ID Fraud

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.

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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.

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Avner Gideoni

Chief Technology Officer of Trusteer, IBM Security

Avner Gideoni currently serves Chief Technology Officer of Trusteer, IBM Security's anti-fraud division. Prior to IBM's acquisition of Trusteer Gideoni formed and led Trusteer Security Research and Development team, consisting of world's top-notch researchers, analysts, and security developers. This team fights with financial fraud gangs worldwide, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. He and the team make sure all Trusteer products are detecting new fraud schemes as they emerge, and its customers are safe.

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Brett Johnson

Former Most Wanted and "The Original Internet Godfather"

Former United States Most Wanted, Brett Johnson, referred to by the United States Secret Service as "The Original Internet Godfather" has been a central figure in the cybercrime world for over 20 years. He built and was leader of ShadowCrew, the precursor to today's darknet markets. He was instrumental in developing many areas of online fraud while helping design, implement, and refine modern Identity Theft, Account Take Over Fraud, Card Not Present Fraud, IRS Tax Fraud, and countless other social engineering attacks, breaches, and hacking operations. Upon his capture, the United States Secret Service hired Johnson to work as a consultant and informant. Johnson worked with the Secret Service for several months before going on a cross country crime spree, being placed on the US Most Wanted List, being captured again, sent to prison, escaping prison, being captured yet again, and finally accepting responsibility for his actions. Today, Johnson works as a security consultant and public speaker. He is one of the world's foremost authorities on cybercrime and identity theft. During 2017, He has been featured in the book, "Kingpin" by Kevin Poulsen and on numerous media outlets, including the New York Times, NBC, CNN Money, Wired Magazine, Vice, RT TV, ArsTechnica, The Independent, and more.

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Shaked Vax

Trusteer Products Strategist, IBM Security

Vax is the identity and anti-fraud solutions strategist at IBM Security. He is a financial industry subject matter expert specializing in online application security and performance, with a focus on digital banking fraud, digital identity theft prevention, consumer information protection and mobile banking security. With more than 17 years of experience in the security technology industry, Vax has previously held leadership positions for security product lines at Radware, Checkpoint Technologies and Compulite Industries.

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Michael Theis

Chief Counterintelligence Expert, Carnegie Mellon University CERT Insider Threat Center

Theis is chief counterintelligence expert at Carnegie Mellon's CERT Insider Threat Center. Theis has more than 25 years of experience as a counterintelligence supervisory special agent supporting the U.S. intelligence community, and more than 30 years of concurrent computer systems engineering experience. At Carnegie Mellon's CERT Insider Threat Center, Theis focuses on research and development of socio-technical controls in computational endoparacology. Previously, he was the first cyber counterintelligence program manager for the National Reconnaissance Office, where he served as chief of cyber-CI investigations and operations for more than six years.

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Paul Bjerke

Vice President, Fraud and Identity Strategy, LexisNexis

Paul Bjerke leads the Fraud and Identity Management strategy for LexisNexis Risk Solutions. In this capacity, he is tasked with setting the longer-term fraud solution framework, leveraging the company's vast data repository, analytic linking capabilities and proprietary high-powered technology, HPCC Systems. He has specialized in the area of fraud and risk for over 20 years in such notable companies as IBM, Target and US Bank.

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David Pollino

former CISO, PNC Bank

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 and frequently 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. In addition to his role with CERT, he is an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon's Heinz College, Graduate School of Information Systems and Management.

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Michael Theis

Chief Counterintelligence Expert, Carnegie Mellon University CERT Insider Threat Center

Theis is chief counterintelligence expert at Carnegie Mellon's CERT Insider Threat Center. Theis has more than 25 years of experience as a counterintelligence supervisory special agent supporting the U.S. intelligence community, and more than 30 years of concurrent computer systems engineering experience. At Carnegie Mellon's CERT Insider Threat Center, Theis focuses on research and development of socio-technical controls in computational endoparacology. Previously, he was the first cyber counterintelligence program manager for the National Reconnaissance Office, where he served as chief of cyber-CI investigations and operations for more than six years.

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Barak Feldman

National Director for the Privileged Account Security Solution Portfolio, CyberArk

Barak Feldman is a national director for the privileged account security solution portfolio at CyberArk Software. He joined CyberArk in 2001 and has held several sales and technical roles including managing the system engineering group in the Americas. Feldman brings deep technical and business background to his role at CyberArk, with more than 15 years of experience in designing and implementing security and compliance solutions at many of the Fortune 500 and at various federal agencies. He has in-depth technical knowledge related to the most crucial areas of information security, including regulatory compliance, policy management and access management, specifically with the current threats surrounding privileged access to the highest-risk assets within the enterprise.

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Jeffrey Feinstein

Vice President of Analytic Strategy, LexisNexis® Risk Solutions

Jeffrey Feinstein, PhD is Vice President of Global Analytic Strategy at LexisNexis® Risk Solutions and oversees domestic and global statistical development and analytic projects for financial services and related areas (such as retail, telecom and utilities), government, and healthcare markets. Mr. Feinstein has been a thought leader in risk and fraud analytics and credit bureau scoring for 20 years. Mr. Feinstein currently leads innovation efforts to bring new analytic solutions, techniques, and content to the marketplace, and he particularly focuses on isolating data patterns descriptive of synthetic and other compromised identities as well as enhancing financial inclusion opportunities for underserved consumers.

Before joining LexisNexis® in 2010, Mr. Feinstein led a research consortium at FICO in which he brought new risk solutions to market, co-built the analytic components of FICO's first version of their business-to-consumer disclosure website (myFICO.com), oversaw research and development of US based credit bureau scores, and managed development of credit bureau scores and solutions in the (then) emerging Canadian credit market. Mr. Feinstein has 4 issued patents and 4 patent pending inventions for scores and methods using Credit Bureau and Alternative data.

Mr. Feinstein holds an undergraduate degree from State University of New York at Buffalo and a PhD from Ohio State in Experimental Psychology with a minor in Applied Statistics.

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Shirley Inscoe

Senior Analyst, Aite Group

Inscoe is a senior analyst with Aite Group, covering fraud and data security. She brings to Aite Group 30 years of banking experience in enterprise fraud and payments issues. Inscoe has served as the chair of the BITS Fraud Reduction Steering Committee and the co-chair of Early Warning Services' Advisory Committee, and has been a member of ABA's Deposit Account Fraud and Payment Systems Committees. Formerly, Inscoe was the director of financial services solutions at Memento Inc., where she was responsible for guiding the company's overall strategy and supporting product development, marketing, and sales related to payments risk mitigation. During her tenure with Memento, she worked to expand the firm's product offerings beyond employee fraud to cover check, ACH, and wire fraud. Before that, Inscoe was SVP and director of payments strategy with Wachovia Bank.

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Tom Salmon

IT Security Consultant, LogRhythm

An experienced IT Security Consultant in Security Monitoring and Security Intelligence, Salmon's career has taken him from hands on engineering, development and configuration, to executive-level strategic risk planning. Working across integrators, service providers, partners and vendors, he has a wide range of knowledge on the full security spectrum. Salmon's current work with LogRhythm involves working with key strategic accounts across EMEA to build next-generation SOCs focused on rapid detection and response to a broad class of threats.

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Michael Theis

Chief Counterintelligence Expert, Carnegie Mellon University CERT Insider Threat Center

Theis is chief counterintelligence expert at Carnegie Mellon's CERT Insider Threat Center. Theis has more than 25 years of experience as a counterintelligence supervisory special agent supporting the U.S. intelligence community, and more than 30 years of concurrent computer systems engineering experience. At Carnegie Mellon's CERT Insider Threat Center, Theis focuses on research and development of socio-technical controls in computational endoparacology. Previously, he was the first cyber counterintelligence program manager for the National Reconnaissance Office, where he served as chief of cyber-CI investigations and operations for more than six years.

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David Gibson

VP Strategy and Market Development, Varonis

Gibson is an IT industry veteran with more than 15 years of experience. As a CISSP, he is responsible for building brand awareness, aligning product functionality with market demand, and driving sales through marketing, education, and pre and post-sales efforts. Since joining Varonis in 2006, he has held positions of sales engineer, sales engineer manager, director of technical marketing, and VP of marketing. Prior to Varonis, Gibson was a New York-based systems engineer for Tripwire, and worked as a network management and security engineer at International Integrated Solutions, ltd.

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Michael Theis

Chief Counterintelligence Expert, Carnegie Mellon University CERT Insider Threat Center

Theis is chief counterintelligence expert at Carnegie Mellon's CERT Insider Threat Center. Theis has more than 25 years of experience as a counterintelligence supervisory special agent supporting the U.S. intelligence community, and more than 30 years of concurrent computer systems engineering experience. At Carnegie Mellon's CERT Insider Threat Center, Theis focuses on research and development of socio-technical controls in computational endoparacology. Previously, he was the first cyber counterintelligence program manager for the National Reconnaissance Office, where he served as chief of cyber-CI investigations and operations for more than six years.

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