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Christopher McClean

Vice President, Research Director Serving Security & Risk Professionals

Chris leads a team of analysts covering topics including risk management, compliance, audit, information security management, and brand protection. He also leads the company's coverage of governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC). In this role, he helps clients around the U.S. & world implement successful strategies, best practices, and technologies to support GRC programs as well as related functions such as enterprise risk management, corporate compliance, and corporate responsibility. Chris frequently contributes on these subjects at vendor and industry events as well as top media outlets.

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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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Todd Thiemann

Product Marketing Director, Arctic Wolf Networks

Thiemann is responsible for product marketing at Arctic Wolf. He has over 15 years of information security experience across a range of subjects including malware detection, SIEM, encryption, key management and IAM/authentication at leading cybersecurity companies including Trend Micro, Vormetric/Thales, PrivateCore and Nok Nok Labs.

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Nick Hayes

VP of Strategy, IntSights Cyber Intelligence

Nick Hayes is the VP of Strategy at IntSights Cyber Intelligence. Prior to IntSights, Nick was a senior analyst at Forrester Research where he advised security and business leaders at Fortune 500 and growth companies on cybersecurity strategy, technology adoption, and industry and technology market trends.

During his time at Forrester, he pioneered the firm's digital risk protection (DRP) research and authored more than 100 published reports and technology evaluations, covering a wide range of cybersecurity, risk, and threat intelligence domains. Some of Nick's unique areas of expertise include social media weaponization, brand security, and threat detection, prevention, and response. Nick is a prominent speaker at leading industry events, such as RSA Conference, ISACA, Cybersecurity Chicago, and Forrester's annual security and privacy conferences. He also makes appearances and is regularly cited in high-profile media outlets, including CSO Magazine, Dark Reading, Financial Times, NBC News, The Wall Street Journal, and VentureBeat, among others.

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Roger Grimes

Data-Driven Defense Evangelist

Roger Grimes is a 30-year computer security consultant, instructor, holder of dozens of computer certifications and an award-winning author of 10 books and over 1,000 magazine articles on computer security. He has worked at some of the world's largest computer security companies, including Foundstone, McAfee and Microsoft. Grimes holds a bachelor's degree from Old Dominion University. He has been the weekly security columnist for InfoWorld and CSO magazines since 2005.

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Roger Grimes

Data-Driven Defense Evangelist

Roger Grimes is a 30-year computer security consultant, instructor, holder of dozens of computer certifications and an award-winning author of 10 books and over 1,000 magazine articles on computer security. He has worked at some of the world's largest computer security companies, including Foundstone, McAfee and Microsoft. Grimes holds a bachelor's degree from Old Dominion University. He has been the weekly security columnist for InfoWorld and CSO magazines since 2005.

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Dr. Matt Kraning

CTO & Co-Founder, Expanse

Dr. Kraning is the CTO and Co-Founder of Expanse. He is an expert in large-scale optimization, distributed sensing, and machine learning algorithms run on massively parallel systems. Prior to co-founding Expanse, Matt worked for DARPA, including a deployment to Afghanistan. Matt holds PhD and Master's degrees in Electrical Engineering, and a Bachelor's degree in Physics, all from Stanford University.

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Tom Bienkowski

Director, Product Marketing, NETSCOUT Arbor

Tom has been in the network and security field for over 20 yrs. During this time, he has 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 their industry leading Edge Defense and Threat Intelligence solutions. Tom routinely speaks at IT security events around the world providing insights into cyber threats and best practices in defense.

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Ayelet Avni

Senior Market and Offering Strategy Lead, IBM Trusteer

Ayelet Avni, current serves as a Senior Market and Offering Strategy Lead for IBM Trusteer. In her role as an Offering Strategy Lead at IBM, she works with customers to build and drive Trusteer portfolio, an industry leading solution for cybercrime and identity protection. Prior to joining IBM, Avni held various management roles at leading companies including RSA, and Military security. She has over 20 years of experience developing successful security offerings, supported by a broad range of experience in design thinking, product strategy, engineering and product development.

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Michael Bunyard

Product Marketing Manager, IBM

Michael leads IBM IAM's product marketing efforts. He brings over two decades of product management and marketing expertise to this role. Prior to IBM, Michael led marketing for a start-up company in the endpoint detection and response market, product management for Fiserv's fraud detection solutions, and product marketing for BMC software's enterprise application integration solutions.

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Joseph Burton

Managing Partner, Duane Morris LLP

At the law firm Duane Morris, Burton focuses on information security and cyberfraud issues as well as civil, criminal and appellate litigation. He advises and represents individuals and corporations regarding their rights and responsibilities in maintaining the security of digital information. His practice includes trade secret, trademark and patent litigation, with an emphasis on cybercrime and cybersecurity. Burton is a former assistant U.S. attorney who handled several pioneering high technology investigations and prosecutions, including the first prosecution in the nation for criminal copyright infringement of computer code.

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Mike Daugherty

President and CEO, LabMD

Daugherty is founder, president and CEO of LabMD, a cancer-detection laboratory based in Atlanta. He also is author of the book "The Devil Inside the Beltway," and is a senior writer for CyberDefense Magazine. Daugherty has testified before the House of Representatives' Oversight Committee and regularly keynotes in front of healthcare, law, business and technology audiences, providing education about what to expect when the federal government investigates businesses. He regularly blogs at MichaelJDaugherty.com and sits on the board of Snoopwall, a privacy company based in Nashua, N.H.

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Mathew J. Schwartz

Executive Editor, DataBreachToday & Europe

Schwartz is an award-winning journalist with two decades of experience in magazines, newspapers and electronic media. He has covered the information security and privacy sector throughout his career. Before joining Information Security Media Group in 2014, where he now serves as the Executive Editor, DataBreachToday and for European news coverage, Schwartz was the information security beat reporter for InformationWeek and a frequent contributor to DarkReading, amongst other publications. He lives in Scotland.

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David Hamdani

Senior Product Marketing Manager, Docker

David Hamdani is a Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Docker, focusing on the Windows Server and MTA programs. Prior to joining Docker, David led platform marketing at Aera Technology, a leading AI applications company. David received his BA from the University of California Los Angeles.

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David Hamdani

Senior Product Marketing Manager, Docker

David Hamdani is a Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Docker, focusing on the Windows Server and MTA programs. Prior to joining Docker, David led platform marketing at Aera Technology, a leading AI applications company. David received his BA from the University of California Los Angeles.

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Jaclyn Blumenfeld

Director, Intelligence Services Global Cyber Security & Fraud, FirstData

Jaclyn Blumenfeld's career in security began at a young age, dodging rockets on the border between Israel and Lebanon during the 2006 war. This encounter paved the way for her career in intelligence analysis where she spent several years covering Middle East and security issues in the Intelligence Community and the private sector, before joining the tech industry. In 2016, Blumenfeld joined First Data from one of the leading cyber security firms FireEye. As the Director of Intelligence Services, she heads up First Data's fraud intelligence program. She oversees an innovative product that uses Dark Web monitoring and advanced analytics to stop fraud before it occurs and leads the industry in identifying payment card breaches.

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Denyette DePierro

VP & Senior Counsel - Center for Payments & Cybersecurity, American Bankers Association

DePierro joined the American Bankers Association in March 2008. Prior to joining the ABA, DePierro was Legislative Counsel of the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) in Washington, D.C., and the California Independent Bankers in Newport Beach, Calif. At the ABA, DePierro focuses on the state, federal and international regulation of technology, cybersecurity, privacy, data security and emerging trends in banking, including fintech, blockchain, internet of things (IOT), artificial intelligence and social media.

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Josh Magri

SVP, Counsel for Regulation and Developing Technologies, Bank Policy Institute (BITS)

Josh Magri currently serves as Senior Vice President, Counsel for Regulation and Developing Technologies for BITS at the Bank Policy Institute. Previously, he served as Vice President and Counsel for Regulation and Developing Technologies at the Financial Services Roundtable/BITS. In this role, Magri oversaw regulatory, advocacy, and policy efforts on issues related to cybersecurity, data security and privacy, financial technology ("FinTech"), and developing technologies. Prior to joining FSR, he was the Associate Vice President at the Internet Security Alliance, a multi-sector cybersecurity trade association, where he co-authored the National Association of Corporate Directors' (NACD) "Cyber-Risk Oversight Handbook." He also helped develop cybersecurity policy that was largely incorporated into Presidential Executive Order 13636 - Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity. Before moving to the Washington area, Magri was a prosecutor in the Bronx County District Attorney's Office. Tenured in both the Appeals and Rackets Bureaus, he handled felony and misdemeanor investigations, prosecutions, and appeals.

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