Cindy is a solutions strategist with a focus on cyber security and experience as an IT leader and a developer. She’s passionate about making application security mainstream by changing the market: how app sec tools are used, by whom, and what outcome is expected. Ask her about pragmatic steps to truly integrate security into DevOps using workflows that are more effective, efficient, and transparent.

Her book, “10 steps every CISO should take to secure next generation software” is intended to help security professionals understand how software development is changing and the impact upon security programs. Application security especially must evolve if it is to be effective and relevant amongst DevOps, containers, orchestrators and micro services.

The Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) is an American non-profit trade association, issuing professional certifications for the information technology (IT) industry. It is considered one of the IT industry’s top trade associations. Based in Downers Grove, Illinois, CompTIA issues vendor-neutral professional certifications in over 120 countries. The organization releases over 50 industry studies annually to track industry trends and changes. Over 2.2 million people have earned CompTIA certifications since the association was established.

Cynthia Brumfield is the author of Cybersecurity Risk Management: Mastering the Fundamentals Using the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, which spells out the essential risk management steps organizations can take to make their assets more secure, including asset inventories, network segmentation, and SBOMs. She also runs a cybersecurity news destination, Metacurity.

Cynthia Udoka Duru has led innovative projects across various sectors, from driving cloud-native system design, automated CI/CD workflows, and infrastructure lifecycle management to architecting solutions, contributing to digital health, finance & maritime cybersecurity, enabling exponential growth, improving infrastructure efficiency, and supporting award-winning innovation across Africa and Europe.

Dan Gardner is the COO and co-founder of ProcessBolt. He has over 25 years of success in software development, IT infrastructure, cloud operations, and startups. Before founding ProcessBolt, Dan was VP of Technology at NetSPI.  Prior to that, he was a founder of Renew Data Corp., a company that specialized in high volume electronic data discovery, now part of KLDiscovery (KLDI).

Daniel Isaí Vergara Álvarez is an Industrial Engineer and Industrial Electronics and Automation Engineer with more than 12 years of experience in industrial automation,digitalisation, and communication systems.After four years implementing automation solutions in the metal industry, he has spent the last eight years leading and developing R&D projects focused on automation, connectivity, and digital transformation, primarily within the automotive sector.

Dave Henderson has a wealth of cyber security expertise after spending more than two decades helping many of the world’s leading enterprises defend their digital assets. As Co-Founder of BlueFort Security since 2007, David and his partner have been working with household names and central and local government to strengthen, optimise and mature their cyber security solutions. David is truly passionate about ensuring companies have the visibility, and intelligence to establish effective, pro-active cyber security controls to secure their businesses.

Dave Palmer is a cyber security technical expert with more than ten years’ experience at the forefront of government intelligence operations. He has worked across UK intelligence agencies GCHQ and MI5, where he delivered mission-critical infrastructure services, including the replacement and security of entire global networks, the development of operational internet capabilities and the management of critical disaster recovery incidents. At Darktrace, Dave oversees the mathematics and engineering teams and product strategy. He holds a first class degree in Computer Science and Software Engineering from the University of Birmingham.

David Adams is GRC Consultant at Prism Infosec and has specific expertise in governance risk and compliance (GRC). He oversees cyber security incident exercise training and compliance with numerous industry standards. David has over 16 years’ experience in cyber security and is a CISSP, ISO 27001 Lead auditor, GDPR Practitioner, and an IASME Cyber Essentials assessor/IoT assessor.

David Lukić is an information privacy, security and compliance consultant at IDstrong.com. The passion to make cyber security accessible and interesting has led David to share all the knowledge he has.

David Soldani received a Master of Science (M.Sc.) degree in Engineering with full marks and magna cum laude approbatur from the University of Florence, Italy, in 1994; and a Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) degree in Technology with distinction from Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, in 2006. In 2014, 2016 and 2018 he was appointed Visiting Professor, Industry Professor and Adjunct Professor at University of Surrey, UK, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia and University of New South Wales (UNSW), respectively.

Dr. Soldani is currently at Rakuten. He has served as Chief Information and Security Officer (CISO), e2e, Global; and SVP Innovation and Advanced Research. Prior to that he was Chief Technology and Cyber Security Officer (CTSO) within ASIA Pacific Region at Huawei; Head of 5G Technology, e2e, Global, at Nokia; and Head of Central Research Institute (CRI) and VP Strategic Research and Innovation in Europe, at Huawei European Research Centre (ERC). David can be found on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-david-soldani/ .

David Steele is the MD of SecuriCentrix and a Cyber Security Analyst. Founded in 2010, SecuriCentrix has grown to become a global Security and Compliance service provider to organisations.

As a Service Focused Cyber Security company, SecuriCentrix’s priority is to deliver the best client experience with minimal disruption while enabling highly effective operational cyber programs.

The firm has forged strong relationships with organisations across Africa, Australia, Europe, India, and the UK.

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Dr. Filippidou is a tech-driven powerhouse, blending 20+ years of ICT expertise with top-tier project management skills to deliver innovation, efficiency, and impact on a global scale.

Dhanesh Ramachandran is a Product Manager atRadware, responsible for driving efforts for Radware Bot Manager. He brings several years of experience and a deep understanding of market dynamics and customer needs in the cybersecurity industry. Dhanesh is skilled at translating complex cybersecurity concepts into clear, actionable insights for customers. He holds an MBA in Marketing from IIM Trichy.

Dharmesh is a technology leader with over 26 years of experience in the industry. He has played a pivotal role in building ZeroThreat’s AI-powered automated pentesting platform, which helps organizations strengthen their security posture through continuous validation. As a recognized voice in emerging security technologies, he regularly shares insights on evolving cyber threats, modern AppSec strategies, and the future of AI-driven security programs.

Chair of the ETSI Industry Specification Group Permissioned Distributed Ledgers (ISG PDL).

Dr Diego R. Lopez joined Telefonica I+D in 2011 as a Senior Technology Expert on network middleware and services. He is currently in charge of the Technology Exploration and Standadization activities within the GCTIO Unit of Telefónica I+D. Before joining Telefónica he spent some years in the academic sector, dedicated to research on network service abstractions and the development of APIs based on them. During this period he was appointed as member of the High Level Expert Group on Scientific Data Infrastructures by the European Commission.

Diego is currently focused on identifying and evaluating new opportunities in technologies applicable to network infrastructures, and the coordination of national and international applied research activities. His current interests are related to network virtualization, infrastructural services, network management, network architectures, and network security. Diego chairs the ETSI ISG Permisssioned Distributed Ledgers, and is a member of the European 5G PPP Technicla Board.

Apart from this, Diego is a more than acceptable Iberian ham carver, and extremely fond of seeking and enjoying comics and wines, especially sherries, ports and malagas.

Dominique Shelton Leipzig (https://dominiquesheltonleipzig.com) is the author of Trust: Responsible AI, Innovation, Privacy and Data Leadership, her fourth book. She is currently a privacy and cybersecurity partner at Mayer Brown, where she is the leader of the firm’s global data innovation team, counseling CEOs and board members on smart digital governance. Her policy op-ed calling for an executive order to solve the cross-border privacy EU standoff was recently followed by the Biden Administration. She founded the Digital Trust Summit for CEOs and board members to reimagine data governance. She co-founded NxtWork, dedicated to diversifying the C-Suite and boardroom. She’s a board member of the AI Governance Center and the International Association of Privacy Professionals and is certified in privacy and board governance.

Dotan Nahum is the CEO and founder of Spectral, a developer-first cybersecurity company. Dotan is also an experienced software developer and open-source committer since 1999 with over 100 open source projects of which some are used by Fortune 500 companies like Accenture, as well as public companies such as Wix, and others.

His vast experience as CTO at HiredScore and CTO at Como (Conduit Mobile), and later at fintech unicorn Klarna allowed him to promote engineering culture and effectiveness in Israel by scaling products and companies through building resilient distributed systems, leading cybersecurity strategies, big data analytics, and open source. Dotan is also a 4 times tech author (Packt, Leanpub, among others) and a host of 2 podcasts (Reversim and RTCZ.io) dealing with developers and cybersecurity.

Dr. Shareeful Islam is a Professor of Cybersecurity, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Anglia Ruskin University (ARU). He currently holds a visiting professorship LUT School of Engineering Sciences, Lappeenranta, Finland and previously served as a visiting professor at the National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan, and a visiting researcher at SBA Research, Austria. He has over 22 years of experience in teaching, administration and research. He has successfully secured ca 800K£ funding, mostly from the national and EU funding agency and has extensive experience leading and managing projects. He has successfully supervisedtotimely completion of 13 PhDs and MPhils and is currently leading two projectsfrom  Horizonproject and CHIST-ERA for ARU.   He has published more than 110 papers in different top ranked journals and conferences. His research interest includes cybersecurity risk management, Responsible AI, AI-enabled cyber security and regulatory compliance.

Dr. Khera is a veteran cybersecurity executive with more than two decades worth of experience working with information security technology, models and processes. He is currently the Chief Strategy of ITSEC Group and the Co-founder and CEO of ITSEC (Thailand). ITSEC is an international information security firm offering a wide range of high-quality information security services and solutions with operation in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Dubai.

Previously the head of cyber security Presales for NOKIA, Dr. Khera has worked with every major telecom provider and government in the APAC region to design and deliver security solutions to a constantly evolving cybersecurity threat landscape.

Dr. Khera holds a Doctor of Information Technology (DIT) from Murdoch University, a Postgraduate Certificate in Network Computing from Monash University and a Certificate of Executive Leadership from Cornell University.

Dr. Khera was one of the first professionals to be awarded the prestigious Asia Pacific Information Security Leadership Awards (ISLA) from ISC2 a world-leading information security certification body under the category of distinguished IT Security Practitioner for APAC.