Training

Abel Morales

Senior Security Engineer, Exabeam

Abel Morales is a Senior Security Engineer based in Atlanta, GA. Prior to Exabeam, Abel has over ten years of experience in information security in companies such as Verizon, Syniverse, McKesson and InterContinental Exchange (NYSE). In his previous role, he was responsible for managing incidents, performing technical analysis, and communicating with audiences of various levels. He received a B.S. degree in Information Technology and an MBA from Kennesaw State University. He is passionate about threat hunting, digital forensics, and incident response. He holds industry certifications such as CISSP, GCIH, and MCSA.

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Marco Eggerling

Security Advisor, Splunk

Marco Eggerling is Security Advisor at Splunk and advises companies in the EMEA region. He has been working in information security for over 20 years and has held various roles at large management consultancies and leading technology manufacturers. His motto: “We are fighting the same demons as we were 20 years ago, only the weapons have become more modern”. For many years, his focus has been on advising CISOs and SOC leaders on the development of holistic and sustainable information security concepts.

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Matthias Maier

Product Marketing Director, Splunk

Matthias Maier is Product Marketing Director at Splunk, as well as a technical evangelist in EMEA, responsible for communicating Splunk's go-to market strategy in the region. He works closely with customers to help them understand how machine data reveals new insights across application delivery, business analytics, IT operations, Internet of Things, and security and compliance. He holds the certification of the Certified Ethical Hacker, the CISSP as well as the Certified Information Security Manager.

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Bryan Geraldo

Senior Detection & Response Engineer (Hunting Lead), Expel

Bryan Geraldo is a proven senior-level leader and information security professional with over 24 years of experience in Information Technology, with 20 years focused on cybersecurity services and solutions. As an entrepreneur and practitioner in this space, Bryan built and led several professional services (PS) organizations ranging from startups to large corporations to owning and running a private consultancy. As the technical and project lead for these PS organizations, which included red team (ethical hacking) and blue team (threat hunting/cyber threat intelligence), Bryan helped client organizations understand the threat landscape and identify and address complex security issues using efficient and comprehensive technical solutions and processes. With previous experience building hunting solutions for EDR providers and extensive domain expertise, Bryan now serves as a Senior Detection and Response Engineer and the hunting lead at Expel.

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Aaron Maben

Corporate Solutions Engineer for Security, Cradlepoint

Aaron is the Corporate Solutions Engineer for Security at Cradlepoint and approaches everything with what the well-known poet and philosopher, Deadpool, calls "maximum effort". Whether leading an intra-departmental security team, building interoperability solutions for the highest echelons of government or just mowing the lawn, he always approaches projects with 100% focus and dedication. At Cradlepoint, Aaron is a global resource for security related customer engagements, including configuration of security features, training on platform security, managing customer requests regarding vendor due diligence and security assessments, and acting as a liaison with Cradlepoint’s internal security team. Prior to his security role at Cradlepoint, Aaron was a Federal Solutions Engineer, drawing upon his active duty military background as a tactical communicator to deliver unique, novel and effective solutions to military units and civilian agencies.

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James Weaver

Director of Product Marketing, Cradlepoint

James Weaver is the Director of Product Marketing at Cradlepoint. With 25+ years of technology experience, James’ analytical-creative approach to marketing has earned him notable awards including the Presidential Award of Excellence, the Gold Award of Distinction, and the Gold Effie Award from the American Marketing Association.

Prior to Cradlepoint, James held finance, marketing and product marketing roles at Nortel and Avaya. James has a finance degree from Weber State University and an MBA in Marketing from Vanderbilt University. When not at work, James enjoys outdoor recreational sports and is proud of the fact that he has only had to call search and rescue once.

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Aaron Maben

Corporate Solutions Engineer for Security, Cradlepoint

Aaron is the Corporate Solutions Engineer for Security at Cradlepoint and approaches everything with what the well-known poet and philosopher, Deadpool, calls "maximum effort". Whether leading an intra-departmental security team, building interoperability solutions for the highest echelons of government or just mowing the lawn, he always approaches projects with 100% focus and dedication. At Cradlepoint, Aaron is a global resource for security related customer engagements, including configuration of security features, training on platform security, managing customer requests regarding vendor due diligence and security assessments, and acting as a liaison with Cradlepoint’s internal security team. Prior to his security role at Cradlepoint, Aaron was a Federal Solutions Engineer, drawing upon his active duty military background as a tactical communicator to deliver unique, novel and effective solutions to military units and civilian agencies.

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James Weaver

Director of Product Marketing, Cradlepoint

James Weaver is the Director of Product Marketing at Cradlepoint. With 25+ years of technology experience, James’ analytical-creative approach to marketing has earned him notable awards including the Presidential Award of Excellence, the Gold Award of Distinction, and the Gold Effie Award from the American Marketing Association.

Prior to Cradlepoint, James held finance, marketing and product marketing roles at Nortel and Avaya. James has a finance degree from Weber State University and an MBA in Marketing from Vanderbilt University. When not at work, James enjoys outdoor recreational sports and is proud of the fact that he has only had to call search and rescue once.

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Dave Abbott

Technical Solutions Architect, APO Cross Architectures Partner Org, Cisco

Dave Abbott is a SASE Technical Solutions Architect at Cisco Systems and has been with Cisco for over 5 years. Before transitioning into this specialist role, Dave was a field sales engineer for several years in South Carolina. He has a degree in electrical engineering and is currently pursuing his MBA. When he’s not diving deep into networking and security architectures, you’ll find him smoking meats and drinking bourbon with friends.

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Sebastian Jakubowski

Manager, Network Security, Netrix

Sebastian had joined Netrix in 2015 as a network and security architect with rich understanding of complex, diverse networks and security solutions and the challenges around their design, implementation, and support. Within his 18+ years of experience, Sebastian supported network and security solutions for business throughout various verticals including private sector, oil industry, financial, market research, and manufacturing. A side being responsible for the overall success of his team, as manager of network security professional services team Sebastian is also responsible for aligning his customers with network and security solutions based on ever growing business and technical demands. When not engaged helping his customers, Sebastian enjoys travel, outdoors, including fly fishing, biking and shredding powder covered Rockies.

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Rich Lilly

Partner | Director, Security, Netrix

Lilly has been working in IT consulting for about 17 years in various positions and roles and led and managed projects with staff sizes from 5-50 members (both consulting and on-site IT staff). He's also led numerous implementations of the Microsoft System Center line of products (from 2012 R2 releases back through legacy versions) as well as Hyper-V and VMware virtualization deployments to develop private cloud solutions. In addition to developing Private Cloud solutions for clients, he also focus heavily on hybrid and public cloud deployments, specifically around strategy and execution around Windows Azure.

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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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Partha Panda

CEO and Co-founder, Cysiv

Partha Panda brings more than 20 years of experience in the IT and cybersecurity industry. Over the past decade, he has held a broad range of leadership roles at Trend Micro including partner (Trend Forward Capital), SVP of strategy and corporate development, VP of business development and global alliances, and VP of global channels.

Prior to that, he had leadership roles at Third Brigade (acquired by Trend Micro), Entrust, Encommerce (acquired by Entrust) and CMC Ltd. Partha holds an MBA degree from the Robert Smith School of Business at University of Maryland, a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics and Telecommunication from Sambalpur University, and the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) designation.

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Keith Manville

Technical Solutions Architect, Cisco

Keith is a Technical Solutions Architect at Cisco where he covers the entire Cisco security portfolio with a focus on advanced threat protection. Prior to joining Cisco, Keith worked for the Department of Defense as a Blue Team Operator and spent several years as a Systems Administrator in manufacturing focusing on system hardening and incident response. Keith has a Bachelor’s of Science in Management from the University of Rhode Island and is currently working on a Master’s of Science in Cybersecurity at Roger Williams University where he is also an Adjunct Professor in Cybersecurity.

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Adam Tomeo

Product Marketing Manager, Cisco

Adam is a Product Marketing Manager for Cisco with more than 15 years of marketing experience in the information technology and services industries. He has expertise in professional services, software (on-premises, cloud, and hybrid), enterprise networking, storage, and security. Adam has held senior marketing management positions across the entire breadth of the partner ecosystem, including manufacturer, global distributor, global reseller, and regional MSP. His current focus at Cisco is Secure Endpoint.

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Jason Wright

Manager of Solutions Marketing, Cisco

Jason is a Manager of Solutions Marketing at Cisco and the host of the ThreatWise TV Show for Cisco’s security business unit. In this role, Jason is responsible for demonstrating how Cisco security products work together to create a more holistic and automated security solution for customers. With over 20 years of experience in network security, Jason has held numerous positions in product management, technical marketing, and product marketing with companies such as Sourcefire, Fortinet, and TippingPoint.

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Tom Smith

Senior Solutions Architect, Veracode

Tom Smith is a Solution Architect and keen technologist with over 12 year’s of industry experience delivering security consultancy across a wide range of industry verticals. Tom saw the DevOps movement as an unmistakable sign that the industry was evolving with traditional security technologies and methods being left behind. He turned to application and cloud security to further his goal of spreading the benefits of DevSecOps.

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Tom Smith

Senior Solutions Architect, Veracode

Tom Smith is a Solution Architect and keen technologist with over 12 year’s of industry experience delivering security consultancy across a wide range of industry verticals. Tom saw the DevOps movement as an unmistakable sign that the industry was evolving with traditional security technologies and methods being left behind. He turned to application and cloud security to further his goal of spreading the benefits of DevSecOps.

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Keith Manville

Technical Solutions Architect, Cisco

Keith is a Technical Solutions Architect at Cisco where he covers the entire Cisco security portfolio with a focus on advanced threat protection. Prior to joining Cisco, Keith worked for the Department of Defense as a Blue Team Operator and spent several years as a Systems Administrator in manufacturing focusing on system hardening and incident response. Keith has a Bachelor’s of Science in Management from the University of Rhode Island and is currently working on a Master’s of Science in Cybersecurity at Roger Williams University where he is also an Adjunct Professor in Cybersecurity.

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Adam Tomeo

Product Marketing Manager, Cisco

Adam is a Product Marketing Manager for Cisco with more than 15 years of marketing experience in the information technology and services industries. He has expertise in professional services, software (on-premises, cloud, and hybrid), enterprise networking, storage, and security. Adam has held senior marketing management positions across the entire breadth of the partner ecosystem, including manufacturer, global distributor, global reseller, and regional MSP. His current focus at Cisco is Secure Endpoint.

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Jason Wright

Manager of Solutions Marketing, Cisco

Jason is a Manager of Solutions Marketing at Cisco and the host of the ThreatWise TV Show for Cisco’s security business unit. In this role, Jason is responsible for demonstrating how Cisco security products work together to create a more holistic and automated security solution for customers. With over 20 years of experience in network security, Jason has held numerous positions in product management, technical marketing, and product marketing with companies such as Sourcefire, Fortinet, and TippingPoint.

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Ed Amoroso

Founder and CEO, TAG Cyber; former Senior Vice President and CISO, AT&T

Dr. Ed Amoroso is currently Chief Executive Officer of TAG Cyber LLC, a global cyber security advisory, training, consulting, and media services company supporting hundreds of companies across the world. Ed recently retired from AT&T after thirty-one years of service, beginning in Unix security R&D at Bell Labs and culminating as Senior Vice President and Chief Security Officer of AT&T from 2004 to 2016.

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James Slaby

Director, Cyber Protection, Acronis

James is the Director of Cyber Protection at Acronis. He has also worked as an industry analyst covering cybersecurity, cloud services and networking at research firms like Forrester and the Yankee Group. With over 300 published tech research reports, he has been quoted in The Economist, the Wall Street Journal and hundreds of tech publications. Slaby has also held product and solutions marketing roles at tech vendors like Sonus, Acme Packet, Bay Networks, and Motorola.

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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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Kim DeCarlis

CMO, PerimeterX

Kim provides customer-focused marketing leadership in her role as CMO of PerimeterX. Prior to joining PerimeterX, she served as CMO of Gigamon, a provider of network traffic management solutions, and as CMO at Imperva, a provider of data and application security solutions. Before that, Kim led the worldwide marketing organization at BMC, served as the VP of corporate marketing at Citrix, and was SVP of product marketing at Information Resources, Inc., a provider of big data solutions to the CPG and retail industries. She is a frequent speaker at industry events on cyber security, B2B marketing and C-level engagement. Kim is a graduate of Stanford University with a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering.

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Derek E. Brink

Vice President and Research Fellow, Aberdeen Strategy & Research

Derek Brink joined Aberdeen in 2007 with more than 20 years of experience in high-tech strategy development and execution, corporate / business development, product management, and product marketing, including positions at RSA Security, IBM, Sun Microsystems, and Hewlett-Packard. He earned an MBA with honors from the Harvard Business School and a BS in Applied Mathematics with highest honors from the Rochester Institute of Technology.

As adjunct faculty at Harvard University and Brandeis University, Derek also teaches graduate-level courses in cybersecurity risk quantification and cybersecurity leadership.

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