Training

Gretel Egan

Security Awareness and Training Strategist, Wombat Security, a division of Proofpoint

Gretel Egan is the Security Awareness & Training Strategist for Wombat Security, a division of Proofpoint and the leading provider of information security awareness and training software that helps organizations educate employees. She has extensive experience in researching and developing cybersecurity education content.

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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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Brian Duckering

Mobile Security Specialist, Symantec

Duckering has been a thought leader and respected advisor in enterprise IT for more than 15 years. With experience in engineering, product management, marketing, business strategy and technology evangelism, he has held executive-level positions at business- and consumer-facing companies, both large and small, and has multiple degrees in engineering and technology management. Duckering has spent the last eight years focused on enterprise mobility, with a focus on achieving both productivity and security.

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Paul Swarbrick

International CISO, Privacy and Digital Risk Expert

Paul Swarbrick's career spans over 25 years within the information security, privacy, assurance and governance arena in Europe and across the world. He is a Fellow of Cambridge University's Centre for Science and Policy and founding holder of the EC-Council's C:CISO certification for information assurance expertise. He works with many of the key cyber security forums to work on improving awareness and effective policy development and implementation nationally and at an organisational level. During his career, Swarbrick has worked with many international organisations across multiple industry sectors and several UK government departments, advising on and implementing the best and most pragmatic approaches to protecting information assets and systems, and on the implementation of new technologies and working practices.

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Phil Curran

CISO, Cooper University Health Care

As the Chief Information Assurance and Privacy Officer at Cooper University Health Care in Camden NJ, Phil Curran is responsible for managing governance and regulatory compliance, risk assessment and management, threat intelligence and vulnerability assessment, privacy and security investigations, business continuity, and awareness and training. He has served on the Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) task force to integrate privacy controls in the Common Security Framework and the development of the ISC2 Health Care Information Security and Privacy Practitioner. Phil serves on the Executive Committee for Secure World - Philadelphia and the Philadelphia and New Jersey Chapters of the CISO Executive Network. He has spoken on Information Security and Privacy issues at Secure World and HIMSS Privacy and Security.

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Mark Eggleston

VP, CISO and CPO, Health Partners Plans

Eggleston is vice president, CISO and chief privacy officer at Health Partners Plans, a Philadelphia-based HMO. He leads the maturation of various security technologies and privacy initiatives and manages a business continuity and disaster recovery program. Eggleston started his professional career serving as a program manager and psychotherapist at a hospital serving children and adolescents. Later, he helped develop a HIPAA privacy and security compliance program for a geographically dispersed healthcare provider organization and later at a local health plan, before moving to his current role.

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Brian Lancaster

VP of IT and CIO, University of Nebraska Medical Center

Brian Lancaster currently serves as Vice President of IT and CIO at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. A healthcare technology executive with over 20 years of experience, he provides vision, direction, coordination and oversight of the delivery of the highest quality information technology to the enterprise. Technology that is critical to deliver upon Nebraska Medicine and UNMC's shared mission statement to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for all individuals and communities through premier educational programs, innovative research and extraordinary patient care. Lancaster joined Nebraska Medicine in 2015 and during his tenure at Nebraska Medicine, he has lead the enterprise's technology strategy to achieve HIMSS Level 7 in 2015, as well as led the organization to be awarded the 2017 Most Wired award and the 2017 HIMSS Enterprise Davies award. Prior to joining Nebraska Medicine, he was employed by Cerner Corporation where he was the executive over the product and business strategies for Cerner's Electronic Medical Record and Population Health product lines. Lancaster is a recognized innovator with 7 inventions awarded patents and an additional 12 inventions awaiting patent approval.

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Mitch Parker

CISO, Indiana University Health System

Parker is CISO at University of Indiana Health, based in Indianapolis. He formerly served as CISO at the four-hospital Temple University Health System as well as CISO for Temple's clinical faculty practice plan, Temple University Physicians. Previously, he was an information security consultant to the Defense Logistics Agency and others.

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Steven Teppler

Attorney; Bitcoin/Blockchain Expert, Mandelbaum Salsburg P.C.

Teppler has practiced law since 1981 and now leads the firm's electronic discovery and technology based litigation practice. His practice focus is on electronic discovery, including production, preservation, and spoliation matters, and he advises clients about risk, liability, and compliance issues unique to information governance. His experience includes litigation matters, both against and on behalf of Fortune 500 companies, as well as probate and family law disputes where electronic discovery is critically implicated. Nationally, Teppler is the Co-Chair of the American Bar Association's IoT Committee, a member of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Electronic Discovery Pilot Program, a founder and co-chair of the American Bar Association's IoT National Institute as well as the American Bar Association's National Institute on Electronic Discovery and Information Governance, and a contributing author of the ANSI X9F4 trusted timestamp guideline standards for the financial industry. Steven holds six patents in the field of content authentication and is the founder and CEO of a content authentication provider.

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Randy Trzeciak

Director, CERT Insider Threat Center, CMU

Trzeciak heads a team focusing on insider threat research, threat analysis and modeling, assessments and training. He has more than 20 years of experience in software engineering, focusing on database design, development and maintenance. In addition to his role with CERT, he is an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon's Heinz College, Graduate School of Information Systems and Management.

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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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Richard Conti

Information Security Specialist, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Richard Conti is currently an Information Security Specialist at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia where he is a subject matter expert in risk management, security incident investigations, security operations center (SOC) and threat and vulnerability management. In previous roles, he has served as IT support manager, system administrator, support specialist, and security analyst in the healthcare, academic, real estate, and radio broadcasting industries over the last 15 years.

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Nicholas Heesters

OCR Health Information Privacy & Security Specialist, HHS

Nicholas Heesters is a certified information privacy professional with over 25 years of experience supporting technology and information security efforts in many diverse industries including financial services, government, defense, education and healthcare. He earned a Master of Engineering in Computer and Software Engineering from Widener University and his Juris Doctor from the Widener University School of Law. Currently, Heesters works for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights supporting HIPAA compliance and enforcement activities.

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Anahi Santiago

CISO, Christiana Care Health System

As Christiana Care Health System's Chief Information Security Officer, Anahi Santiago is charged with providing strategic direction and oversight to a comprehensive security program, policy development, standards and controls implementation, training and awareness, regular risk assessment and mitigation, as well as partnerships with internal and external auditors. She also regularly collaborates with state and federal regulatory bodies and actively contributes to proposed state and federal regulations that govern privacy and information security. Before joining Christiana, Santiago provided similar support for the Albert Einstein Healthcare Network at a director level.

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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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Stephen R. Katz

Former CISO, Merrill Lynch and Citi

Steve Katz is the founder and President of Security Risk Solutions, LLC an information security company providing consulting, mentoring, coaching and advisory services to major, mid-size, startup and venture capital companies. He is an Executive Advisor to Deloitte, and is on the Advisory Boards for, Agari. Veriphyr, Glasswall, Vaultive, and TrustMapp He has also served as a member of the (ISC)² Americas Advisory Board for Information Systems Security as well as Advisor to the Executive Committee of the Financial Services Sector Coordinating Council (FSSCC). In 1995, Katz joined Citicorp/Citigroup after the Russian hacking incident. At Citi, he was named as the industry's first Chief Information Security Officer. He spent the next six years directing Citigroup's global Corporate Information Security Office. Katz then joined Merrill Lynch as their Chief Information Security and Privacy Officer, where he organized and instituted the company-wide privacy and security program. He also served as the interim CISO and Advisor to the Head of Technology Risk at Kaiser Permanente. In addition to testifying before Congress on numerous information security issues and mentoring many Fortune 50 CISOs, he was appointed as the first Financial Services Sector Coordinator for Critical Infrastructure Protection by the Secretary of the Treasury. Katz was also named as the first Chairman of the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS/ISAC) and is an Advisor to the National Health Sharing and Analysis Center (NH/ISAC) Board of Directors.

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Anahi Santiago

CISO, Christiana Care Health System

As Christiana Care Health System's Chief Information Security Officer, Anahi Santiago is charged with providing strategic direction and oversight to a comprehensive security program, policy development, standards and controls implementation, training and awareness, regular risk assessment and mitigation, as well as partnerships with internal and external auditors. She also regularly collaborates with state and federal regulatory bodies and actively contributes to proposed state and federal regulations that govern privacy and information security. Before joining Christiana, Santiago provided similar support for the Albert Einstein Healthcare Network at a director level.

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Lise Lapointe

CEO, Terranova

Lise Lapointe, CEO of Terranova Worldwide Corporation Inc., is a visionary through and through. She's a true entrepreneur who has dedicated the last two decades of her career to training, IT and security awareness. Working in partnership with clients to deliver thousands of successful security awareness programs to millions of users around the globe, Lise and her Terranova team of experts have acquired incomparable expertise in the field and they're excited to share the lessons learned with you in this valuable how-to manual built on the Terranova Security Awareness 5-Step Framework. Lise believes that the most powerful way to address security awareness is by taking a human approach and by leveraging proven techniques that effectively change human risk behaviors. When the people in your organization are more acutely aware of cyber threats, they are less vulnerable to them. Making her home in Laval, Quebec, Canada, Lise surrounds herself with top strategic thinkers in security awareness and has ongoing plans to scale up her company so that she can help more organizations worldwide stay protected from cyberattacks.

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Philip McInerney

Detective Inspector SCO7, Organised Crime Command, Cyber Crime Unit, Metropolitan Police

Detective Inspector Philip McInerney currently serves on the MPS Cyber Crime Unit, within Serious & Organised Crime (SCO7). Recently he has led a number of operations that have successfully targeted organised cyber criminals involved in high-level criminality, operating across the UK and internationally, including Op Bankime (dismantlement of OCG concerned in estimated £20 million+ of banking fraud during 2017), and Op Merlock (prolific cyber criminal operating across the UK banking sector, with several million pounds worth of fraud disrupted. Having initially been posted to uniform in East London, he served within the Major Crime Unit of borough CID, where McInerney became a Detective Constable. In 2003 he was selected to join SO12 Special Branch, working in a number of Counter Terrorism operations and roles (covert intelligence and operations) until January 2006. He was then selected to join the MPS Anti-Corruption Command (ACC), where he worked in covert intelligence development targeting corrupt police officers, and organised criminals who seek to corrupt officers. Between 2008 - 2013 McInerney served in a variety of roles in Westminster CID, as a Det Sgt in the Major Crime Unit and Serious Violence Team, targeting high-level fraud, violence & organised crime, and latterly as an Acting Detective Insp targeting organised crime within Soho and the West End. From Dec 2014 - Dec 2017 he served as Detective Inspector to the London Crime Squad (SCO8), leading a covert proactive unit targeting the highest levels of organised crime across London and the UK; formulating and utilising partnership with large corporations in the private sector affected by organised crime.

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Polly Ralph

Barrister and Solicitor, UK Data Protection Strategy, Legal and Compliance Services, PwC

Polly Ralph currently serves as a Senior Manager in PwC's Cyber Security & Data Protection team. She was admitted as a Barrister & Solicitor (High Court of New Zealand) in 2006. Having worked exclusively in data protection/privacy roles since 2004, she started her career at the NZ Privacy Commission, investigating data privacy complaints and breaches, and preparing cases for tribunal proceedings. Ralph then joined the Legal team at NZ Police as a privacy specialist, responsible for providing in-house advice on a broad range of privacy issues. Following her move to the UK, she spent four years in the BBC's Legal team as a data protection specialist, where she was responsible for providing advice on the legal, policy and compliance data protection issues impacting the BBC. She then moved on to the Domestic & General Insurance Group, where she was the Group's lead for data protection & privacy matters across its UK and International operations.

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Erich Kron

Security Awareness Advocate, KnowBe4

Erich Kron, Security Awareness Advocate at KnowBe4, is a veteran information security professional with over 20 years' experience in the medical, aerospace manufacturing and defense fields. He is the former security manager for the 2nd Regional Cyber Center-Western Hemisphere and holds CISSP, CISSP-ISSAP, MCITP and ITIL v3 certifications, among others. He has managed the technical integration and functional testing of multi-million-dollar enterprise level technology projects within the Department of Defense, as well as large military security programs. Erich has worked with information security professionals around the world to provide the tools, training and educational opportunities to succeed in the InfoSec industry.

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Ryan Wilk

VP Customer Success, NuData Security

Ryan Wilk is Vice President, Customer Success for NuData Security, now a MasterCard company. Previously, he was a manager of Trust and Safety at StubHub and spent eight years with Universal Parks & Resorts in various eCommerce roles. NuData Security predicts and prevents online fraud, protecting businesses from brand damage and financial loss caused by fraudulent or malicious attacks. NuData Security analyzes and scores billions of users per year and services some of the largest eCommerce and Web properties around the globe.

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Mark McGovern

VP Product Management, CA

Mark McGovern is a respected security expert and VP, Product Management for CA Technologies. Mark joined CA in April 2016 when they acquired Mobile System 7, a leading user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) company that Mark led as CEO and founder. Previously Mark was VP of Technology at In-Q-Tel where he led security investments for the U.S. Intelligence Community and was Director of Technology for Cigital Inc. where he led Cigital's Software Security Group supporting a Fortune 100 clientele. Earlier in his career, Mark worked as an engineer for the Central Intelligence Agency building covert and clandestine communication systems. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and an M.S. in Systems Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

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Paul Dulany

Vice President, Data Science, CA Technologies

Paul Dulany has been in the advanced analytics and data science areas for 18 years. He joined CA Technologies in 2013, and led the development of the analytical modeling infrastructure, as well as and the first model produced by the CA data science team, and has been leading the team since late 2015.

Prior to joining CA Technologies, he was at the SAS Institute for over eight years, where he was on the team that developed the first models for the SAS Enterprise Fraud Management solution, led the development of the first debit card models and developed many new techniques. Prior to SAS, Paul was at HNC and Fair Isaac for more than five years, as a scientist and later as the manager of the Fraud Predictor modeling team, developing a number of Falcon payment card models as well as working in other areas. Paul hold patents from his time at CA Technologies, HNC and SAS, and has a Ph.D. in theoretical physics.

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James Rendell

Vice President, Product Management, CA Technologies

James Rendell heads Payment Security Strategy and Product Management for CA Technologies. James is a recognized security and fraud expert covering topics such as mobility, cryptography, e-commerce, and network and infrastructure security.

Prior to joining CA Technologies, James led the EMEA Security consulting practice at IBM Global Technology Services and the e-Crime Prevention consulting practice at Deloitte, based in London. In 2008, while at IBM, James was elected as an affiliate member of the IBM Academy of Technology in recognition of his work in the field of IT security.

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Paul Dulany

Vice President, Data Science, CA Technologies

Paul Dulany has been in the advanced analytics and data science areas for 18 years. He joined CA Technologies in 2013, and led the development of the analytical modeling infrastructure, as well as and the first model produced by the CA data science team, and has been leading the team since late 2015.

Prior to joining CA Technologies, he was at the SAS Institute for over eight years, where he was on the team that developed the first models for the SAS Enterprise Fraud Management solution, led the development of the first debit card models and developed many new techniques. Prior to SAS, Paul was at HNC and Fair Isaac for more than five years, as a scientist and later as the manager of the Fraud Predictor modeling team, developing a number of Falcon payment card models as well as working in other areas. Paul hold patents from his time at CA Technologies, HNC and SAS, and has a Ph.D. in theoretical physics.

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James Rendell

Vice President, Product Management, CA Technologies

James Rendell heads Payment Security Strategy and Product Management for CA Technologies. James is a recognized security and fraud expert covering topics such as mobility, cryptography, e-commerce, and network and infrastructure security.

Prior to joining CA Technologies, James led the EMEA Security consulting practice at IBM Global Technology Services and the e-Crime Prevention consulting practice at Deloitte, based in London. In 2008, while at IBM, James was elected as an affiliate member of the IBM Academy of Technology in recognition of his work in the field of IT security.

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