Some of the biggest breaches this year—Snowflake, Dell, UnitedHealth—have a common thread: Attackers exploited gaps in identity management, exposing critical failures in Least Privilege strategies. Is your organization next?
Attendees will walk away equipped to better protect their organizations and stay out of the data breach headlines!
Umaimah Khan is the co-founder and CEO of Opal Security, a next-generation identity security company. As a mathematician and engineering leader, Umaimah knows first-hand the challenges of managing secure authorization and access management pathways. She began her career as a researcher in the federal government, before leading infra and security at several startups. Umaimah graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a BS in Mathematics and Computer Science.
Gary is an xNSA, xGoogler, xHigh Frequency Trading CISO where he protected AI algorithms responsible for 10% of the US equities market by volume. His technical innovations feature in the Google Security Blog, and have been incorporated into WhatsApp, Signal, iMessage, Google Messages, and Proton. As a cyber security policy and thought leader, Gary built out a coalition of CISOs that resulted in Executive Order 13800. He’s a trusted regulatory interlocutor with FINRA, the SEC, and international regulators in the UK, Ireland, India, Australia, China, and Russia. He is also on the board of Mercy Ships and a pro-bono security advisor to NGOs. Gary is now consulting with a number of start ups to improve their cybersecurity programs, with clients from unicorn startups to security innovators to next-gen banks.
Adrian is an outspoken researcher that doesn’t shy away from uncomfortable truths. He loves to write about the security industry, tell stories, and still sees the glass as half full.