Speakers
Detect LIVE speakers are leading industry luminaries, analysts, and subject matter experts.
Chris Wilder
TAG Cyber, Research Director & Senior Analyst
Chris Wilder serves as Research Director and Senior Analyst at TAG Cyber. He has over 25 years of cybersecurity, networking, and telecom experience including time spent in the US Navy supporting intelligence operations.
Joe Ariganello
Anomali, Vice President, Product Marketing
Joe Ariganello is the Vice President, 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.
Jon Baker
MITRE Engenuity, General Manager for the Center for Threat-Informed Defense
As the General Manager for the Center for Threat-Informed Defense, Jon Baker is responsible for the Center’s strategy and its outcomes as he convenes the global cybersecurity community to advance the state of the art and the practice in threat-informed defense. Jon co-founded the Center as a privately funded research and development organization where he partners with sophisticated cybersecurity teams to systematically advance the global understanding of adversary tradecraft and apply that knowledge to improve the community’s ability to defend against those threats.
Jon has extensive experience leading research teams and collaborating with industry to advance cybersecurity capabilities. Most recently, he led MITRE’s Cyber Threat Intelligence and Adversary Emulation Department where he was responsible for advancing those critical capabilities across MITRE’s work program and overseeing MITRE’s work on CALDERA and MITRE ATT&CK®. Jon led MITRE’s team in the early development of the OASIS STIX and TAXII standards while supporting the Department of Homeland Security. Jon led MITRE’s security automation team through the development of SCAP and managed the CVE team. He was a cocreator of OVAL, a standard language for describing and checking for the presence of misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, and other endpoint artifacts.
Jon holds a Master's in Computer Science from Boston University and a Bachelor’s in Psychology from Tufts University.
Justin Coker
Anomali, Vice President and General Manager, EMEA
Justin Coker has spent over two decades in senior sales management roles at leading enterprise cybersecurity companies. He joined Anomali from IronNet Cybersecurity, where, as Vice President of EMEA, he built out their EMEA sales team from the ground up on their journey to their recent IPO. Prior to that, he was Vice President EMEA at Skybox Security, where he grew the EMEA business from scratch, engaging with a comprehensive list of EMEA's largest organizations as clients and creating strong alliances with many of the premier partner organizations across EMEA.
Before that, at Symantec, he led the UK and Ireland's Retail Banking and Finance enterprise sales team for five years, after successful IT sales positions at AXENT Technologies, Parametric Technology, and Fujitsu. Justin enjoys building and scaling successful teams and is passionate about delivering business value to clients and partners across the region.
Karen Buffo
Anomali, Chief Marketing Officer
Karen Buffo is Chief Marketing Officer at Anomali. She brings more than 15 years of experience in global security, with a track record of developing and executing leading marketing strategies, resulting in value for customers, shareholders and employees. Prior to Anomali, Karen was CMO of Symantec, a role Broadcom appointed her to after its acquisition of the company. While at Symantec, she defined and implemented its global marketing strategy across all activities to strengthen its brand and drive growth for the cybersecurity business. Before Symantec, Oracle selected her to oversee global communications for its executive office. While in this role, she oversaw the development, implementation, and supervision of internal and external executive communications along with corporate thought leadership. Karen’s diverse background in business enablement and global marketing has lent itself to a holistic view of companies and their unique capabilities, opportunities, and drivers. This has led to her consistently providing sustainable value to the businesses she has served. Karen is a recognized industry keynote speaker, mentor, and contributor to the cybersecurity community. Karen holds a bachelor’s degree in Consumer Science and Business Administration from the California State University at Sacramento.
Leonardo Carcagnì
London Stock Exchange Group, Director, Cyber Security Operations
Leo Carcagnì is the Director of Cyber Security Operations at the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG). In his current role, Leo oversees Cyber Threat Detection and Response, Threat Intelligence, Security Operations Engineering and Data Loss Prevention for the group. Prior to joining LSEG, Leo worked at Barclays, Darktrace and within several academic institutions across Europe. In 2015, Leo achieved a PhD from the University of Cambridge whilst working at the Cavendish Laboratory on Quantum Computing using cold atoms.
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 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.
Parthi Sankar
Anomali, Technical Director N.Europe
Parthi’s work involves exploring an organisation's place on the cybersecurity maturity curve to splice the right set of solutions and workflows with the organisation's SOC and CTI teams to detect and prevent attacks from capable adversaries. The right solutions may come in the form of actionable Threat Intelligence from a Threat Intelligence Platform, taking security from Intelligence to Detection in seconds using Cloud XDR or workflow efficiency brought through a Natural Language Processing (NLP) tool. Parthi is passionate about ensuring solutions contribute to greater ROI for existing investments and bringing silos of teams, processes, and tools together to markedly improve an organisation's security posture and reduce the attack surface. Parthi has extensive experience in the SOC and CTI industry, working for global companies. His experience includes consulting, services, support, sales, and solutions engineering leading him to be a trusted advisor that knows how to acquire, implement and use solutions and processes to derive maximum value and align that with business goals and outcomes.
Scott Dowsett
Anomali, Global Field CTO
Scott holds the position of Field CTO at Anomali. Formerly Anomali Vice President of Global Sales Engineering. He has over 20 years of experience in the field of cybersecurity and computer networking. Previously, Scott worked as a Senior Pre-Sales Engineer at Intel Security, supporting multiple regions specializing in WEB, DLP, SIEM, Firewall, IPS, and Advanced Threat Detection products. Prior to joining Intel Security, Scott was a part of Nortel Networks and held various sales engineering roles in support of broadband, enterprise, and security products. Scott holds the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification from the International Information System Security Certification Consortium as well as the Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) certification from the Information Systems Audit and Control Association. In addition, he is also certified in Risk and Compliance and Data Privacy. Memberships include OASIS Open Member, Advisory Board member CSU, and Chico Cybersecurity for Executives program.
Steve Bassi
PolySwarm, CEO & Founder
Steve previously founded Narf Industries, an information security R&D firm, with marquee clients from DARPA to members of the Fortune 500. He brings over 20 years of experience in Information Security focused development. He previously served in lead roles in a variety of projects for Government and Industry including: software development for advanced incident response, blockchain-based identity management R&D, and development of cutting-edge program analysis tools for DARPA’s CGC. Previously, he competed in several DEF CON Capture The Flags as a member of Sk3wl of R00t.
Steve Benton
Anomali, Vice President of Anomali Threat Research
Steve Benton is the Vice President of Anomali Threat Research at Anomali. He is a highly experienced executive-level security expert. Prior to joining Anomali, he was BT’s Deputy CISO and, latterly, CSO for this global communications company.
At BT, he was accountable for BT’s physical and cybersecurity - investment, posture, and response - globally (170 countries) and in the UK as part of the Critical National Infrastructure. He created and led the Protect BT Services and Operations organization - comprising 350 people across Intelligence, Offensive Security; Cyber Security Operations; Physical Security Operations; Investigations and Incidents; Strategy. Steve transformed the Intelligence capability at BT to source and develop high quality, actionable intelligence underpinned by Anomali to update security posture and disrupt threat actor activities at pace whilst driving the ‘democratization’ of threat intelligence for everyone. Steve was educated at Queen’s University Belfast, graduating in 1990 with First Class Honours in Information Technology. He is a CISSP, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Information Security, and a member of the Cyber Defenders Council.