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Tarah is the Founder and CEO of the cybersecurity compliance company Red Queen Dynamics. She also serves as the Senior Fellow for Global Cyber Policy at Council on Foreign Relations. Tarah has spoken and testified on information security at the United States Senate, European Union and at multiple governmental and industry conferences.
Prior to launching Red Queen Dynamics, Tarah was the Head of Offensive Security & Technical Data Privacy at Splunk and Senior Director of Engineering and Principal Security Advocate at Symantec Website Security.
Joe, the co-founder and CEO of Seiso LLC, brings 28+ years of IT and cybersecurity experience to the industry's forefront. At Seiso, a cybersecurity engineering firm based in Pittsburgh, Joe and his team work hands-on with customers, implementing modern security and compliance solutions tailored to their unique needs. His expertise spans information security governance, risk management, compliance, and aligning security programs with industry frameworks like ISO 27001, NIST CSF, and 800-x. Joe's previous roles include enterprise-level CISO positions, overseeing cybersecurity, privacy, business continuity, and physical security.
George is currently Head of Trust at MongoDB and was formerly Sumo Logic's Chief Security Officer & SVP of IT. George Gerchow brings over 20 years of information technology and systems management expertise to the application of IT processes and disciplines. His background includes the security, compliance, and cloud computing disciplines. Mr. Gerchow has years of practical experience in building agile security, compliance and, IT teams in rapid development organizations. These insights make him a highly regarded speaker, and invited panelist on topics including, cloud secure architecture design, compliance and operational security including a TedX talk.
George has been on the bleeding edge of public cloud security, privacy and modernizing IT systems since being a co-founder of the VMware Center for Policy & Compliance. He is a Faculty Member for IANS - Institute of Applied Network Security and sits on several industry advisory boards. Mr. Gerchow is also a known philanthropist and CEO of a nonprofit corporation, XFoundation.
Nicole is an award-winning information security leader with 18 years of experience driving results across cybersecurity, audit, global operations and relationship management functions. As Head of Security for Riot Games, she leads a team of BISOs focused on developing and deploying cybersecurity strategies that align with business priorities. Nicole uses a practical, balanced approach to maturing risk and security programs, leveraging her experience from investment banking, media, offshoring, audit and management consulting to enable innovation, manage risk, drive operational efficiencies and improve client experience.
Tanya Janca, aka SheHacksPurple, is the best-selling author of 'Alice and Bob Learn Secure Coding', 'Alice and Bob Learn Application Security’ and ‘Cards Against AppSec'. Over her 28-year IT career she has won countless awards (including OWASP Lifetime Distinguished Member and Hacker of the Year), spoken all over the planet, and is a prolific blogger. Tanya has trained thousands of software developers and IT security professionals, via her online academies (We Hack Purple and Semgrep Academy), and her live training programs. Having performed counter-terrorism, led security for the 52nd Canadian general election, developed or secured countless applications, Tanya Janca is widely considered an international authority on the security of software.
Dr. Ondrej Krehel is the Founder, CEO, and Digital Forensics Lead of LIFARS LLC, an international cybersecurity and digital forensics firm. He is also the Co-Founder and an Advisory Board Member of QuBit Conference, an events and training company dedicated to connecting the information security community. Ondrej is an accomplished speaker having lectured for FBI Training Academy and the National Executive Institute. He also serves as a member of New York Metro Infragard, as the Chapter Leader of OWASP NYC, and as a Distinguished Fellow with the Ponemon Institute.
Ryan is the Founder and CEO of Neuvik, a cybersecurity research and development consultancy. He has spent the better part of two decades enhancing cyber programs at the world's largest institutions — from the Department of Defense to some of the most successful private and commercial organizations. He focuses largely on providing advanced capabilities for CISO's, as well as testing for best possible security practices at board of directors' requests.
Ryan’s C-level work experience also includes developing Board level metrics to measure and manage enterprise cyber risk, developing and instructing C-Suite cyber risk management courses, and establishing functional reporting metrics for assessing cyber readiness.
Philip is senior vice president of an offensive security research group at a multinational, Fortune 500 financial services company. He is a leading expert and thought leader in mainframe cyber security with a special focus on the z/OS platform. Philip has built mainframe security programs for multiple Fortune 100 organizations using both vendor and public toolsets. Philip also develops information security coursework to educate the next generation of practitioners, raises awareness about mainframe security, and encourages more organizations to effectively prioritize their risk profiles.