What keeps you up at night?

Freakyclown is author, keynote speaker, Co-Founder of Cygenta and former Head of Offensive Cyber Research at Raytheon. As an ethical hacker for the last three decades, FC has helped thousands of banks, governments and other organizations advance their security. ​ Scott Schober is a #cybersecurity​ and wireless technology expert, author of Hacked Again and Cybersecurity is Everybody's Business, hos...

Wes was the sole founder in 1981 of Delphi Internet Services Corporation, "The Company That Popularized The Internet" according to Michael Woolf, and was the creator of the world’s first online encyclopedia. At the time it was sold to Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation in 1993, Delphi had been profitable for years and was among the four largest social networks, along with AOL, CompuServe and Prodig...

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/secon-nj-2023-tickets-556584648667 Ken Fishkin leads a national law firm’s information security and data privacy programs, and mitigates their security and privacy risks to comply with client and regulatory requirements. He has more than 20 years of experience implementing and supporting secure, complex information technology infrastructures. Since 2020, he has been th...

Patrick Hynds is CEO and Founder of DTS and Pulsar Security, Patrick is a recognized technology leader with expertise in Microsoft technologies, software development, network architecture, and enterprise security. Patrick has spent two decades as a Microsoft Regional Director, frequently speaking at technical events throughout the world, and is a graduate of West Point and a decorated Gulf War vet...

Kayne McGladrey, CISSP, is the field CISO for Hyperproof and a senior member of the IEEE. He has over two decades of experience in cybersecurity and has served as a CISO and advisory board member, and focuses on the policy, social, and economic effects of cybersecurity lapses to individuals, companies, and the nation. Hyperproof’s mission is to help organizations demonstrate their commitment to up...

Lassaad Fridhi has broad experience in cybersecurity, privacy, compliance, risk, and data protection, and is a speaker, motivator, and mentor. He is also VP & CISO at Frontline Education and is responsible for all security matters, including corporate and product security. Before joining Frontline Education in early 2020, and after several years of experience in the not-for-profit sector, he joine...

Bill Malik helps clients achieve an effective information security posture spanning endpoints, networks, servers, cloud, and the Internet of Things. During his four-decade IT career, Bill Malik has worked as an application programmer with the John Hancock Insurance company; an OS developer, tester, and planner with IBM; a research director and manager at Gartner for the Information Security Strate...

If you are attending Black Hat this year and would like to meet with David please contact Benjamin at Benjamin_Masso@trendmicro.com. If you are looking to securely accelerate your digital transformation but can’t make it out to Vegas this year tune into our Virtual Booth to chat with experts and download resources: https://resources.trendmicro.com/Blac... David Chow has extensive experience in the...

Curtis Preston (AKA Mr. Backup) has specialized in designing data protection systems since 1993, and has designed such systems for some of the largest organizations in the world. His lively prose and wry, real-world approach has made him a popular author and speaker. He has written four O'Reilly books, the latest of which is Modern Data Protection, published in 2021. He is also the host of BackupC...

Paul Innella is TDI’s CEO and has nearly twenty-five years of corporate executive, cyber security, and computer science experience. He founded, financed, and built TDI into a world-class consulting firm offering cyber security services to hundreds of government agencies and commercial clients around the world. Mr. Innella grew TDI year after year to be a multimillion dollar, consistently-profitabl...

What keeps executives, attendees, enthusiasts and cybersecurity experts at Black Hat 2021 up at night? Scott Schober is a #cybersecurity​ and wireless technology expert, author of Hacked Again and Cybersecurity is Everybody's Business, host of 2 Minute CyberSecurity Briefing video podcast and CEO of Berkeley Varitronics Systems who appears regularly on Bloomberg TV, Fox Business & Fox News, CGTN A...

Roger A. Grimes is Data-Driven Defense Evangelist for KnowBe4. Roger is a 33-year computer security consultant, instructor, holder of dozens of computer certifications, and author of 12 books and over 1,100 magazine articles on computer security. He has spoken at many of the world’s biggest computer security conferences, been in Newsweek magazine, appeared on television, been interviewed for NPR’s...

Evan Kirstel is a tech influencer that has a tremendous social media presence with over 500,000 social media followers. So what keeps him up at night? Evan is helping B2B tech brands achieve massive visibility and scale across the social media landscape in areas like mobile, blockchain, cloud, 5G, HealthTech, IoT, AI, Digital Health, crypto, AR, VR, Big Data, Analytics and CyberSecurity. Evan has...

Sean Higgins is CTO for the Herjavec Group and responsible for driving partnership through Managed Services onboarding experiences. Sean C. Higgins has worked in the Information Technology Field for over 30 years with a specific focus on Internet Security for the last 20 years. In the early days of Internet Security, Sean worked closely with Check Point Firewall-1 in bringing the technology to Can...

Kimberly has over 10 years of cybersecurity and Identity and Access Management (IAM) market knowledge and experience, gained across multiple authentication and cybersecurity firms. Now as the VP of Product at BIO-key International Kimberly is focused on driving growth and deployments of BIO-key’s IAM and identity-bound biometric solutions. Kimberly continues to be a thought leader and advocate for...

Erich Kron is Security Awareness Advocate at KnowBe4 and veteran information security professional with over 20 years’ experience in the medical, aerospace manufacturing and defense fields. Erich is the former security manager for the US Army's 2nd Regional Cyber Center-Western Hemisphere and holds CISSP, CISSP-ISSAP, MCITP and ITIL v3 certifications, among others. Erich has worked with informatio...

Evgeniy Kharam is the VP of Cybersecurity Solution Architecture at Herjavec Group. In his current role at Herjavec, Evgeniy designs optimum security solutions for large enterprise clients by taking into account both their current infrastructure and future needs. Evgeniy recently started the Security Architecture podcast to give back to communities and help companies improve cybersecurity architect...

Marc Raphael is an IT and Cybersecurity Architect, with a wealth of experience in multiple disciplines in the IT field ranging from software and hardware development to infrastructure and cybersecurity. He developed the cryptography algorithm called “Shared Intelligence” which is a potential quantum-safe cryptography. He has fulfilled deep technical roles as well as leadership positions. He has wo...

Dana Mantilia is the founder of Identity Protection Planning. Dana Mantilia and her company help people protect themselves, their families and their businesses from identity thieves, scammers and cyber criminals. Dana shares educational content on her social media platforms that is easy to understand and a bit humorous. Scott Schober is a #cybersecurity​ and wireless technology expert, author of H...

Mikko Hypponen is a well known security and privacy expert and the chief research officer at F-Secure Corporation. He has led his team through some of the largest computer virus outbreaks in history including the Sobig. F worm, the Sasser outbreak, and he has even participated in classified briefings on the Stuxnet worm. F-Secure is a global cyber security and privacy company with over 30 offices...

Al Monserrat’s is the Chairman of the Board for itopia. His career spans more than twenty-five years in large enterprises and entrepreneurial ventures within enterprise software, mobility, cloud, security, digital payments, and business strategy. Previously, he was President of Imaging Division at Nuance Communications, taking the Division through its acquisition by Kofax, Inc. Before Nuance, he w...

Fabio Fischer is the CEO of Sikur and specializes in business structuring and international law with more than 22 years of executive leadership experience in the ITO/BPO market. At Sikur, he takes charge of company strategy, product management and go-to-market strategy. He is currently based in Sophia Antipolis, France. Scott Schober is a #cybersecurity​ and wireless technology expert, author of H...

Perry Carpenter is the author of, "Transformational Security Awareness: What Neuroscientists, Storytellers, and Marketers Can Teach Us About Driving Secure Behaviors” Perry currently serves as Chief Evangelist and Strategy Officer for KnowBe4, the provider of the world’s largest security awareness and simulated phishing platform. Previously, he led security awareness, security culture management,...

Gil Hecht has been serving as CEO of Continuity Software since he founded the company in 2005. He is responsible for building Continuity’s leadership in the Cyber Resilience space and establishing the company’s vision. Before founding Continuity Software, Gil was the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Savantis Systems, a leading provider of database virtualization solutions. Gil began his career leading...

Peggy Smedley is a Radio host, author, editorial director, and president of Specialty Publishing Media. She has 25 years of experience as a futurist and specialist in IoT, AI, construction, sustainability, infrastructure, and digital transformation. Peggy is an award-winning journalist including the 2019 ASCE Excellence in Journalism Award. Her motto “with great technology, comes great responsibil...