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Prior to joining Prudential, Thomas Doughty served as a Military Intelligence Officer specializing in Electronic and Information Warfare and emerging intelligence processing technology platforms. Tom joined Pru in 1998 as an Information Systems Auditor, and from 2000 until 2005 assumed responsibility as Business Information Security Officer for Prudential Securities, Incorporated (PSI) in New York. His efforts during this period included technical risk management and transition related to Wachovia’s joint venture with PSI. Tom currently serves as Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer for Prudential. Tom is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, and holds an MBA in Finance and Information Technology from New York University’s Stern School of Business. He is currently a member of the BITS security steering committee, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Wall Street Technology Association.

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Johna Till Johnson is the CEO & Founder of Nemertes Research, an 18-year old research-advisory firm specializing in the business impact of emerging technologies. Ms. Johnson spearheads Nemertes’ security and risk management practice, where she works with Fortune 200 financial services, manufacturing, utility, and other leading organizations.

Ms. Johnson’s career in information security began more than 25 years ago when, as a young engineer, she developed security products for Mosler Security Systems. In the early 1990s, she ran the lab-testing program at Data Communications Magazine, which uncovered vulnerabilities in the then-novel RSA two-factor authentication system. In the mid-1990s, Ms. Johnson ran the Global Networking Strategies Service at the META Group, which included META’s security and risk management offering. Subsequently, she served as the Chief Technology Officer overseeing the security practice for Greenwich Technology Corp., a global consulting and engineering firm that developed and implemented leading-edge security architectures for financial services firms and other global organizations.

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Gary Sorrentino currently serves as Global Deputy CIO for Zoom Video Communications. A former Managing Director for J.P. Morgan Asset & Wealth Management, Gary was the Global Head of Client Cyber Awareness and Education.

For over 12 years, Gary was the Chief Technology Officer for J.P. Morgan AWM’s global technology infrastructure initiatives, where he managed its Data Privacy program and was responsible for Infrastructure, Application and End User Technology Production Support. In 2014, he assumed a new role as the lead for their Cybersecurity efforts and developed a firm wide “Protect the Client” Cyber program designed to raise cybersecurity awareness among employees and clients.

With almost 40 years of experience in Information Technology, Gary has served in various other IT leadership positions in firms across the financial services industry. Prior to joining J.P. Morgan in 2005, Gary was Head of Global Infrastructure and Head of Technology Efficiencies at Citi Private Bank, where he was responsible for Global Infrastructure Support and strategic technology initiatives. Other roles he has held include Global Technology CFO at Credit Suisse and North America IT Controller at UBS.

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Christopher Novak is a co-founder and the Global Director of the Verizon Threat Research Advisory Center. He is an internationally recognized expert in the field of Incident Response, Computer Forensics, and Threat Intelligence. He has been involved with cybersecurity for over 20 years. Christopher has assisted corporations, government agencies, and attorneys with all matters involving digital forensics, fraud investigations, and crisis management. He has testified as an expert witness in various matters and before such bodies as the Supreme Court of the State of New York. He has also briefed United States congressional committees such as Senate Banking, House Financial Services, Senate Commerce, House Energy & Commerce, Senate Judiciary, House Homeland Security and Senate Homeland Security & Government Affairs.

He has been an advisor on numerous high-profile intrusion and data breach investigations around the globe. He works closely with local, state and federal law enforcement agencies as well as joint investigative operations coordinated with foreign law enforcement.

In his current position, he manages teams of highly skilled consultants positioned around the world. Each of these teams maintains experts in various fields, such as forensic analysis, malware reverse engineering, threat intelligence and threat actor attribution, among others… Christopher specializes in high-level crisis and emergency response matters and is regularly consulting with C-Suites and Boards of Directors from Fortune 1,000 companies with regard to pre-planning for such situations as well as leading active crisis response matters and liaising with external partners.

Christopher is an active public speaker, discussing various topics ranging from high-level best practices to executive-level crisis management. He has been a contributing author of the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report since its first publication in 2008. He has been featured in TV, radio, and print media, such as CNBC, The Wall Street Journal, ABC News, CBS News, American Banker, SkyNews, and many others. Christopher is an active member among multiple industry trade groups and a frequent guest lecturer at universities. He also serves on the advisory boards for various organizations and trade associations in an effort to further promote cybersecurity awareness and education as well as working closely with organizations as it relates to various policy initiatives on the topic of cybersecurity.

Christopher holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and also maintains active CISSP, CISA, PCI QSA & PFI, and other certifications.

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Andrew Retrum is a Managing Director and business-oriented leader within Protiviti’s Technology Consulting Practice. He is part of Protiviti’s Global Cybersecurity Leadership team and the National Financial Services Security & Privacy Practice Lead. Andrew has led Cyber Program Offices for several large institutions as part of broader business transformation efforts. He is an advocate for the adoption of the FAIR Methodology as an alternative method of IT Risk Management and thought leader on recent cybersecurity regulatory matters. Most recently, he is partnering with key trade associations within the financial sector to help craft the global response on the topic of Operational Resilience. 

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Tim is the CEO and co-founder of human layer security company Tessian. He leads the company to achieve its mission of protecting every business’s mission by securing the human layer and empowering people to do their best work, without security getting in the way. Since 2013, Tim has raised $60m from leading VC funds.

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Johna Till Johnson is the CEO & Founder of Nemertes Research, an 18-year old research-advisory firm specializing in the business impact of emerging technologies. Ms. Johnson spearheads Nemertes’ security and risk management practice, where she works with Fortune 200 financial services, manufacturing, utility, and other leading organizations.

Ms. Johnson’s career in information security began more than 25 years ago when, as a young engineer, she developed security products for Mosler Security Systems. In the early 1990s, she ran the lab-testing program at Data Communications Magazine, which uncovered vulnerabilities in the then-novel RSA two-factor authentication system. In the mid-1990s, Ms. Johnson ran the Global Networking Strategies Service at the META Group, which included META’s security and risk management offering. Subsequently, she served as the Chief Technology Officer overseeing the security practice for Greenwich Technology Corp., a global consulting and engineering firm that developed and implemented leading-edge security architectures for financial services firms and other global organizations.

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Shan Bavanantham is a cybersecurity leader with over 25 years of experience in cyber security, architecture, enterprise risk management, GRC, operations, IAM, governance, IT controls design/validation and infrastructure expertise across legacy and cloud environments in the banking, financial Services, healthcare and manufacturing sectors. He has successfully defined and executed transformation strategies in the identity and access management and security domains for large enterprises in regulated environments. His expertise includes strategy development, architecture, design, system integration, implementation, delivery, service design and management, governance and stakeholder management. Shan has a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and an MBA from Babson College.

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Prior to joining Prudential, Thomas Doughty served as a Military Intelligence Officer specializing in Electronic and Information Warfare and emerging intelligence processing technology platforms. Tom joined Pru in 1998 as an Information Systems Auditor, and from 2000 until 2005 assumed responsibility as Business Information Security Officer for Prudential Securities, Incorporated (PSI) in New York. His efforts during this period included technical risk management and transition related to Wachovia’s joint venture with PSI. Tom currently serves as Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer for Prudential. Tom is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, and holds an MBA in Finance and Information Technology from New York University’s Stern School of Business. He is currently a member of the BITS security steering committee, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Wall Street Technology Association.

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As the Senior Vice President of Marketing, Michelle brings solutions to market that unite development, security, and operations teams to accelerate software innovation while minimizing open source risk. Michelle has over 25 years of experience helping organizations leverage software technologies and services to better compete and serve their mission.

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Neil Larkins co-founded Egress Software Technologies in 2007 and currently serves as Chief Operations Officer, playing an instrumental role in shaping the strategic direction of the business, with particular emphasis on product and service development and delivery.

Neil possesses a thorough understanding of the information security market and has helped Egress build a reputation on technological and operational excellence. Working with both corporate and public organizations, he has helped deliver cutting-edge solutions that meet specific requirements for secure data exchange and collaboration, as well as compliance. Prior to Egress, he held executive management positions at Reflex Magnetics, Pointsec Mobile Technologies and Check Point Software Technologies.

A regular speaker at information security and technology events, Neil has a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the University of Manchester.

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Brian McHenry leads product management for Security solutions on the BIG-IP, NGINX, and Volterra data planes. In this role, he sets strategy for the growing $750M annual business for the Advanced WAF, SSL Orchestrator, Access Policy Manager, and NGINX App Protect products. McHenry takes pride in enabling F5’s customers to be successful as well as in improving their security postures to make the Internet a safer place.

McHenry works across multiple groups at F5, including the Strategy Office, Office of the CTO, Marketing, Services, Support, and Sales.

He is also a published writer and a frequent speaker at infosec conferences and events.  He is a co-founder of Security B-Sides NYC, and committed to giving back to the Infosec community.

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John C. Checco is an information security professional providing subject matter expertise across various industries. He currently resides as leader for the CISO Advisory Board on Financial Services for Proofpoint, and President Emeritus of the New York Metro InfraGard Members Alliance (an FBI public/private partnership program).

John has been an active contributor to the Strategic Advisory & Content Committee of the WSTA (Wall Street Technology Association) since 1997, active in InfraGard’s NY Metro Chapter since 2003, member in several other security organizations (ASIS, ISSA, IASCP, ISC2, and OWASP), and co-founder and co-chair for the NY Metro Joint Cyber Security Conference & Workshop series since 2014.

Prior to his current role, John was Senior Vice President for Bank of America’s Global Information Security Innovation Group. In this role, he was integral in the establishment of the Zero Trust Architecture strategy, an author for official guidance for Responsible Automation, a key contributor in the multi-firm Financial Systemic Analysis & Resiliency Center (FSARC), and the inaugural participant in the DHS Loaned Executive Program. John also served as Senior Information Security and Risk Advisor for Bloomberg L.P. where he introduced the BISO role to their various lines of business. He is founder of Checco Services Inc., an information security consulting firm that patented the award-winning bioChec™ keystroke and gesture biometric technologies. His past experience encompasses emerging technology research and development at NYNEX Science & Technology Center, Pitney Bowes Advanced Concepts & Technology Division, Advanced Technology Labs, and IBM’s T. J. Watson Research Center.

John holds a professional certificate from Stanford University in Strategic Decision and Risk Management (SDRM), a variety of information security certifications (CCISO, CCSK, CISSP and CSSLP), and a dual BS/MBA degree from Pace University. He is well published and has presented in the field of information security. Among his many achievements are patents in unified messaging and keystroke biometrics, as well as multiple patent applications in gesture biometrics, blockchain security, IoT security, zero trust, and 5G security.

John is a part-time NY State Fire Instructor, a volunteer firefighter with special teams training in vehicular extrication and dive/ice rescue, an amateur novelist, and routinely donates blood in several adult hockey leagues.

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Ashok Sankar brings over 25 years of expertise across the technology product strategy, management and marketing discipline.  He is currently VP of Solutions Marketing at ReliaQuest, where he partners with the platform and SOC teams in their mission to help organizations reduce security complexity so they can better manage risk and confidently drive measurable and actionable outcomes. He leads thought leadership and strategic marketing initiatives to drive awareness of unique value propositions across various channels and develop relevant content to foster productive engagements with prospects and customers.

Prior to ReliaQuest, he was the Director of Solutions Strategy and Marketing focused on public sector and education markets at Splunk.  He is a veteran of the cybersecurity industry and has held leadership roles at various organizations including Raytheon Cyber Products (now Forcepoint), RightNow (acquired by Oracle), SpringCM (acquired by DocuSign), NetSec (acquired by Verizon Business) and IBM.  He is a graduate of the Cybersecurity Strategy program from Georgetown University and is an adjunct professor with the Cybersecurity Strategy Masters’ program at University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC). He brings expertise across security, mobile, and cloud technologies and their applications in public sector and commercial industries.  Ashok is pragmatic marketing certified, twice, and lives in northern virginia.

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Joe Partlow is the CTO of ReliaQuest, a leading Information Security services provider. Joe currently oversees all new research and development efforts and new product initiatives. Joe has been involved with Infosec in some capacity or role for over 20 years, mostly on the defensive side but always impressed by offensive tactics. Current projects and interests include data analytics at scale, forensics, threat, security metrics & automation, red/purple teaming and artificial intelligence. Outside of Information Security, Joe has led or been involved in many other areas of the business including Web Development, Business Intelligence, Database Administration, Project Management, IT and Operations. Joe has experience in many different business verticals including retail, healthcare, financial, state/local government and the Department of Defense. He is also a regular speaker and contributor at security conferences, groups and associations. Joe has a degree in Computer Information Systems and holds many industry-specific certifications.