
Fraud Management & Cybercrime
Fraud is prolific, it is evolving and it is unpredictable. How can security professions overcome such an elusive threat? From Card-Not-Present (CNP) to ATM Fraud to Identity Fraud, the only thing predictable about fraud is its unpredictability. Hear suggestions from our experts on how to identify, thwart and recover from different types of fraud.
Fraud Detection & Prevention

Chris Goettl
Director of Product Management, Ivanti
Goettl is the Director of Product Management for security products at Ivanti. Chris has over 15 years of experience working in IT, where he supports and implements security solutions for Ivanti customers and guides the security strategy and vision for Ivanti security products. He is also a security evangelist speaking at security events globally where he gives guidance around modern cyber threats and how to combat them effectively. Chris hosts a monthly webinar focusing on Patch Tuesday and security vulnerabilities, and frequently blogs about security topics. You can find contributed articles as well as commentary from Chris in notable security news sources like SC Magazine, Redmond Magazine, ComputerWorld, ThreatPost, Help Net Security, and more.

Andrew Rose
Resident CISO - EMEA, Proofpoint
Andrew Rose is Resident CISO for the EMEA Region at Proofpoint. His focus is driving Proofpoint's people-centric security vision, strategy and initiatives amongst the company's customer base, bringing hands on experience, knowledge and perspective in managing risk and improving cyber security posture across complex enterprises. Andrew was previously Chief Security Officer of Mastercard subsidiary Vocalink, who are responsible for much of the UK's instant and bulk payments covering over 90% of UK salaries, over 70% of UK bill payments and nearly all UK benefit payments.
Andrew brings with him a wealth of additional industry expertise from a number of CISO roles including at the UK's Air Traffic Control provider, NATS, where he oversaw a security transformation and contributed to the design of the next generation air traffic control system. Andrew has also held CISO roles at top tier global law firms Allen & Overy LLP and Clifford Chance LLP and was a Principal Analyst at Forrester Research where he covered the role of the CISO and Security Culture and Awareness as two of his specialty areas.

Mark Walmsley
CISO, Freshfields Law Firm
Mark Walmsley is an experienced chief information security officer. He studied law before joining a number of small boutique private investigation agencies. The majority of Marks professional career has been spent within the legal industry, working within litigation before moving to business services where he managed high-value, complex programmes of work.
Mark has led Freshfields information and cyber security capability for the last six years and had a year secondments to the National cyber Security Centre (part of GCHQ) where he helped manage the government and legal industry engagement.

Winston Krone
Global Managing Director, Kivu
Krone is sr risk advisor at Cambridge Center for Risk Studies. Helping global companies manage emerging cyber risks using a rigorous scenario-based framework. Previusly he was with Kivu Consulting.

Kadir Levent
Chief Operating Officer, CyberClan
Kadir started his career in cyber security as a Digital Forensic Investigator within the Metropolitan Police Service where he successfully aided multiple high profile criminal investigations. Since then, he has worked for a major UK retailer as a Cyber Security Manager where he managed and coordinated incident response efforts at a global scale. Kadir went on to work within the cyber insurance industry as a senior incident response specialist in London giving him vast experience in the Lloyds Insurance market and a deep understanding on the cyber claims process. Kadir now leads NTL’s U.K entity from London, whilst supporting NTL’s global operational processes.

Ed Lewis
Partner, Weightmans
Edward leads the firm's Specialty and Financial Lines practice, comprising of more than 40 lawyers nationally. His expertise spans multiple classes of insurance business, predominantly in the fields of Finance, Digital & Data, Construction and Science & Technology. He acts for insurers and nominated policyholders in the UK and internationally, advising on corporate strategy, insurance law and coverage, risk transfer and litigation. Edward is also the lead lawyer in CyXcel, a unique multidisciplinary service from Weightmans which launched in 2018 and provides comprehensive advice and solutions for digital and data resilience, incident planning, crisis management and response. The CyXcel team acts for insurers, public bodies and commercial organisations of all sizes. The team's work in the last year has included some the most high-profile cyber security incidents, state-sponsored ransoms and multi-jurisdiction data breaches; as well as delivering targeted consultancy on cyber maturity, operational impact modelling, privacy vulnerability, GDPR compliance and risk transfer.

Mark Singer
Claims Focus Group Leader - London Market & Wholesale Cyber & Tech, Beazley Group
Mark Singer currently serves as Claims Focus Group Leader for the Cyber & Executive division of Beazley. He primarily handles insurance coverage issues arising out of cybersecurity, technology errors & omissions, data privacy, intellectual property, media and advertising liabilities. As a UK qualified lawyer, and before joining Beazley, he was a Senior Associate in the commercial litigation team at a large City law firm where he handled a wide range of complex contractual disputes.

Chris Thomas
Managing Director EMEA, Emailage
Chris has worked in the fraud prevention industry for over 20 years, specialising in helping organisations in the Financial Services, Insurance, Telecommunications and eCommerce industries protect their businesses from criminal attacks. During this time he developed the first internet based employment screening services for Experian, the anti-money laundering and KYC capabilities for Equifax and worked with the UK retail industry to design the first data sharing scheme to address the growth in internet based fraud. Latterly Chris built the Fraud and ID business unit for Experian across EMEA, launching numerous data sharing schemes across the region that enable organisations to quickly share intelligence and combat the growing risk of cyber-fraud. Chris is widely recognized as an expert in fighting the ever-growing threat of cyber-fraud and is now with Emailage to spearhead the development of EMEA and help bring the power email risk assessment and digital identity to organisations across the region.

Rob Roj
Senior Solutions Architect, Shape Security
Rob Roj, Senior Solutions Architect at Shape Security, has over 20 years of early stage start up experience with over 7 years within the Cybersecurity and Identity space. He has been with Shape when there were only three customers and has consulted with F500 companies

Jeff Dant
Managing Director, Fraud Operations & Intelligence - Enterprise Fraud Management, BMO Financial Group
Jeff Dant currently serves as the Managing Director, Fraud Operations and Intelligence - Financial Crimes Unit at BMO Financial Group. Previously, he was the Director of Citi Global Consumer Bank's Fraud Fusion Center. He is responsible for the strategy and operations of the Fusion Center in the support of Fraud and Financial Crime management. Prior to this role, Dant served as the Digital Forensics Program Manager for Citi Security and Investigative Services Cyber Investigations group.
Before joining Citi, Dant served 12 years with the United States Secret Service in a variety of roles. He began his Secret Service career as a Uniformed Officer at the White House, and later carried several other roles including Special Agent in Washington Field Office, Newark Field Office, and Presidential Protection Division - Transportation Section. He specialized in financial crime investigations, specifically electronic crimes leveraged by Organized Eastern European Criminal Groups, leveraging intelligence and digital forensics in successful prosecutions, including the capture and suppression of the most prolific ATM skimming organization in the United States. Dant served as a Liaison officer to Europol's European Cyber Crime Centre (EC3), continuing the targeting of international financial crime rings.

Adam Wehrenberg
AVP Secure Payments, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Adam Wehrenberg is an assistant vice president in the Secure Payments group, responsible for developing and implementing key elements of the Fed’s strategy for payment security. Adam’s primary focus is on synthetic identity fraud and internal governance. Prior to joining Secure Payments, Adam was the Bank’s director of business continuity and resilience, responsible for coordinating Bank-wide contingency planning and facilitating crisis management processes. Adam has also played a key role in advancing the Federal Reserve System’s strategy to enhance operational resilience and crisis management capability across the Reserve Banks.
Before joining the Bank, Adam was a project director in the City of Boston’s Office of Emergency Management, where he led a planning program to prepare for low-probability, high-consequence catastrophic events. This included developing the nation’s first regional framework to integrate public safety and IT personnel in response to critical cyber disruptions.
Adam received an M.B.A from Boston University and a B.A. in Political Science from Stonehill College.

Andres Rapela
AVP of Secure Payments, Federal Reserve Bank
Andrés Rapela currently serves as Assistant Vice President for Secure Payments for the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and is responsible for the design, development, and implementation of the strategy for improving security and resiliency of the U.S. payments system. This work entails collaboration with payments professionals across the financial system, and with interested stakeholders in various related industries. Rapela brings over 25 years of experience in financial services, information technology, and risk management to the Secure Payments initiative. Prior to joining the Bank, he was a vice president at Fidelity Institutional, where for eight years he led the brokerage platform technology risk management function. While at Fidelity, Rapela held several other senior leadership positions in technology, risk management, and compliance across multiple business lines.

Jeffrey Brown
CISO, State of Connecticut
Brown helps companies and government agencies understand their security risk and implement practical, cost-effective security programs. He partners with C-level executives, business leaders, regulators and auditors to build and sustain best-in-class cybersecurity programs.

Patrick Ford
CISO, Americas, Schneider Electric
Patrick Ford serves as the Chief Information Security Officer, Americas Region of Schneider Electric. Patrick started at Schneider Electric in November of 2015. Patrick currently resides in the Greater New York City Area.

Rocco Grillo
Managing Director Global Cyber Risk & Incident Response Services, Alvarez & Marsal
Rocco Grillo currently serves as a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal's Disputes and Investigations Global Cyber Risk Services practice. He focuses on leading multi disciplinary teams who provide cyber risk and incident response services to clients globally. He has been a trusted partner of multiple government agencies, including the FBI and Secret Service, where his cyber expertise was instrumental in investigating and resolving a variety of cyber based crimes. Grillo's experience and understanding of commercial sector challenges and national security objectives have influenced the development of national policy in cybersecurity, including the NIST Cybersecurity Framework. Prior to joining A&M, he held leadership positions at professional services organizations including Stroz Friedberg/Aon Cyber Solutions, where he served as the Global Leader of the firm's Cybersecurity Services. Prior to Aon Cyber Solutions, Grillo was a founding member of Protiviti Inc's Cybersecurity Practice where he led the development of the firm's Global Incident Response and Forensics Investigations Practice. He also assisted with the development of RedSiren Technologies, one of the first managed security services firm that evolved out of Carnegie Mellon. Earlier in his career, he held positions of increasing responsibility with Lucent Technologies and Bell companies. He is an affiliate board advisor for the Retail & Hospitality ISAC and has assisted with other thought leadership initiatives for the FS-ISAC; and assists in creating its annual Compromise Against Payments Systems (CAPS), the simulated industry cyberattack exercise.. He has served on the CLM Cyber Liability Council, the Board of Directors of the NY Metro ISSA Chapter, the IT Policy Compliance Group, and the (i 4) International Information Integrity Institute Research Steering Committee.

Harshad Agashe
VP of Product, Emailage
Harshad is the Emailage Vice President of Product. A technologist at heart with a degree in Computer Science Engineering, Harshad brings over 10 years of experience in analytics and product management. He has led global teams of product and technology talent to build data-driven products. Prior to joining the Emailage team, Harshad was at American Express at the forefront of building real-time scalable solutions focused on preventing fraud losses across different business units. Striving to continually improve our products, Harshad's expertise allows him to deliver cutting edge features personalized for each customer by leveraging the power of machine learning.

Diego Szteinhendler
N.A. SVP of Business Development for Cyber and Intelligence Solutions, Mastercard

Partha Sarathy
Global Fraud Architect, Shape Security
Partha has run Fraud Risk for JPMC Canada and led Fraud Analytics projects for FICO, supporting FALCON product. Partha has a wealth of experience in data analytics and ML, and has leveraged these analytical insights to drive fraud, marketing and business strategy for several large banks, B2B Product and consulting firms. His cross industry experience combined with managing fraud across different fraud types and helping save $MMs has uniquely positioned him to understand the fraud detection and prevention mechanics and help organizations mitigate fraud while enhancing customer experience, and drive business results.


Glenn Cobb
Director, Solution Engineering, PayPal
Glenn has an extensive background related to Information Technology and Financial Services/eComm. While his education is in Chemical Engineering, he quickly transformed into the IT space to address automation of environment monitoring for power plants in New York State for 14 years. Glenn then became an IBMer, and worked as an Enterprise Architect providing support to both internal programs and external customers, including several financial services companies for another 10 years. He then moved into the Financial services sector and ran all external facing financial products and security platforms for Tompkins Financial, a 4 bank, insurance and investment corporation in NY. Post Tompkins Financial Glenn moved into the fraud prevent, data protection and encryption and has been providing technology and services to all verticals for the past 9 years When he is not fighting fraud, Glenn likes to do carpentry and fly as a private pilot.

Rick Garza
Senior Manager, Solution Engineering, PayPal
Rick Garza is a Senior Solutions Engineer at Simility with 20 years of experience in the tech world. As an SE for various security vendors across multiple facets of the Cybersecurity industry he has experience in Fraud, Dark Web Intelligence, and Threat Actor Engagements.

Carey O'Connor Kolaja
Chief Operating Officer, AU10TIX
Carey is currently President and Chief Operating Officer of AU10TIX, the global leader in automated identity intelligence and cyber fraud prevention. She is one of the top influential women in the FinTech industry, and has more than 25 years' experience, leading the "Fortune 500", start-up ventures to scale-up enterprises. During her time as Global Chief Product Officer at Citi Fintech and Vice President of Global Consumer Products at PayPal, she was responsible for the adoption of innovative technologies and cutting-edge commercial strategies meeting the new and developing needs and interests of customer's both in domestic and international markets.
Session Contributors
Research Vice President, Gartner GTP Security and Risk Management Strategies
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Read BioAdditional Director General of Police, Govt. Of Maharashtra
Read BioBusiness Development Manager, Financial & Banking, ADT Security Services, Inc.
Read Bioformer Programs & Operations Manager, Health Information Trust Alliance; Senior UI Engineer, Pindrop
Read BioSupervisory Special Agent FBI - New York Division C-3, Financial Institution Related Fraud
Read BioSenior Product Evangelist, Phone Authentication, RSA, The Security Division of EMC
Read BioVice President, Head of Fraud Prevention & Investigations, Charles Schwab Corporation
Read BioSupervisory Special Agent - Criminal & National Security Cyber Investigations, FBI Chicago Division
Read BioFormer police Detective Chief Superintendent and founder, UK National Fraud Intelligence Bureau
Read BioPayments Risk Expert, Retail Payments Risk Forum, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Read Bioformer Dir. of Incident Response, Expedia; Principal Consultant, Public Sector Cyber Security Contracting Services
Read BioPartner, Co-Chair - Data Protection, Privacy & Access to Information (US), Norton Rose Fulbright
Read BioVP & Senior Counsel - Center for Payments & Cybersecurity, American Bankers Association
Read BioN.A. SVP of Business Development for Cyber and Intelligence Solutions, Mastercard
Read BioSVP & Chief Advisor, Payments & Cybersecurity Policy, American Bankers Association
Read BioDeputy Chief, Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Jersey
Read BioManager Cryptographic Controls and Architecture Team (CCAT), Fifth Third Bank
Read BioFormer Head of Airborne Platform Systems Cyber Security, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
Read BioIndependent Digital Forensic Analyst & Expert Witness, SANS Institute Faculty Fellow
Read BioPresident, CEO and Founder of SpearTip - Cyber Counterintelligence (CISSP, GCFA)
Read BioInsider Threat Researcher, Carnegie Mellon University CERT Insider Threat Center
Read BioCCBSP, CAMS, CFSSP, Vice President/Financial Intelligence Department, Bankers Trust Company
Read BioSenior Product Marketing Manager, Identity and Access Assurance Group - RSA, The Security Division of EMC
Read BioDetective Constable - Computer Cyber Crime (C3) Intelligence Services, Toronto Police Service
Read BioDirector of Product Management, Security Technology and Response Group, Symantec
Read BioAssistant to the Special Agent in Charge, Criminal Investigative Division, US Secret Service
Read BioFormer Investigator, New York State Police; President, AML Training Academy & Advisory
Read BioCo-Lead, Cybersecurity Preparedness and Response practice, Alston and Bird, and Former DOJ Cybercrime Prosecutor
Read BioAuthor, Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
Read BioExec. Dir., Cyber Security Incident Response & Digital Forensic Service, PwC
Read BioFormer General Officer Commanding in Chief, Indian Army, and Present President, Information Security Council of India
Read BioGlobal Product Line Manager, Financial Crime Risk Management Solutions, Fiserv, Inc.
Read BioHead Deputy, Cyber Crime Division, Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office
Read BioClaims Focus Group Leader - London Market & Wholesale Cyber & Tech, Beazley Group
Read BioWashington Field Office's Electronic Crimes Task Force (ECTF), US Secret Service
Read BioChief Counterintelligence Expert, Carnegie Mellon University CERT Insider Threat Center
Read BioCISO, Proactive Cyber Security; formerly Senior Vice President of Cybersecurity, HSBC
Read BioChief Research Officer and Head of Intelligence Analytics, Terbium Labs
Read BioGlobal Fraud Architect, Shape Security
Read BioAssistant to the Special Agent in Charge, Chicago Cyber Fraud Task Force, U.S. Secret Service
Read BioManaging Director - Visa & Check Loss Prevention Group, Charles Schwab
Read BioProgram Director, Strategy & Product Management, Threat Protection & X-Force, IBM
Read BioDetective Inspector SCO7, Organised Crime Command, Cyber Crime Unit, Metropolitan Police
Read BioPresident & CEO, Global Cyber Alliance; former Deputy Undersecretary for Cybersecurity, Department of Homeland Security; former CISO, Sony
Read BioBarrister and Solicitor, UK Data Protection Strategy, Legal and Compliance Services, PwC
Read BioDetective Constable and Cyber Investigating Officer, Cyber Crime Unit, Metropolitan Police
Read BioSenior Manager, Solution Engineering, PayPal
Read BioDirector Asia, Financial Services Information Sharing And Analysis Center (FS-ISAC), Singapore
Read BioExecutive Vice President, Q6 Cyber and Founder of the Cyber Threat Intelligence Division of the US Secret Service
Read BioManaging Director Global Cyber Risk & Incident Response Services, Alvarez & Marsal
Read BioAttorney, Cybersecurity, Information Governance and Privacy Practice Group, Troutman Pepper
Read BioVP of Analytics & Reporting Manager in the Fraud Prevention Group, Bank of the West / BNP Paribas
Read BioChief Fraud Prevention Officer, Security & Biometrics Division, Nuance Communications
Read BioSpecial Agent, United States Secret Service, Criminal Investigative Division Sector Specialist - Banking and Finance
Read BioVice President - Head of Anti-Bribery and Corruption, Europe and Middle East. Barclaycard
Read BioAssistant Commissioner, Federal Policing Special Services, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)
Read BioBusiness Development Manager - ATM Security, Financial Services, ADT Security
Read BioHead of Risk Services, India and South Asia, Visa
Read BioCISO and Head-Cybersecurity Practice, Infosys
Read BioFormer Chief IP Networks Partner, R&D and Head of Service Platform, Vodafone
Read BioAssistant US Attorney, Deputy Chief - National Security and Cybercrimes, Department of Justice
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