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Yossi Appleboum

With more than 20 years of experience in Security, Networking, Computer Science and Control Systems, Mr. Appleboum brings wide angle vision on Cyber Security threats and unique security solutions. In the early 90’s, after graduating from studies, Mr. Appleboum joined the Israeli Army Intelligence Corps(unit 8200) and served as a team leader and as Chief Architect focusing on design and development of Critical Infrastructure Network Monitoring and Security Systems. In 1998, Mr. Appleboum was one of the founders of WebSilicon, an Israeli company which focused on delivering advanced networking and security systems.  As the Vice President of Research and Development, Mr. Appleboum was involved in design and implementation of more than 250 different systems for government agencies, integrators and vendors around the globe.  In 2007, Mr. Appleboum became the Chief Technology Officer for the company and was responsible for the North American business activities, working with key customers to develop next generation network monitoring and security systems. In 2013, WebSilicon was acquired by Magal (NASDAQ: MAGS), one of the world’s largest physical security integration companies. After the acquisition, Mr. Appleboum was tasked with leading the integration of his company into the Magal group which included the rebranding of WebSilicon as CyberSeal. Mr. Appleboum served as the CTO for Cyber Security of Senstar Inc., the North American division of Magal, and relocated to the United States to work more closely with key customers and partners. As the CTO for Cyber Security, Mr. Appleboum was instrumental in all phases of the development of the Tungsten Cyber Security Appliance and the Rubidium Central Monitoring Systems, solutions that converge physical and logical security in a manner that brings a new level of cyber security to the market.  In 2016, Mr. Appleboum co-founded Sepio Systems, a Cyber Security startup company that brings a new approach for defending supply chains against cyber-attacks.  Mr. Appleboum serves as the Co-CEO of the company, responsible for North American operations.

Bryan Batty

Having spent more than ten years building secure software applications, Bryan Batty is now a Managing Consultant for Coveros, and focuses primarily on security and DevOps transformations, especially as it relates to building security into the software development pipeline. Over the past few years, he has had the opportunity to influence security policy, coach development teams on secure coding practices, conduct security assessments of web applications, automate security activities where practical, and deliver security training. He currently helps run a security program for a major federal initiative, guiding the efforts of application security, security operations, and security compliance across the project.

When he is not working on projects, Bryan nerds out with the Washington, DC chapter of OWASP, where he helps bring together DC-area IT professionals every month to discuss trending topics in application security. In 2016, he finds himself on the planning committee for OWASP’s flagship conference, AppSec USA, to be held in Washington, DC in October 2016.

Bryan holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and a Master of Science in Cybersecurity.

bryan.batty@coveros.com @bryanbatty 

David Cass CISO IBM

Mr. Cass is the Chief Information Security Officer for IBM.  He has global responsibility for all aspects of security practices, processes, and policies across the IBM Cloud & SaaS business unit. 

Previously Mr. Cass served as the SVP & Chief Information Security Officer for Elsevier.  Where he lead an organization of experienced legal, risk and security professionals that provided data protection, privacy, security, and risk management guidance on a global basis for Elsevier.

David has extensive experience in IT security, risk assessment, risk management, business continuity and disaster recovery, developing security policies and procedures. He has played a key role in leading and building corporate risk & governance and information security organizations in the financial sector. As the Senior Director of Information Security Risk and Governance for Freddie Mac, David rebuilt the risk and governance function and developed a team to provide risk assessments, methodologies, tools, services, and training to improve the organization’s capabilities and maturity. Prior to that he was Vice President of Risk Management for JPMorgan Chase, and was responsible for providing an accurate assessment of the current risk management state, contributing to the future direction of risk management, continuity and disaster recovery capabilities for the organization.

David has a MSE from the University of Pennsylvania, and a MBA from MIT.  He is also a frequent speaker at high profile industry conferences, and serves on the Board of Directors for PixarBio Corporation.

Eric Haberkamp 

• 25 years in IT Security
• Manager, Global Advanced Services; Security Account Management practice, and Risk Assessment practice.
• Deep knowledge of Enterprise scale incident response and handling, corporate processes and policies.

• Corporate policy, process, procedure, standards, guidelines, structured documentation, compliance.
• Large Enterprise scale incident/breach response.
• IT Security Operations Management
• PCI compliant architecture design.
• Change management
• Project management
• Personnel management

• JD – Law, Southern Methodist University
• BA – Interdisciplinary Studies, UT Dallas, Magna Cum Laude
• Cryptologic Training, USN

• Large scale incident response and remediation, rebuilt breached credit card processors for sponsor banks.
• Incident Response / Investigation
• Security Framework Compliance – PCI, corporate policy, contract.
• SSO infrastructure design and management (200+ business units, 250,000+ employees, 35+ countries).
• Structured documentation, internal and client (technical documentation standard for large enterprise clients).
• Executive Presentations
• Personnel management, Statement of Work drafting, engagement scoping, client qualification.
• Staff training and development, tailored for client specific requirements. Technical and security awareness.
• Global Telecommunications Critical Infrastructure Management (SatCom, Undersea Cable, LandLine, RadioTelecom)
• Cryptologist, U.S. NAVY

• CISSP
• Previously held: GCIH, CCNA
• USN: Air Warfare, Flight Deck Operations, others.
• US Government Security Clearance info upon request