
Network Firewalls, Network Access Control
Network firewall technology and Network access control solutions, strategies and market trends, including NGFW and other firewall evolutions.
Network firewall technology and Network access control solutions, strategies and market trends, including NGFW and other firewall evolutions.

Gal Helemski
Co-Founder & Chief Innovation & Product (CIPO), PlainID
Gal is a recognized cyber security expert, leading Innovation and Product Strategy at PlainID. In the past 14 years she has defined solutions to customers, created and define project specs, technical documentation, presentations and training, primarily in the identity and access management area. Gal earned a Bachelor of Science degree in physics and computer science from Bar-Ilan University. She served for six years in the IDF's prestigious Mamram computing unit.

Andy Norton
Director, Threat Intelligence, Lastline
Norton has been involved in cyber security best practice for more than 20 years, specializing in establishing emerging security technologies at Symantec, Cisco and FireEye. He has presented threat and intelligence briefings for both Bush and Obama administrations, The Cabinet office, the Foreign and Commonwealth office, SWIFT, Swiss National Bank, The Hong Kong Monetary Authority, NASA and others. Returning to Europe from Asia in 2011, he has spent the past five years helping many of the FTSE 250 companies measure, manage and respond to cyber incidents.

Mohit Puri
Director Presales - India/SAARC, Sophos Technologies
Puri has 18 years of comprehensive experience with a unique blend of sales and presales and currently heads up the Presales at Sophos Technologies Pvt. Ltd for India/SAARC. He has strong experience handling SMB markets through distribution channels as well as direct large enterprise account management. He has been instrumental in building a multi-tier distribution model across the India subcontinent and Middle East market in different companies. Prior to this, he spent 4 years as the Country Manager for WatchGuard Technologies. He is an active speaker in Industry and channel events on Cybersecurity. He holds a Bachelor degree in Engineering and Master Degree in Information Technology.

Mark Loveless
Senior Security Researcher, Duo
Loveless, also known as Simple Nomad, has been involved in the hacker and security community for several decades. He has spoken at numerous hacker and security conferences worldwide, including Blackhat, DefCon, RSA, ShmooCon and DerbyCon. He has been interviewed by CNN, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Wired and others. As a security researcher for Duo Security, he explores IoT, network infrastructure, mobile security and other topics.

Robert Levine
COO, Uniken
Robert Levine currently serves as COO of Uniken. Prior to joining Uniken, Levine was President of a number of security organizations, including Aurionpro Solutions and SENA Systems, where he also served at CEO.

Asaf Cidon
Vice President, Content Security Services, Barracuda Networks
Asaf Cidon is the Vice President, Content Security Services at Barracuda Networks, where he co-leads the development of Barracuda Sentinel, the first product that provides comprehensive protection from spear phishing and communication fraud. Asaf completed his PhD at Stanford University, where his research focused on cloud storage and reliability, and was adopted by companies such as Facebook, Tibco, and NetApp. He previously founded and was the CEO of Sookasa, which was acquired by Barracuda Networks in 2016. He also worked as software engineer at Google. He is the recipient of SC Media's 2017 Rising Star Award and the Stanford Graduate Fellowship.

Ian Yip
Chief Technology Officer - Asia Pacific, McAfee; former Director of Cybersecurity, Ernst & Young
In addition to his current role as director of cybersecurity for Ernst & Young, Ian Yip has held a variety of leadership, advisory, sales, marketing, product management, consulting, and technical roles across Europe and Asia Pacific in some of the world's leading companies, including Ernst & Young, IBM, CA Technologies and NetIQ. In addition to being a published author, Yip has built, led and managed teams with multimillion dollar sales, operational and delivery targets, defined and executed go-to-market strategies based on market analysis & needs, set corporate and product strategy, brought new products to market, delivered major cyber-transformation programs & engagements, delivered keynote presentations at industry & corporate events, been interviewed and quoted in the media, and contributed articles to a variety of publications.

Badhrinarayanan Srinivasan
Principal Engineer, Network Security & Visibility, Ixia
Badhrinarayanan is the principal engineer, network security & visibility, for Ixia Solutions Group. He has been with Ixia for 8+ years. At Ixia, he is responsible for providing technical expertise for network testing products and for collaboration to the focused sales team for network equipment manufacturers, service providers, govt. and defense organizations.

Chip Mason
Lead, Mainframe Security Product Management, Broadcom
Chip Mason has over 20 years of experience in the software industry. Chip leads strategy and product definition for Mainframe Security products in CA Broadcom. In this capacity, Chip works to guide integration and product development toward delivering valuable Security solutions, as well as acting as a subject matter expert assisting customers to ensure security and compliance. Chip has experience across many areas of Enterprise IT, including Security Management, Software Development, Service Management, and Event Management. Chip is certified in Scaled Agile Framework and ITIL.
Chip resides in Raleigh, NC where he enjoys his family and photography.

Joseph Carson
Chief Security Scientist, Advisory CISO, Delinea
Joseph Carson has more than 25 years' experience in enterprise security; He has authored Privileged Account Management for Dummies and Cybersecurity for Dummies, is a cyber security professional and an ethical hacker. Carson is a cyber security advisor to several governments as well as critical infrastructure, financial and transportation companies. Carson is a seasoned speaker and has presented at conferences globally.
Ganesh Kirti
Chief Technology Officer, Palerra
Kirti brings 18 years of innovation and product development experience in security technologies at high growth companies. At Palerra, he drives all engineering, architecture and technical operations functions.

Piero DePaoli
Sr. Director, Product Marketing, Security and Risk, ServiceNow
Piero DePaoli leads product marketing for ServiceNow's Security Business Unit which includes its Security Operations and Governance, Risk, and Compliance solutions. Piero has more than twenty years of experience building and marketing mobility, security and cloud solutions for enterprises. Prior to joining ServiceNow, Piero led product marketing for Symantec's enterprise security products and previously held product management and product marketing with iPass, CompuServe Network Services, UUNET and MCI WorldCom. Piero holds an MBA with an emphasis in Information Systems and Marketing and a BA in Political Science and Economics from the University of California, Davis.

Michael Redman
Chief of the Policy and Accreditation Branch for the Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC)
Redman is recognized as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in his field by the Cyber Security & Information Assurance Center (CSIAC). Redman currently serves as Chief of the Policy and Accreditation Branch for the Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC) and is the Sr. Information Assurance Manager (IAM) for the United States Army Strategic Command (ARSTRAT). He is the Chief Information Assurance (IA) policy architect and advisor to the 3 star STRATCOM commanding General, responsible for the development of policies and procedures related to cyber assurance and data protection mechanisms. Redman plans, organizes and executes risk management and Department of Defense accreditation validation activities, determining security vulnerabilities utilizing a variety of classic and modern exploit tools and techniques.

Larry Allen
CIO, MCR Healthcare
With over a 17 years of Information Technology experience in healthcare and insurance environments, Allen has extensive healthcare technology management, compliance, and security. Larry holds a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology Management and an Associate of Science in Telecommunications Engineering. Additionally, he has held certifications in networking, security, and telecommunications from Cisco and Nortel Networks.

Matt Bohall
Senior Network Security Engineer, Miami Children's Hospital

Travis Funkhouser
Systems Engineer, ForeScout
Funkhouser joined ForeScout in 2013, from Nightingale Home Healthcare where he was Director of IT and the HIPAA Security Officer. Nightingale was a national U.S.-based home healthcare provider with 600 clinicians in 16 offices in ten states. Previous experience includes serving as the Information Security Team Lead for IU Health in Indianapolis, where for over seven years he was responsible for deploying and managing ForeScout's CounterACT solution in an environment of 140,000 hosts and 35,000 employees. Travis graduated from Indiana Institute of Technology with a degree in Management of Information Systems. He holds current CISSP, CISM, CHPS, and CPHIMS certifications as well as various information security and IT vendor certifications.

Andrew Janke
Senior Network Security Engineer, ING USFS
Janke is currently a Senior Network Security Engineer at ING USFS, where he administers the network security infrastructure, including the Intrusion Prevention System (TippingPoint), web security, and firewall management. Andrew also manages various network engineering projects in conjunction with various security teams to ensure network security is maintained. He previously served as a Senior Information Security Analyst with The University of Texas at Dallas, handling endpoint and network security, incident handling and forensics, as well as ad hoc risk analysis and vulnerability assessments.

Jim Doherty
Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), Certes Networks
Jim Doherty is the Chief Marketing Officer for Certes Networks, the leader in encryption solutions for high performance networks. Jim has 17 years of engineering and marketing experience across a broad range of networking and technology companies and has held leadership positions with Cisco Systems, Symbol Technologies (Motorola) and Ericsson. Jim is also creator and co-author of the "Networking Simplified" series of books, which includes the titles Cisco Networking Simplified, Home Networking Simplified, and several others. Jim is a former Marine Corps Sergeant and holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from N.C. State University and an MBA from Duke University.
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Chief of the Policy and Accreditation Branch for the Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC)
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