Cybersecurity Leadership Summit 2020

As Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Flavio Aggio is responsible for Information Security and Cybersecurity at the World Health Organization (WHO). Additionally, he represents WHO in key forums focused on Information Security and Cybersecurity. With more than 30 years of experience in...

Ammar Alkassar has been appointed as State Commissioner for Strategy and Chief Digital Officer by August, 1st 2018. In this function, he is responsible for digitization and the innovation, technology as well as the long-term structural policy of the state. Since October 2019, he is also Chief...

Dr. George Beridze joined KuppingerCole in 2017. Currently he is a Practice Lead for Artificial Intelligence and also a Project Manager with the focus on AI, Cybersecurity and Blockchain Identity. George previously worked as a Research Scientist at various institutions in Germany and Europe. In...

  As a Senior Director of Product Management, Matt is responsible for building product strategies in bringing the ForgeRock product portfolio to market. Matt works closely with customers and partners to understand the current market demands and bring them to the product teams to deliver...

Acting Director of Directorate CNECT H, Digital Society, Trust and Cybersecurity and Head of Unit 'Cybersecurity and Digital Privacy Policy' within the European Commission (Directorate-General Communication Networks, Content and Technology). Among others, involved in negotiations of the...

Scott Bridgen serves as a GRC Consulting Director for OneTrust GRC– a purpose-built software designed to operationalise integrated risk management. In his role, Scott is responsible for driving the development and delivery of OneTrust's integrated risk management product as well as driving...

Bryan Christ is an IT professional with more than twenty years of industry experience. His fascination with technology started in the early 80's with the Commodore VIC-20. He first published in 1991 and began his professional career a few years later. Along the way, he has worked for a number of...

Mr. Ioannis Chrysakis is an ICT Expert working currently as a senior R&D Engineer in the Information Systems Laboratory of the Institute of Computer Science, FORTH. He is Publicity Manager of the CAPrice community: a community-driven approach to raise privacy awareness. He is also Engagement...

Paolo Comi works as a Research and Innovation Manager in the Italtel Project Financing Department ( www.italtel.com ). More than 30 years' experience in the telecom industry and with the whole ICT lifecycle management. Accountable for the research opportunities in national & international...

Sergej Epp serves as Chief Security Officer, Central Europe, for Palo Alto Networks. In this role, he develops regional cybersecurity strategy and is overseeing cybersecurity operations and threat intelligence across the region. His functional specialties include cyber defense operations, cyber...

Nadia Fabrizio is an ICT Senior Manager and Blockchain Expert in CEFRIEL, where she has been working since 2004. Since 2015 she conducts all the activities related to the research, innovation, technology transfer and education regarding the application of blockchain and decentralisation paradigm...

Ana I . Ayerbe is the Manager of TECNALIA TRUSTECH Business Area where she works in trying to create trust in the digital and hyperconnected world developing technology to reinforce the digital immunological system of companies and society. She is enthusiastic of new technologies like the...

Jochen Fischer is CEO and Co-Founder of NO MONKEY as an independent Authority for Security & Compliance in SAP. Throughout his career at SAP and the specialized security companies Virtual Forge & Onapsis, Jochen has been dealing with the major challenges around this complex topic with...

Stephan Fritsche, Dipl. Ing. (FH) Datentechnik, started his professional career as a specialist for routing and switching systems, followed by business development positions at system houses and a distributor. At Nortel Networks he held various channel positions, including responsibility for the...

Enrico Frumento works as senior researcher at Cefriel ( www.cefriel.com ) in European and private-funded innovation projects on ICT Security. His research focuses on unconventional security, cybercrime and social engineering. He is an author of subject-related publications. He is the scientific...

Starting as one of the most notorious hackers of the 1990's having been involved in the largest mass hack of the time and setting off an international incident after hacking into a nuclear weapons facility, Greg has over two decades of technical, management, and leadership experience in...

Jean-Christophe Gaillard is the Founder and Managing Director of Corix Partners He is a senior executive and a team builder with over 25 years of experience developed in several global financial institutions in the UK and continental Europe, and a track-record at driving fundamental change in...

Jens has worked in IT for 16 years and supported customers in a variety of different topics while being employed at large Technology companies such as Xerox, EDS and Hewlett-Packard. When moving to AWS he took his bet on cloud becoming the new normal and intensivised his competence around...

Morey J. Haber is Chief Technology Officer and Chief Information Security Officer at BeyondTrust. He has more than 25 years of IT industry experience and has authored three Apress books: Privileged Attack Vectors, Asset Attack Vectors, and Identity Attack Vectors. In 2018, Bomgar acquired...

Marco Hammel is CTO and Co-Funder of NO MONKEY. He used to be part of SAP as a developer for GRC risk management, before he joined leading SAP security companies in various roles as a security consultant, pre-sales expert, pen-tester or security researcher. In addition, Marco is teaching a...

Max is a cyber security expert with over eight years’ experience in the field specializing in network monitoring and offensive security. He is frequently quoted on cyber-related issues on publications like Wired, The Telegraph, Forbes and other high-profile publications. At Darktrace, Max...

Jörg Hesske is Elastic Area Vice President for CEMEA. Born in Munich, Hesske joined Elastic in 2019 and has been responsible for Central and Eastern Europe since then. Before joining Elastic, Hesske was Vice President DACH at NetApp, where he worked for 5 years. Prior to that he worked for...

Berthold Kerl, born 1960, studied economics at the University of Nürnberg and performs as CEO of KuppingerCole since 1 st July 2020. Before that he had been with Deutsche Bank AG for 17 years. As CIO he was working on major IT Transformation, IT Strategy, Change Management and Governance...

Martin Kuppinger is Founder and Principal Analyst at KuppingerCole, a leading analyst company for identity focused information security, both in classical and in cloud environments. Prior to KuppingerCole, Martin wrote more than 50 IT-related books and is known  as a widely-read columnist...

Brennan is a self-proclaimed data nerd. He has been working in the financial industry for the past 10 years and is striving to save the world with a little help from our machine friends. He has held cyber security, data scientist, and leadership roles at JP Morgan Chase, the Federal Reserve...

Markus Malewski heads the Security Operations Center (SOC) and Security Information & Event Management (SIEM) at thyssenkrupp. With his expertise he can draw on over 20 years of professional experience in infrastructure, application and IT security monitoring. He has continuously developed...

Exceptional business leader who has successfully driven multimillion $ growth in both privately held and publicly quoted companies. Experienced in sales leadership and partner channels to support high growth. Extensive experience in bringing disruptive technologies to market within...

Hila is tasked with protecting BT and some of the world's leading organisations against ever-changing cyber threats. She has more than 20 years of experience in the security world. During her career, she’s worked with some of the world’s best known brands and international...

Head of IT Security of the European Investment Bank (EIB), the biggest multilateral financial institution in the world and one of the largest providers of climate finance. Close to 20 years of experience in the areas of IT security, risk management, and IT governance. I started my career in IT...

Anett Mádi-Nátor has more than a decade of experience in strategic and administrative layers of information security and cyber defence both as a private sector subject matter expert and as a government representative. She is now responsible for Strategic Business Development at a...

Espen Otterstad is the Global Head of IT and Cybersecurity at the Norwegian telematics company ABAX, the leading company in tracking of vehicles, equipment, plants, and tools. His current focus on security culture and the understanding of how the human factors impact the security posture of his...

As a Regional Sales Director, Mario van Riesen, runs Shape Security’s engagements with key European customers across the DACH region. He is experienced in helping large brands protect their web and mobile assets from unwanted automation and sophisticated cyberattacks. Prior to Shape, Mario...

Rolf von Roessing, CISA, CISM, CGEIT, is president of Forfa, a consultancy in Germany. He is also a retired partner and now executive advisor at KPMG Germany. Von Roessing has been a member of ISACA since 1997. He is international vice president of ISACA, a member of the IT Governance...

Martin has extensive experience as a project manager, consultant and auditor for internationally active companies in the banking sector. His expertise is complemented by the planning and structuring of interdisciplinary and complex projects. His professional focuses are Project management...

Mr. Darran Rolls is a research and advisory Fellow at Kuppinger Cole. He has a long history in Identity Management and Security at companies ranging from Tivoli Systems - IBM, Waveset Technologies, Sun Microsystems and SailPoint Technologies. Over the past 20...

Stefan is leading Information Security, IT-Compliance and IT-Governance across the world at Berlitz Corporation with a strong focus on working closely with operational stakeholders. Current priority topics revolve around global alignment to ISO 27001 and GDPR compliance in a diverse...

Stephan Rosche is Sales Director for Synack for the DACH region. Stephan has 25 years of experience in selling IT solutions. He gained experience in the area of application security at IBM and as a testing specialist in Veracode. In addition to security, he has extensive knowledge of software...

Christopher Schütze has been working as Director Practice Cybersecurity and Lead Analyst for KuppingerCole Analysts AG since 2019. Prior to that, he was Head of Cloud Security at an auditing company and working at two integrators for identity and access management. He has provided clients...

James is a principal product marketing manager at Elastic, focusing on Elastic Security. Previous to that, he served as a security specialist on our Solutions Architecture team for two years, helping customers and users across the globe architect their Elastic deployments for Security analytics....

Rayna Stamboliyska is the VP Governance and Public Affairs at YesWeHack, a global Bug Bounty and Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure leader. She is a risk management and crisis mitigation expert with a focus on security governance, data protection and compliance. An award-winning author for...

Dr. Mariarosaria Taddeo is Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, where she is the Deputy Director of the Digital Ethics Lab and is Faculty Fellow and Defence Science and Technology Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute. Her recent work focuses...

Before joining Sentinel One in 2020, Jan Tietze served in senior technical and management roles ranging from engineering to CIO and CTO roles for global IT and consultancy organizations. With a strong background in enterprise IT and an early career in senior field engineering roles in Microsoft...

Background: John Tolbert is a Lead Analyst and Managing Director of KuppingerCole, Inc (US). As Lead Analyst, John covers a number of different research areas, outlined below. John also advises cybersecurity and IAM vendors, from startups to Fortune 500 companies, regarding their product and...

Richard De Vere (@AntiSocial_Eng) is the Principal Consultant for The AntiSocial Engineer Limited, he has an extensive background in penetration testing and social engineering assessments, including ‘red team’ exercises and information gathering assessments for financial institutions...

Ashley Ward is part of the Office of the CTO at Palo Alto Networks, where he aids customers in the secure deployment and scaling of cloud native environments. Ashley has more than 15 years’ experience in the operations and infrastructure architecture space, from providing Unix...

Stefan Würtemberger is employed at Marabu GmbH & Co. KG, where he is Vice President Information Technology and responsible for Global IT. Previously, he was Chief Digital Officer and CIO at Erwin Renz Metallwarenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG and took over the management responsibility...

Lauren Zuber joined KuppingerCole in August 2018 as Event Manager. Within the Event team, she is responsible for sponsors and attendees for different events and takes a major role at the KCx Talks. Also, she is responsible for the venue and supports in further diverse tasks. Lauren...