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Anubhav Arora

VP, Security Engineering, Cradlepoint

Anubhav recently joined Cradlepoint to lead the development of security products and services in the Wireless WAN product line. Anubhav holds PhD and MS degrees from University of Maryland at College Park (UMCP) in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and BTech degree from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur India in Electrical Engineering. Anubhav has more than two decades of experience in networking and cybersecurity industries in various technical leadership roles at Fidelis Cybersecurity, Lucent Technologies and Tellabs. Before joining Cradlepoint he was the CTO of Fidelis Cybersecurity that is known for its industry leading network, endpoint and cloud detection and response products. He led the R&D product, system architecture design, and threat research groups as well as the broader technology strategy for the company. He was the inventor of Fidelis’ patented network traffic metadata collection and analysis product.

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Anubhav Arora

VP, Security Engineering, Cradlepoint

Anubhav recently joined Cradlepoint to lead the development of security products and services in the Wireless WAN product line. Anubhav holds PhD and MS degrees from University of Maryland at College Park (UMCP) in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and BTech degree from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur India in Electrical Engineering. Anubhav has more than two decades of experience in networking and cybersecurity industries in various technical leadership roles at Fidelis Cybersecurity, Lucent Technologies and Tellabs. Before joining Cradlepoint he was the CTO of Fidelis Cybersecurity that is known for its industry leading network, endpoint and cloud detection and response products. He led the R&D product, system architecture design, and threat research groups as well as the broader technology strategy for the company. He was the inventor of Fidelis’ patented network traffic metadata collection and analysis product.

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Soh Kiat Hiong

Head of Sales Engineering, Rubrik Asia

Soh is the Head of Sales Engineering for Rubrik Asia region, helping data forward organisations to transform their data management platforms for cyber resiliency. Soh has more than 20 years of data protection management & data storage experience in the IT industry and has been involved in many large enterprise scale data protection and cyber resiliency projects across different industries.

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Sudarsan Kannan

Director of Product Management, Uptycs

Sudarsan Kannan is passionate about building and evangelizing cloud native security solutions for multi-cloud environments. He has held several key leadership roles at RSA Security & Symantec spanning across Engineering, Product Management & Program Management. He is a well-known security industry thought leader collaborating with NIST’s National CyberSecurity Center for Excellence (NcCOE) and an accomplished industry speaker. Sudarsan holds BS in electrical and computer engineering and an MBA with honors from Babson College.

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Andre Rall

Director of Cloud Security, Uptycs

Andre is a long-time cloud-computing and security aficionado, specifically focusing on the threat actor’s vantage point. Prior to Uptycs, Andre spent five years at AWS, and in his most recent role had dual responsibilities: 1) Oversaw a global team responsible for ATO detection & mitigation within AWS Fraud Prevention, 2) oversaw a global team responsible for the business intelligence strategy for all of AWS Fraud Prevention. Prior to AWS Andre spent seven years at Rackspace, with his final role being Director of AWS Technical Support & Operations which provided DevOps services for customers.

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Robert Farnod

Security Specialist Advisor, Splunk

Rob Farnod, Splunk Security Specialist Security is a CISO/SOC strategy advisor for EMEA, supporting the maturity journey of hundreds of SOCs. Rob has nine years experience in Financial Service Cyber Security roles, and was previously a customer of Splunk!

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Joseph Brunsman

Founder, Brunsman Advisory Group

Joseph joined the cyber and professionally liability realm in 2015 after serving as a Lieutenant in the United States Navy, working as an Anti-Terrorism / Force Protection Officer responsible for a billion dollars of equipment and 280+ military personnel. Prior to that he served tours as a Combat Information Center Officer and an Electronic Warfare Officer. During his enlisted time he was an Information Systems Technician dealing with Unix database management and network security. Joseph is a 2003 graduate of New Mexico Military Institute and a 2010 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD where he obtained a degree in Systems Engineering with a focus on robotics system interoperability. He is the resident expert in cyber law, insurance and compliance—writing 2 consecutive books on the subject. He enjoys Jiu Jitsu, powerlifting, business theory, and biohacking.

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James Slaby

Director of Cyber Protection, Acronis

James R. Slaby is the Director of Cyber Protection at Acronis, where he evangelizes cybersecurity and data protection solutions for business. Previously, Slaby was an industry analyst covering cybersecurity, cloud computing and networking at Forrester Research, HFS Research, Yankee Group and The Info Pro. With over 300 published tech research reports, he has been quoted in The Economist, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Times, and countless tech publications. Slaby has also held solutions, vertical, product and campaign marketing roles at tech security and networking vendors including Sonus, Acme Packet, Bay Networks and Motorola.

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Dave Sobel

Host, The Business of Tech Podcast

Dave is the host of the Business of Tech podcast, and owner of MSP Radio. The Business of Tech” is a leading IT services focused news and analysis podcast and YouTube show, with thousands of listeners and subscribers. He also co-hosts of the podcast “Killing IT,” and authored the book Virtualization: Defined. He was a CRN Channel Chief, on the CRN UK A-List, a Channel Futures Circle of Excellence winner, and one of Channel Pro’s 20/20 Visionaries. Dave has been recognized as one of the top virtualization experts globally as a Microsoft MVP for Virtualization. Dave holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary. He lives just outside Washington DC with his wife and two cats. His interests include travel and food, cheering the Washington Nationals and Capitals, smoking barbeque, enjoying craft beers, and collecting and playing retro and modern video games among others.

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Richard Stiennon

Chief Research Analyst

Richard Stiennon is an industry analyst and adviser to many security companies from startups to the very largest. He has been writing and speaking about cyber security since 1995. Richard has 26 years experience in the industry, from pioneering MSSP Netrex (now part of IBM), to Gartner to Fortinet. He is the author of seven books, and publisher of Security Yearbook 2021. He has presented in 31 countries on six continents. Stiennon has a BS in aerospace engineering and an MA in War in the Modern World, from King’s College, London.

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Greg Crabb

Founder of 10-8, LLC

Greg Crabb is the founder of 10-8, LLC. With more than 25 years of law enforcement and security experience, he specializes in providing consultation to cybersecurity leaders and organizations to help protect their digital assets against evolving cyberthreats. Greg focuses specifically on delivering advisory services to C-suite executives, their boards, and other leaders responsible for securing their organization’s operations, products, and services. For six years as the U.S. Postal Service’s chief information security officer, Greg secured the agency’s technology and information assets against nation-state threat actors. These efforts helped protect military mail globally and the unprecedented 2020 U.S. elections. With his successful track record as a cybersecurity executive and law enforcement official, Greg stands ready to apply proven models and his vast experience to help organizations strengthen their cybersecurity posture, obtain security certifications and achieve ongoing success.

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Chris Hawley

Director of Identity and Access Management, Corporate Security and Infrastructure Office, Unisys

Chris Hawley is the Director of Identity and Access Management in the Corporate Security and Infrastructure Office at Unisys. Chris joined Unisys in 2002 and is responsible for the overall strategy and delivery of the Unisys certificate infrastructure (PKI), Identity and Access Management and provisioning, and Multi-Factor Authentication solutions.

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Matthew Ulery

Chief Product Officer, SecureAuth

Matthew Ulery is the chief product officer at SecureAuth. With more than 20 years of experience delivering enterprise security, compliance and critical infrastructure software, Ulery leads the company’s overall product strategy and management. He works closely with the product, engineering and research teams to drive innovation in the SecureAuth Identity Platform. Prior to SecureAuth, Ulery was global vice president of product management at Micro Focus, responsible for the company’s IAM and Security Operations Solutions. Prior to Micro Focus, Ulery held senior product management and engineering roles at Symantec, NetIQ, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, and Telvent. He started his career at Lockheed as a systems engineer working on Space Station Freedom, before focusing on enterprise software. During Ulery’s extensive career, he was responsible for managing a portfolio of security solutions including access management, IGA, privileged access management, security operations and Active Directory management. Matthew earned a bachelor’s degree from Texas A&M University and an MBA from The University of Texas at Austin. He currently resides in Houston with his wife and children.

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Zane Sanderson

BigFix Technical Advisor / Guru and Certified Architect

Zane is a BigFix Technical Advisor / Guru and Certified Architect. He cut his teeth in IT doing Application Packaging and Software Distribution before focusing on Systems Management. Zane is part of BigFix's Innovation team, specialising in Containerization, and Mobile Device Management.

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Gagan Sugandh

Senior PreSales Engineer,Tenable

Gagan for the last 17 years has played multiple Information Security roles including building and running Security Operations Centre both in the managed mode as well as Captive and Remote SOC mode. Over the last few years Gagan has changed gears into Architecting solutions around RSA , IBM and Splunk based solutions as PreSales engineer for the respective OEMs. In his latest role as Senior PreSales Engineer for the Exposure Management Company Tenable, Gagan is helping customers to build a security eco-system that includes Vulnerability Management as one of its core foundation.

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Zane Sanderson

BigFix Technical Advisor / Guru and Certified Architect

Zane is a BigFix Technical Advisor / Guru and Certified Architect. He cut his teeth in IT doing Application Packaging and Software Distribution before focusing on Systems Management. Zane is part of BigFix's Innovation team, specialising in Containerization, and Mobile Device Management.

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Gagan Sugandh

Senior PreSales Engineer,Tenable

Gagan for the last 17 years has played multiple Information Security roles including building and running Security Operations Centre both in the managed mode as well as Captive and Remote SOC mode. Over the last few years Gagan has changed gears into Architecting solutions around RSA , IBM and Splunk based solutions as PreSales engineer for the respective OEMs. In his latest role as Senior PreSales Engineer for the Exposure Management Company Tenable, Gagan is helping customers to build a security eco-system that includes Vulnerability Management as one of its core foundation.

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Larry Weber

Vice President of Product Marketing

Larry Weber is a Vice President of Product Marketing at Veracode. He is responsible for leading the overall product & industry marketing, market insights, and developer relations teams.

Larry has multiple years of experience in cloud strategy, user experience and analytics. Prior to joining Veracode, he built and led the marketing team for the AWS Databases category and was responsible for thought leadership, awareness, adoption, engagement, and advocacy for AWS’s 15+ purpose-built managed database services.

Larry received a Masters of Computer Science from North Carolina State University and an MBA from a UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School.

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Chris Wysopal

Chief Technology Officer

Chris Wysopal is Chief Technology Officer at Veracode. He oversees technology strategy and information security. Prior to co-founding Veracode in 2006, Chris was vice president of research and development at security consultancy @stake, which was acquired by Symantec.

In the 1990’s, Chris was one of the original vulnerability researchers at The L0pht, a hacker think tank, where he was one of the first to publicize the risks of insecure software. He has testified to the US Congress on the subjects of government security and how vulnerabilities are discovered in software.

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Murthy Mathiprakasam

Senior Director of Product Marketing, Rubrik

Murthy Mathiprakasam is a Senior Director of Product Marketing for Rubrik's data security and cyber resilience solutions. Murthy has over two decades of experience working with emerging high-growth software technologies, including roles at Mercury Interactive/HP, Google, eBay, VMware, Oracle, Informatica, and Splunk. Murthy holds an MS in management science from Stanford University and double BS degrees in management science and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Murthy Mathiprakasam

Senior Director of Product Marketing, Rubrik

Murthy Mathiprakasam is a Senior Director of Product Marketing for Rubrik's data security and cyber resilience solutions. Murthy has over two decades of experience working with emerging high-growth software technologies, including roles at Mercury Interactive/HP, Google, eBay, VMware, Oracle, Informatica, and Splunk. Murthy holds an MS in management science from Stanford University and double BS degrees in management science and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Roger Grimes

Data-Driven Defense Evangelist, KnowBe4

Roger Grimes, KnowBe4’s Data-Driven Defense Evangelist, is a 30-year computer security consultant, instructor, holder of dozens of computer certifications and an award-winning author of 13 books and over 1,000 magazine articles on computer security. He now serves as the Data-Driven Defense Evangelist for KnowBe4. He has worked at some of the world’s largest computer security companies, including Foundstone, McAfee and Microsoft. Grimes holds a bachelor’s degree from Old Dominion University. He was the weekly security columnist for InfoWorld and CSO magazines from 2005-2019.

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Tonia Dudley

Strategic Advisor, Cofense

Tonia Dudley joined Cofense in 2018 as Director, Security Solution Advisor. In this role, she focuses on phishing defense advocacy while demonstrating how Cofense solutions help organizations across the globe minimize the impact of attacks while reducing the cost of operations. Tonia evangelizes Cofense’s approach to phishing defense and incident response to new and existing customers, prospects, and the information technology market through speaking engagements, publishing platforms and media opportunities. Tonia also advises Cofense product teams on specific customer and market-driven needs to help streamline product roadmaps and create Cofense’s inaugural international customer advisory board. With more than a decade of cybersecurity experience, Tonia has managed programs in cybersecurity incident response, security awareness and IT compliance for large global organizations. Her diverse career includes 14 years in finance roles at a national automotive retail chain, transitioning into IT roles over the next 12 years for a global manufacturing enterprise where she developed an interest in Cybersecurity. In 2011, she began building a robust security awareness program to focus on behavior instead of compliance. She then moved into the Financial Services industry for 3 ½ years to build a security awareness program. While working in the financial services industry, she participated in a working group to assist small firms with implementing a cybersecurity program to protect them. She has spoken at several cybersecurity and industry conferences on building successful security awareness and phishing programs. Her anti-phishing training programs have received three awards. Tonia maintains certifications for Certified Information Systems Security Professional, Certified Information Security Manager and Certified Information Systems Auditor. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Phoenix. She currently serves on the board of the National Cybersecurity Society, helping small businesses understand the growing need for cybersecurity.

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