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Robert Farnod

Security Specialist Advisor, Splunk

Rob Farnod, Splunk Security Specialist Security is a CISO/SOC strategy advisor for EMEA, supporting the maturity journey of hundreds of SOCs. Rob has nine years experience in Financial Service Cyber Security roles, and was previously a customer of Splunk!

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Joseph Brunsman

Founder, Brunsman Advisory Group

Joseph joined the cyber and professionally liability realm in 2015 after serving as a Lieutenant in the United States Navy, working as an Anti-Terrorism / Force Protection Officer responsible for a billion dollars of equipment and 280+ military personnel. Prior to that he served tours as a Combat Information Center Officer and an Electronic Warfare Officer. During his enlisted time he was an Information Systems Technician dealing with Unix database management and network security. Joseph is a 2003 graduate of New Mexico Military Institute and a 2010 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD where he obtained a degree in Systems Engineering with a focus on robotics system interoperability. He is the resident expert in cyber law, insurance and compliance—writing 2 consecutive books on the subject. He enjoys Jiu Jitsu, powerlifting, business theory, and biohacking.

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James Slaby

Director of Cyber Protection, Acronis

James R. Slaby is the Director of Cyber Protection at Acronis, where he evangelizes cybersecurity and data protection solutions for business. Previously, Slaby was an industry analyst covering cybersecurity, cloud computing and networking at Forrester Research, HFS Research, Yankee Group and The Info Pro. With over 300 published tech research reports, he has been quoted in The Economist, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Times, and countless tech publications. Slaby has also held solutions, vertical, product and campaign marketing roles at tech security and networking vendors including Sonus, Acme Packet, Bay Networks and Motorola.

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Dave Sobel

Host, The Business of Tech Podcast

Dave is the host of the Business of Tech podcast, and owner of MSP Radio. The Business of Tech” is a leading IT services focused news and analysis podcast and YouTube show, with thousands of listeners and subscribers. He also co-hosts of the podcast “Killing IT,” and authored the book Virtualization: Defined. He was a CRN Channel Chief, on the CRN UK A-List, a Channel Futures Circle of Excellence winner, and one of Channel Pro’s 20/20 Visionaries. Dave has been recognized as one of the top virtualization experts globally as a Microsoft MVP for Virtualization. Dave holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary. He lives just outside Washington DC with his wife and two cats. His interests include travel and food, cheering the Washington Nationals and Capitals, smoking barbeque, enjoying craft beers, and collecting and playing retro and modern video games among others.

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Richard Stiennon

Chief Research Analyst

Richard Stiennon is an industry analyst and adviser to many security companies from startups to the very largest. He has been writing and speaking about cyber security since 1995. Richard has 26 years experience in the industry, from pioneering MSSP Netrex (now part of IBM), to Gartner to Fortinet. He is the author of seven books, and publisher of Security Yearbook 2021. He has presented in 31 countries on six continents. Stiennon has a BS in aerospace engineering and an MA in War in the Modern World, from King’s College, London.

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Greg Crabb

Founder of 10-8, LLC

Greg Crabb is the founder of 10-8, LLC. With more than 25 years of law enforcement and security experience, he specializes in providing consultation to cybersecurity leaders and organizations to help protect their digital assets against evolving cyberthreats. Greg focuses specifically on delivering advisory services to C-suite executives, their boards, and other leaders responsible for securing their organization’s operations, products, and services. For six years as the U.S. Postal Service’s chief information security officer, Greg secured the agency’s technology and information assets against nation-state threat actors. These efforts helped protect military mail globally and the unprecedented 2020 U.S. elections. With his successful track record as a cybersecurity executive and law enforcement official, Greg stands ready to apply proven models and his vast experience to help organizations strengthen their cybersecurity posture, obtain security certifications and achieve ongoing success.

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Chris Hawley

Director of Identity and Access Management, Corporate Security and Infrastructure Office, Unisys

Chris Hawley is the Director of Identity and Access Management in the Corporate Security and Infrastructure Office at Unisys. Chris joined Unisys in 2002 and is responsible for the overall strategy and delivery of the Unisys certificate infrastructure (PKI), Identity and Access Management and provisioning, and Multi-Factor Authentication solutions.

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Matthew Ulery

Chief Product Officer, SecureAuth

Matthew Ulery is the chief product officer at SecureAuth. With more than 20 years of experience delivering enterprise security, compliance and critical infrastructure software, Ulery leads the company’s overall product strategy and management. He works closely with the product, engineering and research teams to drive innovation in the SecureAuth Identity Platform. Prior to SecureAuth, Ulery was global vice president of product management at Micro Focus, responsible for the company’s IAM and Security Operations Solutions. Prior to Micro Focus, Ulery held senior product management and engineering roles at Symantec, NetIQ, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, and Telvent. He started his career at Lockheed as a systems engineer working on Space Station Freedom, before focusing on enterprise software. During Ulery’s extensive career, he was responsible for managing a portfolio of security solutions including access management, IGA, privileged access management, security operations and Active Directory management. Matthew earned a bachelor’s degree from Texas A&M University and an MBA from The University of Texas at Austin. He currently resides in Houston with his wife and children.

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Stephen Manley

CTO, Druva

Stephen delivers solutions to help customers extract the full potential of their data. In leading development of data management capabilities for startups and serving as CTO of the Data Protection Group at Dell EMC, Stephen found his passion in partnering with customers to solve data protection challenges for today’s enterprise and evolve modern data storage. He also spent time at NetApp as a senior technical director of data protection. Stephen is excited to connect with new customers and technology to transform how people protect, preserve, and use their data. Stephen works tirelessly to bring the latest innovative technologies to our customers, so they can always protect, manage, and increasingly obtain more value from their data.

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Larry Weber

Vice President of Product Marketing

Larry Weber is a Vice President of Product Marketing at Veracode. He is responsible for leading the overall product & industry marketing, market insights, and developer relations teams.

Larry has multiple years of experience in cloud strategy, user experience and analytics. Prior to joining Veracode, he built and led the marketing team for the AWS Databases category and was responsible for thought leadership, awareness, adoption, engagement, and advocacy for AWS’s 15+ purpose-built managed database services.

Larry received a Masters of Computer Science from North Carolina State University and an MBA from a UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School.

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Chris Wysopal

Chief Technology Officer

Chris Wysopal is Chief Technology Officer at Veracode. He oversees technology strategy and information security. Prior to co-founding Veracode in 2006, Chris was vice president of research and development at security consultancy @stake, which was acquired by Symantec.

In the 1990’s, Chris was one of the original vulnerability researchers at The L0pht, a hacker think tank, where he was one of the first to publicize the risks of insecure software. He has testified to the US Congress on the subjects of government security and how vulnerabilities are discovered in software.

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Murthy Mathiprakasam

Senior Director of Product Marketing, Rubrik

Murthy Mathiprakasam is a Senior Director of Product Marketing for Rubrik's data security and cyber resilience solutions. Murthy has over two decades of experience working with emerging high-growth software technologies, including roles at Mercury Interactive/HP, Google, eBay, VMware, Oracle, Informatica, and Splunk. Murthy holds an MS in management science from Stanford University and double BS degrees in management science and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Murthy Mathiprakasam

Senior Director of Product Marketing, Rubrik

Murthy Mathiprakasam is a Senior Director of Product Marketing for Rubrik's data security and cyber resilience solutions. Murthy has over two decades of experience working with emerging high-growth software technologies, including roles at Mercury Interactive/HP, Google, eBay, VMware, Oracle, Informatica, and Splunk. Murthy holds an MS in management science from Stanford University and double BS degrees in management science and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Roger Grimes

Data-Driven Defense Evangelist, KnowBe4

Roger Grimes, KnowBe4’s Data-Driven Defense Evangelist, is a 30-year computer security consultant, instructor, holder of dozens of computer certifications and an award-winning author of 13 books and over 1,000 magazine articles on computer security. He now serves as the Data-Driven Defense Evangelist for KnowBe4. He has worked at some of the world’s largest computer security companies, including Foundstone, McAfee and Microsoft. Grimes holds a bachelor’s degree from Old Dominion University. He was the weekly security columnist for InfoWorld and CSO magazines from 2005-2019.

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Tonia Dudley

Strategic Advisor, Cofense

Tonia Dudley joined Cofense in 2018 as Director, Security Solution Advisor. In this role, she focuses on phishing defense advocacy while demonstrating how Cofense solutions help organizations across the globe minimize the impact of attacks while reducing the cost of operations. Tonia evangelizes Cofense’s approach to phishing defense and incident response to new and existing customers, prospects, and the information technology market through speaking engagements, publishing platforms and media opportunities. Tonia also advises Cofense product teams on specific customer and market-driven needs to help streamline product roadmaps and create Cofense’s inaugural international customer advisory board. With more than a decade of cybersecurity experience, Tonia has managed programs in cybersecurity incident response, security awareness and IT compliance for large global organizations. Her diverse career includes 14 years in finance roles at a national automotive retail chain, transitioning into IT roles over the next 12 years for a global manufacturing enterprise where she developed an interest in Cybersecurity. In 2011, she began building a robust security awareness program to focus on behavior instead of compliance. She then moved into the Financial Services industry for 3 ½ years to build a security awareness program. While working in the financial services industry, she participated in a working group to assist small firms with implementing a cybersecurity program to protect them. She has spoken at several cybersecurity and industry conferences on building successful security awareness and phishing programs. Her anti-phishing training programs have received three awards. Tonia maintains certifications for Certified Information Systems Security Professional, Certified Information Security Manager and Certified Information Systems Auditor. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Phoenix. She currently serves on the board of the National Cybersecurity Society, helping small businesses understand the growing need for cybersecurity.

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Brian Chappell

Chief Security Strategist, 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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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

Former Head of Identity and Access Management, Navy Federal Credit Union, CEO and Principal IAM Experts, LLC

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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Scott Gillis

District Sales Manager, Exabeam

Gillis is a cybersecurity industry leader with over 20 years of experience in the IT industry, specializing in creating and leading hyper-performing teams to achieve key company metrics and KPIs. He is widely known across the industry as a successful product and operational leader specializing in creating, rebuilding, and realigning business segmentation models that focus on unique value against clients' business outcomes. Gillis has worked with a plethora of Fortune 500 companies in the transformation of their IT and business initiatives, with an emphasis on increasing revenue, reducing costs, reducing complexity, and increasing operational efficiency.

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Errol Weiss

Chief Security Officer, H-ISAC

Weiss is an executive vice president with Citigroup's IT risk and program management office and brings over 20 years of experience in information Security to this corporate level position. Weiss helps ensure that Citigroup receives the most thorough and highest quality threat intelligence from numerous sources including commercial providers and U.S. Government intelligence operations. He also ensures that threat information is delivered to the right person within Citigroup - an international organization with nearly 400,000 employees. Formerly a senior network security analyst for the National Security Agency, Weiss was responsible for conducting vulnerability analyses and penetrations of highly classified U.S. Government computers and network systems.

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