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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 13 books and over 1,000 magazine articles on computer security. He now serves as the Data-Driven Defense Evangelist 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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Mike Britton

CISO, Abnormal Security

Mike Britton is the CISO of Abnormal Security, where he leads information security and privacy programs. Prior to Abnormal, Mike spent six years as the CSO and Chief Privacy Officer for Alliance Data. He brings 25 years of information security, privacy, compliance, and IT experience from a variety of Fortune 500 global companies. He holds an M.B.A with a concentration in Information Assurance from the University of Dallas.

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Mark Harris

Senior Director Analyst, Digital Workplace Security team, Gartner

Mark Harris is a Sr. Director Analyst in Digital Workplace Security team specializing in endpoint security including EPP/EDR/NGAV. Mr. Harris has extensive industry experience in cybersecurity and malware trends. He is also a researcher, analyst and contributor to research papers.

Previously while at Sophos, Mr. Harris held various roles including running SophosLabs: the team of malware and security analysts, the engineering teams responsible for the core detection technologies at Sophos and most recently overall architecture for Sophos Intercept X.

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Dean Perrine

Deputy CISO, Fox Corporation

Dean Perrine is the Deputy Chief Information Security Officer for Fox Corporation (FOX), where he leads a forward leaning team managing cybersecurity across Fox Sports, Fox TV Stations, Fox Entertainment, Fox News, and other subsidiaries.

Before the March 2019 spin off of Fox Corporation by 21st Century Fox and the establishment of FOX as a standalone public company, Mr. Perrine spent 12 years in Engineering and Technical Solutions at 21st Century Fox, most recently in the Office of the CTO, working closely with CIOs, the Global CISO, and the business technology teams.

During his time at 21st Century Fox, Mr. Perrine played an integral role in security, linear and digital content distribution, infrastructure engineering, development operations, and cloud engineering. He supported the launch of FS1 and FS2, as well as major television events including Super Bowl XLII, XLV, XLVII, and LI.

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Javvad Malik

Security Awareness Advocate, KnowBe4

Javvad Malik is a Security Awareness Advocate at KnowBe4, a blogger event speaker and industry commentator who is possibly best known as one of the industry’s most prolific video bloggers with his signature fresh and light-hearted perspective on security that speak to both technical and non-technical audiences alike. Prior to joining KnowBe4, he was a security advocate at AlienVault. Before then, he was a Senior Analyst at 451’s Enterprise Security Practice (ESP).

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Prashant Pai

SVP and GM of Strategic Initiatives, SecurityScorecard

Prashant is the SVP and GM of Strategic Initiatives at SecurityScorecard. He has experience in building and growing organizations. Previously, Prashant has demonstrated leadership and excellence in building risk consulting into a multi-million dollar business.

Prashant brings varied quantitative and qualitative risk management background spanning market, credit, operational, and cybersecurity risk. He has hands-on experience developing risk management systems as well as positioning these systems to senior management within financial institutions for wider adoption.

In his current role, Prashant is actively working to help shape a cyber risk market, where an enterprise can measure and manage cyber risk both qualitatively and quantitatively and both parties to a cyber risk transfer transaction have transparency of data and insights.

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Chris Hickman

Chief Security Officer, Keyfactor

Chris Hickman is the chief security officer at Keyfactor. As a member of the senior management team, Chris is responsible for establishing & maintaining Keyfactor’s leadership position as a world-class, technical organization with deep security industry expertise. He leads client success initiatives and helps integrate the voice of the customer directly into Keyfactor’s platform and capability set.

Prior to joining Keyfactor, Chris was Director of Technical Services at Alacris, an Ottawa based smartcard and certificate management company, which was sold to Microsoft and is now part of the Microsoft Identity Manager product suite. Chris has worked on PKI projects for organizations and firms including NATO, both the U.S. and Canadian Departments of Defense, Fortune 100 banks and financial institutions, manufacturers, insurance companies, telecommunication providers and retailers. He continues to be a trusted resource for enterprises looking to leverage digital certificates within existing portfolios and new product development.

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Mark Nunnikhoven

Resident Cloud Strategist at Lacework

Mark Nunnikhoven explores the impact of technology on individuals, organizations, and communities through the lens of privacy and security. Asking the question, “How can we ensure that our technology does what we expect, and only what we expect?” Mark helps organizations around the world navigate their cloud transformations while managing the risks of our digital world. As a Distinguished Cloud Strategist at Lacework and security platform for the AWS Cloud, Mark helps teams modernize their security practices. With a strong focus on automation, he helps bridge the gap between DevOps and traditional security.

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Chris Hickman

Chief Security Officer, Keyfactor

Chris Hickman is the chief security officer at Keyfactor. As a member of the senior management team, Chris is responsible for establishing & maintaining Keyfactor’s leadership position as a world-class, technical organization with deep security industry expertise. He leads client success initiatives and helps integrate the voice of the customer directly into Keyfactor’s platform and capability set.

Prior to joining Keyfactor, Chris was Director of Technical Services at Alacris, an Ottawa based smartcard and certificate management company, which was sold to Microsoft and is now part of the Microsoft Identity Manager product suite. Chris has worked on PKI projects for organizations and firms including NATO, both the U.S. and Canadian Departments of Defense, Fortune 100 banks and financial institutions, manufacturers, insurance companies, telecommunication providers and retailers. He continues to be a trusted resource for enterprises looking to leverage digital certificates within existing portfolios and new product development.

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Ed Thomas

Senior Vice President of Marketing and Sales Operations, ProcessUnity

Ed Thomas leads ProcessUnity's marketing team and is responsible for the company's awareness, demand generation and thought-leadership programs. In his marketing and sales operations roles at ProcessUnity, Cura Software Solutions and OpenPages (now IBM), Ed has helped hundreds of organizations streamline their risk and compliance programs using next-generation automation tools.

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Ed Thomas

Senior Vice President of Marketing and Sales Operations, ProcessUnity

Ed Thomas leads ProcessUnity's marketing team and is responsible for the company's awareness, demand generation and thought-leadership programs. In his marketing and sales operations roles at ProcessUnity, Cura Software Solutions and OpenPages (now IBM), Ed has helped hundreds of organizations streamline their risk and compliance programs using next-generation automation tools.

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Nuno Almeida

Consulting Engineer, BitSight

Nuno has been working at BitSight helping organizations tackling their Security and Risk Challenges as a Consulting Engineer. Previously he’s had a number of different roles as a Pre- Sales Engineer in Telecom, Project Manager, IT Management Network and Systems Engineer.

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Brian Mulligan

Director of Product Management, SPM, BitSight

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Scott West

Principal Product Marketing Manager for Security Performance Management - SPM, BitSight

Scott West is the Principal Product Marketing Manager for Security Performance Management (SPM), BitSight’s cyber risk-reducing platform that enables organizations to optimize their security program for efficiency, effectiveness and scale. Before joining BitSight, Scott built his passion for value selling in various Product Marketing, Senior Sales and Executive positions for more technology and software startups than he cares to remember.

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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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Thomas Hill

CIO, Live Oak Bank

With more than 20 years of IT and security experience, Thomas has spent the majority of his career working in senior IT, Risk, and Security positions in technology and financial service institutions. As CISO, Thomas leads Live Oak's technology risk management and security operations. He provides leadership for developing and implementing technology and security initiatives that support the mission, vision, and long-term objectives of Live Oak Bank. Thomas holds a BS in Business Administration and an MBA with a specialty focus in Management of Information Systems and Security from Saint Leo University. He also holds several industry IT and security certifications, including CISSP, CIPT, and CISM.

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Avi Shau

CEO and Co-Founder, Orca Security

Avi has more than 25 years of experience in cybersecurity. Prior to co-founding Orca Security, Avi was the chief technologist at Check Point Software Technologies and held key positions within Unit 8200, the Israeli NSA. While at Check Point, he built and scaled cybersecurity solutions that continue to protect tens of thousands of organizations to this day. Avi believes that cybersecurity products should always support the organization and not the other way around.

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Thomas Malta

Former Head of Identity and Access Management, Navy Federal Credit Union, CEO and Principal IAM Experts, LLC

Tom Malta's extensive career in Financial Services Technology and Cyber Security started 25+ years ago as a hands-on developer building and supporting front office trading systems for many of the top Wall St. Brokerages and Investment Banks. Shortly after moving to Goldman Sachs in 2000, he landed in Cyber Security and has been there ever since focused on building and executing Global Cyber Security Solutions. Over the past 20+ years he's led many successful IAM Programs utilizing custom build as well as off the shelf technology supporting internal, external, customer, and 3rd party/cloud identities alike.

Tom is currently the Head of IAM at Navy Federal Credit Union where he is responsible for design, development, and execution of cyber technology solutions to support the overall IAM Strategy. The team is currently focused on the firm's transformation of both workforce and member (aka customer IAM) to drive more automation, agile development, and improve the effectiveness of existing IAM and Cyber Security Controls.

As a recognized Subject Matter Expert in IAM, Tom spends a lot of his time giving back to the industry through board representations, speaking engagements, and contributing to research papers. His passion for the space is unparalleled, and enjoys staying current with emerging technologies such as biometrics, AI, ML, and next generation customer authentication solutions such as blockchain.

Prior to Navy Federal, Tom held similar Managing Director / Executive IT roles at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, BNYMellon, Wells Fargo, Ally Financial, Synchrony Financial, and Brown Brothers Harriman. Mr. Malta is also a Board Member of the Identity Defined Security Alliance,  an active participant of various IAM Customer Advisory Board's, and a distinguished Ponemon Fellow

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Rob Ellis

Senior Vice President of Strategy, Reciprocity Labs

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Kenneth Suh

Claims Focus Group Leader - Technology E&O, Beazley

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