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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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Roger Grimes

Data-Driven Defense Evangelist

Roger Grimes is a 30-year computer security consultant, instructor, holder of dozens of computer certifications and an award-winning author of 10 books and over 1,000 magazine articles on computer security. 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 has been the weekly security columnist for InfoWorld and CSO magazines since 2005.

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Rick McElroy

Head of Security Strategy, Carbon Black

Rick McElroy, Head of Security Strategy for Carbon Black, has 20 years of information security experience educating and advising organizations on reducing their risk posture and tackling tough security challenges. He has held security positions with the U.S. Department of Defense, and in several industries including retail, insurance, entertainment, cloud computing, and higher education. McElroy's experience ranges from performing penetration testing to building and leading security programs. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), a Certified Information Security Manager (CSIM), and Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC).

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Jason Pfeiffer

VP of Product Management, Reliaquest

Jason Pfeiffer, VP of Product Management for ReliaQuest is responsible for the development and execution of their go to market strategy. Jason is one of the industry's leading cybersecurity professionals, specializing in incident response, security operations, security architecture and risk assessment. He has spent his career building and leading world-class information security programs for global businesses, including Lockheed Martin and PwC. He has led investigations and responses for a range of incidents - some involving multiple nation-state threat actors. In 2015 Jason was awarded the Senior Information Security Professional award by ISC2 for his work in developing and building PwC's Cyber Fusion Center (CFC). Jason earned an B.S in Management Information Systems (MIS) from the University of Central Florida (UCF) and a M.S. in Technology Management from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI).

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Chris Hallenbeck

CISO, Americas, Tanium

Chris Hallenbeck is CISO for the Americas at Tanium. He provides security leadership and operational insight gained from over 20 years in both public and private sector. Hallenbeck came to Tanium after almost 7 years of government service at the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT). At US-CERT he designed and built their incident response capabilities, and restructured the team's focus toward strategic remediation with a goal of building more resilient organizations. Over countless IR engagements both with government and private sector victims a common theme emerged: a lack of emphasis on IT security hygiene. Prior to joining US-CERT, Chris worked for RSA Security/EMC as a security engineer and with AOL/Time Warner on their global incident response team. He started his career as a Unix sys-admin at Binghamton University.

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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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Joyce Brocaglia

Founder, Executive Women's Forum

Joyce Brocaglia is a serial entrepreneur who for the past three decades has founded and led companies with a shared mission to build world-class organizations, advise executives and advance diversity in leadership. Having founded Alta Associates in 1986, today Alta is a leader in placing executives in Cybersecurity, IT Risk and Transformational Technologies and building the teams that support them. In 2002, Brocaglia founded the Executive Women's Forum on Information Security, Risk Management & Privacy (EWF) a membership organization dedicated to engaging and advancing women leaders in their field through education, leadership development and the creation of trusted relationships. In 2019 she founded BoardSuitedTM an innovative executive education company, designed to prepare senior executives for Public, Private, Non-Profit and Advisory Board candidacy and service. BoardSuitedTM offers executives the comprehensive preparation they need to obtain their first board seat with the convenience of a self-paced, online learning environment they seek.

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Moriah Hara

CISO Board Advisor, Clearsky

Named by Cybercrime Magazine in 2019 as one of top 100 Fascinating Women Fighting Cyber, Moriah Hara is currently a CISO Advisory Member for Clearsky Security Fund and YL Ventures. Previously, she was the CISO of IPG & Wells Fargo Capital Markets. At Wells Fargo, Hara had security accountability for all aspects of the investment banking division that generated approximately $4 billion per year. She built the global VISA Payment Card Industry QSA (Qualified Security Assessor) program, engineered the global vulnerability management program at Credit Suisse Networks and co-created the Threat Management team at Bank of America. She has also spoken in front of Fortune 50 audiences on topics such as Data Leakage Prevention, Payment Security and Risks to Unstructured Data. She has a technical background which includes 'ethical hacking' for Fortune 10 companies, security assessments on biogenetic data warehouses and customized global security programs for industry leaders in the financial, payment and banking sectors.

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Nashira Layade

SVP, CISO, Realogy

Nashira W. Layade serves as SVP, CISO at Realogy Holdings Corporation where she is responsible for establishing and maintaining the enterprise vision, strategy, and programs necessary to ensure the adequate protection of Realogy's digital information assets and technologies. Her background includes nearly 20 years' experience as an executive and thought leader in Information Security, Data Privacy, and Risk Management for multinational Fortune 500 firms in the Financial Services, Media & Entertainment, and Real Estate industries. Layade serves on the Board of Directors of the Seven Roses Legacy Foundation and is an Executive Advisory Board Member for Forcepoint.

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Janet Scott

Executive Director of Cybersecurity Engineering, Merck

Janet Scott is an Executive Director at Merck in the Information Technology Risk Management and Security Organization. She is responsible for Merck's Global Cybersecurity Engineering Organization - leading teams in the US, Prague and Singapore. Included under her leadership are the functional areas of Identity and Access Management, Data and System protection, Network Segmentation and Data Analytics. Scott is an experienced IT leader with over 8 years of Cybersecurity experience. She has been at Merck for over 25 years in various capacities including IT Risk management & policy, IT infrastructure, and sales application development. Scott also supported eDiscovery and Merck legal during the Vioxx litigation. She has led various IT business operations teams with responsibility for finance/budget, learning & development, IT sourcing strategy, and IT communications.

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Christopher R. Hetner

Managing Director, Cyber-Risk Consulting, Marsh

Chris Hetner currently serves as Managing Director for Marsh Risk Consulting's (MRC) Cyber Risk Consulting business. Working closely with Marsh's cyber insurance and advisory teams, MRC's Cyber Risk Consulting team delivers a wide range of expertise and capabilities - from cyber risk impact modeling to cyber breach and business interruption readiness - tailored to each client's specific risk management needs and objectives. Prior to joining Marsh, Hetner was the senior cybersecurity advisor to the chairman of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). He has over 25 years of experience in cybersecurity, risk management and regulatory compliance and currently serves as Special Advisor of Cyber Risk for the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD).

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Matt Cauthorn

VP of Security, ExtraHop

Matt Cauthorn currently serves as VP of Security at ExtraHop, where he is responsible for all security implementations and leads a team of technical security engineers who work directly with customers and prospects. A passionate technologist and evangelist, Cauthorn is often on site with customers working to solve the complex and mission-critical business problems that Fortune 1,000 and global 2,000 companies face. After years spent helping customers tap into the value offered by network-based analytics, Cauthorn has been able to bring fresh thinking to security threat detection. Prior to ExtraHop, he was a Sales Engineering Manager at F5. He began his career in the trenches as a practitioner where he oversaw application hosting, infrastructure, and security for five international data centers.

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Franklyn Jones

Chief Marketing Officer, Cequence

Franklyn Jones currently serves as Chief Marketing Officer for Cequence. He has been involved in innovative cyber security startups for more than a decade. Prior to joining Cequence, Franklyn held CMO positions at Bromium, Spikes Security, and Cyphort (acquired by Juniper Networks). Franklyn was also with Palo Alto Networks for 5 years starting in 2007, helping the company create a leadership position in the next-gen firewall market.

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Diana Kelley

Cybersecurity Field CTO, Microsoft

Diana Kelley is the Cybersecurity Field CTO for Microsoft and a cybersecurity architect, practitioner, executive advisor and author. At Microsoft, she leverages her 25+ years of cyber risk and security experience to provide advice and guidance to CSOs, CIOs and CISOs at some of the world's largest companies and is a contributor the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR). She was the Global Executive Security Advisor at IBM Security where she built and managed the IBM Security Research Community Newsroom process and was a regular contributor to IBM X-Force research. Kelley is a faculty member with IANS Research, an Industry Mentor at the CyberSecurity Factory and a guest lecturer at Boston College's Master of Science in Cybersecurity program. She serves on the Board of Directors at the non-profit Sightline Security, was an IEEE "Rock Star of Risk" in 2016, speaks frequently at major conferences and co-authored the book Cryptographic Libraries for Developers.

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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. He continues to serve on many advisory boards, having been named as the first Chairman of the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS/ISAC). Katz joined Citicorp/Citigroup following a Russian hacking incident in 1995. At Citi, he was named as the industry's first Chief Information Security Officer. Katz then joined Merrill Lynch as CISO/CPO, where he organized and instituted the company-wide privacy and security program. 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.

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William Hugh Murray

Management Consultant and Information Assurance Trainer

Murray is a management consultant and trainer in information assurance, specializing in policy, governance and applications. He is a Certified Information Security Professional (CISSP) and chairman of the Governance and Professional Practices committees of (ISC)², the certifying body. He has more than 50 years of experience in information technology and more than 40 years in security. During more than 25 years with IBM, his management responsibilities included development of access control programs, advising IBM customers on security and the articulation of the IBM security product plan. He is the author of the IBM publication "Information System Security Controls and Procedures." He has been recognized as a founder of the systems audit field and by Information Security Magazine as a Pioneer in Computer Security. In 1999, he was elected a Distinguished Fellow of the Information System Security Association. In 2007, he received the Harold F. Tipton Award in recognition of his lifetime achievement and contribution.

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Vishak Raman

Director, Security Business, Cisco India & SAARC

Vishak Raman currently serves as Director, Security Business, Cisco India & SAARC. He brings with him over 20 years of experience in the Information Security Services space with stints in product management, sales, marketing and business development. Prior to joining Cisco , Raman was the Sr. Regional Director - India & SAARC at FireEye. Raman also served as the Global Head of Content Delivery Network (CDN) & Managed Security Services (MSS) business at Tata communications. Prior to joining Tata Communications, he was the Sr. Regional Director for Fortinet (India/SAARC region) and is credited with having built Fortinet's Unified Threat Management success story in India/SAARC. Raman was also instrumental in setting up the first-of-its-kind Global Technical Assistance Center at Bangalore for providing support to Fortinet's customers worldwide. Prior to Fortinet, he worked at WatchGuard, Sify and HCL Technologies.

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Pradeep Sharma

Security Strategist, RSA

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Anoop Das

Enterprise Manager, Middle East and India, Mimecast

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