CornCon VI Confirmed Speakers List w/ Presentation Titles
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| Speaker, Title, Company, Presentation Title | Track | Day | Time |
| Shawn Anderson, Exec Security Advisor, Microsoft What is trust? Should we trust but verify or trust nothing and verify everything? BIO: Shawn Anderson is a former CISO, certified CIO, and has over 25 years of experience in cyber security, IT networking, and over the past 5 years in cloud technologies. Shawn spends his time advising, architecting, and speaking to Fortune 500 CISOs and other executives weekly in his current role at Microsoft. MORE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shawnanderson/ | 02 | FRI | 13:15 |
Grant Asplund, Growth Technologies Evangelist, Check Point Software A Strategy for Securing Your Everything BIO: For more than 20 years, Grant Asplund has been sharing his insights on how businesses can best protect themselves from sophisticated cyber attacks in an increasingly complex world. As Check Point’s chief evangelist he travels the world enthralling audiences with his passionate and relational storytelling at conferences like RSA and Next100 CIOs and numerous media interviews. Grant’s wide range of cyber security experience informs his talks, having served in diverse roles ranging from sales, marketing, business development and senior management for Dome 9, Blue Coat Systems, Neustar and Altor Networks. As CEO of MetalInfo he led its acquisition by Neustar. Grant is the host of the TalkingCloud podcast (https://www.talkingcloud.podbean.com) on Cloud security. MORE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/grantasplund/ | 02 | SAT | 11:00 |
Tony Baker, Global Product Security Leader, Rockwell Automation OT/ICS Panel Discussion BIO: Tony Baker leads the Product Security Operations capability as part of Rockwell Automation’s centralized Office of Product Safety and Security. He is responsible key functions including product security incident response, product security assessments and consultation as well as penetration testing and security research. Tony brings over 15 years of experience in industrial controls with a unique background spanning systems engineering, business and technology management, and the application of cybersecurity concepts and technologies. MORE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tony-baker-50255b43/ | 02 | FRI | 9:30 |
Todd Bell, Exec Director IT Compliance/CISO, Valleywise Health API Security for the API Economy BIO: Security & technology executive that has worked across the globe, securing the largest corporations to startups by deterring, detecting, and defending against cyber criminals and preventing cybersecurity breaches. MORE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/toddbell/ | 02 | SAT | 12:30 |
Tim Callahan, Global Chief Security Officer, AFLAC Cyber Insurance Panel BIO: Tim Callahan joined Aflac in 2014, bringing more than 30 years of experience in information and physical security, business resiliency and risk management. He was promoted to his current role in January 2016, where he is responsible for directing Aflac’s global security strategy and leading the information security, business continuity and disaster recovery functions across the company to prioritize security initiatives and allocate resources based on appropriate risk assessments. MORE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-callahan-4b39241/ | 01 | FRI | 14:45 |
Ray Canzanese, Director of Threat Research, Netskope COVID and the Cloud BIO: Ray is the Director of Netskope Threat Labs, which specializes in cloud-focused threat research. His background is in software anti-tamper, malware detection and classification, cloud security, sequential detection, and machine learning. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University. Most recently, Ray was the CTO of cloud security startup Sift Security. | 01 | FRI | 14:00 |
Dr. Mark Carney, Technical Specialist and Researcher Tears for Quantum Fears BIO: Having a background in mathematics, a lot of experience working in cybersecurity research, and some time spent as a consultant to companies in the ‘quantum space’ – Mark has amassed a broad overview of topics relating to quantum computing, and how they relate to areas of cybersecurity and cryptography. MORE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-carney-5849163b/ | 02 | FRI | 14:45 |
Stephen Cobb, Independent Risk Researcher, Self-employed How Hackers Save Humanity: A Cautionary Tale of Existential Risk BIO: Wrote my first computer security book in 91, spoke at DEFCON in 95, became a CISSP in 1996, and sold first security company in 1999. Spent 2011-19 as Senior Security Researcher at ESET while exploring broader impacts of malware and other technology risks via a masters program at a leading school of criminology. MORE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephencobb/ | 01 | SAT | 8:45 |
Mike Convertino, Chief Security Officer, Arceo.ai Cyber Insurance Panel BIO: Mike Convertino is Arceo.ai’s Chief Security Officer responsible for security of the company’s assets as well as strategies to serve security and insurance professionals alike. He was previously Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Twitter where he was responsible for protecting the Twitter platform and improving the safety and security of the conversations that take place on it through advanced methodologies including machine learning-based automation. Prior to this he was VP & CTO of Security Products at F5 Networks where he drove invention of new core intellectual property for security products and prior that F5s first CISO. Before that he was an early employee at Crowdstrike, an innovative, cloud-based endpoint detection and response product company which just successfully went IPO and now has a market capitalization in excess of $15B. He later became CISO and VP for Information Security at Crowdstrike. Prior to Crowdstrike, he was Microsoft’s Senior Director of Network Security, responsible for security automation development, intrusion detection, internal digital forensic investigations and company-wide. He is a highly decorated retired Air Force Colonel and was last assigned as Commander of the 318th Information Operations Group responsible for the development and employment of US Air Force information operations capabilities globally. He holds degrees in electrical engineering, information systems management and international security studies and has over 28 years of experience leading large IT operations and security organizations. MORE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/smconvertino/ | 01 | FRI | 14:45 |
Mike Coogan, Sr. Director Cybersecurity, Waste Management Identity in the COVID-19 Era BIO: Mike Coogan brings over 20 years experience to Waste Management, where he is responsible for all aspects of cybersecurity, from policy to operations to identity. MORE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikecoogan/ | 01 | FRI | 13:15 |
Amanda Fennell, CISO, Relativity CISO Panel: It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) BIO: Amanda joined the Relativity team in 2018 as chief security officer. In her role, Amanda is responsible for championing and directing security strategy in risk management and compliance practices. Prior to joining Relativity, Amanda served as the global head of cyber response and digital forensics at Zurich Insurance Company. She also held several management and consulting positions at Symantec, Dell SecureWorks, Booz Allen Hamilton, and Guidance Software. Amanda received her Master’s of Forensic Science in the field of Digital Forensics: High-Technology Crime Investigation at the George Washington University. MORE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/afennell/ | 01 | FRI | 9:30 |
Dave Gioe, History Fellow, Army Cyber Institute, West Point Russian disinformation: Past, Present, and Policy Considerations BIO: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-gioe-117aa916/ | 01 | SAT | 13:15 |
J Woflgang Goerlich, Advisory CISO and Strategist, Duo Design Thinking for Secure Development BIO: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jwgoerlich/ | 01 | SAT | 10:15 |
Travis Hartman, President, IWC Labs 99 Jobs and Finding the right one BIO: PhD Student, Army Reserve Officer, solution architect, Career Hacking Village Founder, and distracted by shiny objects. Let’s take some risks and try something different. Army Reserve Cyber Warfare Officer who commands a 1600 person organization. MORE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/travisahartman/ | 02 | SAT | 8:45 |
Bryan Hurd, VP, Stroz Friedberg Former Intelligence Director Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit CISO Panel: Daily breaches! What are we missing? BIO: Bryan Hurd is a cybercrime, computer security, terrorism and homeland security executive with over 25 years of creating programs that have national and international impact. A U.S. Naval Academy graduate and veteran, Bryan founded the U.S. Navy’s first cyber counterintelligence program at NCIS, and built the global computer forensics program for EDS (now HP). He led innovation for the entire US watch listing system at the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC). MORE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryanhurd/ | 02 | SAT | 12:30 |
Todd Inskeep, Cyber Yoda, Incovate Solutions Three Paths to Risk and the Board BIO: Todd brings years of security leadership and innovation experience managing cyber risk and delivering business results. He’s been a CISO, lead cybersecurity assessments for global and regional companies, and delivered in oil & gas, high tech, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and financial services. MORE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/toddinskeep/ | 01 | FRI | 8:45 |
Joey Johnson, CISO, Premise Health CISO Panel: It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) BIO: Joey Johnson is Chief Information Security Officer at Premise Health, provider of large employer sponsor health and wellness centers for employees. In 2016 Joey was named CISO of the Year by the Nashville Technology Council. This was followed in 2017 by being named the 2017 Southeast U.S. CISO of the year by the national Technology Executives Network. Joey is responsible for leading all organizational efforts related to security operations and engineering, information technology and security compliance, identity access management, policy development, security audit, and vendor risk management to meet challenging security and compliance demands. In his six years with Premise Health, Joey has been instrumental in implementing a proactive security and risk management environment focused organizational risk awareness that is transformative in the healthcare industry. He successfully launched a cutting-edge vendor and business associate maturity development program that dynamically empowered business partners of various scales and complexity to meet challenging security and compliance demands. Additionally, he has worked to develop a team driven by passion in security, with a focus on empowering and fostering women in the security field. MORE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joey-johnson-6453999/ | 01 | FRI | 9:30 |
Kevin Johnson, CEO and Security Consultants at Secure Ideas Haunted Security BIO:Kevin Johnson is a Senior Security Analyst with Secure Ideas. Kevin came to security from a development and system administration background. He has many years of experience performing security services for Fortune 100 companies, and in his spare time contributes to a large number of open source security projects. Kevin founded and leads the development on B.A.S.E. (the Basic Analysis and Security Engine) project. The BASE project is the most popular web interface for the Snort intrusion detection system. Kevin is an instructor for SANS, teaching both the Incident Handling and Hacker Techniques class and the Web Application Security class. He is also the course author for Security 542 Web Application Pen-Testing In-Depth. He has presented to many organizations, including Infragard, ISACA, ISSA and the University of Florida. MORE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinjohnson/ | 02 | FRI | 14:00 |
Dr. John D. Johnson, President/Founder, Docent Institute / Conference Chair/Co-Founder CornCon BIO: John Johnson is co-founder/conference chair of CornCon. He is a frequent speaker and serves on conference boards including Black Hat, RSA Conference and InfowarCon. He is founder/President of Quad Cities Cybersecurity Alliance (qccyber.com) and Sr. Manager at a large manufacturing company. He was recently Sr. Manager of Cyber Risk at Deloitte. John was security architect at John Deere for 18 years, and before that was security manager, and staff physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. https://johndjohnson.com/index.php/bio/ MORE: https://linkedin.com/in/nullsession/ | |||
Dave Kennedy, CEO, TrustedSec, Binary Defense Understanding Offense – How Red Raises The Bar To Better Blue BIO: David Kennedy is founder of Binary Defense and TrustedSec. Both organizations focus on the betterment of the security industry. David also served as a board of director for the ISC2 organization. David was the former CSO for a Diebold Incorporated where he ran the entire INFOSEC program. David is a co-author of the book “Metasploit: The Penetration Testers Guide”, the creator of the Social-Engineer Toolkit (SET), Artillery, Unicorn, PenTesters Framework, and several popular open source tools. David has been interviewed by several news organizations including CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, CNBC, Katie Couric, and BBC World News. David is the co-host of the social-engineer podcast and on several additional podcasts. David has testified in front of Congress on two occasions on the security around government websites. David is one of the founding authors of the Penetration Testing Execution Standard (PTES); a framework designed to fix the penetration testing industry. David was the co-founder of DerbyCon, a large-scale conference started in Louisville, Kentucky. Prior to the private sector, David worked for the United States Marine Corps and deployed to Iraq twice for intelligence related missions. MORE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidkennedy4/ | 02 | FRI | 12:30 |
Adam Kujawa, Director of Malwarebytes Labs, Malwarebytes LUNCH KEYNOTE: Enduring from Home: COVID-19’s impact on business security BIO: With over 16 years of experience fighting malware behind the scenes and on the front lines, Adam has analyzed APT/state-sponsored threats, as well as threats to government and private industry. In addition to research and analysis, Adam has provided conference talks and developed technical courses on topics from basic malware analysis to malware evolution and threat intelligence. He has had articles published in SC Magazine, TechCrunch, and other notable tech publications and is frequently quoted on computer security matters by news organizations. MORE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/%F0%9F%90%A7-adam-kujawa-78255316 | 01 | FRI | 11:45 |
Ricardo Lafosse, CISO, The Kraft Heinz Company CISO Panel: It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) BIO: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ricardolafosse/ | 01 | FRI | 9:30 |
E. Larry Lidz, CISO Verifiable Effectiveness – How to know your security program works before the bad guys let you know BIO: E. Larry Lidz is a seasoned CISO with experience protecting large, complex global organizations and the plethora of sensitive data which they store. MORE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/e-larry-lidz-7b286340/ | 01 | FRI | 11:00 |
Rafal Los aka “@Wh1t3Rabbit”, Vice President of Security Strategy, Lightstream You Suck and I’ll Show You How to Prove It BIO: At Lightstream, Raf leads the security business and is responsible for strategy and development of security products and services. He is also an active member of the Security Advisor Alliance, serving on the advisory board with the intent of creating innovative ways for security leaders to give back to their communities through service and knowledge sharing. MORE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rmlos/ | 01 | FRI | 10:15 |
Dr. Richard H.L. Marshall (Rich), Founder/CEO, CinturianGroup If you think COVID 19 was bad BIO: Dr. Marshall offers 20 plus years of broad executive leadership experience as a former member of the Senior Executive Service in the federal government having served in the Department of Defense, National Security Agency (legal architect of nation’s first cyber warfare exercise), the White House (Comprehensive National Cyber Security Initiative), the Department of Commerce (Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office), and the Department of Homeland Security (Director of Global Cyber Security Management). Since retiring from federal service (as a SES level two, the equivalent of a two star general) he has broadened his executive experience by serving on various boards of directors, CEO of tech startups, Executive Director of a non-profit research center, and Special Cyber Advisor to the government of Moldova. MORE: click here for more https://www.linkedin.com/in/rmarshall141699/ | 01 | FRI | 12:30 |
Shaun Martin, Staff DevOps Engineer, QuickBase AWS No Host Secure Infrastructure Automated BIO: Old school linux administrator with over 20 years experience. Trying to modernize the DevOps and Infrastructure world with automation and security. MORE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scavmartin/ | 02 | FRI | 8:45 |
Marci McCarthy, CEO and President, T.E.N. Inc. CISO Panel: It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) BIO: Marci McCarthy is the CEO and President of T.E.N., an information security executive networking and relationship-marketing firm. With more than 20 years of business management and entrepreneurial experience, McCarthy founded T.E.N.’s flagship program, the Information Security Executive® of the Year (ISE®) Program Series, which is lauded by the IT industry as the premier recognition and networking program for security professionals in the U.S. and Canada and celebrated its ten-year anniversary in 2020. MORE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcimccarthy/ | 01 | FRI | 9:30 |
Derek Milroy, Enterprise Security Architect What we all end up Implementing anyway BIO: Derek Milroy is a corporate security professional that has been implementing strategy and solutions in various environments, as both an internal employee and as a consultant, for the 20+ plus years. Derek is also a recovering QSA and has experience performing FISMA and ISO assessments. MORE: https://www.linkedin.com/public-profile/in/derekmilroy | 02 | FRI | 10:15 |
Maggie Morganti, Staff at Oak Ridge National Laboratory OT/ICS Panel Discussion BIO: Maggie Morganti is a Technical Staff member for the Power and Energy Systems team at Oak Ridge National Laboratory focusing on electric grid cybersecurity and resilience research. She works on research projects dealing with precision timing, vulnerability handling, distributed energy systems, and other matters relevant to security and resiliency of the power grid. Prior to joining Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Maggie was a graduate intern at FireEye and worked as a Threat Intelligence Analyst on their iSight Cyber-Physical team. She holds a M.S. in Intelligence Studies with a focus on cybersecurity from Mercyhurst University. MORE: www.linkedin.com/in/ICS-maggs | 02 | FRI | 9:30 |
Kurt Opsahl, Deputy Executive Director and General Counsel of the Electronic Frontier Foundation “It’s a Trap!” – Privacy, clickbait, and PII in the modern world BIO: Kurt Opsahl is the Deputy Executive Director and General Counsel of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. In addition to representing clients on civil liberties, free speech and privacy law, Opsahl counsels on EFF projects and initiatives. Opsahl is the lead attorney on the Coders’ Rights Project, and is representing several companies who are challenging National Security Letters. Before joining EFF, Opsahl worked at Perkins Coie, where he represented technology clients with respect to intellectual property, privacy, defamation, and other online liability matters, including working on Kelly v. Arribasoft, MGM v. Grokster and CoStar v. LoopNet. For his work responding to government subpoenas, Opsahl is proud to have been called a “rabid dog” by the Department of Justice. Prior to Perkins, Opsahl was a research fellow to Professor Pamela Samuelson at the U.C. Berkeley School of Information Management & Systems. MORE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kurt-opsahl-0858654/ https://www.eff.org/about/staff/kurt-opsahl | 01 | SAT | 11:00 |
Michael Phillips, Chief of Claims, Arceo.ai Cyber Insurance Panel BIO: Michael Phillips is the Chief Claims Officer of the cyber risk analytics firm Arceo AI. He previously served as the Head of Cyber, Media, and Technology Claims for North America at Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty, and as a cyber claims leader at Beazley. Michael was previously a litigator in private practice at the global law firm of Clyde & Co, representing international insurers in disputes before US federal and state courts and before a diverse array of arbitral institutions. He is admitted to the state courts of New York and Connecticut, the federal courts of the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. MORE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-phillips-cyber/ | 01 | FRI | 14:45 |
Dr. Phil Polstra, Professor of Digital Forensics, Bloomsburg University What is the extent of your Ext4 Filesystem Knowledge? BIO: Phil was born at an early age. He cleaned out his savings as a boy in order to buy a TI99-4A computer for the sum of $450. Two years later he learned 6502 assembly and has been hacking computers and electronics ever since. Dr. Phil currently works as a professor at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. His research focus over the last few years has been on the use of microcontrollers and small embedded computers for forensics and pentesting. (Approx. 50 minutes) MORE: https://corncon.net/speakers/phil-polstra/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/philip-polstra-2b87037/ | TUTORIAL | SAT | 9:30 |
Chris (Sidragon) Roberts, Geek, Hacker, Hilbilly Hit Squad All Your Votes Are Belong To… BIO: Hacker, InfoSec, Safety, CyberStuff Researcher, Advisor, @Hacknotcrime henchman, and various other names on the technical side of the world: vCISO, Executive, consultant, leadership, and other words that have been leveled against me describing some of the other work undertaken over the years. MORE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sidragon1/ | 02 | FRI | 15:30 |
Shadrack (Shad) Roberts, Cybersecurity Expert, Hactivist, Innovator, Security awareness educator, Co-Founder CornCon BIO: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shadrackroberts/ | |||
Richard Rushing, CISO, Motorola Mobility CISO Panel: Daily Breaches! What are we missing? BIO: Richard Rushing is the Chief Information Security Officer for Motorola Mobility LLC. Richard participates in corporate, community, private, and government security councils and working groups, setting standards, policies, and solutions for current and emerging security issues. As Chief Information Security Officer for Motorola Mobility, he has led the organization’s security effort by developing an international team to tackle targeted attacks, cyber-crime, and emerging threats to mobile devices. He has organized, developed, and deployed practices, tools, and techniques to protect the enterprise’s intellectual property worldwide. A much-in-demand international speaker on information security, Richard has spoken at many of the leading security conferences and seminars around the world. MORE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardrushing/ | 02 | SAT | 12:30 |
Megan Samford, VP, Chief Product Security Officer – Energy Management, Schneider Electric OT/ICS Panel BIO: Megan is responsible for driving the security strategy across products within Schneider Electric’s Energy Management business. In taking her role at Schneider Electric, Megan became the first female CPSO for a major industrial without first being a CISO. Prior to joining Schneider Electric, she lead product safety and security programs at Rockwell Automation and GE. Before joining the private sector, Megan served as Virginia’s Critical Infrastructure Protection Coordinator for Governor’s Tim Kaine and Bob McDonnell. She is the current Chair of the DHS CSIWG Incident Management Working Group, RSA Program Chair, “Secure All the Things” and founder of the ICS4ICS public-private partnership. MORE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/megan-samford-13282814 | 02 | FRI | 9:30 |
Winn Schwartau, Chief Visionary, SAC Labs AI Ain’t So Smart, Eh? BIO: Winn has lived Security since 1983, and now says, “I think, maybe, I’m just starting to understand it.” His predictions about the internet & security have been scarily spot on. He coined the term “Electronic Pearl Harbor” while testifying before Congress in 1991 and showed the world how and why massive identify theft, cyber-espionage, nation- state hacking and cyber-terrorism would be an integral part of our future. He was named the “Civilian Architect of Information Warfare,” by Admiral Tyrrell of the British MoD. His new book, “Analogue Network Security” is a mathematically based approach to provable security where his goal is to provide tools and methods to “fix security and the internet”. MORE: https://corncon.net/winn-schwartau-founder-infowarcon/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/winnschwartau/ | 01 | SAT | 9:30 |
Nick Selby, Chief Security Officer, Paxos Trust Company Tech Debt Burndown: Kill It With Fire BIO: Nick Selby is CSO at Paxos, a NYC-based global financial institution. He was formerly Director of Cyber Intelligence and Investigations at the Intelligence Bureau of the NYPD. MORE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickselby/ | 02 | SAT | 14:00 |
George Simonds, President, International Critical Infrastructure Security Institute The New Cyber Engineer – How Immersive Learning Shapes Solutions Engineering at Industrial Facilities BIO: Mr. Simonds is a co-founder at ICISI.org, a 501(c)(6) “for purpose” organization that specializes in performance-based cybersecurity program development for critical infrastructure stakeholders, including workforce training and credentialing programs, independent technology certifications, and organizational maturity models. MORE: linkedin.com/in/george-simonds-a660191 | 02 | SAT | 9:30 |
Dr. Eugene Spafford (Spaf), Professor, Purdue University This Talk Has No Title BIO: Eugene H. Spafford is one of the senior, most recognized leaders in the field of computing. His research and development work, including work with his students, underlies cyber security mechanisms in use on millions of systems in use today, including work in firewalls, intrusion detection, vulnerability scanners, integrity monitoring, forensics, and security architectures. MORE: https://corncon.net/eugene-spafford-professor-purdue-university/ | 01 | SAT | 14:45 |
Dr. Jeff Struik, Principal Cyber Security Engineer, Cyber Strike Solutions, LLC CMMC – Why yes, I would love another cyber security framework! BIO: Jeff Struik is the principal cybersecurity engineer for Cyber Strike Solutions, LLC. He has been a cybersecurity professional since 2008, working for customers ranging from the Department of Defense to private healthcare and insurance firms. Jeff served in the U.S. Army as an AH-64D Apache helicopter electrical and avionics technician for 10 years and was discharged as the result of an injury in 2011. During that time he developed a love for technology and understanding how it works. He also developed a deep interest in understanding how to make technology misbehave and what steps are necessary to prevent such behavior. MORE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-struik/ | 02 | SAT | 13:15 |
Aaron Turner, Founder/CSO, HighSide, IANS Faculty How Microsoft Owned Your SaaS – the massive data movement to M365 BIO: Multi-decade security researcher and entrepreneur. MORE: https://www.iansresearch.com/our-faculty/faculty#aaron-turner | 02 | FRI | 11:00 |
Jori P. VanAntwerp, VP of Sales at Gravwell OT/ICS Panel Discussion BIO: Jori P. VanAntwerp is the VP of Sales at Gravwell, a Data Fusion Platform that provides unprecedented capability for data collection and analysis. For the past 15 years I have enabled industrial and IT cyber security practitioners to be successful in their efforts by assisting them in navigating complex challenges and architecting innovative solutions. I’ve had the pleasure of working with such great companies as Dragos, CrowdStrike, FireEye, McAfee, and now founder at SynSaber, a cyber security startup focused on making security a reality. MORE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jvanantwerp/ | 02 | FRI | 9:30 |
Robert Wagner, Security Strategist, Splunk Tutorial – Hands On Security Investigations with Splunk Defense on a Budget: Free Security Tips and Tricks BIO: Robert Wagner is a security professional with 15+ years of InfoSec experience. He is a co-founder of “Hak4Kidz.com”, an organizer of BurbSecCon in Chicago, and is on the Board of Directors of the ISSA Chicago Chapter. MORE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertwagner2/ | 02 | FRI | 14:00 |
Aaron Warner, CEO, ProCircular “It’s a Trap!” – Privacy, clickbait, and PII in the modern world BIO: People and relationships are the path to success. That is why Aaron Warner formed ProCircular to prepare and protect organizations from the ever-changing cyber threats that face us every day. Backed by Warner’s 22 years as a biotech CIO and CTO, and a top-shelf team of cybersecurity experts, ProCircular helps clients educate and empower their people to become the real initiative against incursions so we all can safely enjoy more of what’s important in life. Mr. Warner’s decades of global IT and cybersecurity expertise, an MBA from the University of Iowa, CISSP, Certified CISO, and Security+ certifications underline the organization’s commitment to aligning cybersecurity, compliance and their clients’ company strategy. MORE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaron-r-warner-8aab211/ | 01 | SAT | 11:00 |
Bob West, Managing Partner, West Strategy Group Identity in the COVID-19 Era CISO Chat w/ Mike Coogan, CISO, WM BIO: Bob West is managing partner for West Strategy Group. He has over 20 years of experience in identity and access management design and implementation. MORE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bowest/ | 01 | FRI | 13:15 |
Ira Winkler, President, Secure Mentem CLOSING KEYNOTE SATURDAY: You Can Stop Stupid BIO: Ira is considered one of the world’s most influential security professionals. He began his career at the National Security Agency (NSA), and has since served in other positions supporting the cybersecurity and risk management programs in organizations of all sizes. He has written widely on, and speaks around the world about, cybersecurity, risk management, loss mitigation, and the human aspects of security and technology. His latest book “You Can Stop Stupid” will be released in Decemeber and is available for pre-order at https://tiny.cc/stupidbook . MORE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/irawinkler/ | 01 | SAT | 15:30 |
Ron Woerner, Cybersecurity Instructor, Bellevue University How Not to Suck at Security (or How to Hack your Cyber Career) BIO: Ron Woerner is a noted consultant, speaker and writer in the security industry. He has numerous technology degrees and certs and is passionate about building the next generation of cyber professionals. MORE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronwoerner/ | 02 | SAT | 10:15 |
Marc Woolward, vArmour CISO/CTO LUNCH KEYNOTE SATURDAY: Addressing Application Resilience in Today’s Complex, Dynamic Environments BIO: Marc is CTO and CISO with vArmour where he is responsible for technical strategy and innovation. He holds 10 patents in the Application and Cloud Security area. In his 16 yrs at Goldman Sachs, Technology Fellow and Networks CTO, primarily in networking with a strong grounding in data center infrastructure, resilience patterns and security disciplines. In his role as Technology Fellow at Goldman Sachs, Marc also established a to improve resilience and antifragility in business applications. As comfortable troubleshooting complex application IO issues as developing design patterns or participating in the invention of new protocols. Marc is a seasoned contributor to industry standards bodies and served on the Technical Council of ONF. Also a professional surf kayaker, current World Number 3 and former World Cup winner. . MORE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-woolward-53816295/ | 01 | SAT | 11:45 |
Caroline Wong, Chief Strategy Officer, Cobalt.io CLOSING KEYNOTE FRIDAY: Come for the Mission, Stay for the Vision BIO: Caroline is the Chief Strategy Officer at Cobalt.io. She hosts the Humans of InfoSec podcast and wrote Security Metrics: A Beginner’s Guide. MORE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolinewmwong/ | 01 | FRI | 15:30 |
xe1phix, Linux Admin, ICS Tutorial: Secure Linux Networking BIO: Linux Systems Engineer, Studying Malware analysis, memory forensics, & kernel hardening. | TUTORIAL | SAT | 12:30 |