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Steve Edwards

Director of Detection & Response at Expel

Steve Edwards is a seasoned IT and security professional with 20 years of experience in the field. As the Director of Detection and Response at Expel, Steve leads the charge in developing Expel’s cutting-edge approach to finding signs of compromise in the vast haystacks of alerts from security tools. Prior to Expel, he built internal security programs at large and small companies. He is passionate about building equitable and inclusive security programs that are easy to understand and resilient to human error. Steve has shared his insights and expertise at numerous conferences and events, and he is excited to share his knowledge with you in this webinar.

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Fran Howarth

Practice Lead Security, Bloor

Fran Howarth specialises in the field of security, primarily information security, but with a keen interest in physical security and how the two are converging. Fran’s other main areas of interest are new delivery models, such as cloud computing, information governance, web, network and application security, identity and access management, and encryption. Fran focuses on the business needs for security technologies, looking at the benefits they gain from their use and how organisations can defend themselves against the threats that they face in an ever-changing landscape. For more than 20 years, Fran has worked in an advisory capacity as an analyst, consultant and writer. She writes regularly for a number of publications, including Silicon, Computer Weekly, Computer Reseller News, IT-Analysis and Computing Magazine. Fran is also a regular contributor to Security Management Practices of the Faulkner Information Services division of InfoToday.

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Manasa Agaram

Product Marketing Manager, XDR, Cisco

Manasa Agaram is a product marketing manager for XDR at Cisco. A passionate product marketer, Manasa is responsible for go-to-market strategy, messaging, content creation and sales enablement for Cisco’s XDR solution. Manasa has over 15 years of marketing experience, starting out in telecom and later moving to the security field, and has her Bachelors of Science from the University of Waterloo, where she majored in Science and Business. Manasa loves travel, good food and wine, and has a newfound interest in gardening. Connect with Manasa on LinkedIn to chat about XDR, security, or if you have any gardening tips for her!

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Rob Gresham

Principal Technical Marketing Engineer, Cisco

As Principal Technical Marketing Engineer, Threat Detection and Response for Cisco, Rob has over 20 years of experience in building cybersecurity teams for private and public entities. His experience includes several years of instructing on cyber threat intelligence, conducting incident responses for public and private entities, optimizing security operations designs, processes, and defensive security architecture and design. Rob supports our customers on innovating their security operations with automating investigation and response outcomes for email, network, endpoint and malware analysis systems for XDR and SecureX products.

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Daniela Ramirez

Team Lead SOC, SoSafe

Originally from Chile, I’m a security researcher with more than 8 years of experience focusing mostly on the blue or defensive side. Incident response, threat hunting and malware analysis are my biggest competences, with knowledge on vulnerability assessment and information security management including risk assessment. After moving to Cologne, Germany to join SoSafe in October 2021, I improved SoSafe’s security monitoring which led me to become the team lead for their SOC, we perform security monitoring, security assessment including red teaming activities, security configuration review all while following the purple team framework through different exercises to keep the company in a high security level.

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Dana Torgersen

Security Product Leader, Sumo Logic

Dana leads product marketing for Sumo Logic security solutions. He is a 17-year veteran in the information security industry with expertise in cloud threat detection and SIEM tools, endpoint detection and response, and network security technologies—including firewalls, web protection, and email security. Prior to joining Sumo Logic, Dana held product and technical marketing roles at JASK, Malwarebytes, Illumio, Palo Alto Networks, Intel Security, McAfee, and Secure Computing. You can follow him on Twitter @DaToTweet

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Irina Artioli

Cyber Protection Evangelist, Acronis

In my role as Cyber Protection Evangelist, I conduct online research for the latest cyber threats, attacks, and developments within the malware landscape and help with CPOC news. After 10 years of experience in Sales within IT, I have joined Acronis Cyber Protection Operation Center (CPOC) and continue to work closely with our partners and customers worldwide focusing their minds on cyber protection. I have got a Master’s degree in Economics and International Business. I have joined Acronis in 2017 and I am fortunate to combine my passion for CyberSecurity and Sales at Acronis.

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Markus Bauer

Senior Technology Evangelist EMEA

Markus holds a degree as Information Electronics Engineer and has more than 25 years of experience in the IT industry with extensive expertise in Business Development, Marketing, Sales, Presales, and distribution of products and services. He held various Sales and Channel positions in which he, amongst other things, imparted technological expertise to Partners. Moreover, he was responsible for the expansion of the Channel Business and provided a reputable and knowledgeable reference point for Suppliers as well as Partners. His mission is to drive strategies and share technological expertise with Partners, Resellers, and Customers. Markus is speaking at different events, shows, virtual conferences, and webinars. He is leading the Acronis #Cyberfit Academy team in EMEA.

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Chris Holden

CISO, Crum & Forster

Chris Holden is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for Crum & Forster, a leading national property, casualty and accident & health insurer with a large, diversified specialty platform. In his role, Chris is responsible for the day-to-day security of the organizations information systems and data while adhering to regulatory requirements. Chris started his career as a Forensics Analyst for Hewlett-Packard’s Global Cybersecurity team. While at HP he ran digital evidence collections for internal investigations related to e-discovery matters, breach incident response, HR and policy investigations. After leaving HP, Chris moved on to consulting roles where he worked on both incident response engagements as well as proactive services, helping build and assess security programs for globally recognized organizations. Chris received his Bachelor’s degree in Cyber & Information Security from Utica College of Syracuse University.

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Steve Grossenbacher

Director Product Marketing, Zscaler

Steve Grossenbacher is Director of Product Marketing at Zscaler where he currently focuses on Data Protection. Prior to Zscaler, Steve held marketing, competitive, sales engineering and technical support positions at McAfee and Xerox Engineering Systems. With more than 20 years of experience in the network and security industries, he has helped companies navigate the ever-changing world of IT and currently helps organizations securely transform their networks to a cloud-first architecture

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Salah Nassar

Sr. Director Product Marketing, Zscaler

Salah is a passionate and customer-centric marketer with a diverse background in networking and cybersecurity. His expertise lies in security as a platform, encompassing network security, identity access management, XDR, and data protection. Presently, Salah holds the position of Sr. Director of Product Marketing at Zscaler, where he leads efforts in Security Service Edge and Zero Trust Data Protection.

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Claire Hatcher

Global Head of Fraud Prevention, Kaspersky

Claire Hatcher currently serves as Global Lead for Kaspersky's Fraud Prevention division. Prior to joining Kaspersky, she worked at RSA (part of Dell Technologies) for 6 years, where she had a number of roles within their fraud and risk intelligence business unit, including leading their business operations and sales strategy functions. Hatcher has worked in cybersecurity for over 15 years, specialising in fraud prevention for the past decade. Throughout her career in fraud prevention she has developed many relationships within the financial services sector, as well as with online retailers and other industries both within Europe and worldwide. This cross vertical and cross geographical experience provides a deep understanding of how fraud threats and trends emerge, develop and evolve.

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Miguel Jacinto

Chief Information Security Officer & Data Protection Officer no EuroBic - Banco BIC Português, SA

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Pedro Machado

Country Senior Director | Data Protection Officer, Grupo Ageas Portugal

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Pedro (Rui) Cunha

CISO, Timestamp SGS

Brought onboard of the Information Security World at mid-2001, started his path by transposing and adopting the "recently published" best practices of BS 17799:2000 into normal day operations, along with other subjects such as fraud detection and analytics and revenue assurance for a Portuguese mobile operator. With background in Computer engineering, Cunha have been having roles as a consultant, as internal security team member and, more recently, as CISO on a Portuguese bank, part of a multinational French bank. In between relevant experience on the Insurance market and on the telecom industry have also enriched his horizons and perspectives.

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Miguel Jacinto

Chief Information Security Officer & Data Protection Officer no EuroBic - Banco BIC Português, SA

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Pedro Machado

Country Senior Director | Data Protection Officer, Grupo Ageas Portugal

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Pedro Vieira

IT & innovation Director, Águas do Porto, EM

Since 2009, Pedro Vieira e Moreira has been with Águas do Porto, the municipal water utility that manages the city's full urban water cycle. He has also been, for the past 4 years, Assistant Professor in Project Management at ISEP Polytechnic of Porto School of Engineering, and also co-founder and chief strategist of a startup. Since 2015, he has been assigned as Director of IT & Innovation Department. He is responsible for the major IT revolution inside Águas do Porto, by transforming the way technology is provided for workers and clients, as part of a broader strategy, in order to accelerate the pace of change needed in the utilities sector, assisting the decision-making process and thus the strategy choices of decision makers. He's leading the transformation into a smart utility and intelligent city accelerator, using innovation as mean to achieve it, and defines a change management direction that must be implemented across the organization, considering the multiple stakeholders involved and the effort that should be asked to the affected people and the processes that must be adapted into new realities.

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Luís Valente

CISO, Universidade do Porto

Luís M. Valente currently serves as the Chief Information Security Officer for the University of Porto and researcher in the field of computer security and digital identity at the CRACS/INESC-LA Port. Working straight in the implementation of digital identity, interoperability and electronic administration projects on the University, his main research is focused on secure authentication and digital identity management user-centric.

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Filipe Lousa

Global Data Protection Officer, Getronics

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Sergio Gramaca

Chief Inspector, Fraud Risk Inspection and Monitoring, Novo Banco

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