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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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Andrew McGuigan

Security Engineer Manager, Global Accounts, Check Point Software Technologies

Andrew McGuigan is the Security Engineering Manager for Global & Strategic Accounts at Check Point Software Technologies. He leads a team of security experts, supporting large global organisations across multiple sectors, including finance, retail, telecommunications, manufacturing and critical infrastructure. Andrew joined Check Point in 2004, and has more than 20 years’ experience working in Cyber Security.

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Nic Miller

Virtual CISO, Aedile Consulting

Miller is the owner and director of Aedile Consulting, a U.K.-based company specializing in cybersecurity. Previously, he was CISO for Brevan Howard, a global hedge fund, and security operations lead for IG, a financial services firm that provides a derivatives trading platform. He began his career at the UK intelligence agency GCHQ, working on cybersecurity, counter-terrorism and other issues.

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Becky Pinkard

Head of Global Cyber Defence, Vodafone & former CISO, Aldermore Bank

Mentioned on the '100 Global CISOs for 2020' list and awarded 'CISO of the Year, 2020' by SC Awards Europe, Becky Pinkard is a renowned practitioner and commentator on the information security sector who has been working in information technology and security since 1996.

A security transformation expert, Becky is experienced with business case preparation and execution through to funding and implementation. She has excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to distil highly technical concepts for an executive audience. Becky has strong vendor management and relationship-building capabilities. Her background and experience to date has provided her with broad information security expertise, coupled with in-depth, technical capabilities around cyber security and data monitoring, vulnerability and risk assessment, web application security and policy development.

Becky is an active advocate for promoting diversity and inclusion in business and is a co-founder of the 'We Empower Diversity in Start-ups' (WEDS) group. She has been a CyLon mentor since 2017, providing cyber security, operations and client success guidance to entrepreneurs. She also co-hosts a monthly podcast, Cyber Warrior Princess, focused on current cyber security related commentary.

Becky was a SANS Certified Instructor for over a decade and served as a GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst advisory board member and on the Strategic Advisory Council for the Center of Internet Security. She co-authored "Nmap in the Enterprise" and "Intrusion Prevention and Active Response, Deploying Network and Host IPS". Becky has shared her expertise in numerous publications, both written and in live interviews all over the world, including: The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, ChannelPost, The Telegraph, The New York Times, BBC News, Channel 4 News, and more.

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Jon Hencinski

Director of Global Operations, Expel

Jon Hencinski is the Director of Global Operations at Expel. In this role, he's responsible for the day-to-day operations of Expel's security operations center (SOC) and detection and response engineering. He oversees how Expel recruits, trains, and develops security analysts. Jon has over a decade of experience in the areas of SOC operations, threat detection, and incident response. Prior to Expel, Jon worked at Mandiant, BAE Systems, and was an adjunct professor at The George Washington University.

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David Monnier

Fellow, Team Cymru

David has been with Team Cymru since 2007. Prior, he served in the US Marine Corps as a Non-Commissioned Officer. He then worked at Indiana University where he helped to build some of the most powerful computational systems of their day. He transitioned to cybersecurity and helped launch the Research and Education Networking ISAC. At Team Cymru, he has been an engineering leader a Community Services team member, and a security analyst. David led efforts to secure the firm’s intelligence infrastructure and established processes the firm relies on today. Currently, David assists CSIRT teams worldwide and fosters data sharing partnerships.

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Joshua Picolet

Head of S2 Threat Analyst Unit, Team Cymru

Joshua Picolet joined Team Cymru as Director of the S2 Threat Analysis team. Over his 17+ year career in the Cybersecurity field, he served in the United States Air Force, supported US Government contracts, and led teams performing Red Teams, Incident Response, and Threat Intelligence services. He brings a deep understanding of offensive techniques and defensive countermeasures to help Team Cymru track and report on the most complex investigations.

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Marc Airo-Farulla

Data Protection Solutions Director, Oceania (AU, NZ & Pacific Islands), Entrust

Over 20 years experience and knowledge in the field of Security & Digital Technological implementations, mastered the art of enterprise integration and business transformation to empower companies to better serve their clients. Proficient in consulting organisations across Banking, Transit, Retail, Telco, Federal and State Government across a diverse global reach within Oceania, Middle East, North America & Africa. Security is in Marc Airo-Farulla’s DNA and he understands the need for strong evolving Security & Key Management coupled with good governance and business logic IT policy are the foundations to securing your business.

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Jiro Shindo

Director Digital Security Solutions, Entrust

Jiro Shindo has been involved at the cutting edge of encryption and key management products for over 25 years – from the early days of securing web servers to the current role to secure the trust, integrity, and control of information everywhere – SECURING A WORLD IN MOTION™. He is responsible for the promotion of the Entrust digital security solutions. Working together with his peers located across the region and worldwide and, as an integral part of the global strategy and marketing organization, he is an evangelist for information security, encryption key management, and of expanding the frontiers of marketing.

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David Monnier

Fellow, Team Cymru

David has been with Team Cymru since 2007. Prior, he served in the US Marine Corps as a Non-Commissioned Officer. He then worked at Indiana University where he helped to build some of the most powerful computational systems of their day. He transitioned to cybersecurity and helped launch the Research and Education Networking ISAC. At Team Cymru, he has been an engineering leader a Community Services team member, and a security analyst. David led efforts to secure the firm’s intelligence infrastructure and established processes the firm relies on today. Currently, David assists CSIRT teams worldwide and fosters data sharing partnerships.

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Joshua Picolet

Head of S2 Threat Analyst Unit, Team Cymru

Joshua Picolet joined Team Cymru as Director of the S2 Threat Analysis team. Over his 17+ year career in the Cybersecurity field, he served in the United States Air Force, supported US Government contracts, and led teams performing Red Teams, Incident Response, and Threat Intelligence services. He brings a deep understanding of offensive techniques and defensive countermeasures to help Team Cymru track and report on the most complex investigations.

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Matt Johnson

Senior Product Marketing Manager, Transunion

Matt Johnson is a seasoned product marketing professional experienced in directing and executing product marketing strategy, go-to-market, sales enablement and creating messaging that clearly communicates differentiated value. Matt currently works as the advisor for fraud product marketing at TransUnion.

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Roger Grimes

Data-Driven Defense Evangelist, KnowBe4

Roger A. Grimes is a Data-Driven Defense Evangelist at KnowBe4. He is a 35-year plus computer security professional, author of 14 books and over 1,400 national magazine articles. He frequently consults with the world’s largest and smallest companies, and militaries, and he has seen what does and doesn’t work.

Grimes was previously a weekly security columnist for InfoWorld and CSO magazines from 2005–2019. He regularly presents at national computer security conferences, and has been interviewed by national magazines and radio shows, including Newsweek magazine and NPR’s “All Things Considered.” Roger is known for his often contrarian, fact-filled viewpoints.

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Dr Shane Shook

Fmr. Managing Director, PwC; Venture Consultant, ForgePoint Capital

Dr. Shane Shook

Fmr. Managing/Director at PwC, LEGC, & KPMG; Venture Consultant, ForgePoint Capital

Dr. Shane Shook is a recognized author, trainer and expert witness in cybercrime investigations, working with ForgePoint Capital and consulting to Fortune 500 clients across the US, UK and Japan.

Dr. Shook brings more than 30 years of experience in IT/risk management and cybersecurity investigations, including serving in Cryptology with the USAF, and in leadership roles at companies like PricewaterhouseCoopers and KPMG. He sits on the boards of several companies and is often called to testify on US state and federal administrative matters, and in criminal, class action, and IRS, SEC, EPA, and ITC cases.

Throughout his career, he has contributed to over a dozen patents and in conferences for technical standards definitions on security, communications, and operations continuity. He is a frequent presence in financial industry summits and periodicals concerning computer disaster recovery and application security practices. Dr. Shook holds an MBA from the University of Phoenix and a Phd. in Organization and Management, Communications Technology from Capella University. https://forgepointcap.com/team/shane-shook/

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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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Jasbir Singh Solanki

CEO-Homeland and Cybersecurity, Mahindra Defense Systems Ltd.

Solanki is the chief executive officer - homeland and cybersecurity - at Mahindra Defence System. He is an armed forces veteran with experience in business development, concept creation, sales and project management team development in defense, homeland security, and smart cities industry.

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Bobby Ford

CSO, Hewlett Packard Enterprise & former Global CISO, Unilever

Prior to joining Unilever, Ford was the CISO for Abbott Labs, a global life sciences organization. With a diverse background in cybersecurity, he has spent the bulk of his career in the aerospace and defense industry. As a soldier in the U.S. Army, he was one of the charter information security analysts for the Pentagon Computer Incident Response Team.

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Stuti Deshpande

Partner Solution Architect, AWS

I come from a Computer Science background, specializing in Data Science and currently working as Associate Solutions Architect in New York. Interacting with customers to discuss their business problems, designing and implementing the industry-focused cloud solutions has given me an in-depth knowledge about the business use cases, cloud architecture and implementations and how solutions can be tailored to resolve the customer's real-world business problems.

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Omer Ganot

Product Manager, Algosec

Omer Ganot is the Cloud Security Product Manager for Algosec, experienced with multiple cloud and security device vendors. Omer has an extensive experience in product management as well as software engineering and managing engineering teams. Outside of AlgoSec, Omer enjoys traveling and playing board games with his family, reading and enjoying music.

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Andrew Rose

Resident CISO - EMEA, Proofpoint

Andrew Rose is Resident CISO for the EMEA Region at Proofpoint. His focus is driving Proofpoint's people-centric security vision, strategy and initiatives amongst the company's customer base, bringing hands on experience, knowledge and perspective in managing risk and improving cyber security posture across complex enterprises. Andrew was previously Chief Security Officer of Mastercard subsidiary Vocalink, who are responsible for much of the UK's instant and bulk payments covering over 90% of UK salaries, over 70% of UK bill payments and nearly all UK benefit payments.

Andrew brings with him a wealth of additional industry expertise from a number of CISO roles including at the UK's Air Traffic Control provider, NATS, where he oversaw a security transformation and contributed to the design of the next generation air traffic control system. Andrew has also held CISO roles at top tier global law firms Allen & Overy LLP and Clifford Chance LLP and was a Principal Analyst at Forrester Research where he covered the role of the CISO and Security Culture and Awareness as two of his specialty areas.

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Mark Walmsley

CISO, Freshfields Law Firm

Mark Walmsley is an experienced chief information security officer. He studied law before joining a number of small boutique private investigation agencies. The majority of Marks professional career has been spent within the legal industry, working within litigation before moving to business services where he managed high-value, complex programmes of work.

Mark has led Freshfields information and cyber security capability for the last six years and had a year secondments to the National cyber Security Centre (part of GCHQ) where he helped manage the government and legal industry engagement.

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Kristin Judge

CEO, Cybercrime Support Network

Kristin Judge currently serves as CEO of the Cybercrime Support Network (cybercrimesupport.org). To address the needs of cybercrime victims, she founded this nonprofit to work with federal, state and local law enforcement and consumer protection agencies to help consumers and small businesses affected by cybercrime. With their United Way partners, CSN has been awarded over $3M in DOJ federal grants to serve victims and is building the US "Cyber 911" to serve millions of cybercrime and online fraud victims. In 2008. she was elected to serve as a Washtenaw County Commissioner and supported the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in growing cybersecurity outreach to state and local government officials. After elected office, she worked at the Center for Internet Security, focusing on connecting state and local governments to federal services and technology needed to improve cyber security. As Director of Government Affairs at the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), Judge worked with Google, FTC, FBI, SBA, DHS, NIST, congressional leaders and other key stakeholders across the country to educate consumers and businesses how to protect sensitive data.

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Sadia Mirza

Attorney, Cybersecurity, Information Governance and Privacy Practice Group, Troutman Pepper

Sadia Mirza is part of the Cybersecurity, Information Governance and Privacy practice group at Troutman Sanders, and is also part of the Financial Services Litigation practice group. She provides strategic privacy compliance counseling, and defends, counsels and represents companies on matters relating to data privacy, data use, and incident response and investigation, with an eye towards helping clients avoid litigation. Additionally, she has experience with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), as well as various other laws concerning privacy and cybersecurity. Mirza's in-house background allows her to understand the issues and concerns clients have and guide them toward resolution in a clear and efficient way. She has worked with clients from a variety of industries, including financial institutions, consumer reporting agencies, insurance companies, healthcare providers, and data and analytics providers. Prior to becoming an attorney, Mirza worked for JPMorgan Chase and Washington Mutual Bank. Her ongoing interest in the financial services industry led her to pursue an LL.M. in banking and finance after graduating from law school.

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David Ogbolumani

Chief CyberSecurity & Privacy Officer, IT Security Consultants; former CISO, Kellogg Company

David Ogbolumani was CISO at the Kellogg Company from 2008 till 2013 and has been in consulting practice since then. David has delivered advisory services in Information Security, Infrastructure Engineering, Data Privacy, Network Operations, Project Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Secure Software Development, Systems Auditing, and Regulatory Compliance to leading organizations including GE, Abbott Lab, BP-Amoco, The World Bank, Northern Trust Bank, JP Morgan, Aon Corp, Phillips Electronics, CNA Insurance, SAIC, SunGard Data Systems, Underwriters Lab, Saudi Aramco, Keane Corp and the US Government. David is a current member of the Academic Advisory Board in the Center for Cyber Security and Forensics Education at the Illinois Institute of Technology which is designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Education by both the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the National Security Agency (NSA). He was a past Governing Body Member of the Chicago CISO Executive Summit and a member of the Security Advisory Board at the Executive Council.

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