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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 more than 18 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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Paul Kao

Sr Director, Head of SASE/Network Integrations, Broadcom Software

Paul is a product leader with a passion for innovation and excellence, driving product strategy and development to deliver market leading Enterprise solutions trusted and widely adopted by FF500/G2000 customers. Paul joins us from the Symantec NIS division where he spent 20+ years, starting at Blue Coat with the birth of the Secure Web Gateway Magic Quadrant (SWG MQ), managing the leading SWG appliance solution in this market. Most recently, Paul was instrumental in charting a strategy for SWG evolution to SASE.

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Mark Leary

Research Director for Network Analytics and Automation, IDC

Mark Leary is Research Director for Network Analytics and Automation responsible for worldwide technology market research and analysis. Mark's core research coverage focuses on network performance management solutions, network automation projects and products, and related predictive analytics, AI/ML, digital experience management, and "programming" technologies as they apply to a resilient, dynamic, and secure network infrastructure. Based on his current work and background, Mark’s research also examines the evolution of enterprise network infrastructure; adoption of cloud services and software-defined systems; buildout of professional services and partner ecosystems; fortification of network management best practices; and the reformation of IT staff roles and skills in this hyper-connected digital era.

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Paul Kao

Sr Director, Head of SASE/Network Integrations, Broadcom Software

Paul is a product leader with a passion for innovation and excellence, driving product strategy and development to deliver market leading Enterprise solutions trusted and widely adopted by FF500/G2000 customers. Paul joins us from the Symantec NIS division where he spent 20+ years, starting at Blue Coat with the birth of the Secure Web Gateway Magic Quadrant (SWG MQ), managing the leading SWG appliance solution in this market. Most recently, Paul was instrumental in charting a strategy for SWG evolution to SASE.

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Mark Leary

Research Director for Network Analytics and Automation, IDC

Mark Leary is Research Director for Network Analytics and Automation responsible for worldwide technology market research and analysis. Mark's core research coverage focuses on network performance management solutions, network automation projects and products, and related predictive analytics, AI/ML, digital experience management, and "programming" technologies as they apply to a resilient, dynamic, and secure network infrastructure. Based on his current work and background, Mark’s research also examines the evolution of enterprise network infrastructure; adoption of cloud services and software-defined systems; buildout of professional services and partner ecosystems; fortification of network management best practices; and the reformation of IT staff roles and skills in this hyper-connected digital era.

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Murtaza Hafizji

Sr. Cyber Security Strategist, Bugcrowd

Murtaza Hafizji, Sr. Cyber Security Strategist at Bugcrowd, loves to help customers effectively address their toughest information security challenges. Murtaza has been in the cybersecurity industry for 12+ years. Murtaza loves to travel and has been to more than 26 countries and speaks five languages. He holds a MBA and a degree in Information Technology.

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Murtaza Hafizji

Sr. Cyber Security Strategist, Bugcrowd

Murtaza Hafizji, Sr. Cyber Security Strategist at Bugcrowd, loves to help customers effectively address their toughest information security challenges. Murtaza has been in the cybersecurity industry for 12+ years. Murtaza loves to travel and has been to more than 26 countries and speaks five languages. He holds a MBA and a degree in Information Technology.

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Christopher Schnieper

Director of Market Planning, Fraud & Identity, LexisNexis® Risk Solutions

Chris Schnieper is a Director of Market Planning in the Fraud & Identity area at LexisNexis® Risk Solutions. He focuses on working across a variety of different industries on strategic fraud challenges, authentication needs, cybersecurity, and technology innovation. Chris also works with clients on how to protect their ecosystem with decentralized environments including: blockchain solutions, crypto wallets and tokenized financially related transactions.

Chris has over 20+ years working in the payments and risk space across strategy, product innovation, and technology roles. Prior to joining LexisNexis Risk Solutions, Chris has held positions with organizations such as Bank of America, Accenture, Early Warning Services and American Express.

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Christopher Schnieper

Director of Market Planning, Fraud & Identity, LexisNexis® Risk Solutions

Chris Schnieper is a Director of Market Planning in the Fraud & Identity area at LexisNexis® Risk Solutions. He focuses on working across a variety of different industries on strategic fraud challenges, authentication needs, cybersecurity, and technology innovation. Chris also works with clients on how to protect their ecosystem with decentralized environments including: blockchain solutions, crypto wallets and tokenized financially related transactions.

Chris has over 20+ years working in the payments and risk space across strategy, product innovation, and technology roles. Prior to joining LexisNexis Risk Solutions, Chris has held positions with organizations such as Bank of America, Accenture, Early Warning Services and American Express.

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Andrey Voitenko

CISSP, Senior Product Manager, VMRay

Andrey has over 20 years of broad-based cybersecurity experience, holding senior product development and product management positions with large, international security vendors. With his extensive background in EDR and SOAR technologies, he is a frequent speaker at industry and tech community events. Andrej holds a Master’s degree in Applied Mathematics and Information Security Technologies

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David Higgins

EMEA Technical Director, Cyberark

Since joining CyberArk in 2010, Higgins has worked to help the world’s leading - and most complex - organizations secure and protect their privileged access. Today, he advises clients on threats associated with privileged escalation, lateral movement and credential theft and discusses best practices and driving innovation around privileged management processes.

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Justin Post

Europe Privileged Access Management Lead, Accenture Security

Justin is leading the European PAM practice of Accenture Security, and has been supporting international clients in their journey to control privileged access to their landscape. Since joining Accenture in 2014, he has been specialized in helping clients articulate the business benefits of a mature capability, next to advocating the strong need for change management to raise adoption.

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Marcin Szczepanik

CISO and DPO, Essar Oil

Marcin is a Cyber Security Leader with combined OT & IT experience across various industries including: energy, automotive, retails, chemicals, utilities, nuclear, manufacturing & recruitment.

His passion for technology comes from dealing with people and life's challenges. his favorite statement is "if you think the problem can be solved by technology, then you probably don't understand the problem."

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Murali Palanisamy

Chief Solutions Officer, AppViewX

Passionate enterprise technology influencer, currently overseeing Innovation, Strategy and Product Direction to enable Customers achieve friction-less application deployment using Automation at AppViewX. As Chief Solutions Officer, Murali is responsible for the overall product vision, development, and technical direction of AppViewX. Before joining the company, he served as Senior Vice President at Bank of America, where he led an architecture and engineering team of e-commerce application delivery.

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Nick Barham

DevSecOps Transformation Consultant

During his tenure at Veracode, Nick has collaborated with enterprises across multiple industries to help drive successful AppSec programs and reduce application risk. His close contact with dev teams has helped him build a strong understanding of 'what works’, enabling them with the tooling and mindset needed to code securely and consider supply chain risk when developing software. In his current role, Nick collaborates with existing customers who are either thinking about embedding DevSecOps or are already on the journey to doing so and are seeking guidance in maturing their security practices using Veracode.

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Darrell Johnston

Internationally experienced Cyber Security sales professional with a demonstrated ability to lead teams through complex sales cycles, open and capitalise on new markets and significantly enhance existing revenue streams. I have a consistent history of exceeding individual quota as well as leading teams to exceed quota attainment. Expertise forging and fostering strong working relationships with clients, sales teams, product management, and strategic partners are amongst some of the key skills which drive me to continued success and proven results.

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Ivar Kangur

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Mike Britton

CISO, Abnormal Security

Mike Britton is the CISO of Abnormal Security, where he leads information security and privacy programs. Prior to Abnormal, Mike spent six years as the CSO and Chief Privacy Officer for Alliance Data. He brings 25 years of information security, privacy, compliance, and IT experience from a variety of Fortune 500 global companies. He holds an M.B.A with a concentration in Information Assurance from the University of Dallas.

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Mike Britton

CISO, Abnormal Security

Mike Britton is the CISO of Abnormal Security, where he leads information security and privacy programs. Prior to Abnormal, Mike spent six years as the CSO and Chief Privacy Officer for Alliance Data. He brings 25 years of information security, privacy, compliance, and IT experience from a variety of Fortune 500 global companies. He holds an M.B.A with a concentration in Information Assurance from the University of Dallas.

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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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