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Bill Bernard

Senior Director of Solutions Architecture at deepwatch

Bill Bernard, CISSP, is a cybersecurity expert serving as Senior Director of Solutions Architecture at deepwatch. According to Bill, he is a “a career information security professional who has learned through hard won experience that the engineer's ‘right answer’ isn't always the ‘right answer’ for the business.” Bringing 20 years of experience to his security role at deepwatch, Bill approaches information security as a necessity for all companies, but understanding that one size does not fit all. With a "top down" focus on information security any company can implement a security program appropriate to it's needs.

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Jerry Chapman

Engineering Fellow IAM, Optiv Security

Jerry Chapman has been with Optiv Security for more than 15 years, developing and delivering Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions. With over 18 years in identity, he has been successfully enabling clients in designing and implementing an IAM strategy that aligns with both their security and business objectives. His role also includes architecture, engineering, and software development, architecture and support. Chapman supports other cybersecurity practices and experts in positioning identity and data as core components within their enterprise security infrastructure. He also is a key spokesperson for Optiv’s Zero Trust strategy and speaks at industry events.

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Tom Field

Senior Vice President, Editorial, ISMG

Field is responsible for all of ISMG's 28 global media properties and its team of journalists. He also helped to develop and lead ISMG's award-winning summit series that has brought together security practitioners and industry influencers from around the world, as well as ISMG's series of exclusive executive roundtables.

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Paul Kaspian

Principal Product Manager, Palo Alto Networks

Paul Kaspian is a Principal Product Marketing Manager for Palo Alto Networks, specializing in Zero Trust and how this modern security methodology can help organizations secure their digital transformation. He brings close to 20 years of experience in product management and product marketing where prior to joining Palo Alto Networks, he held strategic positions at Aruba Networks, IBM Security, Watchfire, and Checkpoint Software Technologies.

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Nicholas Consolo

Product Marketing Manager, Cisco

Nicholas Consolo is a product marketing manager for Umbrella DNS security at Cisco. With over five years of experience in Cloud and Networking security, he loves inspiring others to bring security to the forefront of business decisions. Consolo understands IT and security teams are overwhelmed and is passionate about helping them take the next step in revolutionizing the way they do security.

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Prashant Pai

SVP and GM of Strategic Initiatives, SecurityScorecard

Prashant is the SVP and GM of Strategic Initiatives at SecurityScorecard. He has experience in building and growing organizations. Previously, Prashant has demonstrated leadership and excellence in building risk consulting into a multi-million dollar business.

Prashant brings varied quantitative and qualitative risk management background spanning market, credit, operational, and cybersecurity risk. He has hands-on experience developing risk management systems as well as positioning these systems to senior management within financial institutions for wider adoption.

In his current role, Prashant is actively working to help shape a cyber risk market, where an enterprise can measure and manage cyber risk both qualitatively and quantitatively and both parties to a cyber risk transfer transaction have transparency of data and insights.

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Chris Hickman

Chief Security Officer, Keyfactor

Chris Hickman is the chief security officer at Keyfactor. As a member of the senior management team, Chris is responsible for establishing & maintaining Keyfactor’s leadership position as a world-class, technical organization with deep security industry expertise. He leads client success initiatives and helps integrate the voice of the customer directly into Keyfactor’s platform and capability set.

Prior to joining Keyfactor, Chris was Director of Technical Services at Alacris, an Ottawa based smartcard and certificate management company, which was sold to Microsoft and is now part of the Microsoft Identity Manager product suite. Chris has worked on PKI projects for organizations and firms including NATO, both the U.S. and Canadian Departments of Defense, Fortune 100 banks and financial institutions, manufacturers, insurance companies, telecommunication providers and retailers. He continues to be a trusted resource for enterprises looking to leverage digital certificates within existing portfolios and new product development.

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Mark Nunnikhoven

Resident Cloud Strategist at Lacework

Mark Nunnikhoven explores the impact of technology on individuals, organizations, and communities through the lens of privacy and security. Asking the question, “How can we ensure that our technology does what we expect, and only what we expect?” Mark helps organizations around the world navigate their cloud transformations while managing the risks of our digital world. As a Distinguished Cloud Strategist at Lacework and security platform for the AWS Cloud, Mark helps teams modernize their security practices. With a strong focus on automation, he helps bridge the gap between DevOps and traditional security.

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Chris Hickman

Chief Security Officer, Keyfactor

Chris Hickman is the chief security officer at Keyfactor. As a member of the senior management team, Chris is responsible for establishing & maintaining Keyfactor’s leadership position as a world-class, technical organization with deep security industry expertise. He leads client success initiatives and helps integrate the voice of the customer directly into Keyfactor’s platform and capability set.

Prior to joining Keyfactor, Chris was Director of Technical Services at Alacris, an Ottawa based smartcard and certificate management company, which was sold to Microsoft and is now part of the Microsoft Identity Manager product suite. Chris has worked on PKI projects for organizations and firms including NATO, both the U.S. and Canadian Departments of Defense, Fortune 100 banks and financial institutions, manufacturers, insurance companies, telecommunication providers and retailers. He continues to be a trusted resource for enterprises looking to leverage digital certificates within existing portfolios and new product development.

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Chad McDonald

CISO & CIO, Radiant Logic

Chad brings more than 20 years’ experience building and managing information security programs. Chad has leveraged his security leadership to dozens of organizations across the technology, education and medical sectors. Prior to Radiant Logic, Chad defined security and technical integrations of 5 acquisitions and attained FedRAMP-in-Process status for Digital.ai. While serving as the Executive Director of the Office of the CISO at Optiv, he defined the security strategy for a $70 billion dollar merger between two technology giants. Chad holds a bachelor’s degree in information technology from Southern Polytechnic State University, as well as multiple certifications including CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional), CISA (Certified Information Systems Auditor) and PMP (Project Management Professional).

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Nir Moatty

Global Head of Solution Consulting at Outseer An RSA Company

Nir has had a distinguished 20-year career building high performing teams that deliver innovative market leading solutions. With experience spanning multiple industries, his passion to fight fraud led him to Outseer as an RSA Business.

At Outseer he has led a series of strategic engineering programs, building his technical acumen and ultimately bringing that expertise to the companies go-to-market efforts. Today, Nir leads a global organization dedicated to transforming how Outseer collaborates with customers and partners to solve the most difficult emerging fraud challenges.

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Sameer Prabhudesai

Director Engineering, Cisco

With over two decades of industry experience, Sameer Prabhudesai is an accomplished Leader who is passionate about Technology and the positive impact it has on our communities. He has led large Engineering organizations driving a strong vision to address multi-billion dollar opportunities. He is currently based out of Bangalore and leads the Cisco Engineering charter for Firewalls – across Physical platforms, Cloud migration and Snort IDS/IPS.

Sameer brings an impeccable focus on engineering excellence to produce exceptional results. His hallmark has been creating a team culture that drives innovation to support Customer’s transformation journey. In his previous role at Cisco, he led the Data Center Switching & Controller Infra teams, which was a part of $5 Billion Nexus franchise. Prior to Cisco he has worked at Ericsson leading their IP & Cloud Technology incubation team, Broadcom Inc. leading the 4G/LTE Modem program and so on.

Sameer has an Engineering degree followed by an MBA. Outside of work he volunteers time for Public school education and Community Service. He is passionate about mentoring early stage start-ups and an active member of the Cybersecurity community.

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Sameer Prabhudesai

Director Engineering, Cisco

With over two decades of industry experience, Sameer Prabhudesai is an accomplished Leader who is passionate about Technology and the positive impact it has on our communities. He has led large Engineering organizations driving a strong vision to address multi-billion dollar opportunities. He is currently based out of Bangalore and leads the Cisco Engineering charter for Firewalls – across Physical platforms, Cloud migration and Snort IDS/IPS.

Sameer brings an impeccable focus on engineering excellence to produce exceptional results. His hallmark has been creating a team culture that drives innovation to support Customer’s transformation journey. In his previous role at Cisco, he led the Data Center Switching & Controller Infra teams, which was a part of $5 Billion Nexus franchise. Prior to Cisco he has worked at Ericsson leading their IP & Cloud Technology incubation team, Broadcom Inc. leading the 4G/LTE Modem program and so on.

Sameer has an Engineering degree followed by an MBA. Outside of work he volunteers time for Public school education and Community Service. He is passionate about mentoring early stage start-ups and an active member of the Cybersecurity community.

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Dr Tom Winston

Director of Intelligence, Dragos Inc

Dr Tom Winston is a Cyber Security subject matter expert focused on threats to critical infrastructure (ICS/SCADA) systems, as well as foreign cyber threat intelligence and threat analysis. Tom has extensive public and private sector experience in IT/OT threat environments to include hunting, detection engineering and reverse engineering. Tom has extensive experience in mobile devices, removable/fixed media digital forensics. Tom is also a seasoned manager of people, technology, projects, and programs. Multilingual, and with extensive experience in international relations, intelligence, and foreign policy analysis.

Formerly, a highly sought after and award-winning professor Dr Winston was an undergraduate and graduate student advocate and champion; student success is critical - not just in school, but after graduation as well. He built cyber security engineers one student at a time and continues to assist them even well past their graduation by providing career and other professional guidance.

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Ed Thomas

Senior Vice President of Marketing and Sales Operations, ProcessUnity

Ed Thomas leads ProcessUnity's marketing team and is responsible for the company's awareness, demand generation and thought-leadership programs. In his marketing and sales operations roles at ProcessUnity, Cura Software Solutions and OpenPages (now IBM), Ed has helped hundreds of organizations streamline their risk and compliance programs using next-generation automation tools.

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Ed Thomas

Senior Vice President of Marketing and Sales Operations, ProcessUnity

Ed Thomas leads ProcessUnity's marketing team and is responsible for the company's awareness, demand generation and thought-leadership programs. In his marketing and sales operations roles at ProcessUnity, Cura Software Solutions and OpenPages (now IBM), Ed has helped hundreds of organizations streamline their risk and compliance programs using next-generation automation tools.

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