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Elena Accardi

Sales Manager, Netskope

Elena Accardi, Sales Manager, aims to promote the use of advanced security solutions by raising the protection levels of companies. Since September 2018, she has the commercial management of Italy, Israel, Malta, Greece and Cyprus. Before her experience in Netskope she managed the Italian branches of leading companies in the field of Information Security such as Imperva and Arcsight, later purchased by HP. Previously, she gained experience in managing complex negotiations at international companies of the level of MicroStrategy, Oracle , HP and BMC. Graduated in "Psychological Sciences and Techniques", she studied the "patterns" of threats and attackers, and the dynamics of Social Networks.

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Riccardo Meggiato

Expert in Digital Security, Computer Investigations & Digital Forensics, and Founder, Meggiatolab

Riccardo Meggiato is one of the leading experts in digital security, computer investigations and digital forensics. He is the Founder of the laboratory of computer forensics Meggiatolab, co-founder of a startup in the field of medical research software, and a software house specialized in video game development. He has authored over 35 assets, including best-selling books; and writes for newspapers such as Wired, Panorama, Corriere.it, GQ and Rolling Stone where he is head of content for Rolling Stone Arcade and holds conferences across Europe, talking about safety, the future and technologies software.

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Paolo Passeri

Cyber Intelligence Principal, Netskope

Paolo Passeri, cyber intelligence principal in Netskope, is a consultant, blogger, and security professional with over 20 year experience in the Information Security arena. His current interests include cloud threats and advanced malware detection and mitigation. Paolo is also the founder and maintainer of hackmageddon.com, a collection of timelines and statistics of the main cyber-attacks occurring since 2011. The blog is considered a primary source of data and trends in the threat landscape across the Infosec community.

Twitter: @paulsparrows

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/paulsparrows

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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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David Bradbury

Chief Security Officer, Okta

David Bradbury is Chief Security Officer at Okta. As CSO, he leads overall security execution for the organization and his team is responsible for navigating the evolving threat landscape to best protect employees and customers. In addition, he is instrumental in helping Okta's customers continue to adopt and accelerate Zero Trust security strategies.

Prior to joining Okta, Bradbury was Senior Vice President and Chief Security Officer at Symantec where he led and had global oversight of all cyber security and physical security programs. Bradbury has built an international reputation for leading and delivering cybersecurity at scale. He has worked across his native Australia, as well as in the United Kingdom and the United States, leading highly-regarded security teams at some of the world's largest banks, including ABN AMRO, Barclays, Morgan Stanley and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Sydney.

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Jinan Budge

Principal Analyst Serving Security & Risk Professionals, Forrester

Jinan leads Forrester's security and risk research in Asia Pacific. Jinan's research focuses on enabling the success of the chief information security officer (CISO) role; creating transformational cybersecurity strategies; and building security awareness, behavior, and culture programs at the heart of a security strategy. Jinan is a champion for diversity and inclusion in security and brings a local and global perspective and cultural lens to her research and practice.

Previous Work Experience

Jinan's research remains pragmatic, as she recently returned to Forrester after several years as director of cyber strategy at Transport for NSW and a similar role with Qantas Airlines. Jinan has built, stood up, and delivered significant cybertransformation strategies across the public and private sectors. She is an experienced people leader and international keynote speaker, and she's passionate around her purpose in the security field.

Education

Jinan holds two bachelor's degrees in science and commerce from the Australian National University.

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Gordon Beith

Senior Director of Product Marketing , Gigamon

Gordon Beith Senior Director of Product Marketing at Gigamon. He has more than 30 years' experience in telecommunications product management, marketing, hardware and software development, and related next-generation services areas. His background includes product, project, marketing and account-management positions for NETSCOUT Systems, VSS Monitoring, IneoQuest, Empirix, Spirent, Cisco and Ericsson.

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Michael Morris

Director of Business Development and Technology Alliances, Endace

Michael Morris leads business development and technology alliances at Endace where is responsible for building an ecosystem with strategic vendors to provide customers with easy workflows and flexibility to leverage our network history platform. Michael works with peers across our partners sales, product development, marketing, and support teams to drive business development initiatives for joint market growth and customer success.

Michael has over 20 years of experience in software and hardware solutions for infrastructure and network management and security. He has built a multi-million dollar a year services business and has extensive global experience in diverse markets including network equipment manufacturers, services providers, government entities, and Fortune 1000 enterprises. Michael is an innovative technology thought leader, with a wealth of experience in network monitoring, security, and cloud solutions.

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Ed Smith

Senior Product Marketing Manager, Corelight

Ed Smith is Senior Product Marketing Manager at Corelight and has seven years experience working in the cyber security industry representing IaaS, DevOps, and vulnerability management solutions, including his most recent roles as Director of Marketing at CloudPassage and Senior Product Marketing Manager at Tripwire.

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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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Roger Grimes

Data-Driven Defense Evangelist, KnowBe4

Roger Grimes, KnowBe4's Data-Driven Defense Evangelist, 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 now serves as the Data-Driven Security Analyst for KnowBe4. 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 was the weekly security columnist for InfoWorld and CSO magazines from 2005-2019.

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Tony Lauro

Director of Security Strategy, Akamai Technologies

Tony is currently Director of Security Strategy for Akamai Technologies. He's been involved with Information Security since the late 90's when he worked for a large US based telecom provider. Since then Tony has worked with Akamai's top global clients to provide cyber security guidance, architectural analysis, web application and network security expertise. With over 20 years of Information Security operations experience Tony has worked and consulted in many verticals including finance, automotive, medical/healthcare, enterprise, and mobile applications. He is currently responsible for Akamai's North / Central / South American clients as well the training of an internal group whose focus is on Web Application Security / and adversarial resiliency disciplines.

Tony's previous responsibilities include consulting with public sector/government clients at Akamai, managing security operations and pen testing for a mobile payments company, and overseeing security and compliance responsibilities for a global financial software services organization. Tony enjoys skateboarding, competitive grappling, Brazillian Jiu Jitsu, and spending time with his wife and kids in Dallas, TX.

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Gidi Cohen

CEO and Founder, Skybox Security

Gidi Cohen co-founded Skybox in 2002 and has been instrumental in building awareness and adoption of Security Risk Management solutions in the marketplace. A noted expert on the business and technical implications of network security, risk management, and modeling and simulation technologies,i Cohen is a frequent speaker at security conferences. Prior to Skybox, Cohen was the CEO and co-founder of Vigil Technologies, Inc. bringing to market analytic solutions for Global 2000 companies. Cohen also served as an officer in the IDF Intelligence Corps, leading an elite software development unit developing information security solutions. Cohen holds Bachelors of Science and Master of Science degrees in Computer Sciences and Mathematics from Tel Aviv University.

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Rebecca Wynn

Global CISO & Chief Privacy Officer, [24]7.ai

As global CISO and chief privacy officer, Wynn leads all aspects of [24]7.ai's global enterprise cybersecurity, compliance, privacy and risk management program. In this role at the customer service software and services company, she helps to ensure compliance and alignment with global industry standards and is responsible for leading and overseeing all aspects of the internal audit activities that encompass scoping, risk assessment, planning, execution and reporting.

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Ashley Adams

Product Marketing Manager, SolarWinds

Ashley Adams is a Product Marketing Manager for Security at SolarWinds®. Ashley's areas of focus are owning the go to market activity for her products by developing key product messaging, communicating new product releases and features, working closely with demand gen teams to drive leads, and enabling the sales team through asset creation and training. Ashley is a born and raised Austinite and has a Bachelor of Science from the University of Texas as well as an ITIL foundations certification. She has 9 years of experience within the cybersecurity field has held positions in both Austin and in Paris, France.

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Manja Kuchel

Senior Product Marketing Manager, SolarWinds

Manja is responsible for Access Rights Manager and Server Configuration Monitor at SolarWinds® as Senior Product Marketing Manager. Manja lives in Berlin, Germany and has built up over 10 years of experience in the tech world working as Team Lead and Business Development Manager for start-ups, agencies and tech organizations.

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Kevin Margatan, CIPP/E, CIPM

Solutions Engineer

Kevin Margatan serves as a GRC Solutions Engineer for OneTrust GRC- a purpose-built software designed to operationalize integrated risk management. In

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Paul Dant

Vice President of Product Management, Digital.ai

Paul is Vice President of Product Management for Digital.ai's security solutions. As a security researcher who has performed offensive security testing of facilities ranging from nuclear energy plants to hospitals, Paul has spent his career helping organizations better understand and address the inherent challenges around making software secure.

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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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Ayelet Biger-Levin

VP Product Marketing, BioCatch

Ayelet is a seasoned professional with over 20 years of experience in the technology and information security industry, with a diverse background in products, R&D, marketing, sales and professional services. At BioCatch, she is focused on helping financial institutions provide seamless and secure digital activities to their customers, by leveraging the power of behavioral biometrics. Prior to joining BioCatch, Ayelet has spent over 10 years at RSA Security in various roles, including Product Management, Product Marketing and Professional Services leadership in both the Fraud and Identity solution areas. Ayelet also held various roles at IBM, focused on innovation. Ayelet has a MSc. in Information Systems Engineering, with a Thesis in Complex Event Processing and is a CISSP with multiple patents in the infosec and fraud detection spaces.

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Gemma Staite

Lead Threat Analyst, BioCatch

Gemma is a Lead Threat Analyst at BioCatch where she works closely with customers to maximise the value they get from their technology investments. Gemma has spent 17 years working in fraud and financial crime roles within the UK banking sector. Prior to joining BioCatch, she led a Fraud Analytics team specialising in Data Analytics for online banking fraud prevention and managed a number of fraud tools, including BioCatch.

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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 Sanders

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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