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Elan Alvey

Senior Industrial Consultant, Dragos, Inc.

Prior to joining Dragos, Elan started his IT journey while active-duty Navy serving onboard two destroyers and a satellite communication station. Elan then moved into government contracting where he spent two years working with the Air Force, one year in Iraq supporting counter-intelligence collections platforms and intel report creations. Elan spent the next year supporting the National Center for Credibility Assessment with polygraph equipment repairs and installations as well as associated infrastructure. The following five years, Elan spent supporting a Navy intelligence and threat sharing platform that integrated with air, surface, and subsurface combatants. Elan moved away from the government sector and IT and joined a regional power company in Kentucky as an OT Engineer. Initial duties included NERC/CIP compliance eventually moving into Gas SCADA to start preparing the environment to meet compliance of TSA SD1/2 and strengthen relationships in the IT/OT gap.

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Markus Mueller

Principal Industrial Consultant, Dragos, Inc.

Markus Mueller is a Principal Industrial Consultant, at the industrial cyber security company Dragos, Inc. and serves as the primary subject matter expert with customers to perform architecture assessments, network vulnerability assessments, consequence-driven modeling, etc. of their industrial environment. Prior to joining Dragos, Markus led the operational technology team as Senior Manager OT for Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. In this role, he was responsible for the security, compliance, and operations of the OT systems including electric, gas, and water utilities as well as power generation. Before leading the OT team, Markus was the OT lead for multiple large utility acquisitions and the creation of two NERC CIP programs. In his career, Markus has focused on ICS security around renewable energy, grid automation, and advanced distribution management systems. He is passionate about working with operational teams to make recommendations that are secure and usable.

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Doug Howard

CEO, Pondurance

Doug Howard has over 30 years of experience as a technology leader and innovator in security with a highly-developed background in business development, M&A, operations, engineering, marketing, sales, and executive leadership. In his previous role at RSA as Vice President of Global Services and IT Innovation, he provided leadership support for RSA’s strategic vision and global operational execution, various Dell Governance Programs and the M&A exit to STG from Dell. A former member of the U.S. Air Force, Doug holds a bachelor’s degree in Management and Marketing from Strayer University.

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Dustin Hutchison

Chief Information Security Officer, Pondurance

Dustin has over 20 years of experience in information security, risk management and regulatory compliance. Prior to joining Pondurance, Dustin was a risk and compliance professional focusing on HIPAA, PCI and risk assessments for new technology acquisitions ranging from infrastructure solutions to patient care devices. Dustin is also currently an adjunct professor at Ivy Tech Community College, Sullivan University and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University teaching undergrad and master’s level cyber security courses.

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Ron Pelletier

Founder and Chief Customer Officer, Pondurance

Ron Pelletier is the original Founder of Pondurance, having started the company from his basement in 2008. Ron has over 25 years of cyber security advisory experience. He started his career as an officer in the US Army, followed by nine years with Big Four firm, EY. As a strong consensus builder and customer advocate, Ron is focused on evangelizing the Pondurance brand as well as customer success.

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Doug Howard

CEO, Pondurance

Doug Howard has over 30 years of experience as a technology leader and innovator in security with a highly-developed background in business development, M&A, operations, engineering, marketing, sales, and executive leadership. In his previous role at RSA as Vice President of Global Services and IT Innovation, he provided leadership support for RSA’s strategic vision and global operational execution, various Dell Governance Programs and the M&A exit to STG from Dell. A former member of the U.S. Air Force, Doug holds a bachelor’s degree in Management and Marketing from Strayer University.

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Dustin Hutchison

Chief Information Security Officer, Pondurance

Dustin has over 20 years of experience in information security, risk management and regulatory compliance. Prior to joining Pondurance, Dustin was a risk and compliance professional focusing on HIPAA, PCI and risk assessments for new technology acquisitions ranging from infrastructure solutions to patient care devices. Dustin is also currently an adjunct professor at Ivy Tech Community College, Sullivan University and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University teaching undergrad and master’s level cyber security courses.

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Ron Pelletier

Founder and Chief Customer Officer, Pondurance

Ron Pelletier is the original Founder of Pondurance, having started the company from his basement in 2008. Ron has over 25 years of cyber security advisory experience. He started his career as an officer in the US Army, followed by nine years with Big Four firm, EY. As a strong consensus builder and customer advocate, Ron is focused on evangelizing the Pondurance brand as well as customer success.

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Crane Hassold

Director of Threat Intelligence at Abnormal Security

Crane Hassold is the Director of Threat Intelligence at Abnormal Security, an email security company focused on using behavioral AI to stop business email compromise, supply chain fraud, and other socially-engineered attacks. He leads an intelligence team responsible for researching enterprise-focused threats and serves as the Head of Abnormal Intelligence—a community platform that provides unique insight into the attacks targeting customers each day. He worked in similar roles at Agari and PhishLabs, and prior to moving to the private sector in 2015, Crane served as an Analyst at the FBI for more than 11 years, spending most of his time in the Behavioral Analysis Units. While there, he provided support to the intelligence community and law enforcement partners against national security adversaries and serial criminals. In 2012, Crane helped create the FBI’s Cyber Behavioral Analysis Center, which takes an asymmetric approach to examining cyber threats by combining the traditional behavioral concepts used for decades in the violent crime world with technical expertise to gain a holistic understanding of threat actor TTPs.

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Ram Vaidyanathan

Cybersecurity Expert, ManageEngine, a division of Zoho Corporation Pty Ltd

Ram Vaidyanathan is the Product Marketing Manager and industry expert in IT security and cyber risk at ManageEngine, the IT management division of Zoho Corporation. He keeps himself updated about the latest techniques attackers use to compromise organizations, and the ways in which we can defend ourselves. His responsibility includes informing product roadmap decisions and helps customers deploy and get the most value from ManageEngine Log360, a comprehensive SIEM solution.

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Husnain Bajwa

Head of Product Strategy, Beyond Identity

Husnain Bajwa serves as Head of Product Strategy for Beyond Identity. He has over 25 years of experience in large-scale networks, infrastructure platforms, and cybersecurity including supply chain and third party risk management. Previously, Husnain held technology leadership roles at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Aruba Networks, Ericsson, and BelAir Networks.

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Jasson Casey, PhD.

Chief Technology Officer, Beyond Identity

Jasson has served as CTO of SecurityScorecard, VP of Engineering at IronNet Cybersecurity, Founder and Executive Director of Flowgrammable as well as Compiled Networks, VP of VoIP Product Development at CenturyTel, among other technical and executive roles. Jasson received a bachelor's degree in computer engineering from The University of Texas at Austin and a Ph.D. in computer engineering from Texas A&M University.

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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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Patrick McBride

Chief Marketing Officer, Beyond Identity

Patrick has served as CMO of ZeroFOX and Claroty, as VP of Marketing at iSIGHT Partners and Xceedium, VP of Compliance at Scalable Software, Co-founder and CEO of META Security Group, and Senior Vice President at META Group. Patrick received a bachelor's degree in management from Keene State College in New Hampshire.

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Jim Hempstead

Managing Director, Moody's Investors Service

Jim Hempstead heads the North American Project & Infrastructure Finance Group, managing 35 analysts who cover almost 800 issuers with $2 trillion in debt across the electric, gas and water utility sectors, municipal transportation including airports, seaports and toll roads, and all types of project financing structures. Jim acts as a rating chair across all segments of the franchise, is a member of the Infrastructure Finance Franchise Committee and a member of the Global Infrastructure Focus Editorial Board. Jim also manages the Cyber Risk Team, which seeks to raise the knowledge and awareness of the rating agency’s approximately 1,300 global financial analysts with respect to the rising cyber risks associated with credit. In this role, Jim works with internal and external strategic partners to identify, define, measure and utilize cyber-related data and metrics to help bridge the gap between cyber and credit risks. Jim joined Moody’s in December 2002 after working 12 years as an investment banker with Merrill Lynch, Salomon Smith Barney and Bear Stearns. As a banker, Jim provided financial and advisory services to electric, natural gas distribution, interstate pipeline, energy merchant, water and energy technology companies.

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Leroy Terrelonge III

VP – Senior Analyst, Cyber Risk Group, Moody's Investors Service

Leroy Terrelonge is a Vice President – Senior Analyst in the MIS Cyber Risk Group, where he is responsible for creating and executing a cyber-risk analytics and research agenda. He works collaboratively with stakeholders across Moody’s to build cyber datasets and publish timely and relevant research on cyber risk and its impact on financial performance. Leroy has more than 18 years of risk experience working in government, international education, tech startups and corporates. Prior to joining Moody’s, Leroy led a team of analysts at Flashpoint, a threat intelligence company that researches cybercriminal communities, and previously worked as an analyst at the National Security Agency. He has been cited in both domestic and international media on cyber risk issues and has presented at cybersecurity conferences around the world.

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Derek Vadala

Chief Risk Officer, BitSight

Derek Vadala serves as the Chief Risk Officer at BitSight and oversees its risk division. In this role, he leads teams focused on the company’s risk methodologies and products that enable security and business leaders to better communicate with each other and with boards of directors by translating cyber risk into financial terms. He also oversees the company’s information technology and security. He has over 25 years of experience in information security management. Before joining BitSight, Derek was the CEO and founder of VisibleRisk, a joint venture between Moody’s Corporation and Team8, which was acquired by BitSight in 2021. Prior to that, Derek was the global head of cyber risk for Moody’s Investors Service, responsible for developing capabilities for evaluating cyber risk and incorporating those capabilities into credit analysis. He also previously served as the chief information security officer for Moody’s Corporation, where he was responsible for global information risk and security across Moody’s businesses worldwide.

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Robert Leong

Head of Product Management, HCL BigFix

Robert Leong is a zealot for technology since he was young, and with Masters and Bachelors in EE/CS from MIT; he's a card-carrying nerd! He moved to the business / marketing side of technology because he wanted to speak with customers directly and hear their needs. He has worked extensively on the business side of the house, thus giving me MBA-level experience through the school of hard-knocks. He has helped a string of companies get to funding, acquisition or big increases in sales and brings a combination MIT nerd and marketing/business strategy and product management to jump-start marketing, sales, and create technology products that perform well in the market. Robert currently serves at the director of product management at HCL BigFix.

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Dan Wolff

Senior Director of Product Management and Product Marketing, HCL BigFix

Dan Wolff is a product management and product marketing leader experienced in taking technical IT products from concept to high market performance. He has served in many roles across the startup community and within the world’s largest technology brands like Intel and IBM. Dan offers deep understanding of all aspects involved in defining, managing and marketing security and cloud software products, with a focus on global B2B marketing and product management. In his present position Dan serves as the senior director for product marketing for HCL BigFix.

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Demi Ben-Ari

CTO and Co-founder, Panorays

Demi Ben-Ari is co-founder and CTO at Panorays, which automates, accelerates and scales third-party security management. At Panorays, he is deeply committed to making third-party security management as seamless and as effective as possible. He is also an expert at building communities and networks, both online and offline, and is a recognized Google Developers Expert, is the co-founder of "Big Things."

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Vandana Verma Sehgal

Security Relations Leader, Snyk

Vandana is a Security Relations Leader at Snyk with a current focus on DevSecOps. She has extensive experience in Application Security, Vulnerability Management, SOC, Infrastructure Security and Cloud Security. Vandana is a seasoned speaker and trainer. She presented at various public events ranging from Global OWASP AppSec events to BlackHat events, to regional events such as BSides events in India. She is on the OWASP Global Board of directors (Vice-Chair). She also works in various communities towards diversity initiatives such as InfosecGirls, InfosecKids and WoSec. She is a recipient of multiple awards and is listed as one of the top women leaders in technology and cybersecurity in India.

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Justin Hohl

Manager and Architect, Edgile

Justin serves as a Manager and Architect in Edgile’s East region and specializes in identity and access management strategy and implementation. Justin has deep experience in modernizing identity and access programs both as a developer and as a business lead in order to migrate off of legacy products. Justin holds a BS in Computer Science and Software Engineering from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He is certified by SailPoint both as an IdentityIQ Architect and IdentityNow Professional.

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Mike Kiser

Strategist and Evangelist, Sailpoint

Mike Kiser is insecure. He has been this way since birth, despite holding a panoply of industry positions over the past 20 years—from the Office of the CTO to Security Strategist to Security Analyst to Security Architect—that might imply otherwise. In spite of this, he has designed, directed, and advised on large-scale security deployments for a global clientele. He is currently in a long-term relationship with fine haberdashery, is a chronic chronoptimist (look it up), and delights in needlessly convoluted verbiage. He is a member of several working groups and has presented privacy-related research at Black Hat and Def Con. He is currently Director of Strategy and Standards at SailPoint and believes that security is a journey, not a destination.

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Joydeep Mondal

Senior Practice Manager, Cyber Security and Risk Service, Wipro

Cybersecurity Professional with 17+ years of extensive experience in different aspects of Cybersecurity, with a strong focus on Identity & Access Management. Joydeep has worked with multiple product, services & consulting organizations at various levels and with varied experience ranging in all areas from Security Advisor, Consultant, Security Solution Architect, Practice Management, Delivery/Project Manager, Developer, trainer, Inbound Product Manager, Program Governance, Customer expectation manager etc., and has experience in dozens of Fortune 500 companies across various verticals globally.

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Aman Thakur

Managing Director, Edgile

Aman serves as a Managing Director for Edgile's Identity practice with over sixteen years of experience in Information Security, Identity Governance, Access Management, and Enterprise Architecture across various industries, including insurance, healthcare, pharmacy, telecommunications, e-commerce, retail, and manufacturing. Aman holds a bachelor’s and master's in Computer Science & Engineering and has successfully designed, architected, and implemented numerous IAM (Green & Brownfield) undertakings utilizing SailPoint IdentityIQ/IdentityNow, Saviynt IGA, and Oracle OIM.

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John Gudmundson

Product Marketing, Security Service Edge Solutions, Cisco

John Gudmundson is in Product Marketing for Cisco’s Security Service Edge (SSE) solutions. He has over 20 years of experience in security, cloud and networking including Application Delivery Controllers, Intrusion Prevention Systems and Web Application Firewalls. He holds an MBA from University of Southern California, BSBA from University of California, Berkeley and BSEE from University of California, Los Angeles.

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Information Security Media Group

Information Security Media Group (ISMG) is the world's largest media company devoted to information security and risk management. Each of its 34 media sites provides relevant education, research and news that is specifically tailored to key vertical sectors including banking, healthcare and the public sector; geographies from North America to Southeast Asia; and topics such as data breach prevention, cyber risk assessment and fraud. Its yearly global summit series connects senior security professionals with industry thought leaders to find actionable solutions for pressing cybersecurity challenges.

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Jason Wright

Manager of Solutions Marketing, Cisco

Jason is a Manager of Solutions Marketing at Cisco and the host of the ThreatWise TV Show for Cisco’s security business unit. In this role, Jason is responsible for demonstrating how Cisco security products work together to create a more holistic and automated security solution for customers. With over 20 years of experience in network security, Jason has held numerous positions in product management, technical marketing, and product marketing with companies such as Sourcefire, Fortinet, and TippingPoint.

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