Training

Nitin Kumar

Technical Marketing Engineer, Cisco

Nitin Kumar brings over 11 years of security experience. He started his career in email security, then transitioned into networking before he finally found a home at Cisco CWS as a support engineer. Nitin has held various impactful roles such as the lead for TME for a new Cisco partnership with marketing leading CASB vendor and for the Cisco Web Security Appliance. Currently, he works in the Cisco Cloud Security group focusing on competitive, sales enablement and customer engagement for all things Umbrella and Cloudlock. His vast knowledge of various technology areas and ability to work across-functional environment give him a unique perspective in this space. In his free time, he enjoys hiking, traveling, and discovering new restaurants around the Bay Area, CA.

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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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Richard Henderson

Head of Global Threat Intelligence, Lastline

Richard Henderson is Head of Global Threat Intelligence, where he is responsible for trend-spotting, industry-watching, and evangelizing the unique capabilities of Lastline's technologies. He has nearly two decades of experience and involvement in the global hacker community and discovers new trends and activities in the cyber-underground. He is a researcher and regular presenter at conferences and events and was lauded by a former US DHS undersecretary for cybersecurity as having an "insightful view" on the current state of cybersecurity. Henderson was one of the first researchers in the world to defeat Apple's TouchID fingerprint sensor on the iPhone 5S. He has taught courses on radio interception techniques multiple times at the DEFCON hacker conference. Henderson is a regular writer and contributor to many publications including BankInfoSecurity, Forbes, Dark Reading, and CSO.

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Lisa Forte

Social Engineering & Insider Threat Expert, Red Goat Cyber Security

Lisa Forte began her career working in anti-piracy intelligence off the coast of Somalia, before moving into counter-terrorism intelligence for a UK Government agency. She then moved into one of the UK Police Cyber-Crime Units where she got to know the attackers' mind sets and methodologies well. The unit dealt with serious cyber crime cases working closely with agencies such as the FBI. Victim companies ranged from small to multi-national organisations and almost all the cases involved social engineering.

Lisa left in 2017 to start her own company, Red Goat Cyber Security LLP, with the goal of reflecting the techniques and methodologies actually being employed by hackers. They provide the only GCHQ certified social engineering training in the UK for staff as well as social engineering security testing and wargaming cyber attack exercises to help organisations prepare for an attack. In December 2018 Lisa won the "Top 100 Women In Tech" Awards recognising her achievements and contributions to the cyber security industry.

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Sudeep Venkatesh

Chief Product Officer, Egress

Sudeep Venkatesh is a noted expert on data protection, bringing two decades of industry and technology experience in this area. His expertise spans the protection of data in both structured and unstructured data ecosystems, with an emphasis on solving real-world business problems through encryption, authentication and key management. He has an in-depth understanding of regulatory compliance standards, including the EU GDPR, PCI and NYDFS, etc. Sudeep has worked on numerous data security projects with Fortune 500 firms in the US, the UK and globally.

At Egress, Sudeep works as Chief Product Officer with responsibility for product strategy, product management and the delivery of pre and post-sales technical services to customers. Prior to this, he was the Global Head of Pre-sales for the Data Security division of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), leading a global team of Sales Engineers. Sudeep joined HPE through its acquisition of Voltage Security, where he was part of the executive team.

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Robert Capps

Vice President and Authentication Strategist, NuData Security

Robert Capps is a recognized technologist, thought leader, and advisor with over twenty years of experience in the design, management, and protection of complex information systems - leveraging people, process and technology to counter cyber risks. In his previous role at RedSeal as a Senior Director, Capps was responsible for technical, security, and customer operations. Prior to RedSeal, he was Senior Manager, Global Trust and Safety at StubHub.

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Kyle Williams

Director of Product Development and Innovation, NuData Security

Kyle Williams is an experienced product manager, innovator, and strategist with several years of experience in the payment industry. In his current role as Director of Product Development and Innovation for NuData Security, a Mastercard company, he focuses on product management and strategy for the core NuDetect solution. In his previous role as a Product Leader within Cyber & Intelligence Solutions at Mastercard, Williams was responsible for product enhancement, API strategy, and global expansion. His focus on authorization strategy, subscription payment optimization, and fraud detection allows him to provide partners and prospects with the information and solutions to make better decisions for their businesses. Before Mastercard, he spent nearly a decade as an engineer in the Missouri Army National Guard.

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Scott Matsumoto

Chief Information Security Officer, Circle

Scott is the Chief Information Security Officer at Circle, a world leading crypto finance company. At Circle, Scott's mission is to make crypto mainstream, and bring Circle's products to market by working closely with regulators, governments and industry peers. When he joined Circle in March of 2015, Scott brought with him decades of security and software engineering experience. Mr. Matsumoto was previously a Principal Consultant at Cigital Inc, the largest software security consultancy in the United States, where he led the Mobile Security and Security Architecture practices. In addition to leading two practices at Cigital, he was a founding member of the Cloud Security Alliance. His software engineering experience encompasses development of component-based middleware, performance management systems, graphical UIs, language compilers, database management systems and operating system kernels.

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Sam Small

Chief Security Officer, ZeroFOX

Dr. Sam Small serves as the Chief Security Officer of ZeroFOX, helping its customers implement world-class social-media protection programs and supporting ZeroFOX to continuously advance its role as the innovation leader of social-media and collaborative-technology security solutions. After earning his doctorate in computer science from Johns Hopkins University, Sam was a lecturer, led an academic security research lab, and launched two security-industry startups, including Fast Orientation where he most recently served as CEO and continues to maintain a non-operational role as Chairman. In addition to his technical and entrepreneurial pursuits, Dr. Small has provided expert technology and security assessments of dozens of organizations and vendor products and conducted due diligence assessments for more than a dozen software-industry investments, mergers, and acquisitions. He has also served as an expert witness in several high-profile security, software, and network-related lawsuits. His work and research have been covered in publications including Wired, The New York Times, The Washington Post, New Scientist, CNET, ZDNet, and slashdot.

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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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Ephraim Rinsky

Product Marketing Manager, Riskified

Rinsky has worked at Riskified since 2016. He is a product marketing manager, focusing on issues related to account security and payment declines. His insights on fraud and eCommerce have been published by the Payments Journal, InfoWorld, Phocuswire, VVCM and more.

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Dor Zipori

Product Manager, Riskified

Zipori has worked at Riskified since 2016. He is the product manager for Riskified's account protection suite, with a strong background in understanding and identifying account takeover fraud.

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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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Drew Kilbourne

Managing Director, Synopsys Software Integrity Group

Drew Kilbourne brings more than 30 years of experience encompassing a rise through technical engineering to managing the delivery of complex software and program solutions to the financial and telecommunications industries. In his time at Synopsys, he has focused on helping senior managers establish and execute multi-year programs for quality assurance, enterprise software development, tool and automation deployment, and software security improvement. Kilbourne is also chairman and president of the Software Security Vendor Assessment Center, a non-profit focused on vendor management in the financial and healthcare industries.

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Juergen Loeb

IBM Services - Europe Offering Manager

As an Europe Offering Manager Juergen is responsible to enable and support IBM teams for IBM Service offerings related to Container Platforms, Data Lake management and shared mainframe services.

In his role he is responsible for the enablement of IBM sales and solution teams, provide initial deal support and work closely with centralized development and Offering leaders.

With Juergen's more than 30 years of experience in the IT infrastructure business and multiple roles from project management, sales and business planning is seen as a trusted advisor in these areas.

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Katie Burnell

Global Insider Threat Specialist, Dtex Systems

Burnell is a seasoned cyber investigator and insider threat specialist, applying a unique blend of public and private sector experience to her work. Conducting investigations and assessments through in-depth analysis of user activities, She communicates the observed threats to a client's information security posture; reporting the weaknesses in their information security measures and user practices warranting further exploration. A client portfolio spanning EMEA provides an expert and agile understanding of corporate cultures, legislation and culpability, insider threat maturity, risk appetite acceptance anomalies within companies and the challenges faced at board level. Katie is a qualified OSINT practitioner and Human Hacker, certified Investigative Interviewer, Maltego CTF champion, Social Engineering CTF champion and, Women in Cyber advocate, and a Dark Reading Women in Cybersecurity You Should Know.

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Jon Oltsik

Senior Principal Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group

Oltsik is an ESG senior principal analyst, an ESG fellow, and the founder of the firm's cybersecurity service. With 30 years of technology industry experience, Jon is widely recognized as an expert in all aspects of cybersecurity and is often called upon to help customers understand a CISO's perspective and strategies. Oltsik was named one of the top 100 cybersecurity influencers for 2015 by Onalytica and is active as a committee member of the Cybersecurity Canon, a project dedicated to identifying a list of must-read books for all cybersecurity practitioners. Often quoted in the business and technical press, he is also engaged in cybersecurity issues, legislation, and technology discussions within the U.S. government.

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Patrick Sullivan

Senior Director of Global Security Strategy, Akamai

Patrick Sullivan currently serves as Akamai's Senior Director of Global Security Strategy. In his 13 years at Akamai, he has held numerous leadership positions including leading the Enterprise Security Architect team. Sullivan and his team work with customers when they come under attack and designs security architectures to protect them from threats. Prior to Akamai, Sullivan held various leadership positions at DISA, AT&T, Savvis, and Cable and Wireless.

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Joseph Carson

Chief Security Scientist, Thycotic

Joseph Carson is a cyber security professional and ethical hacker with more than 25 years' experience in enterprise security specializing in blockchain, endpoint security, network security, application security & virtualization, access controls and privileged account management. Joseph is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), active member of the cyber security community frequently speaking at cyber security conferences globally, often being quoted and contributing to global cyber security publications. He is a cyber security adviser to several governments, critical infrastructure, financial, transportation and maritime industries. Joseph is regularly sharing his knowledge and experience giving workshops on vulnerabilities assessments, patch management best practices, the evolving cyber security perimeter and the EU General Data Protection Regulation. Joseph serves as Chief Security Scientist at Thycotic and author of Privileged Account Management for dummies.

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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, marketing 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. At Gartner, she was 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.

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