim was the Vice President of Global Information Security at Visa. In that role, Selim transformed Visa’s informatio...

Sudesh Gadewar is Sr Staff Security Engineer at EllieMae. Sudesh holds 10+ years of experience in security where passion is in offense and defense of security. Sudesh holds various Security Certifications which he use as attestations to his skillset. His core area of expertise is in product and application security, where he build SSLDC lifec...

Janelle Hsia is a trusted advisor for strategic and tactical decision making within organizations of all sizes. She brings a diverse background with strong leadership, technical, and business skills spanning 20 years of experience in the areas of project management, IT, privacy, security, data governance, process improvement, and software dev...

Carlin Dornbusch is an innovative leader in Cybersecurity and Data Privacy. His company, American Cyber Security Management, brings proven methods, best-in-class tools, and deep knowledge of data privacy and security standards to every client engagement. ACSM excels at creating custom privacy and security programs to meet the demands of moder...

Ethan Sailers serves as a Privacy Engineer at OneTrust, the largest and most widely-used dedicated privacy management technology platform to operationalize privacy, security, and third-party risk management. In his role, he advises companies large and small on EU GDPR, California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Brazil LGPD, and hundreds of the w...

Carlos has specialized in Identity and Access Management systems for the past 20 years. His experience has been in the architecture and implementation of large enterprise and consumer IAM systems. Most of his career has been spent designing and running the large scale IAM systems for UnitedHealth Group. His experience and leadership led him t...

Tom Muehleisen, CISSP and Retired Army Lieutenant Colonel, is a proven leader in cybersecurity. He is currently the Director of Cyber Operations for NUARI, a non-profit focused on improving our nation’s cybersecurity. He has a rich emergency management background as a National Guardsman, ranging from fighting fires to writing Washington State...

Dave Ruedger is the Chief Information Security Officer for Risk Management Solutions based out of Newark, CA. RMS is a premier provider of catastrophe risk models for the insurance industry that help organizations forecast losses for hurricane, earthquake, flood, wildfire, terrorism and cyber risk in a cloud hosted SaaS environment. Dave ho...

Kevin Paige is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Flexport, provider of the Operating System for Global Trade. Prior to Flexport, Kevin was the CISO at MuleSoft, and brings over 20 years of leadership in delivering solutions and programs that optimize security, compliance and technical operations for both the private and public ...

John Heasman is the CISO of Chegg, the leading student-first connected learning platform where he is focused on proactive approaches to building secure software. Prior to Chegg, John was the Deputy CISO at DocuSign. He has presented at Black Hat, DEF CON, OWASP AppSec and other industry forums on a diverse range of topics from web application...

Maarten Van Horenbeeck is Chief Information Security Officer of Zendesk since March 2018. He has also been a Board member of the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) since 2011, and is the Lead Expert to the IGF Best Practices Forum on Cybersecurity. From July 2015 to March 2018, he served as Vice President, Security Engineer...

Rinki Sethi is an information security executive known for change, technical and thought leadership across security and enablement disciplines. She is a veteran in the cyber security domain and throughout her career has built and matured technical security teams across security operations, product security, application security, security arch...

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 inf...

Jonathan Cran is an information security expert based in Austin, Texas. He’s a principal at the strategic consulting firm Pentestify, and founder of the the open security intelligence platform, Intrigue. His passion is security assessment, architecting systems to measure and ultimately prevent security incidents. Currently, he’s building a wo...

Ann Nagel is the Associate Vice Provost for Privacy, University Privacy Officer, and European Union General Data Protection Officer for the University of Washington (UW). She is responsible for developing a cohesive strategy for the humanitarian and legal aspects of privacy across the UW. To help ensure privacy is included in the design of th...

Lynette Crane, MA, is a Minneapolis-based mentor to introvert CEOs, an acclaimed national speaker, corporate trainer, executive coach and author, and Founder of Quiet Brilliance Consulting LLC Trained in psychology, she has more than 30 years' experience in her field. Lynette Crane and Quiet Brilliance Consulting help smart companies who are ...

Mark Dargin is the Director of Security Architecture at Qualfon Inc., an organization with over 16,000 employees across North America, South America, and Asia. Mark has over 19 years of experience designing, managing, and securing complex WAN and LAN infrastructures. He is a member of the Michigan Cybersecurity Civilian Corps, FBI citizen’s a...

Swathi Joshi is a Senior Technical Program Manager, on the Security Incident Response Team at Netflix where she works on advancing the crisis management program and maturing the incident response function. Previously she worked at Mandiant as an Engagement Manager and as an Escalations manager, managing and solving most critical technical eff...

Sarah has over 23 years of experience in Information Security Management, Risk Management, Third Party Oversight, and Governance in both internal and consulting roles. She is an experienced leader with a background in design, and implementation of GRC and Security programs working with technologies that enable these programs to be effective. ...

Zach joined Mimecast in 2017 as an Enterprise Sales Engineer in Denver, CO. Previously, Zach worked in the enterprise space for AirWatch by VMware, where he focused on cloud-based Mobile Device Management solutions involving mobile security, content management, and email management. Most recently, he worked for Fuze, Inc., a $1 billion UCaaS ...

Christopher Frenz is the AVP of Information Security for Interfaith Medical Center, where he worked to develop the hospital’s information security program and infrastructure. Under his leadership, the hospital has been one of the first in the country to embrace a zero trust model for network security. Christopher has also played a role in pus...

Holger is a seasoned UEM expert with over 20 years of experience in endpoint Automation for company of all sizes. He has designed and implemented UEM solutions for many large enterprises as well as SMB customers. As a former Product Manager in the UEM space he is also familiar with most company's general challenges and common obstacles in ach...

Jason Edwards has over 20 years of IT/Cybersecurity experience and currently works for USAA researching, developing and executing enterprise cybersecurity assurance testing. Jason is a 22-year veteran of the US Army and has served multiple tours of duty in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. Jason is currently awaiting final approval for his do...

Kristie Pfosi stands at the forefront of one of automotive’s greatest challenges: cybersecurity. A well-respected policy maker and program manager with deep technology expertise, Kristie has been a champion for best practices in cybersecurity for over a decade as a technical intelligence officer at the CIA and as an OEM employee, most notably...

Amy Chu is Senior Director, Automotive Cybersecurity at HARMAN, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. HARMAN designs and engineers connected products and solutions for automakers, consumers, and enterprises worldwide, including connected car systems, cyber security solutions, audio and visual products, enterprise automati...

Jennifer Tisdale is the Associate Principal for Embedded Systems and Advanced Transportation Security Programs at GRIMM, a cybersecurity research and engineering firm. Previously, Jennifer served as R&D Program Manager of Vehicle Product Cybersecurity at Mazda North America. While at Mazda, Jennifer bridged the gap between R&D and Government ...

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 fo...

Sonja Torseth is a Senior Training Consultant at Kalles Group. She designs communications strategy and learning experiences with a sharp focus on end-goals: to affect staff behavior change, especially for security risk mitigation. She has more than 10 years’ experience in communications, learning design, and project delivery, and holds a B.S....

Jeanette Rogers is the Director of Learning at Kalles Group, helping companies build world-class security awareness and training solutions. She has over a decade of experience in design, development, and delivery of global corporate technology-based programs and holds a Master's degree from Stanford University.

Abigail McAlpine is a CyberSecurity Researcher at the Secure Societies Institute at the University of Huddersfield. Her research is specialised in PII data published on digital systems that leads users to become vulnerable to a number of threats to their identity and safety long-term.

Andy is Chief Security Officer for Huawei Technologies USA, overseeing Huawei USA's cybersecurity assurance program and supporting Huawei’s global assurance program. Andy is the Huawei global lead for the East-West Institute Global Cooperation in Cyberspace Initiative and serves on the Steering Committee of The Open Group Trusted Technology F...

Elvis Chan is a Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) assigned to FBI San Francisco. SSA Chan manages a squad responsible for investigating national security cyber matters. With 14 years in the Bureau, he is a decorated agent who is recognized within the Intelligence Community as a cyberterrorism expert. SSA Chan was the lead agent on significant c...

Mary N. Chaney, Esq., CISSP, has over 20 years of progressive experience within the fields of Law, Information Security, Privacy and Risk Management. She graduated from Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio with her B.S.B.A in Information Systems and received her J.D. degree from Thurgood Marshall School of Law.
Ms. Chaney spent several...

Tara Schaufler is the Information Security Awareness and Training Program Manager at Princeton University. Tara has been at Princeton University for 15 years, spending the last eight focusing on training and technical communications, and in the past two and a half years has built a robust security awareness and training program from the groun...

David Sherry is the CISO at Princeton University, with university-wide responsibility and authority regarding matters of information security and information risk. He is tasked with the development and maintenance of Princeton's information security strategy, policies and best practices, security training and awareness programs, as well as on...

Steven is the Head of Security, CISSP, CIPP/US. He has presented for SC Magazine and in Las Vegas regarding Cybersecuirty and Security Awareness.

Paola Saibene is the VP of Enterprise Risk Management at American Heart Association. She has been a CIO, CTO, and CSO of large organizations, and has worked in private, non-profit, and government sectors.

Vice President of Beryllium InfoSec Collaborative and Founding Member of Cyber Warrior Foundation. Benjamin is a 19-year Navy veteran of Information Warfare and Special Warfare communities. He serves as the Education Committee Chair for the Cyber Warrior Foundation as well as Chairman of the Board. Benjamin is an (ISC)2 CISSP and Writer for t...

Abhijit Solanki is the founder of Whiteboard Venture Partners, an early stage venture capital firm helping entrepreneurs achieve their whiteboard dreams.

Mortimer is the managing partner of Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP’s Los Angeles office and co-head of the firm’s commercial litigation practice. Her practice is cross-disciplinary and includes significant business and class action consumer claims litigation experience and crisis management in relation to data breach, consumer related labeling clai...

Kenneth G. Hartman is a security engineering leader in Silicon Valley. Ken's motto is "I help my clients earn and maintain the trust of their customers." Ken is an Instructor for the SEC545 Cloud Security Operations course offered by the SANS Institute. Ken has worked for a variety of Cloud Service Providers in Security Architecture, Engineer...

Scott Reynolds is the Industrial Security Manager at Johns Manville. He has over 14 years of Industrial Engineering experience and is an active member of the OT / IT community. Scott has held leadership roles in the International Society of Automation (ISA) for the last four years and is currently an Executive Board Member. Scott has an elect...

Chris McLaughlin is the Information Security Officer at Johns Manville, a Berkshire Hathaway company. JM is leading global manufacturer of insulation, roofing and glass fibers products. Chris has over 20 years of security and infrastructure experience leading the vision for a highly complex manufacturing environment. Chris has a passion for i...

Stephen Dougherty has over a decade of investigative experience. His career as a Financial Fraud Investigator in support of the federal government has played a pivotal role in criminal investigations, surrounding cyber-enabled financial crime, money laundering, human trafficking, identity theft, healthcare fraud, embezzlement, tax/government ...

Dr. Jack Freund is a leading voice in cyber risk measurement and management. He is an expert at building relationships to collaborate, persuade, and sell information risk and security programs. Jack is currently serving as Director, Risk Science at RiskLens and previously worked for TIAA as Director, Cyber Risk. Jack holds a PhD in Informatio...

Nick is the Director of Cyber Intelligence and Investigations for the New York City Police Department. He serves the NYPD's Intelligence Bureau, helping advise the strategy and policies that govern how the Bureau assesses and manages investigations and intelligence in the Cyber domain. For nearly a decade Nick has served the public as a Texas...

Serge Borso is the founder and CEO of SpyderSec, an organization specializing in penetration testing, security awareness training, and OSINT. He also resides on the board of directors for the Denver OWASP chapter and teaches with the SANS Institute. He is an expert in a variety of information security fields, having served in many roles in th...

Before cofounding Avanan in 2014, Michael Landewe had over 20 years of internet startup experience, starting with cofounding an ISP in 1996. He was an early employee of Network Physics, an internet traffic performance company that was one of the first technology companies to develop detection response for the Blaster worm. As a research engin...

Don Peterson is a Sr. National Cybersecurity Specialist for the Federal Reserve System, based out of the Federal Reserve Bank- St. Louis. He is tasked with overseeing the supervision of the largest and most systemically important financial institutions in the United States with assets of $100B+. His duties also include participating in the de...

Daniel is a 15-year Intelligence Professional, with a career in US Army Intelligence and the National Geospatial Agency. His primary focus has been in Counter-Terrorism, Asymmetrical Warfare, and Intelligence Analysis methodology. Daniel was a national-level instructor in All Source Intelligence Analysis and has written several published whit...

Craig Reeds has been involved with Cybersecurity since before there was a name for it. During his time in the IT field, he has been responsible for Cyber Security, Cyber Vulnerability Assessments, Penetration Testing, Risk Identification and Management, Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery and Change Management. In his role as a NERC Complia...

Tina is President of the Bradford Garrett Group. Her prior roles include CISO for the City of Chicago, Global CISO for AON, CIO for Kudoz.com, Director of Enterprise Risk Management for Discover Financial Services, and Global IT Security Program Manager for Perot Systems at Swiss Bank. As co-founder of the Chicago CISO Networking group, Presi...

Rhia is an ISO 27001 and 9001 Lead Auditor and OSINT PenTester for NSF and has previously held several auditing and technical positions in the information security and Pharma quality sectors. Rhia has completed technical writing work and audits for NSF throughout North America, working directly with customers onsite and remotely developing se...

Tony is an ISO 27001, ISO 20000 and ISO 9001 Lead Auditor and OSINT PenTester for NSF. Currently, Tony is the Director of Custom Audit Programs, also having served as Director of Operations, Director of Business Development, and Service Delivery Manager. Tony has conducted audits globally for over 10 years and worked on large-scale security i...

Merlin Namuth has spent over 20 years focused in security. His experience includes building and running numerous security programs, program management, managing incident response teams, computer forensics, compliance, architecture, and engineering complex security solutions. Namuth serves on the cyber risk advisory board at Pepperdine Univers...

Alexis Womble is a Sr. Threat Intelligence Analyst at BAE Systems. Previously, she was a Cybersecurity Intelligence Analyst at Express Scripts, where she interned for a year in an EOCC automation development role, Attack Simulation role, and an Intelligence role. She is also a recent grad from Missouri Baptist University, where she can still ...

Linda Marcone has 15+ years of Information Security, Governance, Risk & Compliance, and Fraud Prevention experience. Throughout her career, she has built and transformed Information Security Programs and Teams, worked with FBI & NCFTA to take down an international fraud ring (APT), promoted diversity in the workplace, and acted as a mentor. ...

Sam is the Director of Cybersecurity & Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) at GTA and is a Chief Warrant Officer (CW3) retired. Georgia Technology Authority (GTA) Office of Information Security (OIS) is the premier strategic partner for all state and local government organizations in support of a strong State Cyber Security posture. GTA OIS,...

Adam is a leading expert on threat modeling, and a consultant, entrepreneur, technologist, author and game designer. He's a member of the BlackHat Review Board, and helped create the CVE and many other things. He currently helps many organizations improve their security via Shostack & Associates, and advises startups including as a Mach37 Sta...

Dr. William Lidster has more than 25 years of experience in IT and information security leadership in government, retail, insurance, finance, healthcare, and the utility industries. He received is PhD in Information Security and Assurance from Capella University and has published in IEEE and other professional journals. Dr. Lidster focuses hi...