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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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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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Upik Trisda Leawaty

SVP, Retail Product Delivery & Fraud Risk Group, PT Bank Mandiri

Upik Trisda Leawati is the Group Head for the Retail Product Delivery & Fraud Risk Group of Bank Mandiri, Indonesia. Upik started her career as a Risk Management Officer with the bank more than 2 decades ago. Through the time with Bank Mandiri, she has developed keen interests and competencies in Information Technology and Internal Audit and later on promoted as Product dan Fraud Risk Division Head. Her solid background in Information System propelled her to lead the digital transformation journey for Bank Mandiri – building a robust retail product and fraud detection system for the bank from scratch, which had been recently awarded as “ Best Fraud Risk Management in Asia Pacific” by Visa.

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Thanh Vo

Director, Marketing Planning, Fraud & Identity - APAC, LexisNexis Risk Solutions

Prior to joining LNRS, Thanh worked at leading consulting and technology companies focused on risk, compliance and digital fraud in Asia. With over 19 years of experience in technology transformation and risk consulting, he has worked in multiple areas, including business development, customer success, strategy formulation, product management and project management and execution

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Roger Grimes

Data-Driven Defense Evangelist, KnowBe4

Roger Grimes, KnowBe4’s Data-Driven Defense Evangelist, is a 30-year computer security consultant, instructor, holder of dozens of computer certifications and an award-winning author of 13 books and over 1,000 magazine articles on computer security. He now serves as the Data-Driven Defense Evangelist for KnowBe4. He has worked at some of the world’s largest computer security companies, including Foundstone, McAfee and Microsoft. Grimes holds a bachelor’s degree from Old Dominion University. He was the weekly security columnist for InfoWorld and CSO magazines from 2005-2019.

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Barak Feldman

Senior Vice President, PAM and Identity Security GTM, CyberArk

Barak is Senior Vice President, Identity Security GTM at CyberArk Software. Joining CyberArk at 2001, Barak brings a deep technical and business background with over 20 years of experience in designing and implementing security and compliance solutions at many of the Fortune 500. In his role Barak leads CyberArk’s Privileged Access Management (PAM) business and is helping the company define and lead the Identity Security market; primarily focusing on Cloud Entitlements, Secrets Management, Least Privilege and Just in time. His expertise includes Regulatory Compliance, Access Management and specifically the current threats surrounding privileged access to the highest risk assets within the enterprise.

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Crystal Trawny

Practice Director, Privileged Account and Endpoint Privilege Management, Optiv

Crystal Trawny is a Practice Director at Optiv supporting Privileged Account and Endpoint Privilege Management teams (PAM/EPM). With over 15 years of experience in Identity and Data Management, she is knowledgeable in Identity and Access Management policies, operational support and delivers projects across various industry verticals. Her portfolio includes several companies in the Fortune 500 as well as covering areas of financial services, energy, healthcare, technology, and manufacturing. Prior to her leadership role in PAM/EPM, Crystal held a variety of identity centric roles since joining Optiv in 2015.

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Giancarlo Casella

Head of Business Development & Growth Strategies, AWS Security Assurance Services

Currently, Giancarlo leads Business Development and Growth Strategies within the AWS Security Assurance Services team. In this role, Giancarlo focuses on growth strategy, sales, business development, marketing and removing compliance as a barrier for customers. Prior to joining AWS ProServe, Giancarlo was the Continuous Security GRC Manager at Salesforce. He also has experience as a leader in the Coalfire Systems’ Strategy, Privacy, and Risk practice serving as a Senior Manager. Prior to joining Coalfire, Giancarlo worked at DayBlink Consulting as a founding member of the Cybersecurity Practice and also at CEB (Now Gartner) as a Strategy and Operations Senior Analyst.

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Joe McDermott

Senior Manager, Cloud Infrastructure (HITRUST), Coalfire

As a leading compliance expert with Coalfire, Joe brings 14+ years of cloud/IT security and integrated audit services experience and has managed and delivered HITRUST assessments almost exclusively over the past 7 years – including more than 125 HITRUST-related engagements overall. Maintaining a positive reputation and relationships throughout the HITRUST organization have been a focus and have been supported by successful engagements with some of the world’s largest and most complex cloud service provider and healthcare organizations. Additionally, Joe brings ‘Big 4' experience from KPMG LLP, a track record of delivering outstanding business results, and a focus on always providing exceptional quality and client service.

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Giancarlo Casella

Head of Business Development & Growth Strategies, AWS Security Assurance Services

Currently, Giancarlo leads Business Development and Growth Strategies within the AWS Security Assurance Services team. In this role, Giancarlo focuses on growth strategy, sales, business development, marketing and removing compliance as a barrier for customers. Prior to joining AWS ProServe, Giancarlo was the Continuous Security GRC Manager at Salesforce. He also has experience as a leader in the Coalfire Systems’ Strategy, Privacy, and Risk practice serving as a Senior Manager. Prior to joining Coalfire, Giancarlo worked at DayBlink Consulting as a founding member of the Cybersecurity Practice and also at CEB (Now Gartner) as a Strategy and Operations Senior Analyst.

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Joe McDermott

Senior Manager, Cloud Infrastructure (HITRUST), Coalfire

As a leading compliance expert with Coalfire, Joe brings 14+ years of cloud/IT security and integrated audit services experience and has managed and delivered HITRUST assessments almost exclusively over the past 7 years – including more than 125 HITRUST-related engagements overall. Maintaining a positive reputation and relationships throughout the HITRUST organization have been a focus and have been supported by successful engagements with some of the world’s largest and most complex cloud service provider and healthcare organizations. Additionally, Joe brings ‘Big 4' experience from KPMG LLP, a track record of delivering outstanding business results, and a focus on always providing exceptional quality and client service.

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Jacob Salassi

Director of Product Security, Snowflake

Jacob Salassi is Director of Product Security at Snowflake. Jacob led Snowflake's pre- & post IPO transformation from a bottlenecked, security engineer centric process that slowed teams down to a developer owned security process that ships features faster and more securely. Today his teams handle security architecture, software security assurance, software engineering, threat detection, incident response, and vulnerability research for the Snowflake product. Jacob is an active member of the application security and threat modeling communities, and his team is known for their industry leading approach to modeling threats.

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Omer Singer

Head of Cybersecurity Strategy, Snowflake

Omer Singer is Head of Cybersecurity Strategy at Snowflake, the Data Cloud company. Omer led Snowflake's innovative, data-driven security engineering program before taking responsibility for the company's cybersecurity business and ecosystem. Prior to Snowflake, Omer was Vice President of Security Operations at a global security services provider and served as a cyber intelligence officer. Omer is an active member of the Information Security Leadership Foundation (ISLF) and has spoken at Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) events on topics such as security metrics and cloud-native threat detection and response.

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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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Thomas Hill

CIO, Live Oak Bank

With more than 20 years of IT and security experience, Thomas has spent the majority of his career working in senior IT, Risk, and Security positions in technology and financial service institutions. As CISO, Thomas leads Live Oak's technology risk management and security operations. He provides leadership for developing and implementing technology and security initiatives that support the mission, vision, and long-term objectives of Live Oak Bank. Thomas holds a BS in Business Administration and an MBA with a specialty focus in Management of Information Systems and Security from Saint Leo University. He also holds several industry IT and security certifications, including CISSP, CIPT, and CISM.

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Avi Shau

CEO and Co-Founder, Orca Security

Avi has more than 25 years of experience in cybersecurity. Prior to co-founding Orca Security, Avi was the chief technologist at Check Point Software Technologies and held key positions within Unit 8200, the Israeli NSA. While at Check Point, he built and scaled cybersecurity solutions that continue to protect tens of thousands of organizations to this day. Avi believes that cybersecurity products should always support the organization and not the other way around.

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Thomas Malta

Former Head of Identity and Access Management, Navy Federal Credit Union, CEO and Principal IAM Experts, LLC

Tom Malta's extensive career in Financial Services Technology and Cyber Security started 25+ years ago as a hands-on developer building and supporting front office trading systems for many of the top Wall St. Brokerages and Investment Banks. Shortly after moving to Goldman Sachs in 2000, he landed in Cyber Security and has been there ever since focused on building and executing Global Cyber Security Solutions. Over the past 20+ years he's led many successful IAM Programs utilizing custom build as well as off the shelf technology supporting internal, external, customer, and 3rd party/cloud identities alike.

Tom is currently the Head of IAM at Navy Federal Credit Union where he is responsible for design, development, and execution of cyber technology solutions to support the overall IAM Strategy. The team is currently focused on the firm's transformation of both workforce and member (aka customer IAM) to drive more automation, agile development, and improve the effectiveness of existing IAM and Cyber Security Controls.

As a recognized Subject Matter Expert in IAM, Tom spends a lot of his time giving back to the industry through board representations, speaking engagements, and contributing to research papers. His passion for the space is unparalleled, and enjoys staying current with emerging technologies such as biometrics, AI, ML, and next generation customer authentication solutions such as blockchain.

Prior to Navy Federal, Tom held similar Managing Director / Executive IT roles at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, BNYMellon, Wells Fargo, Ally Financial, Synchrony Financial, and Brown Brothers Harriman. Mr. Malta is also a Board Member of the Identity Defined Security Alliance,  an active participant of various IAM Customer Advisory Board's, and a distinguished Ponemon Fellow

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Paul Barrett

Chief Technology Officer, Enterprise, NetScout

Paul Barrett has made solving enterprise technology challenges with a high-touch mindset the focus of his 30-year career. As chief technology officer, Enterprise, for NETSCOUT, Barrett supports the company’s largest enterprise customers, which comprise nearly 85 percent of the Fortune 500. He also engages with government agency customers. A technology expert with global influence, Barrett is recognized for his wide-ranging knowledge of enterprise cloud solutions, data center co-locations, big data analytics, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and machine learning, real-time network analysis, unified communications, and software development. Barrett has been actively involved in international standardization projects for most of his career. Barrett is a named inventor on 19 patent applications. He is a chartered engineer and member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in the United Kingdom, and a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in the United States.

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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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Raj Dasgupta

Director of Fraud Strategy - North America, BioCatch

Raj is Director of Fraud Strategy, North America at BioCatch with over 15 years of Financial Services industry experience in the U.S. having worked for HSBC, Yodlee, Intuit, ID Analytics and TransUnion prior to joining BioCatch. Throughout his career, he has been at the cusp of business and technology advising his customers on how technology solutions can be operationalized to solve real-life business problems. He is very passionate about the world of identity and fraud and has deep SME in Fraud Risk, Device risk, Credit Risk, Machine Learning based predictive modeling and Customer Authentication in an omni-channel environment. At BioCatch, he frequently talks to customers, listening to their fraud problems and how the right use of technology can enable them to offer a great user experience while reducing manual review effort and keeping fraudsters at bay.

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Denny Prvu

Director of Identity & Access Management: Enterprise Security, RBC

Denny Prvu has been fortunate enough to work around the world in public and private sector as a strategist, architect, and communicator on identity, security, and privacy topics for over 20 years. Experience by working on standards and active contributions in areas including authentication, compliance, and numerous NIST frameworks has been key to successfully solving consumer and workforce identity challenges. Enjoying the areas of identity we all see that include authentication, access and life cycle management to the ones we don't see that include PAM, IOT, and the governance surrounding them has allowed Denny to develop a well-rounded collection of skills as speaker, and author. Always willing to grab tea and talk about anything identity.

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Chris Ford

Chris Ford, Vice President of Product, Threat Stack

Chris is the Vice President of Product at Threat Stack, where he is responsible for Product Management and User Experience. He brings more than 20 years of experience leading product teams and building innovative security solutions, including Data Loss Prevention, Enterprise Mobility Management, and Secure Cloud Collaboration. Prior to joining Threat Stack, Chris was Chief Product Officer at Blue Cedar Networks and Senior Vice President of Product Management at Intralinks, a secure cloud collaboration platform.

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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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