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Deborah Kish

Executive Vice President, Marketing & Research, Fasoo

Deborah is EVP of marketing and research at Fasoo. She is responsible for leading Fasoo's research, marketing and product strategies in the unstructured data security and privacy space. She brings more than 20 years of experience in research with her prior employer, Gartner where she worked in the technology and service provider security team, responsible for tracking data security technologies and advising thousands of end user and vendor clients. She also monitored privacy regulations and management tools such as consent management and anonymization. Prior to that, she successfully tracked switching and signaling and security in the carrier network infrastructure space for 15 years.

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Joe Krull

Senior Analyst - Cybersecurity, Aite Group

Joe Krull, CISSP, CISA, IAM, CRISC, and CIPP, is a senior analyst at Aite Group specializing in cybersecurity, privacy, and IT risk. He splits his time between San Antonio, Texas, and Tel Aviv, Israel, and he brings more than 40 years of security and privacy experience to Aite Group.

Mr. Krull is a frequent speaker at international cyber and privacy events, and he has been a regular contributor to cyber and audit professional organizations in the U.S. and Europe. Mr. Krull has worked in 115 countries and has provided cyber and privacy consulting advice to large enterprises on four continents. Most recently, he was a member of Accenture's Security Strategy and Risk practice, where he focused on the impact of cybersecurity on mergers and acquisitions, compliance with cyber and privacy regulations, and helping companies formulate their cybersecurity strategies. Prior to Accenture, Mr. Krull's consulting experience included a leadership role with a Big Four, a senior role at an application security vendor, and leading his own company focused on reducing security risk to telecommunications companies. Prior to consulting, Mr. Krull was the chief information security officer at three Global 1000 companies, and he served as an operations officer and military attaché at seven U.S. Embassies around the globe. Mr. Krull contributes to the future of the cybersecurity profession as a board member for the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition and as an advisor for two early-stage startup companies focused on identifying nontraditional candidates for cybersecurity positions. 

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Chris Fredde

Board Member, Votiro

Chris Fedde is a Board Member at Votiro, a cybersecurity company that sanitizes files of malware and other embedded threats while maintaining full file usability and functionality. Previously, Chris Fedde served as the CEO of Bandura Cyber, Inc, leading the company through its early growth in cyber threat intelligence while raising two institutional capital raises. Prior to Bandura, Mr. Fedde founded and led Hexis Cyber Solutions, Inc, which was acquired in 2016.

Prior to Hexis he was president and Chief Executive Officer of SafeNet, Inc., a global leader in data protection. SafeNet was sold to Gemalto in 2014. Mr. Fedde currently serves on the boards of Votiro Cybersecurity, Netcraftsmen, and other technology firms and non-profits, as well as advisory boards of tech companies. Mr. Fedde holds several technology patents.

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Frank Johnson

SVP at SecureLore Solutions

Frank Johnson previously served as a City Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Digital Officer (CDO). Frank was charged with leading and supporting all digital transformation programs and efforts to modernize the City's IT capabilities, scale the local IT ecosystem and drive awareness/tech investment to the city.

As a former "ransomware battle-tested" CIO, he is now focused on helping others in all aspects of cybersecurity by providing cyber thought leadership and best practices as an Ambassador of the Cybersecurity Collaborative and SVP at SecuLore Solutions.

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Larry Venter

VP Global Customer Success & Solution Engineering, Shape Security

Larry Venter is VP Global Customer Success & Solution Engineering at Shape Security (now part of F5). Larry has run sales engineering and customer success teams for companies like PayPal, Microsoft, and eBay and has led the development and deployment of anti-fraud solutions in some of the world's fastest-growing fraud companies. His cross-industry experience, accrued whilst working across the full spectrum of company size, uniquely positions him to understand the mechanics behind fraudulent (synthetic and human) activities and speak to the benefit of frictionlessly legitimising users to drive better business results.

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Dr Shane Shook

Fmr. Managing Director, PwC; Venture Consultant, ForgePoint Capital

Dr. Shane Shook

Fmr. Managing/Director at PwC, LEGC, & KPMG; Venture Consultant, ForgePoint Capital

Dr. Shane Shook is a recognized author, trainer and expert witness in cybercrime investigations, working with ForgePoint Capital and consulting to Fortune 500 clients across the US, UK and Japan.

Dr. Shook brings more than 30 years of experience in IT/risk management and cybersecurity investigations, including serving in Cryptology with the USAF, and in leadership roles at companies like PricewaterhouseCoopers and KPMG. He sits on the boards of several companies and is often called to testify on US state and federal administrative matters, and in criminal, class action, and IRS, SEC, EPA, and ITC cases.

Throughout his career, he has contributed to over a dozen patents and in conferences for technical standards definitions on security, communications, and operations continuity. He is a frequent presence in financial industry summits and periodicals concerning computer disaster recovery and application security practices. Dr. Shook holds an MBA from the University of Phoenix and a Phd. in Organization and Management, Communications Technology from Capella University. https://forgepointcap.com/team/shane-shook/

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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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Candice Madruga Knoll

Senior Customer Success Manager, Cloudflare

Candice Madruga Knoll is Senior Customer Success Manager with Cloudflare.

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John Turner

Application Security Lead, LendingTree

John leads the Application Security program for LendingTree, focusing on penetration testing and developer training. He also participates in offensive and defensive cybersecurity operations with the Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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Stuti Deshpande

Partner Solution Architect, AWS

I come from a Computer Science background, specializing in Data Science and currently working as Associate Solutions Architect in New York. Interacting with customers to discuss their business problems, designing and implementing the industry-focused cloud solutions has given me an in-depth knowledge about the business use cases, cloud architecture and implementations and how solutions can be tailored to resolve the customer's real-world business problems.

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Omer Ganot

Product Manager, Algosec

Omer Ganot is the Cloud Security Product Manager for Algosec, experienced with multiple cloud and security device vendors. Omer has an extensive experience in product management as well as software engineering and managing engineering teams. Outside of AlgoSec, Omer enjoys traveling and playing board games with his family, reading and enjoying music.

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Wade Baker

Partner & Co-Founder, Cyentia Institute

In addition to his role with the Cyentia Institute, Wade is a professor in Virginia Tech's College of Business, teaching in the MBA and Master of IT programs. He's also proud to serve on the Advisory Boards of the RSA Conference and FAIR Institute. Wade loves learning from cybersecurity data and sharing those lessons to help others learn as well - whether that's in the classroom, boardroom, or anywhere in between. Prior to founding Cyentia, Wade was the VP of Strategy and Analytics at ThreatConnect and before that had the great fortune of leading Verizon's Data Breach Investigations Report team for a number of years.

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Jon Ehret

VP of Strategy & Risk, RiskRecon

Jon brings 20+ years of experience in technology and risk, including extensive experience building, maturing, and running third-party risk programs in both the finance and healthcare industries. Before joining RiskRecon, Jon built and lead the third-party risk program for BlueCross BlueShield of WNY and also served as President and Co-founder of the Third-Party Risk Association, an international professional association of third party risk practitioners and vendors.

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Sana Yousuf

Manager, Platform Solution Marketing, Cisco Systems, Inc.

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Mitch Rosen

Principal Solutions Engineer, Keeper Security

Rosen, a Principal Solutions Engineer at Keeper Security, Inc., has over 30 years of information technology experience that spans startups to Fortune 500 companies, to federal government agencies. A veteran of the United States Navy, Mitch has worked in IT support, devOps, technical training, and solutions engineering. He has focused the last six years helping thousands of organisations better understand and reduce the risks associated with privileged accounts and password.

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Sam Curry

Chief Security Officer, Cybereason

Sam Curry currently servers Chief Security Officer for Cybereason. Previously, he served as Chief Technology and Security Officer at Arbor Networks, where he was responsible for the development and implementation of Arbor's technology, security and innovation roadmap. Prior to that role, he spent more than seven years at RSA (the Security Division of EMC) in a variety of senior management positions, including Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Technologist and Senior Vice President of Product Management and Product Marketing. Curry has also held senior roles at Microstrategy, Computer Associates, and McAfee.

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Justin Fier

Director of Cyber Intelligence and Analytics, Darktrace

Justin Fier is one of the US's leading cyber intelligence experts, and holds the position of Director for Cyber Intelligence & Analytics at Darktrace. His insights on cyber security and artificial intelligence have been widely reported in leading media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, CNN, The Washington Post, and VICELAND. With over 10 years of experience in cyber defense, Fier has supported various elements in the US intelligence community, holding mission-critical security roles with Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman Mission Systems and Abraxas. He is also a highly-skilled technical specialist, and works with Darktrace's strategic global customers on threat analysis, defensive cyber operations, protecting IoT, and machine learning.

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Jonathan Andresen

Senior Director, Marketing & Products, Asia Pacific & Japan, Bitglass

Jonathan Andresen is Senior Director, Marketing & Products Asia-Pacific at Bitglass. Mr. Andresen joined Bitglass in April 2020 and has been working in the enterprise IT and telecommunications sector since 1996, relocating to Asia in 2003. Prior to joining Bitglass, Mr. Andresen held various product, marketing, and strategy management positions in Asia-Pacific at McAfee, MobileIron, Blue Coat Systems (now Symantec) and Nortel Networks. Mr. Andresen's career includes earlier positions with Teleglobe, MetroPhotonics and Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs. Mr. Andresen holds a Master's Degree in International Management from Canada's Carleton University and an undergraduate degree from Queen's University.

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Ben Nahorney

Threat Intelligence Analyst, Cisco

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Mary Ann Furno

Offering Manager, Broadcom

Mary Ann Furno leads portfolio level strategy and works to evolve the Broadcom mainframe security portfolio to meet evolving market needs and customer requirements. Mary Ann has worked in the enterprise software industry for nearly 20 years in engineering and product management and brings a business voice to a technical topic.

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Chip Mason

Lead, Mainframe Security Product Management, Broadcom

Chip Mason has over 20 years of experience in the software industry. Chip leads strategy and product definition for Mainframe Security products in CA Broadcom. In this capacity, Chip works to guide integration and product development toward delivering valuable Security solutions, as well as acting as a subject matter expert assisting customers to ensure security and compliance. Chip has experience across many areas of Enterprise IT, including Security Management, Software Development, Service Management, and Event Management. Chip is certified in Scaled Agile Framework and ITIL.

Chip resides in Raleigh, NC where he enjoys his family and photography.

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