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Darrin Kimes

Senior Special Agent, US Secret Service

Darrin Kimes is a Special Agent/Technical Staff Assistant with the Secret Service's Chicago Electronic Crimes Task Force. Most of his 21 years have been dedicated to digital forensics and cyber investigations. Kimes currently serves as the Digital Forensics Lab Director for the CECTF. There he manages the day-to-day work of the lab while also assisting the CECTF in cybercrime investigations. His Secret Service career has also given him the opportunity to protect former-President Jimmy Carter in some of the more challenging locations around the world to include Darfur, Sudan; the Gaza Strip; Ramallah, West Bank; and Pyong Yang, North Korea.

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Sadia Mirza

Attorney, Cybersecurity, Information Governance and Privacy Practice Group, Troutman Pepper

Sadia Mirza is part of the Cybersecurity, Information Governance and Privacy practice group at Troutman Sanders, and is also part of the Financial Services Litigation practice group. She provides strategic privacy compliance counseling, and defends, counsels and represents companies on matters relating to data privacy, data use, and incident response and investigation, with an eye towards helping clients avoid litigation. Additionally, she has experience with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), as well as various other laws concerning privacy and cybersecurity. Mirza's in-house background allows her to understand the issues and concerns clients have and guide them toward resolution in a clear and efficient way. She has worked with clients from a variety of industries, including financial institutions, consumer reporting agencies, insurance companies, healthcare providers, and data and analytics providers. Prior to becoming an attorney, Mirza worked for JPMorgan Chase and Washington Mutual Bank. Her ongoing interest in the financial services industry led her to pursue an LL.M. in banking and finance after graduating from law school.

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Dave Martin

Senior Director, Product Management - Threat Response, Open Systems

Dave Martin brings to Open Systems more than 20 years of experience with IT security and networking technologies in a variety of engineering, product marketing, product management and business development roles. He currently serves as the Senior Director, Product Management - Threat Response responsible for market positioning, product strategy and feature definition for Open Systems' global extended detection and response services.

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Julia Grunewald

Director, Product Management, Tanium

Julia Grunewald is Director, Product Management for Tanium Risk. Previously, she has worked on products for cyber insurance and third-party risk management. She is passionate about security and privacy.

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Lucas Salter

General Manager, Data Protection Solutions, Dell Technologies, Asia Pacific & Japan

Lucas is the General Manager of the Data Protection Solutions business and a member of the Executive Leadership team at Dell Technologies Asia Pacific & Japan. Lucas leads a team of data protection specialists who enable companies to modernise and automate their data protection platforms and overcome data protection barriers.

With a passion for managing risk, Lucas’ team enables organisations to solve multi-cloud, data growth and cyber-security challenges, allowing them to focus on meeting their business objectives. Working closely with customers across multiple sectors, his team helps organisations accelerate digital transformation by focusing on the value and resilience of their data, and enabling them to scale for current and future demands.

Lucas joined Dell Technologies (formerly EMC) in 2015. Prior to Dell Technologies, he held senior positions at NextDC and Symantec. He has over 20 years of experience specialising in solving business problems with technology in the areas of security, risk and data protection.

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Venkat Thoutam

Business Unit Security Officer (BUSO) – Dell Digital and a Regional Security Lead -APJC

Venkat has more than 27 years of experience and currently serves as Business Unit Security Officer (BUSO) – Dell Digital, responsible to Identify, prioritize and drive security programs to benefit the business area and help in the management of security & resiliency. He is also a Regional Security Lead for APJC region, In this role he supports external and internal Dell customers and act as a single point of contact for all the Security & Resiliency requirements in the region.

Venkat has been in the industry more than 27 years, during last 2 decades he has been focused on building application & data security practices providing consulting, strategy, architecture & design services aligning with business goals to enhance the security posture of the organizations across multiple industry sectors.

Prior to Dell, he worked as an Application & Data Security Practice Lead and Senior Delivery Lead for Security & Risk Consulting Services at Accenture. Also as a Global Delivery Head of Enterprise Security Services at Wipro Technologies.

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Alex Tilley

Head of CTU for APJ, Secureworks

With well over 20 years of experience in computer security and cyber-crime, Alex Tilley is a highly awarded cyber-crime researcher. Alex was on the forefront of research and countermeasures when phishing and malware first began to attack banking platforms and their customers.

With that background, Alex became the Australian Federal Police’s senior cyber-crime technical analyst where he combined his technical background with an analytical approach to the “who” and “why” of the cyber-crime fight. This work resulted is many successful investigations in the cyber-crime and child protection space.

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Mark Nunnikhoven

Resident Cloud Strategist at Lacework

Mark Nunnikhoven explores the impact of technology on individuals, organizations, and communities through the lens of privacy and security. Asking the question, “How can we ensure that our technology does what we expect, and only what we expect?” Mark helps organizations around the world navigate their cloud transformations while managing the risks of our digital world. As a Distinguished Cloud Strategist at Lacework and security platform for the AWS Cloud, Mark helps teams modernize their security practices. With a strong focus on automation, he helps bridge the gap between DevOps and traditional security.

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Chris Fuller

Director, Solutions Engineering - Shape at F5

Chris Fuller is a Director of Solutions Engineering within the Shape Security business unit at F5. Chris’ team works with the largest brands across EMEA to deploy Shape as a primary line of defence against the most advanced forms of application abuse. Today, the Shape Network defends over 2 billion user accounts from account takeover and prevents millions of sophisticated automated attacks per day.

Chris has spent the last decade working with web technologies, focusing on tuning user web experiences for major brands by accelerating and protecting their web properties.

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Brian Chappell

Chief Security Strategist, BeyondTrust

Chappell has more than 30 years of IT and cybersecurity experience in a career that has spanned system integrators, PC and Software vendors, and high-tech multi-nationals. He has held senior roles in both the vendor and the enterprise space in companies such as Amstrad plc, BBC Television, GlaxoSmithKline, and BeyondTrust. At BeyondTrust, Chappell has led Sales Engineering across EMEA and APAC, Product Management globally for Privileged Password Management and now focuses on security strategy and new technologies within the Office of the CTO. Chappell can also be found speaking at conferences, authoring articles and blog posts, as well as providing expert commentary for the world press.

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Chris Fuller

Director, Solutions Engineering - Shape at F5

Chris Fuller is a Director of Solutions Engineering within the Shape Security business unit at F5. Chris’ team works with the largest brands across EMEA to deploy Shape as a primary line of defence against the most advanced forms of application abuse. Today, the Shape Network defends over 2 billion user accounts from account takeover and prevents millions of sophisticated automated attacks per day.

Chris has spent the last decade working with web technologies, focusing on tuning user web experiences for major brands by accelerating and protecting their web properties.

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Mike Britton

CISO, Abnormal Security

Mike Britton is the CISO of Abnormal Security, where he leads information security and privacy programs. Prior to Abnormal, Mike spent six years as the CSO and Chief Privacy Officer for Alliance Data. He brings 25 years of information security, privacy, compliance, and IT experience from a variety of Fortune 500 global companies. He holds an M.B.A with a concentration in Information Assurance from the University of Dallas.

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Dr. Eric Cole

World Renowned Cybersecurity Expert

World Renowned Cybersecurity Expert with more than 30 years of network security experience, Dr. Eric Cole is a distinguished cybersecurity expert and keynote speaker who helps organizations curtail the risk of cyber threats. Many of the foundational principles of this course and training in cybersecurity were developed by Dr. Cole. He has worked with a variety of clients ranging from Fortune 50 companies, to top international banks, to the CIA, for which he was a professional hacker. While he started his career on the offense, he is now fully dedicated to understanding the adversary so he can provide cost effective solutions that actually work. As a pioneer in the area of cybersecurity he has been inducted into the Infosec hall of Fame, awarded the Cyber Wingman Award from the US Air Force, received multiple accommodations from the CIA and was part of the commission on cybersecurity for President Obama. He has been the featured speaker at many security events and also has been interviewed by several chief media outlets such as CNN, CBS News, FOX New and 60 Minutes.

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Theresa Lanowitz

Head of Evangelism, AT&T Cybersecurity

Theresa Lanowitz is a proven global influencer and speaks around the world on trends and emerging technology poised to help today’s IT organizations flourish. Prior to joining AT&T Cybersecurity, she founded industry analyst firm voke, to highlight emerging technologies and the benefits of adoption ahead of legacy analyst firms. Lanowitz was also an Industry Analyst at Gartner where she spearheaded the application quality ecosystem, championed application security technology and created the successful Application Development conference. Throughout her career, Lanowitz has been a trusted advisor to some of the most innovative and influential companies and executives in the world.

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Steve Winterfeld

Advisory CISO, Akamai Technologies

Steve Winterfeld is the Advisory CISO at Akamai. Steve is focused on being the voice of the customer for Akamai's security vision and helping CISOs solve their most pressing issues. He brings experience with Zero Trust Security Architectures, and integrating multiple tools into effective programs that will stand up to both auditors and hackers. Before joining Akamai, he served as CISO for Nordstrom bank, Director of Cybersecurity for Nordstrom, and Director of Incident Response and Threat Intelligence at Charles Schwab. Additionally, he has supported multiple DoD and government agencies while at Northrop Grumman. Steve has published a book on cyber warfare and holds CISSP, ITIL, and PMP certifications.

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Tony Lauro

Director of Security Technology & Strategy, Akamai Technologies

Tony is currently Director of Security Technology & Strategy for Akamai Technologies. He's been involved with Information Security since the late 90's when he worked for a large US based telecom provider. Since then Tony has worked with Akamai's top global clients to provide cyber security guidance, architectural analysis, web application and network security expertise. With over 20 years of Information Security operations experience Tony has worked and consulted in many verticals including finance, automotive, medical/healthcare, enterprise, and mobile applications. He is currently responsible for Akamai's North / Central / South American clients as well the training of an internal group whose focus is on Web Application Security / and adversarial resiliency disciplines. Tony's previous responsibilities include consulting with public sector/government clients at Akamai, managing security operations and pen testing for a mobile payments company, and overseeing security and compliance responsibilities for a global financial software services organization. Tony enjoys skateboarding, competitive grappling, Brazillian Jiu Jitsu, and spending time with his wife and kids in Dallas, TX.

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Theresa Lanowitz

Head of Evangelism, AT&T Cybersecurity

Theresa Lanowitz is a proven global influencer and speaks around the world on trends and emerging technology poised to help today’s IT organizations flourish. Prior to joining AT&T Cybersecurity, she founded industry analyst firm voke, to highlight emerging technologies and the benefits of adoption ahead of legacy analyst firms. Lanowitz was also an Industry Analyst at Gartner where she spearheaded the application quality ecosystem, championed application security technology and created the successful Application Development conference. Throughout her career, Lanowitz has been a trusted advisor to some of the most innovative and influential companies and executives in the world.

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Julie Conroy

Head of Risk Insights and Advisory, Aite-Novarica Group

Conroy is research director for Aite-Novarica Group's Fraud & AML practice and covers fraud, data security, anti-money laundering, and compliance issues. Conroy brings to Aite Group more than a decade of hands-on product management experience working with financial institutions, payments processors, and risk management companies.

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Will LaSala

Senior Director Global Solutions, OneSpan

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David Vergara

Senior Direct, Product Marketing, OneSpan

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Martyn Crew

Director of Solutions Marketing, Gigamon

Crew is Director, Industry Solutions at Gigamon. He brings a 30 year background in all aspects of enterprise IT to his role at Gigamon where he focuses on a number of initiatives and products including Gigamon's Application Visibility and Intelligence solutions.

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Crane Hassold

Director of Threat Intelligence at Abnormal Security

Crane Hassold is the Director of Threat Intelligence at Abnormal Security, where he leads a team responsible for researching enterprise-focused cyber threats. Prior to joining the private sector in 2015, Crane served as an Analyst at the Federal Bureau of Investigation for more than 11 years, providing strategic and tactical analytical support to cyber, financial crime, and violent crime cases. For most of his career with the FBI, Crane worked in the Behavioral Analysis Units in Quantico, Virginia, where he provided analytical and behavioral support (“profiling”) to intelligence community and law enforcement partners against national security adversaries and serial criminals. Crane has also been recognized as a subject matter expert in open source intelligence collection and has presented at numerous conferences about using successful analytical techniques. In 2012, Crane helped create the FBI’s Cyber Behavioral Analysis Center (CBAC), which takes an asymmetric approach to examining cyber threats by combining the traditional behavioral concepts used for decades in the violent crime world with technical expertise to gain a holistic understanding of adversary tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs). Within CBAC, Crane provided analytical support for national security and criminal cyber cases, which included conducting empirical research to study the behavioral characteristics of cyber actors and malware genealogy; reverse-engineering malware to better understand adversary motivations and tactics (malware author profiling); performing forensic examinations of digital evidence to identify behavioral artifacts and investigative leads; and developing various behavioral products, such as threat actor profiles and technical threat assessments.

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Steve Crimando

Behavioral Threat Management Professional

Steve Crimando is principal of Behavioral Science Applications LLC. He is an internationally known consultant and trainer focused on the human element in security and emergency management. Mr. Crimando is a Certified Threat Manager (CTM), Certified Homeland Protection Professional (CHPP) and a Board Certified Expert in Traumatic Stress (BCETS). With more than 30 years of experience in the field, Mr. Crimando was deployed to the 9/11 and 1993 World Trade Center attacks, as well as New Jersey’s anthrax screening center and other acts of international terrorism. He is a published author who is frequently called upon by the media and the courts as an expert in crisis intervention. He provides training and support to programs within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Department of Justice, law enforcement, intelligence and military agencies, as well as NGO’s, such as the United Nations.

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Martin Cook

Sr. Engineer, ReliaQuest

Cook has been working in IT Security in a professional capacity since 2001. Over this time, he's operated within multiple disciplines from IT analyst, through operations, delivery management, strategy and sales engineering. Currently, he's at ReliaQuest as the Senior Sales Engineer demonstrating how you can enhance the value of security across the customer enterprise utilising GreyMatter. Cook’ career to date has seen him be highly effective, delivering to time, cost and quality in both an inspiring and motivational way.

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