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Larry Moore is the Senior Information Risk Management consultant with NTT Data. He has CISSP, CISA,
and CCISOI certifications and is the Vice President and IT Sector Chief for the FBI InfraGard
chapter in Austin, TX. He is also president of the Austin chapter of the ISSA & a Computer
Science Department Advisory Board Member for Parker University.
Joe
Gray joined the U.S. Navy directly out of High School and served for 7 years as a Submarine
Navigation Electronics Technician. Joe is an Enterprise Security Consultant at Sword and Shield
Enterprise Security in Knoxville, TN. Joe also maintains his own blog and podcast called Advanced
Persistent Security. He is also in the SANS Instructor Development pipeline, teaching SANS Security
504: Hacker Tools, Techniques, Exploits, and Incident Handling. In his spare time, Joe enjoys
reading news relevant to information security, attending information security conferences,
contributing blogs to various outlets, bass fishing, and flying his drone.
Jen
Ellis is the vice president of community and public affairs at Rapid7, a security data and analytics
company. In this role, Jen’s primary focus is on building productive collaboration between those in
the security community and those operating outside it. She works extensively with security
researchers, technology providers and operators, and various Government entities to help them
understand and address cybersecurity challenges. She believes effective collaboration is our only
path forward to reducing cybercrime and protecting consumers and businesses. She has testified
before Congress and spoken at a number of security industry events including HOPE, SXSW, RSA,
Derbycon, Shmoocon, SOURCE, UNITED, and various BSides.
Leah Figueroa is a 13 year veteran of the data analytics field and works as a
data analyst in higher education. She holds a Master’s in Education, an ABD in research psychology,
and has taught kindergarten. A data aficionado, Leah focuses on research on improving student
outcomes at the higher education level, including focusing on both minority student issues as well
as issues pertaining to students who come from a background of poverty. While not at work, Leah is
interested in increasing data security in the higher education sphere as well as improving blue
teams by helping bring data analytics into the team. Leah also enjoys being a fiber artist (knitter)
and loves cats, InfoSec, picking locks, cooking, and reading.
Tibbs recently graduated from the University of West of Scotland with a
degree in computer security. She has relocated to Portland, OR, where she evangelizes for
privacy and security while contracting as an Security Evaluation Engineer at Intel. She is
passionate about encouraging small children to take the plunge into STEM and about laughing at
cats on the internet.
Katie Ledoux is a member of Rapid7’s internal information security team in
Cambridge, Massachusetts. She tweets dank memes @kledoux.
Bill is a long time activist, programmer, and cryptography enthusiast. He
works on EFF’s Tech Projects team as a security engineer and technologist, currently
maintaining HTTPS Everywhere and Panopticlick. He has also contributed to projects such as
Let’s Encrypt and SecureDrop. Bill can be found talking to crowds of people on soap boxes
and stages in far off places, or doing digital security trainings for organizations. He loves
hacker spaces and getting together with other techies to tinker, code, share, and build the
technological commons.
Erich Kron, Security Awareness Advocate at KnowBe4, is a veteran information
security professional with over 20 years’ experience in the medical, aerospace manufacturing and
defense fields. He is the former security manager for the 2nd Regional Cyber Center-Western
Hemisphere and holds CISSP, CISSP-ISSAP, MCITP and ITIL v3 certifications, among others. Erich has
worked with information security professionals around the world to provide the tools, training and
educational opportunities to succeed in InfoS
WanderingGlitch is a vulnerability analyst, reverse engineer, and exploit
developer for the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) program. His primary role involves performing root
cause analysis on ZDI submissions to determine exploitability, followed by developing exploits
for accepted cases. Prior to being part of ZDI, he was a member of the Digital Vaccine team
where he wrote exploits for ZDI submissions, and helped develop the ReputationDV service from
TippingPoint.
Joe runs the Incident Response Team at Los Alamos National Laboratory,
joining LANL in 2014 after 5 years as an Information Warfare Officer in the US Navy. When not
responding to macro-enabling users and Nigerian princes, Joe spends his time leading a team of
threat hunters to uncover the latest and greatest in bad-guy tactics and techniques.
Dennis Maldonado is a Security Consultant at LARES Consulting. His current
work includes penetration testing, infrastructure assessments, red teaming, and security
research. Dennis’ focus is encompassing all forms information security into an assessment in
order to better simulate a real world attack against systems and infrastructure. As a security
researcher and evangelist, Dennis spends his time sharing what he knows about Information
Security with anyone willing to learn. Dennis co-founded Houston Locksport in Houston, Texas
where he shares his love for lock-picking and physical security as well as Houston Area Hackers
Anonymous (HAHA), a meet-up for hackers and InfoSec professionals in the Houston
area.