Keynote - Alyssa Miller

Alyssa Miller is a hacker who, in her pre-teens, bought her first computer and hacked her way into a paid dial-up community platform. She grew up in hacker culture, finding her hacker family in IRC channels during her adolescent years. While IT was not her original career plan, she ended up working as a developer and later a penetration tester in the financial services industry. As she moved into consulting, her focus on defending technology systems and personal privacy grew to the point where she was advising fortune 100 companies on how to build comprehensive security programs.

Alyssa now in an executive role as the CISO of Epiq Global. Still very much a hacker to this day, she’s built on that identity to grow her career. She is an internationally recognized public speaker and author of “Cybersecurity Career Guide”. She’s an advocate for helping others make a career out of their passion for hacking and security in general. She’s also a proponent for the open sharing of ideas and perspectives on improving our technologically connected world.

Chris Maulding

I am the Lead Security Engineer at Entegral, I also co-founded consulting company Adirondack Information Security, I also teach a cyber accelerator with CyberX Elite to help students get a head start on the career path. I have 12+ years of security experience in both the offensive and defensive sides of security. I prefer the defensive side and the analytics that come with it, there is always something new to learn.

Paul Michaud

Paul is a Principal Threat Hunter on Red Canary’s Cyber Incident Response Team (CIRT). He works with customers and the community to help teams to improve their security posture, reduce their exposure to risk, and shut down cyber threats. He’s an active maintainer of Atomic Red Team, an open-source library that security teams can use to validate their infrastructure and security controls. His background includes threat hunting, purple teaming, and incident handling.

Matthew Gracie

Matthew Gracie is a defensive security specialist with fifteen years of Blue Team experience in higher education, manufacturing, financial services, and healthcare. He is currently a Senior Engineer on the professional services team at Security Onion Solutions, as well as an adjunct professor of Cybersecurity in the graduate school at Canisius College. Matt is also the lead organizer of Infosec 716, a monthly meetup for security enthusiasts in Western New York, and the BSides Buffalo technology conference. He enjoys good beer, mountain bikes, open source security tools, and college hockey, and can be found on Mastodon as @[email protected].

Josh Grant

Josh Grant has been working in test automation for over a decade. He’s worked with end-to-end UI test automation, API test automation and, recently, fuzz testing. He’s currently a Developer Relations Advocate at Code Intelligence and resides in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Ryan LaBouve

Ryan is a security engineer who scales and secures systems for fast growing companies. He is obsessed with developing a deep understanding of the systems that power the world. In his free time he loves helping with disaster recovery (storms not hard drives).

Eric Woodruff

A recently awarded Microsoft Security MVP, Eric has held a mix of roles through his 22 plus years in the field – technical manager in the public sector, Sr. Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft, and Security and Identity Architect in the consulting space. His unique history from “different sides of the fence” combine and lend to his knowledge and views on the identity and security industry.

Guy Nachshon

Guy is a Software Engineer and member of the Supply Chain Security engineering group at Checkmarx. With vast skills and engineering experience, he brings invaluable knowledge and skills to the table. Guy is responsible for developing Checkmarx’s top notch Software Supply Chain attack detection technology where his deep previous development and security experience with a variety of coding languages comes into play.

Tyler Hudak

Tyler Hudak leads the Incident Response team for TrustedSec assisting clients on investigating, containing, eradicating, and recovering from incidents within their networks. His experience includes over 20 years of real-world experience in incident handling, malware analysis, computer forensics, and information security for multiple organizations. And if you can’t tell from his talk description, he’s a big RPG nerd too.

Robert Wagner

Robert Wagner is the Field CISO at Fletch and has been a highly respected security practitioner, advisor and strategist for almost 20 years. His security experience ranges from defending everything from Fortune 500 companies to government agencies, major universities, and financial institutions. He has presented and taught workshops at security conferences around the world. He is a co-founder of the not-for-profit organization Hak4Kidz, serves on the board of the Chicago ISSA chapter, and regularly volunteers at local conferences.

Richard Smith

Richard Smith is an seasoned Blue Team consultant, with experience in front-line SOC work, systems and network engineering as well as virtualization. He uses his 10+ years of infrastructure engineering experience to inform his security investigations and has recently moved into cloud engineering and security data pipelines for XDR services.

Richard attained his MS in Cybersecurity from Bellevue University and is a CySA+ certified Cybersecurity Analyst. He additionally possesses the GCP Digital Leader certification from Google and CCOE (Cribl Certified Observability Engineer) User and Admin certifications.

Nicholas Doerner

Nicholas Doerner is a security consultant for TrustedSec and has 5 years of experience conducting penetration tests and social engineering engagement. Nick is also a red team member for the NCAE and CNY Hackathon collegiate cybersecurity competitions focused on providing students with attack and defense scenarios which allow hands on experience in a variety of cybersecurity challenges. On the side, Nick assists as an adjunct in the Utica University and SUNY Polytechnic Institute cybersecurity programs.

Edward Warren

Security Analyst at Sedara Security

Nick Ascoli

Nick Ascoli is a cybersecurity researcher and the founder and CEO of Foretrace, an External Attack Surface Management (EASM) solution. Nick has been a guest on the Cyber Wire podcast, and a speaker at GrrCON, Defcon Skytalks, Blackhat Arsenal, Shmoocon, SANS, and B-Sides conferences on SIEM, Recon, and UEBA topics.

Craig Chamberlain

Craig has seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion, C-beams glittering in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. Craig is a longtime security researcher and has served as a principal at several successful security product startups. He developed one of the first anomaly detection features for threat hunting, in a shipping security product, along the way. He has been to the places and done the kinds of things you would expect, most of which cannot be discussed here. He has twice served as a chief security architect, once at the largest AWS environment in Boston. He is the Director of Algorithmic Threat Detection at Uptycs.