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Dan Sarel

VP, Product Management, Palo Alto Networks

Dan Sarel's interest in the cyber security world started about 2 decades ago. During these years he managed and helped design many security products in several disciplines. Including VPNs, Firewalls, endpoint security and database security. Dan served as an executive in various companies including Check Point Software, McAfee/Intel Security and Sentrigo. Dan's latest company, Demisto, where he was a co-founder and VP of Product, was acquired by Palo Alto Networks In February 2019, and is now known as Cortex XSOAR. Cortex XSOAR is providing the world's most advanced SOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation and Response).

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Jeremy Rasmussen

Chief Technology Officer, Abacode, Inc.

Jeremy Rasmussen is Chief Technology Officer of Abacode, Inc., a company that helps transform cybersecurity challenges into business competitive advantages. Abacode employs global thought leaders and industry experts in corporate governance risk & compliance, ethical hacking, security operations, and incident response to provide its clients with a holistic view of cybersecurity. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of South Florida and founder of the USF Whitehatters Computer Security Club (WCSC). Since 2000, he has taught USF courses in cryptography and network security, ethical hacking, digital forensics & investigations, and mobile & wireless security. He has more than 25 years of experience in performing R&D and developing cybersecurity solutions for government and commercial customers. Jeremy is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), and Project Management Professional (PMP). He was named the 2017 Technology Leader of the Year for Tampa Bay, FL.

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Julian Totzek-Hallhuber

Principal Solution Architect, Veracode

Julian Totzek-Hallhuber is a Solution Architect at Veracode and a security specialist with over 15 years working IT security. In his various roles he has been responsible for application development, penetration testing and web application security. Julian contributes to several security related articles, and provides his expert opinion at specialist events and trade fairs.

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Julian Totzek-Hallhuber

Principal Solution Architect, Veracode

Julian Totzek-Hallhuber is a Solution Architect at Veracode and a security specialist with over 15 years working IT security. In his various roles he has been responsible for application development, penetration testing and web application security. Julian contributes to several security related articles, and provides his expert opinion at specialist events and trade fairs.

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Chip Witt

VP, Product Management, SpyCloud

Chip Witt has over twenty years of diverse technology experience, including product management and operations leadership roles at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Webroot, VMware, Alcatel, and Appthority. He is currently the Vice President of Product Management at SpyCloud, where he drives the company's product vision and roadmap. Chip works closely with field intelligence teams specializing in OSINT and HUMINT tradecraft, actor attribution, and underground monitoring.

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Matt Johnson

Senior Product Marketing Manager, Transunion

Matt Johnson is a seasoned product marketing professional experienced in directing and executing product marketing strategy, go-to-market, sales enablement and creating messaging that clearly communicates differentiated value. Matt currently works as the advisor for fraud product marketing at TransUnion.

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Tonia Dudley

Strategic Advisor, Cofense

Tonia Dudley joined Cofense in 2018 as Director, Security Solution Advisor. In this role, she focuses on phishing defense advocacy while demonstrating how Cofense solutions help organizations across the globe minimize the impact of attacks while reducing the cost of operations. Tonia also advises Cofense product teams on specific customer and market-driven needs to help streamline product roadmaps and create Cofense’s inaugural international customer advisory board. With more than a decade of cybersecurity experience, Tonia has managed programs in cybersecurity incident response, security awareness, and IT compliance for large global organizations. She has spoken at several cybersecurity and industry conferences on building successful security awareness and phishing programs. Her anti-phishing training programs have received three awards.

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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

Head of Identity and Access Management, Navy Federal Credit Union

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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Rich Thompson

VP, Global Sales Engineering, BlackBerry

Prior to joining BlackBerry, Rich has 25+ years of experience in security. This includes 21 years leading security efforts at the regional and national level in the retail industry, and 5+ years leading Sales Engineering and Professional Services efforts in the enterprise software industry.

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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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Christopher Perry

Principal Security Product Strategist, BMC

Christopher Perry is the Lead Product Manager for BMC AMI Security. Prior to BMC, he served in the US Army in several cyber security roles including Expeditionary Cyber Company Commander, Technical Advisor to the Commanding General of Army Cyber Command, and Cyber Training Officer. He is a graduate of United States Military Academy and holds several certifications including Offensive Security Certified Professional + Expert (OSCP / OSCE), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), GIAC Penetration Tester (GPEN), GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst (GCIA), and GIAC Certified Forensic Analyst (GCFA).

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Katie Arrington

CISO for Acquisition and Sustainment within the U.S. Department of Defense

Katherine "Katie" Arrington currently is the Chief Information Security Officer, CISO(A) to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, ASD(A). In this position, she serves as the central hub and integrator within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, OUSD(A&S), to align acquisition cyber strategy. As the CISO (A), Ms. Arrington is responsible to ensure the incorporation of integrated security/cyber efforts within USD(A&S) with the purpose of providing a focused and streamlined governance approach and to provide a central coordination point and common compliance standard that serves to synchronize the various existing disparate cyber security efforts and standards across the Department and Industry as it relates to A&S equities. Ms. Arrington is leading efforts that will help to ensure a robust Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM), establish Defense Industrial Base Security and Resilience, and establish a common standard in Cyber Security Standards. She also meets with key Cyber personnel (across both DoD and Federal Agencies) as well as legislators to ensure that changes made in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) are supportive in reaching the goals of decreased spending and increased compliance with current and future standards. Before assuming her position in OUSD(A&S), Ms. Arrington had an extensive career as a legislator and senior cyber executive. Ms. Arrington was a candidate for South Carolina US House of Representative 2018 and a South Carolina State Representative for 2 terms. She has substantial experience and capabilities in cyber strategy, policy, enablement and implementation across a wide range of domains, including DoD, Federal, Healthcare and State. She acquired her experience in cyber over the past 15 years with Booz Allen Hamilton, Centuria Corporation and Dispersive Networks. This has given her the unique experience of working at a large business, small business and non-traditional contractor for the government. She attended Canisius College in Buffalo, NY.

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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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Henk van Achterberg

Security Strategist, Symantec Enterprise Division | Broadcom

Henk van Achterberg is Symantec's Technical Architect for Zero Trust. His mission is to educate organisations about Zero Trust and to make sure their sensitive data is not accessed by compromised accounts, thus protecting their key corporate assets from potential breach. With technologies such as Symantec Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), Secure Access Cloud (SDP), Symantec's leading Data Loss Prevention and Web Security Services, Henk guides customers towards Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) ensuring secure access to apps, data and services anywhere, any time. Henk is dedicated to implementing modern security strategies for customers who require immediate and uninterrupted access to critical resources, no matter where they are located,

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