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Overview
Business adoption of cloud technologies, such as SaaS and IaaS, provides huge productivity wins but also brings major impact to security programs. Learn from leading Silicon Valley CISOs on how their companies are rethinking their approaches and building security strategies to protect their most important assets, data, in cloud applications and systems.
What we’ll cover:
– How cloud architectures impact threat models
– Why traditional controls are irrelevant and must be enhanced/replaced
– Autonomous & scalable security at the speed of business
– Tips you can use today
Moderator
Alex Grohmann – Founder, Sicher Consulting
Alex Grohmann has over two decades of experience in technology-related information security, risk management and data privacy. During his career, he has worked at both the state and Federal level, and his private sector involvement has spanned from energy to financial services. He is the founder and operator of Sicher Consulting, LLC. Mr. Grohmann holds industry certifications of CISSP, CISA, CISM and CIPT. He holds two undergraduate degrees from Florida State University as well as an MBA from UMUC.
Mr. Grohmann is a Fellow at the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA), an international organization of information security professionals. He is the recipient of their international ‘Honor Roll’ for his lifetime contributions to the information security community. He has served on the board of directors for the Northern Virginia chapter of ISSA for over ten years, including as president for three. During his time, the chapter won the Chapter of Year.
He is a graduate of the FBI’s Citizens’ Academy and served on the board of directors for the Washington DC chapter of InfraGard for four years. Currently Mr. Grohmann serves on the board directors of Northern Virginia Community College’s Workforce Development taskforce, NOVA Cybersecurity Advisory Board and is a mentor at MACH 37, the Virginia cyber security accelerator. He also sits on the IT sector coordinating council (IT-SCC).
Speaker/s
Ben Hagen – Director of Information Security, Cruise
Ben Hagen is the Director of Information Security at Cruise, leading a team to build security solutions, patterns, and capability for the Autonomous Vehicle technology company. Formerly Ben served as the Head of Corporate Information Security at Facebook, the Vice President/Principal Security Architect at Salesforce, and held senior security roles at Netflix, Obama for America, Neohapsis, Motorola.
Michael Coates – CEO and Co-founder, Altitude Networks
Michael is a 15-year veteran in the security industry with experience as former CISO of Twitter, head of Security for Mozilla — where he built and led a security program to protect nearly half a billion Firefox users — and chairman of OWASP, the largest open source application security community. Before that, he helped some of the largest banks, governments, and enterprises around the world to prioritize data security by evaluating applications and networks.
See Michael Coates‘s full profile.
Fredrick (Flee) Lee – CSO, Gusto
Flee has more than 16 years leading global information security and privacy efforts. Before Gusto, he lead information security at large financial services companies and technology startups, most recently at Square. He previously held senior security and privacy roles at Bank of America, Betfair, NetSuite and Twilio. As Gusto’s CSO, Lee leads the company’s information and physical security strategies, including consumer protection, compliance, governance and risk.
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