David Fairman
David Fairman is the current Chief Security Officer of the National Australia Bank (NAB). He has extensive experience in the Security & Risk discipline specialising in Information Security. David also has a very strong background in Business Continuity, Physical Security, Fraud Prevention, Financial Crime and Operational Risk.
Before working for the NAB, David has a long history of consulting, contracting and working for large financial institutions and Fortune 500 companies, including JPMorgan Chase Bank. He has an innate ability to understand operational risks and translate these risks into strategic plans encompassing technological solutions, organizational capability and maturity, and using these outputs in transforming business processes.
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Dan Lohrmann
Dan Lohrmann is an internationally recognized cybersecurity leader, technologist and author. He is currently CSO & Chief Strategist at Security Mentor, where he advises global and local corporations and governments on cybersecurity and technology infrastructure strategies and security culture change.
Starting his career at NSA, Lohrmann has served global organizations in the public and private sectors in many leadership capacities. As a top Michigan Government technology executive for seventeen years, Dan has been named the National CSO of the Year, the Public Official of the Year, and a Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leader. He has been a keynote speaker at security conferences from South Africa to Europe and Washington D.C. to Moscow.
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Marcus A. Capone
Marcus A Capone, is the Chief Security Officer of Onyx CTS, a security consulting company. Currently, Marcus advised Fortune 500 companies on the convergence of Physical and Cyber Security helping them to ultimately reduce their risk posture.
Marcus served 13 years as a Navy Seal completing multiple combat tours to Afganistan and Iraq on the SEAL’s elite Counter Terrorism Unit, SEAL Team 6, and participated in over 300 direct action missions. He has received 5 combat awards for Valorous Acts, including two Bronze Stars.
Marcus finished top of his class during his highly competitive six month SEAL Team 6 Selection Course, he later led the Naval Special Warfare’s Close Quarter’s Combat training program, and has participated in countless inter-agency operations in high-risk environments, alongside with other U.S. government agencies and friendly foreign governments.
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Omar Khawaja
Omar is currently the CISO at Highmark Health, an integrated healthcare delivery and financing system, employing more than 35k people and serving 50 million Americans. Omar has spent 15+ years delivering, developing, and managing security solutions for startups, service providers, consulting firms, and enterprises. Omar was been recognized as the CISO of the year in 2017 and FAIR Business Innovator in 2018.
He is a member of the CISO Workgroup of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, and he is Advisor to two Cyber Security startups, as well as an Adjunct Faculty Member for the Chief Information Security Officer Program at Carnegie Mellon University.
He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech and an MBA from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. Omar also holds his CISSP and CCSK certifications.
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Benjamin Brooks
Benjamin Brooks is a 20-year information security veteran and an 18-year Chief Cryptologic Technician (Technical) veteran of the Naval Special Warfare, Special Intelligence and Electronic Warfare teams, and a drilling Navy Reservist. Ben became an expert in electronic signals exploitation and was assigned to special units for duty with the Navy SEALs, as well as other government organizations. Brooks currently serves as the Navy Information Operations Command TX – Minneapolis Branch Training Officer, while also providing subject matter and exam writing expertise for (ISC)². Ben is also a Ponemon Institute Distinguished Fellow.
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Chuck Brooks
Chuck Brooks is the Principal Market Growth Strategist for General Dynamics Mission Systems for Cybersecurity and Emerging Technologies. He is also Adjunct Faculty at Georgetown University’s Applied Intelligence Program and graduate Cybersecurity Programs where he teaches courses on risk management, homeland security, and cybersecurity. LinkedIn named Chuck as one of “The Top 5 Tech People to Follow on LinkedIn” out of their 550 million members. He was named by Thompson Reuters as a “Top 50 Global Influencer in Risk, Compliance,” and by IFSEC as the “#2 Global Cybersecurity Influencer” in 2018. In both 2017 and 2016, he was named “Cybersecurity Marketer of the Year by the Cybersecurity Excellence Awards. He is also a Cybersecurity Expert for “The Network” at the Washington Post, Visiting Editor at Homeland Security Today, and a Contributor to FORBES.
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Dean Lane
Mr. Lane is currently the Vice President of Cyber Security for the Institute of World Politics in Washington, DC. He is responsible for seven Cyber Intelligence Certifications offered by the University. Mr. Lane also brings 20 years of experience in Silicon Valley to the table. He’s worked for such companies as Allied-Signal, Plantronics, and Morton-Thiokol. He’s also worked as a cyber security consultant for Ernst & Young, Gartner, AT&T, and he has run his own consultancy in Silicon Valley as well. Mr. Lane is the author of three – #1 best selling information security books, and one of the things that I would like to highlight the most from his background, is that Mr. Lane is a highly decorated United States Naval Officer, he served as a Captain in the U.S. Navy and as the Seal Team Officer for the Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet. Dean obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of California (UCLA) and his MBA from National University.
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Scott Schneider
Scott Schneider is the Chief Revenue Officer of CyberGRX. As Chief Revenue Officer, Scott Schneider is responsible for all facets of CyberGRX’s go-to-market and growth strategy—including public relations, marketing and sales functions. Previous to CyberGRX, Schneider led similar functions at SecurityScorecard, Lookingglass, iSIGHT Partners and iDefense (acquired by VeriSign). He began his career at McAfee, now an Intel company. Schneider holds a B.S. in Criminal Justice from Texas State University.
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Fred Kneip
Fred Kneip is the CEO of CyberGRX. As Chief Executive Officer, Fred Kneip is responsible for the overall company direction of CyberGRX. Prior to joining the company, Fred served in several senior management roles at Bridgewater Associates, including Head of Compliance and Head of Security. Before that, Fred was an Associate Principal at McKinsey & Co., where he led the company’s Corporate Finance practice. Fred has also worked as an investor with two later-stage private equity investment firms. Fred holds a B.S.E from Princeton University and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.
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William Beer
William Beer is a Partner/Principal in the Advisory Services practice of Ernst & Young (EY) LLP and is dedicated to the Financial Services sector. His professional experience spans over 25 years and 4 continents in a wide range of global leadership roles ranging from building cybersecurity businesses to CISO advisory roles.
William’s deep industry experience includes work at financial services, government, defense, oil & gas and telecommunications clients. William is highly respected for his brilliant history of having helped large clients find creative ways to manage constantly-shifting information and cybersecurity risks. His strength is thinking differently about what may lie ahead, as opposed to what has been happening recently. His deep international experience enables him to design programs that work effectively across different cultures and business requirements.
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Vikas Bhatia
Vikas Bhatia is the Founder & Chief Executive Officer of JustProtect Inc. Headquartered in Manhattan, NY. JustProtect is a Cybersecurity platform that allows businesses to continually assesses themselves and their vendors. It can be used by organizations of all sizes to assess risks and manage their security program to meet the Cybersecurity requirements of their regulators, investors and customers.
Vikas has over 19 years’ enterprise information technology experience with over 17 years dedicated to information security operations, auditing, compliance and consulting engagements. Prior to founding JustProtect he founded Kalki Consulting, a Cybersecurity consultancy that provided a retained Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Service to many technology startups and numerous small and Medium sized businesses as well as bespoke consulting to fortune 50 organizations.
Vikas holds a BA in Economics from Kingston University in the UK.
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Michael Burshteyn
Michael Burshteyn is the CEO & Co-founder of CryptoMove.
Prior to launching CryptoMove, Mike was a cybercrime, intellectual property, data security, and privacy attorney at Perkins Coie, where he represented hypergrowth startups as well as technology giants such as Uber, Amazon, and Facebook on complex cybercrime and privacy compliance and litigation matters.
Mike attended UC Berkeley for his undergraduate studies, where he led the debate team to the #1 national ranking and researched topics around privacy and cybersecurity.
Mike has a JD from Emory Law School and was also a visiting student at Berkeley Law, where he worked on cybercrime issues for the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology’s Samuelson Clinic and was an associate editor of the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, researching and writing about issues around cryptocurrency and data security ethics and compliance.
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Paul Cavicchia
Paul Cavicchia has over 15 years of public service in Law Enforcement as a former Special Agent with the US Secret Service, a former Agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms and a Detective with the Bergen County NJ Prosecutors Office, Narcotics Division as well as an additional 13 years of experience in the private space serving in Global Corporate Executive positions as the Director of Security and Business Continuity with IDT Corporation, the Sr. Risk Manager of Information Security with Washington Mutual Bank, the Vice President of Global Security & Investigations at JP Morgan Chase, and most recently as the Associate Director of Cyber Security and Intelligence with the Royal Bank of Canada. His diverse work experience in both the public and private sector includes highly sophisticated hands on computer forensics assignments, leading cyber intelligence operations, conducting incident response investigations, and leading cyber crime investigations teams.
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Peter Chronis
Peter Chronis has more than 15-years of experience using technology to manage Cyber Security risk for telecommunications, retail, media, entertainment, financial and IT services companies.
He has developed a web of proprietary and commercial security technologies that, together, blocked more than 750 billion security threats and prevented $100+ million in fraud. He has served on the front lines of the cybersecurity battle as the Chief Information Security Officer in several public and Fortune 500 companies.”
Chronis is the author of a recent book on Cyber Security called the Cyber Conundrum, a thought provoking book that explores today’s Cyber Security landscape and concludes that our current capabilities are failing to solve the growing threat technology risks posed to our society and economy. Chronis introduces the need for what he calls a “moonshot” to create momentum needed to address Cyber Security challenges while he explores other moonshots for inspiration.
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Matt Comyns
Matt Comyns is managing partner of Caldwell Partner’s Cyber Security Practice in the firm’s Stamford office. His focus is on recruiting Chief Information Security Officers and next-level-down top lieutenants in information security for large global corporations and fast-growing private companies, as well as cyber security consultants for leading professional services firms and top executives for cyber security technology companies.
Matt previously co-led Russell Reynolds Associates’ Global Cyber Security Practice, within the firm’s Technology Sector. Prior to joining the executive search industry, he served as CEO of Pacific Epoch, a consulting firm that specializes in market intelligence and research for US-based companies seeking to invest in and expand into China, until the completion of the firm’s sale.
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Darren Death
Darren Death is currently the Vice President of Information Security and the Chief Information Security Officer of ASRC Federal where he manages the cyber security program across a 3-billion-dollar portfolio of business sectors including financial services, government contracting and construction. Death is a proven technology leader with over 20 years of experience deploying enterprise systems for large public and private organizations.
At the Department of Justice, Death was directly responsible for creating their much-needed nationwide enterprise processing capability across the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the Marshalls Service, and the Alcohol Tobacco and Fire Arms Division. At the Library of Congress, Darren was responsible for all emerging technologies as it related to information security.
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Alain Espinosa
Alain Espinosa brings more than 21 years of cybersecurity and IT experience spanning various companies and industries, ranging from non-profit organizations to global enterprises including Siemens and Google. He is currently the Director of Security Operations for Online Business Systems where he is helping companies of all sizes develop, implement, and maintain in-depth cybersecurity solutions. Espinosa has also been featured on NBC News regarding ID theft, juice jacking, ATM skimming, and other personal security concerns.
Currently, Espinosa serves on the board of directors for the InfraGard National Members Alliance, a partnership between the FBI and members of the private sector, where he helps lead efforts to protect the 16 critical infrastructures of the nation. Currently, he is the Chairman of the InfraGard Technology Committee which recommends and implements technology for the organization and partners with the FBI on technology roadmaps.
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Kate Fazzini
Kate Fazzini covers Cyber Security for CNBC. She most recently covered cybersecurity for The Wall Street Journal and WSJ Pro Cybersecurity. Prior to that, she worked in the cybersecurity field, in roles at Promontory Financial Group and J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.
Kate holds a master’s degree in cybersecurity strategy from The George Washington University. She serves as an adjunct professor in the applied intelligence program at Georgetown University and in the cybersecurity program at University of Maryland.
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Michael Fowler
Mike Fowler is currently the Vice President of Professional Services for DFLabs. He specializes in SOAR technologies to facilitate and enhance Incident Response Programs. Mike has years of experience working cyber security investigations and forensics, and he has trained foreign and domestic forensic investigators for the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Secret Service and the FBI’s Cyber Division.
Mike has worked in law enforcement and the private sector, performing cyber investigations with the Security Operations Center for MCI/Worldcom.
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John Frazzini
John Frazzini brings more than 20 years’ experience as a security innovator to his role as president and CEO of SSIC. As a dynamic technology entrepreneur and executive leader that successfully drives new technology and advanced services concepts into cyber risk and security markets,
John combines his rich and varied security experience—including cybercrime investigations, cyber threat intelligence, artificial intelligence-based security applications, and cyber-attack simulation technology—with his entrepreneurial drive to bring forward new concepts that address today’s ever-changing cyber challenges.
Prior to embarking on his entrepreneurial journey, John served as a U.S. Secret Service Agent. As an investigator for the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, John focused on emerging Internet-based crimes, systemic government program fraud, and criminal exploitation of technology.
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Mike Higgins
Michael Higgins is a veteran security executive with more than 20 years of experience working in government and private industry. Mike has held executive security positions at NBC Universal, The New York Times and LexisNexis. For more than a decade prior, Mike was an executive security consultant to Fortune 500 companies including Time Warner, Citigroup, Sun Microsystems, Merrill Lynch, JP Morgan Chase, and British Petroleum.
For the last 10-plus years, Mike has been a visiting lecturer at the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia and is a former adjunct professor in the Information Assurance Program at The George Washington University. Mike received his bachelor’s degree from Northeastern University and his master’s from the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California.
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Rick Howard
Rick is the CSO for Palo Alto Networks, where he is responsible for the company’s internal security program, the oversight of the Palo Alto Networks Threat Intelligence Team and the development of thought leadership for the cybersecurity community. His prior jobs include being the CISO for TASC, the general manager of iDefense and the SOC director at Counterpane.
He served in the U.S. Army for 23 years and spent the last two years of his career running the Army’s CERT. Rick holds a Master of Computer Science degree from the Naval Postgraduate School and an engineering degree from the U.S. Military Academy. He taught computer science at the Military Academy and contributed as an executive editor to two books: “Cyber Fraud: Tactics, Techniques and Procedures” and “Cyber Security Essentials.”
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Eric Huber
Eric Huber is the Vice President of International and Strategic Initiatives at the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C). He is a former law enforcement officer with broad experience in researching, investigating, and educating in the areas of digital forensics, cybercrime, and fraud.
Before joining NW3C, Eric built and led successful high-technology investigative teams at a JPMorgan Chase Bank and Honeywell.
He is a sought-after speaker, writer, and educator who writes about blockchain technology, cybercrime, and digital forensics on his award winning AFoD blog.
He holds many professional degrees and security certifications including an MBA from the University of Florida.
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Chris Kenworthy
Chris Kenworthy is a seasoned Cyber Security Executive with more than 23 years’ experience in the industry. He’s been a principal in at least 7 venture-funded Cyber Security start-ups, and worked at RSA twice.
Chris also spent 9 years at McAfee as a Senior Vice President of their Enterprise business. While at McAfee, Chris’ responsibilities included Go-To-Market (GTM) due diligence in their commercial M&A business, and he was responsible for launching technologies obtained from acquisitions of other companies into McAfee’s marketing, sales, and customer-base.
With Chris’ vast and successful career in Cyber Security, he has served on the Board of Directors and Advisory Boards of numerous Cyber Security Startups, assisting them with their GTM efforts, helping them promote growth, and advising them on how to reach successful and profitable exits for their investors.
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Richard Kessler
Rich is a Director in the Cyber Security Services practice and specializes in information governance, data governance, and operational risk control. He is part of the Strategy and Governance pillar with a specific focus on enterprise data and information governance (IG), and privacy.
As a key facilitator for digital transformation, he has led global programs to simplify and improve complex data-related policies, business and technical requirements, operational risk management and control processes, investigative functions, compliance monitoring, and change management. He has managed electronic communications archiving operational environments and has managed global data quality management functions.
He advises firms on ways to design and implement programs that address IG, records and information management (RIM), electronic discovery, GPDR compliance, operational risk management, litigation readiness and response, data governance, risk, and enterprise change management.
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John Moran
John Moran is a Product Management, Security Operations and Incident Response professional. He has a Master of Science degree in Information Assurance from Dakota State University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Forensics and Digital Investigation from Champlain College and is currently pursuing a Masters of Business Administration from Southeastern Oklahoma State University. John currently holds GCFA, CFCE, EnCE, CEH, CHFI, CCLO, CCPA, A+, Net+, and Security+ certifications.
John was born in New York City, but lives in Southern Maine where he has resided most of his life.
John’s areas of expertise include security automation and orchestration, security operations, incident response, digital forensics and investigations. John also continues to maintain an active role in law enforcement as a Reserve Patrol Officer.
John is a member of the High Technology Crime Investigation Association and the International Association of Computer Investigative Specialists.
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O. Sami Saydjari
Mr. O. Sami Saydjari is the founder and President of Cyber Defense Agency. Under his leadership and guidance, Mr. Saydjari has attracted twenty of the nation’s top security experts to create a uniquely superb national asset to help defend the country’s most important information systems. He provides vision and expertise for building a research and consulting organization that creates effective systematic defenses for high-value systems against aggressive cyber- attack.
Mr. Saydjari has over 30 years’ experience performing and directing information assurance research, including 20 years as a leader at the National Security Agency and three years as a Defense Advanced Projects Agency (DARPA) Program Manager of Information Assurance where he created one of the most significant investments in information assurance in the nation’s history.
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Karim Toubba
Karim Toubba is a long time executive and has spent 20 years in the security product world. Karim launched the first PKI as a service in late 1999 and has been building security products ever since. Before joining Kenna Security he spent 5 years at Juniper Networks leading the product team for Junipers’ billion dollar security business. Karim is a self described product junkie who gets frustrated with poorly built products and loves to spend his time thinking about making products seamless.
He joined Kenna Security in 2014 as CEO and the company has been on a tare ever since. Today Kenna has over 300+ customers worldwide including many of the F500. Kenna Security uses machine learning in the cloud to map their customers overall attack surface, align it through the lens of risk, and help drive prioritized remediation. They recently announced a first in security, the ability to predict weaponized exploits, and also just announced a $25M Series C led by Bessemer Ventures.
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Kevin Trilli
Kevin is Chief Product Officer and Interim CTO for Onfido, a leading identity verification provider that uses machine learning technology systems to validate government-issued identity documents and biometrics for digital businesses.
Kevin joined TrustArc in 2008 after its non-profit conversion to lead product strategy and management for TRUSTe’s data privacy management services. His focus has been developing technology services to help businesses manage privacy compliance risks for GDPR and other global regulations and build trusted brands.
Kevin has worked in early stage companies for over 15 years in the fields of Internet security, privacy and trust including VeriSign and AssertID, a company he founded.
Kevin serves on the Board of Directors for Aviata and previously AssertID.
Kevin holds an MS in Management from Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he is a Sloan Fellow and a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Robert Villanueva
Robert Villanueva currently leads the Cyber Threat Intelligence Division of Q6 Cyber.
Mr. Villanueva joined Q6 Cyber after 25 years of dedicated service in the United States Secret Service, where he specialized in transnational cybercrimes, access device fraud, network intrusions, and identity theft data breaches affecting the private sector. During his tenure, Mr. Villanueva was assigned to various offices, including Miami, Europe, Latin America, and Washington D.C., and served in both investigative and undercover capacities around the world.
Mr. Villanueva founded the U.S. Secret Service’s Cyber Intelligence Section, which coordinates global cyber operations. Mr. Villanueva also headed the U.S. Secret Service’s Miami Electronic Crimes Task Force, which counts 800+ members from the private sector, academia and local/federal law enforcement.In 2016, Shelley was appointed to a three-year term on the Board on Higher Education & Workforce for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering & Medicine. She is a 2016 Honoree of “40 over 40” and received a 2016 Executive Women’s Forum Women of Influence Award in the category of Security Corporate Practitioner. And more recently, Shelley was named a 2018 Leader in Diversity for her work on getting more women and minorities into Cyber Security.
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Shelley Westman
Shelley Westman is currently a Principal and Partner with Ernest and Young’s Cyber Security Practice. Prior to joining EY, Shelley served as a Senior Vice President of Alliances & Field Operations at Protegrity. And before that Shelley spent 18 years with IBM, ending her time with them as the Vice President, Operations & Strategic Initiatives for IBM Security. She was the founder of “WISE” — Women in Security Excelling, an IBM group devoted to advancing women in security.
In 2016, Shelley was appointed to a three-year term on the Board on Higher Education & Workforce for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering & Medicine. She is a 2016 Honoree of “40 over 40” and received a 2016 Executive Women’s Forum Women of Influence Award in the category of Security Corporate Practitioner. And more recently, Shelley was named a 2018 Leader in Diversity for her work on getting more women and minorities into Cyber Security.
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Debbie Christofferson
Debbie Christofferson is a Fortune 500 Enterprise Wide Information Security Manager experienced across the US, Europe and Asia. She is a strategic security leader and consultant with broad comprehensive security and risk management experience.
Christofferson is the author of the book, Women in Security, which showcases women’s achievements and a history of the Cyber Security space. Debbie also facilitates CISM certification exam prep workshops, speaks and writes on cyber security topics and women in security, and leads virtual and onsite security and IT education events. She is an International Board Director and Distinguished Fellow for the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) and she Chairs the board’s CISO Advisory Council for the CISO Executive Forum. Debbie is co-founder of the local Cloud Security Alliance chapter. She is hosting a 2nd annual ATW Summit for Women in Technology.
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EJ Hilbert
E.J. Hilbert is the founder of ECK Cyber Consulting, which specializes in GDPR security compliance. EJ has over 2 decades of experience in the Cyber Security field.
E.J. spent 8 years as a Special Agent for the FBI where he was the lead case agent for numerous cyber-crime, white collar and counterterrorism investigations. E.J. led one of the FBI’s largest cyber-crime investigations addressing the computer intrusion, theft of data and extortion of over 600 financial institutions. He later applied those same techniques to the counterterrorism field operating undercover to identify and disrupt terrorist organizations. EJ’s final case with the FBI was bringing treason charges against the American Al Qaeda member, Adam Gadahn.
E.J. has been cited as an expert in Cyber and Counterterrorism by Rolling Stone Magazine, the Washington Post, Wired Magazine, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, the NY Times, CNBC, the BBC, MSNBC, The History Channel and The Science Channel.
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Tom Pageler
Tom Pageler is presently the CSO and CRO of Nester. Pageler has more than 15 years of experience in security and risk management. Prior to Neustar, Pageler served as CRO and CISO at DocuSign, where he designed, implemented and managed its successful enterprise risk and security departments. Prior to DocuSign, Pageler served as Deputy CISO, JPMorgan Chase, where he led cyber-security, fraud prevention and protective intelligence. Prior to JPMorgan Chase, Pageler was Head of Risk Assessments and Director of Emerging Risk and Fraud Control, Visa, where he assisted in the launch of the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC).
Additionally, Pageler served as a Special Agent with the U.S. Secret Service, where he established the San Francisco Electronic Crimes Task Force, where he was responsible for identifying, apprehending and successfully extraditing leaders of a large organized crime ring in the Eastern Bloc. Pageler has also provided physical security for the President of the United States, the Vice President, their families and foreign heads of state.
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Robert Rodriguez
Robert Rodiguez is the Chairman & Founder of the Security Innovation Network (SINET). SINET’s mission is to advance innovation and enable global collaboration between the public and private sectors to defeat cyber security threats. SINET serves as the nucleus that connects builders, buyers, researchers and investors in the cyber security domain. Before creating SINET, Robert served over twenty-two years as a Special Agent with the United States Secret Service. His executive protection experience spanned 10 years at the White House serving Presidents Ronald W. Reagan, George H. Bush, William J. Clinton and numerous Heads of State. During his career he held a number of leadership roles within the Executive Protection, Protective Intelligence, Inspection and Criminal Investigation Divisions that has given him a wide array of leadership experience with different investigative and protective domains.
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Adriana Sanford
Adriana Sanford is a Chilean American author, international TV commentator, Georgetown-educated international lawyer, professor, internationally-recognized privacy/cybersecurity scholar, and a humanitarian.
Sanford recently coauthored the 2018 security book Women in Security Changing the Face of Technology and Innovation, which is part of the Women in Engineering and Science book series. Sanford’s chapter, “A Guide for CEOs and Board of Directors on Multi-jurisdictional Legal Issues”, discusses the global ramifications of multi-jurisdictional conflicts under the new security landscape.
Sanford is a regularly featured subject matter expert (SME) on CNN Dinero at CNN en Español, the network’s 24-hour Spanish language television broadcasting to more than 24 million viewers in the United States and throughout Latin America.
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Nick Stamos
Nicholas Stamos co-founded his fourth company, e-Share in July of 2012, Stamos has raised over $10M in non-institutional monies. Investors include top executives at Zoom, Cisco, Microsoft, Broadcom, Space-X, TD Ameritrade, and TCW. He has 9 patents issues over his career, and holds a BSEE and MSEE from Tufts University. His previous companies have return over $1B in returns to investors.
His passion is building, leading and motivating great teams, by recruiting the smartest, highly motivated and passionate people, to create companies that deliver solutions that solve the most challenging problems facing the biggest enterprises today.
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Dr. Rebecca Wynn
Dr. Rebecca Wynn is widely considered to be a “big picture” thinker who brings nearly 20 years of experience to the table in the Information Security, Assurance & Technology spaces.
She is well known for being a gifted polymath, which means she has subject matter expertise in several areas, and she has a deep understanding of current cyber security challenges and data privacy issues. She has a proven track record of taking companies to the next level of excellence in many sectors including government, financial services, fintech, healthcare, information technology, legal, semiconductors, and retail.
Dr. Wynn was named the 2017 Cyber Security Professional of the Year sponsored by the Cyber Security Excellence Awards, and she also won the SC Magazine’s Chief Privacy Officer of the Year Award in 2017. Dr. Wynn is a Global Privacy & Security by Design International Council Member and she has dozens of published writings on cyber security.
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Roy Zur
Roy Zur is a cyber intelligence expert, the founder and CEO of several cyber companies, including Cybint, a cyber education company. Roy has over a decade of experience in cyber and intelligence operations from the Israeli security forces (Retired Major), and has developed cyber education programs and technological solutions for companies, educational institutions and government agencies around the world.
Prior to his current position, Roy has received law and business degrees, and served as a legal adviser in the Israeli Supreme court. In addition, Roy is a practicing attorney, and the chairman of the Israeli Legislation research center (OMEK Institute), which includes 150 researchers, who work with the Israeli parliament.
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Khaled Fattal
Khaled Fattal is chairman of the MLi Group.
The MLi Group provides Geo-Political, Poli-Cyber Terrorism, Incident Response, and Cyber Insurance Audits, as well as Penetration Testing, Cyber Training of all levels and Poli-Cyber Threat Intelligence & Mitigation Services. These unique and specialized services represent some of the critical pillars of its Survivability Solution™ developed in specific response to the traditional cyber security strategies that are failing daily in defending businesses and governments all over the world. Mr Fattal is invited regularly to keynote, speak and chair public and private conferences and events.
MLi Group also organizes with its partners Thought Leadership Decision Maker Symposiums and Private Briefings to Boards, C-Suite, and senior government officials about the seismic change to the global cyber and non-cyber threat landscape and the new and innovative solutions needed to mitigate them in the 21st century.
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Jeremiah Grossman
Chief of Security Strategy (SentinelOne). Professional Hacker. Black Belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Founder of WhiteHat Security. Jeremiah Grossman’s career spans nearly 20 years and has lived a literal lifetime in computer security to become one of the industry’s biggest names. And since Jeremiah earned a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt, the media has described him as “the embodiment of converged IT and physical security.”
Prevent-ing attacks from the scariest cyber-criminals is all in a day’s work for Jeremiah, but stay-ing a keystroke ahead of the bad guys isn’t easy. In 2001, Jeremiah founded WhiteHat Security, which today has one of the largest professional hacking armies on the planet. Let it sink in. Professional. Hacker. Army.
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Rick Geritz
Rick Geritz is CEO and founder of LifeJourney, a scalable mentorship platform that enables students to “test drive” their future by experiencing the career journey the world’s Cyber leaders. LifeJourney powers the NSA Day of Cyber.
Rick has spent twenty-five years building early stage technology companies in cybersecurity, media, and education. Prior to founding LifeJourney, Rick was President of SafeNet a cyber security company serving more 25,000 customers across commercial enterprises and government agencies.
He has been a featured guest speaker on network security on “Today,” and “Innovator of the Year.” Rick is the Chairman of CyberMaryland and co-founder of the National Cyber Security Hall of Fame. Rick sits on the board of the UMBC Cyber Incubator. In 2014, Rick’s TEDx talk entitled “What do I want to be when I grow up” was recorded to inspire students to pursue STEM and cybersecurity-related pathways.
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Dr. Magda Chelly
Magda Lilia Chelly, is the Managing Director of Responsible Cyber Pte. by day, and a cyber feminist hacker by night. Magda is the brand ambassador of Peerlyst, one of the strongest InfoSec online communities. She spends most of her time supporting chief information security officers in their cyber security strategy and roadmap. She reviews technical architectures, cloud migrations, and digital transformations. She is continuously raising cyber security awareness & diversity at a global scale.
She is currently based in Singapore, with a global reach through her company in 19 locations worldwide. She speaks five languages fluently, and has a PhD in Telecommunication Engineering with a subsequent specialization in cyber security. She also was recently nominated as global leader of the year at the Women in IT Awards 2017, and TOP 50 cyber security influencer globally.
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George Avetisov
George Avetisov serves as CEO of HYPR Corp responsible for overall strategy, product, sales, company management and culture. George is very much a product-focused CEO, heavily focused on client and channel partner relationships, media engagements, messaging and brand identity.
Previously at 19 years old, George co-founded and established AvianneandCo.com, an online jewelry store. George designed and built the website, defined sales processes, oversaw manufacturer and vendor relationships, and scaled logistics & business operations through a period of rapid growth. Utilizing focused brand optimization and an aggressive white-hat SEO strategy, George outranked incumbents such as Macy’s and BlueNile on key search terms to achieve a $5MM annual run-rate with a team of 9 professionals.
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Jim Routh
Jim Routh is the Chief Security Officer and leads the Global Security function for Aetna.
He is the Chairman of the NH-ISAC Board. He serves on the Board of the National Cyber Security Alliance and is a member of the Advisory Board of the ClearSky Security Fund. He is on the Advisory Committee for the UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity. He previously served as a Board member of the FS-ISAC and led several committees and working groups. He was formerly the Global Head of Application & Mobile Security for JP Morgan Chase. Prior to that he was the CISO for KPMG, DTCC and American Express and has over 30 years of experience in information technology and information security as a practitioner, management consultant and leader of technology, analytic and information security functions for global firms.
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Michael Chertoff
Areas of Focus:
- Risk identification, analysis and mitigation
- Crisis management – prevention, preparation, response and recovery
- Strategic counsel on global security solutions
Previous Government Experience:
- Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (2005-2009)
- Federal Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (2003-2005)
- Assistant Attorney General of the United States, Criminal Division (2001-2003)
As Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security from 2005 to 2009, Michael Chertoff led the country in blocking would-be terrorists from crossing our borders or implementing their plans if they were already in the country. He also transformed FEMA into an effective organization following Hurricane Katrina. His greatest successes have earned few headlines – because the important news is what didn’t happen.
At The Chertoff Group, Mr. Chertoff provided high-level strategic counsel to corporate and government leaders on a broad range of security issues, from risk identification and prevention to preparedness, response and recovery. “Risk management has become the CEO’s concern,” he says. “We help our clients develop comprehensive strategies to manage risk without building barriers that get in the way of carrying on their business.”
Before heading up the Department of Homeland Security, Mr. Chertoff served as a federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Earlier, during more than a decade as a federal prosecutor, he investigated and prosecuted cases of political corruption, organized crime, corporate fraud and terrorism – including the investigation of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Mr. Chertoff is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College (1975) and Harvard Law School (1978). From 1979-1980 he served as a clerk to Supreme Court Justice William Brennan, Jr.
In addition to his role at The Chertoff Group, Mr. Chertoff is also senior of counsel at Covington & Burling LLP, and a member of the firm’s White Collar Defense and Investigations practice group.
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Richard A. Clarke
Dick Clarke is CEO of Good Harbor LLC, a boutique cyber security/risk management consultancy. Clarke is a sought-after advisor to leading CEOs, Boards, and C-level executives of Fortune 500 Companies in the US, as well as several state leaders, including the Governors of New York and Virginia, on all issues of cyber-security and risk and crisis management.
Clarke served in the White House for an unprecedented ten years as Special Advisor to the President on Cyber Security, serving under President George H.W. Bush, President Bill Clinton, and President George W. Bush. In this role, Clarke also advised on counter-terrorism and other national security issues. In his role as the nation’s “Cyber-Czar,” Clarke developed the country’s first National Strategy to Defend Cyberspace. Clarke served on the National Security Council for ten years. Following the Snowden revelations, President Obama asked Clarke to serve on the five-person President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Technology.
On 9/11, Clarke was the national crisis manager.
Previously, Clarke served as Assistant Secretary of State for Political Military Affairs in the first Bush administration and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence under President Ronald Reagan.
Clarke has served in the White House, the Pentagon, the Intelligence Community, and the State Department. As an Assistant Secretary of State, he was confirmed by the United States Senate.
Clarke taught crisis management and risk at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and is an ABC News-on-Air Commentator, offering expert perspective in crises management, terrorism, and cyber security.
Clarke is author of eight books. His first book, Against All Enemies: Inside America’s War on Terror (2004) was a New York Times #1 best seller. In 2017, he published Warnings, 14 case studies of experts whose predictions of impending disaster were ignored. His ground-breaking work, Cyber War, was voted by a cyber expert panel as one of the field’s foundational works.
Clarke is Chairman of the Board of Governors of The Middle East Institute. He has been honored with membership in the national Cyber Security Hall of Fame and given the Lifetime Achievement Award for Cybersecurity by the annual RSA Conference.
Clarke is an advisor to private equity and venture capital firms and has served on the corporate boards of technology companies Veracode, Carbon Black, and Multiplan. Clarke received a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1972 and a Master of Science (SM) degree from MIT in 1978. He lives in Virginia.
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Mark Clancy
Mark Clancy has 25 years of experience in Information Technology and for the last 15 years has focused on cybersecurity and technology risk management issues from the data center to the board room. He has worked with business leaders, industry groups, public officials, legislatures, and regulatory authorities around the global to advance cybersecurity practices, standards, regulations, and laws.
Mark is the founder of Cyber Risk Research LLC a research and consultancy organization focused on cybersecurity “sense making” and “decision making”. Mark was formerly the CEO of Soltra and a Managing Director of Technology Risk for DTCC.
He has also testified before the US Congress House Homeland Security Committee, the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Entities, and the Senate Commerce Committee on Cyber Security Issues.
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Admiral Michael Rogers
Mike Rogers retired from the U.S. Navy in 2018 after nearly 37 years of naval service rising to the rank of four-star admiral. He culminated his career with a four plus year tour as Commander, U.S. Cyber Command and Director, National Security Agency – creating the DoD’s then newest large war fighting organization and running the U.S. government’s largest intelligence organization. In those roles he worked with the leadership of the U.S. government, the DoD and the U.S. Intelligence community as well as their international counterparts in the conduct of cyber and intelligence activity across the globe. He also assisted in the development of national and international policy with respect to cyber, intelligence, data, privacy and technology – including extensive work with corporate leadership in various critical infrastructure sectors. Admiral Rogers is currently supporting companies in the private sector, serving as a member of various Boards of Directors and Advisory Boards.
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Dr. Magda Chelly
Magda Lilia Chelly, is the Managing Director of Responsible Cyber Pte. by day, and a cyber feminist hacker by night. Magda is the brand ambassador of Peerlyst, one of the strongest InfoSec online communities. She spends most of her time supporting chief information security officers in their cyber security strategy and roadmap. She reviews technical architectures, cloud migrations, and digital transformations. She is continuously raising cyber security awareness & diversity at a global scale.
She is currently based in Singapore, with a global reach through her company in 19 locations worldwide. She speaks five languages fluently, and has a PhD in Telecommunication Engineering with a subsequent specialization in cyber security. She also was recently nominated as global leader of the year at the Women in IT Awards 2017, and TOP 50 cyber security influencer globally.