Agenda 2021

8:00-9:30

Exhibit Hall
The support from our sponsors and exhibitors make our symposium possible. Be sure and use this time to visit their booths and see what they are doing.

9:15-9:30

Introduction Videos
Welcome from the Dean

9:30-10:00

Ransomware: A ‘Game-Changer’ for Cyber Insurance
Rich Baich – Senior Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer, AIG

10:00-11:00

Cyber Insurance Panel – Did you know?
Roger Callahan – Managing Director / Panel Moderator, Information Assurance Advisory, LLC
Brandon Murphy – Vice President of Sales, Cowbell
Mike Brannon – Director Infra. & Security, National Gypsum
Richard Sheinis – Hall Booth Smith

10:00-11:00

Adapting to the new IT reality and modernizing security architecture around Zero Trust principles
Dan Menicucci – CHIEF SECURITY ADVISOR, Microsoft

10:00-11:00

Making Security & Legal Best Friends
Todd Inskeep – FOUNDER AND SR DIR, Incovate Solutions
Ted Claypoole – PARTNER, Womble Bond Dickinson

10:00-11:00

Why MTTR Doesn’t Belong in a SOC
Kerry Matre – SR. DIRECTOR, PRODUCT AND SERVICES MARKETING, Mandiant

10:00-11:00

Bizarre Call Detonates BazarLoader Malware
Erika Totaro – Intelligence Analyst, Malware and Cyber Threats, National Cyber-Forensics Training Alliance
Julia DeWeese – INTELLIGENCE ANALYST, NCFTA

10:00-11:00

Secure Cloud Engineering – Generation DevSecOps
Peter Chestna – CISO, Checkmarx

10:00-3:00

Capture the Flag presented by Lowe’s

11:00-12:00

Zero Trust Challenge for Hybrid Cloud
William Malik – VP, INFRASTRUCTURE STRATEGIES, Trend Micro

11:00-12:00

The Enterprise, Innovation and You
Tommy Jinks – Senior Vice President, Senior Technology Manager, Bank of America

11:00-12:00

Cyber Defenders, Trends and Predictions 2021
Sam Curry – CSO, Cybereason

11:00-12:00

CWCT- Cybersecurity Workforce Development- Opportunity meets the need
Fareena Saqib – Assistant Professor, UNCC
Bill Chu – UNCC

12:00-1:30

Exhibit Hall

12:00-12:15

Cyber Strength & Stretch presented by Bank of America
Get up and get moving with our talented UNC Charlotte Health and Recreation students.

Women in Cybersecurity

TIAA Cybersecurity Connections – LIVE Networking!

1:30-2:30

Building a Global Cyber Rating – How to Objectively Rate Cyber Capabilities
Jack Freund – Head of Cyber Risk Methodology, VisibleRisk

1:30-2:30

Ransomware Case Study: Tips to prepare for and avoid an attack
Chris Furtick – DIRECTOR, Incident Response and Security Engineering, Fortalice Solutions

1:30-2:30

How Zero Trust Architecture is Changing Cyber Security
Vinicius Da Costa – Senior Vice President, Senior Technology Manager, Bank of America

1:30-2:30

DevSecOps: Securing the Perpetual Motion Machine
Jason Gillam – CIO, Secure Ideas

1:30-2:30

Updates on CIS Critical Control
Rick Doten – VP, Information Security; CISO Carolina Complete Health, Centene

1:30-2:30

SMB Business Session: 2021 Cyber Threats and Trends & Pragmatic Cybersecurity
Jason Smith – Security and Compliance Consultant, Internetwork Engineering

2:30-3:30

CISO Panel
Bill Chu – UNCC
Amy Braswell – CISO, TIAA Bank
Rick Doten – VP, Information Security; CISO Carolina Complete Health, Centene
Allison Miller – CISO & VP of Trust, Reddit, Inc.
Yonesy Núñez – Chief Information Security Officer, Jack Henry & Associates

2:30-3:30

SMB Business Session: Internal Threats and Trends in Cybersecurity for SMBs
Jon Hightower – N/A

2:30-3:30

Threat Hunting Case Study
Ashleigh Moriarty – Chief Technologist, Booz Allen Hamilton

9:00-10:00

Exhibit Hall

9:30-5:00

AWS CyberJam

10:00-10:30

Keynote
Mike Sentonas – Chief Technology Officer, CrowdStrike

10:30-11:00

Keynote
Carrie Gates – SVP – Global Information Security, Bank of America

11:00-11:30

Keynote: Security Operations in a Post-Pandemic World
Zulfikar Ramzan – CPO/CTO, RSA

11:30-1:00

Exhibit Hall

12:00-12:15

Cyber Strength & Stretch presented by Lowe’s
Get up and get moving with our talented UNC Charlotte Health and Recreation students. Brought to you by Lowe’s.

1:00-2:00

Viewing Security Through the Eyes of an Attacker
Anthony Pillitiere – Co-Founder & CTO, Horizon3.ai

1:00-2:00

From API Information Leakage to Pwned AWS Accounts
Jay Chen – CLOUD SECURITY RESEARCHER, Palo Alto Networks

1:00-2:00

Down the rabbit hole: How attackers use complex attack chains to evade detection
Mike Horn – CEO, Twinwave

1:00-2:00

The Hunt for Cybersecurity Talent
Matt Donato – Managing Director, Southeast and Mid-Atlantic, CyberSN

1:00-2:00

Models and experiments with Decentralized Finance (DeFi) over blockchains
Yongge Wang – Professor, UNC Charlotte

2:00-3:00

Operational Resilience from Ransomware Attacks in the Cloud
Syed Shareef – AWS (Amazon Web Services)

2:00-3:00

SBOMs and CycloneDX
Steve Springett – Sr Manager, Secure Software Engineering, ServiceNow

2:00-3:00

Building a Foundation for Proactive and Persistent Risk Mitigation
Stuart Solomon – COO, Recorded Future

2:00-3:00

This is your Circus AND your Monkeys: Managing Supply Chain
Kevin Johnson – CEO, Secure Ideas

2:00-3:00

Protection of hardware – design and countermeasures for Side Channel Analysis
Fareena Saqib – Assistant Professor, UNCC

2:00-3:00

Securing & Managing IoT Devices – Build a Strong PKI for IoT
Murali Palanisamy – Chief Solutions Officer, AppViewX

3:00-4:00

Ransomware 2021 – Anatomy of a DoppelPaymer Attack
Kevin Flanagan – Senior Director – Unit 42, Palo Alto Networks

3:00-4:00

Cybersecurity Template: Best Practices for Reporting and Preparing for Cyber Incidents
Manu Balachandran

3:00-4:00

Cloud Native technologies: Security and Compliance
Aradhna Chetal – SR DIR, EXEC CLOUD SERVICES & CYBERSECURITY TECHNOLOGY, TIAA

3:00-4:00

Zero Trust Security: An Enterprise Guide
Jerry Chapman – Engineering Fellow, Optiv Inc

3:00-4:00

Cybersecurity Research and Education at UNC Charlotte
Heather Lipford – Associate Dean of Research, UNCC
Alyssa Dahmer – College of College of Computing & Informatics Graduate Programs

3:00-4:00

A Conversation with Seemantini Godbole, Lowe’s Executive VP & CIO