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This list showcases the top United States based CTO’ operating in the Cyber Security space. If you think a CTO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Nir Zuk
Founder & CTO of Palo Alto Networks
Nir Zuk founded Palo Alto Networks in 2005 and has served on the board since its inception. Nir brings a wealth of network security expertise and industry experience to Palo Alto Networks. Nir is a former EIR at Greylock Partners, a successful serial entrepreneur and a network security expert. Prior to co-founding Palo Alto Networks, Nir was CTO at NetScreen Technologies, acquired by Juniper Networks in 2004. Prior to NetScreen, Nir was co-founder and CTO at OneSecure, a pioneer in intrusion prevention and detection appliances. Nir was also a principal engineer at Check Point Software Technologies and was one of the developers of stateful inspection technology.
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
May Wang
CTO of Palo Alto Networks
May Wang is CTO at Palo Alto Networks.
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Kevin Mahaffey
Co-Founder & CTO of Lookout
Kevin Mahaffey began building (and breaking) software at eight years old and it has been a love affair ever since. Currently, he is CTO and Founder of Lookout. Recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer, Lookout is a cybersecurity company that protects mobile devices for tens of millions of individuals and more than 150 enterprises globally. Kevin was featured as one of Inc. Magazine’s Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30 and is a frequent presenter at technology and industry events, including: Blackhat, DEFCON, RSA, Web Summit, CeBIT, and the World Economic Forum. An active investor, Kevin has invested in more than 60 startups, focusing on enterprise software and technology-driven transformation of large markets. When he’s not helping build startups, he’s an avid kitesurfer, photographer, and snowboarder.
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About Lookout: Lookout is a cybersecurity company that integrates endpoint security with SASE technologies to secure data while respecting user privacy.
Armon Dadgar
Co-Founder & CTO of HashiCorp
Armon (@armon) has a passion for distributed systems and their application to real world problems. He is currently the CTO of HashiCorp, where he brings distributed systems into the world of DevOps tooling. He has worked on Nomad, Vault, Terraform, Consul, and Serf at HashiCorp, and maintains the Statsite and Bloomd OSS projects as well.
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About HashiCorp: HashiCorp is a remote-first company that solves development, security, and operations challenges in infrastructure.
Geva Solomonovich
CTO, Global Alliances of Snyk
Geva brings 13+ years of experience in tech startups, with specialized experience in Fraud Management and Payments. Prior to joining Openbucks, Geva managed PayPal’s Mobile Payments Library. Before that, he co-founded PayPal’s Risk department Architecture group, in which he lead the architecture of a ground breaking, large scale, multi-tiered and highly scalable new Fraud Detection Platform. Before that, Geva managed development in FraudSciences, where he built the automated Fraud Detection Machine Learning algorithms which were a critical part in making the FraudSciences’ acquisition for $170M by PayPal happen. Geva holds a B.Sc Cum Laude in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Tel-Aviv University, and is currently completing his MBA from Haas School of Business in Berkeley. In his free time, Geva enjoys road biking, playing the drums and poker.
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About Openbucks, Snyk: Snyk is a cloud native application security provider that enables millions of developers to build software securely.
Michael Egorov
Co-founder & CTO of NuCypher
Michael Egorov is the Founder & CEO at Curve Finance.Michael is a physicist and scientist from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. A bronze medalist in the 2003 International Physics Olympiad, he studied ultra-cold atoms as a post-doc.
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About Curve Finance, LoanCoin, NuCypher: NuCypher is a cryptography company that builds privacy-preserving infrastructure and protocols.
Konstantin Vilk
CTO of QuSecure
Konstantin Vilk has a passion for making a difference using advances in technology. He has over 15 years of experience in cyber security, technology infrastructure, product design and development. He has worked with some of the best-recognized names in Biotechnology, US government, Consumer Goods and Financial Services sectors over the course of his career. Currently he is fueling his passion for developing new practices and approaches to Cyber Security.
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About Gimmel Entrepreneurs Fund, Quantum Thought, QuSecure: QuSecure is bringing vital quantum security and communication products that secure enterprise and government in the quantum computing era.
Jakob Ehrensvard
CTO & Co-Founder of Yubico
Built his first computer at the age of 15, self-employed software and hardware engineer since 19, designed the security system for Sweden’s largest nuclear plant at 25. Leading inventor of the YubiKey and FIDO/WebAuthn standards.
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About Yubico: Yubico offers USB and wireless authentication solutions.
Roy Feintuch
Cloud CTO of Check Point Software Technologies
Roy Feintuch is the Cloud CTO @ Check Point.
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About Check Point Software Technologies: Check Point Software Technologies provides and protects customers from cyberattacks.
Michael Sprague
CTO & Co-Founder of Rivetz
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About Rivetz: Rivetz is a developer of a hardware-based cyber-security system used to offer a simplified approach to cybersecurity.
Matthias Kadenbach
CTO & Co-founder of Templarbit
CTO & Co-founder at Templarbit Inc.
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About Templarbit: Templarbit protects applications from malicious activity.
Stan Blanton
Co-Founder and CTO of Gradient Cyber
Stan Blanton is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Gradient Cyber.
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About Atigeo, Gradient Cyber: Gradient is a cybersecurity products and services company that visualizes an organization’s cybersecurity health.
Avi Turgeman
Founder & CTO of BioCatch
Avi is a founder of BioCatch, and comes with over six years of experience in the Israeli military intelligence (unit 8200) as a researcher and R&D team leader.During his military service Avi became well versed in white-hat hacking, system vulnerability management, network surveillance, data mining and electronic signatures. Avi is also the Co-Founder of VocalZoom, and was the Co-Founder & CEO of Tapingo.
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About BioCatch, Forbes Technology Council, IronVest: BioCatch unlocks the power of behavior and deliver actionable insights to create a digital world where identity, trust, and ease co-exist.
Jesse Rothstein
Co-founder & CTO of ExtraHop
Jesse Rothstein is the CEO and co-founder of ExtraHop Networks. Jesse’s technical vision and expertise in enterprise networking provide ExtraHop with a competitive edge in the industry. With a world-class team behind him, Jesse is responsible for the technical architecture of the ExtraHop platform as well as the vision for growing the business. Jesse co-founded ExtraHop after a six-year tenure at F5 Networks where he was a Senior Software Architect and co-inventor of the TMOS platform. Jesse was the architect and project lead for the BIG-IP v9 development effort and the technical lead for frameworks, clustering, and performance. Prior to F5, he worked in product development at Motive Communications and the Trilogy Development Group. Jesse specializes in designing and implementing high-performance networking products. Jesse holds bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from Rice University.
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About ExtraHop: ExtraHop helps organizations to stop advanced threats with security that can’t be undermined, outsmarted, or compromised.
Nadir Izrael
Co-Founder and CTO of Armis Security
As co-founder and CTO, Nadir Izrael guides the technology vision behind Armis to protect the new connected or IoT devices in and around the workplace. He co-founded the company in 2015 with its CEO, Yevgeny Dibrov. Prior to Armis, worked at Google as senior software engineer. Before Google, Nadir spent six years in the Israeli army, specifically in unit 8200, where he designed and programmed software projects and systems, serving as team leader and attaining the rank of captain.
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About Armis Security, Cyberstarts: Armis Security offers an agentless IoT security solution that lets enterprises see and control any device or network.
Charles Yeh
Co-Founder & CTO of Persona
Charles Yeh is a Co-Founder and the Chief Technology Officer at Persona.
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About Persona: Persona is an identity platform that helps business verify customer identities that brings trust to online interactions.
Mark Herschberg
Chief Technology Officer of Averon
Mark “Hershey” Herschberg is the CTO of Averon. He is a cryptographer, university instructor, and champion ballroom dancer. Hershey chairs the IEEE standards committee on HTTPSi and serves on the board of TechieYouth. After graduating from MIT with degrees in physics and EE/CS, he then continued his graduate work at MIT on cryptography. His master’s thesis, “Secure Electronic Voting over the World Wide Web,” created the first online voting system. He subsequently worked in Fortune 500s and startups to track down cybercriminals, terrorists and extremists on the dark web. Hershey’s range of other work includes big data tools, lead generation, media, enterprise mobile platforms, and he was brought in as the turn-around technical lead on an NBC business unit that was relaunched as Hulu. A part time academic, he has taught at MIT for almost two decades where he helped create MIT’s seminal Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program. He also created the Dynamic Markets course at Harvard Business School, he annually lectures at NYU, USC and elsewhere, and he enjoys speaking regularly on cybersecurity, technology, and entrepreneurship at conferences around the world. Although now retired from dance competitions, Hershey was a top, nationally-ranked ballroom dancer. He is passionate about helping others improve their personal and professional efficacy and for many years has been an active volunteer with Streetwise Partners, Futures & Options, TapRoot, and has successfully helped run CodeRanch for nearly a decade.
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About Averon, MIT Media Lab: Averon is the developer of the Direct Autonomous Authentication (DAA), the first fully automatic, secure mobile identity standard
Lior Netzer
VP and CTO IoT of Akamai Technologies
Lior Netzer is the Vice President and General Manager of Emerging Mobile Business at Akamai where he leads the formulation of Akamai’s edge strategy as it relates to cellular networks. Previously, Lior was AVP Corporate Development at Comverse Network Systems focusing on mergers and acquisitions in the mobile application space. Lior has also held various senior operational positions in early stage companies such as Voltaire, and advisory board positions with Metacafe. Lior holds an MBA, magna cum laude, from the Technion Israel.
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About Akamai Technologies: Akamai is a provider of cloud services that help enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device.
Charlie Gero
CTO of Akamai Technologies
Charlie Gero is the Advisor at Rafay.
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About Akamai Technologies: Akamai is a provider of cloud services that help enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device.
Matt Kraning
Co-Founder & CTO of Expanse
Matt is an expert in large-scale optimization, distributed sensing, and machine learning algorithms run on massively parallel systems. Prior to co-founding Qadium, Matt worked for DARPA, including a deployment to Afghanistan. Matt holds PhD and Master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering, and a Bachelor’s degree in Physics, all from Stanford University.
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About Expanse: Expanse is an enterprise software company that provides an updated view of all internet-connected assets that belong to an organization.
Aimei Wei
Chief Technology Officer of Stellar Cyber
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About Stellar Cyber: Stellar Cyber is the innovator of Open XDR = Everything Detection & Response
Martin Holste
CTO, Cloud of FireEye
Martin Holste is the CTO for Cloud at FireEye where he is responsible for shaping cloud security offerings, developing the corporate cloud security strategy and passionately working with customers to help secure their cloud workloads. Prior to serving as CTO for Cloud, Holste founded the cloud-native Threat Analytics Platform at FireEye based on his popular open-source Enterprise Log Search and Archive project. Before FireEye, Holste spent most of a decade in penetration testing, incident response and threat hunting while serving as the Incident Response Team Lead for the State of Wisconsin. He has previously presented on serverless Big Data solutions at AWS re:Invent and security investigation cognitive strategies and security analytics frameworks at other conferences.
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About FireEye: FireEye is an intelligence-led security company that protects customers using innovative technology and expertise from the front lines.
Ravi Balupari
Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of CloudVector
Ravi Balupari, Aiguo Fei, and Lebin Cheng founded ArecaBay in 2018, since which Ravi has been serving as its CTO.
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About CloudVector: CloudVector protects an organization’s internally-developed APIs, third-party application APIs, and the data carried within them.
Kowsik Guruswamy
Chief Technology Officer of Menlo Security
Kowsik Guruswamy is CTO of Menlo Security. Previously, he was co-founder and CTO at Mu Dynamics, which pioneered a new way to analyze networked products for security vulnerabilities. Prior to Mu, he was a distinguished engineer at Juniper Networks. Kowsik joined Juniper via the NetScreen/OneSecure acquisition where he designed and implemented the industry’s first IPS. He has more than 15+ years of experience in diverse technologies like security, cloud, data visualization, and computer graphics. Kowsik has 18 issued patents and holds an MSCS from University of Louisiana.
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About Menlo Security: Menlo Security is a cyber security company that protects organizations from malware.
John Wilson
Field CTO of Agari
John Wilson is the Field Chief Technology Officer at Agari, responsible for researching and utilizing the company’s advanced data security insights to drive continuous technology innovation. An esteemed security expert, Wilson is often called upon to assist major organizations in fighting cyber crime. During his career, he assisted Microsoft and the FS-ISAC with taking down the B54 Citadel botnet by providing data related to Citadel botnet infections and acting as a declarant in the civil forfeiture action filed in US District Court.
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About Agari: Agari is an email identity company protecting enterprises and people from phishing and socially-engineered attacks.
Yoshio Turner
CTO & Co-Founder of Banyan Security
Yoshio Turner has deep experience in architecting and building reliable, scalable, and secure systems. Prior to founding Banyan, Yoshio was a Principal Research Scientist at HP Labs in the Networking and Mobility Laboratory. Over 15 years at HP Labs, he led projects in the areas of software-defined networking, virtualization, and data center system architecture, resulting in business unit tech transfers, several peer-reviewed publications and presentations at top venues, and over 30 granted patents. Yoshio received Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science, and B.S. summa cum laude in Computer Science & Engineering, all from UCLA.
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About Banyan Security: Banyan Security provides a zero trust network access platform for hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Blake Brannon
CTO of OneTrust
As Vice President of Product, Blake Brannon oversees all aspects of OneTrust’s product and is responsible for defining the privacy management software market and OneTrust’s product capabilities. Brannon evaluates industry trends and analyst research, while driving product planning, design, customer advisory testing and product launch activities. Prior to OneTrust, Brannon was one of the first employees at AirWatch, where he served as Global Director of Sales Engineering and Vice President of Product Marketing.
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About OneTrust: OneTrust helps companies manage privacy, security, and governance requirements in a regulatory environment that constantly changes.
Oleg Melnikov
Chief Technology Officer of Acronis
As Chief Technology Officer, Oleg is responsible for leading Acronis’ scientific and technological vision, including strategy development, innovation policies and alignment between teams. Before coming to Acronis, Oleg co-founded Parallels (aka Odin, SWsoft), where he spent more than 20 years leading cross-cultural teams in designing, architecting, building and supporting Odin Automation, a complete Cloud Service Provider platform. After IngramMicro acquired Odin, Oleg served as Chief Development Officer, where he led a team of more than 300 product and program managers, developers, developers-in-test, and technical writers. Since 2010, he has also served as CTO for Runa Capital, a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage startups. In this role, Oleg ensures a thorough due-diligence of companies being considered for investment, and mentors companies in the portfolio regarding product management, software engineering, and product delivery.
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About Acronis, Runa Capital: Acronis is a cybersecurity company that solves safety, accessibility, privacy, authenticity, and security challenges.
Barry Shteiman
Co-founder and CTO of BlastRadius
Co-founder of BlastRadius, ex Exabeam and Imperva
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About BlastRadius: BlastRadius is a stealth-mode startup based in the Silicon Valley / Bay Area.
David Crawshaw
CTO and Co-Founder of Tailscale
David Crawshaw is Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Tailscale.
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About Tailscale: Tailscale is a developer of a corporate VPN alternative, aiming to make private networks easier to build and maintain.
Alec Rooney
CTO and Co-Founder of Minim
Alec Rooney is the Co-founder and CTO at Minim.
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About Minim: Minim (NASDAQ: MINM) was born as a networking company and now delivers intelligent software to protect and improve the WiFi we depend on.
Jon Lavender
Chief Technology Officer, Founder of Dragos
Jon Lavender is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Dragos Security where he helped to design, build and deploy the company’s flagship product—CyberLens. He is responsible for all aspects of the technology and focuses specifically on the user experience while helping to build relationship with customers throughout the critical infrastructure community. Previously, Lavender was a member of the U.S. Intelligence Community where he led diverse teams in challenging environments experiencing both red and blue team type operations. He managed and built relationships with key partners. Lavender received his bachelor’s in management information systems from Wake Forest School of Business and later his master’s in cybersecurity from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
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About : Dragos is an industrial cybersecurity company that detects and responds to threats in industrial controls systems.
Christopher Ciabarra
CTO and Co Founder of Athena Security
Co-founder, CTO at Athena Security
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About : Athena’s mission is to save lives by preventing crimes like active shooter situations with AI Gun Detection Software and detecting a fever.
Lior Rozner
Co-Founder & CTO of Twingate
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About Twingate: Twingate provides businesses and their distributed workforces with modern, secure remote access to private resources.
Don Bosco Durai
Cofounder, CTO and Chief Security Architect of Privacera
Bosco is a seasoned entrepreneur and a thought leader in enterprise security. Bosco built one of the first real-time user and entity behavioral based fraud detection product and his company Bharosa was acquired by Oracle. After his stunt in Oracle, Bosco’s founded XA Secure, which reinvented security at scale for Big Data paradigm. After XA Secure’s acquisition by Open Source focussed Hortonworks, Inc. XA Secure product was donated to Apache Software Foundation and now it is called Apache Ranger. Bosco is still an active member of the open source community. Bosco through his current startup, Privacera, is trying to tackle the new challenges caused by data explosion and liberal sharing of sensitive data within enterprises. Privacera approach is data centric, which “follows the data” and protects them from malicious users and accidental data policy violations. In the process, Privacera is also bridging the chasm between the security team, data owners, and compliance officers to provide a more effective and frictionless end-to-end security for sensitive and personal data.
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About Privacera: Privacera is a SaaS-based data security and governance platform that offers data sharing without compromising regulatory compliance.
Sanjay Jeyakumar
CTO & Co-Founder of Abnormal Security
Sanjay Jeyakumar is CTO and co-founder of Abnormal Security. He was a founding engineer at TellApart (acquired by Twitter for $500M+) and a lead engineer at Google working on search technology and the launch of Android.
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About Abnormal Security: Abnormal Security is an email security company that protects enterprises and organizations from targeted email attacks.
Casey Ellis
Founder, Chairman & CTO of Bugcrowd
Casey is the Chairman, Founder and CTO of Bugcrowd. He is an 18 year veteran of information security, servicing clients ranging from startups to multinational corporations as a pentester, security and risk consultant and solutions architect, then most recently as a career entrepreneur. Casey pioneered the Crowdsourced Security as a Service model launching the first bug bounty programs on the Bugcrowd platform in 2012, and co-founded the disclose.io vulnerability disclosure standardization project in 2016. A proud ex-pat of Sydney, Australia, Casey lives with his wife and two kids in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is happy as long as he is pursuing potential.
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About Bugcrowd: Bugcrowd harnesses the power of a global community of security researchers to surface critical software vulnerabilities.
Anthony Pillitiere
Co-Founder & CTO of Horizon3.ai
Father, Husband, Nerd.
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About Horizon3.ai: Horizon3.ai leverages autonomous Pentesting to proactively find and fix vulnerabilities before criminals exploit them.
Nick Galbreath
CTO/Founder of Signal Sciences
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About Fastly, Signal Sciences: Signal Sciences is a software as a service platform providing security monitoring and defense for your web applications.
Abhishek Agrawal
Co-Founder & CTO of Material Security
Abhishek Agrawal currently works as the Co-Founder and CTO for Material Security. He previously worked at Dropbox as the Senior Product Manager.
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About Material Security: Material Security is an email security company that develops data-driven security software to protect an organization’s users and data.
Julio Casal
Founder & CTO of 4iQ
Julio Casal is the Founder & CTO at Constella Intelligence.
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About 4iQ, AT&T CyberSecurity, Constella Intelligence, Survela: 4iQ is a Cyber Intelligence company that protects digital identities and investigating threats, adversaries, and fraud.
Anand Purusothaman
Founder & Chief Technology Officer of AppViewX
Anand has more than 15 years of experience in the IT industry, specifically in product design and development. Prior to founding AppViewX, he was a key technologist in various startups, notably the online trading platform Tradeweb, where he spearheaded product development of trading and post-trade systems. The platform saw a total trade volume that surpassed $100 trillion, and later Tradeweb was acquired by Thomson Financials. Beyond product engineering experience, Anand is a visionary leader and has mentored and groomed various teams in multiple business practice areas. He travels globally and builds relationships, promoting the business and conducting socioeconomic reforms. He actively engages in corporate social responsibility initiatives, adopts villages, and drives the villages toward a self-sufficiency model. Anand holds a Master of Science degree in Industrial Engineering – Human Factors from Clemson University.
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About AppViewX, Payoda Technologies: AppViewX is a Certificate Lifecycle Management and Network Automation Company.
Kunal Anand
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Imperva
Kunal Anand is Co-founder and CTO of Prevoty, a next-generation application security platform. Prior to that, he was the Director of Technology at the BBC Worldwide, overseeing engineering and operations across the company’s global Digital Entertainment and Gaming initiatives. Kunal also has several years of experience leading security, data and engineering at Gravity, MySpace and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. His work has been featured in Wired Magazine and Fast Company. He continues to develop the patented security technologies that power Prevoty’s core products. Kunal received a B.S. from Babson College.
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About Imperva, Imperva: Imperva provides activity monitoring, real-time protection, and risk management solutions for critical business data and applications.
Paul Martini
CEO, CTO and Co-Founder of iboss
As CEO, CTO, and co-founder of iboss Cybersecurity,Paul Martini pioneered the award-winning iboss Secure Web Gateway (SWG) and has furthered iboss’ position as a leading security innovator with the introduction of FireSphere™ Advanced APT Defense. Prior to founding iboss, Paul was with an electrical engineering firm where he developed proprietary security solutions for clients such as Phogenix, the U.S. Navy and Hewlett Packard, leading the design and implementation efforts for HP’s e-tester used in their TIJ print heads. He was also a key contributor at Copper Mountain Networks and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), both of which, launched successful IPO’s. Paul holds a computer science degree from the University of California, San Diego and has had his work published in prestigious scientific journals including, the Journal of Foundations in Computer Science, and Journal of Analytical Biochemistry. As a recognized security expert, he has been featured in a wide range of publications such as USA Today, Forbes, and CSO magazine. Paul has been recognized for his leadership and innovation, receiving the Ernst Young 2014 Entrepreneur Of The Year™ award in the technology category for San Diego, and one of Goldman Sachs’ 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs of 2014. He is committed to the advancement of San Diego as a cyber-security hub, and is a member of the Cyber Security Sub Committee for CAL OES (California Office of Emergency Services) and also serves on the board of the San Diego Economic Development Committee.
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About iboss: iboss is a cloud security company that provides network security as a service, delivered in the cloud, and as a complete SaaS offering.
Itzik Kotler
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of SafeBreach
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About SafeBreach: SafeBreach executes active breach scenarios and performs continuous validation to find holes in an environment before an attacker does.
Priyadarshan Kolte
Co-Founder & CTO of Baffle
Priyadarshan Kolte is the CTO at Baffle
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About Baffle: Baffle protects data in the cloud by securing the data analytics pipeline for modern enterprises without any code changes or disruption.
Dan Murphy
Co-Founder & CTO of Netography
Dan Murphy is the Co-Founder and CTO at Netography.
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About Netography: Netography provides organizations with network detection and response capabilities for the atomized network.
James Penney
Chief Technology Officer of Device Authority
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About Device Authority: Device Authority is a global leader in Identity and Access Management (IAM) for the Internet of Things (IoT) and Blockchain.
Anand Kashyap
CTO of Fortanix
Anand is the co-founder and CTO at Fortanix, and leads engineering and product development. He also leads the customer acquisition and customer success process at Fortanix, working closely with customers and partners in enabling technical sales. Previously, Anand worked at VMware through the acquisition of Arkin. He developed the core engine for netflow analysis in VMware NSX environments, which is now part of the VMware vRealize Network Insight product. Before VMware, he worked for several years as a lead researcher at the Symantec Research Labs. At Symantec, he developed foundational technologies used in several products, such as the Norton Mobile Security suite, Norton Core Router, Symantec Risk Insight, and Symantec Deepsight Intellgence. He filed over 25 patents and presented in conferences such as Financial Cryptography and BlackHat. Anand holds a PhD in Computer Science from Stony Brook University and a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from IIT Kanpur. He has published 20 papers in top conferences and journals and his work has received over 1100 citations.
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About Fortanix: Fortanix solves cloud security and privacy using Runtime Encryption(R) technology build upon Intel SGX.
Adam Ghetti
Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Ionic Security
Adam Ghetti, technologist and entrepreneur, founded Ionic Security in 2011 to address the problem of trust in a cloud and mobile enabled world.He has over 15 years of experience building large-scale systems in multiple Internet-related markets. He is an expert in complex systems and task automation and has in depth applied knowledge of application security, network security, data security, and artificial neural networks.Most recently, he was recognized by Forbes as a 30 under 30-thought leader in technology and by the World Economic Forum as a 2015 technology pioneer.
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About Ionic Security: Ionic Security, a data security platform, provides access control, intellectual property monitoring, data encryption, and policy management.
Vishal Jain
CTO and Co-Founder of Valtix
Vishal Jain is the co-founder and CTO at Valtix.
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About Valtix: Valtix protects customer applications in the public cloud with its multi-cloud network security platform delivered as a service.
Taylor Dondich
CTO of SecurityTrails
Previously with great companies like Yahoo, Splunk and MaxCDN, Taylor now serves as the CTO of ProcessMaker, building software to orchestrate complex processes inside organizations of all sizes. Taylor is a strong advocate of leveraging open source tooling while building enterprise solutions to build amazing things to empower the sole developer and the complex engineering teams. Taylor is also a LEGO fanatic.
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About SecurityTrails: SecurityTrails is a total inventory that curates comprehensive domain and IP address data for users and applications that demand clarity.
Julie Cullivan
CTO & CPO of ForeScout Technologies
As Senior Vice President of Business Operations and Chief Information Officer, Julie brings over 25 years of systems and programs experience in enterprise high tech companies to FireEye. Most recently she was Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing Operations at Autodesk, where she led the global rollout of new CRM, eLearning, and lead management systems, and evaluated new technologies and tools to improve productivity and optimize resources. Prior to Autodesk, Julie was senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales Operations at McAfee, where she led the global sales and channel operations functions to drive go-to market strategies, best practices, systems, process, and productivity across five geographical theatres. Julie has also held executive roles at EMC, Asera, and Oracle. She received a bachelor’s degree in Finance from Santa Clara University.
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About ForeScout Technologies: ForeScout Technologies provides enterprises and government agencies with agentless visibility and control of devices.
Peter Silberman
CTO of Expel
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About Expel: Expel is a SOC-as-a-service platform that provides security monitoring and response for cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments.
Mike Danjczek
Chief Technology Officer of SPARQ
Mike Danjczek is the Chief Technology Officer at SPARQ Global and Engineering Manager at Global Technical Systems. He is a former Systems Engineer at Northrop Grumman Corporation.
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About SPARQ: SPARQ is a computer security service company specializing in building and integrating hardware systems and providing managed services.
Nazario Parsacala
Founder and CTO of TrueFort
Nazario brings more than 20 years of system engineering, security, and development experience to TrueFort. He is responsible for TrueFort’s technology vision, platform architecture, and development. Prior to TrueFort, Nazario worked at top global investment banks and Fortune 100 companies serving as chief architect and designer, and managing global development teams in technology core platform engineering, domain engineering, and global services engineering.
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About TrueFort: TrueFort brings zero trust to application environments to detect and contain critical security risks before they impact your business.
Mark Kuhr
CTO and Co-Founder of Synack
Mark co-founded Synack after focusing over nine years on Cyber Security in Academia and Defense industries. Most recently, at the National Security Agency (NSA), Mark worked in roles that include Technical Director, Computer Network Operations Operator, Network Analyst, and Computer Scientist. Dr. Kuhr received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Auburn University under a DoD/NSA-sponsored fellowship. He has published several papers on enterprise cyber security and performed research under DoD contracts related to information security, network analysis, and jam-resistant network communication protocols. Mark holds a number of security related certifications from CNSS and ISC(2).
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About Synack: Synack is a crowdsourced security platform that utilizes augmented intelligence to discover and secure vulnerable applications.
Taeil Goh
CTO of OPSWAT
Taeil Goh is CTO at OPSWAT and has over 12 years of Software Engineering experience primarily in cybersecurity, delivering enterprise products to high-security industries such as government, military, critical infrastructure, and finance. His main focus is on leading the engineering team but he also takes on other roles including CISO, cloud architect, UX design, and DevOps. His current cybersecurity focus is on content disarm and reconstruction [CDR], DLP, dynamic analysis, static analysis, security analytics, email security, web security, and APT detection. Taeil Goh is a regular speaker at cybersecurity events and contributor to OPSWAT blogs. Taeil earned his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from San Francisco State University. Outside of work, he loves playing tennis and he has been a student pilot for the last 4 years hoping to finish that this year.
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About OPSWAT: OPSWAT is the global leader for Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Cybersecurity for ICS and OT environments
Oliver Tavakoli
CTO of Vectra
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About Vectra: Vectra is a cybersecurity platform that uses AI to detect attackers in real time and perform conclusive incident investigations.
Vikram Saksena
CTO, Cable Markets of NetScout Systems
Dr. Saksena has been at the forefront of technology innovations in the wireless, Internet, cloud and data analytics industries. He has held senior leadership positions in a number of small and large companies. He began his career at AT&T in the early days of packet switching and made fundamental contributions that led to the commercialization of Frame Relay and Internet Protocol networks. He was named an “AT&T Fellow” in 1997 for his contributions to the growth of AT&T’s data networking business. Subsequently, Vikram was part of the founding team of two start-up companies in the broadband area, MaxComm Technologies and Narad Networks. Later on he became the CTO of two public companies, Sonus Networks and Tellabs, where he led the technology strategy and development of new products in voice over IP, mobile backhaul, mobile packet core, mobile video, and mobile security areas. He was the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council’s “CTO of the Year” Finalist in 2008 for his contributions to Sonus’s wireless business. At NetScout, Vikram is responsible to NFV/SDN strategy and solution architecture.
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About NetScout Systems: NetScout Systems provides integrated computer network performance management products.
John Callahan
Chief Technology Officer of Veridium
Dr. John Callahan is responsible for the development of the company’s world class enterprise-ready biometric solutions, leading a global team of software developers, computer vision scientists and sales engineers. He has previously served as the Associate Director for Information Dominance at the U.S. Navy’s Office of Naval Research Global, London UK office, via an Intergovernmental Personnel Act assignment from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. John completed his PhD in Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park.
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About Veridium: Veridium is a leading provider of strong digital authentication platform
Shannon Holland
CTO of CipherTrace
Shannon Holland is a founder and CTO of CipherTrace where he leads research and development of CipherTrace’s advanced cryptocurrency forensics tools. He has 20 years of experience in developing secure and scalable computer technology. He is a distinguished software engineer with a broad range of experience, ranging from low-level software and hardware design to large-scale application servers. Additionally, He was an early bitcoin miner. Prior to CipherTrace Senior, He was the Lead Threat Intelligence Engineer at Marble Security where he led the R&D of mobile app threat intelligence and analyzed over 2 million IOS and Android apps across various marketplaces. He also led the research and development of the IronKey security devices, including their cryptography, key management, firmware and hardware design. Shannon is the co-inventor of numerous security and cryptography patents, and produced the first certified tamper-proof, FIPS 140-2 Level 3 mobile device.
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About CipherTrace: CipherTrace is a cryptocurrency intelligence company that delivers delivers cryptocurrency AML compliance solutions.
Damion Hankejh
CTO of HRDN
Smithsonian Laureate CTO @HRDNlabs / InstantService (acq @Oracle) / Virtual OR (acq Swedish) / @IBMWatson Developer Challenge winner (FANG AI)
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About amfAR, FANG Labs, HRDN, OnApproval: Security beyond encryption for High Risk Data Networking in cyber, geo and space security
Satya Gupta
Founder & CTO of Virsec
Satya Gupta is Virsec’s visionary and has over 25 years of expertise in embedded systems, network security and systems architecture. Prior to focusing Virsec to a product orientation, Satya built Virsec as a highly profitable software design and consulting business and targeted data networking, application security and industrial automation projects. Prior to this, he was Director of Firmware Engineering at Narad Networks and Managing Director and Chief Engineer at Eastern Telecom and Tech Ltd. Satya holds six patents in complex firmware architecture with products deployed to hundreds of thousands of users. He holds a BS degree in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur and additional degrees from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell.
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About Virsec: Virsec is a software security company protecting enterprise application workloads from cyberattacks.
Aaron Higbee
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Cofense
Aaron is the co-founder and CTO of Cofense, formerly known as PhishMe. He is responsible for directing all aspects of development and research that drives the feature set of this market-leading solution.
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About Cofense: Cofense provides phishing threat management for organizations concerned about human susceptibility.
Stephan Chenette
Co-Founder and CTO of AttackIQ
Stephan Chenette is the Chief Technology Officer and a co-founder of AttackIQ, responsible for technology strategy and vision. Stephan launched AttackIQ in 2013 as the first open platform in the emerging market of Continuous Security Validation and has held several roles and responsibilities during that time. Prior to establishing AttackIQ, Stephan held management and lead positions in research and development at companies like IOActive, Websense, SAIC and eEye Digital Security. Stephan is a frequent speaker on risk, threats, metrics, security offense and defense, and other topics.
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About AttackIQ: AttackIQ is a security optimization platform that enables a seamless threat-informed defense across their security organizations.
Jonathan Oberheide
Co-Founder & CTO of Duo Security
Jon is a well-known security expert and researcher. While his research interests span across the security domain, he has deep expertise in mobile security, cloud security, and malware analysis. Jon attended the University of Michigan for a BS, MS, and PhD in Computer Science, and has held positions at Merit Network and Arbor Networks.
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About Duo Security: Duo Security provides security software products and services.
Chaks Chigurupati
Chief Technology Officer of Securiti
Chaks Chigurupati is the Chief Technology Officer at SECURITI.ai. He is the former head of Architecture at Elastica. Deep expertise in architecture and design of reliable software systems in networking and computing. Previously spent 10 years at Cisco and architected and implemented various product functionalities, including the highest end CRS core routers.
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About Securiti: AI Powered Data Security & Privacy | “Most Innovative Startup” RSA | Forrester Wave Leader
Stephen Boyer
Co-Founder and CTO of BitSight
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About BitSight: BitSight is a platform that rates companies’ security effectiveness on a daily basis using a data-driven, outside-in approach.
Daniel Duenkel
CTO of Knight Point Systems
Dan Duenkel is a founding member of Knight Point Systems and serves as the Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Duenkel is responsible for defining KPS’ Cloud offerings that include on premises ‘as a Service’ strategies as well as off premises private cloud environments and developing new tools that differentiate KPS from other companies. He oversees KPS’ IT Strategy and stays informed of new technologies to keep KPS on the leading edge of Cloud and ‘as a Service’ providers. Mr. Duenkel is also responsible for the oversight and management of the DISA Capacity Services contract, a $200M Communications aaS contract.
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About Knight Point Systems: Knight Point Systems provides IT services and solutions to federal and commercial clients.
Wei Huang
CTO & VP of Engineering of Anomali
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About Anomali: Anomali is the leader in intelligence-driven extended detection (XDR) and response cybersecurity solutions.
Stephen A. Ridley
CTO of Senrio
Stephen Ridley has more than 10 years of experience in software development, software security, and reverse engineering. His original research on embedded device vulnerabilities has been featured on NPR, SecurityWeek, Wired and numerous other publications. Prior to his current work at Senrio, Stephen Ridley was Principal Researcher at Xipiter and served as the Chief Information Security Officer of a financial services firm. Prior to that, various information security researcher/consultant roles (Matasano Security, et al), Senior Security Architect at McAfee. Earlier in his career, Stephen was a founding member of the Security and Mission Assurance (SMA) group at a major U.S. Defense contractor where he did vulnerability research and reverse engineering in support of the U.S. Defense and Intelligence community.
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About NYU Tandon School of Engineering, Senrio: Providing visibility, insight & awareness of network embedded devices (IoT) to support enterprise-wide security and safety.
Shreyans Mehta
Co-Founder & CTO of Cequence
Shreyans Mehta is an innovator in network security and holds several patents in the field. Before co-founding Cequence Security, he was Architect and Technical Director at Symantec, where he led the development of one of the most advanced network security platforms and intrusion prevention technologies based on real-time packet inspection and cloud-based big data analytics. It’s responsible for detecting more than half of the billions of threats that Symantec identifies every year. Shreyans has a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Southern California.
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About Cequence: Cequence is an end-to-end API security software company that designs a platform to protect customers from malicious bot attacks.
Ed Bellis
CTO, Founder of Kenna Security
Ed Bellis is a security industry veteran and expert and was once named Information Security Executive of the year. He founded Kenna Security to deliver a data-driven risk-based approach to remediation and help IT teams prioritize and thwart would-be security threats. Bellis is the former CISO of Orbitz and former Vice President, Corporate Information Security at Bank of America. He is an Advisor to Dharma and former Advisor to SecurityScoreboard.com and Society of Payment Security Professionals. Bellis is a contributing author to the book, Beautiful Security and a frequent speaker at industry conferences and events.
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About Kenna Security: Kenna is a SaaS risk and vulnerability intelligence platform that accurately measures risk and prioritizes remediation efforts.
Venkat Achanta
EVP, CTO & CDO of Neustar
Venkat Achanta is senior vice president and chief data and analytics officer at Neustar, Inc. Venkat is responsible for expanding Neustar’s authoritative identity and attribution platform to find innovative ways to create connected customer experiences across people, places and things. Prior to Neustar, Venkat was chief data officer and head of the data and analytics group at Walmart, where he was responsible for all data and analytics delivery platforms across the company. Venkat has more than 20 years of experience in data science, analytics and enterprise information management. While at Walmart, Venkat globally spearheaded the data fabric, advanced analytics platforms and decision services groups. Prior to Walmart, Venkat was global head of analytics and big data at AIG. Venkat has held senior leadership positions with various companies that are noted in the industry for their data and analytics capabilities, including Capital One, where he was vice president of enterprise data services, and Experian, where he was vice president of global product development and delivery. Venkat holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science and engineering from Andhra University in India and a master’s of business administration from UCLA.
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About Neustar, Neustar: Neustar is a tech company that offers a range of cloud-based services for marketing and IT professionals.
Paul Bakoyiannis
Co-Founder & CTO of Cylera
Paul Bakoyiannis is CTO at Cylera.
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About Cylera: Cylera is a healthcare IoT cybersecurity and intelligence company used to protect healthcare organizations.
Fang Yu
Co-founder & CTO of DataVisor
CTO and Co-Founder of DataVisor. Fang’s work focuses on “big-data for security.” Over the past 10 years, she has been developing algorithms and building systems for identifying various malicious traffic such as worms, spam, bot queries, faked and hijacked account activities, and fraudulent financial transactions. Fang received her Ph.D. degree from the EECS Department at University of California at Berkeley.
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About DataVisor: DataVisor is a fraud detection company powered by transformational AI technology.
Brian Soby
CTO and Co-Founder of AppOmni
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About AppOmni: AppOmni is a SaaS security management solution that enables security and IT teams to secure applications used by their employees.
Jacob Perkins
Chief Technology Officer of Fletch
Jacob Perkins is the Cofounder & CTO & Chief Hacker at Weotta. He puts the natural in natural language processing. He has a rare talent for manipulating vast quantities of data and creating processes that scale. Standing on his head and flexible shoulders are only a couple of his hidden talents.
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About Fletch: Fletch provides ready-to-use analytics organized in solutions sets that are easy to understand and actionable on day one.
Jeff Williams
Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer of Contrast Security
A pioneer in application security, Jeff Williams has more than 20 years of experience in software development and security. Jeff is the CTO and co-founder of Contrast Security, a revolutionary application security product that enhances software with the power to defend itself, check itself for vulnerabilities, and join a security command and control infrastructure. Jeff also served as the Global Chairman of the OWASP Foundation for eight years, where he created many open-source standards, tools, libraries, and guidelines – including the OWASP Top Ten. Jeff has a BA from Virginia, an MA from George Mason, and a JD from Georgetown.
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About Contrast Security: Contrast Security is a modernized application security, embedding code analysis, and attack prevention directly into the software.
Dmitry Bokotey
Founder & CTO of nuPSYS
Dmitry founded nuPSYS as the CTO. He brings a multi-technology skill set and real-world experience having worked with a variety of Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies and public sector. Dmitry is a world-recognized technology leader with a proven track record as demonstrated by his 5 CCIE certifications. A feat few in the industry have accomplished. Dmitry is also an accomplished author, publishing several books in the technology area. Dmitry brings all of his expertise to nuPSYS not only as a highly-trained specialist but also as a leader who is in charge of staff’s technological development and application design. Dmitry is deeply involved with setting direction for nuPSYS and is largely responsible for creating the intuitive, compelling user experience.Prior to joining nuPSYS, Dmitry worked at Cisco for 12 years where he developed his skill set and expertise in networking protocols and isolating and solving highly complex issues. As a Senior Network Architect he became a leader in team building and the thought leadership process. He and his teams contributed to more than a billion dollars of worldwide revenue for Cisco and supported close to 200 networks for large enterprise and service provider customers. For many years, Dmitry has presented at Cisco Live speaking about Cisco’s new technological advancements. He is highly respected amongst his industry peers.Prior to joining Cisco, Dmitry worked at KPMG Consulting as Senior Network Architect. As part of one of the world’s largest technology consulting firms, Dmitry supported the most complex designs and served as a technical advisor for all service provider and enterprise projects involving Cisco products. At the time, Dmitry Bokotey was one of the youngest CCIE’s worldwide.
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About nuPSYS: nuPSYS offers technology solutions that focus on the visualization of data networks and centers, and video camera applications.
Mucteba Celik
Co-Founder & CTO of RevBits
Co-Founder & CTO at RevBits. * 18 years of development experience * 15 years of reverse engineering and penetration testing experience * 15 years of cyber security experience
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About RevBits: RevBits is a leading developer of next-generation endpoint security, privileged access management (PAM), and phishing detection solutions.
Peter Goldstein
CTO & Co-Founder of Valimail
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About Valimail: Valimail is an email security company that offers zero-trust, authentication-based solutions for organizations.
Tom Beale
CTO & Co-Founder of Corax
Veteran penetration tester and go-to source for technical perspective on data breaches and cyber security.
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About Corax: Cyber risk intelligence platform providing data and modelling on the cyber exposure of millions of companies worldwide.
Chris Petersen
CEO, CTO , and Co-Founder of RADICL Defense
Chris Petersen combines extensive industry experience in information assurance and network security with an innovative approach to technology that drives LogRhythm’s strategic vision of delivering the most comprehensive Log and Event Management solution on the market today. Petersen’s accomplishments include developing the Price Waterhouse Enterprise Security Architecture System as a Senior Consultant with the company (now PriceWaterhouseCoopers), leading an engineering group at Ernst & Young that produced one of the first managed security services as well as the leading information assurance portal eSecurityOnline. He was also a significant contributor in product management at Enterasys while helping to push the Dragon Intrusion Detection System into a market-leading position. He has served on the faculty of the Institute for Applied Network Security, has numerous speaking engagements at information security conferences and events, and is frequently quoted in industry leading publications. He holds a degree in Accounting/Information Systems from Colorado State University.
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About RADICL Defense: We secure small and medium sized businesses from nation state level cyberthreats.
Anurag Kahol
CTO of Bitglass
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About Bitglass: Bitglass is an information technology company that helps enterprises move to SaaS-based and mobile deployments securely.
Joe Levy
CTO of Sophos
For 20 years, Joe has been focused on making information systems less fragile and more secure. He is known for being one of the pioneers in the emerging field of Big Data Security Analytics, guiding the innovations of Solera Networks (acquired by Blue Coat Systems in 2013) as their CTO. Prior to that, he served as CTO of SonicWALL (acquired by Dell) where his concentration was in the areas of Deep Packet Inspection, cryptography, and secure remote access. Before SonicWALL, Joe spent six years with OneNet, Inc., where he served as VP of Technology Services, leading product design and development, and directing the Professional and Managed Services groups. Joe has participated in various industry certification and design consortiums, and holds a number of networking, virtualization, and security patents. He has co-authored a book on the topic of wireless network security, covering many of the wireless enhancements designed by himself and his architectural team. Joe holds a B.S. in English from Queens College.
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About AllegisCyber, Bluecoat, Cymphonix, Sophos: Sophos develops network security and threat management products to protect organizations against malicious acts.
Steven Touw
CTO & Founder of Immuta
Steve Touw is the co-founder and CTO of Immuta. He has a long history of designing large-scale geo-temporal analytics across the U.S. intelligence community — including some of the very first Hadoop analytics and frameworks to manage complex multi-tenant data policy controls. Previously, Steve was the CTO of 42Six Solutions (acquired by Computer Sciences Corporation), where he led a large Big Data services engineering team. Steve holds a Bachelor of Science in Geography from the University of Maryland.
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About Immuta: Immuta provides a cloud-native data governance platform for organizations to automate data access control, security and privacy compliance.
Justin Monti
CTO of MKACyber
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About MKACyber: A rapidly expanding Managed Security Operations Services Provider with elite SOC expertise.
Blaine Garst
CTO & Software of BlastWave
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About BlastWave: BlastWave creates the next phase of cybersecurity solutions, built on proprietary hardware, software, and a social layer.
Mrinal Wadhwa
Founder & CTO of Ockam
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About Ockam: Ockam is how applications trust data-in-motion.
Craig Lurey
Co-founder and CTO of Keeper Security
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About Callpod, Keeper Security: Keeper Security is the highly-rated and patented cybersecurity platform for preventing password-related data breaches and cyberthreats.
Damian Starosielsky
Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder of Evident
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About Evident: Evident offers a secure solution for businesses and individuals to share verified personal information.
Rachna Pradhan
Co-Founder & CTO of Max Secure Software
Rachna Pradhan is the Co-founder and Chief Technical Officer at Max Secure Software. She directs the technology vision behind Max Secure Software’s product development. She assesses emerging technologies for the existing and new products to make them highest performing and customer friendly. Her main objective is to have as much complex functionality as possible in the back-end but front-end very easy to use such that customers view Max Secure products a best of breed solution. Her versatile career includes extensive experience of over 20 years. She has successfully managed projects providing varied solutions in the field of R&D, Design, Manufacturing and QA/Testing in diverse technology sphere, right from manufacturing of Television sets, developing Power supplies for missile launchers, designing Photo Cameras, building Power distribution sub-stations, Quality Audit of Nuclear power plants to Managing Software Projects and Products. She holds BS in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T.) Kanpur in 1985. She is a Project Management Professional (PMP) and holds PGDBM (Operations Research). She has also completed several Computer Science and Web Technologies courses. She handles technology with enthusiasm and develops innovative solutions with very persistent approach. She is an entrepreneur who believes in thinking out-of-the box. She drives employees about producing highest Quality Solutions. Most technology breakthroughs in Max Secure Software products were possible because of her Passion to experiment the ideas to fruition. She relentlessly develops the continually learning and evolving attitude in her employees. Passion for Excellence is nurtured in the culture of the organization. She is an avid reader of Security related articles, mostly on-line. She spends the rest of her time with Yoga, Gym, reading, cooking, painting and kids. Her mission is to accelerate the rate of change in SDLC through efficient Product Architecture, quickly improve the company’s Products Performance technologically and to Go Where No Competition Has Gone Before.
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About Max Secure Software: Max Secure Software is a global software company developing products designed to protect the privacy and security of Windows computer users.
Robin Sommer
CTO & Co-Founder of Corelight
Robin is co-founder and CTO at Corelight, a prominent computer science researcher, and long-time open-source lead for the Bro project. Robin received his doctorate from the Technical University Munich, completed his postdoc at the International Computer Science Institute, and subsequently joined their Networking and Security Group as a staff researcher. At ICSI, Robin has lead a range of research efforts on network security and privacy, with an emphasis on high-performance network monitoring in operational settings. Robin also holds a position as an affiliated researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory where he works with the cybersecurity team. Among other roles, Robin has served as General Chair for the IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy, as well as on program & steering committees for many security conferences.
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About Corelight: Corelight offers network traffic analysis solutions for cybersecurity.
Vikram Kapoor
Founder & CTO of Lacework
Vikram Kapoor is Founder and CTO @ Lacework. Prior to founding Lacework, he was Senior Director of Engineering at Bromium. At Bromium, he was responsible for managing the engineering team as well as creating and driving strategies in alignment with Bromium’s vision and business goals. Prior to joining Bromium, he managed the Database Storage Engine group within Oracle RDBMS. He was lead architect for several key Exadata technologies such as Exadata Hybrid Columnar Compression. He was also Development Manager for the protocols group at Oracle where he designed and implemented major components of the NFSv4 server and led the team responsible for protocol development. He has held senior engineering roles at Pillar Data Systems and Valicert. He is a prolific inventor who holds several patents.
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About Lacework: Lacework is a cloud security services provider that automates cloud security at scale so customers can innovate with speed and safety.
Brad Hayes
Chief Technology Officer of Circadence
Dr. Hayes’ expertise in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning supports continual innovation for Circadence’s cyber readiness solutions. Hayes teaches as a professor at the University of Colorado’s Department of Computer Science and serves as the Director of the Collaborative AI and Robotics (CAIRO) Lab. He has in-depth experience developing techniques to build autonomous AI that can learn from and collaborate with humans, making people more efficient and capable during task execution. His theoretical prowess drives his ability to deeply and technically understand the intricacies of the cybersecurity industry and put them into practice. Hayes previously served as a Software Engineer at BAE Systems and Software Design Engineer for Microsoft.
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About Circadence: Circadence offers cyber range solutions and cybersecurity learning platforms, running on Microsoft Azure.
Intesar Shannan Mohammed
CTO & Co-Founder of Apisec.ai
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About APIsec, Apisec.ai: Apisec.ai is an enterprise-class API security management platform that delivers instant and continuous API security coverage and compliance
Keshav Kamble
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Avocado Systems
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About Avocado Systems: Next-generation Agentless Application Security & Monitoring for Enterprise
HD Moore
Chairman and Founding CTO of Rumble Network Discovery
HD Moore is the Chairman and Founding CTO of Rumble Network Discovery.
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About Atredis Partners, Metasploit, Rumble Network Discovery, Special Circumstances, LLC: Rumble brings together the best of IT, security and networking technology to deliver amazing network discovery and asset.
Aaron Allsbrook
CTO of ClearBlade
Aaron Allsbrook, ClearBlade CTO and product visionary for the ClearBlade Platform and EDGE brings decades of application tooling development and runtime experience to the emerging technologies in the Internet of Things. Early on, Aaron engineered software at IBM building scalable performant platforms for developers to design, develop, and execute modern workloads. As a practitioner, Aaron began working in the field with enterprises to enable cutting edge solutions while leveraging existing technical assets. Today he provides a depth of expertise necessary to understand the challenges, opportunities and transitions required for large Enterprises to engage with the IoT.
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About ClearBlade: ClearBlade is an edge computing software company enabling enterprises to rapidly engineer and run secure, real-time IoT applications.
