Analyst, Forrester Research

Allie supports security and risk professionals, covering security infrastructure and operations to assist clients in building and maturing their threat detection and response strategies. Her coverage includes the people, processes, and tools of the security operations center (SOC); security analysts; security information and event management (SIEM); security user behavior analytics (SUBA); security analytics (SA); security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR); endpoint detection and response (EDR); extended detection and response (XDR); and SOC metrics. Her research focuses on the current state and evolution of analytics, detection, automation, and response in security.

Allie has been a featured speaker at many leading security conferences, including Black Hat, DEFCON, HOPE, and Hacker Halted. She has been quoted in top business press outlets including CNN Money, CNBC, HuffPost, Gizmodo, Threatpost, and Dark Reading.

Chief Technology Officer, Mandiant Advantage

Colby DeRodeff is Chief Technology Officer for Mandiant Advantage where he is responsible for driving the company’s technology strategy and supporting the rapid expansion of its Advantage Cyber Defense Platform. Prior to joining Mandiant through the Verodin acquisition, Colby co-founded the threat intelligence and analysis platform, Anomali where he led strategic initiatives, business development, and worldwide field operations. Additionally, Colby has held senior leadership positions with both Arcsight and Silver Tail Systems, where he played an instrumental role in the successful IPO of ArcSight as well as the acquisition of both companies by HP and RSA/EMC, respectively.

Program Lead - Advanced Security Analytics, VMware

Over the past 16 years, Matt Snyder has been fortunate to work in a wide range of IT/Security positions; from systems admin, to digital forensics and incident response during one of the 1st major credit card breaches in 2013, and most recently security engineering. In his current position at VMware, he works on the VMWare Security Intelligence & Response Team (SIRT), where he builds advanced analytics and detections.

Director of Technology Alliances, Zscaler

With over 20 plus years of experience in network and information security, F. Ward Holloway III is a Director of Technology Alliances at Zscaler. In his current role, he is responsible for a number of Zscaler's Tier-1 strategic partnerships and partner ecosystems, including Splunk. He has previously held executive, director and engineering positions in business development, sales and engineering at several IT security companies and startups including Check Point Software Technologies, Crossbeam Systems, FireMon, Fireglass (acquired by Symantec) and TokenEx.

Global Security Advisor and SURGeon, Splunk

Mick Baccio fell in love with the idea of cyberspace around nine years old after reading Neuromancer, which led him to pursue a career in computer operations with a focus on information security. Before joining Splunk, he held the title of Chief Information Security Officer at Pete for America, holding the honor of being the first CISO in the history of presidential campaigns. Mick was also the White House Threat Intelligence Branch Chief in both the Obama and Trump administrations and helped create a threat intelligence program during the rollout of the Affordable Care Act at the Department of Health and Human Services.

A US Navy veteran, Mick has also served in cybersecurity and technical roles at the Department of Defense and Centers for Disease Control. As a Global Security Advisor at Splunk SURGe, Mick leverages his background and expertise to help customers solve complex security problems. When not posting pictures of food, cats, or Air Jordans to social media, Mick is a Goon at DefCon, and teaches lockpicking.

Product Manager - Splunk Intel Integrations, Splunk

Steve focuses on designing, building, and maintaining the Splunk Intelligence Management (formerly TruSTAR) capabilities across the Splunk security portfolio. Before joining Splunk through TruSTAR, Steve spent 13 years as a US Marine & 2 years in South Dakota cornfields.

Partner Product Manager, Splunk

Colin has worked in the cyber security industry for 35 years. Colin spent 30 years at Symantec working on products that focused on enterprise security. Most Colin’s focus was on threat hunting, analytics, and forensics. Colin joined Splunk as a PM that is focused on SOAR, UEBA and cloud security.

Sr. Manager, Security Research, Splunk

José Hernandez is a Senior Manager for the Threat Research team at Splunk. He started his professional career at Prolexic Technologies (now Akamai), fighting DDOS attacks from “anonymous” and “lulzsec” against Fortune 100 companies. As an engineering Co-Founder of Zenedge Inc. (acquired by Oracle Inc.), Hernandez helped build technologies to fight bots and web-application attacks. While working at Splunk as a Security Architect, he built and released an auto-mitigation framework used to automatically fight attacks in large organizations. He has also built security operation centers and run a public threat-intelligence service. Although security information has been the focus of his career, Hernandez has found that his true passion is in solving problems and creating solutions.

Distinguished Strategist, Splunk

Ryan Kovar, with over 20 years of experience cybering, has done everything from pulling miles of CAT5 cable on an aircraft carrier to learning that he didn't want to be a malware RE. Most recently, he worked at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on a team dedicated to detecting and mitigating advanced threats. Kovar then moved to Splunk as a Distinguished Security Strategist where he teaches hunting, attempts practical security research, and solves fun problems for folks around the world. Kovar loves Bernese mountain dogs and wire data, and despises printers.

Director of Product Marketing, Splunk

Patriz Regalado is Director of Product Marketing, responsible for developing go-to-market strategies for Splunk cybersecurity solutions. Prior to joining Splunk, Patriz led Product Marketing for Identity and Security solutions at Salesforce. Patriz has held Engineering, Product Marketing, Product Management and go-to-market roles at leading cybersecurity and technology software companies.

Security Strategist, Splunk

In his current role at Splunk as a Global Security Strategist, James Young draws on his more than 20 years of cyber security experience to help a broad range of organizations develop and mature their cyber security operations capabilities. His role also involves collaboration with the security product teams at Splunk as well as a range of Splunk's security technology partners to build integrated and innovative solutions that enable customers to streamline their security operations functions.