
Virtual Cybersecurity Summit: Connected Devices 2021
By 2025, researchers predict that we will have 41.6 billion connected devices in play. That’s a lot of real estate to protect. At our Connected Devices Cybersecurity Summit, former Microsoft Cybersecurity Field CTO, Diana Kelley, examines the risk inherent in these vulnerable devices, and she shares her vision of how to secure them via seven principles of an IoT security maturity model.

Aseem Jakhar
Co-Founder -Director Research and Development, Payatu
At Payatu, Jakhar heads the product development for CloudFuzz and IoT Auditor. He is the founder of null, https://null.co.in, the open security community, a registered not-for-profit organization and one of the largest security communities in Asia. He also organizes https://nullcon.net and https://hardwear.io security conferences. Aseem has authored various open-source security software including: EXPLIoT - IoT Exploitation Framework; DIVA Android (Damn Insecure and Vulnerable App for Android); Jugaad/Indroid - Linux Thread Injection Kit for x86 and ARM; and Dexfuzzer - Dex file format fuzzer.

Yasser Rasheed
Global Director of Enterprise Client Sales, Intel
Rasheed is the global director of enterprise client sales at Intel. He leads commercial client sales in the EMEA and APJ regions, focusing on products such as Intel® vPro™ platforms. Prior to this role, Rasheed was the chief technology officer for Intel’s business client platform division, responsible for technical strategy, product definition, architecture and execution of key ecosystem innovation programs for Intel’s business client platforms.

Brad Ree
CTO, IoXT Alliance
Proud military veteran (Army Aviation), separated from the military to enter in the technology field. I have worked for more than 20-years in the critical infrastructure and information security arena. Supported the federal government and Intelligence Community for over 20 years before transitioning to the commercial sector. Outside of work, enjoy reading and international travel.X

Kevin Fu
Acting Director, Medical Device Cybersecurity, FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health
Kevin Fu, PhD, is associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan. He directs the university's Archimedes Research Center for Medical Device Security. Previously, Fu served as an associate professor of computer science and adjunct associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is also a co-founder, CEO and chief scientist at Virta Laboratories, a healthcare cybersecurity company.

Brad Beutlich
Vice President of Western and LATAM Sales, Entrust
Brad Beutlich, Vice President of Western and LATAM Sales at Entrust, is an information security professional who has worked with numerous US based companies over the past 20 years, providing security solutions ranging from end-point, to data security. The last 13 years he has worked for nCipher Security providing security solutions that protect customer data, financial transactions and IoT device manufacturing. Brad holds a BS in Electrical Engineering Technology from Bradley University, and is an award-winning writer and speaker on numerous security topics. His passion as a historian is on brass-era (pre 1913) automobiles, of which he owns a 120-year-old car that runs on steam. As an avid skier, he hits the slopes on the weekends when possible. Brad resides with his wife and three children in Southern California.

Farid Bichareh
CTO, AASA Inc. - 01LightComm
He began his professional career as an Electrical Control Engineer designing automated and integrated systems, robotic solutions, and optical rotary encoders (Visible Light Communication enabled sensors). Over the past 20 years, he has worked as adjunct professor, technical and research lead, program director, business development manager, chief product officer, chief technology officer, chief executive officer and technology, innovative, IIoT and digital/smart factory transformation consultant at multi-national corporations including Dupont/DJ chemical, Delphi/Aptiv Automotive, Ford/Comau Robotics, Homag/Dü, Haworth, SteelCase, Boeing, Stryker; as well as for US Government agencies including the Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC), and the US Census Bureau. As an entrepreneur he has founded/co-founded 7 different businesses and organizations and served as a top executive and board member. He now serves as the Chief Technology Officer of AASA, where he also co-founded the technology spinoff, 01LightCom. His recent focus includes the COVID-19 impact on the industry, manufacturing and IoT/IIoT, and co-founding Touchless Technology LLC. serving as Chief Executive Officer, with the objective of developing a smart wrist band that can help and provide social distancing and track and tracing in workspace and manufacturing and also prevents workforce from touching their faces; the prototype of this product is finalized and is under final tests. Currently, he also serves as Chair of Smart factory and Steering Committee member of Industrial Internet Consortium.


Diana Kelley
CTO and Founding Partner, SecurityCurve & former Cybersecurity Field CTO, Microsoft
Diana Kelley is the Cybersecurity Field CTO for Microsoft and a cybersecurity architect, practitioner, executive advisor and author. At Microsoft, she leverages her 25+ years of cyber risk and security experience to provide advice and guidance to CSOs, CIOs and CISOs at some of the world's largest companies and is a contributor the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR). She was the Global Executive Security Advisor at IBM Security where she built and managed the IBM Security Research Community Newsroom process and was a regular contributor to IBM X-Force research. Kelley is a faculty member with IANS Research, an Industry Mentor at the CyberSecurity Factory and a guest lecturer at Boston College's Master of Science in Cybersecurity program. She serves on the Board of Directors at the non-profit Sightline Security, was an IEEE "Rock Star of Risk" in 2016, speaks frequently at major conferences and co-authored the book Cryptographic Libraries for Developers.

Merritt Maxim
VP, Research Director, Forrester
Maxim leads a team of analysts who provide research and advisory services on topics such as identity and access management, fraud management, cloud security, threat intelligence, detection and response, and cyber risk quantification. He also provides Forrester's coverage of specific security topics including IAM, physical security and IoT security. Prior to becoming research director in 2019, Merritt served as principal analyst at Forrester, helping global security leaders derive significant business value from their IAM initiatives.
Session Contributors
CTO and Founding Partner, SecurityCurve & former Cybersecurity Field CTO, Microsoft
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