Speakers

Kevin Johnson is a Senior Security Analyst with Secure Ideas. Kevin came to security from a development and system administration background. He has many years of experience performing security services for Fortune 100 companies, and in his spare time contributes to a large number of open source security projects. Kevin founded and leads the development on B.A.S.E. (the Basic Analysis and Security Engine) project. The BASE project is the most popular web interface for the Snort intrusion detection system. Kevin is an instructor for SANS, teaching both the Incident Handling and Hacker Techniques class and the Web Application Security class. He is also the course author for Security 542 Web Application Pen-Testing In-Depth. He has presented to many organizations, including Infragard, ISACA, ISSA and the University of Florida.

Zachary (Zach) Tudor is the Associate Laboratory Director of Idaho National Laboratory’s National and Homeland Security Science and Technology Science and Technology directorate, a major US center for national security technology development and demonstration, employing 700 scientists and engineers across $500M in programs for the Department of Defense (DOD), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the Intelligence Community.

Marcus Sachs is the Deputy Director for Research at Auburn University’s McCrary Institute for Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Security. He is also the Chief Security Officer of Pattern Computer, a startup in the machine learning and artificial intelligence field, where he is responsible for overall corporate security policy and strategy.

Tim Sadler is Co-founder & CEO of Tessian, a venture-backed cybersecurity company that stops threats, not business, by securing the human layer. Tessian has 140 full-time employees and offices in San Francisco and London. Tim also invests in founding teams in the US and Europe. He holds three Masters degrees in design, engineering and innovation from Imperial College and formerly worked in HSBC’s Global Banking division. He has also featured in Forbes’ “30 Under 30” list for European Technology.

Dr. Larry Ponemon is the Chairman and Founder of the Ponemon Institute, a research “think tank” dedicated to advancing privacy, data protection and information security practices. Dr. Ponemon is considered a pioneer in privacy auditing and the Responsible Information Management (RIM) framework. Security Magazine named him one of the “Most Influential People for Security.”
Ponemon Institute conducts independent research, educates leaders from the private and public sectors and verifies the privacy and data protection practices of organizations in a various industries. In addition to institute activities, Dr. Ponemon is an adjunct professor for ethics and privacy at Carnegie Mellon University’s CIO Institute. He is a fellow of the Center for Government Innovation at the Unisys Corporation.