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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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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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Tyler Croak

Principal Strategist, Lookout

Tyler is an Information Security professional with over 14 years of experience. He has spent over a decade spreading best practice knowledge in the IAM/PAM space and has a wide range of experience working previously as a Systems Engineer, Consultant, and Enterprise Architect at organizations. He has spoken at several cyber security events nationally and internationally on behalf of or in partnership with companies such as FireEye, Thycotic, ESET, and Lookout. Tyler considers himself a bridge-builder and often facilities and solves technical and business problems that exist between various areas of an organization.

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David Richardson

VP Product Management, Lookout

As Vice President of Product at Lookout, David Richardson is responsible for developing and delivering cutting edge AI-based security solutions to protect individuals and enterprises from cyber threats. David took this expanded role after 11 years of service to Lookout in a variety of roles throughout engineering, product management and product strategy; most recently leading all enterprise product lines. David has been hacking on mobile devices since the early days of Palm and Windows Mobile. He is a frequent speaker at security conferences discussing new threat vectors he has discovered to attack Android and iOS devices. David has over 50 patents issued, most pertaining to finding novel ways to secure mobile devices. In his free time, David is an avid karaoke singer and board game enthusiast.

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Bryan Becker

Director of Product Management, Human Security

Bryan Becker is the Director of Product Management at HUMAN Security focusing on frictionless, high-precision security. Prior to his role at HUMAN, Bryan built a program at Amazon that used machine learning to identify and mitigate data security risks, and developed and launched an API security product at WhiteHat Security.

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Peter Craig

Director, Product Marketing, Cybersecurity, Human Security

Peter is Director of Product Marketing – Cybersecurity at Human. He has worked in cyber security for more than 20 years mainly in product marketing but also in sales engineering and enablement. Peter enjoys helping organizations find the right security product for their business.

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Saikrishna Chavali

Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Proofpoint

Saikrishna (Sai) Chavali is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Proofpoint, where he is helping Secure Service Edge (SSE) products cross the chasm to mainstream enterprise buyers. Sai has expertise in growing and building cloud security products to protect data, applications and users across CASB, Insider Threat Management and Application Security. Prior to his time at Proofpoint, Sai held product management positions at Veracode, where his products helped to reduce software vulnerabilities in web applications used by Fortune 100 enterprise companies and consumers all over the world. 

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Brian Gleeson

Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Proofpoint

Brian Gleeson is charged with bringing to market Proofpoint’s People-centric Security Service Edge solutions. He comes to Proofpoint from Check Point, where he focused on a wide portfolio of product offerings, including network, mobile, endpoint, IoT, and cloud security. Since 2013, he published more than 50 though-leadership papers and blogs on topics ranging from cyber threat research, security best practices, and threat prevention.

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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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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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Lucas Salter

General Manager, Data Protection Solutions, Dell Technologies, Asia Pacific & Japan

Lucas is the General Manager of the Data Protection Solutions business and a member of the Executive Leadership team at Dell Technologies Asia Pacific & Japan. Lucas leads a team of data protection specialists who enable companies to modernise and automate their data protection platforms and overcome data protection barriers.

With a passion for managing risk, Lucas’ team enables organisations to solve multi-cloud, data growth and cyber-security challenges, allowing them to focus on meeting their business objectives. Working closely with customers across multiple sectors, his team helps organisations accelerate digital transformation by focusing on the value and resilience of their data, and enabling them to scale for current and future demands.

Lucas joined Dell Technologies (formerly EMC) in 2015. Prior to Dell Technologies, he held senior positions at NextDC and Symantec. He has over 20 years of experience specialising in solving business problems with technology in the areas of security, risk and data protection.

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Venkat Thoutam

Business Unit Security Officer (BUSO) – Dell Digital and a Regional Security Lead -APJC

Venkat has more than 27 years of experience and currently serves as Business Unit Security Officer (BUSO) – Dell Digital, responsible to Identify, prioritize and drive security programs to benefit the business area and help in the management of security & resiliency. He is also a Regional Security Lead for APJC region, In this role he supports external and internal Dell customers and act as a single point of contact for all the Security & Resiliency requirements in the region.

Venkat has been in the industry more than 27 years, during last 2 decades he has been focused on building application & data security practices providing consulting, strategy, architecture & design services aligning with business goals to enhance the security posture of the organizations across multiple industry sectors.

Prior to Dell, he worked as an Application & Data Security Practice Lead and Senior Delivery Lead for Security & Risk Consulting Services at Accenture. Also as a Global Delivery Head of Enterprise Security Services at Wipro Technologies.

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Alex Tilley

Head of CTU for APJ, Secureworks

With well over 20 years of experience in computer security and cyber-crime, Alex Tilley is a highly awarded cyber-crime researcher. Alex was on the forefront of research and countermeasures when phishing and malware first began to attack banking platforms and their customers.

With that background, Alex became the Australian Federal Police’s senior cyber-crime technical analyst where he combined his technical background with an analytical approach to the “who” and “why” of the cyber-crime fight. This work resulted is many successful investigations in the cyber-crime and child protection space.

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Saikrishna Chavali

Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Proofpoint

Saikrishna (Sai) Chavali is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Proofpoint, where he is helping Secure Service Edge (SSE) products cross the chasm to mainstream enterprise buyers. Sai has expertise in growing and building cloud security products to protect data, applications and users across CASB, Insider Threat Management and Application Security. Prior to his time at Proofpoint, Sai held product management positions at Veracode, where his products helped to reduce software vulnerabilities in web applications used by Fortune 100 enterprise companies and consumers all over the world. 

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Brian Gleeson

Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Proofpoint

Brian Gleeson is charged with bringing to market Proofpoint’s People-centric Security Service Edge solutions. He comes to Proofpoint from Check Point, where he focused on a wide portfolio of product offerings, including network, mobile, endpoint, IoT, and cloud security. Since 2013, he published more than 50 though-leadership papers and blogs on topics ranging from cyber threat research, security best practices, and threat prevention.

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Julia Grunewald

Director, Product Management, Tanium

Julia Grunewald is Director, Product Management for Tanium Risk. Previously, she has worked on products for cyber insurance and third-party risk management. She is passionate about security and privacy.

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Hunter Hogan

Digital Technical Specialist, Microsoft

Hunter Hogan is a Digital Technical Specialist at Microsoft, with responsibilities covering modern work solutions including Office 365, Enterprise Mobility + Security, and Windows 10/11. In his day-to-day role, he routinely helps solve customer challenges by removing technical blockers through presentations and product demonstrations. The Defender suite of products has quickly become his favorite topic of discussion due to the way it is revolutionizing the modern security landscape.

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Arun Singh

Vice President, Product Marketing, Abnormal Security

Arun Singh is the Vice President of Product Marketing at Abnormal Security. Prior to joining Abnormal, Arun held leadership roles in product marketing, product management, and engineering at notable companies including Okta, Cloudflare, Salesforce, Oracle, and Sun Microsystems. He has more than 15 years of experience in the cybersecurity industry, with an in-depth understanding of network security, cloud security, infrastructure security, and identity and access management.

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Martyn Crew

Director of Solutions Marketing, Gigamon

Crew is Director, Industry Solutions at Gigamon. He brings a 30 year background in all aspects of enterprise IT to his role at Gigamon where he focuses on a number of initiatives and products including Gigamon's Application Visibility and Intelligence solutions.

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Gary Alterson

VP of Security Solutions, Rackspace

Gary Alterson is VP of Security Solutions at Rackspace. In this role he acts as GM for Rackspace’s security solutions focused on cloud customers. Previously, Gary led CX Product Management at Cisco Systems where he built programs for the implementation, adoption, use, support, and expansion of technology addressing cloud security and advanced threats. At Cisco and at Neohapsis, a nationally recognized cybersecurity boutique consultancy, Gary and his teams were instrumental in transforming enterprise and government security programs to effectively address shifting business models, emerging technologies, and the evolving threat environment. As a previous CISO and security architect, Gary has a history on the front lines of security, both protecting and responding to threats across multiple industries. Gary is often sought out to speak on secure digitization, cloud, and emerging technology security frameworks as well as enterprise security.

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Tony Lauro

Director of Security Strategy, Akamai

Tony Lauro is currently Director of Security Strategy for Akamai Technologies. He's been involved with Information Security since the late 90's when he worked for a large US based telecom provider. Since then, Tony has worked with Akamai’s top global clients to provide cyber security guidance, architectural analysis, web application and network security expertise. With over 20 years of Information Security operations experience Tony has worked and consulted in many verticals including finance, automotive, medical/healthcare, enterprise, and mobile applications. He is currently responsible for Akamai’s North / Central / South American clients advising in the areas of adversarial resiliency, security architecture, and cyber security strategy. Tony’s previous responsibilities include consulting with public sector/government clients at Akamai, managing security operations and pen testing for a mobile payments company, and overseeing security and compliance responsibilities for a global financial software services organization.

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