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Joseph Burton

Managing Partner, Duane Morris LLP

At the law firm Duane Morris, Burton focuses on information security and cyberfraud issues as well as civil, criminal and appellate litigation. He advises and represents individuals and corporations regarding their rights and responsibilities in maintaining the security of digital information. His practice includes trade secret, trademark and patent litigation, with an emphasis on cybercrime and cybersecurity. Burton is a former assistant U.S. attorney who handled several pioneering high technology investigations and prosecutions, including the first prosecution in the nation for criminal copyright infringement of computer code.

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Mike Daugherty

President and CEO, LabMD

Daugherty is founder, president and CEO of LabMD, a cancer-detection laboratory based in Atlanta. He also is author of the book "The Devil Inside the Beltway," and is a senior writer for CyberDefense Magazine. Daugherty has testified before the House of Representatives' Oversight Committee and regularly keynotes in front of healthcare, law, business and technology audiences, providing education about what to expect when the federal government investigates businesses. He regularly blogs at MichaelJDaugherty.com and sits on the board of Snoopwall, a privacy company based in Nashua, N.H.

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Mathew J. Schwartz

Executive Editor, DataBreachToday & Europe

Schwartz is an award-winning journalist with two decades of experience in magazines, newspapers and electronic media. He has covered the information security and privacy sector throughout his career. Before joining Information Security Media Group in 2014, where he now serves as the Executive Editor, DataBreachToday and for European news coverage, Schwartz was the information security beat reporter for InformationWeek and a frequent contributor to DarkReading, amongst other publications. He lives in Scotland.

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Paul Turner

CTO for Products, Venafi

Turner has worked directly with many of the world's largest Global 2000 companies to solve security and operational challenges related to cryptographic key and certificate management. In addition to working with and presenting at IEEE, IETF and ISACA, Turner has worked closely with the NIST, where he coauthored the July 2012 Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) bulletin, Preparing for and Responding to Certification Authority Compromise and Fraudulent Certificate Issuance, and the NISTIR 7966, Security of Interactive and Automated Access Management Using Secure Shell (SSH). Prior to Venafi, Turner was a vice president for Novell's Resource Management group and served as vice president of product management at CertCo, a spinout from Bankers Trust that delivered public key infrastructure (PKI) and secure electronic commerce solutions to the financial services industry.

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Alexi Papaleonardos

Principal Consultant, CrowdStrike

Papaleonardos is a Principal Consultant at CrowdStrike. Prior to joining CrowdStrike, Papaleonardos was a Senior Security Engineer at Netflix and led the security operations team at Sony Network Entertainment, where he was also the Cloud Security Architect for the PlayStation Network. Earlier in his career, he held Defender roles for commercial and federal customers. His work in infosec began as a student at the Ohio State University where he was an incident responder.

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Scott Ward

Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Ward is a solutions architect with Amazon Web Services (AWS). Based out of Seattle, WA, Ward is part of a team that supports AWS's global network of technology and consulting partners. For AWS partners, Ward's focus is on existing AWS architecture validation and improvements, planning new architectures for workloads on AWS, providing guidance on how to use new AWS services, and providing general technical enablement. Ward has a deep background in supporting, enhancing, and building global financial solutions to meet the needs of large companies, including many years supporting the global financial systems for Amazon.com.

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Paul Swarbrick

International CISO, Privacy and Digital Risk Expert

Paul Swarbrick's career spans over 25 years within the information security, privacy, assurance and governance arena in Europe and across the world. He is a Fellow of Cambridge University's Centre for Science and Policy and founding holder of the EC-Council's C:CISO certification for information assurance expertise. He works with many of the key cyber security forums to work on improving awareness and effective policy development and implementation nationally and at an organisational level. During his career, Swarbrick has worked with many international organisations across multiple industry sectors and several UK government departments, advising on and implementing the best and most pragmatic approaches to protecting information assets and systems, and on the implementation of new technologies and working practices.

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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 Johnson

CISO, DPO & Cyber Security Advocate

Mark Johnson is a renowned cybercrime and security awareness trainer with over 40 years operational law enforcement & security experience worldwide. His background includes operational drug enforcement in the Central American region, military intelligence operations focusing on organised crime & counter-insurgency, telecoms network fraud investigations in 26 countries on all continents, online 'Catfishing' internet investigations into social engineering and phishing, training for police and other public sector cybercrime & online investigations as well as shipping, retail, IT and manufacturing security experience in multiple markets.

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Rafael Narezzi

Chair, CyberEdTalks Brazil

In addition to serving as CyberEdTalks Brazil's Chairman, Rafael Narezzi is CIO/CISO for TS Lombard. In that capacity, he leads the development of new infrastructure and technologies which substantially expands technical capabilities, and increases the portfolio of client products and services. Throughout his career, Narezzi has emphasized cybersecurity as a component in new technology, and has championed those forward-looking start-ups.

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Prashant Pillai

Director of the Wolverhampton Cyber Research Institute, University of Wolverhampton

Prof Prashant Pillai is currently working as a Professor of Cyber Security and Director of the Wolverhampton Cyber Research Institute (WCRI) at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. WCRI consists of 24 academics and specialises in security for critical national infrastructure with a current focus on detection, prevention and innovate solutions for large scale co-ordinated attacks on complex systems. Prior to this, he worked as Reader in Cyber Security and was the Head of the Cyber Security Research Group at the Department of Computing and Communications Technologies, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK. Pillai is the Associate Editor of IEEE Transaction on Aerospace and Electronic Systems and an Editor of the Journal of Emerging Trends in Engineering and Applied Sciences (JETEAS).

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Jeremy King

International Director, PCI Security Standards Council

Mr. King leads the Council's efforts in increasing adoption and awareness of the PCI Standards globally. In this role, Mr. King works closely with the Council's General Manager and representatives of its policy-setting executive committee from American Express, Discover, JCB International, MasterCard, and Visa, Inc. His chief responsibilities include gathering feedback from the merchant and vendor community, coordinating research and analysis of PCI SSC-managed standards through all international markets, and driving education efforts and Council membership recruitment through active involvement in local and regional events, industry conferences and meetings with key stakeholders. He also serves as a resource for Approved Scanning Vendors (ASVs), Qualified Security Assessors (QSAs), Internal Security Assessors (ISAs), PCI Forensic Investigators (PFIs), and related staff in supporting regional training, certification, and testing programs.

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Imran Ahmad

Partner - Toronto Office, Miller Thomson LLP

Ahmad works closely with clients to develop and implement practical pre- and post-breach mitigation strategies. He advises risk assessments, compliance, due diligence, risk allocation, security and data breach incident preparedness, as well as engages with regulators and law enforcement, providing representation in case of litigation. Ahmad sits on the Canadian Advanced Technologies Alliance's Cyber Security Council and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Ontario Bar Association's Privacy and Access to Information Law Section. Recently, he was appointed to the National Cyber Security Leadership Council on Youth and Education. Prior to his call to the bar, Ahmad was a political adviser to retired Lieutenant-General and Senator Roméo A. Dallaire, and clerked for Justice Edmond P. Blanchard at the Federal Court of Canada and Competition Tribunal in Ottawa.

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Ruth Promislow

Partner, Commercial Litigation, Fraud and Cybersecurity Practice, Bennett Jones LLP, Toronto

Ruth Promislow practices commercial litigation with a strong focus on commercial crime, including cybersecurity, Ponzi schemes, investment fraud, employee fraud and anti-money laundering. She has extensive experience with recovery issues relating to commercial crime, including receiverships, tracing, freezing and recovering proceeds of crime. Promislow oversees and conducts internal investigations for clients, working with internal and external auditors and works with clients to develop and implement comprehensive and effective action plans following a cybersecurity or other fraudulent attack, and also advises on steps to prevent against such attacks.

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Nabil Hannan

Managing Principal, Synopsys Software Integrity Group

Hannan is a Managing Principal at Synopsys Software Integrity Group. He leads the company's Eastern Canada and North East practice, focusing on helping clients solve their software security needs and build/improve effective software security initiatives, particularly in the financial services sector. During his tenure at Synopsys, he has identified, scoped and delivered on software security projects (Architectural Risk Analysis, Penetration Testing, Secure Code Review, Malicious Code Detection, Vulnerability Remediation, Mobile Security Assessments, etc.). Prior to Synopsys, Hannan worked as a Product Manager at Research In Motion/BlackBerry and has managed several initiatives and projects through the full Software Development Lifecycle.

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Mustafa Rassiwala

Sr. Director of Products, Lastline

Rassiwala has more than 10 years of experience in security product management, building DLP, SIEM, security analytics, fraud management and network security products. He has proven success at many companies including RSA, Symantec, HPE (ArcSight) and startups such as ThreatMetrix, Platfora and JASK. He has also held engineering roles at EMC/Documentum.

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Brian Duckering

Mobile Security Specialist, Symantec

Duckering has been a thought leader and respected advisor in enterprise IT for more than 15 years. With experience in engineering, product management, marketing, business strategy and technology evangelism, he has held executive-level positions at business- and consumer-facing companies, both large and small, and has multiple degrees in engineering and technology management. Duckering has spent the last eight years focused on enterprise mobility, with a focus on achieving both productivity and security.

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John Walker

Visiting Prof. at the School of Science and Technology at Nottingham Trent University; Advisory Board, Research Centre in Cyber Security (KirCCS), University of Kent and Former Royal Air Force Security/Investigations and Counter Intelligence Operations

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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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Christopher Greany

Managing Director, Head of Group Investigations and Insider Threat Program, Barclays

Managing Director Christopher Greany is the head of Group Investigations at Barclays. Working as part of the Chief Security Office (CSO) he leads the strategic implementation and delivery of investigations across Barclays international footprint. He is also responsible for the Barclays Global Insider Threat Programme and cyber forensics capability. The CSO team is tasked with providing a holistic security footprint across all of Barclays international operations. Before joining Barclays Christopher had a policing career spanning over 30 years. His last role was leading the UK and international policing response to Economic Crime and Cyber Protection as Commander in the City of London Police. Previously he led the National Police Coordination Centre, coordinating the UK policing response to national and international crisis and disaster. He has extensive international experience and has led the response to a number of significant events and investigations impacting UK interests abroad.

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