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Jeffrey Bardin

Jeff sits on the Board of Directors, Boston Infragard; was a founding member of the Cloud Security Alliance; is a member of the Cyber Security Forum Initiative and the RSA Conference Submission Selection Committee. Jeff published The Illusion of Due Diligence in 2010 and was a co-authored for the Computer and Information Security Handbook and Understanding Computers, and has published articles for magazines such as The Intelligencer, CSO, and SC Magazine.

 Jeff served in the USAF as a cryptologic linguist (overseas and at the NSA), the USANG as an officer.  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.  He is also a professor of masters programs in cyber intelligence/counter-intelligence at Utica College and information security at Clark University. Jeff also holds the CISSP, CISM and NSA-IAM certifications.



Philippe Courtot

Demonstrating a unique mix of technical vision, marketing and business acumen, Philippe Courtot has repeatedly built innovative companies into industry leaders. As CEO of Qualys, Philippe has worked with thousands of companies to improve their network security. Philippe received the SC Magazine Editor's Award for bringing on demand technology to tyhe network security industry and for co-founding the CSO Interchange to provide a forum for sharing information in the security industry.

Before joining Qualys, Philippe was the Chairman and CEO of Signio, an electronic payment start-up that he repositioned to become a significant e-commerce player. In February 2000, VeriSign acquired Signio for more than a billion dollars. Today, VeriSign's payment division, based on the Signio technology, handles 30% of electronic transaction in the U.S., processing $100-million in daily sales. Prior to Signio, Philippe was President and CEO of Verity, where he re-engineered the company to become the leader in enterprise knowledge retrieval solutions. Under Philippe's direction, the company completed its initial public offering in November 1995. Philippe also turned an unknown company of 12 people, cc:Mail, into the dominant e-mail platform provider, achieving a 40% market share while competing directly against IBM and Microsoft. Acknowledging the market leading position of cc:Mail and the significance of e-mail in corporate environments, Lotus acquired the company in 1991. In 1986, as CEO of Thomson CGR Medical, a medical imaging company, Philippe received the Benjamin Franklin award for his role in the creation of a nationwide advertising campaign promoting the life-saving benefits of mammography. Philippe served on the Board of Trustees for The Internet Society, an international non-profit organization that fosters global cooperation and coordination on the development of the Internet. French and Basque born, he holds a Masters Degree in Physics from the University of Paris, came to the US in 1981 and has lived in Silicon Valley since 1987.



Jeremiah Grossman

Jeremiah Grossman, founder and CTO, WhiteHat Security, is a world-renowned Web security expert.  A co-founder of the WebApplication Security Consortium (WASC), he was named one of InfoWorld’s Top 25 CTOs in 2007 and is often quoted in major publications such as SC Magazine, Forbes and USA Today.

He has authored dozens of articles and whitepapers, is credited with the discovery of many cutting-edge attack and defensive techniques, and is a co-author of “XSS Attacks: Cross Site Scripting Exploits and Defense.”  Grossman is an influential blogger who offers insight and encourages open dialogue regarding research and vulnerability trends.



Martin Roesch

Martin Roesch founded Sourcefire in 2001 and serves as its Chief Technology Officer (CTO). A respected authority on intrusion prevention and detection technology and forensics, he is responsible for the technical direction and product development efforts for Sourcefire's commercial and open source product offerings. Roesch, who has nearly 20 years of industry experience in network security and embedded systems engineering, is also the author and lead developer of the Snort® Intrusion Prevention and Detection System (www.snort.org external link) that forms the foundation for the Sourcefire IPSTM.

For more than a decade, Roesch has dedicated himself to developing intelligent network security tools and technologies to address evolving threats, applying his knowledge of network security to network threat analytics and network forensics for numerous government and multinational customers. Roesch has been interviewed as an industry expert in multiple technology publications, as well as print and online news services, such as MSNBC, Wall Street Journal, CNET, ZDNet, and numerous books. Snort was named to InfoWorld's Open Source Hall of Fame and has been featured in Scientific American, on A&E's Secret Places: Inside the FBI, and in several books, such as Network Intrusion Detection: An Analysts Handbook, Intrusion Signatures and Analysis, Maximum Security, Hacking Exposed, and others.

Roesch has received a host of awards of his technology innovation and vision. Most recently, he was recognized as a 2010 Security Superstar by Everything Channel's CRN magazine for the value his innovations provide partners and customers, and was selected as one of eWeek'sTop 100 Most Influential People in IT.

Roesch holds a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Clarkson University.



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