October 20 2022

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Robert Hansen

Robert is a 27-year veteran in computer security, known to many in the industry by handle “RSnake”. Robert started his career at eBay, where he was responsible for authentication as well as most anti-fraud systems and anti-phishing technologies. His work at eBay was later built into every modern web browser and is now protecting every Internet user as a result. His ha.ckers.org was at one point responsible for a third of all the top-ranked web vulnerabilities.
At SecTheory he hacked into the back ends of over 2,100 banks, credit card processors, flight control systems, SCADA (water and power) control systems, and other security companies. During this time, Robert also built the most secure web application security hosting platform in the world at Falling Rock Networks, surviving over 15 million attacks in 8 years.
Most recently, Robert’s corporate intelligence platform, OutsideIntel, was acquired by Bit Discovery after which he became the CTO. Robert has worked as a floating CISO for multiple companies and sits on advisory boards of multiple technology and security companies such as Arkose Labs. Robert is most recently the host of The RSnake Show.
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Robert Hansen became the CTO of Bit Discovery after his company OutsideIntel was acquired. Mr. Hansen has worked for Digital Island, Exodus Communications and Cable & Wireless beginning as a Sr. Security Architect and eventually leading managed security services product management. He also worked at eBay as a Sr. Global Product Manager of Trust and Safety, focusing on anti-phishing, anti-malware and anti-virus. Later he was the VP of Labs for Whitehat Security. Robert currently sits on the technical advisory board of and contributes to the security strategy of several startup companies as a virtual CISO and Innovation Officer. Mr. Hansen ran the web application security lab at ha.ckers.org, and authored/co-authored several books.

Jeff Williams

Jeff brings more than 20 years of security leadership experience as co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Contrast Security. Previously, Jeff was co-founder and CEO of Aspect Security, a successful and innovative application security consulting company acquired by EY.  Jeff is also a founder and major contributor to OWASP, where he served as Global Chairman for 10 years and created the OWASP Top 10 and several other popular open-source projects. Jeff serves as an advisor to the PCI Council, NIST, OASIS, CycloneDX, OWASP Foundation, Eclipse Foundation, Linux Foundation, and many companies and agencies on application security. Jeff has a BA from Virginia, an MA from George Mason, and a JD from Georgetown.
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Ksenia Peguero, PhD

Ksenia Peguero, Ph.D. is a Senior Research Manager with Synopsys Software Integrity Group, where she leads a team of researchers and engineers working on static analysis and security of programming languages, frameworks, and technologies. Her expertise ranges from web stack, to mobile languages, to cloud environments, to infrastructure as code. Before diving into research, Ksenia had a consulting career in a variety of software security practices covering penetration testing, threat modeling, code review, and static analysis tool customization and deployment. During her decade in application security, she performed numerous engagements for clients in financial services, entertainment, telecommunications, and enterprise security industries. Throughout her journey, Ksenia has established and evolved secure coding guidance and practices for many firms, developed and delivered numerous software security trainings, and presented at conferences around the world, such as RSA, OWASP AppSec Global, TheWebConf, BSides Security, Nullcon, and LocoMocoSec. She has also served on review boards of OWASP AppSec USA, EU, and Global conferences. Ksenia holds a Ph.D. from George Washington University.

Adriana Sanford

Award-winning global threats and privacy expert, California Lawyer, and a professor.
Even the most sophisticated professionals can feel overwhelmed with this ever-changing security landscape and the workforce shortage. Adriana Sanford is on the cutting-edge of international and comparative privacy security developments and is working to help reduce the workforce gap. She provides C-suite level training throughout the Americas on the nuances of data privacy law (on a country-by-country basis), including Latin American countries—Panama, Peru, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, and Ecuador, among others.
Born in Orange County, Sanford is highly attuned to the needs of LA local businesses, minorities, professional women, and mothers. In addition to being the Cyber Awareness Month of October, we are also in National Hispanic Heritage Month. (Sept. 15 – Oct. 15) She is a Chilean American California lawyer, who specializes in Global Data Privacy Laws and Crisis Management, holds multiple law degrees (from Georgetown and Notre Dame) and was recently featured in Top Cyber News magazine. She serves as Of Counsel (remotely) for one of the leading law firms in Chile, is serving a three-year term as a Senior Research Fellow with Claremont Graduate University. Earlier this year, Sanford provided the opening keynote address at the CSWY Awards gala and is the recipient of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Woman Law Professional of the Year – 2019 CSWY Award.
Most workers seek to work for a company that values Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). Minority and gender gaps are among some of the cybersecurity workforce’s most persistent challenges. Only 4% of cybersecurity workers self-identify as Hispanic, 9% as Black, and 24% as women. Los Angeles is also home to one of the largest number of women-owned businesses in the country. LA has also the largest Hispanic population in the United States.
Sanford is focused on providing training on data privacy to Hispanic and other minority groups through CGU to help address this complex problem. She is spearheading a program that will provide credit and non-credit training on cybersecurity and data privacy, along with Certificate programs for train-to-hire to help address this business and societal concern for the LA community. She has reached out to ISSA-LA to help CGU with this project, which is expected to launch in Spring 2023.
Last month, Sanford served as the opening Keynote Speaker for ISSA-LA Security Summit XII, where she spearheaded the WOMEN of INFLUENCE in LA to assist women that were disproportionately impacted by COVID-19 in our local LA community.
Female mentors are instrumental to help address the vast shortage of qualified IT and InfoSec professionals, and this is particularly important in underrepresented communities. Sanford is also a Chilean American international TV commentator, who regularly appeared as a CNN en Español analyst to 93 million viewers. She is a strong voice in the local, national, and global InfoSec and Hispanic communities

Adam Shostack

Adam is a leading expert on threat modeling, and a consultant, author and game designer. He has decades of experience delivering security. His experience ranges across the business world from founding startups to nearly a decade at Microsoft.
His accomplishments include: Helped create the CVE. Fixing Autorun. Lead the design and delivery of the Microsoft SDL Threat Modeling Tool (v3). Created the Elevation of Privilege threat modeling game. Wrote Threat Modeling: Designing for Security. Co-authored The New School of Information Security.
While not consulting or training, Shostack serves as an advisor to a variety of companies and academic institutions and is an Affiliate Professor at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington.

Micki Boland

Micki Boland is a global cyber security warrior and evangelist with Check Point Technologies Office of the CTO. Micki has over 20 years in ICT, system engineering and cybersecurity. Micki’s focus is helping customers, system integrators, and service providers reduce risk through the adoption of emerging cybersecurity technologies. Micki is an ISC2 CISSP and holds a Master of Science in Technology Commercialization from the University of Texas at Austin, and an MBA with global security concentration from East Carolina University.

Richard Greenberg

Richard, a well-known Cyber Security leader, evangelist, advisor, and speaker, brings over 30 years of management experience, including being a CISO for 15 years. He is an ISSA International Distinguished Fellow, is on their Honor Roll, and is president of the ISSA Los Angeles Chapter. He has been on the OWASP Global Bd, and led the OWASP LA Chapter for many years.

You may have heard Richard’s interview as a Cyber Security expert on Will Ferrell’s Ron Burgundy podcast:

Richard is the Founder and CEO of Security Advisors LLC, which offers security risk assessments and network and application penetration testing, allowing organizations to continuously assess their internal and external cyber risk posture and meet compliance requirements.

No stranger to the boardroom, analyst, and investor community, Laz is an early stage investor and advisor to some of the most innovative companies in technology and cyber security. He is a Tech Partner at Rally Ventures and advises companies about trends with technology, cyber security, and go-to-market strategies.

Sam Stepanyan

Sam Stepanyan is an OWASP London Chapter Leader and an Independent Application Security Consultant with over 20 years
of experience in the IT industry with a background in software engineering and web application development.
Sam has worked for various financial services institutions in the City of London specializing in Application
Security consulting, Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), developer training, source code reviews and
vulnerability management. He is also a Subject Matter Expert in Web Application Firewalls (WAF) and SIEM systems.
Sam holds a Master’s degree in Software Engineering and a CISSP certification.