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Dirk Jan Koekkoek

VP, DMARC, Mimecast

Dirk Jan Koekkoek is the founder of several successful companies, including the Hilversum cybersecurity company DMARC Analyzer. This company was recently taken over by security specialist Mimecast. Koekkoek now works at Mimecast as VP DMARC.

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Danielle Papadakis

Product Manager Mimecast Brand Exploit Protect, Mimecast

Danielle holds a BSc in computer science from the Interdisciplinary Center University in Herzliya, Israel. With expertise in cyber security, threat intelligence, and deep insight into customer facing phishing, Danielle had a major role in Segasec's development and acquisition.

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Ian Lowe

Product Marketing Management Director, HID Global

Ian is Product Marketing Director for HID SAFE and is passionate about marketing all things related to Identity, Cybersecurity, IoT, Cloud, and Digital transformation. In his 19-year career, Ian has become a recognized product marketing and sales enablement leader having created and launched successful cloud-based identity and security solutions that are used by top technology firms, financial services organizations and Governments around the world today.

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Ian Lowe

Product Marketing Management Director, HID Global

Ian is Product Marketing Director for HID SAFE and is passionate about marketing all things related to Identity, Cybersecurity, IoT, Cloud, and Digital transformation. In his 19-year career, Ian has become a recognized product marketing and sales enablement leader having created and launched successful cloud-based identity and security solutions that are used by top technology firms, financial services organizations and Governments around the world today.

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Dora Gomez

President NYCFE, InfraGard Board Member, FinCrime Consultant.

Gomez has over 25 years of experience in insurance and financial services and is currently with Ernst & Young's IT Advisory - Financial crimes, Fraud and Compliance team. She spent 17 years with the AXA Group in various leadership roles in Audit, Fraud Risk Management, AML, GRC, ERM, and IT Security, including significant international experience and perspectives. Following her return to the U.S. from an expat assignment in Paris France, she was Audit Director and Global Fraud Officer for AXA Technology Services where she created the company's Anti-Fraud Policy, including investigations/whistleblower incidents, and managed a fraud mitigation program. She held positions as Audit Chief of Staff and Risk Officer as well - establishing the audit department's global departmental practices and governance. Dora is an active Board Director of InfraGard's New York Metro Chapter (affiliated with the FBI) and was the recipient of the InfraGard Northeast Region IMA Leadership Award in 2019. She is a Board Officer of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners New York Chapter and is the current Audit Committee Chair for the High Technology Crime Investigation Association. She is a steering committee member for the annual New York Metro Joint Cyber Security Conference.

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Jason Pfeiffer

VP of Product Management, ReliaQuest

Jason Pfeiffer, VP of Product Management for ReliaQuest, is responsible for the development and execution of their go-to-market strategy. Prior to leading ReliaQuest's Product Management team, Jason joined RQ in 2016, leading the Incident Response team and soon after was responsible for the entire Security Operations organization. Prior to joining ReliaQuest, Jason spent his career building and leading world-class cyber security programs for global businesses, including Lockheed Martin and PwC. He earned his B.S. in Management Information Systems (MIS) from the University of Central Florida (UCF) and his M.S. in Technology Management from RPI. Jason also holds several industry certifications including the CISSP, ISSAP, CISM and C/EH, and in 2015 he was awarded the Senior Information Security Professional of the Year by ISC2.

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Jeff Horne

CSO, Ordr

Jeff Horne is currently the CSO at Ordr where he is responsible for security direction both within Ordr products and internal security. Prior to Ordr Jeff was the VP of Information Security for Optiv where he was responsible for all Security Operations, Governance Risk and Compliance, Endpoint, Internal Incident Response, Physical Security, and Employee Security Awareness groups. Before Optiv Jeff was the Senior Director of Information Security for SpaceX where he was responsible for the overall security strategy of SpaceX and managing the Information Security, Compliance (ITAR), Security Operations, and Physical Security groups. Previous to SpaceX Jeff was the Vice President of R&D and Chief Architect for Accuvant LABS where he managed teams of researchers and consultants specializing in reverse engineering, malicious code, incident response, breach analysis, and vulnerability assessment. Prior to Accuvant Jeff was the Director of Threat Research at Webroot Software where he led several teams of malware researchers, reverse engineers, and a development organization specializing in creating anti-malware functionality and detection signatures for all Webroot products. Jeff began his career as a Vulnerability Researcher at Internet Security Systems where he was responsible for vulnerability discovery, exploit creation, IDS evasion research, and behavioral detection of malware. Jeff is well known for his insight in interviews for numerous news channels and publications, speaking roles at various security conferences, as well as authoring several vulnerability disclosures and patents.

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Mike Lynch

Senior Sales Engineer, Core Security a HelpSystems Company

Mike Lynch has more than 25 years of experience in technical sales, product development, technical support, and customer success. Currently, he is a Senior Sales Engineer for Core Security, a HelpSystems Company, focusing on Identity and Access Management (IAM), Vulnerability Management and Network Threat Detection.

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Jayesh Raut

CISO and VP (Special Projects), FACTS Online Pvt. Ltd

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Anush Shetty

CEO and Director - Technology, FACTS Online Pvt. Ltd

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Dr. Sanjay Bahl

Director General - CERT-In

Bahl is currently director general at CERT-In. He has been providing consultancy in the areas of governance, risk, compliance, security, privacy, forensics, investigation and fraud management to national level projects in India. Prior to CERT-In, he was the chief security officer for Microsoft Corporation in India where he was responsible for interaction with the government, academia, key strategic accounts and the CXO community with respect to Microsoft's security policy. Prior to joining Microsoft, Bahl was the global CSO of TCS where he established an enterprise-wide converged security environment and effectively addressed risk management and security across the organization worldwide. He has also worked with academic and professional communities as well as government groups to enhance their awareness of comprehensive security models. He has been in the IT industry since 1984 with experience in various areas. Bahl is and has been a member of various security committees at national and international level.

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Spencer Lichtenstein

Product Marketing Manager, RSA

Spencer is a Product Marketing Manager for the RSA NetWitness Platform at RSA. He works on all components of the RSA NetWitness Platform planning product launches, go-to-market strategy, pricing, packaging, and market research. Spencer previously worked as a Sr. Solutions Principal for RSA NetWitness Platform and the Cyber and Risk Practices at RSA scoping global services deployments and architecture for the product. Before RSA, Spencer was a Sr Director of Technology at Onyx Security where he designed, built, and marketed MSSP offerings for clients and has also held roles as a Risk Manager with Cisco Systems and Director of Consulting for a cyber consulting practice. Spencer began his career in cybersecurity working on offensive national security issues for the U.S Intelligence Community. Spencer holds a Master of Science from Georgetown University and a Bachelor of Arts from American University.

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Chris Thomas

Advisory Consultant - Incident Response Advanced Cyber Defence Services, RSA

Chris Thomas is an Advisory Practice Consultant for the NetWitness Incident Response Practice at RSA, with over 20 years of experience in the IT Security industry. In this capacity, Chris is responsible for delivering holistic incident response services using state of the art host and network-based tools. Using these tools, combined with advanced methodologies, Chris can assist clients to obtain situational awareness and rapidly identify threats as part of the tactical response to intrusions involving sophisticated adversaries that target intellectual property and other critically sensitive data.

Prior to joining the Incident Response Practice, Chris was an Advisory Systems Engineer for the RSA NetWitness Platform for users across APJ. This role's responsibilities included Leadership and drive of RSA's Threat Detection and Response solutions from a technical perspective by working across sales and professional services teams to ensure customer success, collaborate with the global Advisory team and product management to drive RSA product and solution direction, mentor junior presales consultants and take a leadership role within the global Presales team.

Prior to joining RSA in 2011, Chris was a Principal Consultant for CA Technologies (Computer Associates) with experience across many areas of IT Security including Network Forensics, Audit Log Analysis, Identity Management, Antivirus, Intrusion Detection, and Gateway Security. His 12 years at CA included roles covering presales, solution architecture, and implementation work. Chris has been part of the analyst team for the Black Hat Asia Network Operations Centre (NOC) supporting the Black Hat Asia conference in Singapore, and has also set-up and managed the Security Operations Centre (SOC) for RSA Conference APJ in Singapore for 2017 - 2019. Chris has presented at several industry conferences including Black Hat Asia and RSA Conference APJ, as well as developing and running "Capture the Packet" training exercises for internal and customer training purposes.

Chris attended the University of Sydney where he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

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Jeff Edwards

Evangelist, Progress

Jeff Edwards is a tech writer, analyst, and evangelist for Progress Software covering all things, IT, SysOps, and Networking.

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Spencer Lichtenstein

Product Marketing Manager, RSA

Spencer is a Product Marketing Manager for the RSA NetWitness Platform at RSA. He works on all components of the RSA NetWitness Platform planning product launches, go-to-market strategy, pricing, packaging, and market research. Spencer previously worked as a Sr. Solutions Principal for RSA NetWitness Platform and the Cyber and Risk Practices at RSA scoping global services deployments and architecture for the product. Before RSA, Spencer was a Sr Director of Technology at Onyx Security where he designed, built, and marketed MSSP offerings for clients and has also held roles as a Risk Manager with Cisco Systems and Director of Consulting for a cyber consulting practice. Spencer began his career in cybersecurity working on offensive national security issues for the U.S Intelligence Community. Spencer holds a Master of Science from Georgetown University and a Bachelor of Arts from American University.

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Chris Thomas

Advisory Consultant - Incident Response Advanced Cyber Defence Services, RSA

Chris Thomas is an Advisory Practice Consultant for the NetWitness Incident Response Practice at RSA, with over 20 years of experience in the IT Security industry. In this capacity, Chris is responsible for delivering holistic incident response services using state of the art host and network-based tools. Using these tools, combined with advanced methodologies, Chris can assist clients to obtain situational awareness and rapidly identify threats as part of the tactical response to intrusions involving sophisticated adversaries that target intellectual property and other critically sensitive data.

Prior to joining the Incident Response Practice, Chris was an Advisory Systems Engineer for the RSA NetWitness Platform for users across APJ. This role's responsibilities included Leadership and drive of RSA's Threat Detection and Response solutions from a technical perspective by working across sales and professional services teams to ensure customer success, collaborate with the global Advisory team and product management to drive RSA product and solution direction, mentor junior presales consultants and take a leadership role within the global Presales team.

Prior to joining RSA in 2011, Chris was a Principal Consultant for CA Technologies (Computer Associates) with experience across many areas of IT Security including Network Forensics, Audit Log Analysis, Identity Management, Antivirus, Intrusion Detection, and Gateway Security. His 12 years at CA included roles covering presales, solution architecture, and implementation work. Chris has been part of the analyst team for the Black Hat Asia Network Operations Centre (NOC) supporting the Black Hat Asia conference in Singapore, and has also set-up and managed the Security Operations Centre (SOC) for RSA Conference APJ in Singapore for 2017 - 2019. Chris has presented at several industry conferences including Black Hat Asia and RSA Conference APJ, as well as developing and running "Capture the Packet" training exercises for internal and customer training purposes.

Chris attended the University of Sydney where he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

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Matthew Rose

Director of Application Security Strategy

Matt has over 18 years of software development, sales engineering management and consulting experience. During this time, Matt has helped some of the largest organizations in the world in a variety of industries, regions, and technical environments implement secure software development life cycles utilizing static analysis. Matt's extensive background in application security, object-oriented programming, multi-tier architecture design/implementation, and internet/intranet development has been key to many speaking engagements for organizations like OWASP, ISSA, and ISACA.

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Spencer Lichtenstein

Product Marketing Manager, RSA

Spencer is a Product Marketing Manager for the RSA NetWitness Platform at RSA. He works on all components of the RSA NetWitness Platform planning product launches, go-to-market strategy, pricing, packaging, and market research. Spencer previously worked as a Sr. Solutions Principal for RSA NetWitness Platform and the Cyber and Risk Practices at RSA scoping global services deployments and architecture for the product. Before RSA, Spencer was a Sr Director of Technology at Onyx Security where he designed, built, and marketed MSSP offerings for clients and has also held roles as a Risk Manager with Cisco Systems and Director of Consulting for a cyber consulting practice. Spencer began his career in cybersecurity working on offensive national security issues for the U.S Intelligence Community. Spencer holds a Master of Science from Georgetown University and a Bachelor of Arts from American University.

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Chris Thomas

Advisory Consultant - Incident Response Advanced Cyber Defence Services, RSA

Chris Thomas is an Advisory Practice Consultant for the NetWitness Incident Response Practice at RSA, with over 20 years of experience in the IT Security industry. In this capacity, Chris is responsible for delivering holistic incident response services using state of the art host and network-based tools. Using these tools, combined with advanced methodologies, Chris can assist clients to obtain situational awareness and rapidly identify threats as part of the tactical response to intrusions involving sophisticated adversaries that target intellectual property and other critically sensitive data.

Prior to joining the Incident Response Practice, Chris was an Advisory Systems Engineer for the RSA NetWitness Platform for users across APJ. This role's responsibilities included Leadership and drive of RSA's Threat Detection and Response solutions from a technical perspective by working across sales and professional services teams to ensure customer success, collaborate with the global Advisory team and product management to drive RSA product and solution direction, mentor junior presales consultants and take a leadership role within the global Presales team.

Prior to joining RSA in 2011, Chris was a Principal Consultant for CA Technologies (Computer Associates) with experience across many areas of IT Security including Network Forensics, Audit Log Analysis, Identity Management, Antivirus, Intrusion Detection, and Gateway Security. His 12 years at CA included roles covering presales, solution architecture, and implementation work. Chris has been part of the analyst team for the Black Hat Asia Network Operations Centre (NOC) supporting the Black Hat Asia conference in Singapore, and has also set-up and managed the Security Operations Centre (SOC) for RSA Conference APJ in Singapore for 2017 - 2019. Chris has presented at several industry conferences including Black Hat Asia and RSA Conference APJ, as well as developing and running "Capture the Packet" training exercises for internal and customer training purposes.

Chris attended the University of Sydney where he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

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Jamie French

Director of Strategy & Portfolio, Unisys

Jamie French, Director of Strategy and Portfolio for Unisys Security Solutions is a seasoned information security leader and practitioner with over 25 years' experience. Throughout his career, Jamie has worked with every major market vertical globally holding a variety of roles focused in the realm of security ranging from SOC Analyst, Solution Architect, Technical Pre-Sales, Standards and Enablement, Research and Development, Product and Solution Management, Risk/Technical/Strategic Consulting , IT Security Auditor, Advisory Board Member, Strategist, Practitioner, Educator, Mentor, and Leader.

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Clifford Shier

Managing Principal, Unisys

Over 25 years of Clifford Shier's career have been in IT Leadership roles (CIO/CISO/CTO).   Mr. Shier has extensive experience in collaborative partnering to deliver sustainable results for market leading Fortune and Critical Infrastructure companies in both the Private and Public Sector.  He has led numerous business transformation and high growth initiatives resulting in significant measurable gains in performance, profitability and competitiveness.  As Trusted Executive Advisor and IT/Business Strategist to Unisys clients globally, Mr. Shier brings expertise to deliver on the promise of sustainable and secure Digital Transformation.

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Matthew Rose

Director of Application Security Strategy

Matt has over 18 years of software development, sales engineering management and consulting experience. During this time, Matt has helped some of the largest organizations in the world in a variety of industries, regions, and technical environments implement secure software development life cycles utilizing static analysis. Matt's extensive background in application security, object-oriented programming, multi-tier architecture design/implementation, and internet/intranet development has been key to many speaking engagements for organizations like OWASP, ISSA, and ISACA.

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