IT GRC AND CYBERSECURITY
Building Cyber Resilience: Thinking Beyond Cyber Risk

MK Palmore
Vice President - Field Chief Security Officer,Palo Alto Networks

MK Palmore serves as VP, Field CSO (Americas) for Palo Alto Networks.  His responsibilities include support of strategic accounts and continuing to provide thought leadership in the cybersecurity arena through both writing and industry focused speaking engagements.  Prior to joining Palo Alto Networks, MK served as the Head of the Cyber Security Branch for FBI San Francisco​ ​ capping a career of public service spanning 32-years.  His leadership and investigative experiences while in the FBI included: Cybersecurity, Crisis Response/Management, Risk-Management Advisory Services, and Counter-Terrorism Investigations.  MK’s cyber security certifications include the CISM, CISSP, GCCC and the Carnegie Mellon University CISO Certification.  He earned a B.S. from the United States Naval Academy and MBA from Pepperdine University. MK began his professional career as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Marine Corps.

Komitas Stepanyan
CIO and Deputy Director - Corporate Services and Development, Central Bank of Armenia

Mr. Komitas Stepanyan is a CIO at the Central Bank of Armenia. More than 13 years he has been working in the Internal Audit department holding different positions (deputy chief audit executive, head of IT audit division). He joined to the CBA as an information security specialist, then become a senior administrator of information security responsible for implementation of ISO27001.

Komitas also cooperates with the IMF and the World Bank as a short-term expert for cyber risk management, regulation and supervision and IT fraud examination. He conducted and led several Technical Assistance and capacity-building missions covering a diverse range of countries and topics, including cybersecurity risk management, cybersecurity regulation and supervision, IT fraud examination.

Komitas is a primary member of the Central Bank of Armenia at the Alliance of Financial Inclusion’s Digital Financial Services working group and currently chairing the Cybersecurity sub-group.

Komitas has almost 20 years of extensive experience in the internal audit, IT audit, information security and Information Technologies. In recent years, he was actively engaged in different programs and forums and was a speaker in many international events in Europe, Africa, and post-soviet countries.

He holds a PhD degree in applied physics and has three international certificates (CRISC, CRMA and Cobit). He is a graduate of a “Public Policy and Public Administration” Certificate Program at Tufts University — the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (USA).

Prior to joining the Central Bank of Armenia, he worked in a US based IT company in Armenia while working in his PhD theses. He is an author of more than 10 scientific articles published in Europe and the USA.

Dr. Erdal Ozkaya
Regional Chief Information Security Officer and Managing Director, Standard Chartered Bank, UAE

Dr. Erdal Ozkaya is a leading Cybersecurity Professional with business development, management, and Academic skills who focuses on securing the Cyber Space & sharing his real-life skills as a Security Advisor, Speaker, Lecturer, and Author.Erdal is known to be passionate about reaching communities, creating cyber aware campaigns, leveraging new and innovative approaches and technologies to holistically address the information security and privacy needs for every person and organization in the world.

He is an award-winning technical expert & speaker: His recent awards are: Global Future Security Leader ,Super Hero CISO (2020) Cyber Security Professional of the year MEA , Hall of Fame by CISO Magazine , Cybersecurity Influencer of the year (2019) ,Microsoft Circle of Excellence Platinum Club (2017), NATO Center of Excellence (2016) Security Professional of the year by MEA Channel Magazine (2015), Professional of the year Sydney (2014) and many speaker of the year awards in conferences. He also holds Global Instructor of the year awards from EC Council & Microsoft. Erdal is also a part-time lecturer at Australian Charles Sturt University Erdal has co-authored many cybersecurity books as well as security certification course-ware and exams for different vendors.

 

Helen Yu
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Tigon Advisory Corp.

Helen Yu is founder and CEO of Tigon Advisory, a CXO-as-a-Service growth accelerator. The firm’s practice areas include Managed Security Services. Ms. Yu believes growth thrives at the crossroads of #tech and #humanity. Her approach has led to multibillion-dollar revenue growth and profitability for early-stage startups, pre-IPOs and Fortune 500 enterprises -- including Oracle, Adobe and Marketo. Ms. Yu has been named a Top 10 Global Influencer in Digital Transformation by IBM; Top 35 Women in Finance by Onalytica; and Top 100 B2B Thought Leader, Top 10 Cybersecurity and AI Thought Leader by Thinkers360. Helen is a global expert in cyber resiliency and is certified in cybersecurity leadership through MIT. When she’s not scaling Mount Everest or ice climbing glaciers, you can find Ms. Yu on Twitter @YuHelenYu.

Diego Souza
Executive Director - Global Chief Information Security Officer (Deputy), Cummins Inc.

Andreas Diggelmann
CTO and Managing Director for India, MetricStream

Andy Diggelmann serves as CTO and Managing Director for India at MetricStream. He is responsible for products, engineering, and consulting. He has played a critical role in driving continued product innovation as well as enabling customers to accelerate their adoption of the MetricStream M7 Platform and Applications Cloud. 

Previously, Andy served at SAS Institute, from 1994-2000 in Switzerland, and from 2000-2018 in Cary, NC in various roles. In his most recent role, as VP Planning, Operations and Strategy, he had accountability for planning, operations and strategy across all R&D divisions of SAS. He was also officially designated the second in command to the CTO and Head of R&D, where his responsibilities included overseeing corporate development and planning, performance testing and data architecture, usability, release engineering and deployment, the R&D Data Center, project management, and the R&D centers in India and China. 

His focus areas have been to continue to mature R&D processes, stabilize infrastructure, take corrective action when needed, and continue to evolve a strategic customer engagement program for R&D.

Manish Tiwari
Senior Vice President and Global Chief Information Security Officer, Bharti Airtel

Manish Tiwari has over 32 years of work experience including 25 years in the Indian Navy where he set up including the formulation of Policy Frameworks, Security Audits, Product Testing, Implementation of Solutions, Cyber Forensics, and Risk Management. His experience includes investigation of live cases, coordinating and directing all phases of Project-based efforts, whilst managing, motivating, guiding, and mentoring teams, in the course of building up the Information Security organization of the Indian Navy.

He is a qualified CISA, CISP, Lead Auditor, CEH, E|CSA, C|HFI, and LPT. In his last appointment, he represented the Indian Navy at all National level Government forums, on issues related to IT security, for the protection of the National Critical Information Infrastructure.

After leaving the Armed Forces, he served in an IT Risk Management Firm handling overall governance and Service Delivery of security services in the UID project. In Oct 2014 he took over as the Chief Information Security Advisor India for Microsoft Corporation. In Dec 2017, he took over as Sr VP & Global CISO for Bharti Airtel, driving operations, Compliance, and business continuity. In early Sep 2018, he has also taken over ‘Airtel Secure for Business’, an Airtel initiative on cybersecurity solutions and services, in addition to his existing role.

Somkant Mishra
GRC Solution Architect, Interxion

Cynthia Cox
Security Compliance and Strategy Leader, Marqeta Inc

Cynthia Cox is currently the Security Compliance and Strategy Leader at Marqeta. She develops and leads programs that drive visibility into the company’s risk posture, reduce information security risks and align with business goals. Cynthia has 18 years of Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) experience in policy and standards, measures and metrics, risk management, enterprise resiliency, Customer and Supplier Trust, security certification and compliance. Prior to Marqeta, Cynthia was at Palo Alto Networks, Veritas Technologies, Symantec Corporation and KPMG. Her security framework experience spans Sarbanes-Oxley, PCI, ISO 27001, SOC1, SOC2 and NIST. Cynthia holds the CPA (CA-inactive) and CISA certifications. She graduated from UCLA with a BA in Economics with a specialization in computer science.

Thomas Ludwig
Vice President - Customer Success and Quality, MetricStream

Rohit Bedi
Executive Vice President - Partnerships and Alliances, MetricStream

As EVP at MetricStream, Rohit is responsible for leading global partnerships and MetricStream’s ecosystem by enabling the influence, distribution, and delivery capabilities of our partners. Partnerships and alliances are viewed as key drivers of MetricStream’s growth and leadership in the marketplace. Rohit also leads some of MetricStream’s strategic growth markets such as Asia Pacific, Australia, Middle East and Africa. In the past, Rohit has been involved in building dominant software brands and successful companies that include Siebel Systems, PeopleSoft, Cognizant, and Cymbal. Most recently, Rohit led large company partnerships and strategic businesses in enterprise software at Cognizant. Prior to that, he was part of the executive team that built Cymbal, where he managed worldwide sales, marketing, and partnerships leading to a successful acquisition. At Seibel Systems, he was responsible for key product lines, and the expansion of the partner network which played a big role in Siebel’s distribution and delivery channel expansion. He was also in leadership product marketing roles at PeopleSoft during its rise to becoming a top enterprise software provider.

Jonathan Curtis
Director - Field Sales Americas , MetricStream

Phillip Beniac
Managing Director - ANZ, MetricStream

Victoria Muñoz-Titos
Governance, Risk and Compliance Advisory - UK and Europe, MetricStream