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Brian Chappell

Deputy CTO, BeyondTrust

Chappell has more than 30 years of IT and cybersecurity experience in a career that has spanned system integrators, PC and Software vendors, and high-tech multi-nationals. He has held senior roles in both the vendor and the enterprise space in companies such as Amstrad plc, BBC Television, GlaxoSmithKline, and BeyondTrust. At BeyondTrust, Chappell has led Sales Engineering across EMEA and APAC, Product Management globally for Privileged Password Management and now focuses on security strategy and new technologies within the Office of the CTO. Chappell can also be found speaking at conferences, authoring articles and blog posts, as well as providing expert commentary for the world press.

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Martin Cook

Sr. Engineer, ReliaQuest

Cook has been working in IT Security in a professional capacity since 2001. Over this time, he's operated within multiple disciplines from IT analyst, through operations, delivery management, strategy and sales engineering. Currently, he's at ReliaQuest as the Senior Sales Engineer demonstrating how you can enhance the value of security across the customer enterprise utilising GreyMatter. Cook’ career to date has seen him be highly effective, delivering to time, cost and quality in both an inspiring and motivational way.

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Richard Hummel

Manager of Threat Intelligence, NETSCOUT

Richard Hummel has over a dozen years of experience in the intelligence field and is currently the Threat Intelligence Research Lead for NETSCOUT's ASERT Research Team. Previously, he served as Manager and Principal Analyst on the FireEye iSIGHT Intelligence’s Financial Gain team. He began his career as a Signals Intelligence Analyst with the United States Army. During the course of his service he became certified in Digital Network Intelligence and supported multiple operations overseas including a deployment to Iraq. After departing from the Army as an enlisted soldier, he began contracting work as a Computer Network Operations analyst in support of the Army. During his tenure as a contractor, he developed many methods and procedures for conducting Cyber Discovery and trained analysts at Army INSCOM HQ's. At FireEye iSIGHT Intelligence, he led a team of technical analysts in the tracking, reporting, and analysis of various cybercrime related malware families.

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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 Pepper

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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Dave Martin

Senior Director, Product Management - Threat Response, Open Systems

Dave Martin brings to Open Systems more than 20 years of experience with IT security and networking technologies in a variety of engineering, product marketing, product management and business development roles. He currently serves as the Senior Director, Product Management - Threat Response responsible for market positioning, product strategy and feature definition for Open Systems' global extended detection and response services.

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Chris Fuller

Director, Solutions Engineering - Shape at F5

Chris Fuller is a Director of Solutions Engineering within the Shape Security business unit at F5. Chris’ team works with the largest brands across EMEA to deploy Shape as a primary line of defence against the most advanced forms of application abuse. Today, the Shape Network defends over 2 billion user accounts from account takeover and prevents millions of sophisticated automated attacks per day.

Chris has spent the last decade working with web technologies, focusing on tuning user web experiences for major brands by accelerating and protecting their web properties.

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Chris Fuller

Director, Solutions Engineering - Shape at F5

Chris Fuller is a Director of Solutions Engineering within the Shape Security business unit at F5. Chris’ team works with the largest brands across EMEA to deploy Shape as a primary line of defence against the most advanced forms of application abuse. Today, the Shape Network defends over 2 billion user accounts from account takeover and prevents millions of sophisticated automated attacks per day.

Chris has spent the last decade working with web technologies, focusing on tuning user web experiences for major brands by accelerating and protecting their web properties.

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Nick Hogg

Director of Technical Training, Helpsystems

Nick is an experienced training manager, instructional designer and product manager with more than 24 years of commercial experience. Currently, he is responsible for the design and production of multimedia Computer Based Training (CBT)/eLearning packages and Instructor Led Training (ILT) courses for both commercial and military customers.

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Dinesh Kamble

SVP & Head – Security Provision, IDFC First Bank

Kamble is an Information security professional with nearly 22 years of experience in Information Technology and Cyber security. He has handled various responsibilities including leadership roles in Information Risk Management, Developing security strategy, Project Management, IT & Cyber Security Audits, Security Architecture and Solution designing, Business Analysis & Consultancy.

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Mahesh Shanmugasundaram

Regional Director, South Asia, Helpsystems

Maheswaran is an Information Security industry veteran with over two decades of experience across a range of security technologies and processes. A technologist at heart, Maheswaran has a real ability to understand the commercial and operational requirements of businesses across a wide range of vertical markets. He has a wealth of experience supporting the deployment of key data protection projects in a number of leading enterprises across APAC.

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Mike Britton

CISO, Abnormal Security

Mike is the Chief Information Security Officer at Abnormal Security, leading the company’s security, privacy and risk programs. He brings a wealth of strategic and operational experience in cybersecurity and privacy most recently as the CISO and Chief Privacy Officer at Alliance Data.

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Dr. Eric Cole

Author, Cyber Security Consultant and Founder of Secure-Anchor

Dr. Eric Cole is an author, cyber security consultant and founder of Secure-Anchor. Dr. Cole brings more than 30 years of network security experience to the table. He started his career at the CIA, was CTO of McAfee, Chief Scientist for Lockheed Martin, and is a SANS Institute Faculty Fellow. He was a member of the Commission on Cyber Security under President Obama, and he now runs Secure Anchor Consulting, providing leading-edge cybersecurity consulting services, expert witness work, and leading research.

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Mitch Rosen

Principal Solutions Engineer, Keeper Security

Rosen, a Principal Solutions Engineer at Keeper Security, Inc., has over 30 years of information technology experience that spans startups to Fortune 500 companies, to federal government agencies. A veteran of the United States Navy, Mitch has worked in IT support, devOps, technical training, and solutions engineering. He has focused the last six years helping thousands of organisations better understand and reduce the risks associated with privileged accounts and password.

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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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Winston Krone

Global Managing Director, Kivu

Krone is sr risk advisor at Cambridge Center for Risk Studies. Helping global companies manage emerging cyber risks using a rigorous scenario-based framework. Previusly he was with Kivu Consulting.

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Kadir Levent

Chief Operating Officer, CyberClan

Kadir started his career in cyber security as a Digital Forensic Investigator within the Metropolitan Police Service where he successfully aided multiple high profile criminal investigations. Since then, he has worked for a major UK retailer as a Cyber Security Manager where he managed and coordinated incident response efforts at a global scale. Kadir went on to work within the cyber insurance industry as a senior incident response specialist in London giving him vast experience in the Lloyds Insurance market and a deep understanding on the cyber claims process. Kadir now leads NTL’s U.K entity from London, whilst supporting NTL’s global operational processes.

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Ed Lewis

Partner, Weightmans

Edward leads the firm's Specialty and Financial Lines practice, comprising of more than 40 lawyers nationally. His expertise spans multiple classes of insurance business, predominantly in the fields of Finance, Digital & Data, Construction and Science & Technology. He acts for insurers and nominated policyholders in the UK and internationally, advising on corporate strategy, insurance law and coverage, risk transfer and litigation. Edward is also the lead lawyer in CyXcel, a unique multidisciplinary service from Weightmans which launched in 2018 and provides comprehensive advice and solutions for digital and data resilience, incident planning, crisis management and response. The CyXcel team acts for insurers, public bodies and commercial organisations of all sizes. The team's work in the last year has included some the most high-profile cyber security incidents, state-sponsored ransoms and multi-jurisdiction data breaches; as well as delivering targeted consultancy on cyber maturity, operational impact modelling, privacy vulnerability, GDPR compliance and risk transfer.

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Mark Singer

Claims Focus Group Leader - London Market & Wholesale Cyber & Tech, Beazley Group

Mark Singer currently serves as Claims Focus Group Leader 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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Bobby Ford

CSO, Hewlett Packard Enterprise & former Global CISO, Unilever

Prior to joining Unilever, Ford was the CISO for Abbott Labs, a global life sciences organization. With a diverse background in cybersecurity, he has spent the bulk of his career in the aerospace and defense industry. As a soldier in the U.S. Army, he was one of the charter information security analysts for the Pentagon Computer Incident Response Team.

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Scott McAvoy

Cloud Security Competency Lead, IBM

An information security professional with over 20 years of experience leading teams in technical environments, across highly regulated industries and delivering complex solutions. Historically I have designed, built and supported integrated security solutions on-premise or in data centres and have transformed this experience and my skills to apply to the Cloud. I have a broad understanding across all security domains and specialise in applying this agnostically to Public Cloud and DevOps environments. Having supported production workloads for UK Government on AWS from 2010 onwards I have seen the public cloud emerge and mature. Initially I supported clients to understand the cloud landscape technically and influence decision makers and accreditors to gain approval to transform and modernise workloads, whilst maintaining necessarily high levels of security. Now my team and I design and delivery solutions across all Cloud Service Providers and industries with a recent focus on enterprise level Financial Services.

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Sam Curry

Chief Security Officer, Cybereason

Sam Curry is CSO at Cybereason and is a Visiting Fellow at the National Security Institute. Previously, Sam was CTO and CISO for Arbor Networks(NetScout) and was CSO and SVP R&D at Microstrategy in addition to senior, security roles at McAfee and CA. He spent 7 years at RSA (the Security Division of EMC, where he was a distinguished engineer and Fellow nominee) as Chief Technologist and SVP of Product. Sam also has over 20 patents in security from his time as a security architect, has been a leader in two successful startups and is a board member of the Cybersecurity Coalition, of SSH Communications and of Sequitur Labs (in the IoT security space) in addition to a number of advisor-ships across the security spectrum.

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