Training

Nitin Kumar

Technical Marketing Engineer, Cisco

Nitin Kumar brings over 11 years of security experience. He started his career in email security, then transitioned into networking before he finally found a home at Cisco CWS as a support engineer. Nitin has held various impactful roles such as the lead for TME for a new Cisco partnership with marketing leading CASB vendor and for the Cisco Web Security Appliance. Currently, he works in the Cisco Cloud Security group focusing on competitive, sales enablement and customer engagement for all things Umbrella and Cloudlock. His vast knowledge of various technology areas and ability to work across-functional environment give him a unique perspective in this space. In his free time, he enjoys hiking, traveling, and discovering new restaurants around the Bay Area, CA.

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Ryan Stolte

Founder & CTO, Bay Dynamics

As a founder and CTO of Bay Dynamics, Ryan Stolte has spent more than 20 years of his career solving big data problems with analytics. Starting in the early days of the Web, his first user behavior analytics challenges were to find innovative ways to recommend products to end users and drive sales on e-commerce sites. With the proliferation of the connected enterprise, his attention turned to new analytics challenges with internal IT, cloud, and cybersecurity initiatives. With two decades of experience in user behavior analytics, a portfolio of analytics patents, and an unparalleled leadership team, Ryan is focused on finding innovative ways to provide smart cybersecurity solutions for the enterprise.

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Richard Henderson

Head of Global Threat Intelligence, Lastline

Richard Henderson is Head of Global Threat Intelligence, where he is responsible for trend-spotting, industry-watching, and evangelizing the unique capabilities of Lastline's technologies. He has nearly two decades of experience and involvement in the global hacker community and discovers new trends and activities in the cyber-underground. He is a researcher and regular presenter at conferences and events and was lauded by a former US DHS undersecretary for cybersecurity as having an "insightful view" on the current state of cybersecurity. Henderson was one of the first researchers in the world to defeat Apple's TouchID fingerprint sensor on the iPhone 5S. He has taught courses on radio interception techniques multiple times at the DEFCON hacker conference. Henderson is a regular writer and contributor to many publications including BankInfoSecurity, Forbes, Dark Reading, and CSO.

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Lisa Forte

Social Engineering & Insider Threat Expert, Red Goat Cyber Security

Lisa Forte began her career working in anti-piracy intelligence off the coast of Somalia, before moving into counter-terrorism intelligence for a UK Government agency. She then moved into one of the UK Police Cyber-Crime Units where she got to know the attackers' mind sets and methodologies well. The unit dealt with serious cyber crime cases working closely with agencies such as the FBI. Victim companies ranged from small to multi-national organisations and almost all the cases involved social engineering.

Lisa left in 2017 to start her own company, Red Goat Cyber Security LLP, with the goal of reflecting the techniques and methodologies actually being employed by hackers. They provide the only GCHQ certified social engineering training in the UK for staff as well as social engineering security testing and wargaming cyber attack exercises to help organisations prepare for an attack. In December 2018 Lisa won the "Top 100 Women In Tech" Awards recognising her achievements and contributions to the cyber security industry.

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Sudeep Venkatesh

Chief Product Officer, Egress

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 an in-depth understanding of regulatory compliance standards, including the EU GDPR, PCI and NYDFS, etc. Sudeep has worked on numerous data security projects with Fortune 500 firms in the US, the UK and globally.

At Egress, Sudeep works as Chief Product Officer with responsibility for product strategy, product management and the delivery of pre and post-sales technical services to customers. Prior to this, he was the Global Head of Pre-sales for the Data Security division of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), leading a global team of Sales Engineers. Sudeep joined HPE through its acquisition of Voltage Security, where he was part of the executive team.

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Robert Capps

Vice President and Authentication Strategist, NuData Security

Robert Capps is a recognized technologist, thought leader, and advisor with over twenty years of experience in the design, management, and protection of complex information systems - leveraging people, process and technology to counter cyber risks. In his previous role at RedSeal as a Senior Director, Capps was responsible for technical, security, and customer operations. Prior to RedSeal, he was Senior Manager, Global Trust and Safety at StubHub.

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Kyle Williams

Director of Product Development and Innovation, NuData Security

Kyle Williams is an experienced product manager, innovator, and strategist with several years of experience in the payment industry. In his current role as Director of Product Development and Innovation for NuData Security, a Mastercard company, he focuses on product management and strategy for the core NuDetect solution. In his previous role as a Product Leader within Cyber & Intelligence Solutions at Mastercard, Williams was responsible for product enhancement, API strategy, and global expansion. His focus on authorization strategy, subscription payment optimization, and fraud detection allows him to provide partners and prospects with the information and solutions to make better decisions for their businesses. Before Mastercard, he spent nearly a decade as an engineer in the Missouri Army National Guard.

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Scott Matsumoto

Chief Information Security Officer, Circle

Scott is the Chief Information Security Officer at Circle, a world leading crypto finance company. At Circle, Scott's mission is to make crypto mainstream, and bring Circle's products to market by working closely with regulators, governments and industry peers. When he joined Circle in March of 2015, Scott brought with him decades of security and software engineering experience. Mr. Matsumoto was previously a Principal Consultant at Cigital Inc, the largest software security consultancy in the United States, where he led the Mobile Security and Security Architecture practices. In addition to leading two practices at Cigital, he was a founding member of the Cloud Security Alliance. His software engineering experience encompasses development of component-based middleware, performance management systems, graphical UIs, language compilers, database management systems and operating system kernels.

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Sam Small

Chief Security Officer, ZeroFOX

Dr. Sam Small serves as the Chief Security Officer of ZeroFOX, helping its customers implement world-class social-media protection programs and supporting ZeroFOX to continuously advance its role as the innovation leader of social-media and collaborative-technology security solutions. After earning his doctorate in computer science from Johns Hopkins University, Sam was a lecturer, led an academic security research lab, and launched two security-industry startups, including Fast Orientation where he most recently served as CEO and continues to maintain a non-operational role as Chairman. In addition to his technical and entrepreneurial pursuits, Dr. Small has provided expert technology and security assessments of dozens of organizations and vendor products and conducted due diligence assessments for more than a dozen software-industry investments, mergers, and acquisitions. He has also served as an expert witness in several high-profile security, software, and network-related lawsuits. His work and research have been covered in publications including Wired, The New York Times, The Washington Post, New Scientist, CNET, ZDNet, and slashdot.

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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 Sanders

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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Neal Conlon

Senior Vice President of Business Development, AppGuard

Neal Conlon currently serves as Senior Vice President of Business Development for AppGuard. He is dedicated to ensuring clients and partners are successful in protecting their business, mitigating risk, and doing it in a meaningful way. Before Appguard, Conlon was Sales Director at Plurilock, a behavioral monitoring startup with a focus on insider threat. In addition, he has worked for companies that include Morgan Stanley, Guggenheim Partners, and Cushman Wakefield.

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Ken Suh

Media and Technology Lead, Cyber & Executive Risk (CyEx) Claims Team, Beazley

Ken Suh is the media and technology lead on the Cyber & Executive Risk (CyEx) claims team at Beazley and an adjunct professor of law in intellectual property at DePaul University College of Law in Chicago. Suh provides strategic guidance on identifying, managing, and transferring risks related to technology, intellectual property, and data privacy incidents. He was in private practice as an intellectual property litigator for eight years and joined Beazley from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, where he used his computer science background to successfully represent clients such as Samsung, Virgin Galactic, and Varian Medical.

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Jaret Osborne

Lead Solutions Engineer, Duo Security

Jaret Osborne currently serves as Lead Solutions Engineer for Duo Security. Jaret provides pre-sales engineering support for organizations of all sizes, including product education, planning and deployment of Duo Security products. He has over 20 years experience in security, collaboration, and general data networking - supporting organizations and service providers globally.

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Don Gray

Chief Technology Officer, PacketViper

As CTO for PacketViper, Done Gray leads the Security Engineering Team and is directly involved with Deception360 development, researching new threats, and is an overall information security expert. Gray is regularly quoted in the media as a security expert and has been a cybersecurity speaker at industry events including Gartner Security Summit, Forrester Security Forum and RSA. With over 20 years of high-level experience in technology services organizations, the security industry will remember Don Gray as the founder and CTO of the MSSP Vigilantminds out of Pittsburgh, PA. It was purchased by Solutionary in 2007 when Gray transitioned to chief security strategist and continued his successful career in managed security services. Prior to joining PacketViper, Gray was the VP of Product Marketing at NTT Security (formerly Solutionary) where he led a global team to integrate and develop product marketing across multiple NTT organizations.

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F. Ward Holloway III

Senior Director of Global Strategic Alliances, ForeScout

With 20 years of experience in network and information security, F. Ward Holloway III is the Senior Director of Global Strategic Alliances at ForeScout. In his current role, he is responsible for ForeScout's go to market partnerships and product integrations with key security vendors, including Palo Alto Networks. He has previously held executive, director and engineering positions in business development, sales and engineering at several IT security companies and startups including Check Point Software Technologies, Crossbeam Systems, FireMon and Fireglass (acquired by Symantec).

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Malcolm (M.K.) Palmore

VP, Field CSO, Palo Alto Networks

MK Palmore serves as VP, Field CSO (Americas) for Palo Alto Networks. His responsibilities include support of the initiatives headed up by the office of the global Chief Security Officer and continuing to provide thought leadership in the cybersecurity arena through both writing and speaking engagements. Prior to joining Palo Alto Networks, MK served as the Head of the Cyber Security Branch for FBI San Francisco capping a career of public service spanning 32-years. His leadership and investigative experiences while in the FBI included: Cybersecurity, Crisis Response/Management, Risk-Management Advisory Services, and Counter-Terrorism Investigations. MK's cyber security certifications include the CISM, CISSP, GCCC and the Carnegie Mellon University CISO Certification. MK began his professional career as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Marine Corps.

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Drew Kilbourne

Managing Director, Synopsys Software Integrity Group

Drew Kilbourne brings more than 30 years of experience encompassing a rise through technical engineering to managing the delivery of complex software and program solutions to the financial and telecommunications industries. In his time at Synopsys, he has focused on helping senior managers establish and execute multi-year programs for quality assurance, enterprise software development, tool and automation deployment, and software security improvement. Kilbourne is also chairman and president of the Software Security Vendor Assessment Center, a non-profit focused on vendor management in the financial and healthcare industries.

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Mike Vamvakaris

Regional Sales Director, IR & Cybersecurity Services, Crowdstrike

Mike Vamvakaris has more than 20 years of progressive experience within Cyber Security start-ups and multi-national service provider organizations, including Certicom (now Blackberry), Intel Corp, Allstream (now Zayo Group) and TELUS Corp. With a background in Professional Services and Consulting, Mike is responsible for CrowdStrike's Incident Response and Proactive Services portfolio in Canada. Prior to CrowdStrike, Mike lead the Professional Services team at TELUS responsible for delivering cyber security services across the Canadian market.

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Jeffrey Dant

Managing Director, Fraud Operations and Intelligence - Financial Crimes Unit, BMO Financial Group

Jeff Dant currently serves as the Managing Director, Fraud Operations and Intelligence - Financial Crimes Unit at BMO Financial Group. Previously, he was the Director of Citi Global Consumer Bank's Fraud Fusion Center. He is responsible for the strategy and operations of the Fusion Center in the support of Fraud and Financial Crime management. Prior to this role, Dant served as the Digital Forensics Program Manager for Citi Security and Investigative Services Cyber Investigations group. Before joining Citi, Dant served 12 years with the United States Secret Service in a variety of roles. He began his Secret Service career as a Uniformed Officer at the White House, and later carried several other roles including Special Agent in Washington Field Office, Newark Field Office, and Presidential Protection Division - Transportation Section. He specialized in financial crime investigations, specifically electronic crimes leveraged by Organized Eastern European Criminal Groups, leveraging intelligence and digital forensics in successful prosecutions, including the capture and suppression of the most prolific ATM skimming organization in the United States. Dant served as a Liaison officer to Europol's European Cyber Crime Centre (EC3), continuing the targeting of international financial crime rings.

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Kristin Judge

CEO, Cybercrime Support Network

Kristin Judge currently serves as CEO of the Cybercrime Support Network (cybercrimesupport.org). To address the needs of cybercrime victims, she founded this nonprofit to work with federal, state and local law enforcement and consumer protection agencies to help consumers and small businesses affected by cybercrime. With their United Way partners, CSN has been awarded over $3M in DOJ federal grants to serve victims and is building the US "Cyber 911" to serve millions of cybercrime and online fraud victims. In 2008. she was elected to serve as a Washtenaw County Commissioner and supported the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in growing cybersecurity outreach to state and local government officials. After elected office, she worked at the Center for Internet Security, focusing on connecting state and local governments to federal services and technology needed to improve cyber security. As Director of Government Affairs at the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), Judge worked with Google, FTC, FBI, SBA, DHS, NIST, congressional leaders and other key stakeholders across the country to educate consumers and businesses how to protect sensitive data.

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