Tsion (TJ) Gonen

Global Head of Cloud Security Products, Check Point

Tsion (TJ) Gonen has more than 20 years of cyber security and executive experience, and is now the Head of Cloud Security at Check Point Security Software Technologies where he leads cloud innovation, as well as the go-to-market strategy.

Prior to joining Check Point, TJ was co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Protego Labs, the leading start-up for serverless security, which was acquired by Check Point in 2019.

Matthew Grifffiths

Channel SE Manager UK&I

Matthew has over 25 years in the industry focusing for the last few years on securing the cloud. He has a keen interest in cloud technologies and the impact it is having on the IT industry in general, especially understanding how the cloud effects security, as well as how we as an industry adapt to that change.

Matthew Manning

Security Engineer UK&I

Matthew has over 15 years in the industry exploring various roles as on-site field engineer, senior support engineer, service delivery manager, NOC manager, bridging the gap between business needs and excellent technical service delivery. His channel knowledge and current technical skills have established him as one of the best in his field

Ady Ringrose

Threat Prevention Specialist

Ady is part of the EMEA Harmony – SASE solutions specialists team and has been in the cyber security industry 20 years, with experience spanning multiple verticals in both the private and public sector. Ady has been at Check Point nearly three years and specializes in SASE, secure access, endpoint, mobile and cloud application advanced threat prevention product sets.

Andrew Williams

API Product Manager, Mimecast

Andrew is an IT individual with over 19 years of industry experience relating to data center infrastructure. Having worked in the UK for 7 years has provided me with the experience of working with small industries, right through to large multinational corporations. His experience ranges from pre-sales and architecture design right through to implementations. The current focus of my job roles relates specifically to pre-sales engagements and architecture.

Neil Thacker

CISO, Netskope

Neil holds over 20 years’ experience in the Information Security industry with previous roles at Swiss Re, Deutsche Bank and Camelot Group. Neil is an advisory board member to the Cloud Security Alliance, advisory board member to NeuroCyber, advisor to ENISA (the EU agency for Cybersecurity) and co-founder and board member to the Security Advisor Alliance, a non-profit organisation for CISOs to give back to the community. Neil is CISSP, CIPP/E and CEH certified and is a frequent speaker and writer on cybersecurity, data protection and privacy-related topics

Gareth Kitson

Senior Security Engineer, Crowdstrike

Gareth Kitson is a Senior Solutions Engineer working with UK and Global Enterprise customers to stop breaches. Gareth is a Certified Ethical Hacker and earned his CISSP following almost 20 years’ experience spanning organisations from Australian small businesses to UK public sector organisations, to the early startup rocketship AirWatch and global powerhouse that is VMware.

Gareth spends much of his spare time with his Wife and three children -encouraging them to be interested in all things cyber. Gareth enjoys taking part in CTF exercises and keeping up to date in a constantly evolving industry.

J.Peter Bruzzese

8X Microsoft MVP, CCO Cliptraining and Consultant, Mimecast

J.Peter Bruzzese, 8X Microsoft MVP, CCO Cliptraining and Consultant, Mimecast J. Peter Bruzzese, Co-Founder and Chief Content Officer of ClipTraining, is a global cyber security advisor, 8x awarded Microsoft MVP (for Exchange/Office 365). J. Peter is also a technical speaker, an internationally published author and well-known journalist.

Duncan Mills

Global Product Lead, Mimecast

Duncan works in Mimecast’s product and strategy team. He has 20 years’ experience in the cyber security industry, in commercial product management and market strategy roles with companies such as Symantec, Kaspersky and CyberArk, as well as a number of start-ups. His expertise is primarily in the email, web and endpoint security domains, but he has also spent time in the crypto and identity spaces.

Ronald Dubbeldam and Elad Tzur

Team Leads, Emerging Products, Mimecast

Ronald’s career has spanned almost 20 years working in the email sector and in 2014 he began specialising in DMARC. In the last 2 years Ronald has focused on DMARC and DMARC Analyzer spanning both product and sales roles.

Kapil Raina

VP Zero Trust & Identity, CrowdStrike

Bio: Kapil Raina, a cybersecurity executive of 20+ years, has built and led product, marketing, sales, and strategy teams at startups and large brands such as VeriSign, VMware, and Zscaler. Mr. Raina, currently serves as CrowdStrike’s VP of Zero Trust & Identity Protection Marketing. He was previously the VP of Marketing at Preempt Security, which was acquired by CrowdStrike. He is a recognized speaker and author of books on AI, PKI, Mobile Commerce, Biometrics, and other security topics. Mr. Raina holds a B.S. from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) in Computer Engineering.

Graham Moore

Senior Channel Sales Engineer, Proofpoint

Graham provides expertise on Proofpoint cybersecurity technology and solutions such as people-centric security, email, cloud, archiving and end point security. Graham has been an active member of IT industry for over 20 years and has gained extensive field experience working with vendors, customers, technology partners and resellers in various management and engineering positions. Prior to Proofpoint, he worked as EMEA Security Architect and previously headed the Northern Europe Presales team for leading Application Delivery and DDoS Security vendor, Radware Ltd

Richard Davis

International CyberSecurity Strategist

Richard is a seasoned cybersecurity professional with over 20 years’ experience and is passionate about helping organisations protect their people. He provides expertise on key regional cybersecurity strategies such as people-centric security, risk management, data privacy, and threat management.

Michael Adjei

Illumio’s Regional Systems Engineer, UK&I

Michael Adjei is Illumio’s Regional Systems Engineer for UK & Ireland, who has extensive cyber security experience across Presales, Training, Professional Services, Solutions Architecture and Team Management spanning over a decade. Michael has broad security vendor knowledge having worked with Checkpoint, FireEye, Kaspersky and Juniper during his tenure in the channel space.

Trevor Dearing

Technical Director, EMEA

Trevor is an experienced technology expert, who has been at the forefront of new technologies for nearly 40 years. From the first PCs through the development of multi-protocol to SNA gateways, initiating the deployment of resilient token ring in DC networks and some of the earliest use of firewalls. Working for companies like Bay Networks, Juniper and Palo Alto Networks he has led the evangelisation of new technology. Now at Illumio he is working on the simplification of segmentation in Zero Trust and highly regulated environments.

Stefano Artioli

Sr. Consulting Sales Engineer EMEA

Stefano has 10+ years of experience in Content and Data Security. Prior joining Forcepoint Stefano has worked in several VARs in different post and pre-sales roles. In Forcepoint Stefano has covered many roles, spanning Technical Support and Customer Satisfaction to pre-sales roles for Enterprises and Strategic Accounts. His previous horizontal experiences allowed Stefano to build a very diverse knowledge and skill set. In this current role, covered for more than 3 years, he ensures that Forcepoint solutions are designed to better match the Customer’s use cases in complex environments.

Jim Fulton

Senior Director, SASE Solutions; Forcepoint

Jim Fulton heads the product and solutions marketing team at Forcepoint, where he writes and speaks frequently about SASE and Zero Trust. Fulton has been developing and delivering enterprise access and security products for more than 20 years in Silicon Valley startups as well as multi-national companies. He holds a degree in Computer Science from MIT.

Jim Fulton

Senior Director, SASE Solutions; Forcepoint

Jim Fulton heads the product and solutions marketing team at Forcepoint, where he writes and speaks frequently about SASE and Zero Trust. Fulton has been developing and delivering enterprise access and security products for more than 20 years in Silicon Valley startups as well as multi-national companies. He holds a degree in Computer Science from MIT.

Steven Nesbitt

Senior Systems Engineer, Varonis

Steve has worked in the industry for over 15 years with a particular interest in the management of data. After completing a Master’s Degree in Information Management, he went on to work with SharePoint ISV’s before joining Microsoft as an O365 Technical Specialist. Towards the end of his tenure at Microsoft, he began to diversify into both Management of Modern Desktops and Cyber Security and it was this that led him to move on from Microsoft to join Varonis.

Bradley Bosher

Senior Systems Engineer

Brad is Senior Systems Engineer working with enterprise customers in the UK. His previous experience includes working on Big Data analytics across unstructured data sets.

Boaz Avigad

Director of Product Marketing, CATO

Boaz has more than 15 years of product leadership experience. His expertise is in the networking and security space where he has led Product Management, Go-To-Market and strategic planning, and successfully introduced numerous products and services into the global market.

Peter Lee.

Senior Security Engineer, CATO Networks

Peter is a Security Engineer for Cato Networks. He bring 25+ years of security and networking experience to bear while helping our UK customers design, deploy and operate their next-gen Cato SASE/SDWAN infrastructure

Chris Harris

Director of Sales Engineering, EMEA at Thales

With over twenty-five years' experience in IT Security, Chris has a strong technical focus on data and information protection solutions. He speaks on a range of cybersecurity topics from: Identity Management, Cloud Encryption & Security topics as well as Cloud Security and Security-as-a-Service offerings. His wealth of experience spans: Hardware Security Modules (HSM), PKI & Digital Certificates, Smart Cards, Tokens, Network Encryption, Database Encryption, Storage Security/Encryption, Cryptographic Hardware and Software.

Chris Harris

Director of Sales Engineering, EMEA at Thales

With over twenty-five years' experience in IT Security, Chris has a strong technical focus on data and information protection solutions. He speaks on a range of cybersecurity topics from: Identity Management, Cloud Encryption & Security topics as well as Cloud Security and Security-as-a-Service offerings. His wealth of experience spans: Hardware Security Modules (HSM), PKI & Digital Certificates, Smart Cards, Tokens, Network Encryption, Database Encryption, Storage Security/Encryption, Cryptographic Hardware and Software.

Manoj Bhati

CyberSecurity Specialist, Thales UK

Manoj has a comprehensive technical background across the entire Enterprise and Cybersecurity Solution Portfolio and has assisted companies in strong data protection for over 15 years. His tenure has seen him work on multiple customer deployments, formulating roadmaps and designing new IT developments to respond to the evolving market trends.

Chris Cheyne

Global CTO & SOC Director, SecurityHQ

Chris Cheyne is the SOC Director and CTO for SecurityHQ. Responsible for operating six Security Operation Centres across the UK, Middle East and India, Chris specialises in threat hunting and intelligence, endpoint detection and response, SOC monitoring, behavioural analytics, EUBA, SIEM and more. With over 12 years’ experience in security operations and management services, his objective is to place the power of his SOC team into his clients’ hands, and to provide complete visibility of security events and threats within their environments. Chris has been pivotal in delivering SOC detection and response services for household names across multiple sectors, including Finance, Insurance, Healthcare, Retail, Aviation and Education. With an industry-leading team of 250+ analysts behind him, he ensures that clients receive the highest degree of protection against today’s cyber threats.

Chris Cheyne

Global CTO & SOC Director, SecurityHQ

Chris Cheyne is the SOC Director and CTO for SecurityHQ. Responsible for operating six Security Operation Centres across the UK, Middle East and India, Chris specialises in threat hunting and intelligence, endpoint detection and response, SOC monitoring, behavioural analytics, EUBA, SIEM and more. With over 12 years’ experience in security operations and management services, his objective is to place the power of his SOC team into his clients’ hands, and to provide complete visibility of security events and threats within their environments. Chris has been pivotal in delivering SOC detection and response services for household names across multiple sectors, including Finance, Insurance, Healthcare, Retail, Aviation and Education. With an industry-leading team of 250+ analysts behind him, he ensures that clients receive the highest degree of protection against today’s cyber threats.

Nilesh Burgate

Head - Global SOC, SecurityHQ

As Head-Global SOC, Nilesh leads their 24x7 Global Security Operation Center. The SOC provides Cyber Security Monitoring and Incident Response, Threat Hunting, Cyber Attack Simulations, Vulnerability Management and Threat Intelligence Services to our global customers. Nilesh is responsible for managing their highly experienced SOC team, delivery excellence, new service offerings, innovation and supporting business development. He has more than 16 years of extensive experience in cyber security and information security governance, risk and compliance for large global organisations.

Chris Cheyne

Global CTO & SOC Director, SecurityHQ

Chris Cheyne is the SOC Director and CTO for SecurityHQ. Responsible for operating six Security Operation Centres across the UK, Middle East and India, Chris specialises in threat hunting and intelligence, endpoint detection and response, SOC monitoring, behavioural analytics, EUBA, SIEM and more. With over 12 years’ experience in security operations and management services, his objective is to place the power of his SOC team into his clients’ hands, and to provide complete visibility of security events and threats within their environments. Chris has been pivotal in delivering SOC detection and response services for household names across multiple sectors, including Finance, Insurance, Healthcare, Retail, Aviation and Education. With an industry-leading team of 250+ analysts behind him, he ensures that clients receive the highest degree of protection against today’s cyber threats.

David Higgins

EMEA Technical Director, CyberArk

David Higgins is EMEA Technical Director at CyberArk. Since joining CyberArk in 2010, David has worked to help the world's leading – and most complex – organizations secure and protect their privileged access. Today David collaborates with clients to advise on threats associated with privileged escalation, lateral movement plus identity and credential theft, as well as discussing best practices and driving innovation. With over 10 years’ experience - and having led some of the largest design and implementation programs undertaken in privileged access security - David is one of the leading experts in managing this discipline within both private and public organisations. David works with clients on developing best practices around privileged management and innovative approaches when looking to reduce the risk associated with privileged escalation and exploitation, even more so as organizations embrace cloud platforms and automated processes.

James Richmond

Alliances Solutions Engineer, Okta

An Alliances Solutions Engineer at Okta who's had the privilege of working in Identity and Access Management for the last 5 years gaining exposure to a number of industry leading products both on-premise in the cloud. With Hybrid Cloud becoming ever more prominent in the conversation of Identity, james will be showing you how Okta can not only maximise the security of your multi-cloud implementation but enhance the user experience at the same time

Ian Lowe

Director of Solutions Marketing, EMEA, Okta

Ian is passionate about marketing all things related to cybersecurity, physical access, IoT, and digital transformation. In his 19 year career, Ian has become a recognized product marketing and sales enablement leader having created and launched successful cloud-based security solutions that are used by top technology firms, financial services organizations and Governments around the world today; Including but not limited to the White House, Microsoft and HSBC bank as examples. He enjoys collaborating with both external and internal stakeholders to gain real insights into their needs and then translating those into successful products, solutions and sales enablement programs.

Ian Lowe

Director of Solutions Marketing, EMEA, Okta

Ian is passionate about marketing all things related to cybersecurity, physical access, IoT, and digital transformation. In his 19 year career, Ian has become a recognized product marketing and sales enablement leader having created and launched successful cloud-based security solutions that are used by top technology firms, financial services organizations and Governments around the world today; Including but not limited to the White House, Microsoft and HSBC bank as examples. He enjoys collaborating with both external and internal stakeholders to gain real insights into their needs and then translating those into successful products, solutions and sales enablement programs.

Leon Turner

Senior Sales Engineer & Technical Specialist, SailPoint

With over 20 years of IT experience, now concentrating on enterprise and strategic engagements, Leon is a motivated, resourceful, info-security focused sales engineer with a proven ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions using in-depth knowledge and the ability grasp new technologies. Leon maintains focus on value-selling in order to identify driving issues that concern organisations, thus using solutions to reduce risk with regards to their processes and data handling (be that regulatory, compliance or risk driven). Prior to SailPoint Leon has gathered years of experience across the wider spectrum of Information security, including at Varonis and Kaspersky Labs.

Leon Turner

Senior Sales Engineer & Technical Specialist, SailPoint

With over 20 years of IT experience, now concentrating on enterprise and strategic engagements, Leon is a motivated, resourceful, info-security focused sales engineer with a proven ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions using in-depth knowledge and the ability grasp new technologies. Leon maintains focus on value-selling in order to identify driving issues that concern organisations, thus using solutions to reduce risk with regards to their processes and data handling (be that regulatory, compliance or risk driven). Prior to SailPoint Leon has gathered years of experience across the wider spectrum of Information security, including at Varonis and Kaspersky Labs.

James Maude

Lead Cyber Security Researcher, BeyondTrust

James has broad experience in security research, conducting in-depth analysis of malware and cyber threats to identify attack vectors and trends in the evolving security landscape. His background in forensic computing and active involvement in the security research community makes him an expert voice on cybersecurity. He regularly presents at international events and hosts webinars to discuss threats and defense strategies.

Karl Lankford

RVP Solutions Engineering, BeyondTrust

Karl Lankford is the Regional Vice President, Solutions Engineering EMEIA, for BeyondTrust, where he has worked for 7 years. A highly capable security leader, Karl has acquired a wide range of security experience and knowledge over the last decade, working across multiple industries. Karl is a regular speaker at industry conferences, delivering disruptive technical and strategic thought-leadership insight to the international cybersecurity community

James Maude

Lead Cyber Security Researcher, BeyondTrust

James has broad experience in security research, conducting in-depth analysis of malware and cyber threats to identify attack vectors and trends in the evolving security landscape. His background in forensic computing and active involvement in the security research community makes him an expert voice on cybersecurity. He regularly presents at international events and hosts webinars to discuss threats and defense strategies.

Ross Asquith

Senior Sales Engineer, Netskope

Ross Asquith is a senior member of Netskope’s sales engineering team and technically fluent with all aspects of the Netskope platform. Ross focuses on helping organisations to transform their security architectures to support today’s mobile and cloud-first world.

Andrew Williams

API Product Manager, Mimecast

Andrew is an IT individual with over 19 years of industry experience relating to data center infrastructure. Having worked in the UK for 7 years has provided me with the experience of working with small industries, right through to large multinational corporations. His experience ranges from pre-sales and architecture design right through to implementations. The current focus of my job roles relates specifically to pre-sales engagements and architecture.

Neil Thacker

CISO, Netskope

Neil holds over 20 years’ experience in the Information Security industry with previous roles at Swiss Re, Deutsche Bank and Camelot Group. Neil is an advisory board member to the Cloud Security Alliance, advisory board member to NeuroCyber, advisor to ENISA (the EU agency for Cybersecurity) and co-founder and board member to the Security Advisor Alliance, a non-profit organisation for CISOs to give back to the community. Neil is CISSP, CIPP/E and CEH certified and is a frequent speaker and writer on cybersecurity, data protection and privacy-related topics

Gareth Kitson

Senior Security Engineer, Crowdstrike

Gareth Kitson is a Senior Solutions Engineer working with UK and Global Enterprise customers to stop breaches. Gareth is a Certified Ethical Hacker and earned his CISSP following almost 20 years’ experience spanning organisations from Australian small businesses to UK public sector organisations, to the early startup rocketship AirWatch and global powerhouse that is VMware.

Gareth spends much of his spare time with his Wife and three children -encouraging them to be interested in all things cyber. Gareth enjoys taking part in CTF exercises and keeping up to date in a constantly evolving industry.

Justin Fier

Director of Cyber Intelligence and Analytics

Justin is one of the US’s leading cyber intelligence experts, and holds the position of Director for Cyber Intelligence & Analytics at Darktrace. His insights on cyber security and artificial intelligence have been widely reported in leading media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, CNN, The Washington Post, and VICELAND. With over 10 years’ experience in cyber defense, Justin has supported various elements in the US intelligence community, holding mission-critical security roles with Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman Mission Systems and Abraxas. Justin is also a highly-skilled technical specialist, and works with Darktrace’s strategic global customers on threat analysis, defensive cyber operations, protecting IoT, and machine learning.

Brianna Leddyr

Director of Analysis

Based in San Francisco, Brianna is Director of Analysis at Darktrace. She joined the analyst team in 2016 and has since advised a wide range of enterprise customers on advanced threat hunting and leveraging cyber AI for detection and response. Brianna works closely with the Darktrace SOC team to proactively alert customers to emerging threats and investigate unusual behavior in enterprise environments. Brianna holds a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

Max Heinemeyer

Director of Threat Hunting EMEA, Darktrace

Max is a cyber security expert with over a decade of experience in the field, specializing in a wide range of areas such as Penetration Testing, Red-Teaming, SIEM and SOC consulting and hunting Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) groups. At Darktrace, Max oversees global threat hunting efforts, working with strategic customers to investigate and respond to cyber-threats. He works closely with the R&D team at Darktrace’s Cambridge UK headquarters, leading research into new AI innovations and their various defensive and offensive applications. Max’s insights are regularly featured in international media outlets such as the BBC, Forbes and WIRED. When living in Germany, he was an active member of the Chaos Computer Club. Max holds an MSc from the University of Duisburg-Essen and a BSc from the Cooperative State University Stuttgart in International Business Information Systems.

Stefano De Blasi

Threat Researcher, Digital Shadows

Stefano is a Cyber Threat Intelligence professional working as a Threat Researcher at Digital Shadows. Graduated from the Intelligence, Security and Strategic Studies (IMSISS) Master's programme, jointly delivered by a consortium of four European universities. Passionate about advanced technologies and global security, his main professional and academic interests are in the field of intelligence risk analysis, cyber threat intelligence, and artificial intelligence technologies.

Michael Marriott

Director Product Marketing, Digital Shadows

Michael Marriott is Director Product Marketing at Digital Shadows, which he joined in late 2014. Michael has a passion for security analysis and the trends they indicate, in order to better protect clients. He has written several articles and papers, and his research is regularly featured in the press. He holds a BA in History and a Masters in Applied Security and Strategy, both from the University of Exeter.

Keiron Shepherd

Senior Solutions Architect, F5

Keiron Shepherd is a Principal Solutions Engineer within the Security Specialist team at F5 where his responsibility is to provide technical expertise, knowledge of F5 security solutions and related technologies to both colleagues and customers.

A trusted adviser with over 20 years security practise gained from both military and industry, recognises both technical and business challenges and able to architect effective security solutions.

Steve Marshall

UK Group CISO and Head of Cyber Consulting, Bytes

A world class consultant and business executive focused on high profile projects for the government and leading commercial organisations. Steve specialises in business consulting, payments, compliance, data privacy, breach clean up, enterprise architecture, assurance, corporate information security, security restructures and risk in sector leading organisations across many business verticals and markets A balance of technical excellence and keen business acumen enables Steve to provide cost effective and robust strategies. Having developed several practices in the UK and worked for many companies and organisations, Steve moved to Bytes with his team to provide leading audit, advisory, and assurance services globally

Ronald Pool

Security Specialist, Crowdstrike

Security evangelist, Public speaker, Media Spokesperson, technical leader & enthusiastic security consultant. Always embracing new things to learn, always ready to challenge "how it's done today, because that's how we do it" and always ready to share knowledge.

With 20+ years experience at a technical level delivering IT security projects for customers across Europe at Barracuda, Trend Micro and now for the last 4 years at Crowdstrike, Ronald is Crowdstrike's Security Specialist for Europe, leading presales engagements for midsize and enterprise customers in all verticals, with a focus on Advanced Persistent Threats and Targeted Attacks.

Ronald is Crowdstrikes Subject Matter Expert in the field of Cyber Security Threats for the Continental Europe region where he act

Andy Thompson

CyberArk Labs Research Evangelist

Andy is the CyberArk Labs Research Evangelist. He is a founding member of the PAS Program Office (PPO) and provides strategic guidance to the largest and most complex clients. Andy has 25 years of experience in web development, systems administration and security, and is a frequent speaker on security breaches, defense tactics and his passion of "travel-hacking". Andy holds a Bachelor's of Science from the University of Texas, CISSP & SSCP, Sec+, and is a GIAC certified pen tester (GPEN).

Brandon Traffanstedt

Sr. Director, Identity Security Solutions Strategy

As a Sr. Director in CyberArk’s Global Technology Office, Brandon Traffanstedt serves as an advisor and subject matter expert on privileged access, identity security, and protecting emerging technologies. With over 15 years in the combined spaces of information security, development, and systems engineering, Brandon has architected security solutions for some of CyberArk's largest global customers.

Steve Marshall

UK Group CISO and Head of Cyber Consulting, Bytes

A world class consultant and business executive focused on high profile projects for the government and leading commercial organisations. Steve specialises in business consulting, payments, compliance, data privacy, breach clean up, enterprise architecture, assurance, corporate information security, security restructures and risk in sector leading organisations across many business verticals and markets A balance of technical excellence and keen business acumen enables Steve to provide cost effective and robust strategies. Having developed several practices in the UK and worked for many companies and organisations, Steve moved to Bytes with his team to provide leading audit, advisory, and assurance services globally