Training

Chris Hockings

CTO, IBM Security A/NZ

Chris Hockings is a regional CTO for IBM Security.  He is responsible for representing the IBM global security innovation strategy and vision to the local market, engaging with leaders across the industry and driving innovative partnerships with clients on emerging technology.  Chris brings his extensive client experience and thought leadership to the IBM Security Australia Research and Development facility, to help the lab design and develop globally competitive offerings across cyber security products and services.

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Jamie French

Director of Strategy & Portfolio, Unisys

Jamie French, Director of Strategy and Portfolio for Unisys Security Solutions is a seasoned information security leader and practitioner with over 25 years' experience. Throughout his career, Jamie has worked with every major market vertical globally holding a variety of roles focused in the realm of security ranging from SOC Analyst, Solution Architect, Technical Pre-Sales, Standards and Enablement, Research and Development, Product and Solution Management, Risk/Technical/Strategic Consulting , IT Security Auditor, Advisory Board Member, Strategist, Practitioner, Educator, Mentor, and Leader.

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Clifford Shier

Managing Principal, Unisys

Over 25 years of Clifford Shier's career have been in IT Leadership roles (CIO/CISO/CTO).   Mr. Shier has extensive experience in collaborative partnering to deliver sustainable results for market leading Fortune and Critical Infrastructure companies in both the Private and Public Sector.  He has led numerous business transformation and high growth initiatives resulting in significant measurable gains in performance, profitability and competitiveness.  As Trusted Executive Advisor and IT/Business Strategist to Unisys clients globally, Mr. Shier brings expertise to deliver on the promise of sustainable and secure Digital Transformation.

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Matthew Rose

Director of Application Security Strategy

Matt has over 18 years of software development, sales engineering management and consulting experience. During this time, Matt has helped some of the largest organizations in the world in a variety of industries, regions, and technical environments implement secure software development life cycles utilizing static analysis. Matt's extensive background in application security, object-oriented programming, multi-tier architecture design/implementation, and internet/intranet development has been key to many speaking engagements for organizations like OWASP, ISSA, and ISACA.

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Matthew Rose

Director of Application Security Strategy

Matt has over 18 years of software development, sales engineering management and consulting experience. During this time, Matt has helped some of the largest organizations in the world in a variety of industries, regions, and technical environments implement secure software development life cycles utilizing static analysis. Matt's extensive background in application security, object-oriented programming, multi-tier architecture design/implementation, and internet/intranet development has been key to many speaking engagements for organizations like OWASP, ISSA, and ISACA.

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Mark McIntyre

Chief Security Advisor, Microsoft

Mark McIntyre is a Chief Security Advisor in Microsoft's Cybersecurity Solutions Group. Mark works with the US government, NATO, allied governments, and the larger defense contractor ecosystem, helping them transform their missions and businesses while moving securely to the Cloud. Mark supports CISOs and their teams with cybersecurity reviews and helps them understand Microsoft's perspectives on the evolving cyber threat landscape and how Microsoft defends its enterprise, employees and users around the world. Mark is based in Redmond, WA.

Before joining CSG, Mark ran Microsoft's Government Security Program, Microsoft's global trust and transparency initiative for national governments. Mark also previously ran Microsoft's Security Cooperation Program, and the Child Exploitation Tracking System (CETS) initiative, through which Microsoft partnered with international law enforcement agencies to combat the online sexual exploitation of children.

Mark joined Microsoft in June, 2007, after 11 years in the US government working on information assurance, counterterrorism and regional security issues. Mark has an MA from the University of Washington, a BA from the University of Wisconsin, and a certificate in Korean language from Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. He also holds CISSP and CCSP designations from ICS2.

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Sudhir Mehta

Global Vice President for Product Management and Strategy, Unisys

Sudhir Mehta is the Global Vice President for Product Management and Strategy wherein he leads and executes our strategies across products and applications, partnering with Technology product owners, Enterprise Solutions and Unisys Federal to achieve our defined business outcomes.

Sudhir is an accomplished leader with deep global experience in product management, managed security services, infrastructure transformation, SaaS and public cloud (including Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud Platform). Most recently he was responsible for Symantec's Cloud Strategy with SaaS Products and Partner Integrations, leading the acceleration of Symantec's Security SaaS solutions. At Symantec he also directed product management for Global Systems Integrators and Norton products.

Prior to Symantec, Sudhir held several leadership roles with HP and Nokia in which he managed product P&L, drove large services businesses, established partner programs and mentored and grew teams.

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Anand Guruprasad

Solutions Engineer, Team Lead, APAC, Cloudflare

Anand is part of the APAC Solutions Engineering team that helps businesses solve their cloud performance and security problems. As the APAC subject matter expert for the Cloudflare Bot Management solution, he's responsible for leading the product and delivering custom solutions for the region. He spends a large chunk of his time trying to help businesses discover and mitigate intelligent, malicious bots harming revenue through outages, lost brand value and manpower fighting these bots. Apart from security, he's also passionate about advocating the importance of performance and security for SaaS business.

Before joining Cloudflare, Anand worked in the web performance and monitoring industry. He was responsible for delivering the message of the importance of performance and its impact on business revenue across the APAC region. With the proliferation of mobile devices and cheaper mobile data across the emerging markets, his message of performance optimisations for optimal mobile user experience helped businesses improve their web assets performance and availability, and in turn, driving their revenue.

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Daniel Christiansen

Staff Cybersecurity Advisor, Splunk

Daniel Christiansen has over 20 years of cybersecurity experience, and has worked for six years with the DoD, Intelligence Community, and Federal Civilian agencies on security related projects. Dan currently works for Splunk as a Staff Cybersecurity Advisor and focuses primarily on State and Local Agency security projects. Dan''s expertise is around SIEM, User Behavior Analytics, Insider Threat, and Machine Learning.

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Spencer Lichtenstein

Product Marketing Manager, RSA

Spencer is a Product Marketing Manager for the RSA NetWitness Platform at RSA. He works on all components of the RSA NetWitness Platform planning product launches, go-to-market strategy, pricing, packaging, and market research. Spencer previously worked as a Sr. Solutions Principal for RSA NetWitness Platform and the Cyber and Risk Practices at RSA scoping global services deployments and architecture for the product. Before RSA, Spencer was a Sr Director of Technology at Onyx Security where he designed, built, and marketed MSSP offerings for clients and has also held roles as a Risk Manager with Cisco Systems and Director of Consulting for a cyber consulting practice. Spencer began his career in cybersecurity working on offensive national security issues for the U.S Intelligence Community. Spencer holds a Master of Science from Georgetown University and a Bachelor of Arts from American University.

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Chris Thomas

Advisory Consultant - Incident Response Advanced Cyber Defence Services, RSA

Chris Thomas is an Advisory Practice Consultant for the NetWitness Incident Response Practice at RSA, with over 20 years of experience in the IT Security industry. In this capacity, Chris is responsible for delivering holistic incident response services using state of the art host and network-based tools. Using these tools, combined with advanced methodologies, Chris can assist clients to obtain situational awareness and rapidly identify threats as part of the tactical response to intrusions involving sophisticated adversaries that target intellectual property and other critically sensitive data.

Prior to joining the Incident Response Practice, Chris was an Advisory Systems Engineer for the RSA NetWitness Platform for users across APJ. This role's responsibilities included Leadership and drive of RSA's Threat Detection and Response solutions from a technical perspective by working across sales and professional services teams to ensure customer success, collaborate with the global Advisory team and product management to drive RSA product and solution direction, mentor junior presales consultants and take a leadership role within the global Presales team.

Prior to joining RSA in 2011, Chris was a Principal Consultant for CA Technologies (Computer Associates) with experience across many areas of IT Security including Network Forensics, Audit Log Analysis, Identity Management, Antivirus, Intrusion Detection, and Gateway Security. His 12 years at CA included roles covering presales, solution architecture, and implementation work. Chris has been part of the analyst team for the Black Hat Asia Network Operations Centre (NOC) supporting the Black Hat Asia conference in Singapore, and has also set-up and managed the Security Operations Centre (SOC) for RSA Conference APJ in Singapore for 2017 - 2019. Chris has presented at several industry conferences including Black Hat Asia and RSA Conference APJ, as well as developing and running "Capture the Packet" training exercises for internal and customer training purposes.

Chris attended the University of Sydney where he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

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Spencer Lichtenstein

Product Marketing Manager, RSA

Spencer is a Product Marketing Manager for the RSA NetWitness Platform at RSA. He works on all components of the RSA NetWitness Platform planning product launches, go-to-market strategy, pricing, packaging, and market research. Spencer previously worked as a Sr. Solutions Principal for RSA NetWitness Platform and the Cyber and Risk Practices at RSA scoping global services deployments and architecture for the product. Before RSA, Spencer was a Sr Director of Technology at Onyx Security where he designed, built, and marketed MSSP offerings for clients and has also held roles as a Risk Manager with Cisco Systems and Director of Consulting for a cyber consulting practice. Spencer began his career in cybersecurity working on offensive national security issues for the U.S Intelligence Community. Spencer holds a Master of Science from Georgetown University and a Bachelor of Arts from American University.

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Chris Thomas

Advisory Consultant - Incident Response Advanced Cyber Defence Services, RSA

Chris Thomas is an Advisory Practice Consultant for the NetWitness Incident Response Practice at RSA, with over 20 years of experience in the IT Security industry. In this capacity, Chris is responsible for delivering holistic incident response services using state of the art host and network-based tools. Using these tools, combined with advanced methodologies, Chris can assist clients to obtain situational awareness and rapidly identify threats as part of the tactical response to intrusions involving sophisticated adversaries that target intellectual property and other critically sensitive data.

Prior to joining the Incident Response Practice, Chris was an Advisory Systems Engineer for the RSA NetWitness Platform for users across APJ. This role's responsibilities included Leadership and drive of RSA's Threat Detection and Response solutions from a technical perspective by working across sales and professional services teams to ensure customer success, collaborate with the global Advisory team and product management to drive RSA product and solution direction, mentor junior presales consultants and take a leadership role within the global Presales team.

Prior to joining RSA in 2011, Chris was a Principal Consultant for CA Technologies (Computer Associates) with experience across many areas of IT Security including Network Forensics, Audit Log Analysis, Identity Management, Antivirus, Intrusion Detection, and Gateway Security. His 12 years at CA included roles covering presales, solution architecture, and implementation work. Chris has been part of the analyst team for the Black Hat Asia Network Operations Centre (NOC) supporting the Black Hat Asia conference in Singapore, and has also set-up and managed the Security Operations Centre (SOC) for RSA Conference APJ in Singapore for 2017 - 2019. Chris has presented at several industry conferences including Black Hat Asia and RSA Conference APJ, as well as developing and running "Capture the Packet" training exercises for internal and customer training purposes.

Chris attended the University of Sydney where he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

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Mohamad Amin Hasbini

Head of Research Center (META), Kaspersky

Dr. Amin Hasbini joined Kaspersky in 2013 as a Senior Researcher for the Global Research & Analysis Team (GReAT). Dr. Amin now heads that same research center for the META region. He is responsible for Kaspersky's expert positioning, research expansion, and knowledge maturity in four regional offices.

Prior to joining Kaspersky, Amin was a senior consultant at Deloitte & Touche Middle East; and before that a senior security Engineer at DataConsult in Lebanon.

Dr. Hasbini has worked on numerous large-scale defensive infrastructure, industrial and consulting projects for government entities, banks, service providers, Oil & Gas companies, and others. He has also taught security courses in forensics, malware analysis and ethical hacking.

Dr. Amin Hasbini holds a PHD in Smart Cities Information Security from Brunel University (London). He is specialized in wide scale cyber-defense and anti-APT tools and techniques, has a number of publications on advanced malware operations and smart cities security, presented at more than 100 conferences worldwide and has received numerous accolades.

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Ahmad Ashraf

Senior Security Consultant, Kaspersky

Ahmad Ashraf joined Kaspersky in 2014 as a Senior Security Consultant, Ahmad is responsible for technical consultations about evolving cyber threat landscape, Kaspersky enterprise solutions and threat intelligence services.

Prior to joining Kaspersky , Ahmad was a Security Consultant at SecureMisr. Ahmad led infrastructure security assessments and penetration testing projects for government entities, banks and service providers in the Middle East, Africa and the GCC region.

Ahmad holds a bachelor's degree in computer engineering, a professional diploma in cyber security from Information Technology Institute "ITI" , and professional certifications from SANS institute and Cisco like GIAC Certified Incident Handler "GCIH", GIAC Web Application Penetration Tester "GWAPT", GIAC Security Essentials "GSEC" and Cisco Certified Network Associate "CCNA".

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Maher Yamout

Senior Security Researcher, Kaspersky

Maher is a Senior Security Researcher in the Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) at Kaspersky. He supports clients in analyzing cyber risks and helps to expose advanced persistent threats targeting the Middle East, Turkey and Africa. Maher has a background in cyber security, digital forensics & incident response, with 16 years' experience supporting clients across multiple verticals.

Maher holds a degree in Computer Science and is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Intelligence Studies. Maher holds multiple certificates from GIAC, ISC2 and others.

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Marcus Carey

Enterprise Architect, ReliaQuest

Marcus Carey is currently an Enterprise Architect at ReliaQuest. Marcus is renowned in the cybersecurity industry and has spent his more than 20-year career working in penetration testing, incident response, and digital forensics with federal agencies such as NSA, DC3, DIA, and DARPA. He started his career in cryptography in the U.S. Navy and holds a Master's degree in Network security from Capitol College.

Marcus was previously the founder and CEO of Threatcare (acquired by ReliaQuest), a venture-backed cybersecurity and software services company based in Austin, Texas. He regularly speaks at security conferences across the country. Marcus is passionate about giving back to the community through things like mentorship, hackathons, and speaking engagements, and is a voracious reader in his spare time.

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Dirk Jan Koekkoek

VP, DMARC, Mimecast

Dirk Jan Koekkoek is the founder of several successful companies, including the Hilversum cybersecurity company DMARC Analyzer. This company was recently taken over by security specialist Mimecast. Koekkoek now works at Mimecast as VP DMARC.

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Elad Schulman

VP, Brand Protection, Mimecast

Elad Schulman is the Brand Protection Vice President in Mimecast Ltd. Elad has a vast background in enterprise software and cybersecurity from corporates (SAP, HP), startups (OpTier, Mercury) and from his military service in the IDF. Elad has a MA in Business Administration and BSc in Computer Science from Bar-Ilan University. In 2017 Elad co-founded Segasec, a digital threat protection startup, and acted as CEO until it was acquired by Mimecast at the beginning of 2020.

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Chip Witt

Head of Product Strategy, SpyCloud

Chip Witt has nearly twenty years of diverse technology experience, including product management and operations leadership roles at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Webroot, VMware, Alcatel, and Appthority. He is currently the Head of Product Strategy and manages the Customer Success Program at SpyCloud, which provides cloud-based security services to help businesses of all sizes prevent data breaches and account takeover attacks by alerting when employee or company assets have been compromised. Chip works closely with field intelligence teams specializing in OSINT and HUMINT tradecraft, actor attribution and underground monitoring.

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Craig Dore

Lead IAM Strategist, RSA, APJ

Craig Dore is the lead IAM strategist for RSA Asia-Pacific, India and Japan. He has 25 years of experience in cybersecurity, 20 of which has been at RSA. Previously, he held other positions at RSA in engineering, QA and as a presales architect. He now serves as a product evangelist, public speaker, sales specialist, author of numerous published articles and technical expert.

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Rajnish Gupta

Regional Director - India & SAARC, RSA

Rajnish Gupta is regional director, India and SAARC, at RSA, responsible for supervising sales and driving the company's growth in the region. Previously, he worked at Symantec, where he managed the north and east regions and government business across India. He has also held senior-level positions at Cadence, MindTree and Wipro. He started his professional career with PCS in 1990.

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Kalyanaraman Seshadri

Industry Veteran and Senior Security Executive, RSA

Kalyanaraman Seshadri, a security consultant, has two decades of experience at security managed service provider companies. He recently led transformation initiatives at Cognizant as head of information risk management and global head of vendor risk management. Earlier, he led security for HCL Technologies, where he planned and executed security strategy, transformation and consolidation for more than a decade.

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Etay Maor

Chief Security Officer at IntSights

Maor is Chief Security Officer at IntSights. As CSO, Etay leads the security advisory practice at IntSights where he works with CISOs and other senior cybersecurity executives to develop risk management-based cybersecurity programs. Etay has extensive experience in cybersecurity having worked at IBM, Trusteer, and RSA. Etay holds a BA in Computer Science and a MA in Counter Terrorism and Cyber Terrorism and is currently a professor at Boston College.

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Charity Wright

Cyber Threat Intelligence Advisor, IntSights

Charity Wright is a Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst with over 15 years experience at US Army and the National Security Agency, where she translated Mandarin Chinese. Wright now focuses her attention on dark web cyberthreat intelligence. She enjoys the dynamic threat environment of cybercriminal communication and networks and thrives on providing relevant, timely intel to her customers at IntSights.

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