Security Operations

Brett Beranek

Vice President & General Manager, Security Line of Business, Nuance Communications, Inc.

Brett Beranek currently serves as Vice President and General Manager of Nuance Communication's Security line of business. A CX and biometrics expert, Beranek is fascinated by transformative technologies that have a real impact on our lives. With over 15 years of experience in the customer experience and biometrics space, he brings strategic and tactical insights to organizations wishing to deliver a better experience to their customers via innovative security technologies. Prior to joining Nuance, Beranek was a technologist and entrepreneur by education and passion, successfully introduced several disruptive technologies to the health-care, IT and security markets, including as a partner of facial recognition firm Viion Systems and member of Genetec's management team, a security firm that transformed the video surveillance market. He also currently serves on the advisory board of high-tech healthcare startup GaitTronics.

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Jason Costain

Head of Fraud Strategy and Relationship Management, Royal Bank of Scotland

Jason Costain currently serves as the Head of Fraud Strategy and Relationship Management at Royal Bank of Scotland, where he has worked for the past 3 years. Having held various 'head of function' roles in Tier 1 UK Banks, he has spent the last 15 years specialising in Fraud Prevention, Sanctions, and Anti-Money Laundering. Costain is a Member of the International Compliance Association and is holder of an ICA Diploma in Financial Crime Prevention.

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Ondrej Krehel

Cybersecurity & Digital Forensics, LIFARS LLC

Krehel is the Digital Forensic Lead, CEO & Founder of LIFARS LLC, an international cybersecurity and digital forensics firm, and the Captain at Cyber Team Six, an elite incident response team. He's the former CISO of Identity Theft 911, the nation's premier identity theft recovery and data breach management service. He previously conducted forensics investigations and cyber security consulting at Stroz Friedberg. With two decades of experience, he conducted a wide range of investigations including data breached through computer intrusions, theft of intellectual property, massive deletions, defragmentation, file carvings, anti-money laundering, financial fraud, mathematical modeling and computer hacking. Krehel's experience also includes working as the IT Security Technical Project Leader for the Loews Corporation, Fortune 100 in NYC, and as a computer analyst for the Slovakian government-owned utility company.

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Jeffrey Dant

Global Lead, Fraud Fusion Center, Citi

Jeff Dant currently serves as 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.

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Mark Rasch

Principal, Rasch Technology and Cyber Law; former Chief Security Evangelist, Verizon

Rasch is an attorney and author, working in the areas of corporate and government cybersecurity, privacy and incident response. He is currently the chief security evangelist for Verizon Communications after having been VP, deputy general counsel, and chief privacy and data security officer for SAIC. From 1983-1992, Rasch worked at the U.S. Department of Justice within the Criminal Division's Fraud Section. Rasch earned a J.D. in 1983 from State University of New York at Buffalo and is a 1976 graduate of the Bronx High School of Science.

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Avinash Lotke

Director - Technology Solutions, CyberSecurity Solution Group, Microsoft

Avinash Lotke currently serves as Director of Technology Solutions in the CyberSecurity Solution Group of Microsoft. Lotke is responsible for driving Microsoft's sales and business development across APJ. He spends his time working with customers and partners, to address their business needs. He also interacts closely with product teams across the globe to incorporate feedback into the product capabilities. Prior to joining Microsoft, he was Business Development Director for Symantec's Threat Protection Business in Asia Pacific & Japan. During his tenure, he held multiple positions including regional product marketing, sales and systems engineering leadership roles. Prior to Symantec, Lotke worked with Microsoft as a Technology Specialist in Singapore for close to 5 years.

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Charanjit Singh Sodhi

Executive Director - Head of Identity and Access Management, Nomura Wholesale

Charanjit Singh Sodhi currently serves as Executive Director and Head of Identity and Access Management for Nomura Wholesale. He boasts over 25 years of experience in handling information security, cyber security, IT risk, business continuity and technology in Nomura, JP Morgan Chase, Fidelity, Bharti Airtel and the Indian Navy.

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Ian Farquhar

Distinguished Sales Engineer, Gigamon

Ian Farquhar has worked in IT Security for over 25 years and has built his career with large organizations such RSA/EMC, Cisco, Sun MicroSystems, Silicon Graphics/ Cray Research and Macquarie University. Ian is the worldwide security subject matter expert at Gigamon and leads the worldwide security team of specialist sales engineers. He and his team work closely to evaluate and engage with customers whose security needs require a deep level of expertise. He is a key contributor to guiding the development of next-generation security solutions and capabilities, working closely with the teams from product management and engineering. Ian has had experience designing, deploying and evaluating network security architectures in government agencies, enterprises and service providers worldwide. Ian is based in Sydney, Australia and has a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from Macquarie University.

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Vaishali Bhagwat

Advocate-Cyber Law Professional

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Uday Deshpande

Group CISO, L&T Group of Companies

Deshpande is a dynamic leader with more than 20 years of experience leading global information security programs, enterprise risk management and compliance projects. He is adept at information security strategy, has designed and implemented security architecture and secured information assets through innovative use of technology. He is successful at building cohesive teams, communicating at all levels, and working with acute & aggressive timelines. He is an astute business manager with a keen understanding of tomorrow's cyber security threats and possesses the skills to align them with organization's strategic business goals. Deshpande constantly aims to improve enterprise security posture in challenging, cost-centric and multifaceted environments.

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Sachin Kawalkar

Vice President, J P Morgan

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Ganesh Prasad

Pre-Sales Manager, India & SAARC, RSA

Ganesh Prasad currently serves as Pre-Sales Manager for RSA.

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Ronald Raether

Partner, Troutman Sanders

Ron Raether leads the Cybersecurity, Information Governance and Privacy practice and is a partner in the Financial Services Litigation practice group at Troutman Sanders. Ron is known as the interpreter between businesses and information technology, and has assisted companies in navigating federal and state privacy laws for over twenty years. Raether's understanding of technology led him to be involved in legal issues that cross normal law firm boundaries, including experience with data security, data privacy, patent, antitrust, and licensing and contracts. This experience allows Raether to bring a fresh and creative perspective to data compliance issues with the knowledge and historical perspective of an industry veteran.

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Roger Grimes

Data-Driven Defense Evangelist

Roger Grimes is a 30-year computer security consultant, instructor, holder of dozens of computer certifications and an award-winning author of 10 books and over 1,000 magazine articles on computer security. 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 has been the weekly security columnist for InfoWorld and CSO magazines since 2005.

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Paul Turner

CTO for Products, Venafi

Turner has worked directly with many of the world's largest Global 2000 companies to solve security and operational challenges related to cryptographic key and certificate management. In addition to working with and presenting at IEEE, IETF and ISACA, Turner has worked closely with the NIST, where he coauthored the July 2012 Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) bulletin, Preparing for and Responding to Certification Authority Compromise and Fraudulent Certificate Issuance, and the NISTIR 7966, Security of Interactive and Automated Access Management Using Secure Shell (SSH). Prior to Venafi, Turner was a vice president for Novell's Resource Management group and served as vice president of product management at CertCo, a spinout from Bankers Trust that delivered public key infrastructure (PKI) and secure electronic commerce solutions to the financial services industry.

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Mustafa Rassiwala

Sr. Director of Products, Lastline

Rassiwala has more than 10 years of experience in security product management, building DLP, SIEM, security analytics, fraud management and network security products. He has proven success at many companies including RSA, Symantec, HPE (ArcSight) and startups such as ThreatMetrix, Platfora and JASK. He has also held engineering roles at EMC/Documentum.

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Imran Ahmad

Partner - Toronto Office, Miller Thomson LLP

Ahmad works closely with clients to develop and implement practical pre- and post-breach mitigation strategies. He advises risk assessments, compliance, due diligence, risk allocation, security and data breach incident preparedness, as well as engages with regulators and law enforcement, providing representation in case of litigation. Ahmad sits on the Canadian Advanced Technologies Alliance's Cyber Security Council and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Ontario Bar Association's Privacy and Access to Information Law Section. Recently, he was appointed to the National Cyber Security Leadership Council on Youth and Education. Prior to his call to the bar, Ahmad was a political adviser to retired Lieutenant-General and Senator Roméo A. Dallaire, and clerked for Justice Edmond P. Blanchard at the Federal Court of Canada and Competition Tribunal in Ottawa.

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Ruth Promislow

Partner, Commercial Litigation, Fraud and Cybersecurity Practice, Bennett Jones LLP, Toronto

Ruth Promislow practices commercial litigation with a strong focus on commercial crime, including cybersecurity, Ponzi schemes, investment fraud, employee fraud and anti-money laundering. She has extensive experience with recovery issues relating to commercial crime, including receiverships, tracing, freezing and recovering proceeds of crime. Promislow oversees and conducts internal investigations for clients, working with internal and external auditors and works with clients to develop and implement comprehensive and effective action plans following a cybersecurity or other fraudulent attack, and also advises on steps to prevent against such attacks.

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David Bosomworth

Director, WorldWide, IBM Security Intelligence

David helps clients develop a security strategy and employ the best technologies to meet their specific IT security needs. He is responsible for leading the IBM Security Intelligence team in the development and delivery of offerings that protect enterprises with intelligent, integrated IT security solutions and expertise.

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Chris Meenan

Director, QRadar Security Intelligence Product Management and Strategy, IBM Security

With over 15 years experience in product management, Chris has also been involved in developing, managing, releasing and selling software products for over 25 years. He has an extensive market, domain, and customer knowledge in IT Security, Customer Relationship Management and Telecom OSS solutions. Chris holds a 1st Honours degree in Physics, and has a PhD in telecommunications.

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