Wade Baker

Partner & Co-Founder, Cyentia Institute

In addition to his role with the Cyentia Institute, Wade is a professor in Virginia Tech's College of Business, teaching in the MBA and Master of IT programs. He's also proud to serve on the Advisory Boards of the RSA Conference and FAIR Institute. Wade loves learning from cybersecurity data and sharing those lessons to help others learn as well - whether that's in the classroom, boardroom, or anywhere in between. Prior to founding Cyentia, Wade was the VP of Strategy and Analytics at ThreatConnect and before that had the great fortune of leading Verizon's Data Breach Investigations Report team for a number of years.

Wendy Nather

Head of Advisory CISOs, Cisco

Wendy Nather is Head of Advisory CISOs at Duo Security, now part of Cisco. Previously, she was Research Director at the Retail ISAC, where she was responsible for advancing the state of resources and knowledge to help organizations defend their infrastructure from attackers. Wendy was also Research Director of the Information Security Practice at independent analyst firm 451 Research, covering the security industry in areas such as application security, threat intelligence, security services, and other emerging technologies. Wendy has served as a CISO in both the private and public sectors. She led IT security for the EMEA region of the investment banking division of Swiss Bank Corporation (now UBS), as well as for the Texas Education Agency. She speaks regularly in locations around the world on topics ranging from threat intelligence to identity and access management, risk analysis, incident response, data security, and societal and privacy issues. Wendy is co-author of The Cloud Security Rules, and was listed as one of SC Magazine's Reboot Leadership "Influencers" in 2018 and Women in IT Security "Power Players" in 2014. She is an advisory board member for the RSA Conference and Sightline Security, a nonprofit which is helping other nonprofits improve their cybersecurity.

Sounil Yu

Former Chief Security Scientist, Bank of America

Sounil Yu is a security innovator with 30+ years of hands-on experience creating, breaking, and fixing computer and network systems. He is the creator of the Cyber Defense Matrix and the DIE Resiliency Framework, serves on the Board of the FAIR Institute, teaches Cybersecurity Technologies as an adjunct professor, co-chairs Art into Science: A Conference on Defense, and advises many security startups.

He previously served as the Chief Security Scientist at Bank of America, leading a cross-functional team focused on driving innovation and a thriving startup culture to meet emerging cybersecurity needs, to serve as a challenge function, and to be a change agent driving unconventional thinking and alternative approaches to hard problems in security. Before BofA, he helped improve security at several institutions spanning from F100 companies to secretive three letter agencies. He also created and led a nationally recognized intern program with over 300+ students to build new capabilities and tackle tough challenges in cybersecurity.

He has 22 granted patents covering a wide range of topics, including threat modeling, graph databases, intrusion deception, endpoint security monitoring, tracking media leaks, attributing malicious requests, attributing devices to organizations, detecting logic bombs, security portfolio optimization, and neutralizing stolen files. In addition to CISSP and GSEC certifications, Sounil holds a master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech and bachelor's degrees in Electrical Engineering and Economics from Duke University.