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David Higgins

EMEA Technical Director, Cyberark

Since joining CyberArk in 2010, Higgins has worked to help the world’s leading - and most complex - organizations secure and protect their privileged access. Today, he advises clients on threats associated with privileged escalation, lateral movement and credential theft and discusses best practices and driving innovation around privileged management processes.

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Justin Post

Europe Privileged Access Management Lead, Accenture Security

Justin is leading the European PAM practice of Accenture Security, and has been supporting international clients in their journey to control privileged access to their landscape. Since joining Accenture in 2014, he has been specialized in helping clients articulate the business benefits of a mature capability, next to advocating the strong need for change management to raise adoption.

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Marcin Szczepanik

CISO and DPO, Essar Oil

Marcin is a Cyber Security Leader with combined OT & IT experience across various industries including: energy, automotive, retails, chemicals, utilities, nuclear, manufacturing & recruitment.

His passion for technology comes from dealing with people and life's challenges. his favorite statement is "if you think the problem can be solved by technology, then you probably don't understand the problem."

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Murali Palanisamy

Chief Solutions Officer, AppViewX

Passionate enterprise technology influencer, currently overseeing Innovation, Strategy and Product Direction to enable Customers achieve friction-less application deployment using Automation at AppViewX. As Chief Solutions Officer, Murali is responsible for the overall product vision, development, and technical direction of AppViewX. Before joining the company, he served as Senior Vice President at Bank of America, where he led an architecture and engineering team of e-commerce application delivery.

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Darrell Johnston

Internationally experienced Cyber Security sales professional with a demonstrated ability to lead teams through complex sales cycles, open and capitalise on new markets and significantly enhance existing revenue streams. I have a consistent history of exceeding individual quota as well as leading teams to exceed quota attainment. Expertise forging and fostering strong working relationships with clients, sales teams, product management, and strategic partners are amongst some of the key skills which drive me to continued success and proven results.

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Ivar Kangur

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Nick Barham

DevSecOps Transformation Consultant

During his tenure at Veracode, Nick has collaborated with enterprises across multiple industries to help drive successful AppSec programs and reduce application risk. His close contact with dev teams has helped him build a strong understanding of 'what works’, enabling them with the tooling and mindset needed to code securely and consider supply chain risk when developing software. In his current role, Nick collaborates with existing customers who are either thinking about embedding DevSecOps or are already on the journey to doing so and are seeking guidance in maturing their security practices using Veracode.

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Edward Amoroso

Chief Executive Officer, TAG Cyber LLC

Ed 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. From AT&T to Johns Hopkins’ APL to NSA’s Advisory Board—Ed has held groundbreaking leadership positions in multiple arenas, working primarily with telecommunications and cybersecurity as developer, engineer and entrepreneur. He has advised US presidents and major institution executives as they navigate cyberthreats to create their own preemptive cyber intelligence. With advanced degrees from Stevens Institute of Technology and Columbia Business School, Ed is a prolific writer, pioneering manager, college professor, computer scientist and inventor, holding ten patents connected to cybersecurity, including software protection designs used by the US Department of Defense.

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Greg Crabb

Founder of 10-8, LLC

Greg Crabb is the founder of 10-8, LLC. With more than 25 years of law enforcement and security experience, he specializes in providing consultation to cybersecurity leaders and organizations to help protect their digital assets against evolving cyberthreats. Greg focuses specifically on delivering advisory services to C-suite executives, their boards, and other leaders responsible for securing their organization’s operations, products, and services. For six years as the U.S. Postal Service’s chief information security officer, Greg secured the agency’s technology and information assets against nation-state threat actors. These efforts helped protect military mail globally and the unprecedented 2020 U.S. elections. With his successful track record as a cybersecurity executive and law enforcement official, Greg stands ready to apply proven models and his vast experience to help organizations strengthen their cybersecurity posture, obtain security certifications and achieve ongoing success.

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Scott Lambert

Vice President, Threat Intelligence Research, ReversingLabs

Scott Lambert is the Vice President of Threat Intelligence Research at ReversingLabs. Scott leads a team of highly skilled software reverse engineers and threat intelligence researchers who are responsible for analyzing new malware, creating enriched threat context data, and updating the content in ReversingLabs industry leading TitaniumCloud File Intelligence service. Prior to ReversingLabs, Scott was VP of Threat Intelligence at Alert Logic where he drove efforts to develop innovative detection methods and actionable intelligence for threats that target both Cloud and hosted Data Center environments. He has held executive positions at Click Security and HP, as well as intelligence and engineering positions at L-3, Network Security, Veridian, Symantec Corporation, and Microsoft. Scott holds a Bachelor of Computer Science degree from St Mary’s University.

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Mike Britton

CISO, Abnormal Security

Mike Britton is the CISO of Abnormal Security, where he leads information security and privacy programs. Prior to Abnormal, Mike spent six years as the CSO and Chief Privacy Officer for Alliance Data. He brings 25 years of information security, privacy, compliance, and IT experience from a variety of Fortune 500 global companies. He holds an M.B.A with a concentration in Information Assurance from the University of Dallas.

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Roger Grimes

Data-Driven Defense Evangelist, KnowBe4

Roger Grimes, KnowBe4’s Data-Driven Defense Evangelist, is a 30-year computer security consultant, instructor, holder of dozens of computer certifications and an award-winning author of 13 books and over 1,000 magazine articles on computer security. He now serves as the Data-Driven Defense Evangelist for KnowBe4. 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 was the weekly security columnist for InfoWorld and CSO magazines from 2005-2019.

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Barak Feldman

Senior Vice President, PAM and Identity Security GTM, CyberArk

Barak is Senior Vice President, Identity Security GTM at CyberArk Software. Joining CyberArk at 2001, Barak brings a deep technical and business background with over 20 years of experience in designing and implementing security and compliance solutions at many of the Fortune 500. In his role Barak leads CyberArk’s Privileged Access Management (PAM) business and is helping the company define and lead the Identity Security market; primarily focusing on Cloud Entitlements, Secrets Management, Least Privilege and Just in time. His expertise includes Regulatory Compliance, Access Management and specifically the current threats surrounding privileged access to the highest risk assets within the enterprise.

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Crystal Trawny

Practice Director, Privileged Account and Endpoint Privilege Management, Optiv

Crystal Trawny is a Practice Director at Optiv supporting Privileged Account and Endpoint Privilege Management teams (PAM/EPM). With over 15 years of experience in Identity and Data Management, she is knowledgeable in Identity and Access Management policies, operational support and delivers projects across various industry verticals. Her portfolio includes several companies in the Fortune 500 as well as covering areas of financial services, energy, healthcare, technology, and manufacturing. Prior to her leadership role in PAM/EPM, Crystal held a variety of identity centric roles since joining Optiv in 2015.

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Giancarlo Casella

Head of Business Development & Growth Strategies, AWS Security Assurance Services

Currently, Giancarlo leads Business Development and Growth Strategies within the AWS Security Assurance Services team. In this role, Giancarlo focuses on growth strategy, sales, business development, marketing and removing compliance as a barrier for customers. Prior to joining AWS ProServe, Giancarlo was the Continuous Security GRC Manager at Salesforce. He also has experience as a leader in the Coalfire Systems’ Strategy, Privacy, and Risk practice serving as a Senior Manager. Prior to joining Coalfire, Giancarlo worked at DayBlink Consulting as a founding member of the Cybersecurity Practice and also at CEB (Now Gartner) as a Strategy and Operations Senior Analyst.

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Joe McDermott

Senior Manager, Cloud Infrastructure (HITRUST), Coalfire

As a leading compliance expert with Coalfire, Joe brings 14+ years of cloud/IT security and integrated audit services experience and has managed and delivered HITRUST assessments almost exclusively over the past 7 years – including more than 125 HITRUST-related engagements overall. Maintaining a positive reputation and relationships throughout the HITRUST organization have been a focus and have been supported by successful engagements with some of the world’s largest and most complex cloud service provider and healthcare organizations. Additionally, Joe brings ‘Big 4' experience from KPMG LLP, a track record of delivering outstanding business results, and a focus on always providing exceptional quality and client service.

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Giancarlo Casella

Head of Business Development & Growth Strategies, AWS Security Assurance Services

Currently, Giancarlo leads Business Development and Growth Strategies within the AWS Security Assurance Services team. In this role, Giancarlo focuses on growth strategy, sales, business development, marketing and removing compliance as a barrier for customers. Prior to joining AWS ProServe, Giancarlo was the Continuous Security GRC Manager at Salesforce. He also has experience as a leader in the Coalfire Systems’ Strategy, Privacy, and Risk practice serving as a Senior Manager. Prior to joining Coalfire, Giancarlo worked at DayBlink Consulting as a founding member of the Cybersecurity Practice and also at CEB (Now Gartner) as a Strategy and Operations Senior Analyst.

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Joe McDermott

Senior Manager, Cloud Infrastructure (HITRUST), Coalfire

As a leading compliance expert with Coalfire, Joe brings 14+ years of cloud/IT security and integrated audit services experience and has managed and delivered HITRUST assessments almost exclusively over the past 7 years – including more than 125 HITRUST-related engagements overall. Maintaining a positive reputation and relationships throughout the HITRUST organization have been a focus and have been supported by successful engagements with some of the world’s largest and most complex cloud service provider and healthcare organizations. Additionally, Joe brings ‘Big 4' experience from KPMG LLP, a track record of delivering outstanding business results, and a focus on always providing exceptional quality and client service.

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Jacob Salassi

Director of Product Security, Snowflake

Jacob Salassi is Director of Product Security at Snowflake. Jacob led Snowflake's pre- & post IPO transformation from a bottlenecked, security engineer centric process that slowed teams down to a developer owned security process that ships features faster and more securely. Today his teams handle security architecture, software security assurance, software engineering, threat detection, incident response, and vulnerability research for the Snowflake product. Jacob is an active member of the application security and threat modeling communities, and his team is known for their industry leading approach to modeling threats.

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Omer Singer

Head of Cybersecurity Strategy, Snowflake

Omer Singer is Head of Cybersecurity Strategy at Snowflake, the Data Cloud company. Omer led Snowflake's innovative, data-driven security engineering program before taking responsibility for the company's cybersecurity business and ecosystem. Prior to Snowflake, Omer was Vice President of Security Operations at a global security services provider and served as a cyber intelligence officer. Omer is an active member of the Information Security Leadership Foundation (ISLF) and has spoken at Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) events on topics such as security metrics and cloud-native threat detection and response.

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Francois Tallet

Technical Product Manager in the Networking and Security Business Unit (NSBU), VMware

Francois Tallet is a technical product manager in the Networking and Security Business Unit (NSBU) at VMware, focusing on virtual switching data path. Prior to VMWare, Francois has held several technical and marketing roles within Cisco in his switching specialization. He holds CCIE #3539 and is the author of 15+ patents in the networking field.

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Bhanu Vemula

Director of Products in the Networking and Advanced Security Business Group, VMware

Bhanu Vemula is a Director of Product Marketing in the Networking and Advanced Security Business Group at VMware. Bhanu leads product strategy and go-to-market for multi-cloud security products at VMware. Before VMware, Bhanu held various product management roles at Cisco, primarily focusing on data center hardware and software products. He has a master’s degree in electrical engineering and holds a CCIE in Routing and Switching.

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Peter Craig

Director, Product Marketing, Cybersecurity, Human Security

Peter is Director of Product Marketing – Cybersecurity at Human. He has worked in cyber security for more than 20 years mainly in product marketing but also in sales engineering and enablement. Peter enjoys helping organizations find the right security product for their business.

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Brad LaPorte

Gartner Veteran | GTM Advisor to Startups, Private Equity & Venture Funds | Board Advisor

One of the most influential voices in cybersecurity and is credited with inventing the term ASM at Gartner. Brad is a former Top-rated Gartner analyst for cybersecurity and threat intelligence, veteran US Cyber Intelligence, Dell, IBM, Kasada evangelist and product leader

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