Patrick has served as CMO of ZeroFOX and Claroty, as VP of Marketing at iSIGHT Partners and Xceedium, VP of Compliance at Scalable Software, Co-founder and CEO of META Security Group, and Senior Vice President at META Group. Patrick received a bachelor’s degree in management from Keene State College in New Hampshire.

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With more years working in the Security, Risk, Privacy and Resiliency professions than she cares to say, Helen Patton advocates using information risk, security and privacy to enable the mission of organizations and to support society at large.  Helen is an Advisory CISO at Duo Security (now CISCO), where she shares security strategies with the security community. Previously she was the CISO at The Ohio State University where she was awarded the ISE North American Academic/Public Sector Executive of the Year, and an Executive Director at JPMorganChase.  Helen actively encourages collaboration across and within industries, to enable better information security and privacy practices.  She believes in improving diversity and inclusion in the workforce, and mentors people interested in pursuing careers in security, privacy and risk management.    Helen has a Master’s degree in Public Policy and has earned Certified Information Systems Auditor and Certified In Risk and Systems Control certifications from ISACA.  She serves on the State of Ohio Cybersecurity Advisory Board and is a  founding board member of the National Technology Security Coalition.

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Klint Walker is the Cyber Security Advisor for Region IV which covers Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. As the CSA, Klint is the liaison between Federal services and State, Local, territorial and Tribal Governments, Critical Infrastructure and Private Industry. He serves as the focal point for communications to promote Cyber Preparedness, incident response, risk mitigation and situational awareness. He provides direct coordination, outreach, and regional support in order to protect cyber components essential to the sustainability, preparedness, and protection of the Nation’s Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources (CIKR) and State, Local, Territorial, and Tribal (SLTT) governments Mr. Walker has previously held positions as an Information Systems Security Officer for the Department of Health and Human Services where he assisted in establishing the Computer Security Incident Response Center (CSIRC). Mr. Walker was also held the position of Chief Information Security Officer for the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC). In this role he was responsible for the operational resiliency of classified networks and facilities in adherence with DoD Standards and guidelines.

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One of the industry’s finest, Chris Morales, oversees the company’s security vision and strategy as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Head of Security Strategy. He’s well known and respected in security circles as an innovative leader and technical expert. Throughout his career, he has advised and designed incident response and threat management programs for some of the world’s largest enterprises. Chris most recently led advisory services and security analytics at Vectra AI. He has also held roles in cybersecurity engineering, consulting, sales and research at companies including HyTrust, NSS Labs, 451 Research, Accuvant, McAfee and IBM.

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I provide a tailored cybersecurity performance-based coaching program focused on each client’s individual needs and delivering results. I strive to shine a light on the value of others so they can see it in themselves through my coaching business https://CPF-coaching.com

Outside of being a security practitioner focused on helping businesses tackle their cybersecurity risks while minimizing friction resulting in increased resiliency and helping to secure people and processes with a solid understanding of the technology involved.

I give back by producing a podcast focused on helping people who are trying “Breaking into Cybersecurity” by sharing the stories of those who have done it in the past 5 years to inspire those looking to do it now. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BreakingIntoCybersecurity

I have 15+ years as an experienced Information Security Manager, Adjunct Professor, Author, and Cybersecurity Strategist with a passion for customer service, process improvement, and information security. Managed teams of over 30+ people across multiple locations. 10+ years of leading, coaching, and mentoring people.

Significant experience in optimizing the use of technology while balancing the implications to people, process, and information security by using a consultative adaptive risk-based approach. Experienced in requirements gathering, analysis, and consultation for secure digital business transformation and minimizing cyber risks using cloud service providers.

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Karen Rouleau helps the private sector and governments make sense of our relationships with the technologies that encompass today’s digital world, then successfully converts the insights into strategies for the “art of the possible”.

Using the principles of her Undergrad. Degree in Social Anthropology/Human Sciences, Karen’s work intersects Technology/Business/Governments through a humanistic lens. This approach brings a fresh perspective and successfully adopts new cultures and behaviors around strategies for innovation and modernization.

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Avi joined SafeBreach in 2021, with almost 30 years as a senior information security leader with multiple companies, including Wells Fargo, E*Trade, and Experian. He has created and implemented security programs with a focus on best practices and control maturity. Avi’s information security career started with his service at the Israeli Defense Forces Unit 8200. His career spans multiple roles and domains across information security, including product research and development, professional services, customer support, consulting, and strategic leadership. Avi holds a dual MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and Columbia University’s Business School. He is CISSP, CISM, CRISC, CISA, CIPM, and CIPT certified and holds the Stanford University Strategic Decision and Risk Management program certification.

Roger Grimes, KnowBe4’s Data-Driven Defense Evangelist, is a 30-year computer security consultant, instructor, holder of dozens of computer certifications and an award-winning author of 10 books and over 1,000 magazine articles on computer security. He now serves as the Data-Driven Security Analyst for KnowBe4. He has worked at some of the world’s largest computer security companies, including Foundstone, McAfee and Microsoft. Grimes holds a bachelor’s degree from Old Dominion University. He was the weekly security columnist for InfoWorld and CSO magazines from 2005-2019.

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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. 

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Rob Ellis has 15 +years experience leading sales, business development and marketing at SaaS startup companies. At Reciprocity, Rob is responsible for overall revenue growth. He joined as one of the company’s first employees to scale the business.  A startup veteran, Rob has founded companies, and worked in startups in a variety of roles.

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Ben Langrill is the Director of Solutions Engineering at RangeForce, a global provider of hands-on cybersecurity training. He has more than ten years of experience in public and private cybersecurity in a variety of roles, including penetration testing, secure configuration, vulnerability management, and forensic investigation. At RangeForce, Ben is working to improve cybersecurity training through frictionless access to real-world simulation environments.

Yotam joins SafeBreach as the VP of Product from Radware (RDWR) where he led the security product line from early days until it became a major line within the Radware business. His earlier background is in security research where he led security research teams at Radware and Checkpoint (CKPT). Yotam holds a B.Sc Degree in Physics and Computer Science from Kings College London.

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Tod Beardsley is the director of research at Rapid7. He has over 20 years of hands-on security experience, stretching from in-band telephony switching to modern IoT implementations. He has held IT Ops and IT Security positions in large organizations such as 3Com, Dell, and Westinghouse, as both an offensive and defensive practitioner. Today, Tod directs the myriad security research programs and initiatives at Rapid7. 

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Bob Rudis has over 20 years of experience using data to help defend global Fortune 100 companies and is currently Chief Data Scientist at Rapid7, where he specializes in research on internet-scale exposure. He was formerly a Security Data Scientist & Managing Principal at Verizon, overseeing the team that produces the annual Data Breach Investigations Report. Bob is a regular contributor to the open-source community.

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Mrugesh has over thirteen years of experience creating and delivering cyber security products that delight customers. He has expertise in Risk and Compliance Management, Threat and Vulnerability Management, Application Security and PKI.

Prior to his current role with HID Global, Mrugesh was Director of Product Management at RiskSense, a provider of full spectrum risk-based vulnerability management solution. Mrugesh previously held the product management positions at He has held product management positions at WhiteHat Security (acquired by NTT Security), and RiskVision (acquired by Resolver, Inc.).

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