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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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Mohamad Amin Hasbini

Head of Research Center (META), Kaspersky

Dr. Amin Hasbini joined Kaspersky in 2013 as a Senior Researcher for the Global Research & Analysis Team (GReAT). Dr. Amin now heads that same research center for the META region. He is responsible for Kaspersky's expert positioning, research expansion, and knowledge maturity in four regional offices.

Prior to joining Kaspersky, Amin was a senior consultant at Deloitte & Touche Middle East; and before that a senior security Engineer at DataConsult in Lebanon.

Dr. Hasbini has worked on numerous large-scale defensive infrastructure, industrial and consulting projects for government entities, banks, service providers, Oil & Gas companies, and others. He has also taught security courses in forensics, malware analysis and ethical hacking.

Dr. Amin Hasbini holds a PHD in Smart Cities Information Security from Brunel University (London). He is specialized in wide scale cyber-defense and anti-APT tools and techniques, has a number of publications on advanced malware operations and smart cities security, presented at more than 100 conferences worldwide and has received numerous accolades.

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Ahmad Ashraf

Senior Security Consultant, Kaspersky

Ahmad Ashraf joined Kaspersky in 2014 as a Senior Security Consultant, Ahmad is responsible for technical consultations about evolving cyber threat landscape, Kaspersky enterprise solutions and threat intelligence services.

Prior to joining Kaspersky , Ahmad was a Security Consultant at SecureMisr. Ahmad led infrastructure security assessments and penetration testing projects for government entities, banks and service providers in the Middle East, Africa and the GCC region.

Ahmad holds a bachelor's degree in computer engineering, a professional diploma in cyber security from Information Technology Institute "ITI" , and professional certifications from SANS institute and Cisco like GIAC Certified Incident Handler "GCIH", GIAC Web Application Penetration Tester "GWAPT", GIAC Security Essentials "GSEC" and Cisco Certified Network Associate "CCNA".

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Maher Yamout

Senior Security Researcher, Kaspersky

Maher is a Senior Security Researcher in the Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) at Kaspersky. He supports clients in analyzing cyber risks and helps to expose advanced persistent threats targeting the Middle East, Turkey and Africa. Maher has a background in cyber security, digital forensics & incident response, with 16 years' experience supporting clients across multiple verticals.

Maher holds a degree in Computer Science and is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Intelligence Studies. Maher holds multiple certificates from GIAC, ISC2 and others.

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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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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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Walton Stephens

Third-Party Risk Consultant, OneTrust Vendorpedia

Walton Stephens serves as a Third-Party Risk Consultant for OneTrust Vendorpedia - a purpose-built software designed to operationalize third-party risk management. In his role, Stephens advises companies throughout their third-party risk management implementations to help meet requirements relating to relevant standards, frameworks, and laws (e.g. ISO, NIST, SIG, GDPR and CCPA). Stephens works with clients to centralize their third-party information across business units, assess risks and performance, and monitor threats throughout the entire third-party relationship, from onboarding to offboarding.

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Mark McIntyre

Chief Security Advisor, Microsoft

Mark McIntyre is a Chief Security Advisor in Microsoft's Cybersecurity Solutions Group. Mark works with the US government, NATO, allied governments, and the larger defense contractor ecosystem, helping them transform their missions and businesses while moving securely to the Cloud. Mark supports CISOs and their teams with cybersecurity reviews and helps them understand Microsoft's perspectives on the evolving cyber threat landscape and how Microsoft defends its enterprise, employees and users around the world. Mark is based in Redmond, WA.

Before joining CSG, Mark ran Microsoft's Government Security Program, Microsoft's global trust and transparency initiative for national governments. Mark also previously ran Microsoft's Security Cooperation Program, and the Child Exploitation Tracking System (CETS) initiative, through which Microsoft partnered with international law enforcement agencies to combat the online sexual exploitation of children.

Mark joined Microsoft in June, 2007, after 11 years in the US government working on information assurance, counterterrorism and regional security issues. Mark has an MA from the University of Washington, a BA from the University of Wisconsin, and a certificate in Korean language from Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. He also holds CISSP and CCSP designations from ICS2.

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Sudhir Mehta

Global Vice President for Product Management and Strategy, Unisys

Sudhir Mehta is the Global Vice President for Product Management and Strategy wherein he leads and executes our strategies across products and applications, partnering with Technology product owners, Enterprise Solutions and Unisys Federal to achieve our defined business outcomes.

Sudhir is an accomplished leader with deep global experience in product management, managed security services, infrastructure transformation, SaaS and public cloud (including Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud Platform). Most recently he was responsible for Symantec's Cloud Strategy with SaaS Products and Partner Integrations, leading the acceleration of Symantec's Security SaaS solutions. At Symantec he also directed product management for Global Systems Integrators and Norton products.

Prior to Symantec, Sudhir held several leadership roles with HP and Nokia in which he managed product P&L, drove large services businesses, established partner programs and mentored and grew teams.

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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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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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Stephane Estevez

EMEA Product Marketing Director, IT Markets, Splunk

IT Operation Evangelist, Stéphane Estevez has over 20 years of product marketing experience in IT, across companies ranging from large multinationals to internet start-ups. Before joining Splunk, he was Backup & Disaster Recovery Product Marketing Manager at Quantum. Prior to this, he was EMEA Product Marketing Manager at NTT, a leading IT services and hosting company. In this role, he was responsible for launching and managing NTT Virtualization and Cloud offerings. Stéphane holds a Master's degree in Marketing and an MBA from ESG, one of the largest business schools in Paris.

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Anand Guruprasad

Solutions Engineer, Team Lead, APAC, Cloudflare

Anand is part of the APAC Solutions Engineering team that helps businesses solve their cloud performance and security problems. As the APAC subject matter expert for the Cloudflare Bot Management solution, he's responsible for leading the product and delivering custom solutions for the region. He spends a large chunk of his time trying to help businesses discover and mitigate intelligent, malicious bots harming revenue through outages, lost brand value and manpower fighting these bots. Apart from security, he's also passionate about advocating the importance of performance and security for SaaS business.

Before joining Cloudflare, Anand worked in the web performance and monitoring industry. He was responsible for delivering the message of the importance of performance and its impact on business revenue across the APAC region. With the proliferation of mobile devices and cheaper mobile data across the emerging markets, his message of performance optimisations for optimal mobile user experience helped businesses improve their web assets performance and availability, and in turn, driving their revenue.

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JP Cavanna

Industry Director & Lead Cyber Security Strategist and Evangelist, UK and EMEA, Unisys

JP Cavanna is a passionate cyber security leader with a career that spans 17 years. He is currently an Industry Director and lead cyber security strategist and evangelist for the UK and EMEA at Unisys.

JP started his career in cyber security in digital forensics with the Metropolitan Police Special Branch in London, before moving to the private sector in 2009. Since then he has held several director positions building and managing cyber professional services businesses in large UK and global organisations across a diverse range of industry sectors. Consequently, he has deep experience in helping clients to create resilient security environments.

Prior to joining Unisys, JP was responsible for building a global client-facing cyber security business for Lloyd's Register (LR) from scratch. Having built the capability he focussed on raising LR's cyber profile in the shipping and energy markets through presentations at conferences, public symposia as well as media interviews and participation in specialist panels.

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Rob Krug

Sr Security Architect

Rob Krug has been in the network engineering and security space for 30 years and is currently a Senior Security Architect for Avast. His background includes extensive work with telecommunications, network design and management, and most importantly network security. Specializing in security vulnerabilities his background includes extensive training and experience in cryptography, ethical hacking, and reverse engineering of malware.

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Spencer Lichtenstein

Product & Go-to-Market Strategist, 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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