Presented at
BSidesLV 2017,
July 26, 2017, noon
(25 minutes).
Following up on their Lightning Talks, the four presenters will let the audience explore their ideas in more detail and pressure test their assumptions. A little friendly red teaming and improv can improve effectiveness.
Presenters:
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Caroline Wong
- VP of Security Strategy - Cobalt
Caroline is a dynamic cybersecurity expert with more than a decade of industry experience as a day-to-day manager at eBay and Zynga, product manager at Symantec, and managing consultant at Cigital (now Synopsys). She is currently VP of Security Strategy at Cobalt, a company that connects SaaS companies who want to improve their cybersecurity posture with hackers who can help find their problems before the bad guys do.
Caroline received a 2010 Women of Influence Award in the One to Watch category and authored the popular textbook Security Metrics: A Beginner's Guide, published by McGraw-Hill in 2011. She graduated from U.C. Berkeley with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences.
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David Batz
- Senior Director, Cyber & Infrastructure Security - Edison Electric Institute
Leveraging over 20 years of utility experience, David Batz brings significant industry knowledge in understanding and applying appropriate security solutions to address emerging threats and issues.
In addition to providing technical knowledge of security and network issues, Mr. Batz leverages a decade of energy regulatory compliance as well as physical and cyber security policy experience and engagement with federal agencies including Department of Energy (DoE), and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Mr. Batz is a member of InfraGard, and serves on the SANS Institute Advisory Board. He has served on the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Critical Infrastructure Protection Committee (CIPC) and the CIPC-Executive Committee. Batz has authored various articles and presented at numerous events on securing critical infrastructure, industrial systems and standardization topics for prominent industry associations including NIST, National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners and the American Society Civil Engineers to name a few.
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Robert Wood
- Director, Trust and Security - Nuna
Robert Wood runs the trust and security team at Nuna, whose core directive is to protect one of the nation's largest collective healthcare data sets. Previously, Robert was a Principal Consultant at Cigital where he founded and led the red team assessment practice and worked with strategic clients across the United States in an advisory capacity.
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Steven Luczynski
- Deputy Director, Cyber Plans and Operations - Office of the Secretary of Defense (Policy)
Steve Luczynski currently serves as the Deputy Director, Cyber Plans and Operations for the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy at the Pentagon. He works with national policymakers, interagency counterparts, and combatant command staff to support the Department of Defense mission to defend the nation in cyberspace. His interest in cybersecurity began 10 years ago developing innovative warfighting concepts for the Navy's future cyberspace operations. Over his 24-year career, Steve has flown the F-15C and F-22 around the world, and he looks forward to beginning a new career in the information security industry.
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