Eric Hendricks, The IT Guy, is a Solutions Architect for Gitlab. He has spent the past 10 years as a Linux Systems Administrator. Nowadays, Eric is an open source warrior and podcast host for Mind Drip Media

 

Chris Martinez is a seasoned security executive bringing more than 25 years of diverse business experience to the CISO position. Using a risk-based approach throughout his career, he has managed all aspects of information security in companies with 130-80,000 employees and revenue between $10M-$60B. He also has extensive experience with cloud and agile environments. Chris served as Chief Information Security Officer for multiple Aetna consumer organizations where he both evangelized and leveraged cloud and agile to lead change. Prior experience includes leadership roles in information security, compliance and program management with IHS and Oracle.

 

Aaron has been expanding the possibilities of Chaos Engineering in its application to other safety- critical portions of the IT domain notably cybersecurity. He began pioneering the application of Security in Chaos Engineering during his tenure as the Chief Security Architect at the largest private healthcare company in the world, UnitedHealth Group (UHG). While at UHG Aaron released ChaoSlingr, one of the first open source software releases focused on using Chaos Engineering in cybersecurity to build more resilient systems. Aaron recently founded a Chaos Engineering startup called Verica with Casey Rosenthal from Netflix and is a frequent author, consultant and speaker in the space.

 

Chris Roberts is currently the CSS for Attivo Networks, and is working on a number of projects within the deception and services space. Over the years, he's founded or worked with a number of companies specializing in DarkNet research, intelligence gathering, cryptography, deception technologies, and providers of security services and threat intelligence. Since the late 90’s Chris has been deeply involved with security R&D, consulting, and advisory services in his quest to protect and defend businesses and individuals against cyber attack. Prior to that he jumped out of planes for a living, visiting all sorts of interesting countries and cultures while doing his best to avoid getting shot at too often. (Before that he managed to get various computers confiscated by a number of European entities.) Roberts is considered one of the world’s foremost experts on counter threat intelligence and vulnerability research within the Information Security industry.  Roberts has led or been involved in information security assessments and engagements for the better part of 20 years, and has a wealth of experience with regulations such as GLBA, HIPAA, HITECH, FISMA, and NERC/FERC. He has also worked with government, state and federal authorities on standards such as CMS, ISO, and NIST. Roberts is credentialed in many of the top IT and information security disciplines and as a CyberSecurity advocate and passionate industry voice, Roberts is regularly featured in national newspapers, television news, industry publications and several documentaries. He can typically be found waving arms on a stage somewhere on this planet…or hacking into whatever’s taken his fancy…

 

DJ is a DevSecOps pioneer and works as a DevSecOps Evangelist and Security Architect at a large healthcare organization. He provides DevSecOps thought leadership throughout their journey of cultural revolution and digital transformation. DJ specializes in automating security controls in DevSecOps environments and is an ethical hacker as well – doing significant R&D work in Moving Target Defense, Mobile Security, System Exploitation, and Penetration Testing. DJ has worked to streamline development pipelines for many Fortune 100 organizations by focusing on people, process, and the right technology. He is an active speaker, blogger, instructor and author in the growing DevSecOps community where he encourages organizations to deeply integrate a culture of security into their core values and product development journey.

 

Prima is an Infrastructure Security professional who has worked in a variety of industries such as Oil & Gas, Media and Fintech. She is a Security Engineer on the Enterprise Security team at Pinterest, Inc. where she enjoys creating log pipelines and automation tooling for incident detection and occasionally dabbles in Security DevOps. She is very enthusiastic about encouraging more women to be in technical roles and was invited to speak at the Grace Hopper Conference in 2017.