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Soh Kiat Hiong

Head of Sales Engineering, Rubrik Asia

Soh is the Head of Sales Engineering for Rubrik Asia region, helping data forward organisations to transform their data management platforms for cyber resiliency. Soh has more than 20 years of data protection management & data storage experience in the IT industry and has been involved in many large enterprise scale data protection and cyber resiliency projects across different industries.

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Joseph Brunsman

Founder, Brunsman Advisory Group

Joseph joined the cyber and professionally liability realm in 2015 after serving as a Lieutenant in the United States Navy, working as an Anti-Terrorism / Force Protection Officer responsible for a billion dollars of equipment and 280+ military personnel. Prior to that he served tours as a Combat Information Center Officer and an Electronic Warfare Officer. During his enlisted time he was an Information Systems Technician dealing with Unix database management and network security. Joseph is a 2003 graduate of New Mexico Military Institute and a 2010 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD where he obtained a degree in Systems Engineering with a focus on robotics system interoperability. He is the resident expert in cyber law, insurance and compliance—writing 2 consecutive books on the subject. He enjoys Jiu Jitsu, powerlifting, business theory, and biohacking.

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James Slaby

Director of Cyber Protection, Acronis

James R. Slaby is the Director of Cyber Protection at Acronis, where he evangelizes cybersecurity and data protection solutions for business. Previously, Slaby was an industry analyst covering cybersecurity, cloud computing and networking at Forrester Research, HFS Research, Yankee Group and The Info Pro. With over 300 published tech research reports, he has been quoted in The Economist, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Times, and countless tech publications. Slaby has also held solutions, vertical, product and campaign marketing roles at tech security and networking vendors including Sonus, Acme Packet, Bay Networks and Motorola.

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Dave Sobel

Host, The Business of Tech Podcast

Dave is the host of the Business of Tech podcast, and owner of MSP Radio. The Business of Tech” is a leading IT services focused news and analysis podcast and YouTube show, with thousands of listeners and subscribers. He also co-hosts of the podcast “Killing IT,” and authored the book Virtualization: Defined. He was a CRN Channel Chief, on the CRN UK A-List, a Channel Futures Circle of Excellence winner, and one of Channel Pro’s 20/20 Visionaries. Dave has been recognized as one of the top virtualization experts globally as a Microsoft MVP for Virtualization. Dave holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary. He lives just outside Washington DC with his wife and two cats. His interests include travel and food, cheering the Washington Nationals and Capitals, smoking barbeque, enjoying craft beers, and collecting and playing retro and modern video games among others.

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Richard Stiennon

Chief Research Analyst

Richard Stiennon is an industry analyst and adviser to many security companies from startups to the very largest. He has been writing and speaking about cyber security since 1995. Richard has 26 years experience in the industry, from pioneering MSSP Netrex (now part of IBM), to Gartner to Fortinet. He is the author of seven books, and publisher of Security Yearbook 2021. He has presented in 31 countries on six continents. Stiennon has a BS in aerospace engineering and an MA in War in the Modern World, from King’s College, London.

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Greg Crabb

Founder of 10-8, LLC

Greg Crabb is the founder of 10-8, LLC. With more than 25 years of law enforcement and security experience, he specializes in providing consultation to cybersecurity leaders and organizations to help protect their digital assets against evolving cyberthreats. Greg focuses specifically on delivering advisory services to C-suite executives, their boards, and other leaders responsible for securing their organization’s operations, products, and services. For six years as the U.S. Postal Service’s chief information security officer, Greg secured the agency’s technology and information assets against nation-state threat actors. These efforts helped protect military mail globally and the unprecedented 2020 U.S. elections. With his successful track record as a cybersecurity executive and law enforcement official, Greg stands ready to apply proven models and his vast experience to help organizations strengthen their cybersecurity posture, obtain security certifications and achieve ongoing success.

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Chris Hawley

Director of Identity and Access Management, Corporate Security and Infrastructure Office, Unisys

Chris Hawley is the Director of Identity and Access Management in the Corporate Security and Infrastructure Office at Unisys. Chris joined Unisys in 2002 and is responsible for the overall strategy and delivery of the Unisys certificate infrastructure (PKI), Identity and Access Management and provisioning, and Multi-Factor Authentication solutions.

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Matthew Ulery

Chief Product Officer, SecureAuth

Matthew Ulery is the chief product officer at SecureAuth. With more than 20 years of experience delivering enterprise security, compliance and critical infrastructure software, Ulery leads the company’s overall product strategy and management. He works closely with the product, engineering and research teams to drive innovation in the SecureAuth Identity Platform. Prior to SecureAuth, Ulery was global vice president of product management at Micro Focus, responsible for the company’s IAM and Security Operations Solutions. Prior to Micro Focus, Ulery held senior product management and engineering roles at Symantec, NetIQ, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, and Telvent. He started his career at Lockheed as a systems engineer working on Space Station Freedom, before focusing on enterprise software. During Ulery’s extensive career, he was responsible for managing a portfolio of security solutions including access management, IGA, privileged access management, security operations and Active Directory management. Matthew earned a bachelor’s degree from Texas A&M University and an MBA from The University of Texas at Austin. He currently resides in Houston with his wife and children.

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Zane Sanderson

BigFix Technical Advisor / Guru and Certified Architect

Zane is a BigFix Technical Advisor / Guru and Certified Architect. He cut his teeth in IT doing Application Packaging and Software Distribution before focusing on Systems Management. Zane is part of BigFix's Innovation team, specialising in Containerization, and Mobile Device Management.

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Gagan Sugandh

Senior PreSales Engineer,Tenable

Gagan for the last 17 years has played multiple Information Security roles including building and running Security Operations Centre both in the managed mode as well as Captive and Remote SOC mode. Over the last few years Gagan has changed gears into Architecting solutions around RSA , IBM and Splunk based solutions as PreSales engineer for the respective OEMs. In his latest role as Senior PreSales Engineer for the Exposure Management Company Tenable, Gagan is helping customers to build a security eco-system that includes Vulnerability Management as one of its core foundation.

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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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Jacqueline Jayne

Security Awareness Advocate, APAC,KnowBe4

Jacqueline Jayne (JJ) currently serves as Security Awareness Advocate for the APAC region for KnowBe4, the provider of the world’s largest security awareness and simulated phishing platform.

With 25+ years of experience as a conduit between people and technology, she has mastered the art of communication and influence. Previously, JJ led a successful cybersecurity education and awareness program that changed behavior and created a security culture.

Her insights on the human condition and how to engage at all levels in this space are invaluable. JJ is not your usual presenter and you will enjoy her energy and ability to create links with people and technology.

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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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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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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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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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Lucas Salter

General Manager, Data Protection Solutions, Dell Technologies, Asia Pacific & Japan

Lucas is the General Manager of the Data Protection Solutions business and a member of the Executive Leadership team at Dell Technologies Asia Pacific & Japan. Lucas leads a team of data protection specialists who enable companies to modernise and automate their data protection platforms and overcome data protection barriers.

With a passion for managing risk, Lucas’ team enables organisations to solve multi-cloud, data growth and cyber-security challenges, allowing them to focus on meeting their business objectives. Working closely with customers across multiple sectors, his team helps organisations accelerate digital transformation by focusing on the value and resilience of their data, and enabling them to scale for current and future demands.

Lucas joined Dell Technologies (formerly EMC) in 2015. Prior to Dell Technologies, he held senior positions at NextDC and Symantec. He has over 20 years of experience specialising in solving business problems with technology in the areas of security, risk and data protection.

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Venkat Thoutam

Business Unit Security Officer (BUSO) – Dell Digital and a Regional Security Lead -APJC

Venkat has more than 27 years of experience and currently serves as Business Unit Security Officer (BUSO) – Dell Digital, responsible to Identify, prioritize and drive security programs to benefit the business area and help in the management of security & resiliency. He is also a Regional Security Lead for APJC region, In this role he supports external and internal Dell customers and act as a single point of contact for all the Security & Resiliency requirements in the region.

Venkat has been in the industry more than 27 years, during last 2 decades he has been focused on building application & data security practices providing consulting, strategy, architecture & design services aligning with business goals to enhance the security posture of the organizations across multiple industry sectors.

Prior to Dell, he worked as an Application & Data Security Practice Lead and Senior Delivery Lead for Security & Risk Consulting Services at Accenture. Also as a Global Delivery Head of Enterprise Security Services at Wipro Technologies.

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Alex Tilley

Head of CTU for APJ, Secureworks

With well over 20 years of experience in computer security and cyber-crime, Alex Tilley is a highly awarded cyber-crime researcher. Alex was on the forefront of research and countermeasures when phishing and malware first began to attack banking platforms and their customers.

With that background, Alex became the Australian Federal Police’s senior cyber-crime technical analyst where he combined his technical background with an analytical approach to the “who” and “why” of the cyber-crime fight. This work resulted is many successful investigations in the cyber-crime and child protection space.

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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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