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Darrin Kimes

Senior Special Agent, US Secret Service

Darrin Kimes is a Special Agent/Technical Staff Assistant with the Secret Service's Chicago Electronic Crimes Task Force. Most of his 21 years have been dedicated to digital forensics and cyber investigations. Kimes currently serves as the Digital Forensics Lab Director for the CECTF. There he manages the day-to-day work of the lab while also assisting the CECTF in cybercrime investigations. His Secret Service career has also given him the opportunity to protect former-President Jimmy Carter in some of the more challenging locations around the world to include Darfur, Sudan; the Gaza Strip; Ramallah, West Bank; and Pyong Yang, North Korea.

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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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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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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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Jeff Orloff

Tech Evangelist & VP of Products, RangeForce

Jeff Orloff is the Tech Evangelist and VP of Products at RangeForce. He has more than 10 years of experience in cybersecurity, system administration, and computer and network security.

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Chris Borales

Sr. Product Manager, ThreatINSIGHT and Security Solutions, Gigamon

Chris Borales is the Senior Product Marketing Manager for ThreatINSIGHT and Security Solutions at Gigamon. He has more than 15 years in product management and product marketing experience and has worked on cybersecurity teams where he trained employees on secure coding practices, secure system administration and cybersecurity best practices.

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Christopher Hines

VP, Product Marketing, Axis Security

As VP of product marketing at Axis Security, Hines is responsible for the go to market strategy for the company's cloud-based zero trust application access platform. He works with customers to help guide them on their path to securing a modern workplace with zero trust. Prior to Axis, he spent four years at Zscaler working as Director of Product Marketing for Zscaler's zero trust solution, Zscaler Private Access. Hines has previously worked at Unicorn container company Docker, CASB company Bitglass, and Data Storage company EM Corporation (now Dell).

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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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Tony Lauro

Director of Security Technology & Strategy, Akamai Technologies

Tony is currently Director of Security Technology & 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 as well the training of an internal group whose focus is on Web Application Security / and adversarial resiliency disciplines. 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. Tony enjoys skateboarding, competitive grappling, Brazillian Jiu Jitsu, and spending time with his wife and kids in Dallas, TX.

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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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Martin Cook

Sr. Engineer, ReliaQuest

Cook has been working in IT Security in a professional capacity since 2001. Over this time, he's operated within multiple disciplines from IT analyst, through operations, delivery management, strategy and sales engineering. Currently, he's at ReliaQuest as the Senior Sales Engineer demonstrating how you can enhance the value of security across the customer enterprise utilising GreyMatter. Cook’ career to date has seen him be highly effective, delivering to time, cost and quality in both an inspiring and motivational way.

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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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Dr. Eric Cole

World Renowned Cybersecurity Expert

World Renowned Cybersecurity Expert with more than 30 years of network security experience, Dr. Eric Cole is a distinguished cybersecurity expert and keynote speaker who helps organizations curtail the risk of cyber threats. Many of the foundational principles of this course and training in cybersecurity were developed by Dr. Cole. He has worked with a variety of clients ranging from Fortune 50 companies, to top international banks, to the CIA, for which he was a professional hacker. While he started his career on the offense, he is now fully dedicated to understanding the adversary so he can provide cost effective solutions that actually work. As a pioneer in the area of cybersecurity he has been inducted into the Infosec hall of Fame, awarded the Cyber Wingman Award from the US Air Force, received multiple accommodations from the CIA and was part of the commission on cybersecurity for President Obama. He has been the featured speaker at many security events and also has been interviewed by several chief media outlets such as CNN, CBS News, FOX New and 60 Minutes.

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John Summers

Chief Technology Officer, Trusona

As Chief Technology Officer at Trusona, John oversees the Product, Engineering and Experience functions. His mission is to drive the development of Trusona’s next generation authentication platform that enables enterprises to easily and rapidly shift away from legacy authentication yet deliver an outstanding customer experience and strong security at the same time.

Prior to Trusona, John was SVP and GM of Web Security at Akamai Technologies, leading a $1B cloud security business. That security business began with John as a patent holder on Akamai’s distributed web application firewall technology. John led the teams that built Akamai’s Web Security and Enterprise Security products. John also helped drive multiple acquisitions, including Prolexic in 2014. In 2018 John turned his attention to Identity which led to the acquisition of Janrain and the launch of Akamai Identity Cloud.

Prior to Akamai, John led Managed Security Services businesses at Unisys and at Genuity. John holds degrees in physics and computer science from the University of Pennsylvania. He was a member of the 1980 U.S. Olympic Team and a three-time U.S. National Ice Dance Champion.

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John Summers

Chief Technology Officer, Trusona

As Chief Technology Officer at Trusona, John oversees the Product, Engineering and Experience functions. His mission is to drive the development of Trusona’s next generation authentication platform that enables enterprises to easily and rapidly shift away from legacy authentication yet deliver an outstanding customer experience and strong security at the same time.

Prior to Trusona, John was SVP and GM of Web Security at Akamai Technologies, leading a $1B cloud security business. That security business began with John as a patent holder on Akamai’s distributed web application firewall technology. John led the teams that built Akamai’s Web Security and Enterprise Security products. John also helped drive multiple acquisitions, including Prolexic in 2014. In 2018 John turned his attention to Identity which led to the acquisition of Janrain and the launch of Akamai Identity Cloud.

Prior to Akamai, John led Managed Security Services businesses at Unisys and at Genuity. John holds degrees in physics and computer science from the University of Pennsylvania. He was a member of the 1980 U.S. Olympic Team and a three-time U.S. National Ice Dance Champion.

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Jerry Chapman

Engineering Fellow IAM, Optiv Security

Jerry Chapman has been with Optiv Security for more than 15 years, developing and delivering Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions. With over 18 years in identity, he has been successfully enabling clients in designing and implementing an IAM strategy that aligns with both their security and business objectives. His role also includes architecture, engineering, and software development, architecture and support. Chapman supports other cybersecurity practices and experts in positioning identity and data as core components within their enterprise security infrastructure. He also is a key spokesperson for Optiv’s Zero Trust strategy and speaks at industry events.

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Tom Field

Senior Vice President, Editorial, ISMG

Field is responsible for all of ISMG's 28 global media properties and its team of journalists. He also helped to develop and lead ISMG's award-winning summit series that has brought together security practitioners and industry influencers from around the world, as well as ISMG's series of exclusive executive roundtables.

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Paul Kaspian

Principal Product Manager, Palo Alto Networks

Paul Kaspian is a Principal Product Marketing Manager for Palo Alto Networks, specializing in Zero Trust and how this modern security methodology can help organizations secure their digital transformation. He brings close to 20 years of experience in product management and product marketing where prior to joining Palo Alto Networks, he held strategic positions at Aruba Networks, IBM Security, Watchfire, and Checkpoint Software Technologies.

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Julie Conroy

Head of Risk Insights and Advisory, Aite-Novarica Group

Conroy is research director for Aite-Novarica Group's Fraud & AML practice and covers fraud, data security, anti-money laundering, and compliance issues. Conroy brings to Aite Group more than a decade of hands-on product management experience working with financial institutions, payments processors, and risk management companies.

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Will LaSala

Senior Director Global Solutions, OneSpan

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David Vergara

Senior Direct, Product Marketing, OneSpan

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Martin Cannard

Vice President of Product Strategy for Stealthbits, Netwrix

Cannard is VP Product Strategy at Stealthbits (now part of Netwrix). He is an experienced technologist, with over 30 years in the privileged access management and security space. Prior to Stealthbits, Cannard led the privileged access team at BeyondTrust where he took their password management solution from unknown to a recognized leader in the industry within three years. At BeyondTrust he also drove the development of their first SaaS PAM product as well as a new micro service-based platform for DevOps security. Prior to BeyondTrust, he held key management positions at Quest/Dell, Novell, Fortefi and Symantec. He is a recognized expert and a regular speaker for security events and webinars.

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