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Maher Yamout

Senior Security Researcher, Kaspersky

Maher is a Senior Security Researcher in the Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) at Kaspersky. He supports clients in analyzing cyber risks and helps to expose advanced persistent threats targeting the Middle East, Turkey and Africa. Maher has a background in cyber security, digital forensics & incident response, with more than 18 years’ experience supporting clients across multiple verticals.

Maher holds a degree in Computer Science and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Intelligence Studies. Maher holds multiple certificates from GIAC, ISC2 and others.

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Paul Kao

Sr Director, Head of SASE/Network Integrations, Broadcom Software

Paul is a product leader with a passion for innovation and excellence, driving product strategy and development to deliver market leading Enterprise solutions trusted and widely adopted by FF500/G2000 customers. Paul joins us from the Symantec NIS division where he spent 20+ years, starting at Blue Coat with the birth of the Secure Web Gateway Magic Quadrant (SWG MQ), managing the leading SWG appliance solution in this market. Most recently, Paul was instrumental in charting a strategy for SWG evolution to SASE.

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Mark Leary

Research Director for Network Analytics and Automation, IDC

Mark Leary is Research Director for Network Analytics and Automation responsible for worldwide technology market research and analysis. Mark's core research coverage focuses on network performance management solutions, network automation projects and products, and related predictive analytics, AI/ML, digital experience management, and "programming" technologies as they apply to a resilient, dynamic, and secure network infrastructure. Based on his current work and background, Mark’s research also examines the evolution of enterprise network infrastructure; adoption of cloud services and software-defined systems; buildout of professional services and partner ecosystems; fortification of network management best practices; and the reformation of IT staff roles and skills in this hyper-connected digital era.

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Michael Rothschild

Vice President of Product at HYPR

With over 25 years of experience in various aspects of security, Michael is the VP of product for HYPR. He currently sits on the advisory board of Ithaca College and Rutgers University.

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Jim Delli Santi

Vice President of Marketing and Strategic Initiatives, Nok Nok Labs

Jim is a Silicon Valley business and technology executive with over 25 years’ experience successfully leading and advising companies on digital innovations and acquisitions to drive growth and monetization in the Blockchain, Crypto, SaaS, FinTech, Ecommerce and Media industries. Jim specializes in connecting-the-dots to commercialize new technologies including his own VC-backed startup, and has authored digital transformation strategies that generated incremental annual revenue from $5M to $300M. In investment advisor roles, Jim has helped teams formulate investment scenarios on successful corporate acquisitions with valuations from $10M to $60M resulting in billion-dollar revenue streams at Tier 1 brands such as Idealab’s CarsDirect, Yahoo Search Marketing and Yahoo Media Group.

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Phil Dunkelberger

President and Chief Executive Officer, Nok Nok Labs

Phillip Dunkelberger has broad experience resulting from more than 30 years in technology. Prior to leading Nok Nok Labs, Mr. Dunkelberger served for 8 years as co-founder and CEO of PGP Corporation, the leader in the Enterprise Data Protection market, until acquired by Symantec in 2010. He has significant experience in SaaS infrastructure and enterprise software, having served as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Doll Capital Management (DCM), President and CEO of Embark, and COO of Vantive Corporation. He has also held senior management positions with Symantec, Apple Computer, and Xerox Corporation. Mr. Dunkelberger has served on several boards of directors and advisory boards. He is currently on the board of directors at Northland Control Systems and is a non-executive director at MyPinPad. He is a founding board member of the Cyber Security Industry Alliance (CSIA). Mr. Dunkelberger holds a B.A. in Political Science from Westmont College and is a member of the school’s Board of Trustees.

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Larry Ponemon

Chairman & Founder, Ponemon Institute

Dr. Larry Ponemon is the Chairman and Founder of the Ponemon Institute, a research "think tank" dedicated to advancing privacy and data protection practices. Dr. Ponemon is considered a pioneer in privacy auditing and the Responsible Information Management or RIM framework. Ponemon Institute conducts independent research, educates leaders from the private and public sectors and verifies the privacy and data protection practices of organizations in a various industries. In addition to Institute activities, Dr. Ponemon is an adjunct professor for ethics and privacy at Carnegie Mellon University's CIO Institute.

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Christopher Schnieper

Director of Market Planning, Fraud & Identity, LexisNexis® Risk Solutions

Chris Schnieper is a Director of Market Planning in the Fraud & Identity area at LexisNexis® Risk Solutions. He focuses on working across a variety of different industries on strategic fraud challenges, authentication needs, cybersecurity, and technology innovation. Chris also works with clients on how to protect their ecosystem with decentralized environments including: blockchain solutions, crypto wallets and tokenized financially related transactions.

Chris has over 20+ years working in the payments and risk space across strategy, product innovation, and technology roles. Prior to joining LexisNexis Risk Solutions, Chris has held positions with organizations such as Bank of America, Accenture, Early Warning Services and American Express.

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Christopher Schnieper

Director of Market Planning, Fraud & Identity, LexisNexis® Risk Solutions

Chris Schnieper is a Director of Market Planning in the Fraud & Identity area at LexisNexis® Risk Solutions. He focuses on working across a variety of different industries on strategic fraud challenges, authentication needs, cybersecurity, and technology innovation. Chris also works with clients on how to protect their ecosystem with decentralized environments including: blockchain solutions, crypto wallets and tokenized financially related transactions.

Chris has over 20+ years working in the payments and risk space across strategy, product innovation, and technology roles. Prior to joining LexisNexis Risk Solutions, Chris has held positions with organizations such as Bank of America, Accenture, Early Warning Services and American Express.

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Mike Storm

Cybersecurity Distinguished Engineer, Cisco Security CTO

Mike Storm, Cybersecurity Distinguished Engineer at Cisco and 15-year CCIE Security, focuses on Cybersecurity Solution Architectures and Security Platform Strategy for the Global Cisco Security business. A sought-after Keynote speaker with 30 years in the networking and cybersecurity industry, Storm has an affinity for Security Strategies and Security Threat Operations and frequently speaks, blogs and podcasts on cybersecurity topics. Storm is the host of the Online Reality TV Series - Cisco IT Security Makeover, currently in season 6, where he leads a team to help transform the security posture for companies of all sizes to maximize their protection from cyber-attacks. Storm also hosts the UNHACKABLE Podcast series where he shares his experience and insights on Cybersecurity best practices, threats and security-industry topics for both business and consumers alike.

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David Higgins

EMEA Technical Director, Cyberark

Since joining CyberArk in 2010, Higgins has worked to help the world’s leading - and most complex - organizations secure and protect their privileged access. Today, he advises clients on threats associated with privileged escalation, lateral movement and credential theft and discusses best practices and driving innovation around privileged management processes.

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Justin Post

Europe Privileged Access Management Lead, Accenture Security

Justin is leading the European PAM practice of Accenture Security, and has been supporting international clients in their journey to control privileged access to their landscape. Since joining Accenture in 2014, he has been specialized in helping clients articulate the business benefits of a mature capability, next to advocating the strong need for change management to raise adoption.

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Marcin Szczepanik

CISO and DPO, Essar Oil

Marcin is a Cyber Security Leader with combined OT & IT experience across various industries including: energy, automotive, retails, chemicals, utilities, nuclear, manufacturing & recruitment.

His passion for technology comes from dealing with people and life's challenges. his favorite statement is "if you think the problem can be solved by technology, then you probably don't understand the problem."

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Jason Georgi

Global Field CTO, Prisma SASE, Palo Alto Networks

Jason is the Global Field Chief Technology Officer for Prisma SASE at Palo Alto Networks. He is an accomplished technology executive with over 25 years of experience driving innovation and transformation initiatives across global organizations. Jason collaborates with CIOs, CTOs, and other technology leaders on strategies aimed at enabling business outcomes.

His recent previous experience includes being the global head of Zscaler’s business consulting practice, and eight years at GE where his organization was responsible for enabling GE’s cloud journey through network and network security transformation.

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Danielle Syvertsen

Cloud Security Sales Leader, IBM Cloud & Cognitive , Americas

Danielle Syvertsen has over 15 years of sales and business development experience in a variety of diverse industries. Danielle began her career in the technology field, serving as a Managing Consultant for IBM’s Strategy & Change consulting practice. She led numerous strategic client projects as well as driving internal transformational initiatives across IBM.

Midway through her tenure, Danielle transitioned to the IBM Security practice where she built, and now leads the development, and growth of the cloud security practice via strategic Ecosystem partnerships and the Hyperscalers (MSFT Azure, AWS). She also works very closely with our R&D, Solution Labs, and Product Management Teams to design and develop industry-specific use cases and solutions (i.e. 5G and Edge security).

Danielle also speaks and presents on many different topics including cybersecurity, sales and marketing. She thrives on helping Clients secure and protect their organization while helping them accelerate their journey to Cloud.

Syvertsen holds a master’s degree in business administration from the Fordham Graduate School of Business, and a bachelor’s degree in biology/sociology with a pre-med concentration from Columbia University.

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Murali Palanisamy

Chief Solutions Officer, AppViewX

Passionate enterprise technology influencer, currently overseeing Innovation, Strategy and Product Direction to enable Customers achieve friction-less application deployment using Automation at AppViewX. As Chief Solutions Officer, Murali is responsible for the overall product vision, development, and technical direction of AppViewX. Before joining the company, he served as Senior Vice President at Bank of America, where he led an architecture and engineering team of e-commerce application delivery.

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Darrell Johnston

Internationally experienced Cyber Security sales professional with a demonstrated ability to lead teams through complex sales cycles, open and capitalise on new markets and significantly enhance existing revenue streams. I have a consistent history of exceeding individual quota as well as leading teams to exceed quota attainment. Expertise forging and fostering strong working relationships with clients, sales teams, product management, and strategic partners are amongst some of the key skills which drive me to continued success and proven results.

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Ivar Kangur

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Nick Barham

DevSecOps Transformation Consultant

During his tenure at Veracode, Nick has collaborated with enterprises across multiple industries to help drive successful AppSec programs and reduce application risk. His close contact with dev teams has helped him build a strong understanding of 'what works’, enabling them with the tooling and mindset needed to code securely and consider supply chain risk when developing software. In his current role, Nick collaborates with existing customers who are either thinking about embedding DevSecOps or are already on the journey to doing so and are seeking guidance in maturing their security practices using Veracode.

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Edward Amoroso

Chief Executive Officer, TAG Cyber LLC

Ed is currently Chief Executive Officer of TAG Cyber LLC, a global cyber security advisory, training, consulting, and media services company supporting hundreds of companies across the world. Ed recently retired from AT&T after thirty-one years of service, beginning in Unix security R&D at Bell Labs and culminating as Senior Vice President and Chief Security Officer of AT&T from 2004 to 2016. From AT&T to Johns Hopkins’ APL to NSA’s Advisory Board—Ed has held groundbreaking leadership positions in multiple arenas, working primarily with telecommunications and cybersecurity as developer, engineer and entrepreneur. He has advised US presidents and major institution executives as they navigate cyberthreats to create their own preemptive cyber intelligence. With advanced degrees from Stevens Institute of Technology and Columbia Business School, Ed is a prolific writer, pioneering manager, college professor, computer scientist and inventor, holding ten patents connected to cybersecurity, including software protection designs used by the US Department of Defense.

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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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Scott Lambert

Vice President, Threat Intelligence Research, ReversingLabs

Scott Lambert is the Vice President of Threat Intelligence Research at ReversingLabs. Scott leads a team of highly skilled software reverse engineers and threat intelligence researchers who are responsible for analyzing new malware, creating enriched threat context data, and updating the content in ReversingLabs industry leading TitaniumCloud File Intelligence service. Prior to ReversingLabs, Scott was VP of Threat Intelligence at Alert Logic where he drove efforts to develop innovative detection methods and actionable intelligence for threats that target both Cloud and hosted Data Center environments. He has held executive positions at Click Security and HP, as well as intelligence and engineering positions at L-3, Network Security, Veridian, Symantec Corporation, and Microsoft. Scott holds a Bachelor of Computer Science degree from St Mary’s University.

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Mike Britton

CISO, Abnormal Security

Mike Britton is the CISO of Abnormal Security, where he leads information security and privacy programs. Prior to Abnormal, Mike spent six years as the CSO and Chief Privacy Officer for Alliance Data. He brings 25 years of information security, privacy, compliance, and IT experience from a variety of Fortune 500 global companies. He holds an M.B.A with a concentration in Information Assurance from the University of Dallas.

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Theresa Lanowitz

Head of Evangelism, AT&T Cybersecurity

Theresa Lanowitz is a proven global influencer and speaks around the world on trends and emerging technology poised to help today’s IT organizations flourish. Prior to joining AT&T Cybersecurity, she founded industry analyst firm voke, to highlight emerging technologies and the benefits of adoption ahead of legacy analyst firms. Lanowitz was also an Industry Analyst at Gartner where she spearheaded the application quality ecosystem, championed application security technology and created the successful Application Development conference. Throughout her career, Lanowitz has been a trusted advisor to some of the most innovative and influential companies and executives in the world.

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Steve Winterfeld

Advisory CISO, Akamai Technologies

Steve Winterfeld is the Advisory CISO at Akamai. Steve is focused on being the voice of the customer for Akamai's security vision and helping CISOs solve their most pressing issues. He brings experience with Zero Trust Security Architectures, and integrating multiple tools into effective programs that will stand up to both auditors and hackers. Before joining Akamai, he served as CISO for Nordstrom bank, Director of Cybersecurity for Nordstrom, and Director of Incident Response and Threat Intelligence at Charles Schwab. Additionally, he has supported multiple DoD and government agencies while at Northrop Grumman. Steve has published a book on cyber warfare and holds CISSP, ITIL, and PMP certifications.

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