Agenda 2021

Wednesday, October 6

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.
12:00-1:15	Women in Cybersecurity
12:30-1:30	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

Thursday, October 7

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