Jeff Bardin CSO/VP

Since 1982 Jeff has worked in leadership positions at organizations such as EMC, Investors Bank & Trust, Hanover Insurance Group, General Electric, Lockheed Martin, and Marriott International. Jeff is currently the VP, Chief Security Officer for ITSolutions located in Silver Spring, Maryland and the owner of Treadstone 71. He was awarded the RSA 2007 Conference award for Excellence in the Field of Security Practices and his team won the 2007 SC Magazine Award – Best Security Team award.   He has BA in Special Studies - Middle East Studies & Arabic Language from Trinity College as well as a MS in Information Assurance from Norwich University.  Jeff also holds the CISSP, CISM and NSA-IAM certifications.

Ganesh Devarajan is the Sr. Security Architect within Go Daddy's Security Research Team. Currently he focuses on Web Applications security, IP Reputation and Cloud security. Prior to Go Daddy, he worked as a security researcher for the DVLabs of TippingPoint and CASE Research Center of Syracuse, NY. He has publications in various fields such as SCADA Securities, RBAC,Wireless Securities and Runtime Software Application patches. His papers and talks have been presented at various venues like RSA, DoD Cybercrime conference, DEFCON, LayerOne, Reboot, NPRA, SMi, HICSS, IFIP/SEC etc. and he holds a Masters Degree in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University.

Lars Ewe CTO and VP of Engineering
Cenzic
Lars Ewe is a technology executive with broad background in (web) application development and security, middleware infrastructure, software development and application/system manageability technologies. Throughout his career Lars has held key positions in engineering, product management/marketing, and sales in a variety of different markets. Prior to Cenzic, Lars was software development director at Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., responsible for AMD's overall systems manageability and related security strategy and all related engineering efforts. 

Doug Farre President

Scott Gerlach is the IT Security operations manager for Go Daddy, encompassing the Security Operations Center. His focus is maintaining a safe environment for customers to host their data within as well as protecting corporate data assets from attack. Scott also worked in the Security Operations Center and in Go Daddy’s SPEAR team responsible for engineering the security solutions at Go Daddy. Previous to Go Daddy, Scott managed the IT department at KYOCERA Solar, Inc.

  Jack has over 10 years experience in the security research space and previously held research positions at Juniper Networks, eEye digital Security and FoundStone. Over the course of his career, Jack has targeted everything from low-level Windows drivers to the exploitation of Automated Teller Machines. He has subsequently been credited with the discovery of numerous vulnerabilities and has published multiple papers on new exploitation methods and techniques.   Jack is a frequent speaker at major security events in both the government and private sector, and he is often called upon for his opinions regarding the future of security research.

Michael Malin serves as Executive Vice President and the Chief Financial Officer for MANDIANT, based in New York. As a member of the executive management team, Michael is responsible for MANDIANT’s strategic direction, and for managing the company’s marketing, legal, human resources, business development and New York office operations.    Prior to MANDIANT, Michael was Regional Vice President of International for Foundstone, responsible for all sales, operations and business development initiatives outside the United States and Canada. His roles and responsibilities included generating, training and managing international distribution channels for the sale of software, services and education. He was instrumental in the development and revenue growth of Foundstone’s education service line, highlighted by a key strategic partnership he brokered with the world’s largest independent training company.   Michael spent eight years prior to Foundstone as a consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers, advising more than 100 clients in the insurance, government, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, apparel, and retail industries. He also served as a financial auditor, and a member of PwC’s Information Systems Risk Management group where he concentrated on business continuity planning and served as a theatrewide instructor for PwC’s business continuity planning training courses. He also gained extensive experience in acquisition consulting where a majority of his engagements involved pre-acquisition due diligence and post-acquisition integration.    Michael has conducted numerous security industry interviews as a subject-matter expert on risk mitigation with television, radio, newsprint and trade media in the United States and around the world, including Australia, Belgium, Sweden, Taiwan and the United Kingdom. Additionally, Michael has conducted business in Australia, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom.    He holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pa., and is a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), a Certified Business Continuity Planner (CBCP), and a member of the MENSA organization.

Brad Smith Director
Computer Institute of the Rockies

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