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Darrin Kimes

Senior Special Agent, US Secret Service

Darrin Kimes is a Special Agent/Technical Staff Assistant with the Secret Service's Chicago Electronic Crimes Task Force. Most of his 21 years have been dedicated to digital forensics and cyber investigations. Kimes currently serves as the Digital Forensics Lab Director for the CECTF. There he manages the day-to-day work of the lab while also assisting the CECTF in cybercrime investigations. His Secret Service career has also given him the opportunity to protect former-President Jimmy Carter in some of the more challenging locations around the world to include Darfur, Sudan; the Gaza Strip; Ramallah, West Bank; and Pyong Yang, North Korea.

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Sadia Mirza

Attorney, Cybersecurity, Information Governance and Privacy Practice Group, Troutman Pepper

Sadia Mirza is part of the Cybersecurity, Information Governance and Privacy practice group at Troutman Sanders, and is also part of the Financial Services Litigation practice group. She provides strategic privacy compliance counseling, and defends, counsels and represents companies on matters relating to data privacy, data use, and incident response and investigation, with an eye towards helping clients avoid litigation. Additionally, she has experience with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), as well as various other laws concerning privacy and cybersecurity. Mirza's in-house background allows her to understand the issues and concerns clients have and guide them toward resolution in a clear and efficient way. She has worked with clients from a variety of industries, including financial institutions, consumer reporting agencies, insurance companies, healthcare providers, and data and analytics providers. Prior to becoming an attorney, Mirza worked for JPMorgan Chase and Washington Mutual Bank. Her ongoing interest in the financial services industry led her to pursue an LL.M. in banking and finance after graduating from law school.

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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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Mike Britton

CISO, Abnormal Security

Mike is the Chief Information Security Officer at Abnormal Security, leading the company’s security, privacy and risk programs. He brings a wealth of strategic and operational experience in cybersecurity and privacy most recently as the CISO and Chief Privacy Officer at Alliance Data.

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Dr. Eric Cole

Author, Cyber Security Consultant and Founder of Secure-Anchor

Dr. Eric Cole is an author, cyber security consultant and founder of Secure-Anchor. Dr. Cole brings more than 30 years of network security experience to the table. He started his career at the CIA, was CTO of McAfee, Chief Scientist for Lockheed Martin, and is a SANS Institute Faculty Fellow. He was a member of the Commission on Cyber Security under President Obama, and he now runs Secure Anchor Consulting, providing leading-edge cybersecurity consulting services, expert witness work, and leading research.

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Joe Linscott

Director of Product Strategy, PKWARE

Joe is adept in the markets of cyber security. He is currently Director of Product Strategy at PKWARE where he aids teams in guiding the overall direction of products. Joe graduated from University of Wisconsin Milwaukee with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.

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Chris Pin

VP, Security and Privacy, PKWARE

Chris Pin serves as PKWARE’s VP, Security and Privacy. In this role, Chris drives value and awareness for all PKWARE customers regarding the various challenges that both privacy and security regulations bring to the data driven world. He works closely with all customers and potential customers to help them better understand how PKWARE solutions best fit into their environments and processes. He also works very closely with many other departments such as Sales, Marketing, Partners, and Product to help build brand awareness and product insights.

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Ian Thornton-Trump

CISO, Cyjax Limited

Thornton-Trump has 25 years of experience in IT and IT security. He served with the CF Military Intelligence Branch and the CF Military Police Reserves. He worked as a criminal intelligence analyst for the RCMP; a cybersecurity analyst/consultant for multinational insurance, banking and regional healthcare companies; and a project manager, specializing in cybersecurity, for the Canadian Museum of Human Rights. Thornton-Trump is part of the global faculty of CompTIA.

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Alex Corstorphine

Lead Security Solutions Engineer, Rapid7

Alex is a Lead Security Solutions Engineer in the cloud security practice at Rapid7, where he partners with customers to help them ensure continuous security and compliance of cloud services during their digital transformation journeys. He has close to a decade of experience in the security space. Before joining DivvyCloud, Alex worked for several firms in the security and IT operations space, including Dome9 Security, SumoLogic, and Juniper Networks. Alex holds seven certifications including (ISC)² CCSP, AWS Solutions Architect, AWS DevOps Professional and AWS Security Specialty. He received his bachelor's degree from San Jose State University.

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Jeremy Snyder

Senior Director of Business Development and Solutions Engineering, DivvyCloud by Rapid7

Jeremy Snyder is the Senior Director of Business Development and Solutions Engineering for the cloud security practice at Rapid7. He leads the company's solutions architect, partner and international teams. With prior experience at AWS (first field representative in Southeast Asia's ASEAN region) and REAN Cloud (later Hitachi Vantara), Jeremy's been working in the cloud since 2010. He has a BA (Ling) from UNC and an MBA GMU. Jeremy has lived in 5 countries and speaks several languages. He once went 3 days without seeing another human (lots of reindeer, though) and was kicked off a train in Sweden.

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Christopher Hertz

VP of Cloud Security Sales, Rapid7

Chris is the VP of Cloud Security Sales for Rapid7, where he combines his technical background and cloud technology expertise with his love of sales and marketing. Chris leads a team of solution architects, marketing, and sales professionals who partner with customers to deeply understand their goals and challenges, and provide the education, insights, and solutions they need to run cloud and container environments securely and compliantly.

Chris served as DivvyCloud's Chief Revenue Officer prior to Rapid7's 2020 acquisition. Prior to his leadership position at DivvyCloud, Chris was founder and CEO of New Signature, a systems integrator, and managed service provider. Under his leadership, New Signature helped hundreds of companies adopt and operate Microsoft Azure and Office 365, achieved 12 years of consecutive double-digit revenue growth, and won more than 120 awards, including being named twice as Microsoft's United States Partner of the Year

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Matt Ashburn

National Security Engagement Lead, Authentic8

Former CIA Cyber Security Officer, and National Security CISO at the White House - National Security Engagement Lead, Authentic8

Engagement Lead, focusing on engagement with national security customers. Prior to Authentic8, Matt served as a CIA officer focusing on cyber issues, including a detail serving on the National Security Council as the Chief Information Security Officer and Special Advisor to the National Security Advisor, leading technical expertise, risk reduction strategies, and policy for national security systems.

At CIA, Matt led the technical direction and coordination to stand up an innovative, unified cyber security operations center to fully harness agency authorities, resources, and talents to prevent and respond to advanced cyber threats. He also led the detection watch floor of CIA's cyber incident response team, and has been recognized with a national intelligence award and service ribbon from the Director of National Intelligence and the IC CIO Partnership Award.

Prior to CIA, Matt gained over 10 years of government and private sector experience focusing on intelligence matters and cyber security initiatives at federal agencies and a major financial institution. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Virginia and is a graduate of FBI's Intelligence Basic Course at Quantico, VA. Matt lives in Washington, DC and volunteers as a sworn reserve police officer with the DC Metropolitan Police

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Andrew Rose

Resident CISO - EMEA, Proofpoint

Andrew Rose is Resident CISO for the EMEA Region at Proofpoint. His focus is driving Proofpoint's people-centric security vision, strategy and initiatives amongst the company's customer base, bringing hands on experience, knowledge and perspective in managing risk and improving cyber security posture across complex enterprises. Andrew was previously Chief Security Officer of Mastercard subsidiary Vocalink, who are responsible for much of the UK's instant and bulk payments covering over 90% of UK salaries, over 70% of UK bill payments and nearly all UK benefit payments.

Andrew brings with him a wealth of additional industry expertise from a number of CISO roles including at the UK's Air Traffic Control provider, NATS, where he oversaw a security transformation and contributed to the design of the next generation air traffic control system. Andrew has also held CISO roles at top tier global law firms Allen & Overy LLP and Clifford Chance LLP and was a Principal Analyst at Forrester Research where he covered the role of the CISO and Security Culture and Awareness as two of his specialty areas.

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Mark Walmsley

CISO, Freshfields Law Firm

Mark Walmsley is an experienced chief information security officer. He studied law before joining a number of small boutique private investigation agencies. The majority of Marks professional career has been spent within the legal industry, working within litigation before moving to business services where he managed high-value, complex programmes of work.

Mark has led Freshfields information and cyber security capability for the last six years and had a year secondments to the National cyber Security Centre (part of GCHQ) where he helped manage the government and legal industry engagement.

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Karl Lewis

Lead Architect, APJC, Duo Security, now a part of Cisco

Lewis is Duo Security at Cisco's lead architect for the APJC region. He helps bridge the gap between technology and business problems for organizations by helping them understand how Duo integrates and addresses current business challenges around cybersecurity. He has more than 8 years of experience administering, designing and securing enterprise and service provider networks as a multi-certified network security architect and a contributor to the PreSales Collective, an international community of pre-sales professionals.

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Jeremy Hendy

CEO, Skurio

Jeremy Hendy is the Chief Executive Officer at Skurio. Jeremy has more than 30 years’ experience in high technology industries, working at companies including Texas Instruments, Symbionics and Cadence. Prior to joining Skurio in 2016, Jeremy was VP of sales and marketing at Cambridge-based Nujira. Jeremy holds a degree in electronic engineering from the University of Liverpool.

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Jeremy Hendy

CEO, Skurio

Jeremy Hendy is the Chief Executive Officer at Skurio. Jeremy has more than 30 years’ experience in high technology industries, working at companies including Texas Instruments, Symbionics and Cadence. Prior to joining Skurio in 2016, Jeremy was VP of sales and marketing at Cambridge-based Nujira. Jeremy holds a degree in electronic engineering from the University of Liverpool.

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Tommy Todd

VP of Security, Code42

Tommy Todd is Vice President of Security at Code42 with over 20 years of cybersecurity experience, primarily focused on data privacy and data protection strategies. Prior to Code42, Tommy served in security roles at Symantec, Ionic Security, and Optiv as well as many other firms. Throughout his career, he has acted as a leader, mentor, engineer, architect, and consultant to solve difficult data protection challenges. Tommy is passionate about data – both consumer and commercial – and strives to improve the security posture in organizations he works with.

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