Training

Wade Baker

Partner & Co-Founder, Cyentia Institute

In addition to his role with the Cyentia Institute, Wade is a professor in Virginia Tech's College of Business, teaching in the MBA and Master of IT programs. He's also proud to serve on the Advisory Boards of the RSA Conference and FAIR Institute. Wade loves learning from cybersecurity data and sharing those lessons to help others learn as well - whether that's in the classroom, boardroom, or anywhere in between. Prior to founding Cyentia, Wade was the VP of Strategy and Analytics at ThreatConnect and before that had the great fortune of leading Verizon's Data Breach Investigations Report team for a number of years.

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David Severski

Lead Data Scientist

David F. Severski is an information security data scientist, specializing in quantified risk management. He has provided risk management expertise across diverse industries -- retail, aerospace, finance, energy, and healthcare. David brings both broad and deep expertise in a number of technical areas with a special focus on cloud technologies and DevOps practices. He strives to combine rigorous methods, technical expertise, and a human-centered approach to advance the state of evidence-based information security risk management. David lives in Seattle, Washington with a low-maintenance spouse, a high-maintenance house and a spiffy fedora.

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Kelly White

CEO and Co-Founder, RiskRecon

Kelly White is the co-founder and CEO of RiskRecon, a company that enables dramatically better third-party security risk management outcomes. Prior to founding RiskRecon, Kelly held various enterprise security roles, including CISO and Director of Information Security for financial services companies. Kelly was also practice manager and senior security consultant for CyberTrust and Ernst & Young.

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Stephen Boyer

Co-Founder & CTO, BitSight

Stephen cofounded BitSight in 2011 and serves as the Chief Technology Officer. Prior to founding BitSight, Stephen was President and Co-Founder of Saperix, a company that was acquired by FireMon in 2011.

While at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Stephen was a member of the Cyber Systems and Technology Group where he led R&D programs solving large-scale national cybersecurity problems. Before MIT, he worked at Caldera Systems, an early Linux startup.

Stephen holds a Bachelor degree in Computer Science from Brigham Young University and Master of Science in Engineering and Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Mark Forman

Vice President, Digital Government, Unisys Federal

Forman is an accomplished executive with more than 30 years of professional experience, including a Presidential appointment to be the first U.S. Administrator for E-Government and Information Technology, the Federal Government's Chief Information Officer. He has a long record of accomplishments in government management reforms, spanning a variety of government and industry positions. Forman is a CIO Sage. He twice led the Industry Advisory Council's Presidential Transition initiative. He is a respected speaker on government use of cloud computing, government reform, IT risk management, enterprise architecture, data center consolidation, digital technologies, and cyber security. He has testified in state and federal legislatures, and given well over 100 speeches to a wide variety of industry groups and government officials from around the world.

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Shawn Kingsberry

Vice President and Director, Global Government Solutions, Unisys Federal

Kingsberry has more than 22 years of experience in the field of information technology and has a diverse background in both federal government and corporate settings, with extensive experience in large-scale information technology transformation, big data analytics, and enterprise computing, as well as secure hybrid cloud implementations. In his current role directing Enforce ™/Family Now ™ and Digital Investigator ™, he works to guide public sector consumers as they adopt cloud computing, data analytics and other digital government platforms.

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Andrew Peters

Stealth Industry Director, Unisys

Andrew Peters' 25-year background in cybersecurity extends to the U.S. Air Force Information Warfare Center team that created the first commercial intrusion detection technology at WheelGroup and helped turn it into a security staple during his tenure at Cisco Systems. Peters has experience in networking and security technologies in multiple industries and applications. He has an undergraduate degree from Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo and pursued graduate studies at Kellogg School of Business.

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George Pradel

Sr. Systems Engineer, Global Alliances Data Protection Division, Dell Technologies

Pradel has more than 30 years of experience in IT and resides in Denver, Colorado. His experience includes the IT domains of cloud computing, security, server virtualization, desktop virtualization and monitoring tools. This unique combination of expertise provides him with a comprehensive understanding of customers environments and needs with an eye on real world issues. Pradel holds multiple certifications which in the past has included the CISSP security professional certification.

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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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David Stubley

CEO, 7 Elements

Founder of 7 Elements, David Stubley brings over 17 years of experience within the technical security market, where he has held senior level positions within global blue-chip organisations. In this capacity, he was involved in the procurement of external security consultancy and testing resources. This valuable experience inspired Stubley to build a company that he himself would have wanted to work with during this time. A security testing and consultancy company that was responsive, technically astute and delivered tailored security testing as per organisation needs rather than off-the-shelf solutions.

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Sunil Kumar Gupta

Co-founder and CEO, QNu Labs

Sunil Gupta is the Co-founder and CEO at QuNu Labs with the mission of accelerating the world's transition to Quantum safe security through best global Products and Solutions. QuNu has two products QRNG - Quantum Random Number Generator and QKD - Quantum Key Distribution. and an innovative Quantum Key Extension solution extending Quantum Key to any distance and at an affordable cost while ensuring provable security. Before joining QuNu Labs, he was COO at Paladion Networks responsible for driving and growing business for MEA and India regions. Paladion is a market leader in Cyber Security domain and is disrupting the current paradigm in Cyber Security space using AI-powered platform

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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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Stephen Owen

CISO, Bourne Leisure Group

On loan from Daemon Solutions, Stephen Owen has recently joined the Bourne Leisure Group as interim Group Security Director for Bourne Leisure Group and was formerly Data Protection Officer for Camelot Group, the operators of the UK National Lottery where he was well known for his detailed and pragmatic advice. He is a highly experienced information security practitioner and certified cloud architect with multiple digital transformation projects under his belt. Capping his data privacy and security expertise, Owen was also recognised by the industry and awarded a Fellow of Information Privacy from the International Association of Privacy Professionals in 2016.

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Brian Reed

Chief Mobility Officer, NowSecure

Brian Reed brings decades of experience in mobile, apps, security, dev and operations helping Fortune 2000 global customers and mobile DevSecOps trailblazers while growing NowSecure, Good Technology, BlackBerry, ZeroFOX, BoxTone, MicroFocus and INTERSOLV. With more than 25 years building innovative products and transforming business processes, Brian is a dynamic speaker and compelling storyteller who brings unique insights and global experience. Brian is a graduate of Duke University.

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Andy Bates

Executive Director, Global Cyber Alliance

Andy Bates joined the Global Cyber Alliance (GCA) in September 2017 as its Executive Director for the United Kingdom, Europe, Middle East and Africa. He brings more than 25 years of experience to GCA, having served as a Chief Engineer, Business Development Consultant, Product Development Director, IT Director in Racal, Cable & Wireless and Level3. Bates most recently served as the CTO at Verizon EMEA. While working across a range of technologies such as network, cloud, mobile, VOIP & identity, he has tended to specialize in large secure solutions for governments and challenging the status quo and conventional wisdom of security. He was deeply involved with systems such as Government Secure Intranet, PSN, Police National Network, as well as working with all the major UK government departments and international government customers and agencies, including NATO. Bates is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute. He has presented at multiple conferences including RUSI, EU Parliament, Johannesburg, and Budapest.

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Mark Singer

Cyber and Tech E&O Claims Manager, Beazley

Mark Singer currently serves as a claims manager for the Cyber & Executive division of Beazley. He primarily handles insurance coverage issues arising out of cybersecurity, technology errors & omissions, data privacy, intellectual property, media and advertising liabilities. As a UK qualified lawyer, and before joining Beazley, he was a Senior Associate in the commercial litigation team at a large City law firm where he handled a wide range of complex contractual disputes.

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Martin Overton

Ethical Hacker, Forensics & Malware SME

Martin Overton joined SunAlliance (now Royal Sun Alliance or RSA Insurance Group) in 1988 as a Security Specialist and ran their Hacking and Internet Security teams and he was responsible for their anti-malware strategy and remediation. In 2002 he joined IBM, working for the Managed Security Services Delivery commercial team in EMEA as a malware/anti-malware specialist. There, he was part of the Global Virus Emergency Team and the World-Wide Threat Team. During this period Overton also carried out penetration, web application, physical security and social engineering testing for many clients; so he is also considered an "Ethical Hacker" aka "A White-Hat Hacker". Soon after, he joined AIG as a Cyber Risk Technical Specialist. He served as a Subject Matter Expert on Cyber risks and solutions, acting as a technical resource for AIG underwriters, brokers and clients; turning technical risks into business language. Overton now runs his own cyber security consultancy helping clients to identify and remediate security issues, advising on best practice, regularly speaking at events, lecturing at universities, delivering training, blogging, testing and carrying out security research and so on.

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Nimrod Vax

CPO & Co-Founder, BigID

Nimrod has over 15 years of experience in enterprise security software and identity management serving in various capacities ranging from engineering, product and business management. Prior to founding BigID, Nimrod served as VP Product Management, Product Line Manager for CA Identity Management product line and as an advisor to security startups in the area of identity management and user behavior analytics.

Nimrod holds a BSc. in Computer Science and a Masters of Business Administration with specialization in Marketing Management.

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J A Chowdary

Adviser-Information Technology, Govt. of Tamil Nadu, and Chairman, Blockchain Standards Committee

Jakkampudi Adiseshaiah Chowdary, popularly known as JA played an important role in developing the industry in the states of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu in the 1990s, in his capacity as the founding Director of the Board of Software Technologies Parks of India (STPI) at Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai,. He was one of the key architects of the Hi-Tech City & Cyberabad in Hyderabad, and also played a major role in founding the IIIT at Hyderabad. He was one of the key personalities instrumental in bringing about an IT revolution in Hyderabad. He is a well-networked IT man and also one among the trusted deputies of Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu. His prime focus as IT Advisor to the Government of Andhra Pradesh, is to mobilise investments, create IT ecosystem, and provide more jobs. Chowdary is roping the IT industry in India and in the U.S. to kick-start IT initiatives in Amaravati, the proposed capital of Andhra Pradesh. He will also serve as ex-officio Secretary to the Government in the Chief Minister's Office. His role includes advising and assisting the government in bringing in investments, generating employment, and encouraging innovation and start-up activities. Chowdary started his career at ISRO as a scientist where he was involved in designing telemetry test equipment and telemetry sub systems for Bhaskara, Rohini, and Aryabhatta, India's premier satellites. He then worked at BHEL, where he was instrumental in developing mechanisms that facilitate monitoring of pollution levels online and process control instruments for BHEL power stations.

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