RSAC 2021 #2

Derek Manky is chief security strategist and global vice president of threat intelligence at FortiGuard Labs. Derek formulates security strategy with more than 15 years of cyber security experience behind him. His ultimate goal to make a positive impact in the global war on cybercrime. He provides thought leadership to industry, and has presented research and strategy worldwide at premier security conferences. As a cybersecurity expert, his work includes meetings with leading political figures and key policy stakeholders, including law enforcement. He is actively involved with several global threat intelligence initiatives including NATO NICP, INTERPOL Expert Working Group, the Cyber Threat Alliance (CTA) working committee and FIRST – all in effort to shape the future of actionable threat intelligence and proactive security strategy.

Michael Daniel currently serves as the President & CEO of the Cyber Threat Alliance (CTA), a not-for-profit that enables cyber threat information sharing among cybersecurity organizations. Prior to coming to CTA in March 2017, Michael served for four years as US Cybersecurity Coordinator, leading US cybersecurity policy development, facilitating US government partnerships with the private sector and other nations, and coordinating significant incident response activities. From 1995 to 2012, Michael worked for the Office of Management and Budget, overseeing funding for the U.S. Intelligence Community. Michael also works with the Aspen Cybersecurity Group, the World Economic Forum’s Partnership Against Cybercrime, and other organizations improving cybersecurity in the digital ecosystem. In his spare time, he enjoys running and martial arts.

Laura Koetzle leads Forrester’s European Research organization. She previously led the security and risk and the infrastructure and operations research teams. As a Security and Risk Analyst, Koetzle researched operating system security, security architecture, network security, and security incident response, and she served as the Chairperson for Forrester’s inaugural Security Forum event. She is also a member of the Advisory Board and the Program Committee for RSA Conference. Koetzle’s work has enjoyed wide exposure in the media, including BusinessWeek, The Economist, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. Koetzle has also appeared on CNN, CNBC, and Reuters Television, and she is a frequent speaker at information security and executive conferences.

Entrepreneurial tech nerd Rickard Carlsson has grown Detectify from a group of ethical hackers with an idea on how to make the internet safer, to an international industry challenger of 140+ people. Rickard has a background in tech and management consulting, and has lived and worked in Sweden, India and the US.

Ganesh Pai is Founder & CEO of Uptycs. He is a Boston-based entrepreneur and technologist (formerly Akamai, Verivue, NetDevices) and has been awarded multiple U.S. patents. Ganesh received a BE degree in electronics and communication engineering from Mangalore University and a MS in computer science from Temple University.

Wayne Haber, CISSP is the director of engineering at GitLab for the threat management and growth departments. His teams focus on things including vulnerability management, Kubernetes container security, growth hacking, and engineering productivity. Wayne has more than 20+ years of experience in security and engineering. When not working, Wayne is a dedicated learner averaging one book a week.

Frank Catucci is a global application security technical leader with over 20 years of experience, designing scalable application security specific architecture, partnering with cross-functional engineering and product teams. Frank is a past OWASP Chapter President and contributor to the OWASP bug bounty initiative and most recently was the Head of Application & Product Security at Data Robot. Prior to that role, Frank was the Sr. Director of Application Security & DevSecOps and Security Researcher at Gartner, and was also the Director of Application Security for Qualys. Outside of work and hacking things, Frank and his wife maintain a family farm. He is an avid outdoors fan and loves all types of fishing, boating, watersports, hiking, camping and especially dirt bikes and motorcycles.

Paul is a principal analyst on the Security and Risk team. Paul’s research coverage includes cybersecurity risk ratings solutions and cyber risk quantification; CISO and security leadership research in the European market; and European security service providers, focusing on managed security service providers and security consultancies.

Paul is frequently asked to comment on areas relevant to his research coverage and has been quoted in publications such as the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, ZDNet, SC Magazine, Handelsblatt, City A.M., and Infosecurity Magazine.

Scott Crawford is an industry analyst and heads the Information Security team at 451 Research, a technology industry analyst firm now part of S&P Global Market Intelligence. He was the first information security officer for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty organization in Vienna, Austria, and served as a senior strategist with IBM Security before joining 451.

Deepika is responsible for product strategy and delivery at Tala. Working closely with our customers, she drives product direction and shapes the product roadmap to address their core needs.

Prior to Tala, Deepika was part of Cisco Jasper where she led the launch of IoT smart city applications. Her career in Product Management began at EMC, in the New Product Introduction team, working on key initiatives across the Storage and the Data Protection divisions.

Deepika has held diverse roles in her career: her first job out of school was in Research and Development of high voltage particle accelerator technology used in cancer therapy machines.