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Program Overview:
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 11:00 – 11:15 AM Jimmy Sanders |
Welcome and Introductions |
| 11:15 AM – 12:00 PM Aaron Rinehart |
Beyond Prevention: Designing Systems That Fail Safely and Securely |
| 12:00 – 1:00 PM Alex Grohmann and Matthew Stewart |
Creating an Effective ‘3 Level’ Progressive Incident Response Exercise |
| 1:00 – 2:00 PM Dorin Baniel |
The Israeli Cyber Ecosystem: A Unique Engine of Innovation and Impact |
| 2:00 – 4:30 PM Led by Kyle Rosenthal |
Innovation Summit: • Kyle Rosenthal & Jimmy Sanders • Shlomi Matichin, Valence Security, Co-founder, CTO, SaaS Security • Oliver Friedrichs, Pangea, Founder, CEO, AI Guardrails • Ashish Shah, Andromeda Security, Co-founder, CPO/CEO, Identity Security • Max Pollard, Cotool, Co-founder, CEO, Agentic AI SecOps • Sounil Yu, Knostic AI, Co-founder, Chief AI Safety Officer, AI Guardrails • Thomas Pace, Netrise, Co-founder, CEO, Supply Chain Security |
Session Details:
Title: Beyond Prevention: Designing Systems That Fail Safely and Securely
Speaker: Aaron Rinehart
Abstract: Today’s systems are dynamic, complex, and constantly evolving—making traditional security measures increasingly inadequate. To meet this challenge, we need systems that are not just secure, but resilient and safe by design.
This talk introduces Cyber Safety, a modern framework that integrates resilience engineering, safety science, cognitive systems engineering, and cybersecurity. It emphasizes building systems that can maintain trust and functionality—even under stress, failure, or attack.
At the heart of this approach is Security Chaos Engineering (SCE): the practice of proactively uncovering vulnerabilities through controlled security experiments. SCE helps expose blind spots before attackers do, building confidence in how systems behave under real-world conditions.
Join Aaron Rinehart—pioneer of SCE and co-author of the O’Reilly books—as he shares practical ways to apply these concepts and build systems that are adaptable, defensible, and trustworthy by design.
Title: The Israeli Cyber Ecosystem: A Unique Engine of Innovation and Impact
Speaker: Dorin Baniel
Abstract: Israel, home to under 10 million people, ranks #1 in both R&D and unicorns per capita—driven by a unique mix of government support, elite IDF units like 8200, and a bold, resilient culture. In this session, we’ll explore how mandatory military service shapes entrepreneurial mindsets, how Israeli chutzpah fuels innovation (and friction), and how the VC landscape is evolving from quick exits to global scale.
Title: The Innovation Spotlight: Game-Changing Technology
Speaker: Kyle Rosenthal, joined by Innovative Founders
Abstract: Step into the “Innovation Spotlight” to discover the leading edge of cybersecurity. In this high-energy session, a curated group of emerging startup founders will share rapid-fire insights into their breakthrough technologies. It’s your fastest route to understanding the next wave of security innovation—sharp, focused, and highly relevant to today’s threat landscape.
Title: Creating an Effective ‘3 Level’ Progressive Incident Response Exercise
Speaker: Alex Grohmann & Matthew Stewart
Abstract: Regulated entities are mandated to have incident response plans and to test them on a periodic basis often turning the Tabletop Exercise into a check box exercise.
Incident response exercises are often broad in scope and cover too many facets associated with an IR plan in general. Either too many people are involved, or they miss key target audience members. This leads to the lesser focus and understanding of roles and responsibilities on specific types of events, specifically ransomware attacks.
Many cyber security professionals struggle with the time and resources to create a specific exercise to address ransomware, leaving potential exposure for if such an attack were to happen.
What attendees will learn:
• Technical Exercise: A deep dive on common tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) currently proliferating in ransomware attacks (based on the MITRE ATT@CK framework)
• Middle Management; escalation and command and legal exercise
• Executive Leadership and Communication exercise
• An outline of the core components of a progressive exercise
• Qualitative and quantitative measurements of a completed exercise to aid in benchmarking.
Moderator
Speaker/s
Alex Grohmann – Founder, Sicher Consulting
As a security and privacy professional for over 25 years, Alex Grohmann as helped to promote the profession through professional and personal contributions. He is currently the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for Acuity International, a $550 million organization with locations in over 10 countries. He volunteers a great deal of his time to make the profession stronger through his efforts in ISSA.
During Alex’s time on the international board, has been the lead for the Privacy Special Interest Group (SIG), managing the group and the efforts along with the chairs. The SIG has grown to nearly 2,000 members in the few short years of its existence.
As a 20-year member of the Northern Virginia chapter, Mr. Grohmann has volunteered on its board for 9 years, with 3 of those as chapter president. During that time, the chapter won the Chapter of Year, and he collected the Honor Roll and Fellow designations.
Outside of ISSA, Alex has served on several boards and/groups including Washington DC InfraGard, NIST’s NICE and the IT-Sector Coordinating Council (IT-SCC).
Alex is a graduate of Florida State University in Management Information Systems, and a proud Seminole.
See Alex Grohmann‘s full profile.
Aaron Rinehart
Aaron Rinehart has spent his career solving complex challenging engineering problems and transforming cyber security practices across a diverse set of industries: healthcare, insurance, government, aerospace, technology, higher education, and the military. Aaron has been expanding the possibilities of chaos engineering in its application to other safety-critical portions of the IT domain, most notably in cybersecurity. He began shaping the application of chaos engineering within cyber security during his tenure as the Chief Security Architect at a Fortune 4, UnitedHealth Group (UHG). Rinehart is a frequently requested speaker at respective media outlets and conferences, most notably RSA, O’Reilly’s Velocity, Blackhat/DefCon, goto;, OWASP Global, and QCon. Rinehart has been interviewed and quoted in various publications including the Huffington Post, ABC News, TechTarget, DarkReading, SecurityWeekly, IEEE, and the Washington Post.
Check out Aaron’s recent interview on Security Chaos Engineering, conducted by the Linux Foundation, O’Reilly Media, and goto; with Aaron Rinehart & Kelly Shortridge
See Aaron Rinehart‘s full profile.
Dutch Schwarz
Dutch Schwartz is the Vice President of Cloud Services for SideChannel, a leading provider of comprehensive cybersecurity solutions. Prior to this, he was a senior security advisor with Raytheon and AWS. In those roles, he led security strategy, revenue, and customer engagement for fifty global enterprises spanning aviation, digital natives, financial services, travel, media & entertainment, software, and gaming. Dutch partners with CISOs in the Fortune 100 to help them build and execute cybersecurity strategies that deliver business value. A sought-after thinker on strategy, culture, and the human side of cloud security – he’s presented for ISSA, AWS, Intuit, The SANS Institute, the CISO Series, and the SANS Institute. Dutch holds an MBA in Global Management, cybersecurity certificates from MIT Sloan School of Management and Harvard University, and is a Boardroom Certified Qualified Technology Executive (QTE). You can find him at linkedin.com/in/dutchschwartz.
See Dutch Schwarz‘s full profile.
Dorin Baniel
Dorin is Principal and Head of EMEA at NightDragon, a USA-based VC founded by Dave DeWalt (former CEO of McAfee, FireEye). Dorin is based in Tel Aviv and has been in the world of venture capital for eight years. Prior to establishing NightDragon’s first international office, Dorin was VP at Glilot Capital Partners where she led portfolio growth for 23 startups from seed to scale, thirteen of which have been acquired thus far. Prior, Dorin worked at Microsoft for Startups and Conversant (acq for $2.3B). Dorin is a graduate from University of Illinois and Reichman University and was named to Israel’s Forbes 30 under 30 list in 2022.
See Dorin Baniel‘s full profile.
Kyle Rosenthal
Kyle is a recognized leader in cybersecurity, with over 30 years of experience driving innovation across the industry. As a consultant, investor, and advisor, his strategic leadership has helped shape the evolution of emerging technologies and cybersecurity practices. He is the founder of TachTech, a seven-time Inc. 5000 fast-growth consulting firm specializing in cutting-edge tech solutions. Kyle also serves as a partner at MetroSITE Group, an investment syndicate dedicated to building a safer cyberspace. Beyond his professional endeavors, he is deeply committed to education and community development—notably as chair of the CIO Scholarship Fund, which has awarded more than $1.5 million to support economically disadvantaged students pursuing higher education in the Bay Area.
See Kyle Rosenthal‘s full profile.
Matthew Stewart – Founder/Consultant, Remedium Security, LLC
Biography coming soon.
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