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Nisar Aslam

Cloud Security Specialist, Cisco

Nisar Aslam has over 20+ years of experience across multiple architectures including Security, Enterprise Networking and Data Centre and collaboration across Enterprise Finance, Commercial and Public Sector.

Nisar has worked in Finance, Legal and Education in end customerroles in Networking, Security and Collaboration roles spanning 15 years before joining Cisco as a Systems Engineer in Enterprise Finance working with many of the fortune 500 companies across the entire Cisco portfolio.

Currently, Nisar is working as a Cyber Security Specialist in the UK&I SecOps team, helping customers and partners with their Cyber Security challenges and in particular, focusing on integrated security architectures such as Secure X and helpinghybrid working with SASE.In his spare time, Nisar loves to spend time with his wife and 3 children and enjoys running, bike riding in the countryside, swimming as well as reading and football.

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Phil Wood

Technical Solutions Architect, Cisco SecOps Group

Phil is currently a Technical Solutions Architect with the Cisco SecOps Group. He joined Cisco last year as part of the SourceFire acquisition, having worked in IT Security for over 20 years with a number of companies specialising in anti-malware software and services. With previous roles including technical support, sales engineering and product management, Phil has experience in many aspects of anti-malware, from helping to resolve widespread virus outbreaks to the development of new technologies.

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Paul Martini

CEO, iboss Cybersecurity

Paul Martini is the CEO, Co-founder and chief architect of iboss. Prior to founding iboss, Paul was key architect for a wide-variety of complex security and technology solutions for clients such as Phogenix, the U.S. Navy, and Hewlett Packard. He was also a key contributor at Copper Mountain Networks which was a pioneer in introducing broadband networks used by Telcos to build the cloud. His work at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) involved building distributed real-time network systems for companies such as Rolls Royce. Copper Mountain and SAIC both launched successful IPOs. Paul has been recognized for his leadership and innovation, receiving the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of The Year award and being named one of Goldman Sachs’ 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs. Paul holds over 130 issued patents in cloud, cybersecurity, networking and technology and has had his work published in many scientific journals, including the Journal of Foundations in Computer Science and the Journal of Analytical Biochemistry.

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Brittany O'Shea

Global Product Strategist, Veracode

Brittany is a Global Product Strategist at Veracode. She is passionate about helping developers and security professionals navigate emerging threats, regulations and security trends to help organizations and their applications thrive in today's complex digital world. Before joining Veracode, she worked in various roles at RSA and IBM Security globally with the mission to support customers raise their security posture.

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Jeremy Hendy

CEO, Skurio

Jeremy Hendy is the Chief Executive Officer at Skurio. Jeremy has more than 30 years’ experience in high technology industries, working at companies including Texas Instruments, Symbionics and Cadence. Prior to joining Skurio in 2016, Jeremy was VP of sales and marketing at Cambridge-based Nujira. Jeremy holds a degree in electronic engineering from the University of Liverpool.

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Eli Dominitz

Founder and CEO, Q6 Cyber

Eli Dominitz is the Founder and CEO of Q6 Cyber. Prior to Q6 Cyber, Eli co-founded another cybersecurity company focused on third-party risk management. Earlier in his career, Eli was an Associate Partner with McKinsey & Company, and a Partner at investment firms Jacobs Private Equity and Broadband Capital Management. Eli holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an Honors B.Sc. in computer science from York University.

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Glenn Fratangelo

Head of Strategy & Marketing, Fraud & Authentication Management, NICE Actimize

Glenn Fratangelo is the Head of Strategy and Marketing for Fraud & Authentication Management at NICE Actimize. Glenn is a marketing leader with a deep understanding of technology markets, building and launching technology products, services and alliances. His global experience spans 15 years across all disciplines of marketing and communications with a career spanning both emerging companies and Fortune 500 corporations that provide B2B solutions with advanced technologies to solve their clients most complex problems. Throughout his career, Glenn has led transformation and innovation.

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Nicole Uber

Fraud Expert, NICE Actimize

Nicole Uber, NICE Actimize Fraud Expert, works with clients and industry experts to ensure that NICE Actimize fraud products address key requirements and needs of financial institutions worldwide. She has been working with NICE Actimize customers for the past 6 years to understand their business problems and help come up with both a functional and technical solution to fit their needs. Prior to joining NICE Actimize, Nicole worked at Oracle focusing on their core technology business including data analytics solutions, middleware and service-oriented architecture.

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Jeremy Hendy

CEO, Skurio

Jeremy Hendy is the Chief Executive Officer at Skurio. Jeremy has more than 30 years’ experience in high technology industries, working at companies including Texas Instruments, Symbionics and Cadence. Prior to joining Skurio in 2016, Jeremy was VP of sales and marketing at Cambridge-based Nujira. Jeremy holds a degree in electronic engineering from the University of Liverpool.

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Karl Lankford

RVP, Solutions Engineering EMEIA, BeyondTrust

Karl Lankford is RVP of Solutions Engineering EMEIA at BeyondTrust. He has acquired a wide-range of security experience and knowledge working with companies during the last 10 years across multiple industries and is a regular speaker at industry conferences.

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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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Marc Airo-Farulla

Data Protection Solutions Director, Oceania (AU, NZ & Pacific Islands), Entrust

Over 20 years experience and knowledge in the field of Security & Digital Technological implementations, mastered the art of enterprise integration and business transformation to empower companies to better serve their clients. Proficient in consulting organisations across Banking, Transit, Retail, Telco, Federal and State Government across a diverse global reach within Oceania, Middle East, North America & Africa. Security is in Marc Airo-Farulla’s DNA and he understands the need for strong evolving Security & Key Management coupled with good governance and business logic IT policy are the foundations to securing your business.

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Jiro Shindo

Director Digital Security Solutions, Entrust

Jiro Shindo has been involved at the cutting edge of encryption and key management products for over 25 years – from the early days of securing web servers to the current role to secure the trust, integrity, and control of information everywhere – SECURING A WORLD IN MOTION™. He is responsible for the promotion of the Entrust digital security solutions. Working together with his peers located across the region and worldwide and, as an integral part of the global strategy and marketing organization, he is an evangelist for information security, encryption key management, and of expanding the frontiers of marketing.

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Rami Abbas

Regional Sales Manager – SecOps Group

Rami Abbas is an IT industry veteran with close to 10 years of experience in the Cyber Security space. Rami currently leads Cisco SecOps Sales across the Middle East. Before Joining Cisco, Rami held positions at different Cyber Security Industry leaders. He brings with him a strong experience in the space of Managed Cyber Security as he worked for multiple years at leading Service Providers in the region.

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Ibrahim Yusuf

Technical Solutions Architect, Cisco SecOps Group

Ibrahim is currently a cyber security solutions architect with the Cisco SecOps Group. He has been in security for almost two decades, his expertise lies in network wide defensive and offensive security and forensics. Ibrahim is a Certified SANS forensics Analyst (GCFA) and Information Security System Professional (CISSP).

In his current role at Cisco, he guides and assist organisations mitigate and reduce their exposure to breaches and incidences. He helps security teams adopt an attacker’s mindset through threat hunting workshops and cyber threat response exercises. Ibrahim is a motivator of technical teams to appreciate the level of threat complexity organisations are up against.

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Jithesh Gopan

Solutions Architect, LogMeIn

Jithesh works with businesses in various industries to improve their cyber security posture and employee productivity by leveraging Lastpass’s Identity and Access Management solutions.

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Abdessabour Arous

Security Researcher, Global Research & Analysis Team (GReAT)

Abdessabour Arous is a Security Researcher in the Global Research & Analysis Team (GReAT) at Kaspersky. His primary role is to track and expose Advanced Persistence Threats (APTs) targeting the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa. Abdessabour has 14+ years of experience in Cyber Security and specializes in various areas: Malware Analysis, Incident Response/ Digital Forensics, to Cyber Intelligence and Counter-Intelligence.

Abdessabour holds an Engineer Degree in Information Systems and also has multiple Offensive and Defensive security certifications.

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Danny Jenkins

CEO & Co-Founder of ThreatLocker

Danny Jenkins is the CEO & Co-Founder of ThreatLocker, an Orlando-based cybersecurity firm providing zero-trust endpoint security. Danny is a leading expert in cybersecurity with over two decades of experience in building and securing corporate networks, including many roles on red teams and blue teams. He is dedicated to educating industry professionals about the latest cyber threats and frequently speaks on the topics of ransomware, zero trust, and zero-day vulnerabilities. Before taking the reins at ThreatLocker, Danny co-founded MXSweep, a global provider of email and internet security SaaS applications based in Dublin, Ireland, that sold exclusively through the channel. MXSweep later went on to be sold to J2. Danny was also the CEO at Sirrustec, specializing in whitelabeled channel delivered email security. Sirrustec Sold to Censornet in 2014.

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David Hartley

Global Director, Fraud and Financial Crime Practice, SAS

David Hartley is a 20+ year SAS veteran based in the UK and has global responsibility for the direction and development of specific analytics solutions to address insurance fraud detection and prevention and leads a team of insurance fraud global experts. The team also support health insurers in their pursuit of fraud, waste and abuse and life insurers with AML. SAS entered this space in 2009 and now has exactly 100 insurers and ten country consortiums across the world using SAS to detect suspicious claims, potential fraudulent new business applications, reducing false positive ratios in investigation and using the solution to identify potential fraud within the various third parties involved in the claims process including agents, garages/motor repair shops, doctors/medical providers etc. as well as possible internal fraud within the insurer. In additional SAS has over 20 life insurers using its technology to detect AML. David brings over 35 years of insurance experience to SAS. He was part of a small team that established Lloyds Bank as the largest bancassurer in the UK in the mid 1990’s. Prior to this he spent 7 years at Eagle Star (now part of Zurich Insurance) working on both central data repositories, the application of data intelligence (including fraud detection and customer intelligence) and running direct marketing teams, and was part of the management team that established their successful personal lines direct writer in 1989. David is a graduate in Business Studies from the University of Aston In Birmingham, England and is an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute, a Fellow of the Institute of Direct and Digital Marketing and holds Diplomas from the UK’s Chartered Institute of Marketing, and Market Research Society. Outside of work, David has been happily married for 33 years, and is the father of 4 young men, and is a life-long Manchester City supporter. He is also the Chairman and Founder of a global medical research charity and support group, The XLP Research Trust.

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