Speakers
Detect LIVE speakers are leading industry luminaries, analysts, and subject matter experts.
Joe Ariganello
Anomali, Senior Director, Product Marketing
Joe Ariganello is the Senior Director, Product Marketing for Anomali, leading global product marketing strategies and activities. Joe has over 20 years of experience in the cybersecurity, wireless, telecom, and mobile applications space, leading product marketing activities in start-up and large enterprise organizations including FireEye, Neustar, Nextel, TCI, Certia, and BlueVoyant. An avid gamer, Joe ran the mobile games business for Sprint Nextel and started his own mobile gaming company, KA9 Media. Joe holds a Bachelor's Degree in Marketing from Iona College.
Kevin Tongs
Flashpoint, Director, Customer Success for EMEA
Following a career in Military Intelligence with the British Army, predominantly in the SIGINT field and latterly in training policy and Information Assurance/Cyber Security, Kevin Tongs was employed as the Information Security Manager for a multinational company. In this role, he was responsible for all aspects of cyber security strategy and design, implementation and improvement. He also transitioned the company from ISO27001:2005 to ISO27001:2013.
In 2015, he joined iSIGHT Partners as a Technical Account Manager, prior to their acquisition by FireEye. At iSIGHT/FireEye he was responsible for all pre-sales activities for the EMEA region, helping customers define use cases for FireEye’s actionable cyber threat intelligence, speaking at conferences, assisting with training, and informing product development.
He joined Optiv Security Ltd in February 2019, where he was a Senior Solutions Architect, serving as a client advocate to help businesses, governments and educational institutions plan, build and run successful security programmes through the right combination of cyber security products, services and solutions.
In December 2019, he joined Flashpoint as their Director, Customer Success for EMEA. Flashpoint delivers Business Risk Intelligence (BRI) to empower business units and functions across organizations with a decision advantage over potential threats and adversaries. The company’s sophisticated technology and human-powered analysis enable enterprises and public sector organizations globally to bolster cybersecurity, confront fraud, detect insider threats, enhance physical security, assess M&A opportunities, and address vendor risk and supply chain integrity. For more information, visit www.flashpoint-intel.com or follow us on Twitter at @FlashpointIntel.
Lance Taylor
CLEAR, Team Lead, Cyber Threat Intelligence
Lance is a 22 year Air Force veteran with a career in Intelligence and cyber at the National Security Agency (NSA) and Air Intelligence Agency. He served as a Korean translator for the U-2 Reconnaissance Mission, provided linguistic support for special projects, and conducted nodal analysis on foreign adversary Military Orders of Battle.
Halfway through his career, he earned a Computer Science degree from Texas A&M University while on Active Duty and a coveted spot in the Air Force's highly competitive Airman's Education and Commissioning Program. In this program he earned a commission as a Cyber Officer and spent the second half of his career building out the Air Force's cyber presence throughout the world.
Lance finished off his military career at NSA representing the Agency's interests in a major crypto-modernization program. For his final assignment, the Air Force tasked him to join a cadre of 35 other officers to completely revamp the Cyber Officer program and shift the curriculum's focus toward a future in cyber warfare. The course is still used today to train the Air Force's cyber warriors of the future.
He has been working for CLEAR for just over two years, developing and evolving their threat intelligence program.
Mark Alba
Anomali, Chief Product Officer
Mark Alba is Chief Product Officer at Anomali, joining the company in April 2020. Mark has over 20 years of experience in building, managing, and marketing disruptive products and services. His proven track record includes bringing to market the security industry’s first fully-integrated appliance firewall, leading the integration of global threat intelligence into perimeter security technologies, and introducing advanced analytics in support of cybersecurity operations. Throughout his career, Mark has been on the front lines of innovation, leading product efforts in both start-up and large enterprise organizations including Check Point Technologies, Security Focus, Symantec, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Mark holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.
Rijuta Kapoor
Microsoft, Senior Program Manager
Rijuta Kapoor is a Senior Program Manager for Azure Sentinel at Microsoft. She leads the threat intelligence efforts in Azure Sentinel. For the past few years, she has also managed Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) and Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) products.
As part of her current role at Microsoft, Rijuta is responsible for threat intelligence management and sharing initiatives and is a big supporter of adopting industry standards for threat intelligence exchange like STIX/TAXII. Rijuta also has experience working with several SOCs in successfully building their threat intelligence programs. Rijuta holds a master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles.
In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her family and traveling.
Sergio Caltagirone
Dragos, Vice President of Threat Intelligence
Sergio Caltagirone hunts evil. He spends his days tracking hackers and his evenings chasing human traffickers. In 9 years with the US National Security Agency, three years at Microsoft, and now five years at Dragos, Sergio has hunted the most sophisticated targeted threats in the world, applying intelligence to protect billions of users while safeguarding civilization through the protection of critical infrastructure and industrial control systems. He co-created the Diamond Model of Intrusion Analysis, helping thousands of others bring more pain to adversaries by strengthening hunters and analysts. He also serves as the Technical Director of the Global Emancipation Network, a non-profit, non-governmental organization (NGO), leading a world-class, all-volunteer team dedicated to ending human trafficking and rescuing victims through data science and analytics, saving tens of millions of lives.