Frank Downs is the director of cybersecurity practices at ISACA. Frank, a 14-year cybersecurity specialist, graduated with a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Maryland, after which he promptly joined the US Department of Defense as a subject matter expert, working with computer networks on a daily basis. Realizing that English and cybersecurity…

Lesley Carhart is a Principal Threat Analyst at the Threat Operations Center at Dragos. She is recognized as a subject matter expert in cybersecurity, incident response, and digital forensics, regularly speaking at conferences and universities. She has spent the last 11 years of her 20+ year IT career specializing in information security, with a heavy…

Brian Martin (a.k.a. Jericho) has been poking about the hacker and security scene for over 22 years, building valuable skills such as skepticism and anger management. As a hacker-turned-security whore, Jericho has a great perspective to offer an unsolicited opinion on just about any security topic. A long-time advocate of advancing the field, sometimes by…

Bill Conner is the President and CEO of SonicWall. Bill has lead key divisions of AT&T, took Nortel into the $9 billion acquisition of Bay Networks, worked to secure digital identities with Entrust, and brought secure communications and privacy from the consumer to the enterprise through mobile and cloud with Silent Circle. Bill also created…

Bernard Harguindeguy is the Chief Technology Officer & General Manager Intelligence from Ping Identity. Bernard joined Ping in June 2018 through the acquisition of Elastic Beam, where he was the CEO and founder. His work at Elastic Beam revolutionized the use of AI to protect API infrastructures from cyber attacks and deliver deep insight into…