Full Name
Andres Andreu
Job Title
SVP & CISO
Company
2U
Andres Andreu
Full Name
Mike Britton
Job Title
CISO
Company
Abnormal Security
Speaker Bio
Mike Britton is the CISO of Abnormal Security, an email security company that uses behavioral AI to prevent business email compromise, supply chain fraud, and other socially-engineered attacks. At Abnormal, he leads the information security and privacy programs, where he is integral in building and maintaining the customer trust program, performing vendor risk analysis, and protecting the workforce with proactive monitoring of the multi-cloud infrastructure. He also works closely with the Abnormal product and engineering teams to ensure platform security and serves as the voice of the customer for feature development. Prior to Abnormal, Mike spent six years as the CSO and Chief Privacy Officer for Alliance Data and previously worked for IBM and VF Corporation. He brings 25 years of information security, privacy, compliance, and IT experience from multiple Fortune 500 global companies.
Mike Britton
Full Name
Catherine Castaldo
Job Title
Partner
Company
Reed Smith LLP
Catherine Castaldo
Full Name
Tim Chase
Job Title
Field CISO
Company
Lacework
Speaker Bio
Tim Chase has been working in information security for over 15 years in many different roles, including leading security teams that focus on Cloud and AppSec. Over the last few years, he has been focusing his efforts on DevSecOps and the intersection of AppSec, DevOps, and Cloud. He has presented at multiple conferences on this topic, including RSA and ISSA InfoSec. In addition, he is a LinkedIn Training Author where he has created modules to help build DevSecOps into the development pipeline.
Tim Chase
Full Name
J. Wolfgang Goerlich
Job Title
Advisory CISO
Company
Cisco Secure
Speaker Bio
J. Wolfgang Goerlich is an Advisory CISO for Cisco Secure. Prior to this role, he led IT and IT security in the healthcare and financial services verticals. Wolfgang has held VP positions at several consulting firms, leading security advisory and assessment practices. He is an active part of the security community. Wolfgang regularly advises on the topics of security architecture and design, identity and access management, zero trust, and resilience.
J. Wolfgang Goerlich
Full Name
James Hastings
Job Title
Senior Cloud Product Manager
Company
eSentire
Speaker Bio
As Senior Cloud Product Manager at eSentire, James Hastings steers the direction of cloud product development, cloud solution integrations, and internal cloud enablement.

Prior to joining eSentire, James worked as a Technical Account Manager for Enterprise business at Lacework, where he focused on enabling security at scale for cloud native customers. In previous roles at Alert Logic, James oversaw the introduction of CSPM and other cloud specific technologies, managed global AWS Marketplace sales, and worked as a subject matter expert for all Alert Logic solutions at the enterprise level.

James holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Houston where he studied Computer Information Systems, Supply Chain Technology, and Organizational Leadership.
James Hastings
Full Name
Scott Holt
Job Title
Senior Security Solutions Architect
Company
Elasticsearch, Inc
Speaker Bio
Scott is from Massachusetts and most recently joined Elastic through the acquisition of a cloud security company called Cmd. Having spent the past decade in the cyber security space, Scott has spent a majority of his time working on better options for Linux based security tooling.
Scott Holt
Full Name
Vince Hwang,
Job Title
Senior Director, Products & Solutions
Company
Fortinet
Speaker Bio
With over 20 years in cybersecurity leading at the forefront of many industry-firsts and building expertise across a broad range of security topics, Vince Hwang is Senior Director of Products & Solutions at Fortinet where he leads the narrative for Cloud Security. He’s excited by the possibilities of enabling customers to achieve their desired digital acceleration outcomes through cloud and application journeys. Previously, Vince has held key roles driving product strategy and execution at companies that include Cisco, Sourcefire (now part of Cisco), Symantec, and Trend Micro. At Cisco / Sourcefire, he led the advanced threat security portfolio and helped forge a path for the EDR and advanced malware protection conversation before these became de-facto customer strategies.
Vince Hwang,
Full Name
Kayne McGladrey
Job Title
Senior Member
Company
IEEE
Kayne McGladrey
Full Name
Dr. Lisa McKee
Job Title
Professor of Security & Privacy,
Company
Dakota State University
Dr. Lisa McKee
Full Name
Bryan Willett
Job Title
CISO
Company
Lexmark
Speaker Bio
Bryan Willett is the CISO at Lexmark. Under his tenure, Lexmark has made significant investments in security infrastructure, monitoring and operations across all business areas including IT, supply chain, shared services and R&D. These investments are focused on reducing Lexmark’s overall security risks and complying with regulatory requirements. Bryan has a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Louisville, and has been with Lexmark for over 26 years
Bryan Willett
Full Name
Parthasarathi Chakraborty
Job Title
Head of Enterprise Security Architecture, Engineering & Innovation
Company
Humana
Speaker Bio
Parthasarathi Chakraborty has over 25 years of security leadership experience. Currently, he is the Associate Vice President and Head of Security Architecture, Engineering & Innovation at Humana Inc, a Fortune 40 Health Insurance company. He is also the chair for the Cloud Security Alliance’s Key Management Workgroup, founder of the Cloud Security Practitioner Council, and an advisory board member for Google Cloud, TrueFort and Oak9. Partha is a CISSP & CCSP certified professional with a master’s from Columbia University.
Parthasarathi Chakraborty
Full Name
Richard Tychansky
Job Title
Cloud Application Security Researcher & Engineering Leader
Speaker Bio
Richard Tychansky has more than 15 years of combined experience in application security engineering. This includes all aspects of cloud security technical program management relating to building, testing, and deploying world class SaaS multi-tenancy architectures, privacy engineering, machine learning operations, and global incident response. His career spans aerospace engineering, commercial software product design, and recently with Google’s Security & Privacy division to protect the data of over a billion mobile device and Cloud services users. He is a prolific conference speaker and a Community Champion for the more than 160,000 (ISC)2 cybersecurity professionals. He is also the author of the “Preparing for a Zero Trust Initiative” – a popular (ISC)2 Professional Development Institute (PDI) course.
Richard Tychansky
Full Name
Maulik Limbachiya
Job Title
Specialist Sales Manager
Company
Cloud
Speaker Bio
Maulik Limbachiya has extensive experience in the cyber security field working with the federal government, global financials and large technology companies. He currently works as Cloud Specialist at CrowdStrike, helping companies mitigate their cyber risk by providing holistic CNAPP capabilities at scale. Previously, he worked on an interdisciplinary team at Recorded Future building threat intelligence programs for Fortune 500 companies. Maulik has a B.A. in Business Administration with a dual concentration in Information Systems and International Business from the George Washington University.
Maulik Limbachiya
Full Name
James Stanger
Job Title
Chief Technology Evangelist
Company
CompTIA
Speaker Bio
Dr. James Stanger is CompTIA’s Chief Technology Evangelist, and a recognized authority in security analytics, threat hunting, education, systems administration, and open source. He consults regularly with organizations such as Northrop Grumman, the University of Cambridge, West Point, AstraZeneca, Target, the UK Office for Nuclear Regulation, DBS Bank, NIST, and Dell. In addition to his work as a security professional, he has helped design global education, certification, and badging programs in topics as diverse as security analytics, Linux administration, kayaking, and British Romantic literature.
James Stanger
Full Name
Mark Ostrowski
Job Title
Head of Engineering, US East
Company
Check Point
Speaker Bio
Mark has over 20 years’ experience in IT security and has helped design and support some of the largest security environments in the country. As regional director of engineering for the east coast at Check Point Software, Mark provides thought leadership for the IT security industry outlining the current threat landscape and helping organizations understand how they can pro-actively mitigate and manage risk.
Mark Ostrowski
Full Name
Dennis Payton,
Job Title
Sr. Product Marketing Manager
Company
Software Firewalls
Speaker Bio
Dennis has a full career in telecommunications, networking, enterprise applications both traditional and cloud based, product management, and leadership expertise. Dennis’ career began at Bell Northern Research, the research and development arm of Northern Telecom and Bell Canada as a Hardware and Firmware Senior Architect and Design Engineer, where he developed high speed networks and call processing platforms for next generation Meridian products. Prior to joining Palo Alto Networks Product Marketing for Software Firewalls, Dennis played key executive roles at Expandable Software and GoDigital Networks in taking system level products to market; GoDigital Networks resulting in the exit acquisition by CTDI. Dennis also played a key role founding and initial funding of Intera Systems designing and developing products based on terabit multifunctional networking fabrics. Dennis’ background includes architectural product design, finance, product management, marketing and a proven track record of leadership. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from California Polytechnic San Luis Obispo and post engineering studies in software methodologies at Stanford University, neural-networks at University of California, Santa Cruz, and Product Management credentials from UC Berkeley Haas School of Business.
Dennis Payton,
Full Name
Alexandria Hodgson
Job Title
Senior Solutions Product Marketing Manager, Workforce
Company
Okta
Speaker Bio
Alexandria Hodgson is a Senior Solutions Product Marketing Manager, Workforce at Okta specializing in Identity. Alexandria has spent the majority of her career in Cybersecurity, focusing on the ways in which organizations can better leverage their people, processes, and technologies to address the ever evolving threat landscape.
Alexandria Hodgson
Full Name
Leo Vela
Job Title
Inside Sales Engineer
Company
Rubrik
Speaker Bio
Leo is an Inside Sales Engineer who covers the Mid-Market space at Rubrik. He's been at Rubrik since Jan 2022. Before his run at Rubrik began, Leo gained experience working at SHI as an Inside Solutions Engineer for two years.
Leo Vela

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