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Craig Aukett

Head of CyberArk Consulting Services

Craig has had roles in many areas of IT where security has always played a key part. Originally starting out as a web developer, Craig has since worked in application development and support, e-commerce, systems engineering and in recent years held roles in the consultancy space working with many advisory firms where audits, regulation and compliance have been at the forefront of the conversation. During his time with CyberArk, Craig has worked with many global and enterprise customers in heavily regulated sectors such as finance and insurance and will share his experiences and lessons learned during the webinar.

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Josh Kirkwood

Head of Strategic Alliances, Cyberark

Josh Kirkwood is a 15-year veteran of the IT Operations space having worked in infrastructure architecture and operations roles until he found the 'interesting' side of the industry and joined security. Josh currently leads the team of solutions engineers aligned to CyberArk's Advisory & GSI Partners, helping them build identity security strategies that help deliver positive outcomes to their customers.

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Vishal Patel

Security Solutions Architect, CyberArk

Vishal has been a security professional for over 15 years with a primary focus on Identity Access Management and Privileged Access Security for a Fortune 500 financial company. He shares his experiences defending from internal and external threat actors using industry leading solutions and home-grown ingenuity. His exposure across multiple enterprise verticals has given him a unique perspective when applying security within existing business processes. During this web panel, Vishal will share his practical experience helping U.S. based customers pass IT security audits and improve their compliance posture.

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Richard Bussiere

Technical Director- Asia Pacific, Tenable

Richard is a seasoned technical architect with over 20 years of experience in ICT security, computer networking and engineering. He frequently assists organizations including financial services organizations, governments and managed security service providers in adopting a regimen of pro-active vulnerability management to help them reduce their vulnerability footprint. He has a strong background in Research and Development, including both software and hardware engineering. Prior to coming to Tenable, he was Arbor Networks' Solution Architect for Asia Pacific.

In his current position with Tenable he is responsible for evangelizing the criticality of vulnerability assessment, vulnerability management and thorough security monitoring as part of Tenable’s enhanced security posture.

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James Fong

Risk and Security Solutions – Asia, ServiceNow

James leads the ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management and Security Operations business across Asia driving the integrated risk and security management agenda through innovation and solution-based technical advisory. As a Solution Leader, he provides leadership and coaching abilities for the team to attain set goals and targeted development to drive net new logos and drive incremental business across identified market segments and industries. This requires strong management capability across a wide geography and regional markets spanning different timezones, language, culture and risk management maturity. He also engages senior levels of organisations (Directors & C-suite levels) as well as front-line technologists to drive technology adoption and reference sites for ServiceNow across the governance, risk and compliance space. He brings with him a wealth of experience having been instrumental in implementing comprehensive governance, risk management, compliance & assurance frameworks for top corporations throughout the region for close to 20 years. He has worked with Boards of Directors in addressing corporate-wide issues relating to governance, risk and compliance and advised them on linking risk management and business objectives. James is also experienced in devising and establishing future risk, compliance and continuity strategies; and in particular, conducting risk-based management and operational auditing for publicly listed companies. He has also been involved in the implementation of Business Continuity Management systems and is familiar with global standards and best practice in this area. Prior to ServiceNow, he was driving the business of GRC solutioning for a leading global GRC & Security company, was the Southeast Asia Risk & Compliance Solution Lead for Protiviti Singapore, Executive Director of Consulting Services for a regional leading risk and audit management consulting and software firm, a Management Consultant / Auditor with a Big 4 consulting firm, and was a Project Manager with a multi-national group driving business and process improvement initiatives. He is also a prominent and regular speaker at local and international thought leadership forums and conferences on risk management, governance, assurance and internal controls.

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Brenton Clarke

Head of ISV Partner Sales APAC, Google Cloud

Brenton heads the application ISV business for Google Cloud in Asia Pacific, he has been with Google Cloud for 4 years and is appreciative of the opportunity to work with ISVs on the development of their businesses.

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Andrew Ren

Principle Solutions Architect, PingCAP

Andrew Ren is an experienced data specialist, solutions architect and cloud technical consultant. His enthusiasm is to help customers from SMB, DNB to enterprise achieve their business outcomes by evolving their technology strategies. As a principal solutions architect in PingCAP, he engages with executives, directors and developers to translate their business needs into technical and operational plans and build the next generation technology engine.

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Emil Sulistya

Senior Partner Solution Architect, Aiven

Emil is a Senior Partner Solution Architect with a expertise in micro-services and event driven architecture with passion for exploring new technology in the market to improve his skills while helping customers optimise their IT landscape.

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Mark Thong

Strategic Accounts Director, APAC, Aiven

Mark is the first Aiven hire in APAC, focusing on strategic accounts and partners in the South East Asia region. Digital transformation and democracy through cloud technologies are topics close to his heart.

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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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Shawn Kok

Solution Engineer, APAC, TeleSign

With over 10 years of combined experience in digital Identity, solution architecture, and fraud prevention. Shawn is currently the Solution Engineer (APAC) in Telesign.

Past experience includes digital identity and fraud prevention pre-sales at LexisNexis Emailage, fraud data analytic & leading payment solutions implementation at Apple.

He is passionate about risk assessment, protecting, and preventing online fraud through digital identity. He is currently based out of Singapore.

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Abhijit Kulkarni

Vice President APAC, TeleSign

A Business Strategist with 19 + years of experience in Communications, SaaS and BFSI sector. Abhijit currently heads up the Asia Pacific operations at TeleSign - a market leader in Digital Identity and Programable communications. Prior to TeleSign, he has been in Leadership roles at Vodafone, BICS, Idea Cellular and Tata Communications.

He strongly believes that offering an enriched customer experience and adopting an effective fraud management strategy are equally important for a business to be successful in the Digital economy.

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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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Christopher Schnieper

Director of Market Planning, Fraud & Identity, LexisNexis® Risk Solutions

Chris Schnieper is a Director of Market Planning in the Fraud & Identity area at LexisNexis® Risk Solutions. He focuses on working across a variety of different industries on strategic fraud challenges, authentication needs, cybersecurity, and technology innovation. Chris also works with clients on how to protect their ecosystem with decentralized environments including: blockchain solutions, crypto wallets and tokenized financially related transactions.

Chris has over 20+ years working in the payments and risk space across strategy, product innovation, and technology roles. Prior to joining LexisNexis Risk Solutions, Chris has held positions with organizations such as Bank of America, Accenture, Early Warning Services and American Express.

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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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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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Diane Garey

Product Marketing Manager, Venafi

Diane Garey is on the product marketing team at Venafi, responsible for the TLS Protect product that enables customers to manage and protect TLS machine identities. Previous to Venafi, she’s worked with a number of security products, including being responsible for product marketing for the popular Nessus vulnerability scanner at Tenable. Diane is originally from Canada but now calls Houston, Texas home.

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Christer Swartz

Technical Marketing Engineer, Illumio

Christer Swartz is the Principal Technical Marketing Engineer for Illumio. He has spent many years in the Networking industry, beginning with a small startup called Cisco, where he was an early CCIE. He has worked for both Enterprise and Service Providers as a Network and Security architect, for both Data Center and Cloud network deployments. He worked for Netflix on the design and birth of their Internet video-streaming architecture, and for Palo Alto Networks on designing deep security across the entire Ci/CD pipeline. He currently works for Illumio, focusing on architecting Workload Security in Data Center and Hybrid-Cloud Network fabrics. Network Security has traditionally been an after-thought in the Networking industry, with Scalable Cloud architectures and Security often perceived as a binary choice. Security can, and needs to be, de-coupled from traditional networking priorities.

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Vivian Tero

Senior Manager, Product Marketing, Illumio

Vivian supports the Illumio Core platform and helps enterprise and federal customers evaluate how Illumio can be used to meet compliance and zero-trust technical controls.

In this role, she developed reference architectures and controls mapping guide of Illumio capabilities to regulatory and security industry standards like PCI-DSS, SWIFT CSF, NIST 800-53, CIS/SANS Top 20 Controls, and NIST 800-207 (Zero Trust).

She also lead the cross-functional team that crafted Illumio’s responses to the proposed Zero Trust Architecture framework, maturity model, cloud security and technical reference architecture documents from DHS/CISA, OMB and NIST. She also represents Illumio in the ATARC Zero Trust Working Group and the GSA Zero Trust Working Group.

Prior to Illumio, she held product management and product marketing roles with ServiceNow and Symantec, specializing on risk, server security, compliance and ITOM products.

Vivian has a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Physics and an MBA with a concentration in IT Management.

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Shahla Khan

Global Black Belt - Zero Trust, Microsoft

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Seema Kumar

CTO, Global Partner Solutions, Microsoft

"Seema Kumar leads technology strategy and programs for the Global Partner Solutions organization at Microsoft India. In this role she works across the diverse partner ecosystem of GSIs, services and ISV organizations, to align and enable them on Microsoft technologies, accelerate repeatable IP based solutions and practice development. She leads a talented team of technology professionals specialized on solution areas across Cloud Infrastructure, Application Innovation, Data, AI, Business Applications, Modern Work and Security. Prior to joining Microsoft, Seema spent over 15 years at IBM India, accumulating varied experiences, leading technical and business functions across product development, offering management, developer ecosystems and technical pre-sales. She has managed several global and domestic missions, nurturing and growing strong technical talent. Seema is a regular speaker at various technical conferences and the author of three technical patents"

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