Kevin Sheu leads marketing at Bitglass. He brings 20 years of go-to-market experience, where he has demonstrated a passion for product innovations and how they are adopted by customers. He previously led growth initiatives at Vectra AI, Okta, FireEye and Barracuda Networks. And his perspectives are grounded in foundational work as a strategy and technology consultant; where he worked with G2000 companies, private equity firms and government clients.
Tommy Todd is Vice President of Security at Code42 with over 20 years of cybersecurity experience, primarily focused on data privacy and data protection strategies. Prior to Code42, Tommy served in security roles at Symantec, Ionic Security, and Optiv as well as many other firms. Throughout his career, he has acted as a leader, mentor, engineer, architect, and consultant to solve difficult data protection challenges. Tommy is passionate about data – both consumer and commercial – and strives to improve the security posture in organizations he works with.
With two IPOs & seven acquisitions Brian has helped build some of the most successful security companies in the world. He has over 25 years in the security industry as security company entrepreneur, board advisor, investor, and author. After getting his start with the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) and later Bell Labs, Brian began the process of building security startups and taking multiple companies through successful IPOs and acquisitions including: Riptech, ArcSight, Imperva, McAfee, Solera Networks, Cylance, JASK, Verodin, and Mandiant.
Brian has worked in over 50 countries across six continents. He authored the book Enemy at the Water Cooler and he co-authored Physical & Logical Security Convergence with former NSA Deputy Director William Crowell. He was featured in the cyberwar documentary 5 Eyes alongside General Michael Hayden, former NSA and CIA Director. Brian has written for and been interviewed by security and business press and regularly presents at conferences worldwide like Black Hat, RSA, & BSides.
Experienced IT professional with a demonstrated history of success in the information technology and services industry. Skilled in Email Security & Network Security Project Management, with additional focus areas in Communication, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and Channel Strategy.
Jonathan currently serves as Chief Information Security Officer for the University of Tulsa. His primary responsibility is the development and execution of the University’s IT Security & Data Privacy Compliance Initiatives. Additionally, he actively working with both the professionals and leadership in Oklahoma to grow and develop their security and privacy postures both individually and for their organizations.
Rachel Arnold is The Human API and client relationships specialist at SecureNation, a client focused cybersecurity platforms and services reseller. Her insider knowledge and expertise has made her an invaluable resource for clients and vendors alike. Rachel is also the marketing director for the ISACA Baton Rouge chapter, an avid supporter of InfraGard Members Alliance Louisiana, passionate volunteer and fundraising dynamo for the Innocent Lives Foundation, and supports a local program within the East Baton Rouge school system, Career and Technical Education Center as an industry advising member of the board. Rachel hosts a weekly live stream across five social media platforms, The Coffee Table Talks which aims to humanize cybersecurity across the industry and highlight positive influences to the global community. In a short amount of time, Rachel has solidified herself as a true connector of people and technology.
Security Evangelist , Public Speaker, ICS Security, Information Security Projects, New Technology Adaptation, Security Strategy Development, Network-Security Educator, Security Frameworks, Manager of Inside and Outside network infrastructures and multiple IT disciplines in geographically disperse teams, Worldwide traveler.
Christer Swartz is the Principal Technical Marketing Engineer for Illumio. He has spent many years in the Networking industry, beginning with a small startup called Cisco, where he was an early CCIE. He has worked for both Enterprise and Service Providers as a Network and Security architect, for both Data Center and Cloud network deployments. He worked for Netflix on the design and birth of their Internet video-streaming architecture, and for Palo Alto Networks on designing deep security across the entire Ci/CD pipeline. He currently works for Illumio, focusing on architecting Workload Security in Data Center and Hybrid-Cloud Network fabrics. Network Security has traditionally been an after-thought in the Networking industry, with Scalable Cloud architectures and Security often perceived as a binary choice. Security can, and needs to be, de-coupled from traditional networking priorities.
Nimmy Reichenberg oversees strategy and marketing for Siemplify, the leading independent provider of Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR). A cybersecurity industry veteran, Nimmy has more than 15 years of experience helping enterprises around the world tackle their security challenges. Nimmy started his career as a security engineer and held leadership positions at eSentire, AlgoSec and NextNine. He is a frequent contributor to leading security publications including SC Magazine, Dark Reading and Security Week, and has spoken at countless security conferences including the RSA conference.
Ricardo Villadiego (RV) is a seasoned entrepreneur and visionary technology leader focused on cybersecurity. His last 20 years have been spent in the quest of solving some of the most prevalent cybersecurity challenges organizations face. RV founded Easy Solutions, a global organization focused on the prevention and detection of electronic fraud. Subsequently, RV led the cybersecurity business unit at Cyxtera Technologies, where he developed a long-term vision and execution plan. His passion for technology and cybersecurity have triggered yet another venture, and he created Lumu Technologies with a clear objective: help the world measure compromise.
Along his career, Ricardo has held various leadership positions at IBM, Internet Security Systems and Unisys Corporation. He is an Electrical Engineer, avid reader, relentlessly curious, technology enthusiast, who currently lives in South Florida with his family.
Canming Jiang is the CEO and Co-Founder of Datawiza, a next-gen access management company. Before Datawiza, he was one of the early engineers of Shape Security, a pioneer on account protection. Shape was acquired by F5 for $1B in Jan. 2020. Prior to Shape, Canming began his career at Cisco as a security software engineer. He earned a Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from Virginia Tech.
For more than 20 years, Grant Asplund has been sharing his insights on how businesses can best protect themselves from sophisticated cyber-attacks in an increasingly complex world. As Check Point’s chief evangelist, he travels the world enthralling audiences with his passionate and relational storytelling at conferences like RSA and Next100 CIOs and numerous media interviews. Grant’s wide range of cyber security experience informs his talks, having served in diverse roles ranging from sales, marketing, business development, and senior management for Dome 9, Blue Coat Systems, Neustar, and Altor Networks. As CEO of MetaInfo, he led its acquisition by Neustar. Grant is the host of the CISO Secrets podcast (cp.buzzsprout.com) and the Talking Cloud Podcast (www.talkingcloudpodcast.com) on Cloud security.
Virtual Houston CyberSecurity Conference
Thursday, October 21, 2021 @ 8am CDT
(CA, TX, CO, WA, AZ, OR, UT, OK)
Earn up to 10 CPE credits
About the Event
FutureCon Events brings high-level Cyber Security Training discovering cutting-edge security approaches, managing risk in the ever-changing threat of the cybersecurity workforce.
Join us as we talk with a panel of C-level executives who have effectively mitigated the risk of Cyber Attacks.
Educating C-suite executives and CISOs (chief information security officers) on the global cybercrime epidemic, and how to build Cyber Resilient organizations.
“Cybersecurity is no longer just an IT problem”
Gain the latest knowledge you need to enable applications while keeping your computing environment secure from advanced Cyber Threats. Demo the newest technology, and interact with the world’s security leaders and gain other pressing topics of interest to the information security community.
The FutureCon community will keep you updated on the future of the Cyberworld and allow you to interact with your peers and the world’s security leaders.
For sponsorship opportunities email sales@futureconevents.com
Keynote Speaker
Cybersecurity & The Board: Choosing success over the Sarlacc Pit
Brian Contos
Chief Security Officer Phosphorus Cybersecurity
Brian is a seasoned executive, board advisor, and serial entrepreneur with 25+ years in the cybersecurity industry. After getting his start in security with the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) and later Bell Labs, he began the process of building security startups and taking multiple companies through successful IPOs and acquisitions, including Riptech, ArcSight, Imperva, McAfee, Solera Networks, Cylance, JASK, and Verodin. Brian has worked in over 50 countries across 6 continents. He has authored several books, his latest with the former Deputy Director of the NSA and speaks at events globally such as Black Hat, RSA, & Interop. Brian writes for Forbes Magazine and is often interviewed by the media. He was recently featured in a cyberwar documentary alongside General Michael Hayden, the former Director of the NSA and CIA.
Panel Discussion
"CISO roundtable with the Human API"
Armorblox helps organizations communicate more securely over email and other cloud office applications with the power of Natural Language Understanding (NLU). The Armorblox platform connects over APIs and analyzes thousands of signals to understand the context of communications and protect people and data from compromise. Over 9,000 organizations use Armorblox to stop BEC and targeted phishing attacks, protect sensitive PII and PCI, and automate remediation of user-reported email threats.
Armorblox helps organizations communicate more securely over email and other cloud office applications with the power of Natural Language Understanding (NLU). The Armorblox platform connects over APIs and analyzes thousands of signals to understand the context of communications and protect people and data from compromise. Over 9,000 organizations use Armorblox to stop BEC and targeted phishing attacks, protect sensitive PII and PCI, and automate remediation of user-reported email threats.
Armorblox helps organizations communicate more securely over email and other cloud office applications with the power of Natural Language Understanding (NLU). The Armorblox platform connects over APIs and analyzes thousands of signals to understand the context of communications and protect people and data from compromise. Over 9,000 organizations use Armorblox to stop BEC and targeted phishing attacks, protect sensitive PII and PCI, and automate remediation of user-reported email threats.
Platinum Sponsors
Bitglass’ Total Cloud Security Platform is the only secure access service edge offering that combines a Gartner-MQ-Leading cloud access security broker, the world’s only on-device secure web gateway, and zero-trust network access to secure any interaction. Based in Silicon Valley with offices worldwide, the company is backed by Tier 1 investors and was founded in 2013 by a team of industry veterans with a proven track record of innovation and execution.
Gold Sponsors
Code42 is the leader in Insider Risk Management. Native to the cloud, Code42 Incydr rapidly detects data loss, leak, theft and sabotage as well as speeds incident response – all without lengthy deployments, complex policy management or blocking employee productivity. With Code42, security professionals can protect corporate data and reduce insider threats while fostering an open and collaborative culture for employees. Backed by security best practices and control requirements, Code42’s Insider Risk solution is FedRAMP authorized and can be configured for GDPR, HIPAA, PCI and other regulatory frameworks.
Pentera is the category leader for Automated Security Validation, allowing every organization to test with ease the integrity of all cybersecurity layers, unfolding true, current security exposures at any moment, at any scale. Thousands of security professionals and service providers around the world use Pentera to guide remediation and close security gaps before they are exploited. For more info visit: pentera.io.
ExtraHop provides enterprise cyber analytics that deliver security and performance from the inside out. Our breakthrough approach analyzes all network interactions in real time and applies advanced machine learning to help security and IT teams investigate threats, ensure the delivery of critical applications, and protect their investment in the cloud. With ExtraHop, the world’s leading enterprises have the complete visibility, real-time detection, and guided investigation they need to rise above the noise and drive their business forward.
Illumio enables organizations to realize a future without high-profile breaches by preventing the lateral movement of attackers across any organization. Founded on the principle of least privilege in 2013, Illumio provides visibility and segmentation for endpoints, data centers or clouds. The world’s leading organizations, including Morgan Stanley, BNP Paribas, Salesforce, and Oracle NetSuite, trust Illumio to reduce cyber risk. For more information, visit https://www.illumio.com/what-we-do and engage us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
Siemplify, the leading independent security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) provider, is redefining security operations for enterprises and MSSPs worldwide. The Siemplify Security Operations Platform is an intuitive, cloud-native workbench that enables security teams to manage their operations from end to end, respond to cyberthreats with speed and precision, and get smarter with every analyst interaction.
Founded in 2015 by Israeli Defense Forces experts with extensive experience running and training numerous security operations centers worldwide, Siemplify has raised $58 million in funding to date and is headquartered in New York, with offices in Tel Aviv. Visit us at siemplify.co or follow us on Twitter at @Siemplify.
Lumu Technologies is a cyber-security company that illuminates threats, attacks, and adversaries affecting enterprises worldwide. Using actionable intelligence, Lumu provides a radical way to secure networks by enhancing and augmenting existing defense capabilities established over the past 25 years.
Datawiza is the first access management as a service (AMaaS) platform for organizations to implement a zero trust architecture to secure applications and APIs. With a mission to help customers save time and increase security, Datawiza is an easy-to-deploy solution for any-sized business.
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. is the largest network cyber security vendor globally, providing industry-leading solutions and protecting customers from cyberattacks with an unmatched catch rate of malware and other types of threats. Check Point offers a complete security architecture defending enterprises – from networks to mobile devices – in addition to the most comprehensive and intuitive security management. Check Point protects over 100,000 organizations of all sizes.
Silver Sponsors
Okta is the World’s Identity Company. As the leading independent Identity partner, we free everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app. The most trusted brands trust Okta to enable secure access, authentication, and automation. With flexibility and neutrality at the core of our Okta Workforce Identity and Customer Identity Clouds, business leaders and developers can focus on innovation and accelerate digital transformation, thanks to customizable solutions and more than 7,000 pre-built integrations. We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you. Learn more at okta.com.
Recorded Future delivers the world’s most advanced security intelligence to disrupt adversaries, empower defenders, and protect organizations. With proactive and predictive intelligence, Recorded Future’s platform provides elite, context-rich, actionable intelligence in real time that’s ready for integration across the security ecosystem.
Fluency provides automated awareness for where your people are. Fluency’s network reconstruction technology changes the telemetry data provided by EDR into a network view that is used to fully understand infrastructure events. Data lives in the cloud, remote offices, hotels, coffee houses, and homes making enforcing security by using the network impossible. Fluency X-SIEM is the only solution to regain complete infrastructure awareness. With cross-platform XDR, behavioral analytics, and automated workflows, Fluency’s X-SIEM supplies comprehensive security to the distributed world.
Perimeter 81 is a Zero Trust Network as a Service designed to simplify secure network, cloud and application access for the modern and distributed workforce.
Our award-winning, user-centric SaaS solution incorporates the Zero Trust and Software-Defined Perimeter models and offers greater network visibility, seamless onboarding and automatic integration with major cloud providers.
Perimeter 81 ensures unified network security – whether employees are working in or out of the office. We serve a wide range of businesses, from midsize companies to Fortune 500s, and have established partnerships with the world’s foremost integrators, managed service providers and channel resellers.
Built from scratch and based on input from security leaders needing a change from legacy technology, Perimeter 81’s unique API integration and centralized cloud architecture gives companies of all industries and sizes the power to realize the full virtues of the cloud and be truly mobile.
Unlike traditional VPN technology which is costly, hardware-based and both difficult to install and manage, our innovative, Zero Trust Network as a Service platform simply secures access to your local networks, cloud infrastructures, and business applications, with one unified platform.
Array Networks, the network functions platform company, develops purpose-built systems for hosting virtual networking and security functions with guaranteed performance. Proven at over 5000 worldwide customer deployments, Array is recognized by leading enterprises and service providers for next-generation technology that delivers agility at scale.
InNet partners with customers to design, deploy, and support a full suite of advanced technology solutions focusing upon enterprise and mid-market IT organizations and assisting in regards to networks, information security, business continuity, storage, cloud migration, virtualization and performance monitoring. As one of the most trusted solution providers in the Central and Eastern USA, InNet brings many years of valuable experience from a myriad of customer perspectives working with leading enterprise and corporate customers to deliver technology that meets business objectives.
Morphisec is the world leader in providing advanced security solutions for midsize to small enterprises around the globe. We simplify security and can automatically block modern attacks from the endpoint to the cloud. Unlike traditional security solutions relying on human intervention, our solutions deliver operationally simple, proactive prevention. We protect businesses around the globe with limited security resources and training from the most dangerous and sophisticated cyber attacks.
Armorblox helps organizations communicate more securely over email and other cloud office applications with the power of Natural Language Understanding (NLU). The Armorblox platform connects over APIs and analyzes thousands of signals to understand the context of communications and protect people and data from compromise. Over 9,000 organizations use Armorblox to stop BEC and targeted phishing attacks, protect sensitive PII and PCI, and automate remediation of user-reported email threats.
Cyber risk is one of the greatest challenges our generation. Despite the need, organizations still struggle to get actionable visibility to their cyber risk; prevention and detection technology has been the dominant focus thus far, but it’s not a silver bullet. Managing risk requires a holistic, continuous evaluation across technology, people, process, and financial controls. Axio believes that every organization can have the means to solve their unique cyber risk challenges. We are a team of cyber risk, cybersecurity, and business leaders who created the Axio360 platform to deliver on that belief. Our innovative approach and insights give companies visibility to their cyber risk, and enable them to prioritize investments to protect their business and employees. Axio360 is the only methodology and software that empowers organizations to continually answer the four most critical questions for cyber risk: 1) What’s my exposure in financial terms? 2) How mature is my cyber program? 3) Do I have the financial ability to recover from an event? 4) Where should I invest?
NetSfere provides next generation messaging and mobility solutions to carriers and enterprises globally including its enterprise-grade, secure mobile messaging platform NetSfere Enterprise. NetSfere Enterprise is a secure enterprise messaging service and platform which provides industry-leading security and message delivery capabilities, including global cloud-based service availability, device-to-device encryption, location-based features and administrative controls. The service is also offered globally in partnership with Deutsche Telekom GmbH, one of the world’s leading integrated telecommunications companies, and with NTT Ltd., a global information communications & technology service provider, to jointly offer NetSfere to its worldwide customers. NetSfere is also compliant with global regulatory requirements, including GDPR, HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, ISO 27001 and others. The company’s technology supports more than 500 million subscribers and over one trillion messages per year. NetSfere has offices in the United States, Germany, UK, Singapore and India. For more information, visit: www.netsfere.com.
RangeForce is building the world’s most comprehensive cybersecurity simulation and skills analysis platform
RangeForce believes in the power of leveling up your SOC and cybersecurity staff by providing advanced cybersecurity defense training along with a capability to accurately and quantitatively assess your team’s actual skills.
Every day hackers invent new creative techniques, and regulators are signing off even more significant fines. We help companies mitigate their cybersecurity risk by increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of their security operations through advanced threat training that covers the very latest attack and defense techniques.
Partners
The Pan Asian American Business Council (“PAABC”) is a non-profit organization consisting of Asian American businesses that would like to promote and grow their own and other Asian American businesses.
To enable Asian American owned businesses to develop and grow.
Founded in 2012, the Women’s Society of Cyberjutsu (WSC) is a National 501(c)3 non-profit community, focused on empowering women to succeed in the cybersecurity industry. WSC’s mission is to advance women in cybersecurity careers by providing programs and partnerships that promote hands-on training, networking, education, mentoring, resource-sharing and other professional opportunities.
WSC serves thousands of women across the globe by bringing awareness to, and advancing careers in, cybersecurity. The WSC community includes information security professionals, IT professionals, programmers, computer scientists and engineers, as well as women wanting to explore and join the field. Recognizing the importance of encouraging girls to embrace a future in STEM-related professions through its Cyberjutsu Girls Academy, WSC provides a unique hands-on curriculum focused on securing information technology. For more information, visit http://www.womenscyberjutsu.org.
We put our heart and soul into this Cybersecurity Conference directory.
Way back in 2013 we had another website called “Concise Courses” which used to market and sell InfoSec training courses. We published a blog post listing all the upcoming InfoSec Conferences of that year, and Google loved the resource and put us right to the top of the search engines. That ‘accidental’ occurrence spawned this directory which is maintained by a small team comprising of Henry Dalziel and Charles Villaneuva and a bunch of freelance programmers.
What We Do:
We list, literally, every single Information Security conference, event and seminar within every niche in Cybersecurity.
We have a dedicated team that maintains our in-house tech stack, directory, and data curation.
Agenda
Times are subject to change
Opening Introductions
Presentation
Rise of Secure Access Service Edge (SASE)
Secure access service edge has quickly emerged as a hot topic in cybersecurity, but what exactly does it mean and why should organizations care? As cloud migration, BYOD adoption, and remote work have skyrocketed in prevalence, it has become increasingly apparent that organizations need to think differently about security. While legacy tools like firewalls are no longer equipped to handle the modern IT ecosystem, SASE platforms like Bitglass are built for this exact moment. In this presentation, you will learn:
- The core components of a SASE platform like Bitglass.
- The functionality you need to secure cloud, web, and remote access use cases.
- Architectural considerations you should keep in mind when comparing SASE vendors.
Presentation
Insider Risk Management: The alternative to traditional data protection is here!
Keynote
Cybersecurity & The Board: Choosing success over the Sarlacc Pit
Presentation
Death, Taxes, & Ransomware: Make the Inevitable, Avoidable
Panel Discussion
"CISO roundtable with the Human API"
Presentation
Crawl, Walk, Run Your Segmentation Approach
Detecting and Responding to Threats at the Speed of Business
- Reduce MTTD and MTTR with context-driven investigations.
- Proactively hunt for threats while overcoming the security skills shortage.
- Ensure your security tech stack is working for you, not against you.
- Take a “threat-centric” approach to decrease caseload by as much as 80%.
Presentation
7 Habits of Highly Effective Cybersecurity Operations
Presentation
Zero Trust and Access Management as a Service (AMaaS)
Organizations are moving to Zero Trust Security, and Identity and Access Management, IAM, is a key element of this new strategy. Modern Identity as a Service (IDaaS) platforms solve half of the IAM problem: Identity. Access Management as a Service (AMaaS), an emerging strategy, solves the other half: Access.
Presentation
A Strategy For Securing Your Everything; How Non-Integrated Solutions Challenge Overall Enterprise Security
Security practitioners understand the need to implement new controls that help their organizations’ defend against the rising number of attacks and Fifth Generation threats like the SolarWinds Orion supply chain hack. But slowed economic growth and the push to secure systems from sophisticated new threats challenges many companies.
These global market conditions underscore the importance of employing a consolidation strategy with a unified security architecture at its center that protects cloud, networks, endpoints, and mobile devices.
Join Grant Asplund, Growth Technologies Evangelist for Check Point Software Technologies, as he shares the building blocks for putting in place a consolidation strategy that:
- Increases security efficiency with a unified security architecture
• Improves your organization’s overall threat prevention profile
• Eliminates complexity caused by managing disparate systems
• Reduces total cost of ownership
