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Brian Harrell

Director of Security and Risk Management, Navigant; former Director of Critical Infrastructure Protection at NERC and the Electricity ISAC

Harrell is a director in Navigant's Energy Practice, where he focuses on risk mitigation, protective measures, and compliance guidance. Before joining Navigant, Brian was the director of the NERC Electricity Sector Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ES-ISAC) and was charged with leading NERC's efforts to provide timely threat and risk information to over 1,900 bulk power system owners/operators and government stakeholders. He led many key initiatives at NERC, including the creation of the Grid Security Exercise (GridEx), Critical Infrastructure Protection Committee (CIPC) physical security guidance documents, and helped position NERC as a leader in substation security.

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Tracy Kitten

Director of Global Events Content and Executive Editor, BankInfoSecurity & CUInfoSecurity

A veteran journalist with more than 20 years' experience, Kitten has covered the financial sector for the last 13 years. Before joining Information Security Media Group in 2010, where she now serves as director of global events content and executive editor of BankInfoSecurity and CUInfoSecurity, she covered the financial self-service industry as the senior editor of ATMmarketplace, part of Networld Media. Kitten has been a regular speaker at domestic and international conferences, and was the keynote at ATMIA's U.S. and Canadian conferences in 2009. She has been quoted by CNN.com, ABC News, Bankrate.com and MSN Money.

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Jay Kramer

Partner, Data Privacy and Cyber Security Practice Group, Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith; former supervisory special agent, FBI - NY Cyber Division

Kramer, supervisory special agent, FBI, New York division, joined the FBI in 1996. After working for several years in the FBI's racketeering and organized crime section, Kramer joined the FBI's legal bureau in New York. As an FBI attorney, Kramer helped analyze and resolve complex issues of law and policy in criminal and national security investigations. In 2010, Kramer accepted an assignment in the FBI's Office of Congressional Affairs in Washington, D.C. There he worked closely with several congressional committees on issues related to proposed changes in federal law. In 2013, to insure the FBI's readiness to address a growing portfolio of cyber investigations, Kramer was called upon to help stand up the FBI's Cyber Law Unit in Chantilly, VA. In 2014, Kramer returned to the New York office, where he currently supervises a squad of agents and analysts conducting criminal cyber intrusion investigations.

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David Pollino

Deputy Chief Security Officer, Bank of the West / BNP Paribas

Pollino is responsible for fraud prevention oversight and education at the bank. Pollino was recently named a top ten influencer by Bank Information Security. Prior to joining Bank of the West, Pollino served in senior fraud prevention positions for Wells Fargo, Washington Mutual, and Charles Schwab. During his career, Pollino has also worked as an information security consultant at @stake and UUNET advising Fortune 100 companies on information security issues. Pollino is the author of RSA Press: Wireless security, The Hacker's Challenge Books 1, 2 and 3, and Hacking Exposed: Wireless. Pollino currently contributes to the Bank of the West blog.

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Lisa Sotto

Managing Partner, Chair of Global Privacy and Cybersecurity Practice, Hunton & Williams

Named in The National Law Journal's "100 Most Influential Lawyers," Sotto serves on Hunton & Williams' executive committee. Sotto was voted the world's leading privacy adviser by Computerworld magazine and has earned the highest honor by Chambers and Partners as a "Star" performer for privacy and data security. Recognized as a "leading lawyer" by The Legal 500 U.S., Sotto chairs the Department of Homeland Security's Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee. She has been featured in numerous publications, including Ethisphere Magazine's 2015 "Attorneys Who Matter," Crain's New York Business "Lawyer Goes into the Breach," SC Magazine's "Women of Influence," and as "The Queen of Breach" in the New York Super Lawyers Magazine. Sotto is the editor and lead author of Privacy and Data Security Law Deskbook. She has represented the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Indonesia, and has advised the Serbian government on global data protection law. Currently, Sotto is co-chair of the International Privacy Law Committee of the New York Bar Association, chair of the New York Privacy Officers' Forum, and is a former member of the board of the International Association of Privacy Professionals.

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Richard Bortnick

Cyber Liability and Insurance Attorney, Traub Lieberman Straus & Shrewsberry, Red Bank, NJ

Bortnick litigates and counsels clients on cyber and technology risks, exposures and best practices; directors' and officers' liability; professional liability; insurance coverage; and commercial litigation matters. He also drafts professional liability insurance policies of varying types, including cyber, privacy and technology forms, and is Publisher of the cyber industry blog, Cyberinquirer.com. He serves as a member of the Executive Corporate Board of The Franklin Institute science museum and is Co-Chair of the Computer & Technology Subcommittee of the ABA Section of Litigation, Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee. Bortnick is a regular contributor and columnist for Advisen and was named by Advisen as their Cyber Risk Network 2015 Person of the Year.

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Benjamin Dean

President, Iconoclast Tech; Fmr Fellow for Cyber Security and Internet Governance, Columbia SIPA

Benjamin Dean has worked at the intersection of technology, economics and public policy for the past decade. He is presently a Technology Exchange Fellow at the Center for Democracy and Technology in Washington DC. Dean was previously a Fellow for Cyber Security and Internet Governance at Columbia University in New York. He also spent time as a policy analyst at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, among other positions located in countries spanning the world.

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Tim Francis

Vice President and Enterprise Lead for Cyber Insurance, Travelers Business Insurance

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Tracy Kitten

Director of Global Events Content and Executive Editor, BankInfoSecurity & CUInfoSecurity

A veteran journalist with more than 20 years' experience, Kitten has covered the financial sector for the last 13 years. Before joining Information Security Media Group in 2010, where she now serves as director of global events content and executive editor of BankInfoSecurity and CUInfoSecurity, she covered the financial self-service industry as the senior editor of ATMmarketplace, part of Networld Media. Kitten has been a regular speaker at domestic and international conferences, and was the keynote at ATMIA's U.S. and Canadian conferences in 2009. She has been quoted by CNN.com, ABC News, Bankrate.com and MSN Money.

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Jay Kramer

Partner, Data Privacy and Cyber Security Practice Group, Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith; former supervisory special agent, FBI - NY Cyber Division

Kramer, supervisory special agent, FBI, New York division, joined the FBI in 1996. After working for several years in the FBI's racketeering and organized crime section, Kramer joined the FBI's legal bureau in New York. As an FBI attorney, Kramer helped analyze and resolve complex issues of law and policy in criminal and national security investigations. In 2010, Kramer accepted an assignment in the FBI's Office of Congressional Affairs in Washington, D.C. There he worked closely with several congressional committees on issues related to proposed changes in federal law. In 2013, to insure the FBI's readiness to address a growing portfolio of cyber investigations, Kramer was called upon to help stand up the FBI's Cyber Law Unit in Chantilly, VA. In 2014, Kramer returned to the New York office, where he currently supervises a squad of agents and analysts conducting criminal cyber intrusion investigations.

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David Pollino

Deputy Chief Security Officer, Bank of the West / BNP Paribas

Pollino is responsible for fraud prevention oversight and education at the bank. Pollino was recently named a top ten influencer by Bank Information Security. Prior to joining Bank of the West, Pollino served in senior fraud prevention positions for Wells Fargo, Washington Mutual, and Charles Schwab. During his career, Pollino has also worked as an information security consultant at @stake and UUNET advising Fortune 100 companies on information security issues. Pollino is the author of RSA Press: Wireless security, The Hacker's Challenge Books 1, 2 and 3, and Hacking Exposed: Wireless. Pollino currently contributes to the Bank of the West blog.

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Jackie Castelli

Senior Product Manager, CrowdStrike

Jackie Castelli, CISSP, has over 25 years of experience in the cybersecurity industry. At CrowdStrike, she is responsible for educating the market about the Falcon platform, CrowdStrike's next-generation endpoint protection solution. Prior to CrowdStrike, Castelli worked as director of technical marketing, focused on endpoint and management security solutions for Intel Security. She has also served in technical roles in pre-sales, IT and support.

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Richard T. Jacobs

Assistant Special Agent in Charge, Cyber Branch, FBI New York Division

Jacobs is the Assistant Special Agent in-Charge of the Cyber Branch in the FBI's New York Office. The branch investigates national security and criminal cyber matters and responds to cyber incidents in the New York metropolitan area. In 2014, Mr. Jacobs helped establish the Financial Cyber Crimes Task Force, a multi-agency initiative targeting cyber crime and technology-based fraud schemes.Following graduation from the FBI Academy in 1999, Mr. Jacobs was assigned to New York where he investigated a variety of securities fraud matters. From 2002 to 2005 he played the role of a corrupt stock broker in a market manipulation undercover operation which resulted in the conviction of 49 individuals. In June 2010, he was selected to lead a Manhattan-based securities fraud unit which handled the Bernard L. Madoff and Galleon Group insider trading investigations. He was named Assistant Special Agent in-Charge in October 2014. Prior to joining the FBI, Mr. Jacobs was a Risk Manager on Wall Street.

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Noam Jolles

Senior Intelligence Specialist, Diskin Advanced Technologies

Having almost two decades of experience in intelligence operations, training and designing of new approaches and methods, Dr. Noam Jolles-Ichner currently directs Intelligence research and development at Diskin Advanced technologies (DAT). A young Israeli cyber security company. Her focus is specifically on shortening the time between weak signals and response, therefore extending attack kill chain to yield predictive and adaptive cyber security.

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Avivah Litan

VP and Distinguished Analyst, Gartner Research

Litan is a vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner Research. Her areas of expertise include endpoint security, security analytics for cybersecurity and fraud, user and entity behavioral analytics, insider threats, fraud detection, and prevention and identity proofing.

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Ed Amoroso

Founder and CEO, TAG Cyber; former Senior Vice President and CISO, AT&T

Dr. Edward G. Amoroso is founder chief executive officer of TAG Cyber LLC. He recently retired from AT&T after 31 years of service, where he began his career in Unix security R&D at Bell Labs. He served as senior vice president and chief security officer at AT&T from 2004 until 2016. He was elected an AT&T Fellow in 2010. Amoroso also has been adjunct professor of Computer Science at the Stevens Institute of Technology for the past 29 years, as well as a research professor in the Computer Science Department at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering and a senior adviser within the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University. Amoroso's work has been highlighted on CNN, and in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. He has worked directly with four Presidential administrations on issues related to national security, critical infrastructure protection and cyber policy.

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Scott Ramsey

Managing Director of Cybersecurity and Resiliency Consulting, FIS

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Ben Smith

Principal, Sales Engineering and Field CTO, RSA

Smith is field chief technology officer (Field CTO - US East) with RSA, a Dell Technologies business. With 25 years of experience in the information security, networking and telecommunications industries, he regularly consults on RSA's strategic vision around architecture and technical roadmaps for the company's security and risk management solutions. His prior employers include UUNET, CSC and the US Government, along with several technology-oriented startups. He holds the CISSP and CRISC certifications, and has presented on RSA's behalf, both domestically and internationally, at cybersecurity events sponsored by Gartner, FS-ISAC, IANS, CERT/SEI, ISSA, (ISC)2, ISACA, RMA, BSides, InfraGard, HTCIA, ICI and other organizations.

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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 diverse cadre of senior-level editors and reporters. 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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Tom Kellermann

Chief Executive Officer/Partner, Strategic Cyber Ventures

Kellermann is a cyber-intelligence expert, author, professor, and leader in the field of cybersecurity. Having held a seat on the Commission on Cyber Security for the 44th President of the United States and serving as an advisor to the International Cyber Security Protection Alliance (ICSPA), Kellermann has worked in the highest levels of cybersecurity. As Chief Cybersecurity Officer for Trend Micro Inc. he was responsible for analysis of emerging cybersecurity threats and relevant defensive technologies. In addition to his professional work, Kellermann was a Professor at American University's School of International Service and the Kogod School of Business, and he co-authored the book, "E-safety and Soundness: Securing Finance in a New Age." Kellermann is a Certified Information Security Manager and a Certified Ethical Hacker.

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Christopher Pierson

Chief Security Officer and General Counsel, Viewpost

A strategic business & technology leader, recognized cybersecurity expert, and creator of new technology, Pierson blends cybersecurity, privacy, and risk with his passion for building operational teams driven to execute and deliver - at both startups and large global companies. He has 20 years of experience building companies and cybersecurity programs - specializing in operations, design and architecture, data breach response, security ops, financial crime/fraud ops, and intelligence/national security. He has served in general counsel and compliance capacities working closely with Boards on corporate matters and strategic business opportunities. Pierson has a proven track record of success and has been awarded Best CSO from FireEye, CSO50 in 2015 & 2016, and is a Distinguished Fellow of the Ponemon Institute. Pierson also serves on the Department of Homeland Security Data Privacy & Integrity Advisory Committee and Cybersecurity Subcommittee. Pierson is a frequent keynote speaker on cybersecurity and is regularly quoted by the media.

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David Pollino

Deputy Chief Security Officer, Bank of the West / BNP Paribas

Pollino is responsible for fraud prevention oversight and education at the bank. Pollino was recently named a top ten influencer by Bank Information Security. Prior to joining Bank of the West, Pollino served in senior fraud prevention positions for Wells Fargo, Washington Mutual, and Charles Schwab. During his career, Pollino has also worked as an information security consultant at @stake and UUNET advising Fortune 100 companies on information security issues. Pollino is the author of RSA Press: Wireless security, The Hacker's Challenge Books 1, 2 and 3, and Hacking Exposed: Wireless. Pollino currently contributes to the Bank of the West blog.

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David Hahn

Vice President and CISO, Hearst

David Hahn is the head of Corporate Information Security and Risk for the Hearst Corp., a media parent company for brands such as A&E, HISTORY, Lifetime and ESPN. At Hearst, Hahn leads initiatives focused on cloud computing (SAS and public cloud). Prior to Hearst, Hahn led the CyberFraud strategy team at Intuit, where he managed the Security Operations group for products such as TurboTax, Quicken, Mint and QuickBooks. He also spent many years at Wells Fargo, where he headed up all security for Wellsfargo.com, at the time the largest online banking site.

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David Pollino

Deputy Chief Security Officer, Bank of the West / BNP Paribas

Pollino is responsible for fraud prevention oversight and education at the bank. Pollino was recently named a top ten influencer by Bank Information Security. Prior to joining Bank of the West, Pollino served in senior fraud prevention positions for Wells Fargo, Washington Mutual, and Charles Schwab. During his career, Pollino has also worked as an information security consultant at @stake and UUNET advising Fortune 100 companies on information security issues. Pollino is the author of RSA Press: Wireless security, The Hacker's Challenge Books 1, 2 and 3, and Hacking Exposed: Wireless. Pollino currently contributes to the Bank of the West blog.

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Randy Trzeciak

Director, CERT Insider Threat Center, CMU

Trzeciak heads a team focusing on insider threat research; threat analysis and modeling; assessments; and training. He has more than 20 years of experience in software engineering, focusing on database design, development and maintenance. His expertise also extends into project management and information security. In addition to his role with CERT, Trzeciak is an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon's Heinz College, Graduate School of Information Systems and Management.

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John Gunn

Chief Marketing Officer, Vasco

John Gunn is VASCO's Chief Marketing Officer. Before joining VASCO in 2014, He launched and led the Security Solutions Group at Harland Clarke where he developed a SaaS-based consumer identity protection solution. Gunn also served as General Manager of North America and Vice President Global Marketing for Aladdin Knowledge Systems, a global leader in authentication and application protection solutions. Prior to Aladdin, he was President of VisionTek, a consumer technology products company.

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Avi Rembaum

Vice President of Security Solutions, Check Point

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Paul Bjerke

Vice President, Fraud and Identity Strategy, LexisNexis

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David McNeely

Vice President, Product Strategy, Centrify

As senior director of product management at Centrify, McNeely works with customers to drive the roadmap for Centrify's award-winning identity and access management solutions. David has worked in the identity and access management market for over 16 years, holding various product marketing and management positions at ActivIdentity, AOL, iPlanet and Netscape. At Netscape and iPlanet, he was the director of product management for the Directory and Security product line, where he first promoted the concept of a centralized directory for all identity and access management.

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Josh Brooks

Senior Manager, Public Cloud GRC, Oracle

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Sam Elliott

Director of Security Product Management, Bomgar

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