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Ted Crooks

Principal, Crooks Analytics

Fraud-management systems expert with 28 years experience inventing, building and applying artificial intelligence systems to banking services.

Inventor of eleven patents.

Ten years of consulting in Crooks Analytics, Inc. on payment fraud-management systems, banking technology, acquisitions, and development for IBM, MasterCard, VocaLink, Early Warning, multiple financial systems providers and financial institutions.

Vice President Global Fraud Solutions, Fair Isaac Corporation (FICO). Introduced multiple new products and lines of business. Substantial expansion of Falcon and fraud business unit.

As co-Founder, Burning Glass Technologies, created natural-language-processing system (patented) that understands text resumes and matches them to employment openings. Handled initial hiring of U.S. TSA airport security agents.

Executive Director of Scientific Staff, HNC Software Inc., and Executive Director of Product Management for HNC (acquired by FICO).

Founding product manager of Falcon, the world's first, successful, neural-network fraud-detection system and still the leader in the global card industry. Initiated HNC telecom division, automotive business and other new lines of business. (Today, Falcon is a product of FICO, Fair Isaac Corporation.)

Owner of Helix Technology software development company developing fire control systems for nuclear power plant, control sys-tems for invasive medical devices, robotic control system (patented), thermodynamic analysis systems for power plants, bank logis-tics systems, taxi dispatching systems.

Author of three internationally published books on computing. Best known: Using Oracle from Macmillian Que.

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Or Navri

Research Scientist, RSA

Industrial engineer specialized in statistical modeling and machine learning.

Graduated B.Sc. (with honors) and M.Sc. from the department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. B.Sc. mainly focused on information systems, M.Sc major focus on statistics and data science.

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Tsvi Korren

VP of Product Strategy, Aqua Security

Tsvi Korren, CISSP, has been an IT security professional for over 25 years. In previous positions at DEC and CA Inc., he consulted with various industry verticals on the process and organizational aspects of security. As the VP of Product Strategy at Aqua, he is tasked with delivering commercial and open source solutions that make Cloud Native workloads the most secure, compliant and resilient application delivery platform.

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Ted Crooks

Principal, Crooks Analytics

Fraud-management systems expert with 28 years experience inventing, building and applying artificial intelligence systems to banking services.

Inventor of eleven patents.

Ten years of consulting in Crooks Analytics, Inc. on payment fraud-management systems, banking technology, acquisitions, and development for IBM, MasterCard, VocaLink, Early Warning, multiple financial systems providers and financial institutions.

Vice President Global Fraud Solutions, Fair Isaac Corporation (FICO). Introduced multiple new products and lines of business. Substantial expansion of Falcon and fraud business unit.

As co-Founder, Burning Glass Technologies, created natural-language-processing system (patented) that understands text resumes and matches them to employment openings. Handled initial hiring of U.S. TSA airport security agents.

Executive Director of Scientific Staff, HNC Software Inc., and Executive Director of Product Management for HNC (acquired by FICO).

Founding product manager of Falcon, the world's first, successful, neural-network fraud-detection system and still the leader in the global card industry. Initiated HNC telecom division, automotive business and other new lines of business. (Today, Falcon is a product of FICO, Fair Isaac Corporation.)

Owner of Helix Technology software development company developing fire control systems for nuclear power plant, control sys-tems for invasive medical devices, robotic control system (patented), thermodynamic analysis systems for power plants, bank logis-tics systems, taxi dispatching systems.

Author of three internationally published books on computing. Best known: Using Oracle from Macmillian Que.

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Or Navri

Research Scientist, RSA

Industrial engineer specialized in statistical modeling and machine learning.

Graduated B.Sc. (with honors) and M.Sc. from the department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. B.Sc. mainly focused on information systems, M.Sc major focus on statistics and data science.

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Tsvi Korren

VP of Product Strategy, Aqua Security

Tsvi Korren, CISSP, has been an IT security professional for over 25 years. In previous positions at DEC and CA Inc., he consulted with various industry verticals on the process and organizational aspects of security. As the VP of Product Strategy at Aqua, he is tasked with delivering commercial and open source solutions that make Cloud Native workloads the most secure, compliant and resilient application delivery platform.

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Erich Kron

Security Awareness Advocate, KnowBe4

Erich Kron, Security Awareness Advocate at KnowBe4, is a veteran information security professional with over 20 years' experience in the medical, aerospace manufacturing and defense fields. He is the former security manager for the 2nd Regional Cyber Center-Western Hemisphere and holds CISSP, CISSP-ISSAP, MCITP and ITIL v3 certifications, among others. He has managed the technical integration and functional testing of multi-million-dollar enterprise level technology projects within the Department of Defense, as well as large military security programs. Erich has worked with information security professionals around the world to provide the tools, training and educational opportunities to succeed in the InfoSec industry.

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Colin Murray

Solutions Engineer, Cloudflare

Colin has been a solutions engineer at Cloudflare for the past 2 years. An IT security and networking pro, Colin is responsible for architecting scalable implementation plans for Cloudflare's enterprise clients (many in the banking space).

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Derek Yee

Director of Product Marketing, Cloudflare

Derek leads the team at Cloudflare supporting the performance services portfolio. Derek has been largely focused on the enterprise business segment, helping them solve their challenges for application delivery in a cloud first world. Prior to Cloudflare he spent 10+ years at Citrix supporting sales, marketing, education and enablement for their flagship networking product NetScaler.

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Colin Murray

Solutions Engineer, Cloudflare

Colin has been a solutions engineer at Cloudflare for the past 2 years. An IT security and networking pro, Colin is responsible for architecting scalable implementation plans for Cloudflare's enterprise clients (many in the banking space).

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Derek Yee

Director of Product Marketing, Cloudflare

Derek leads the team at Cloudflare supporting the performance services portfolio. Derek has been largely focused on the enterprise business segment, helping them solve their challenges for application delivery in a cloud first world. Prior to Cloudflare he spent 10+ years at Citrix supporting sales, marketing, education and enablement for their flagship networking product NetScaler.

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John Trest

Chief Learning Officer, Inspired eLearning

Trest is responsible for leading the development of Inspired eLearning's award-winning library of content, from the solid instructional design to the high-quality multimedia production. He has been a member of Inspired's team since 2009 and has more than 19 years of experience in creating and delivering eLearning courses for a broad variety of industries and subjects. He's passionate about creating quality eLearning content that is both engaging and impactful.

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Ryan Stolte

Founder & CTO, Bay Dynamics

As a founder and CTO of Bay Dynamics, Ryan Stolte has spent more than 20 years of his career solving big data problems with analytics. Starting in the early days of the Web, his first user behavior analytics challenges were to find innovative ways to recommend products to end users and drive sales on e-commerce sites. With the proliferation of the connected enterprise, his attention turned to new analytics challenges with internal IT, cloud, and cybersecurity initiatives. With two decades of experience in user behavior analytics, a portfolio of analytics patents, and an unparalleled leadership team, Ryan is focused on finding innovative ways to provide smart cybersecurity solutions for the enterprise.

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Patrick Knight

Senior Director of Cyber Strategy & Product Management, Veriato

Patrick Knight is the senior director of cyber strategy and product management at Veriato, an innovator in actionable user behavior analytics and a global leader in insider threat protection, where he helps organizations protect critical data from threats by trusted insiders. For over 17 years, his cyber security career has helped enterprises protect against online threats through the development of anti-malware, network intrusion detection, computer and network forensics and encryption technologies. He is a writer and speaker on topics of cyber security in multiple forums including Virus Bulletin. He served in the U.S. Intelligence Community and the United States Army for 12 years in the fields of Signals Intelligence Analysis and Cryptanalysis and as a Russian and Serbo-Croatian Linguist. He can be reached on Twitter at @PatrickKnight70 and on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/PatrickKnight70.

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Matt DeMatteo

Global Solutions Lead, SecureWorks

Matt DeMatteo is a Global Solution Lead focused on developing and promoting Secureworks' Security Management and Monitoring services. Matt joined Secureworks in 2007 as a Security Analyst in the Providence, RI SOC. Matt has been working directly with clients for the past 10 years as a Presales Engineer, Account Manager, and Solution Principal. His goal is to help design Secureworks services that delivery value and work with Secureworks global sales force to promote best practices in solution design. Matt has a passion for understanding client's business needs and unique risks. Matt holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Rhode Island, where he also was the Director of the Digital Forensics Lab.

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Nathanael Coffing

CEO, Cloudentity

Nathanael is the CEO and Co-Founder of Cloudentity. His extensive knowledge of Identity and Data security has been a major driver in extending authentication and dynamic authorization to any user, service or thing. With a core focus on ultra-scale and microservices security creating the market's first microservices Zero Trust platform that provides the best customer experience bringing authentication, dynamic Authorization to API Security.

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Sudeep Venkatesh

Chief Product Officer, Egress

Sudeep Venkatesh is a noted expert on data protection, bringing two decades of industry and technology experience in this area. His expertise spans the protection of data in both structured and unstructured data ecosystems, with an emphasis on solving real-world business problems through encryption, authentication and key management. He has an in-depth understanding of regulatory compliance standards, including the EU GDPR, PCI and NYDFS, etc. Sudeep has worked on numerous data security projects with Fortune 500 firms in the US, the UK and globally.

At Egress, Sudeep works as Chief Product Officer with responsibility for product strategy, product management and the delivery of pre and post-sales technical services to customers. Prior to this, he was the Global Head of Pre-sales for the Data Security division of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), leading a global team of Sales Engineers. Sudeep joined HPE through its acquisition of Voltage Security, where he was part of the executive team.

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Don Leatham

Sr Manager Business Development, Splunk inc.

Don Leatham is a 15-year veteran of the security software market. Having held senior roles in security product management, OEM technologies, and strategic technology alliances, Don provides a unique perspective and understanding of how security technologies, products, and market relationships come together to form today's complex InfoSec environment.

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Hugh Pyle

Director, Solutions Management, ReversingLabs

Hugh Pyle is Director of Solutions Architecture at ReversingLabs, with a focus on integrations and developer tools for threat intelligence and object analysis. His career includes software engineering, product management and consulting roles in security and privacy, enterprise data management, and collaboration software with IBM, Microsoft, Ab Initio and several startups.

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Don Leatham

Sr Manager Business Development, Splunk inc.

Don Leatham is a 15-year veteran of the security software market. Having held senior roles in security product management, OEM technologies, and strategic technology alliances, Don provides a unique perspective and understanding of how security technologies, products, and market relationships come together to form today's complex InfoSec environment.

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Hugh Pyle

Director, Solutions Management, ReversingLabs

Hugh Pyle is Director of Solutions Architecture at ReversingLabs, with a focus on integrations and developer tools for threat intelligence and object analysis. His career includes software engineering, product management and consulting roles in security and privacy, enterprise data management, and collaboration software with IBM, Microsoft, Ab Initio and several startups.

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