Cybersecurity Speakers From Prior Sessions
Cybersecurity speakers from prior sessions - Note links to presentations will require
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August 27
Kyle Smith, Wielding the Power of the Tabletop
James Grisham,AI: Impacts to Cybersecurity and the Future of the CISO
Ahmed Awad, Data Protection Using NIST CSF 2.0
September 9
Brent Holt, Offensive Security Testing
Onyekachi Okereke, Building a Cybersecurity Program from Scratch: Real Life Lessons
September 24
Jeff Apolis, Operationalizing AI: A CISO’s Guide to Strategic Adoption and Risk Management
Richard Austin, Ghosts of Data Past
October 7
Yugandhar Suthari, Shift-Left Security in Action: Automating Cloud Compliance with Open Source Tools
Mike Mcgannon, Protecting Your Digital Identity"
October 22
Sam Aiello, AI in Cybersecurity - The Future of Intelligent Threat Defense
Stephen Omorogbe, Managing the Secure Systems Development Lice Cycle
Pete Smith, Preparing Your Cybersecurity Org for M&A
November 4
Dusty Thibodeaux, What would you say you do here – closing the gap of class and real-world work
Nick Corn, Soft skills for information security professionals
Shannon McKenzie, SIEM/SOAR Overview and Transforming Security Operations
November 19
Joy Toney, Ethical Use of AI
Brian Albertson, Trends and Predictions of Cyber & GRC for 2026
Phil Plantamura, Enterprise Security Monitoring using Open Security Onion
Brettina Browder, Building a Cyber Champion Program
December 2
Matt Somerlott, The Psychology of Cyber Risk: How Cyber Insurance Shapes Security Behavior
Morgan Hague, Cyber Strategy Development”
Gideon Rasmussen, Crisis Communications - In the Gravest Extreme
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August 21
Dustin Sachs, The Importance of Community Building in Cybersecurity Fred Roth, After the Breach: What CEOs and Legal Departments Worry About
September 3,
Nia Luckey, Building a Multi-Year Strategic Roadmap for CybersecurityBryan Albertson, GRC Architecture, Patrick Sullivan, Welcome to ISO42001
September 18,
Morgan Hague, Fundamentals of AI Security
October 1,
Jack Healey, The Role of GRC in Disruptive Technology Adoption- How to keep your AI program on
the Road and Out of the Ditch Mollie Cavenaugh, Cybersecurity Imposter SyndromeYosef Beck, Business Analysis for Cybersecurity
October 16,
Tim Cullen, News from the Front Lines: The Crowdstrike Outage Chris Silvers, CMMC Who? The Basics of New DoD Cybersecurity Compliance James Grisham, Breaking into Cybersecurity: Navigating Post-Degree Paths and Avoiding Common Pitfalls
October 29,
Stephen Omorogbe and Michael MacDonald, Managing Security & Privacy Risks with RMF Kyle Smith, Cybersecurity as a Brand,
Stephen Gay, Cybersecurity Program Management and Continuous Improvement
November 13,
Dusty Thibodeaux, Vulnerability Management
Greg Schaffer, Security Needs for the Small to Midsized Business Joy Toney, Cybersecurity Unit’s Role in Responsible Use of AI in Organizations
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August 22,
Dustin Sachs, How to Leverage Behavioral Science to Enhance Cybersecurity
Subramanian, Developing Secure Software
September 19,
Greg Aitken, Resume -> Applications -> Interview ->JobJames Baird, Web Application Security Program – Strategies and Tools
October 4,
James Venezia, Cyber Insurance – Basics for Cybersecurity ProsPhillip Mahan, Privacy and Cybersecurity
October 18,
Yosef Beck, Anatomy of a Breach
Jake Bulim, Industry Professional, “SOC Structures, Leading Analysts and Making an Effective Team
October 24.
Chris Silvers. The Long and Winding Alley: Social Engineering Parables
November 8.
Stephen Omorogbe, Engineering Secure Systems: Cyber and National DefenseStephen McCamy, Staying on the Technical Track
November 14,
Wes Knight, Effective Communications Is Critical To Your SuccessDavid Benton,Incident Response Field Practices”
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August 23,
Jacob Lovell, Denial of Service: Taxonomy and VocabularyAldo Febro, Ph.D., DDoS against VoIP Services: Threat & Career Opportunities
September 7,
Yosef Beck, Director of Security Architecture at IHG, Network Security for Smarties
September 20,
Jon Anderson, Overview of Changes in PCI DSS 4.0
Brent Holt, Edge Solutions
October 5,
Kaustubh Kubde, Equifax, "How to break into Cybersecurity & Essential Tips for a Strong Foundation" and Sam Leonard, Veeam, "Disaster Recovery After Cyberattack"
October 18,
Charles Herring, Witfoo, Federating Cybersecurity Operations Phillip Mahan, It's a Matter of Trust ¤
November 2
Ryan Basden, Technical Security Career Paths
November 15,
Asher Andree, Mandiant,Pathway to Being a Pentester
Jake Bulim, SOC Structures and How to Lead Analysts to Make an Effective Team
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September 1,
Brian Albertson, Enterprise Data Enablement Risks, Controls and Vulnerabilities
September 14,
Yosef Beck, Designing an effective Security Metrics and Reporting Program
Christian Hyatt, Results and trends from 1000 security assessments
September 29,
Jacob Lovell, MFA is broken: How recent developments in FIDO2 fixes it
Dan Smith, Recovering from Ransomware and Other Disasters
October 12,
Maryann Douglass & Sherri Collis, Personal Security Awareness for Online Presence
Ward Pyles
October 27,
Brandy Griffin, The Incident Response Lifecycle
Betty DuBois, Network Reconnaissance with Open Source Tools
November 9,
Jack Healey, Impact of Bias on Risk Appetite and Tolerance
Phillip Mahan
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Jacob Lovell, Securing the Enterprise: Application Access and its Challenges
Sarah Beck, Behavior Analytics for Security”
Vinton Cerf, The Early Internet
Mike Rothman, The future of security operations in a DevOps world
Chris Silvers, Freelance cybersecurity trends and techniques
Anne Marie Colombo, Securing the Cloud
Nick Travis, Defending Against Data Exfiltration via DNS
Tim Callahan
Maryann Douglas, You CAN Get There from Here – Women in Cybersecurity
Jack Healey, Cyber Incident Communication Strategies
James Blanton
Nick Corn, Application-level Denial of Service
Joe DiBiase, Things we learned and adjusted to deal with Covid-19
Kevin & Garrett Beaver, Security from a Teenager’s Perspective…And what businesses need to be on the lookout for among their rising workforce
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Tim O'Neill, Network Forensics
Joseph DiBiase, Director of Information Security, Interface, The horse has left the
barn and we have the saddle!: Our journey into the cloud
Tim Cullen, Adapture, Incident Response
Jeff Jones, Threat Hunter, Low Knowledge Authentication
Moazzam Khan, Security Researcher, IBM, Watson Security Research, Next Generation
SIEM: Qradar and its Applications
Jacob Lovell, Security Solutions Architect, Akamai Technologies, Fighting Armies of
Zombie Robots with a Giant Robot
Rashed Chowdhury, Principle Enterprise Applications, Infosys, Salesforce as a Platform
for Innovation
Debra Oglesby, , FIS Worldpay, Project Management
Tate Ferguson, Service Transition Manager, FIS Worldpay, Technical Writing
Corey Bingham, Nathan Raymer, A Primer on Georgia Payment Processing Tech Companies
Brian Albertson , IT Control Product Owner, State Farm, Automating IT Compliance
Jack Healey, Founder/CEO, Bear Hill Advisory Group, Baking Risk into Your Information System Soufflé
Daniel Williams, Matt Crane, Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard
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Walter Tong, GA Technology Authority, Incident Management
Ward Pyles, IHG, Career Tracks in ISA Management
Sherron Burgess, BCD Travel, Launching an ISA Career
Brian Albertson, State Farm, REAL IT Controls
Tim O’Neal, Industry Professional, Why the Physical Layer Still Matters
Debby Briggs, NetScout, What is your Security’s Weakest Link? The Human Firewall!
Tim O’Neal, Being an Expert Witness
Mike Rothman, Securiosis, DevSecOps
Mitch Moosbrugger, CyberArk, Emerging Threats to Privileged Account Security and Privileged
Access Management
Jeff Jones, Security Professional, The State of Insecurity in the World Today
Katie Greenfield, Brooksource
Alex Kirk, Tenable
Chris Farris, Turner Inc., Pen-testing AWS
Jack Healey, Bear Hill Advisory Group, Management Role in a Cybersecurity Incident
Response Plan
Phillip Mahan, Ionic Security
Louis Kandel
Philip Andreae, FIDO: The case for better authentication
Mark German, KPMG
Philip Mahan, Ionic Security, Security Privacy and Governance for Business Majors
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Tim Cullen, Adapture, Dealing with Ransomware
Phillip Mahan, Ionic Security, Why GPDR Matters to You
Dan Streuber, Cisco, Analyzing Encrypted Network Traffic
Brad Stafford, Checkpoint, Securing the Cloud
Jeff Jones, Threat intelligence for the new security professional
JoEtta LeSueur, MSIS, CISSP, Product Security Manager, Ionic Security
Ward Pyles; CISSP, CRISC, NSA; BS IS, Masters of Law; Director Global Security and
Assurance InterContinental Hotels Group
Kyle Waddle, Comcast, Managing Cyber Crisis Events Within Matrix Organizations
Walter Tong, Georgia Technology Authority, Managing Cyber Incidents
Nat Prakongan, IBM, The IBM Security Cyber Range
Ward Pyles, Intercontinental Hotels Group, ISA Careers and Advancement
Kevin Beaver, Principle Logic, Planning a Consulting Career in ISA
Robert Roberts, The Coca-Cola Company
Rafal Los, Seventy7 Consulting
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January 15
Ahmed Awad, “IT Audit, Governance, Strategy, Data Protection”
Nia Luckey, “Cybersecurity Management”
Ariel Robles, “Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) in Corporate America”
January 28
Kyle Meyer, “Hacking Is My Job, Bro”
Arun Mamgai, “Privacy in the Age of AI”
Pete Smith, “The Power of Partnerships: Cybersecurity is a Team Sport”
February 12
Brian Albertson, “GRC Done Right”
R. Tombari Sibe, “What, Where, When, Who, and How: Reconstructing Events with Digital Forensics”
James Baird, “Generative AI: Balancing Business Benefit Against Security Risk”
February 25
Nick Mullen, “Human Risk Management”
Jason Lapene, “Real World Incident Response from a Technical Perspective”
Larry Holt, “Threat Modeling with CARVER”
March 19
Kyle Smith, “Wielding the Power of the Tabletop”
Keyaan Williams, “Perspectives on Cybersecurity Management”Alan Greenberg, “Managing an MSPP”
April 1
Michael Barker, “Complying with CMMC”Onyekachi Okereke, “Supply Chain Risks & Third-party Risk Management”Mark Reardon, “Use of an Enclave to Support Unique Security Requirements”
April 16
Donna Gallaher, “Working in your own business - Being your own boss”
Joy Toney, "The Power of Policies:
Cybersecurity’s Silent Muscle in Defending Organizations"
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January 17, Pete Smith, “Managing Threat Analysis”Kyle Smith, “Cybersecurity as a Brand"
January 30, Phillip Mahan, “How is a raven like a writing desk?”Katherine Fithen, “Creating Effective Policy”
February 14, Nia Luckey, “Leveraging Federal Compliance Best Practices To Protect AI Data” Galina Shelest, “Art of Threat Modeling”
February 27, Chris Silvers,
“NIST SP 800-63”, Stephen Omorogbe,
“Supply Chain Risk Management and National Security”, Shannon Garcia
“Elevating Your Application Security Program”
March 20, Philip Plantamura, "Security Onion: Peel Back the Layers of Your Enterprise”, Keith Deininger
“Developing and Executing an Effective Third-Party Risk Management Program”
April 2, Joy Toney
“The Value of Security Culture”, Derrick Sturisky, "Quantum Cybersecurity"
April 17, Collin Parker
“Product Security and PSIRTs”, Kent Bryan
“What is Web Cloud Filtering”
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February 8, Brian Albertson, State Farm, IT Risk Trends and Impact to Cybersecurity" and Ian Kahn, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, "Privileged Access Management – An Introduction"
February 21, 2023, Yosef Beck, Director of Security Architecture at IHG, "Vendor Requests for Proposals" and Chris Black, Warner Media, "SOAR: Automate All the SecOps Things"
March 15, 2023, Kyle Smith, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, "Cybersecurity as a Brand"
March 28, 2023, Ward Pyles, Kids2, "Starting your Career in Cyber Security, Not Just a Job" and Sethuraman Srinivas, "Enterprise Security Metrics - Relevance and Application"
April 4, 2023, Manhattan Associates, George Garza √, Director for Risk & Scott Perales ×, Director of Security Architecture Cloud Operations, "Securing the Cloud: Reports from the Field"
April 12, 2023, Dave Croasdell & Jim Elste, Cyberworkerz, "Cyber Teaching Hospitals and Cyber Clinics: Extending cybersecurity support to the
community" and Patrick Sullivan, a-lign.com, "Importance of Professional Communication"
April 18, 2023, Greg Aitken, Intaso Inc., "Resume -> Applications -> Interview ->Job" and Chris Silvers, Industry Professional, "Freelance Cybersecurity Trends and Techniques"
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January 19, 2022, Jacob Lovell, Solutions Engineer at Akamai, "Containing the Breach: The Evolution of Microsegmentation"
February 2, 2022, Ben McInnis, Technical Marketing Engineer at Palo Alto Networks,
"State of Cloud-native Security in 2022 and Nick Corn, Penetration Tester at CodeMettle,
"Effective Communication to Executives for Cyber Security Professionals"
Wednesday, February 16, 20221, Ward Pyles at Kids2 and Christian Hyatt, CEO and Founder
at risk3sixty, "The 5 CISO Archetypes"
Wednesday, March 2, 2022, Bernard Barnes, Client Executive at Kyndryl, Inc. -- State
of Georgia SLED, "How to Sell Cybersecurity Services" and J. David Quilter, Coach and Author for Security Leaders, "How to Build a Smart Security Program"
Wednesday, March 16, 2022, Yosef Beck, Director of Security Architecture at IHG, "Cybersecurity as a Competitive Advantage" and Mike Rothman at Securosis, "Evolution of the SOC"
Wednesday, March 30, 2022, Zola Maswanganye, Information Security Engineer, "Who is
responsible for Security" and Jade West, Cybersecurity Engineer at The Home Depot,
"Essential API Security"
Wednesday, April 13, 2022, Keyaan Williams, Managing Director at Class-LLC, "Mastering
Cybersecurity Metrics" and Anne-Marie Colombo at SAP America, "Zero Trust Without the Hype"
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Anne Marie Columbo, SAP America, Inc., Risk Management Framework Overview
Jack Healy, CPA, CFF, CFE, CRISC, Chief Executive Officer, Bear Hill Advisory Group,
LLCCPA, Risk Management: Deep Thoughts and Better Results
Yosef Beck, Principal Security Architect, IHG, Network Security Monitoring: Process & Tools Overview
Alain Espinosa, Director of Security Operations, MSS at Online Business Systems, Preparing
for your career in cybersecurity (from student to professional)
Michael Lockhart, Director of Compliance, Salesforce Mulesoft
Brian Albertson, AWSCCP, CDPSE, CRISC, ITIL, POPM, IT Control Management Product Owner, State Farm® IT Risk & Compliance, TBuilding Compliance Into Business Operations
Adam Kehler - Director, RSP Healthcare Services at Online Business Systems, Cybersecurity
in Healthcare
Ward Pyles, KidsII Inc., Driving security teams to be more effective
Jacob Lovell, Akamai Technologies, Web Application Security at the Edge
Nat Prakongpan, Technical Director, X-Force Threat Intelligence and Cyber Range Lab,
IBM Security, Ox Response, Incident Response Preparedness for Business
Chris Silvers, C G Silvers Consulting, Freelance Cybersecurity Trends and Techniques
Matthew Dobbs, Chief Integration Architect, X-Force Threat Intelligence and Integration
Lab, IBM Security, Leveraging Zero Trust Architecture
Yosef Beck, Principal Security Architect, IHG
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David Allen, CISO, Georgia Technology Authority, Managing Cyber Risk for the Enterprise
David Anderson, Security Consultant, Akamai Technologies, Planning and Executing Continuity
Plans
John Traino, CIO, Aaron, What it Takes to Innovate
Bob Varnadoe, CISO, NCR, Techniques for Detecting a Cyber Attack
Jacob Lovell, Solutions Engineer, Akamai Technologies, Third Party Scripts: Magecart
& Other Threats
Adi Wong, Akamai Technologies, Cloud Security/Akamai 101
Phillip Mahan, Communicating Risk Appetite and Tolerance
Sasi Pulipaka, Risk Manager, Verizon, Data Privacy and Corporate Responsibility
Jeff Jones, Threat Hunter, Threat Intelligence Brief
Jacob Lovell, Technical Presales, Akamai Technologies, Incident Response
Mitch Moosbrugger, Regional Directory, CyberArk Software, The Challenges of Remote
Vendor Access
Mike Rothman, President, Securosis, Advancing Cloud Security: The Next Phase
Tim Callahan, Global Chief Security Officer, Aflac, The Value of Threat Intelligence
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Phillip Mahan, Security & Compliance Manager, Calendly, I am the LAW: Statutory Compliance
in Corporate Cyber Security
Tim O'Neal, Managing Criminal CYBER Investigations
Walter Tong, GTA, Cyber Intelligence Briefing
Jeff Jones, Industry Professional Technical Threat Brief
Mitch Moosberger, Cyberark
Alex Edwards, Engineer, Cisco
Joe Catron, Lead Automation Engineer, CelticQA Solutions
Clarence Daniels, Lead QA Engineer, CelticQA Solutions
Frank Rietta, Applying Agile and Security in Software Development
Philip Andreae, Payment Card Security
Dennis Kosmetatos, NCR, Business Value of Identity and Access Management
Tim O’Neill, Attacking the Internet of Things
Jack Healey, Bear Hill Advisory Group, Security and the Role of Risk Assessment
Alex Edwards, Cisco
Danny Wasserman, Akamai Technologies
Katie Greenfield, Senior Technical Recruiter, Brooksource
Dan Schroeder, Aprio, Information Assurance for Security and Compliance
Bill Morrison, McKesson, SecOps Management & Planning
Carlos Batista, BetterCloud, Software Security
Louis Kandel, Interviewing for Success, Retired IBM Executive
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Phillip Mahan, Ionic Security, Creating Effective Policy
Damien Suggs, Saltworks, Application Security
Dan Streuber, Cisco, Encrypted Traffic Analytics
James Blanton, Winter Olympics Cyber Threats
Jeff Jones, Threat Intelligence
Tim O’Neill, Security Professional
Preeti Ravinda, IBM Security, Watson for Cybersecurity.
Jeff Jones, Security Professional, Developing Threat Intelligence
Tim Cullen, Adapture, Introduction to Block Chain Technology
Anne Marie Colombo, SAP America, Enterprise Resource Planning
Katie Greenfield, Brooksource, Managing the Recruiting Process
Shekesa McLaurin, Macy’s, Information Systems and Entrepreneurship
Brian Albertson, State Farm, Staying Current in the Field
Ben Mcinnis, Cisco, Compliance Role in Incident Response
Scott Baker, The Coca-Cola Company, Data Loss Prevention
Ward Pyles, IHG, Preparing for your ISA Career
Andrew Hamilton, Cybiant, Do what works, not what’s flashy
Walter Tong, Georgia Technology Authority
Anne Marie Colombo, SAP America, SAP & Threat Intelligence
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June 2, Gordon Shenkle, Security Services Master Plan
June 7, Taiye Lambo, Governance Design
June 9, Yosef Beck, Policy Design
June 14, Jeff Jones, Security Operations Design
June 16, Debra Oglesby, Staffing Planning
June 21, Anne Marie Colombo, Risk Management Framework
June 23, Robert Roberts, Contingency Planning
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