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Ted Crooks

Principal, Crooks Analytics

Fraud-management systems expert with 28 years experience inventing, building and applying artificial intelligence systems to banking services.

Inventor of eleven patents.

Ten years of consulting in Crooks Analytics, Inc. on payment fraud-management systems, banking technology, acquisitions, and development for IBM, MasterCard, VocaLink, Early Warning, multiple financial systems providers and financial institutions.

Vice President Global Fraud Solutions, Fair Isaac Corporation (FICO). Introduced multiple new products and lines of business. Substantial expansion of Falcon and fraud business unit.

As co-Founder, Burning Glass Technologies, created natural-language-processing system (patented) that understands text resumes and matches them to employment openings. Handled initial hiring of U.S. TSA airport security agents.

Executive Director of Scientific Staff, HNC Software Inc., and Executive Director of Product Management for HNC (acquired by FICO).

Founding product manager of Falcon, the world's first, successful, neural-network fraud-detection system and still the leader in the global card industry. Initiated HNC telecom division, automotive business and other new lines of business. (Today, Falcon is a product of FICO, Fair Isaac Corporation.)

Owner of Helix Technology software development company developing fire control systems for nuclear power plant, control sys-tems for invasive medical devices, robotic control system (patented), thermodynamic analysis systems for power plants, bank logis-tics systems, taxi dispatching systems.

Author of three internationally published books on computing. Best known: Using Oracle from Macmillian Que.

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Or Navri

Research Scientist, RSA

Industrial engineer specialized in statistical modeling and machine learning.

Graduated B.Sc. (with honors) and M.Sc. from the department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. B.Sc. mainly focused on information systems, M.Sc major focus on statistics and data science.

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Nathan Burke

Chief Marketing Officer, Axonius

Nathan Burke is the Chief Marketing Officer at Axonius. Passionate about bringing new technologies to market to solve real problems, he has held marketing leadership roles at Hexadite (acquired by Microsoft), Intralinks, MineralTree, CloudLock (acquired by Cisco), and is a frequent speaker and contributing author on topics related to the intersection of collaboration and security. He lives on Cape Cod with his wife, daughter, and dogs, and enjoys watching the unfairly dominant New England Patriots.

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Tsvi Korren

VP of Product Strategy, Aqua Security

Tsvi Korren, CISSP, has been an IT security professional for over 25 years. In previous positions at DEC and CA Inc., he consulted with various industry verticals on the process and organizational aspects of security. As the VP of Product Strategy at Aqua, he is tasked with delivering commercial and open source solutions that make Cloud Native workloads the most secure, compliant and resilient application delivery platform.

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Erich Kron

Security Awareness Advocate, KnowBe4

Erich Kron, Security Awareness Advocate at KnowBe4, 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 integration and functional testing of multi-million-dollar enterprise level technology projects within the Department of Defense, as well as large military security programs. Erich has worked with information security professionals around the world to provide the tools, training and educational opportunities to succeed in the InfoSec industry.

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Colin Murray

Solutions Engineer, Cloudflare

Colin has been a solutions engineer at Cloudflare for the past 2 years. An IT security and networking pro, Colin is responsible for architecting scalable implementation plans for Cloudflare's enterprise clients (many in the banking space).

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Derek Yee

Director of Product Marketing, Cloudflare

Derek leads the team at Cloudflare supporting the performance services portfolio. Derek has been largely focused on the enterprise business segment, helping them solve their challenges for application delivery in a cloud first world. Prior to Cloudflare he spent 10+ years at Citrix supporting sales, marketing, education and enablement for their flagship networking product NetScaler.

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Deborah Kish

Executive Vice President, Marketing & Research, Fasoo

Kish is EVP of marketing and research at Fasoo. She is responsible for leading Fasoo's research and product strategies in the unstructured data security and privacy space.She brings more than 20 years of experience in research with her prior employer, Gartner where she identified growth patterns, market sizes and changes in competitive landscapes due to emerging trends and end-user needs. For the past five years at Gartner, she worked in the technology and service provider security team, responsible for tracking data security technologies and advising thousands of end user and vendor clients. She also monitored privacy regulations and management tools such as consent management and anonymization. Prior to that, she successfully tracked switching and signaling and security in the carrier network infrastructure space for 15 years.

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Tom Bienkowski

Director, Product Marketing, NETSCOUT

Tom Bienkowski has been in the network and security field for over 20 yrs. During this time, he worked for large enterprises as a Network Engineer and for multiple network management and security vendors where he has had roles in Sales Engineering /Management, Technical Field Marketing and Product Management. Currently at NETSCOUT, he's a Director of Product Marketing focusing on NETSCOUT's industry leading DDoS Protection solution.

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Chris Calvert

VP Products, Respond Software

Chris has over 30 years' experience in information security. He led the build for eight Fortune-50 SOCs and created the blueprint deployed by the ArcSight solutions team at over 45 security operations centers. He has served as HP's WW director of solutions innovation, CEO of Laconic Security, director of services for Cybertrust, and manager of security intelligence and operations for IBM's MSS.

Before joining IBM, Chris spent 14 years in the National Defense and Intelligence community in the field of information operations. He supported such agencies as the DOD Joint Staff, Land Information Warfare Activity, Space Warfare Center and other intelligence agencies. Chris also served for 10 years in the U.S. Army in Military Intelligence and Special Forces.

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Gonzalo de la Hoz Arespacochaga

Identity & Access Management Segment Leader, Europe, IBM

Gonzalo de la Hoz has been leading IBM's Identity and Access Management software business in Europe for the past 6 years. He has been working in the IT industry for over 20 years, starting his career with technical consulting and pre-sales engineering, followed by different sales positions. More recently he has held several technical and sales management positions for IBM in Southern Europe.

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Vaughan Harper

Consulting Security Specialist - IBM Security Systems

Vaughan Harper is an IBM Security Architect with over 25 years' experience in the IT industry, the last 15 years in IT Security. He is currently the European technical lead for IBM's IAM products, and has spent most of the last ten years supporting the IBM Security products in Europe and in the UK. Prior to that he consulted, implemented and supported IBM's cryptographic and network security products. Before that he held various software development and system design jobs in the UK and the US. He holds a Masters degree in Engineering from the University of Cambridge.

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John Trest

Chief Learning Officer, Inspired eLearning

Trest is responsible for leading the development of Inspired eLearning's award-winning library of content, from the solid instructional design to the high-quality multimedia production. He has been a member of Inspired's team since 2009 and has more than 19 years of experience in creating and delivering eLearning courses for a broad variety of industries and subjects. He's passionate about creating quality eLearning content that is both engaging and impactful.

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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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Patrick Knight

Senior Director of Cyber Strategy & Product Management, Veriato

Patrick Knight is the senior director of cyber strategy and product management at Veriato, an innovator in actionable user behavior analytics and a global leader in insider threat protection, where he helps organizations protect critical data from threats by trusted insiders. For over 17 years, his cyber security career has helped enterprises protect against online threats through the development of anti-malware, network intrusion detection, computer and network forensics and encryption technologies. He is a writer and speaker on topics of cyber security in multiple forums including Virus Bulletin. He served in the U.S. Intelligence Community and the United States Army for 12 years in the fields of Signals Intelligence Analysis and Cryptanalysis and as a Russian and Serbo-Croatian Linguist. He can be reached on Twitter at @PatrickKnight70 and on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/PatrickKnight70.

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Kelly White

CEO and Founder (CISSP), RiskRecon

Kelly has nearly 20 years of experience in assessing and defending complex enterprises. Prior to dedicating his full attention to RiskRecon in 2015, White held various enterprise security roles, including CISO and Director of Information Security for financial services companies. White was also practice manager and senior security consultant for CyberTrust and Ernst & Young. White is an active supporter of the security community, a frequent speaker at industry conferences.

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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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Nathanael Coffing

CEO, Cloudentity

Nathanael is the CEO and Co-Founder of Cloudentity. His extensive knowledge of Identity and Data security has been a major driver in extending authentication and dynamic authorization to any user, service or thing. With a core focus on ultra-scale and microservices security creating the market's first microservices Zero Trust platform that provides the best customer experience bringing authentication, dynamic Authorization to API Security.

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