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Christopher McClean

Vice President, Research Director Serving Security & Risk Professionals

Chris leads a team of analysts covering topics including risk management, compliance, audit, information security management, and brand protection. He also leads the company's coverage of governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC). In this role, he helps clients around the U.S. & world implement successful strategies, best practices, and technologies to support GRC programs as well as related functions such as enterprise risk management, corporate compliance, and corporate responsibility. Chris frequently contributes on these subjects at vendor and industry events as well as top media outlets.

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Kelly White

CEO and Founder (CISSP), RiskRecon

Kelly has nearly 20 years of experience in assessing and defending complex enterprises. Prior to dedicating his full attention to RiskRecon in 2015, White held various enterprise security roles, including CISO and Director of Information Security for financial services companies. White was also practice manager and senior security consultant for CyberTrust and Ernst & Young. White is an active supporter of the security community, a frequent speaker at industry conferences.

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Jan Tietze

Technical Director EMEA, Cylance EMEA, Munich area

Jan is an experienced cyber security professional. Before joining the Cylance EMEA team in 2016, he has served in senior technical and management roles, most recently as CTO Germany at public cloud innovator Nordcloud (Helsinki, FI), and CTO EMEA at information management specialist AvePoint (New Jersey, US). Jan also has a strong background in enterprise IT from senior field engineering roles for Microsoft and Whale Communications (Israel, acquired by Microsoft). He started his career in pen testing and consulting. In his spare time, he likes to travel, tinker with technology, and explore the world with his family.

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Todd Thiemann

Product Marketing Director, Arctic Wolf Networks

Thiemann is responsible for product marketing at Arctic Wolf. He has over 15 years of information security experience across a range of subjects including malware detection, SIEM, encryption, key management and IAM/authentication at leading cybersecurity companies including Trend Micro, Vormetric/Thales, PrivateCore and Nok Nok Labs.

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Mohamed Inshaff

Hybrid Cloud Solutions Architect, Trend Micro

Mohamed is a subject matter expert in security for modern datacentre and cloud environments, advising customers on security for software defined datacentres, hybrid cloud, as well public cloud environments such as AWS and Azure.

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Roji Oommen

Managing Director, Financial Services, CenturyLink

Roji is currently responsible for product strategy, alliances and partnerships within CenturyLink's Financial Services practice area. He works very closely with the clients that make up this vertical to deliver purpose-built IT infrastructure and connectivity solutions. Roji has more than 20 years of experience, at organizations such as Thomson Reuters, IBM and Bridge Information Systems, specializing in information technology for financial services firms.

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Michael Renshaw

Senior Director Security Specialist, CenturyLink

Michael Renshaw is CenturyLink's Senior Director of Security Evangelist Sales, with responsibility for the company's Western Region and Indirect Channel Security Sales. With 20 years of experience in IT, Mike has held a number of leadership positions in managed security, sales, and network engineering with several technology product and services organizations. He served with companies such as Akamai, Prolexic Technologies, Solera Networks and others.

Mike has worked with the largest financial, e-commerce, energy, and telecommunications companies in the world to create both network and security postures designed to withstand outages and the latest cyber security threats. He started his career as an engineer designing and installing IP and telephony networks, then found a natural fit in security protecting customers against DDoS attacks and many other forms of cyber threats.

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Nick Hayes

VP of Strategy, IntSights Cyber Intelligence

Nick Hayes is the VP of Strategy at IntSights Cyber Intelligence. Prior to IntSights, Nick was a senior analyst at Forrester Research where he advised security and business leaders at Fortune 500 and growth companies on cybersecurity strategy, technology adoption, and industry and technology market trends.

During his time at Forrester, he pioneered the firm's digital risk protection (DRP) research and authored more than 100 published reports and technology evaluations, covering a wide range of cybersecurity, risk, and threat intelligence domains. Some of Nick's unique areas of expertise include social media weaponization, brand security, and threat detection, prevention, and response. Nick is a prominent speaker at leading industry events, such as RSA Conference, ISACA, Cybersecurity Chicago, and Forrester's annual security and privacy conferences. He also makes appearances and is regularly cited in high-profile media outlets, including CSO Magazine, Dark Reading, Financial Times, NBC News, The Wall Street Journal, and VentureBeat, among others.

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Roger Grimes

Data-Driven Defense Evangelist

Roger Grimes is a 30-year computer security consultant, instructor, holder of dozens of computer certifications and an award-winning author of 10 books and over 1,000 magazine articles on computer security. 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 has been the weekly security columnist for InfoWorld and CSO magazines since 2005.

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Roger Grimes

Data-Driven Defense Evangelist

Roger Grimes is a 30-year computer security consultant, instructor, holder of dozens of computer certifications and an award-winning author of 10 books and over 1,000 magazine articles on computer security. 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 has been the weekly security columnist for InfoWorld and CSO magazines since 2005.

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Tom Bienkowski

Director, Product Marketing, NETSCOUT Arbor

Tom has been in the network and security field for over 20 yrs. During this time, he has worked for large enterprises as a Network Engineer and for multiple network management and security vendors where he has had roles in Sales Engineering /Management, Technical Field Marketing and Product Management. Currently at NETSCOUT he's a Director of Product Marketing focusing on their industry leading Edge Defense and Threat Intelligence solutions. Tom routinely speaks at IT security events around the world providing insights into cyber threats and best practices in defense.

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Ayelet Avni

Senior Market and Offering Strategy Lead, IBM Trusteer

Ayelet Avni, current serves as a Senior Market and Offering Strategy Lead for IBM Trusteer. In her role as an Offering Strategy Lead at IBM, she works with customers to build and drive Trusteer portfolio, an industry leading solution for cybercrime and identity protection. Prior to joining IBM, Avni held various management roles at leading companies including RSA, and Military security. She has over 20 years of experience developing successful security offerings, supported by a broad range of experience in design thinking, product strategy, engineering and product development.

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Michael Bunyard

Product Marketing Manager, IBM

Michael leads IBM IAM's product marketing efforts. He brings over two decades of product management and marketing expertise to this role. Prior to IBM, Michael led marketing for a start-up company in the endpoint detection and response market, product management for Fiserv's fraud detection solutions, and product marketing for BMC software's enterprise application integration solutions.

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Joseph Burton

Managing Partner, Duane Morris LLP

At the law firm Duane Morris, Burton focuses on information security and cyberfraud issues as well as civil, criminal and appellate litigation. He advises and represents individuals and corporations regarding their rights and responsibilities in maintaining the security of digital information. His practice includes trade secret, trademark and patent litigation, with an emphasis on cybercrime and cybersecurity. Burton is a former assistant U.S. attorney who handled several pioneering high technology investigations and prosecutions, including the first prosecution in the nation for criminal copyright infringement of computer code.

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Mike Daugherty

President and CEO, LabMD

Daugherty is founder, president and CEO of LabMD, a cancer-detection laboratory based in Atlanta. He also is author of the book "The Devil Inside the Beltway," and is a senior writer for CyberDefense Magazine. Daugherty has testified before the House of Representatives' Oversight Committee and regularly keynotes in front of healthcare, law, business and technology audiences, providing education about what to expect when the federal government investigates businesses. He regularly blogs at MichaelJDaugherty.com and sits on the board of Snoopwall, a privacy company based in Nashua, N.H.

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Mathew J. Schwartz

Executive Editor, DataBreachToday & Europe

Schwartz is an award-winning journalist with two decades of experience in magazines, newspapers and electronic media. He has covered the information security and privacy sector throughout his career. Before joining Information Security Media Group in 2014, where he now serves as the Executive Editor, DataBreachToday and for European news coverage, Schwartz was the information security beat reporter for InformationWeek and a frequent contributor to DarkReading, amongst other publications. He lives in Scotland.

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Jeannette Jarvis

Director, Product Marketing, FortiGuard Labs

Jarvis has been a thought leader and respected advisor in cybersecurity for more than 20 years. With experience in business & technical strategy, product management and marketing, and global executive management, she has held numerous positions at well known companies in the IT and cybersecurity space. Jeannette is a distinguished speaker on a wide range of security security protection topics. She spoke at many prominent security conferences including RSA and Gartner Security Summit. Her published papers showcase her knowledge and expertise on various security issues encountered in the global corporate environment.

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Avivah Litan

VP and Distinguished Analyst, Gartner Research

Litan is a vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner Research. Her areas of expertise include endpoint security, security analytics for cybersecurity and fraud, user and entity behavioral analytics, insider threats, fraud detection, and prevention and identity proofing.

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Vikrant Arora

CISO, Hospital for Special Surgery

Vikrant Arora is a credentialed business leader with more than 15 years of experience in developing enterprise security and risk management programs in the healthcare, government and education sectors in North America and Asia. In his former role as the assistant vice president and chief information security and risk officer at NYC Health & Hospitals, an integrated system of 11 hospitals, clinics, nursing homes and home care in New York City, Arora is focused on security strategy, business risks, regulatory compliance and securing clinical systems as well as biomedical devices.

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Connie Barrera

Director of Information Assurance and CISO, Jackson Health System

Connie Barrera is the Chief Information Security Officer at Jackson Health System. As the CISO, she is responsible for security architecture as well as developing policy and standards related to privacy, confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the IT services throughout the enterprise. To this end, Barrera develops and maintains risk management, security awareness, and compliance programs to effectively deal with the implications of legislated requirements that impact security for the institution. This includes but is not limited to HIPAA, PCI, FDA Part 11 and the Red Flag Rules. With over 24 years of experience in IT, she has spent considerable time in almost every role within IT, including endpoint support and architecture, systems engineering and architecture, as well as her current role in security.

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Jay Kramer

Partner, Data Privacy and Cyber Security Practice Group, Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith; former Supervisory Special Agent, FBI - NY Cyber Division

Jay Kramer is a partner with the firm Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, specializing in Data Privacy and Cyber Security. Prior to moving to the private sector, Kramer served as supervisory special agent, FBI, New York division. After working for several years in the FBI's racketeering and organized crime section, Kramer joined the FBI's legal bureau in New York. As an FBI attorney, Kramer helped analyze and resolve complex issues of law and policy in criminal and national security investigations. In 2010, Kramer accepted an assignment in the FBI's Office of Congressional Affairs in Washington, D.C. There he worked closely with several congressional committees on issues related to proposed changes in federal law. In 2013, to insure the FBI's readiness to address a growing portfolio of cyber investigations, Kramer was called upon to help stand up the FBI's Cyber Law Unit in Chantilly, VA. In 2014, Kramer returned to the New York office, where he remained until he left the bureau in 2016.

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