Our Speakers

Judah Aspler, Certified Security Solutions (CSS)

Judah Aspler, Certified Security Solutions (CSS)

Speaker

Judah Aspler is the vice president of business development at CSS and is responsible for CSS’ partner strategy, including technology alliances, channel, and OEM.

Judah comes to CSS from Microsoft, where he served in sales and business development roles within the Identity & Security and Mobile Device Management businesses, as well as serving as an Account Technology Strategist in Canada.

Judah joined Microsoft in 2006 by way of its acquisition of Whale Communications, a start-up that developed the secure remote access solution later branded Unified Access Gateway (UAG). During his 6 years at Whale, Judah served in both technical and sales roles, acting as sales engineer and eventually enterprise account manager for major accounts, and then served as business development manager focused on building Whale’s strategic partnership with Microsoft.

Rob Black, Fractional CISO

Rob Black, Fractional CISO

Moderator

Rob Black, CISSP is the Founder and Managing Principal of Fractional CISO. Rob has extensive experience in cyber security, anti-fraud, Internet of Things (IoT), web services and cloud solutions. He has held product security and corporate security leadership positions at PTC ThingWorx, Axeda and RSA Security. Rob received his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and holds two Bachelor of Science degrees from Washington University in St. Louis in Computer Science and System Science and Engineering. He is also a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). Rob is the inventor of three security patents. He regularly speaks at conferences and blogs about IoT security.

William Brown, Johnson Controls

William Brown, Johnson Controls

Speaker

Will Brown leads the product security team responsible for the line of physical security products from Johnson Controls. He has over fifteen years of experience in the testing and certification of products as well as the development of standards and the auditing of test labs. Recently he has been working closely with UL and their development of the UL 2900 suite of cybersecurity standards and today has the only product certified to UL 2900-2-3.

Christopher Cacioppo, 6 River Systems

Christopher Cacioppo, 6 River Systems

Speaker

Chris is co-founder and CTO of 6 River Systems, a Waltham-based company that is disrupting the eCommerce logistics space by utilizing autonomous robots to work in collaboration with floor level operators. Chris leads multidisciplinary teams of talented engineers, with backgrounds in mechanical, electrical, firmware, software, robotics, and cloud computing. Chris’s background is in Algorithms, Electrical Engineering, Firmware and Computer Science, with additional work in Industrial Design and Mechanical Engineering.

M. Carlton. Senrio

M. Carlton. Senrio

Speaker

M. Carlton leads the research team at Senrio, focusing on connected device security. After graduating from MIT, she worked in software security before joining the embedded security team at Draper Laboratory. Her recent work at Senrio has included discovering patterns in IoT vulnerabilities and identifying new ways in which devices are attacked.

Joshua Corman, CSO at PTC

Joshua Corman, CSO at PTC

Speaker

Joshua Corman is the CSO at PTC. He co-founded @RuggedSoftware and @IamTheCavalry to encourage new security approaches in response to increasing dependence on technology. Corman’s unique approach to security in the context of human factors, adversary motivations and social impact has positioned him as one of the most trusted names in security.

Drew Cohen, CEO Zuul IoT

Drew Cohen, CEO Zuul IoT

CEO, Zulu IOT

Drew’s background is rooted in software and system delivery. Early in his career he developed systems that were deployed across the Intelligence Community and DoD, including the first operational Navy intelligence system built using commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware, POST, and the map rendering software for one of the first GIS systems deployed widely across the Intelligence Community, Oilstock.

After developing an exclusive relationship with Netscape in the early 1990’s, he left Government contracting to become the CTO and founder of an Internet startup, iFusion LLC. In 1995 he moved to Silicon Valley and joined Intel Corporation as Director of Technical Strategy for Intel’s Content Group. During this time he was also a key member if the original team at what later became Intel Capital, Intel’s venture capital arm. In 1997 he left Intel to become a founder and CEO of NeoPlanet Inc., a technology startup that was sold to Compaq in 2001.

He returned to his roots, to support the Government after 9/11, working for Booz Allen Hamilton. During this time he was promoted to Partner and Senior Vice President and was responsible for starting Booz Allen’s cloud computing initiative and leading the Booz Allen’s Systems development work across National Security Accounts.

Deidre Diamond, CEO CyberSN

Deidre Diamond, CEO CyberSN

Speaker

Deidre Diamond is the CEO and Founder of CyberSN.com, a cybersecurity research and staffing company, and the Founder of brainbabe.org, a cybersecurity not-for-profit organization. Deidre’s vision and leadership has resulted in a dramatic decrease in the frustration, time and cost associated with job searching and hiring for cybersecurity professionals.

Prior to CyberSN, Deidre was the CEO of Percussion Software, the first VP of Sales at Rapid7  and the VP of Staffing and Recruiting for the national technical staffing company Motion Recruitment. Deidre leads with a strong commitment to transparency, equality, training, support, high-productivity and love in the workforce.

Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow

Keynote Speaker

Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger — the co-editor of Boing Boing (boingboing.net) and the author  INFORMATION DOESN’T WANT TO BE FREE, RAPTURE OF THE NERDS and MAKERS. He works for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is a MIT Media Lab Research Affiliate, is a Visiting Professor of Computer Science at Open University and co-founded the UK Open Rights Group. Born in Toronto, Canada, he now lives in Los Angeles.

Terry Dunlap, CEO ReFirm Labs

Terry Dunlap, CEO ReFirm Labs

Speaker

Arrested in 1985 at the age of 17 for doing naughty things with a Commodore 64 and a 1200 baud modem, Terry Dunlap went on to receive a Top Secret security clearance with the US National Security Agency. Dunlap continued to do creative things against embedded devices but this time it was with his government’s blessing. He currently serves as the CEO of ReFirm Labs, a company he founded in 2017 that focuses on vetting firmware for vulnerabilities. Prior to founding ReFirm Labs, he launched and led a successful Maryland-based cybersecurity startup named Tactical Network Solutions.

Ken Modeste, UL

Ken Modeste, UL

Panelist

Ken Modeste is Director, Connected Technologies and the Cybersecurity Technical Lead for UL’s Commercial & Industrial Business Unit (C&I). His global responsibilities cover cybersecurity, interoperability and protocol compliance. Ken works to ensure the security and interoperability of C&I programs, and is its principal technical leader, and the primary technical lead for UL’s Cybersecurity Assurance Program (UL CAP). Ken is responsible for building capabilities within UL to service Manufacturers and Asset Owners by providing testing, advisory capabilities and certification for connected equipment and IoT.

For UL CAP, Ken led the effort in creating UL 2900 series of standards that addresses security concerns in network-connectable products and systems(IoT). He leads the test, compliance and advisory efforts of application software, embedded software, firmware, drivers, middleware, cloud and mobile apps and operating systems for industrial control systems, building automation, building security, commercial lighting, smart home and commercial & residential applications of appliances.

Ken participates in several global standards committees on security in multiple disciplines and as the global leader for cybersecurity, continues to drive thought leadership for cybersecurity assurance in the new IoT world

Email:Ken.Modeste@ul.com

Gavin Nicol, CEO Context Labs

Gavin Nicol, CEO Context Labs

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Gavin has been a technology leader and innovator for 25+ years working at corporate research centers in Japan, and corporations and startups in the US and the Netherlands.

Through his work at EBT, a founding member of the W3C, he has broadly influenced many of the technologies underlying the modern web. He played a significant role in the development of the HTML, HTTP, XML, XSL, DOM, XPath, SVG, XQuery and XLink standards, and in building some of the earliest prototypes and implementations of the technologies. He is considered “the father of I18N on the WWW”.

His work at Context Labs focuses on scalable blockchain and distributed ledger technologies, security models, identity models, large scale data analytics, graph analytics, and on applications of these technologies within verticals.

Chris Poulin, Booz Allen Hamilton

Chris Poulin, Booz Allen Hamilton

Panelist

Chris Poulin leads the Internet of Things (IoT) security research and development activities for the Cyber Futures team at Booz Allen Hamilton. Chris filled a number of information security roles over the past three decades, most recently focusing on IoT, with a specialty in connected cars, as well as threat intelligence and cognitive computing.

Chris began his career as a software developer in the U.S. Air Force and managed global intelligence networks for the National Reconnaissance Office. After leaving the military, Chris founded FireTower Inc., an information security consulting firm, which worked for a variety of Fortune 100 clients. After selling FireTower Inc., Chris joined Q1 Labs, a startup in the security information and event management space, as chief security officer. IBM acquired Q1 Labs, where Chris spent the last 5 years researching and analyzing security trends in cybercrime, cyber warfare, corporate espionage, and hacktivism. He also spent much of his time focused on emerging threats as a research strategist for IBM’s X-Force research and development team.

Chris Rezendes, SphericalAnalytics & Context Labs

Chris Rezendes, SphericalAnalytics & Context Labs

Moderator

Chris is the Chief Business Officer at SphericalAnalytics.io, a blockchain-enabled Trust Platform that ingests, proofs and ledgers the most accurate environmental data and climate analytics in the world. Chris is also Executive Staff at Context Labs BV. Prior to that, Chris was the founder of INEX Advisors and IoT Impact Labs, which brought together IoT startups with small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) to run live field pilots and grow revenue-generating commercial programs for various IoT solutions in real-world settings.

Paul Roberts, Security of Things Forum

Paul Roberts, Security of Things Forum

Moderator

Paul is the Editor in Chief of The Security Ledger and the founder of The Security of Things™ Forum a seasoned reporter, editor and industry analyst with more than a decade of experience covering the information technology security space. His writing about cyber security has appeared in publications including The Christian Science Monitor, MIT Technology Review, The Economist Intelligence Unit, CIO Magazine, ZDNet and Fortune Small Business. He has appeared on NPR’€™s Marketplace Tech Report, KPCC’s AirTalk, Al Jazeera and The Oprah Show.

Brian Russell, Cloud Security Alliance

Brian Russell, Cloud Security Alliance

Speaker

Brian Russell is a strategic advisor at VDOO, Chair of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Internet of Things Working Group and an Adjunct Professor at the University of San Diego. He has served on the Editorial Panel for the 20 Critical Security Controls for Effective Cyber Defense, supported the Federal Communications Commission IoT Security Advisory Group, and is a regular contributor to the Securing Smart Cities initiative. Brian’s past experience includes the design and implementation of a Security Operations Center, engineering of high assurance IP security protocols, cryptographic modernization for the Navy, the design and development of Key Management Systems for the Department of Defense, and security architectures for unmanned aerial systems and connected vehicles operating within the United States.