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Nabil Bousselham

Principal Solution Architect

Nabil Bousselham is a Principal solution architect at Veracode. In this role, Nabil works with Veracode's enterprise customers in the EMEA region to support them integrate application security testing techniques in their SDLC / DevOps teams and implement mature AppSec programs. Nabil has been in the IT industry for 15+ years now and has long experience in the software supply chain, SDLC management, quality assurance and security of software applications.

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Nabil Bousselham

Principal Solution Architect

Nabil Bousselham is a Principal solution architect at Veracode. In this role, Nabil works with Veracode's enterprise customers in the EMEA region to support them integrate application security testing techniques in their SDLC / DevOps teams and implement mature AppSec programs. Nabil has been in the IT industry for 15+ years now and has long experience in the software supply chain, SDLC management, quality assurance and security of software applications.

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Paul McKay

Senior Analyst, Forrester

Paul is a senior analyst on the security and risk team. He works with organizations to help them shape and deliver their cybersecurity strategies to support the delivery of their core business vision. Paul's research coverage includes cybersecurity risk ratings solutions, Europe-specific regulation for cybersecurity, CISO and security leadership research, and the European vendor market landscape focused on managed security service providers and consultancies.

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Julian Totzek-Hallhuber

Principal Solutions Architect, Veracode

Julian Totzek-Hallhuber is a Solution Architect at Veracode and a security specialist with over 15 years working IT security. In his various roles he has been responsible for application development, penetration testing and web application security. Julian contributes to several security related articles, and provides his expert opinion at specialist events and trade fairs.

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Mariana Pereira

Director of Email Security Products, Darktrace

Mariana Pereira is the Director of Email Security Products at Darktrace, with a primary focus on the capabilities of AI cyber defences against email-borne attacks. Mariana works closely with the development, analyst, and marketing teams to advise technical and non-technical audiences on how best to augment cyber resilience within the email domain, and how to implement AI technology as a means of defence. She speaks regularly at international events, with a specialism in presenting on sophisticated, AI-powered email attacks. She holds an MBA from the University of Chicago, and speaks several languages including French, Italian and Portuguese.

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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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Thomas Hill

CIO, Live Oak Bank

With more than 20 years of IT and security experience, Thomas has spent the majority of his career working in senior IT, Risk, and Security positions in technology and financial service institutions. As CISO, Thomas leads Live Oak's technology risk management and security operations. He provides leadership for developing and implementing technology and security initiatives that support the mission, vision, and long-term objectives of Live Oak Bank. Thomas holds a BS in Business Administration and an MBA with a specialty focus in Management of Information Systems and Security from Saint Leo University. He also holds several industry IT and security certifications, including CISSP, CIPT, and CISM.

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Avi Shau

CEO and Co-Founder, Orca Security

Avi has more than 25 years of experience in cybersecurity. Prior to co-founding Orca Security, Avi was the chief technologist at Check Point Software Technologies and held key positions within Unit 8200, the Israeli NSA. While at Check Point, he built and scaled cybersecurity solutions that continue to protect tens of thousands of organizations to this day. Avi believes that cybersecurity products should always support the organization and not the other way around.

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Thomas Malta

Head of Identity and Access Management, Navy Federal Credit Union

Tom Malta's extensive career in Financial Services Technology and Cyber Security started 25+ years ago as a hands-on developer building and supporting front office trading systems for many of the top Wall St. Brokerages and Investment Banks. Shortly after moving to Goldman Sachs in 2000, he landed in Cyber Security and has been there ever since focused on building and executing Global Cyber Security Solutions. Over the past 20+ years he's led many successful IAM Programs utilizing custom build as well as off the shelf technology supporting internal, external, customer, and 3rd party/cloud identities alike.

Tom is currently the Head of IAM at Navy Federal Credit Union where he is responsible for design, development, and execution of cyber technology solutions to support the overall IAM Strategy. The team is currently focused on the firm's transformation of both workforce and member (aka customer IAM) to drive more automation, agile development, and improve the effectiveness of existing IAM and Cyber Security Controls.

As a recognized Subject Matter Expert in IAM, Tom spends a lot of his time giving back to the industry through board representations, speaking engagements, and contributing to research papers. His passion for the space is unparalleled, and enjoys staying current with emerging technologies such as biometrics, AI, ML, and next generation customer authentication solutions such as blockchain.

Prior to Navy Federal, Tom held similar Managing Director / Executive IT roles at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, BNYMellon, Wells Fargo, Ally Financial, Synchrony Financial, and Brown Brothers Harriman. Mr. Malta is also a Board Member of the Identity Defined Security Alliance,  an active participant of various IAM Customer Advisory Board's, and a distinguished Ponemon Fellow

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Sami Laine

Principal Security Architect, Okta

Sami Laine is Principal Security Architect at Okta. Over the last two decades, Sami has helped many of the world's largest enterprises, financial institutions, and public sector organizations protect against fraud, malware, threats, and data breaches. At Okta he helps companies embrace identity as the new security perimeter.

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Howard Whyte

CISO Boeing

Howard Whyte is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of The Boeing Company and vice president of Boeing's Information Security organization.

Whyte, who started with Boeing in March 2020, is responsible for the protection of Boeing's information and computing resources globally. He manages the function's overall strategy and operation, including cyber controls; threat and identity management; cyber security services; security assessments, architecture and integration - enhancing the security of Boeing's products, services and infrastructures.

Prior to Boeing, Whyte worked for more than 20 years as an executive leader of information technology and security in the federal government, military and private sector.

He came to Boeing from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), where he was the Chief Information Officer and Chief Privacy Officer. He served as an advisor to the chairman, board members and senior executives on all strategic issues relating to information technology, including governance, investments, program management, strategic planning and security. Earlier, he was the CISO at FDIC and worked to reduce cybersecurity risk by implementing an around-the-clock security operations center and incorporating threat intelligence into security operations.

Previously, he led the Threat Management Center at Goldman Sachs, focusing on cybersecurity detection, protection, response and recovery on a global scale. He also served as the CISO and deputy CISO at NASA, where he provided direction and future vision on a wide range of information technology solutions for mission and corporate systems.

Earlier in his career, he was a senior information officer in the U.S. Army Network Enterprise Technology Command and the Defense Information Systems Agency; a telecommunications manager at Interim HealthCare; and an information management officer in the U.S. Army.

Whyte holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Management Studies from the University of Maryland and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Phoenix.

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Kim Green

Sr. Director IT Security and Compliance, Rodan and Fields

Kim has served in several executive and senior-level IT and InfoSec roles, and as an advisor and investor to several security and healthcare companies. With over 25 years' experience in both private and public healthcare sectors, Kim has consulted federal and state government healthcare agencies and private companies on security and privacy best practices.

Kim routinely speaks internationally on security and privacy topics. In 2013, she spoke to members of the European Commission in Brussels on behalf of the COCIR European Trade Association providing recommendations for GDPR.

Kim studied computer software engineering and computer science at Brandeis University and Cal Lutheran University. She also served in the United States Army and was awarded the Army Achievement Medal for her exemplary service

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Kevin Murphy

Former CISO, City of Seattle

Kevin was the VP of Cybersecurity Operations and Governance at IOActive.com, a retired US Air Force intelligence officer, and the former Director of Windows Security Architecture at Microsoft with over 25 years of experience in threat intelligence and information security. Kevin holds the CISM, CISSP, and CGEIT security certifications.

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Jim Weaver

CIO, Washington State

Jim Weaver was appointed Director and State CIO for Washington Technology Solutions in December 2018. Jim has over 32 years of experience in the IT industry, having served in varying management and technical positions, most notably as the Commonwealth of PA's Chief Technology Officer, as well as Chief Technology Officer and Deputy Chief Information Officer for the commonwealth's Departments of Human Services, Aging and Insurance.

During his tenure, he had responsibility for planning, directing, and evaluating Commonwealth IT operations and was a key contributor for the IT shared services transformation effort to align technology staff and services into functional matrix-based teams. In his agency roles, Jim was responsible for planning, directing and evaluating the IT operations of the three agencies, which included mainframe and distributed systems platforms, data base design and application/software development, telecommunications, IT security and business intelligence.

Jim has proven expertise with successful large scale modernization efforts with an enterprise approach to technology and information security management - many of these efforts have been nationally recognized by NASCIO (2008, 2013, and 2014) and Computerworld Honors (2010 and 2013). Jim holds numerous ITIL certifications and earned his Certified Government Chief Information Officer qualification from Harrisburg University. Jim is also an active member of the armed forces serving in the Pennsylvania Army National Guard with over 33 years' experience in personnel information management systems.

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Justin Fier

Director of Cyber Intelligence and Analytics, Darktrace

Justin Fier is one of the US's leading cyber intelligence experts, and holds the position of Director for Cyber Intelligence & Analytics at Darktrace. His insights on cyber security and artificial intelligence have been widely reported in leading media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, CNN, The Washington Post, and VICELAND. With over 10 years of experience in cyber defense, Fier has supported various elements in the US intelligence community, holding mission-critical security roles with Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman Mission Systems and Abraxas. He is also a highly-skilled technical specialist, and works with Darktrace's strategic global customers on threat analysis, defensive cyber operations, protecting IoT, and machine learning.

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Homayun Yaqub

Senior Director of Strategy, Forcepoint

Homayun Yaqub is Forcepoint's Global Security Strategist. In this role, he partners with executives across various industries to architect and deliver tenable strategies addressing core business issues to reduce risk exposure and better protect their data and people assets. Homayun brings more than 25 years of security experience in the U.S. military, government, and private sector to Forcepoint.

Prior to joining, Homayun led multiple security initiatives at JPMorgan Chase & Company. As an independent consultant, Homayun advised Global 1000 companies on strategies to better manage risk and enhance their security posture. He was also a founding member of The MASY Group, a global security and risk consulting firm.

Homayun held multiple leadership and executive roles in the Department of Defense and U.S. Intelligence Community with his last role serving as the DCS Deputy Director at the Defense Intelligence Agency. Homayun began his career as a U.S. Army Officer.

Homayun holds a Masters in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University, and a Bachelors in International Business rom James Madison University. He is a board member of the Homaira Rahman Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to creating sustainable opportunities for Afghanistan's orphans.

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Alissa Abdullah

Senior Vice President, Deputy Chief Security Officer, Mastercard

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Randy Trzeciak

Director, CERT Insider Threat Center, CMU

Trzeciak heads a team focusing on insider threat research, threat analysis and modeling, assessments and training. He has more than 20 years of experience in software engineering, focusing on database design, development and maintenance. In addition to his role with CERT, he is an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon's Heinz College, Graduate School of Information Systems and Management.

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Mark Ostrowski

Head of Engineering for the East, US, Check Point

Mark has over 20 years' experience in IT security and has helped design and support some of the largest security environments in the country. As Head of Engineering for the US East at Check Point Software, Mark provides thought leadership for the IT security industry outlining the current threat landscape and helping organizations understand how they can pro-actively mitigate and manage risk.

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