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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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Michael Mestrovich

CISO, Rubrik

Michael Mestrovich joins Rubrik with more than two decades of experience in public and private sector IT and security leadership, most recently serving as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). At the CIA, Mestrovich led the Agency’s cyber defense operations, developing and implementing cyber security regulations and standards, and directed the evaluation and engineering of cyber technologies. Before Mestrovich’s career in the public sector, he was a systems engineer at Cisco Systems and served in the U.S. Air Force.

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Steven Stone

Head of Rubrik Zero Labs, Rubrik

Steven Stone leads Rubrik’s new data threat research unit to uncover real-world intrusions from a range of threats including espionage-based data breaches to ransomware attacks, and to inform customers and partners of the best ways to proactively address risk in their business operations. He has over 15 years of experience in threat intelligence with roles in the U.S. military, intelligence community, and private sector, including Mandiant/FireEye and IBM. Most recently, he was Vice President of Adversary Operations at Mandiant, leading global teams who were responsible for adversary hunting, attribution, and data collection efforts.

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Kevin Sequiera

General Manager of PSA Suite

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Andy Thompson

Research Evangelist, CyberArk Labs

Andy Thompson is part of the Research Labs Division at CyberArk. This is the team within CyberArk that does ongoing research into offensive technology and information security trends. Before joining CyberArk 5 years ago, Andy spent his time in the trenches as a Senior Systems Admin and Security Engineer. He’s worked IT and Security with large hospitals, movie theater chains, bars and restaurants, other service industries, as well as global retail organizations. Andy is CISSP certified by ISC-squared, and a GIAC certified pen-tester. Andy is also an active member of the Dallas Hacking scene where he’s known as the “Travel-Hacker”. He and his family love to travel all over the world on a shoe-string budget.

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Robert Elworthy

Senior Sales Engineer, Malwarebytes

Robert Elworthy is a Senior Sales Engineer at Malwarebytes. After working as a public school teacher for almost a decade, Elworthy worked various sales roles before earning a Computer Information Systems degree and working as an Associate Director of Information Technology at Langdale Industries for 8 years. Robert is passionate about fusing his extensive knowledge of both K-12 and cybersecurity to help schools fight the good fight against today’s most pressing cyberthreats. You can catch Robert enjoying an Atlanta United game in his free time.

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Manasa Agaram

Product Marketing Manager, XDR, Cisco

Manasa Agaram is a product marketing manager for XDR at Cisco. A passionate product marketer, Manasa is responsible for go-to-market strategy, messaging, content creation and sales enablement for Cisco’s XDR solution. Manasa has over 15 years of marketing experience, starting out in telecom and later moving to the security field, and has her Bachelors of Science from the University of Waterloo, where she majored in Science and Business. Manasa loves travel, good food and wine, and has a newfound interest in gardening. Connect with Manasa on LinkedIn to chat about XDR, security, or if you have any gardening tips for her!

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Rob Gresham

Principal Technical Marketing Engineer, Cisco

As Principal Technical Marketing Engineer, Threat Detection and Response for Cisco, Rob has over 20 years of experience in building cybersecurity teams for private and public entities. His experience includes several years of instructing on cyber threat intelligence, conducting incident responses for public and private entities, optimizing security operations designs, processes, and defensive security architecture and design. Rob supports our customers on innovating their security operations with automating investigation and response outcomes for email, network, endpoint and malware analysis systems for XDR and SecureX products.

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Jeff Williams

Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Contrast Security

Jeff brings more than 20 years of security leadership experience as Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Contrast. Previously, Jeff was Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Aspect Security, a successful and innovative application security consulting company acquired by Ernst & Young. Jeff is also a founder and major contributor to OWASP, where he served as Global Chairman for eight years and created the OWASP Top 10, OWASP Enterprise Security API, OWASP Application Security Verification Standard, XSS Prevention Cheat Sheet, and many other widely adopted free and open projects. Jeff has a BA from the University of Virginia, an MA from George Mason, and a JD from Georgetown.

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Daniela Ramirez

Team Lead SOC, SoSafe

Originally from Chile, I’m a security researcher with more than 8 years of experience focusing mostly on the blue or defensive side. Incident response, threat hunting and malware analysis are my biggest competences, with knowledge on vulnerability assessment and information security management including risk assessment. After moving to Cologne, Germany to join SoSafe in October 2021, I improved SoSafe’s security monitoring which led me to become the team lead for their SOC, we perform security monitoring, security assessment including red teaming activities, security configuration review all while following the purple team framework through different exercises to keep the company in a high security level.

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Dana Torgersen

Security Product Leader, Sumo Logic

Dana leads product marketing for Sumo Logic security solutions. He is a 17-year veteran in the information security industry with expertise in cloud threat detection and SIEM tools, endpoint detection and response, and network security technologies—including firewalls, web protection, and email security. Prior to joining Sumo Logic, Dana held product and technical marketing roles at JASK, Malwarebytes, Illumio, Palo Alto Networks, Intel Security, McAfee, and Secure Computing. You can follow him on Twitter @DaToTweet

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Jason Lewkowicz

Executive Vice President, Chief Services Officer, Optiv

Lewkowicz is a senior executive with Optiv. He has more than two decades of experience in IT and security, including in risk governance, crisis management, IT/security transformation, outsourcing and operations. Lewkowicz is responsible for leading the services organization and evolving Optiv’s services capabilities. He joined Optiv from Cognizant Technology Solutions, where he was the global chief information security officer (CISO). Prior to Cognizant, he was the deputy CISO of Accenture and was instrumental in building, developing and transforming their information security organization. He led a team of more than 100 security operations and response professionals across seven countries.

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Nelson Da Silva

Manager, Sales Engineering, Zscaler

Nelson Da Silva leads the large enterprise solution consulting team for Zscaler Australia and New Zealand. Nelson helps Zscaler's clients transform their network, security and application access with the Zscaler cloud security platform. Nelson is CISSP & CISM certified and brings over 20 years experience in cyber security, architecture and operations.

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Peter De Beer

Principal Sales Engineer, Zscaler

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Louis Fourie

Sales Engineer, Zscaler

Louis works within the solution consulting team at Zscaler as a SE. He holds a MSc degree in Telecommunications with numerous industry certifications and twenty plus years of industry experience. He also carries in-depth knowledge and expertise across large enterprise, energy and government sectors.

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Chris Holden

CISO, Crum & Forster

Chris Holden is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for Crum & Forster, a leading national property, casualty and accident & health insurer with a large, diversified specialty platform. In his role, Chris is responsible for the day-to-day security of the organizations information systems and data while adhering to regulatory requirements. Chris started his career as a Forensics Analyst for Hewlett-Packard’s Global Cybersecurity team. While at HP he ran digital evidence collections for internal investigations related to e-discovery matters, breach incident response, HR and policy investigations. After leaving HP, Chris moved on to consulting roles where he worked on both incident response engagements as well as proactive services, helping build and assess security programs for globally recognized organizations. Chris received his Bachelor’s degree in Cyber & Information Security from Utica College of Syracuse University.

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Brian Fox

Co-founder and CTO, Sonatype

Co-founder and CTO, Brian Fox is a Governing Board member for the Opensource Security Foundation, a member of the Apache Software Foundation and former Chair of the Apache Maven project. As a direct contributor to the Maven ecosystem, including the maven-dependency-plugin and maven-enforcer-plugin, he has over 20 years of experience driving the vision behind, as well as developing and leading the development of software for organizations ranging from startups to large enterprises. Brian is a frequent speaker at national and regional events including Java User Groups and other development-related conferences.

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Jonathan Nguyen-Duy

Vice President, Global Field CISO, Fortinet

Jonathan Nguyen-Duy leads strategy and service relationship programs at Fortinet where he focuses on emerging technologies and partnerships. With extensive experience working with global enterprises and nation-states, Jonathan is responsible for developing innovative security solutions addressing the challenges of digital transformation – from the IoT edge to the cloud. Prior to joining Fortinet, Jonathan served as the Security CTO at Verizon Enterprise Solutions where he was responsible for strategic technology partnerships, the Verizon Cyber Intelligence Center, and the data science team that produces the annual Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report.

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Daniel Schrader

Director of Product Marketing, Cloud and Application Acceleration, Fortinet

Daniel Schrader has a long history of working at the intersection of information security, networking and cloud computing. He is currently the director of product marketing for public cloud at Fortinet. Prior to this role, he worked at F5 Networks, where he was responsible for DevOps and automation product marketing. Earlier in his career, Schrader held product management and product marketing roles at Symantec, Nortel and Trend Micro.

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Cameron Galbraith

Director of Product Marketing, Noname Security

Cameron Galbraith is the Director of Product Marketing at Noname Security, the world's fastest-growing API security software company. Prior to Noname Security, Mr. Galbraith established and built high-performing teams at innovative, mission-critical software providers serving customers in critical infrastructure sectors, including state & local government, telecommunications, utilities, supply chain & logistics, and financial services. He is a graduate with honors from the University of California, Irvine.

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Chris Lumnah

Solution Architect, Rubrik

Chris Lumnah is an Advisory Solutions Architect with 20 years of database experience. He has spent 15 plus years as a production DBA managing large scale SQL Server environments as well as being a consultant. The last 4 years has been spent with Rubrik helping customers protect their SQL Server, SAP HANA and MySQL environments. He has written many Powershell scripts to help automate DBA related tasks over that 20 years of experience and is a firm believer in automation. In addition to his role at Rubrik, he is also an active member of the Microsoft Data Platform Continuity Virtual Group. He helps mentor high school students in computer science classes in his home state of Rhode Island. When not working, he is spending time with his dog and fiancé, traveling, and watching Red Sox games.

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Chris Wolff

Database Solution Architect, Rubrik

Chris Wolff is SQL Server Solutions Architect helping customers understand how Rubrik can help them with database backups and security.  Before Rubrik Chris was a DBA for nearly 20 years, working for companies in spaces like online accounting, energy, payment transfers, and pay TV.

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