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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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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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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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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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Richard Hummel

ASERT Threat Intelligence Manager

Richard Hummel has over a dozen years of experience in the intelligence field and is currently the Threat Intelligence Manager for Arbor Networks' 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 cyber crime related malware families.

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Moshe Elias

Engineering and Product Marketing Specialist, Cymulate

Moshe Elias connects product, sales and marketing to customer requirements, perceptions and concerns, applying a customer-centric approach to doing business. He is motivated by the belief that cyber security should be available to all, from safeguarding children surfing the web to protecting large corporations from espionage and extortion. His experience includes both sales and engineering leadership roles at Cisco and Check Point and product marketing roles at Allot and Cymulate.

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Deepen Desai

CISO & VP Security Research at Zscaler

As Chief Information Security Officer & VP Security Research at Zscaler, Deepen Desai is responsible for running the global security research operations as well as working with the product group to ensure that the Zscaler platform and services are secure. Deepen has been actively involved in the field of cybersecurity for the past 15 years. Prior to joining Zscaler, he held a security leadership role at Dell SonicWALL.

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Bryan Lee

Principal Product Manager , Zscaler

Bryan Lee is a Principal Product Manager at Zscaler with over 10 years of experience in the cybersecurity industry in a variety of roles. His areas of expertise are in espionage threats, cybersecurity operations, and threat intelligence.

Prior to joining Zscaler, Bryan was a Principal Researcher with Unit 42 at Palo Alto Networks, responsible for the co-discovery of adversary groups such as OilRig, DarkHydrus, as well as contributing significantly to research involving other adversaries such as the Sofacy group.

Bryan got his start in cybersecurity working at the NASA Security Operations Center, ultimately moving into a lead position. Due to his diverse set of experiences and skills, Bryan has frequently shared his expertise with some of the most influential organizations and conferences in the world.

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Anshul Garg

Product Marketing Manager, IBM Security

Anshul Garg is a passionate marketer looking to help organization stay ahead of threat actors. He has 12+ years of experience across Product Marketing and Product Management of IT Security Solutions and has worked on areas spanning Cloud Security, Security Consulting, Managed Security Services, Penetration Testing, Operational Technology Security, Threat Management,etc.

He currently works with IBM Security as a Product Marketing Manager. He is responsible for marketing key security solutions including 'Cloud Pak for Security' - IBM Security's strategic security platform, 'Operational Technology Security'- IBM Security's solution for securing critical infrastructure, and 'Open Security' - IBM Security's vision for security of the future. He is also the marketing co-lead for Open Cybersecurity Alliance, anindustry association formed with a vision of driving security interoperability based on open standards.

He holds multiple Security certifications like Certified Network Defender (CND), Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK), along with certifications in various security products. He has an MBA in Systems and Finance, along with an engineering degree in Computer Science.

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James Murphy

Global Offering Manager - IBM Security

Global product leader managing, delivering and supporting a portfolio of enterprise solutions and services. Working with customers, partners and IBMers to collaborate, innovate and produce solutions for the Enterprise and beyond.

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Levi Gundert

Senior Vice President of Global Intelligence at Recorded Future

Levi Gundert is the Senior Vice President of Global Intelligence at Recorded Future where he leads the continuous effort to measurably decrease operational risk for clients. Levi has spent the past twenty years in both the public and the private sector, defending networks, arresting international criminals, and uncovering nation-state adversaries. He's held senior information security leadership positions across technology and financial start-ups/enterprises. He is a trusted risk advisor to Fortune 500 companies, and a prolific speaker, blogger, and columnist.

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Chris Fredde

Board Member, Votiro

Chris Fedde is a Board Member at Votiro, a cybersecurity company that sanitizes files of malware and other embedded threats while maintaining full file usability and functionality. Previously, Chris Fedde served as the CEO of Bandura Cyber, Inc, leading the company through its early growth in cyber threat intelligence while raising two institutional capital raises. Prior to Bandura, Mr. Fedde founded and led Hexis Cyber Solutions, Inc, which was acquired in 2016.

Prior to Hexis he was president and Chief Executive Officer of SafeNet, Inc., a global leader in data protection. SafeNet was sold to Gemalto in 2014. Mr. Fedde currently serves on the boards of Votiro Cybersecurity, Netcraftsmen, and other technology firms and non-profits, as well as advisory boards of tech companies. Mr. Fedde holds several technology patents.

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Frank Johnson

SVP at SecuLore Solutions

Frank Johnson previously served as a City Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Digital Officer (CDO). Frank was charged with leading and supporting all digital transformation programs and efforts to modernize the City's IT capabilities, scale the local IT ecosystem and drive awareness/tech investment to the city.

As a former "ransomware battle-tested" CIO, he is now focused on helping others in all aspects of cybersecurity by providing cyber thought leadership and best practices as an Ambassador of the Cybersecurity Collaborative and SVP at SecuLore Solutions.

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Deborah Kish

Executive Vice President, Marketing & Research, Fasoo

Deborah 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 where she worked in the technology and service provider security team, 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. Prior to that, she successfully tracked switching and signaling and security in the carrier network infrastructure space for 15 years.

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Joe Krull

Senior Analyst - Cybersecurity, Aite Group

Joe Krull, CISSP, CISA, IAM, CRISC, and CIPP, is a senior analyst at Aite Group specializing in cybersecurity, privacy, and IT risk. He splits his time between San Antonio, Texas, and Tel Aviv, Israel, and he brings more than 40 years of security and privacy experience to Aite Group.

Mr. Krull is a frequent speaker at international cyber and privacy events, and he has been a regular contributor to cyber and audit professional organizations in the U.S. and Europe. Mr. Krull has worked in 115 countries and has provided cyber and privacy consulting advice to large enterprises on four continents. Most recently, he was a member of Accenture's Security Strategy and Risk practice, where he focused on the impact of cybersecurity on mergers and acquisitions, compliance with cyber and privacy regulations, and helping companies formulate their cybersecurity strategies. Prior to Accenture, Mr. Krull's consulting experience included a leadership role with a Big Four, a senior role at an application security vendor, and leading his own company focused on reducing security risk to telecommunications companies. Prior to consulting, Mr. Krull was the chief information security officer at three Global 1000 companies, and he served as an operations officer and military attaché at seven U.S. Embassies around the globe. Mr. Krull contributes to the future of the cybersecurity profession as a board member for the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition and as an advisor for two early-stage startup companies focused on identifying nontraditional candidates for cybersecurity positions. 

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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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Jon Ehret

VP of Strategy & Risk, RiskRecon

Jon brings 20+ years of experience in technology and risk, including extensive experience building, maturing, and running third-party risk programs in both the finance and healthcare industries. Before joining RiskRecon, Jon built and lead the third-party risk program for BlueCross BlueShield of WNY and also served as President and Co-founder of the Third-Party Risk Association, an international professional association of third party risk practitioners and vendors.

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