Guests

Jason Garbis is Senior Vice President of Products for Appgate, responsible for the company security product strategy and product management, and held a similar leadership role at Cryptzone prior to its acquisition by Appgate/Cyxtera. Garbis is also co-chair of the SDP Zero Trust Working Group at the Cloud Security Alliance, where he helps lead research and publication initiatives.

Sriram Balasubramanian is a Product Line director within Akamai’s Enterprise Division. He is responsible for Akamai’s SASE initiatives around Zero Trust Access. Sriram has more than a decade of experience in product management across varied fields including Networking, Security and Internet of Things. Prior to Akamai, Sriram spent 7 years with Cisco Systems leading various emerging initiatives within the company. Sriram holds a Bachelor and Master’s degree in computer science.

Gil Azrielant is co-founder and CTO of Axis Security. Gil is responsible for technology strategy and the development of the company’s cloud-based zero-trust application access platform. Prior to joining Axis Security, Gil was co-founder & CTO of Cool Cousin, a cloud-based platform for travelers looking to unlock outstanding travel experiences. Gil’s cybersecurity career began in the elite Unit 8200 of the Israeli Army Intelligence Corps, where he worked on advanced cyber security and code decryption. He served five years inside this elite unit, working as a researcher and team leader. Gil holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and graduated magna cum laude from IDC Herzliya, one of Israel's leading academic institutions.

Mike has been leading the product management and techpubs teams since he joined Bitglass in Nov 2013. He has a background in the development of innovative enterprise security products, with expertise in configuration management, user-interface design, networking, and enterprise software. Prior to joining Bitglass, Mike was a PM at Palo Alto Networks leading management software and user-interface strategy for both Panorama and PAN-OS. Before that, he held technical marketing and engineering roles at Mentor Graphics for the Advanced Mixed-Signal business unit. Mike earned an MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering and BS in Computer Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Greg Irwin is Co-Founder and Moderator at BWG Strategy and has 20+ years of experience in the Technology market. Having spent nearly a decade at Avaya and the last seven years moderating industry forums on everything from Enterprise Software, Cyber Security, IT Infrastructure and beyond, Greg has a fantastic pulse technology trends, tech roadmaps, and which solution vendors are on the cutting edge of innovation. From 1994-2001, Greg worked in investment banking at Salmon Smith Barney / Citigroup covering Technology/Telecom. Greg earned a Bachelor of Engineering from Dartmouth College. He lives in Westfield, NJ with his wife Hillary and two children.

Trevor A. Combs is a proven expert when it comes to Secure Remote Support tools and the processes around them. He is currently a Senior Solutions Engineer at BeyondTrust. Prior to that, he spent most of his career in IT Process and Program Management for various global companies in the IT Support, Finance, Construction, and Vendor Outsourcing industries. He has over 20 years in the Support and Security space. In Trevor’s free time, he enjoys teaching seminars and classes to seniors on how to enrich their lives with technology, and keep their data and personal information safe.

Jian Zhen is a Product Manager for Google Cloud Security’s BeyondCorp Enterprise solution. He has 20 years of experience in the security industry and has worked in various areas including cloud security, EDR, and SIEM. Most recently, Jian was a co-founder of TrustPath that delivered a real-time threat prevention solution. Prior to that, Jian was the SVP of Products at Endgame, an endpoint detection and response company. Jian was also the Director of Cloud Solutions at VMware that delivered vCloud solutions for telcos and data center operators.

Greg Pepper is a Security Architect and Evangelist with over 13 years at Check Point Software Technolgies. Greg has been an IT professional for 20+ years with expertise in Security, Networking & Cloud Computing. Prior to Check Point, Greg has worked at well-known companies like Cisco, Sony Online Entertainment, Price Waterhouse Coopers and Organic.

Noa Zilberman is the co-founder and Chief Product at Odo Security, a Zero-Trust Network Access (ZTNA) startup recently acquired by Check Point. Odo is a clientless, cloud-hosted platform for easy and secure access to corporate resources without VPNs. Before Odo, Noa served in unit 8200 as a network researcher, leading an independent project resulting in new capabilities for the Israeli army.

Dave Greenfield is a veteran of IT industry. He’s spent more than 20 years as an award-winning journalist and independent technology consultant. Today, he serves as a secure networking evangelist for Cato Networks.

Jim Fulton is Forcepoint’s director of Cloud and Edge Protection solutions. He has been developing and delivering enterprise access and security products for more than 20 years in both Austin and Silicon Valley. He holds a degree in Computer Science from MIT.

Retired Navy Chief Cryptologist with more than 19 years experience in Cyber Forensic and Analytic Operations and offering deep technical expertise, advanced education, various certifications and operational experience seeks to provide an employer with an unrivaled level of performance and know-how in the realm of cyber operations and forensic analysis. Chase has operations experience ranging from cyber forensics, analytics, and offensive and defensive cyber operations gained while functioning in highly technical and operationally demanding work centers within the NSA, CIA, FBI and other government agencies.

Rafi is an accomplished information security professional with over fifteen years of experience helping Canadian companies secure and monitor their networks. Prior to joining Fortinet as a Systems Engineer, Rafi worked with Fortune 25 companies to analyze, decode, and respond to Advanced Persistent Threats from one of North America’s premier Security Operations Centres. Building on this experience, Rafi was charged with architecting and implementing advanced security and monitoring infrastructure protecting sensitive corporate and government data on a global basis. Rafi holds several industry certifications from the SANS institute.

Dr. Anton Chuvakin is now involved with security solution strategy at Google Cloud, where he arrived via Chronicle Security (an Alphabet company) acquisition in July 2019. Anton was, until recently, a Research Vice President and Distinguished Analyst at Gartner for Technical Professionals (GTP) Security and Risk Management Strategies team.

Paul Martini is the CEO, Co-founder and chief architect of iboss. Prior to founding iboss, Paul was key architect for a wide-variety of complex security and technology solutions for clients such as Phogenix, the U.S. Navy, and Hewlett Packard. He was also a key contributor at Copper Mountain Networks which was a pioneer in introducing broadband networks used by Telcos to build the cloud. Paul has been recognized for his leadership and innovation, receiving the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of The Year award and being named one of Goldman Sachs’ 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs.

Brian has been an IT professional for 25 years. As a Regional Solution Architect he is involved with large Enterprise customers in Canada and the US, and is engaged to architect large scale deployments both for customers and MSP partners. A member of ISACA and IASA Global, Brian often speaks at both industry and McAfee events about how to address business objectives with advanced security architecture in Security Operations and Cloud.

Dino Boukouris is a Founding Director at Momentum Cyber, the premier strategic advisor to the Cybersecurity industry. Dino has spent over 16 years in the technology industry with expertise in cybersecurity, finance, strategy, operations, and venture capital & private equity. Dino has been a speaker at Cybersecurity conferences across the country including the RSA Conference, Cybertech Tel Aviv, Structure Security, Global Cyberspace Coop Summit, IoT Security Panel, M&A East 2017, as well as at numerous private events and corporate gatherings. Dino is also professional faculty at the University of California, Berkeley – Haas School of Business, where he teaches a top ranked Venture Capital & Private Equity course for the MBA program.

Bob is a product marketing leader with a proven track record in Silicon Valley. Bob enjoys working in fast-paced start-up environments where and leverages his skills and experience to launch products and showcase innovative technology. He is a prolific speaker, evangelist, motivator, and hands-on product demonstrator. Bob loves to build world-class teams that are wicked smart, work hard, but also know how to have fun on their path towards success.

Michael Koyfman is the Head of Global Solution Architecture at Netskope. He and his team advise Netskope customers on best practices around Netskope deployments and integrating Netskope solutions within customer environment by leveraging integration with customer technology ecosystem. Michael also actively participates in helping drive and adopt new Netskope products, such as Netskope Private Access and Next-Generation Secure Web Gateway within Netskope customer base. Prior to Netskope, Michael spent almost 13 years at F5 Networks as Senior Global Solution Architect, where he was focused on the entire portfolio of F5 security products, and has been a key contributor to implementation, strategy, and evolution of F5 security solutions and portfolio. Michael helped architect, develop, and demonstrate various unique solutions and integration with various technology and players such as Microsoft, Citrix, Vmware, Okta, Ping, IBM, CrowdStrike, AWS, Azure.

Gadi Bashvitz is a highly effective sales and customer success executive with 20+ years experience holding product, marketing, customer success and sales positions. Gadi started his Cyber career in the 8200 unit of the IDF and since then he has founded and successfully grew multiple companies in various industries. Gadi has an exceptional ability to distill the essence from complex concepts and communicate them to customers, the team and in various speaking events. He takes a proactive and critical approach to any challenge, identify the opportunity it presents and take advantage of the opportunity. Gadi is the President & Chief Customer Officer at NeuraLegion, driving the DevSecOps revolution.

Amit Bareket, CEO and Co-Founder of Perimeter 81, is a cybersecurity expert with extensive experience in system architecture and software development. He is the author of 8 patents issued by the USPTO for storage, mobile applications and user interface. Prior to Perimeter 81, Amit founded SaferVPN, sold in 2019 to J2 Global, and worked as a Software Engineer for major enterprises including IBM XIV Storage and BigBand Networks. He served in the Israel Defense Force’s elite cyber intelligence unit and graduated Cum Laude with a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Economics from Tel Aviv University.

Jason Georgi is an accomplished technology executive with 25 years of experience. He is currently the Field Chief Technology Officer for Prisma Access and SaaS at Palo Alto Networks, specializing in cloud security. Prior, Jason was at Zscaler and GE.

Dan Schiappa is chief product officer at next-generation cybersecurity leader Sophos. He’s a transformational and strategic leader who orchestrates the company’s technical strategy, playing an instrumental role in architecting technologies; overseeing product management and research and development; and ensuring product quality. With a passion for education and inspiring the next generation of cyber talent, Dan also serves as chair of the University of Central Florida’s Dean's Advisory Board, where he oversees various aspects of the school’s elite cybersecurity program.

Gareth Rushgrove is VP of Product at Snyk, working remotely from Cambridge, UK, helping to build interesting tools for people to better secure infrastructure and applications. He has previously worked for the UK Government focused on infrastructure, operations and information security, as well as at Puppet and Docker. When not working he can be found curating the Devops Weekly newsletter, hiking or reading a good book.

Paul Vallée is a Canadian data specialist and businessperson. He is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Tehama, a company offering a secure virtual-workforce platform in a Software as a Service paradigm.

Alex is the Chief Product Officer of Twingate, which he cofounded in 2019. Alex has held a range of product leadership roles in the enterprise software market over the last 16 years, including at Dropbox, where he was the first enterprise hire in the company's transformation from consumer to enterprise business. A focus of his product career has been using the power of design thinking to make technically complex products intuitive and easy to use. Alex graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Electrical Engineering.

Tanya Janca, also known as SheHacksPurple, is the best-selling author of ‘Alice and Bob Learn Application Security’. She is also the founder of We Hack Purple, an online learning academy, community and podcast that revolves around teaching everyone to create secure software. Tanya has been coding and working in IT for over twenty years, won countless awards, and has been everywhere from startups to public service to tech giants (Microsoft, Adobe, & Nokia). She has worn many hats; startup founder, pentester, CISO, AppSec Engineer, and software developer. She is an award-winning public speaker, active blogger & streamer and has delivered hundreds of talks and training sessions on 6 continents. She values diversity, inclusion and kindness, which shines through in her countless initiatives.

Patrick Foxhoven is the CIO and Vice President of Emerging Technologies at Zscaler. He is an experienced and innovative managed security entrepreneur and technologist, having spent 20 years building secure and scalable internet-enabled networks while co-authoring three books on information security and receiving multiple patents. He is currently Chief Information Officer & Vice President of Emerging Technologies at Zscaler.

Nathan Howe has 20+ years in security experience across a multitude of organisations including governments enterprises and telco service providers. As a Director for Transformation Strategy, Nathan leverages this experience as an Architect, Pen Tester, Manager and Security Assessor to help guide companies through their transformation challenges. Prior to joining the Zscaler team in 2016 Nathan ended his 12 years at Nestle by successfully delivering Nestle´s Global Cyber Security Compliance.