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Eric Rydberg

National Account Sales Engineer, Sophos

With over 18 years of technical experience across engineering and design in both the networking and security sectors, Eric Rydberg serves as a national account sales engineer with Sophos. Prior to Sophos, he enjoyed a lengthy career in a similar role at CDW. Most recently, Rydberg helped design the next-generation security architecture plan for one of the largest healthcare providers in the U.S.

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Erich Kron

Security Awareness Advocate

Erich Kron, Security Awareness Advocate at KnowBe4, is a veteran information security professional with over 20 years' experience in the medical, aerospace manufacturing and defense fields. He is the former security manager for the 2nd Regional Cyber Center-Western Hemisphere and holds CISSP, CISSP-ISSAP, MCITP and ITIL v3 certifications, among others. He has managed the technical integration and functional testing of multi-million-dollar enterprise level technology projects within the Department of Defense, as well as large military security programs. Erich has worked with information security professionals around the world to provide the tools, training and educational opportunities to succeed in the InfoSec industry.

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Shirley Inscoe

Senior Analyst, Aite Group

Shirley Inscoe is a senior analyst with Aite Group, covering fraud, data security, and consumer compliance issues. Ms. Inscoe brings to Aite Group 30 years of banking experience in enterprise fraud and payments issues. She has served as the chair of the BITS Fraud Reduction Steering Committee and the co-chair of Early Warning Services' Advisory Committee, and has been a member of ABA's Deposit Account Fraud and Payment Systems Committees.

Prior to joining Aite Group, Ms. Inscoe was the director of financial services solutions at Memento Inc., where she was responsible for guiding the company's overall strategy and supporting product development, marketing, and sales related to payments risk mitigation. During her tenure with Memento, she worked to expand the firm's product offerings beyond employee fraud to cover check, ACH, and wire fraud. Before that, Ms. Inscoe was senior vice president and director of payments strategy with Wachovia Bank, where she previously served as senior vice president and strategic support manager of enterprise loss management. She also served as corporate compliance manager with First Union Corporation.

Ms. Inscoe has spoken at many BAI, ABA, BITS, and NACHA conferences on topics related to payments and fraud prevention. In 2009, she co-authored a book on internal fraud entitled, Insidious: How Trusted Employees Steal Millions and Why It's So Hard for Banks to Stop Them.

Ms. Inscoe is a Certified Risk Professional through the Bankers Administration Institute. She holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Western Carolina University.

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David Vergara

Director Product Marketing, VASCO Data Security

David Vergara is Director of Security Product Marketing at VASCO and has over 10 years of experience in the software security space. Prior to VASCO, he was VP Marketing for Accertify (An American Express Company) leading go-to-market strategy for their online fraud detection solution and he was Sr. Director Product Marketing at IBM with Product Marketing responsibility for the advanced and predictive analytics portfolio.

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Patrick Carey

Director of Product Marketing, Synopsys Software Integrity Group

Patrick leads Product Marketing for Synopsys' portfolio of application security services and products, including Coverity static analysis and Black Duck (acquired by Synopsys in December 2017) software composition analysis. His prior roles span development, product management and marketing leadership positions in Citrix and Accenture, as well as a number of start-ups.

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Markus Jakobsson

Chief Scientist

Markus Jakobsson, Chief Scientist for Agari, has spent more than 20 years as a security researcher, scientist and entrepreneur, studying phishing, crimeware and mobile security at leading organizations. In his role at Agari, he will lead the company's security research with a focus on using advanced data science to prevent email attacks. Prior to Agari, Jakobsson spearheaded research in malware, authentication, fraud, user interfaces and security technologies for Qualcomm. He also co-founded three digital startups - ZapFraud, RavenWhite and FatSkunk - spanning email fraud prevention, user authentication, mobile malware detection and secure user messaging. In addition, Jakobsson has held key roles as Principal Scientist at PayPal, Xerox PARC and RSA Security.

Jakobsson is an esteemed thought leader in the security space. He has written several books, published more than 100 peer-reviewed conference and journal articles, and holds more than 100 patents. Jakobsson is a visiting research fellow of the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG). He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, San Diego and master's degrees from both the University of California, San Diego and Lund University in Sweden.

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Munish Walther-Puri

Chief Research Officer and Head of Intelligence Analytics, Terbium Labs

Walther-Puri brings his expertise in security, intelligence analysis, cyber risk and fraud to his role, where he oversees a team of research and intelligence analysts responsible for dark web data monitoring. His team produces accessible, automated intelligence to help clients minimize the risk of data exposure. Prior to joining Terbium Labs, Walther-Puri was the founder of Presearch Strategy, a New York City-based firm dedicated to applying technology and analytics to political risk, strategic intelligence and cybersecurity through training and consulting projects. Throughout his career, Walther-Puri has worked as an analyst, consultant and trainer in strategic intelligence and analysis for a major bank, a big data analytics startup, political-risk consultancies and think tanks. He is an active member of the analyst and intelligence community, a board member of Women 2.0, a council member of the State Department's Overseas Security Advisory Council for Europe, and President of the Fletcher Club of New York.

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Andy Norton

Director, Threat Intelligence, Lastline

Norton has been involved in cyber security best practice for more than 20 years, specializing in establishing emerging security technologies at Symantec, Cisco and FireEye. He has presented threat and intelligence briefings for both Bush and Obama administrations, The Cabinet office, the Foreign and Commonwealth office, SWIFT, Swiss National Bank, The Hong Kong Monetary Authority, NASA and others. Returning to Europe from Asia in 2011, he has spent the past five years helping many of the FTSE 250 companies measure, manage and respond to cyber incidents.

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Andy Norton

Director, Threat Intelligence, Lastline

Norton has been involved in cyber security best practice for more than 20 years, specializing in establishing emerging security technologies at Symantec, Cisco and FireEye. He has presented threat and intelligence briefings for both Bush and Obama administrations, The Cabinet office, the Foreign and Commonwealth office, SWIFT, Swiss National Bank, The Hong Kong Monetary Authority, NASA and others. Returning to Europe from Asia in 2011, he has spent the past five years helping many of the FTSE 250 companies measure, manage and respond to cyber incidents.

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Dena Bauckman

VP of Product Management

Dena Bauckman is the VP of Product Management for Zix, a leader in email security. Dena has more than 20 years of experience in defining and executing product strategy and has direct experience with cloud and security solutions. She joined Zix twelve years ago and has since spoken to numerous industry and security forums on the need for privacy in email communications, industry specific legislation requiring such protection, and technical/business solutions for deploying and operating such services. Dena earned a bachelor's degree in computer science from California State University Hayward, her MBA from the University of Dallas and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

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Joseph Blankenship

Senior Analyst Serving Security & Risk Professionals, Forrester

Joseph supports Security & Risk professionals, helping clients develop security strategies and make informed decisions to protect against risk. He covers security infrastructure and operations, including security information and event management (SIEM), security analytics, security automation and orchestration (SAO), distributed denial of service (DDoS), and network security. His research focuses on security monitoring, threat detection, insider threat, operations, and management.

Joseph has presented at industry events, been quoted in the media, and has written on a variety of security topics.

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Patrick Carey

Director of Product Marketing, Synopsys Software Integrity Group

Patrick leads Product Marketing for Synopsys' portfolio of application security services and products, including Coverity static analysis and Black Duck (acquired by Synopsys in December 2017) software composition analysis. His prior roles span development, product management and marketing leadership positions in Citrix and Accenture, as well as a number of start-ups.

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Kelly White

CEO and Co-Founder, RiskRecon

Kelly White is the CEO and co-Founder of RiskRecon, the world's leading provider of continuous third-party surface risk assessment capabilities. Prior to dedicating his full attention to RiskRecon, Kelly held various enterprise security roles, including CISO and Director of Information Security for financial services companies. Kelly was also practice manager and senior security consultant for CyberTrust and Ernst & Young.

Kelly is a frequent contributor to the security community, speaking at conferences such as Cybercrime Prevention Summit, United Security Conference, RSA Conference, and RSA eFraud Global Forum. Kelly is a member of the eFraud Global conference board.

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Joe Mitchell

Senior Manager - Sales Engineering, BitSight

Joe Mitchell has over 15 years of security, support, QA, and technical sales experience.

He is currently Senior Manager - Sales Engineering at BitSight Technologies running the global sales engineering team.

Previous to BitSight he was with Q1 Labs the maker of the leading SIEM - QRadar, which was acquired by IBM in 2011.

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Patrick Carey

Director of Product Marketing, Synopsys Software Integrity Group

Patrick leads Product Marketing for Synopsys' portfolio of application security services and products, including Coverity static analysis and Black Duck (acquired by Synopsys in December 2017) software composition analysis. His prior roles span development, product management and marketing leadership positions in Citrix and Accenture, as well as a number of start-ups.

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Mark McGovern

VP Product Management, CA

Mark McGovern is a respected security expert and VP, Product Management for CA Technologies. Mark joined CA in April 2016 when they acquired Mobile System 7, a leading user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) company that Mark led as CEO and founder. Previously Mark was VP of Technology at In-Q-Tel where he led security investments for the U.S. Intelligence Community and was Director of Technology for Cigital Inc. where he led Cigital's Software Security Group supporting a Fortune 100 clientele. Earlier in his career, Mark worked as an engineer for the Central Intelligence Agency building covert and clandestine communication systems. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and an M.S. in Systems Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

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Munish Walther-Puri

Chief Research Officer and Head of Intelligence Analytics, Terbium Labs

Walther-Puri brings his expertise in security, intelligence analysis, cyber risk and fraud to his role, where he oversees a team of research and intelligence analysts responsible for dark web data monitoring. His team produces accessible, automated intelligence to help clients minimize the risk of data exposure. Prior to joining Terbium Labs, Walther-Puri was the founder of Presearch Strategy, a New York City-based firm dedicated to applying technology and analytics to political risk, strategic intelligence and cybersecurity through training and consulting projects. Throughout his career, Walther-Puri has worked as an analyst, consultant and trainer in strategic intelligence and analysis for a major bank, a big data analytics startup, political-risk consultancies and think tanks. He is an active member of the analyst and intelligence community, a board member of Women 2.0, a council member of the State Department's Overseas Security Advisory Council for Europe, and President of the Fletcher Club of New York.

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