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Rami Abbas

Regional Sales Manager – SecOps Group

Rami Abbas is an IT industry veteran with close to 10 years of experience in the Cyber Security space. Rami currently leads Cisco SecOps Sales across the Middle East. Before Joining Cisco, Rami held positions at different Cyber Security Industry leaders. He brings with him a strong experience in the space of Managed Cyber Security as he worked for multiple years at leading Service Providers in the region.

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Ibrahim Yusuf

Technical Solutions Architect, Cisco SecOps Group

Ibrahim is currently a cyber security solutions architect with the Cisco SecOps Group. He has been in security for almost two decades, his expertise lies in network wide defensive and offensive security and forensics. Ibrahim is a Certified SANS forensics Analyst (GCFA) and Information Security System Professional (CISSP).

In his current role at Cisco, he guides and assist organisations mitigate and reduce their exposure to breaches and incidences. He helps security teams adopt an attacker’s mindset through threat hunting workshops and cyber threat response exercises. Ibrahim is a motivator of technical teams to appreciate the level of threat complexity organisations are up against.

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Suheb Ahmed

Senior Customer Advisory Consultant, Financial Crimes, SAS Institute

Suheb is an accomplished Financial Crime executive with more than 16 years' experience in Financial Crimes Compliance & Financial Crime Analytics spanning across South Asia, MENA & ANZ. Suheb is a results-oriented leader and has helped financial institutions by running financial crime risk assessments, developing innovative solutions, managing projects and full-cycle assessments. Suheb has in-depth knowledge of the financial crime domain, systems, and processes and the unique expertise to manage risk across multiple areas.

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Paul Franks

Director, Financial Services, SAS Institute

Paul has over 30 years professional and commercial experience in financial services covering banking, insurance and wealth management. He is a former partner at Deloitte and Ernst & Young.

As Director, Financial Services for SAS Australia and New Zealand, he is responsible for sales and industry strategies for banking customers and risk management solutions and a member of the Global Banking Council for SAS. He is a Chartered Accountant, Fellow of FINSIA and a certified finance and treasury professional. During his time at SAS, he has been Executive Sponsor for several of our largest Australia and New Zealand financial services customers including overseeing major sales and technology solution delivery initiatives in risk management and regulatory compliance for banking and insurance clients. These include credit risk, Basel II, RWA, stress testing, IFRS 9, regulatory and economic capital, pricing and claims management.

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Eric Schou

AVP, Security Product Marketing, Splunk

Eric Schou is a product marketing executive with over 20 years of experience in the software industry. He has managed all aspects of global solutions and product marketing strategies as a technical evangelist, message builder, and leader of solution and product marketing teams.

Eric currently puts his deep security experience to work as AVP of Security Product Marketing at Splunk, where he is responsible for messaging, strategy, and go to market efforts. Prior to Splunk, Eric was responsible for product, solutions, partner and services marketing as Sr. Director of Product Marketing at Palo Alto Networks, and before that, was Director of Product Marketing at HPE, the software security division of HP. He also held previous positions at both McAfee and Symantec.

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James Young

Global Security Strategist, Splunk

With over 20 years experience, James has always taken every opportunity to learn more about, and in turn improve how security can be done. In his current role at Splunk as a Global Security Strategist, he has the fortune of speaking with a broad range of different people, and advising organizations around developing and maturing their cyber security operations capabilities. This work also often involves collaboration across a range of internal and external stakeholders to develop and improve the joint solutions Splunk and their security ecosystem partners bring to market to help solve a range of cyber security challenges.

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Gaurav Gupta

Head-Tech Regulatory and Audit Management, United Overseas Bank

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Hemanshu Parekh

Director - Financial Crimes Compliance, Standard Chartered Bank

Hemanshu has over 10 years of experience in areas of compliance, AML and finance Audit, he has worked in several banks including Bank of America, standard chartered bank and ANZ bank.

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Keith Swanson

Regional Director, Asia Pacific / Japan, Fraud, Financial Crime & Security Intelligence, SAS Institute

Keith Swanson is the Director of Fraud, Financial Crimes and Security Intelligence for SAS Asia Pacific/Japan. Keith has worked with customers or directly for organisations across North America and Asia in industries including Financial Services, Government, and Communications, with many of these with global or regional remit. Keith and his team work extensively with customers in developing strategies and applying solutions to combat financial crime, fraud, waste and abuse, and security initiatives, including public security, intelligence and cyber. Keith’s work with customers, SAS colleagues, and partners has helped grow the SAS APAC/J fraud and security business by over 13x in the last 5 years. Keith has presented to a variety of industry bodies and organisations including Executive Briefings, Bankers Associations, Industry conferences and leading consultancies.

Prior to joining SAS in late 2010, Keith held a number of senior positions with a longstanding SAS customer in the financial services sector in the USA. He also spent time in management, business process and analytics consulting with leading organisations including IBM Global Business Services where he worked with clients to identify and deliver business value in financial and customer intelligence, advanced customer insight, business analytics strategy and advanced analytics and optimisation across a variety of industries. Key to his experience is understanding how individual and group behavioural insights can be used to address a variety of business opportunities and challenges, being able to discuss and translate across IT, business and project groups.

Keith Swanson has focused on applying analytics in business through a variety of roles since earning his Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration and Physics from Illinois Wesleyan University, and commenced studies for his Master of Business Administration at the University of Texas at Dallas. In addition to further studies in Information Security, Keith has previously earned Project Management Institute (PMP) and Life Management Institute (FLMI) accreditations and has sat on Forrester’s Database Marketing Council.

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Michael Dessert

Senior Executive Advisor - Workforce and Customer Identity and Access, Okta

Mike Dessert provides global executive advisory services at Okta. Mike is an industry expert in Enterprise IT, with specializations in Identity andAccess Management (IAM) technology, large-scale software development, enterprise architecture, and DevSecOps. Prior to joining Okta, Mikeserved as an IT executive at a major Detroit-based Big3 Automotive Corporation over two decades, leading global solutions in Sales and Marketing,Dealers Networks, Supply Chain, Aftermarket, and Corporate Staffs, as well as leading the Enterprise, Security, and Solution Architecturepractices. Mike launched his IT career building applications and infrastructure at EDS and Netscape Communications, and is a proud graduate ofthe University of Michigan.

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Rajesh Radhakrishnan

Senior Manager, Deloitte & Touche LLP

Raj is a Senior Manager in Deloitte’s Cyber Risk Services practice with 17 years of experience in information technology and security. Raj have extensive experience in providing cutting-edge Identity transformation solutions to diverse clients globally. Raj is currently leading advanced authorization and support Zero Trust offering from IAM perspective and focuses on guiding clients across industries to architect, design and implement multi-layered identity and access management solutions that minimize the business impact of cyber incidents and other technology disruptions. Raj is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and Project Management Professional (PMP) with hands-on experience and strategic perspective

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Andrew Rafla

Principal, Deloitte & Touche LLP

Andrew, a principal at Deloitte & Touche LLP, is a member of the Cyber & Strategic Risk practice of Deloitte Risk & Financial Advisory. He has a deep technology and operations background spanning his 20+ year career in cybersecurity. Andrew focuses on helping clients enhance operational efficiency while reducing exposure to cyberthreats and managing operational, regulatory, and emerging risks.

Andrew is currently Deloitte’s Zero Trust offering leader and has extensive experience in network and infrastructure security, adversarial simulation, security operations, and security logging and monitoring. He primarily focuses on serving some of the world’s largest financial services organizations but also has experience in other industries and verticals such as federal/ department of defense (classified and unclassified), power and utilities, retail, and life sciences.

Andrew received a BS in Computer Science from Rutgers University and an MS in Information Assurance from Capitol Technology University. He is also a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and is certified through the SABSA Chartered Foundation.

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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

Head of Identity and Access Management, Navy Federal Credit Union

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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Sam Curry

Chief Security Officer, Cybereason

Sam Curry is CSO at Cybereason and is a Visiting Fellow at the National Security Institute. Previously, Sam was CTO and CISO for Arbor Networks(NetScout) and was CSO and SVP R&D at Microstrategy in addition to senior, security roles at McAfee and CA. He spent 7 years at RSA (the Security Division of EMC, where he was a distinguished engineer and Fellow nominee) as Chief Technologist and SVP of Product. Sam also has over 20 patents in security from his time as a security architect, has been a leader in two successful startups and is a board member of the Cybersecurity Coalition, of SSH Communications and of Sequitur Labs (in the IoT security space) in addition to a number of advisor-ships across the security spectrum.

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Hector Monsegur

Corporate Pen-Tester & Expert Security Researcher, rThreat

Hector “Sabu” Monsegur is a top cybersecurity keynote speaker, the most controversial hacker of this generation, and the former de facto head of Anonymous/LulzSec, not to mention a leading corporate Pen-Tester and expert Security Researcher. Throughout 2020 Hector has done lectures for the many Fortune 500 companies including Humana, AT&T, JP Morgan, as well as many universities and tech conventions.

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Danny Jenkins

CEO & Co-Founder of ThreatLocker

Danny Jenkins is the CEO & Co-Founder of ThreatLocker, an Orlando-based cybersecurity firm providing zero-trust endpoint security. Danny is a leading expert in cybersecurity with over two decades of experience in building and securing corporate networks, including many roles on red teams and blue teams. He is dedicated to educating industry professionals about the latest cyber threats and frequently speaks on the topics of ransomware, zero trust, and zero-day vulnerabilities. Before taking the reins at ThreatLocker, Danny co-founded MXSweep, a global provider of email and internet security SaaS applications based in Dublin, Ireland, that sold exclusively through the channel. MXSweep later went on to be sold to J2. Danny was also the CEO at Sirrustec, specializing in whitelabeled channel delivered email security. Sirrustec Sold to Censornet in 2014.

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Nathanael Iversen

Chief Evangelist, Illumio

Iversen is Illumio’s Chief Evangelist. He helps prospects and customers understand micro-segmentation in all its forms and how Illumio can solve problems for organizations of all sizes. In previous roles with the company, he was responsible for training Illumio’s sales, systems engineering, and customer success teams, after holding a variety of operational roles.

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Jonathan Andresen

Senior Director, Marketing & Products, Asia Pacific & Japan, Bitglass

Jonathan Andresen is Senior Director, Marketing & Products Asia-Pacific at Bitglass. Mr. Andresen joined Bitglass in April 2020 and has been working in the enterprise IT and telecommunications sector since 1996, relocating to Asia in 2003. Prior to joining Bitglass, Mr. Andresen held various product, marketing, and strategy management positions in Asia-Pacific at McAfee, MobileIron, Blue Coat Systems (now Symantec) and Nortel Networks. Mr. Andresen's career includes earlier positions with Teleglobe, MetroPhotonics and Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs. Mr. Andresen holds a Master's Degree in International Management from Canada's Carleton University and an undergraduate degree from Queen's University.

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Patrick Hogan

Assistant to the Special Agent in Charge, Chicago Cyber Fraud Task Force, U.S. Secret Service

Patrick Hogan is the Assistant to the Special Agent in Charge of the Secret Service's Chicago Electronic Crimes Task Force. He manages a squad of special agents and task force officers involved in the investigation of cybercrimes occurring within the Chicago area. He has been involved in cyber investigations for the last six years while in the Chicago Field Office. Prior to being in the Chicago Field Office, Hogan was involved in the coordination of national and transnational cybercrime investigations at the headquarters level. His Secret Service career has also given him the opportunity to protect former-Vice President Dick Cheney and to be detailed to the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Homeland Security.

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Paul Martini

CEO, iboss Cybersecurity

Paul Martini is the CEO, Co-founder and chief architect of iboss. Prior to founding iboss, Paul was key architect for a wide-variety of complex security and technology solutions for clients such as Phogenix, the U.S. Navy, and Hewlett Packard. He was also a key contributor at Copper Mountain Networks which was a pioneer in introducing broadband networks used by Telcos to build the cloud. His work at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) involved building distributed real-time network systems for companies such as Rolls Royce. Copper Mountain and SAIC both launched successful IPOs. Paul has been recognized for his leadership and innovation, receiving the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of The Year award and being named one of Goldman Sachs’ 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs. Paul holds over 130 issued patents in cloud, cybersecurity, networking and technology and has had his work published in many scientific journals, including the Journal of Foundations in Computer Science and the Journal of Analytical Biochemistry.

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