
Zero Trust

Sami Laine
Principal Security Architect, Okta
Sami Laine is Principal Security Architect at Okta. Over the last two decades, Sami has helped many of the world's largest enterprises, financial institutions, and public sector organizations protect against fraud, malware, threats, and data breaches. At Okta he helps companies embrace identity as the new security perimeter.


Bil Harmer
CISO and Chief Evangelist, SecureAuth
Bil has been in the IT industry for 30 years. He has been at the forefront of the Internet since 1995 and his work in security began in 1998. He has led security for startups, Government and well established Financial Institutions. In 2007 he pioneered the use of the SAS70 coupled with ISO to create a trusted security audit methodology used by the SaaS industry until the introduction of the SOC2. He has presented on Security and Privacy in Canada, Europe and the US at conferences such as RSA, ISSA, GrrCon and the Cloud Security Alliance. He has been interviewed by and has written for various publications such as Dark Reading, Data Informed, The Belfast Telegraph and Security Intelligence. His vision and technical abilities have been used on advisory boards for Adallom, Trust Science, ShieldX, Resolve and Integris. He has served as Chief Security Officer for GoodData, VP Security & Global Privacy Officer for the Cloud Division of SAP, the Americas CISO for Zscaler and now serves as the Chief Evangelist and CISO for SecureAuth.

Chris Frenz
AVP of IT Security, Mount Sinai South Nassau
Christopher Frenz currently serves as the AVP of Information Security at Mount Sinai South Nassau where he worked to develop the hospital's information security program and infrastructure. Under his leadership the hospital has been one of the first in the country to embrace a zero trust model for network security. Frenz has also played a role in pushing for the adoption of improved security standards within hospitals and is the author of the OWASP Secure Medical Device Deployment Standard as well as the OWASP Anti-Ransomware Guide.

Kierk Sanderlin
Head of Engineering, Check Point Software Technologies
Sanderlin is the Head of Engineering and a part of the Office of the CTO team at Check Point Software Technologies. He has been in the cyber field for over 20 years where he has held various roles related to design, implementation, evangelism and leadership. Kierk has a passion to educate the masses on current threats and develop the next generation of cyber defenders.

Anahi Santiago
CISO, Christiana Care Health System
As Christiana Care Health System's Chief Information Security Officer, Anahi Santiago is charged with providing strategic direction and oversight to a comprehensive security program, policy development, standards and controls implementation, training and awareness, regular risk assessment and mitigation, as well as partnerships with internal and external auditors. She also regularly collaborates with state and federal regulatory bodies and actively contributes to proposed state and federal regulations that govern privacy and information security. Before joining Christiana, Santiago provided similar support for the Albert Einstein Healthcare Network at a director level.
Jack Koons
Chief Cybersecurity Strategist, Unisys
Jack Koons joined Unisys Corporation in 2016 and currently serves as Chief Cybersecurity Strategist and technology evangelist responsible for development, enablement, and execution of Unisys global security go-to-market efforts; Jack is also active within InfraGard (joint private sector partnership with the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation), focused on critical infrastructure protection.
A former 25-year career (retired) senior United States Department of Defense full-spectrum Cyber Warfare Officer whose globally-spanning operational, management, and leadership assignments include extensive service within the US National Intelligence, Special Operations, and Cyber communities; Jack is an accomplished author and lecturer on the topic of cyber warfare and security, and is a founding member of the US Army's Cyber Warfare Career Field and emergent United States Department of Defense cyberspace effort.
Jack is a fully-cleared Unisys global security solutions customer advocate - currently working with worldwide commercial, public sector, and National Security information technology communities - to further develop, refine, and operationalize requirements and capabilities across the technology and security spectrum.

Jaret Osborne
Lead Solutions Engineer, Duo Security
Jaret Osborne currently serves as Lead Solutions Engineer for Duo Security. Jaret provides pre-sales engineering support for organizations of all sizes, including product education, planning and deployment of Duo Security products. He has over 20 years experience in security, collaboration, and general data networking - supporting organizations and service providers globally.

Moshe Ishai
Co-Founder & General Manager, HolistiCyber
Moshe Ishai currently serves as Co-Founder & General Manager HolistiCyber. A world class expert in cybersecurity, he is a senior advisor to several National Cyber CERT nation level committees. Ishai has over 20 years of broad experience and knowledge in Cybersecurity and Information Systems and has played a major role in helping global clients in the financial, high technology, telecommunications and defense sectors successfully implement cybersecurity defense strategies. Before co-founding HolistiCyber, Ishai served as the CEO of COMSEC - the first and largest Information Security and cybersecurity consulting group in Israel. Before being appointed CEO of COMSEC, he filled roles as a Division Director, CTO, and VP Services & Projects, as well as leading the development teams at Malam systems.

Markku Rossi
Chief Technology Officer, SSH Communications Security
Markku Rossi currently serves as Chief Technology Officer, SSH Communications Security. With more than 25 years of software engineering and architecture experience, he is responsible for R&D and directs the company's technology strategy. Prior to his current role, Rossi served as CTO at Navicore and Chief Architect at Nokia. He also co-founded several companies, including Codento and ShopAdvisor. Rossi served SSH previously to these roles, serving as Chief Engineer and has been heralded as a major contributor to the SSH software architecture.

Amanda Rogerson
Lead Healthcare Product Manager, Duo Security
Amanda Rogerson is part of the Product team at Duo, where she assists in establishing messaging needed to drive engagements regarding Duo Security's Trusted Access vision with a focus on the HealthCare Industry. She has more than two decades of experience working in tech, with the last five years being focused on access management and authentication. Through various roles in Product Marketing, Customer Success and Enterprise Sales, Rogerson has assisted companies of all sizes to understand how to successfully balance security with usability.

Ricardo Font
Senior Product Marketing Manager, Gigamon
Ricardo Font is a Senior Product Marketing Manager with Gigamon. He has over 15 years of experience in the security space, working with directly with vendor Security Technologies (Firewalls, IDS/IPS, Mail/Web gateways, ATP, NDR, Identity) in both pre and post sales roles and as a Product Manager. He resides in Atlanta.

Michael Dubinsky
Head of Product Mgmt. - Zero Trust, Information Security Group, Symantec
Michael is the head of product for Symantec's Zero Trust solution, driving strategy and execution of multiple products to help our customers implement the Zero Trust security model across their data. Previously Michael served as the VP of Product Management for Luminate Security, where he was driving the product strategy and execution of Secure Access Cloud, a Zero Trust access solution, which was acquired by Symantec in 2019.

Dylan DeAnda
Global Head, Partner Technical Solution Engineering, Tanium
Mr. DeAnda has been with Tanium for over 7 years, serving customers in technical and leadership roles. He has provided security and operations support for all four DoD service branches, including the DOD CIO's current deployment of Tanium across the Department of Defense. He lives and loves in Whitefish, Montana with his family of five, as well as two above average Labrador Retrievers. Mr. DeAnda began his career serving as a Non-Commissioned Officer, Korean Linguist, and an Electronic Warfare Specialist in the US Army. He has spoken at US State Department, NATO, DoD, and UK MoD on the topics of security, automation, and operational scale, and has authored and edited technical books on Microsoft Web Servers. Today, as Global VP of Partner Technical Solutions, Mr. DeAnda is focused on making the Tanium Partner Community successful in building massively scalable endpoint operations and security practices.

John Kindervag
Creator of Zero Trust, SVP, Cybersecurity Strategy, ON2IT Group
Kindervag joined Palo Alto Networks as Field CTO in 2017 after eight and one half years at Forrester Research where he was a Vice President and Principal Analyst on the Security and Risk Team. John is considered one of the world's foremost cybersecurity experts. He is best known for creating the revolutionary Zero Trust Model of Cybersecurity. He currently advises both public and private sector organizations with the design and building of Zero Trust Networks and other Cybersecurity topics. He holds, or has held, numerous industry certifications, including QSA, CISSP, CEH, and CCNA. John has a practitioner background, having served as a security consultant, penetration tester, and security architect. He has particular expertise in the areas of secure network design, wireless security, and voice-over-IP hacking. He has been interviewed and published in numerous publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and The New York Times. He has also appeared on television networks such as CNBC, Fox News, PBS, and Bloomberg discussion information security topics. John has spoken at many security conferences and events, including RSA, SXSW, ToorCon, ShmoCon, InfoSec Europe, and InfoSec World. John has a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications from the University of Iowa and lives in Dallas, TX.
Jack Koons
Chief Cybersecurity Strategist, Unisys
Jack Koons joined Unisys Corporation in 2016 and currently serves as Chief Cybersecurity Strategist and technology evangelist responsible for development, enablement, and execution of Unisys global security go-to-market efforts; Jack is also active within InfraGard (joint private sector partnership with the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation), focused on critical infrastructure protection.
A former 25-year career (retired) senior United States Department of Defense full-spectrum Cyber Warfare Officer whose globally-spanning operational, management, and leadership assignments include extensive service within the US National Intelligence, Special Operations, and Cyber communities; Jack is an accomplished author and lecturer on the topic of cyber warfare and security, and is a founding member of the US Army's Cyber Warfare Career Field and emergent United States Department of Defense cyberspace effort.
Jack is a fully-cleared Unisys global security solutions customer advocate - currently working with worldwide commercial, public sector, and National Security information technology communities - to further develop, refine, and operationalize requirements and capabilities across the technology and security spectrum.

Ron Ross
Fellow, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Ross is a Fellow at NIST. His focus areas include cybersecurity, systems security engineering, cyber resiliency, security architecture, privacy, and risk management. Ross leads the FISMA Implementation Project and the Systems Security Engineering Initiative, which includes the development of cybersecurity and privacy standards and guidelines for the federal government, contractors, and the U.S. critical infrastructure.
Session Contributors
First US CISO & Director, CERT Division, Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute
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