Call for Papers

Lance James CEO, Unit 2221b

Lance James is a highly experienced information security specialist with over 25 years in the field. He has a programming, network security, digital forensics, malware research, cryptography, counterintelligence, and executive leadership background. He provides advisory services to government agencies and Fortune 500 companies and is known for his contributions to the evolution of security practices and counterintelligence tactics. James has written for several industry publications and is a sought-after keynote speaker globally. He has been featured on MSNBC and an episode of "Mr. Robot" and delivered a Ted Talk on "How Attackers Can Use Your Brain Against You in Psy-Ops."

Marcus Hallberg

My name is Marcus, a security engineer at heart, and I work for Spotify in Stockholm, Sweden. My childhood hero was Sherlock Holmes and as an adult I've tried to fill those shoes by working with cybersecurity detection and response. When I have time off I enjoy rock climbing, folk dancing and cross-country skiing. Looking to meet all the awesome minds at BSidesNYC!

Michael Bargury

Brian Contos

Brian Contos, Chief Strategy Officer, Sevco Security
With two IPOs & eight acquisitions, Brian has helped build some of the most successful security companies in the world. He has over 25 years in the security industry as a security company entrepreneur, board advisor, investor, and author. After getting his start with the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) and later Bell Labs, Brian began the process of building security startups and taking multiple companies through successful IPOs and acquisitions, including Riptech, ArcSight, Imperva, McAfee, Solera Networks, Cylance, JASK, Verodin, and Mandiant.
Brian has worked in over 50 countries across six continents. He authored the book Enemy at the Water Cooler and co-authored Physical & Logical Security Convergence with former NSA Deputy Director William Crowell. He was featured in the cyberwar documentary 5 Eyes alongside General Michael Hayden, former NSA, and CIA Director. Brian writes for Forbes and regularly presents at conferences like Black Hat, RSA, OWASP, and BSides.

Dmitry

Dmitry Bestuzhev is BlackBerry's Senior Director, leading the Cyberthreat Intelligence team responsible for tracking large-scale cyber incidents, espionage, and cyber-crime-motivated campaigns.

In addition to producing contextual cyberthreat intelligence reports, he prepares analytical articles and forecasts. He is a trainer in various topics: threat hunting, malware analysis, threat intelligence, and OpSec. Dmitry frequently presents in educational initiatives, webinars, and international security events.
Before joining BlackBerry, Dmitry oversaw the Global Research and Analysis Team in Latin America in anti-malware and threat intelligence research of financially motivated attacks. He has more than 20 years of experience in different fields of cybersecurity.

Beck (blither)

Beck (blither) has spent over a decade in cyber security, with a consistent blue-team theme of protecting internal assets, platforms, technologies and people throughout the duration of her career. She's passionate in making the world a more risk-averse place through effectively implementing cyber security practices, in both the literal and figurative sense. In her non-cyber life, she enjoys playing with machinery of various sorts and to varying degrees, fixing broken things, creating things, and spending time with her favorite people and four-legged friends.

Alex Holden

Alex Holden is the founder and CISO of Hold Security, LLC. Under his leadership, Hold Security played a pivotal role in information security and threat intelligence, becoming one of the most recognizable names in its field. Mr. Holden researches minds and techniques of cyber criminals and helps our society to build better defenses against cyber-attacks.

François Proulx

François is a Senior Product Security Engineer for BoostSecurity, where he leads the Supply Chain research team. With over 10 years of experience in building AppSec programs for large corporations (such as Intel) and small startups he has been in the heat of the action as the DevSecOps movement took shape. François is one of founders of the NorthSec conference in Montreal, Canada and a challenge designer for their CTF.

Mike McCabe

Michael McCabe is the founder and President of Cloud Security Partners. He founded Cloud Security Partners in 2017 where he uses his 15 years of experience to help create and implement security solutions for clients. Michael’s focus on Cloud Native software security coupled with his experience in Cloud Infrastructure and Security enables Mike to help companies navigate their security challenges by creating unique and client-tailored solutions.
Michael has led teams within startups and large financial institutions, guiding them through their security journeys. Michael’s experience in secure code review and dynamic security testing allows him to help clients identify their risk across applications and infrastructure alike.
Michael is a chapter leader of the OWASP Northern Virginia chapter, where he coordinates speakers and meetups which hosted industry-leading experts. In a addition to that, he has spoken at numerous conferences about subjects across Application Security, Cloud Security and more. He is also the co-host of the Relating to DevSecOps podcast focusing on how to create security solutions that work for real world problems.
When not chasing his two young sons around, he enjoys biking and being an amateur mechanic.

Matteo Rossi

Mao Sui

Mao Sui and Oxana are Senior Analysts at LookingGlass Cyber Solutions. With their multi-lingual skills and deep understanding of cultural nuances, they conduct research into Chinese and Cantonese – speaking cyberspace, and Russian-speaking cybercrime world, respectively. Their other focus areas include tracking threat actor behaviors, TTPs, ransomware groups, and cybercrime toolkits to develop actionable analyses that provide valuable insights for decision-makers.

Jackie Burns Koven

Jackie Burns Koven is the Head of Cyber Threat Intelligence at Chainalysis, leading the team that tracks cybercriminals and nation state actors stealing, scamming, and extorting cryptocurrency. She spends most of her time combing the blockchain for financial signatures of threat actors and mapping out the underground economy. She is a member of the Ransomware Task Force, which unites key stakeholders across industry, government, and civil society to innovate new solutions countering the ransomware threat. Prior to Chainalysis, she served in the U.S. Intelligence Community.

Eric

Aditya Patel

Ian Davila

Ian Davila is a Lead Adversary Emulation Engineer for Tidal Cyber who is passionate about helping organizations adopt a Threat-Informed Defense. Before joining Tidal Cyber, Ian was a Cyber Security Engineer for The MITRE Corporation.
Ian advanced MITRE ATT&CK® where he researched, developed, and reviewed techniques for the Enterprise domain as a Technique Research Lead. He also supported the software development team of ATT&CK. Ian was part of ATT&CK Evaluations for two Enterprise offerings where he led evaluations and emulated malware used by adversaries.
Ian began his career in Cyber Security in 2015 by competing in CTFs while completing his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. He was a Research Assistant for the University of Puerto Rico and interned at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and Carnegie Melon University. After completing his Bachelor of Science, he obtained a Master of Science in Information Security from Carnegie Melon University in 2020 while being an intern for The MITRE Corporation.

Wietze Beukema

Jessie Jameson

Checco

Oxana

Mao Sui and Oxana are Senior Analysts at LookingGlass Cyber Solutions. With their multi-lingual skills and deep understanding of cultural nuances, they conduct research into Chinese and Cantonese – speaking cyberspace, and Russian-speaking cybercrime world, respectively. Their other focus areas include tracking threat actor behaviors, TTPs, ransomware groups, and cybercrime toolkits to develop actionable analyses that provide valuable insights for decision-makers.

Anita D'Amico

Jacob Faires

Jacob Faires is a Senior Threat Researcher with BlackBerry’s Threat Research & Intelligence team. Jacob collaborates with data scientists, engineers, and intelligence analysts to actively monitor threats and develop cutting edge research focused internally and externally on the evolving threat landscape. Jacob has nearly two decades of experience in the information and technology security sector. Prior to joining BlackBerry, Jacob was a Senior Threat Researcher with NTT’s Global Threat Intelligence Center (GTIC) where he tracked threat actors and advanced persistent threats (APTs), incident response, extended detection and response (XDR) data, and data net flow analysis to effectively identify threat actors and provide detection to NTT clients.

Patrick

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Tom Goodheart

Tom Goodheart started in security after studying economics at Wagner College on Staten Island. A life longer tinkerer Tom spends a majority of his time working on his home lab, hiking, scuba diving, and cooking. Currently, Tom works on JP Morgan and Chase's Attack Analysis Team triaging the variety of alerts an organization of that size offers.

Harry Halikis

Abi Wedell

Abi is the founder of Inquirix which provides tailored OSINT services having more than two decades of experience in open source data gathering, attack surface testing, threat assessment and investigations. Abi's recent research has focused on improving OSINT techniques in forensic investigations and vulnerability assessments, attack recon behaviour detection and credential analysis and testing. She has made a number of vulnerability findings which have facilitated data exposure assessments, blue teaming and created tools to help in this work.

Susan Peediyakkal

Building the Foundations of a Threat Intelligence Program

Dennis Murphy

Dennis Murphy started his career in 1993 as a Control System Engineer, specializing in designing, installing, and maintaining process automation networks in dozens of industry segments, including the Electric Utility sector. In 2005, Mr. Murphy shifted his focus to from designing to securing control system networks, working on R&D projects to secure US critical infrastructure as a member of BAE Systems. In 2015, Mr. Murphy joined SecurityMatters as the first US employee, responsible for the design, installation and support of Intrusion Detection Systems built specifically for OT networks. Mr. Murphy has installed OT specific IDS systems at multiple US electric utility and oil & gas companies, specializing in the integration of OT specific alerts into existing Security Operation Centers and creation of bespoke workflows and playbooks. In 2021, Mr. Murphy joined National Grid as the Lead OT Security Engineer for the Digital Substation group in the US, responsible for securing OT networks with IDS systems and adapting IT-based security solutions to install an edge compute element to field sites. Mr. Murphy, a father of three who currently resides in New Hampshire with his wife, is an active member of the Appalachian Mountain Club, seeking to hike all forty-eight 4000-ft. peaks in NH. Mr. Murphy also enjoys sailing the New England coastline in his free time.

Kevin Apolinario

I worked for an MSP environment, apple store, department of education, and multiple hedge funds. I also have about 12 years of restaurant experience and did 4 years for the NYPD volunteer. Train students, military veterans and provide hands-on training. Tech Trainer for Jobskillshare and Boots to books. My passion is helping others break into IT/Cybersecurity. I recently created a Udemy course which has helped over 12,000 students learn the on demand skills needed to work IT Support.

Dave Giancaspro

Huxley Barbee

Glenn Edwards

Glenn P. Edwards Jr. is an Incident Response Engineer at Block where he specializes in Incident Response and Digital Forensics. Glenn holds a M.S degree in Digital Forensics from the University of Central Florida as well as a B.S. degree in Information Security and Privacy from High Point University.

Brad Antoniewicz

Dave Giancaspro

Jamie Levy

Jamie Levy is the Director of R&D at Huntress. Jamie is also a senior researcher, developer and board member of the Volatility Foundation. She has worked over 15 years in the digital forensics industry, conducting investigations as well as building out software solutions. Jamie is also a co-author of The Art of Memory Forensics, the first book of its kind covering various facets of how to investigate RAM artifacts.

Lenny Zeltser

I design security solutions and shepherd them to a sustainable state. I used to be hands-on in many areas of cybersecurity and IT. Now I focus on strategy and leadership, treating security as an enabler that helps people and companies achieve their goals. As the CISO of Axonius, I lead the security program to earn customers’ trust and fuel the company’s growth. Earlier, I built security products and services. I’m also a Faculty Fellow at SANS Institute, where I help professionals develop malware analysis skills.

To learn more about me, explore my blog at zeltser.com. You can connect with me on Twitter at https://twitter.com/lennyzeltser or Mastodon at https://infosec.exchange/@lennyzeltser.

Shweta Jain

Shweta Jain is Professor and Graduate Faculty at John Jay College, a Doctoral faculty at The Graduate Center of CUNY, and Graduate Director of the Digital Forensics and Cyber Security Master’s program. She has served as PI and Co-PI of NSF CISE and IIP grants. Her most recent work is in creating a blockchain backed technology to support media authentication with applications in digital forensics. She has 15+ years of experience in R&D and has mentored several undergraduate and graduate students during her career as an educator. She has 20+ publications in the area of network architectures, wireless network protocols, and blockchain applications.

Janine Medina

Coordinator extraordinaire who makes things go at BSidesNYC. If you want to know more, you’ll have to ask her yourself