Speakers – IT-DEFENSE 2019
Prof. Dr. Bernd Ankenbrand
Dr. Bernd Ankenbrand is professor at the University of Applied Sciences Wuerzburg-Schweinfurt, Germany. His international teaching- and research experiences include visiting research- und teaching positions at Witten/Herdecke University, Karlshochschule International University, the Sino German School of Governance in Nanjing, China, at the Northern Institute of Technology in Hamburg, Germany, at the Mads Clausen Institute, University of Southern Denmark and at the Social Cognition and Social Neuroscience Lab, Princeton University, USA.
In the private enterprise sector Arthur Andersen, PricewaterhouseCoopers und gexid are parts of his professional career. He is frequently invited as keynote speaker by corporations, associations and political institutions, including Deutsche Bank, Carmignac Gestion, C-Quadrat, Universal Investment, Private Banking Congress, Standard Life, AXA Group, Donner & Reuschel, etc.
Karla Burnett
Karla likes pulling systems apart and learning their ins and outs, before using that knowledge to her advantage. She got started in security when she reverse engineered a train ticketing system, moved on to competing in the Defcon CTF, and now works on defense at Stripe. Her day job is protecting users from themselves, so she's especially interested in security primitives that aren't vulnerable to human error. In her spare time she tinkers with networking, flies planes, and practices Australian Sign Language.
Clarence Chio
Clarence Chio is a software engineer and entrepreneur who has given talks, workshops, and trainings on machine learning and security at DEF CON, BLACK HAT, and other security conferences/meetups across more than a dozen countries. He was previously a member of the security research team at Shape Security, a community speaker with Intel, and a security consultant for Oracle.
Clarence advises a handful of startups on security data science, and is the founder and organizer of the “Data Mining for Cyber Security” meetup group, the largest gathering of security data scientists in the San Francisco Bay Area. He holds a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University, specializing in data mining and artificial intelligence.
Find him as @cchio on Twitter.
Roger Dingledine
Roger Dingledine is president and co-founder of the Tor Project, a nonprofit that develops free and open source software to protect people from tracking, censorship, and surveillance online.
Wearing one hat, Roger works with journalists and activists on many continents to help them understand and defend against the threats they face. Wearing another, he is a lead researcher in the online anonymity field, coordinating and mentoring academic researchers working on Tor-related topics. Since 2002 he has helped organize the yearly international Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS). Among his achievements,
Roger was chosen by the MIT Technology Review as one of its top 35 innovators under 35, he co-authored the Tor design paper that won the Usenix Security "Test of Time" award, and he has been recognized by Foreign Policy magazine as one of its top 100 global thinkers.
Alex Ionescu
Alex Ionescu is the Vice President of EDR Strategy and Founding Chief Architect at CrowdStrike, Inc. Alex is a world-class security architect and consultant expert in low-level system software, kernel development, security training, and reverse engineering. He is coauthor of the last three editions of the Windows Internals series, along with Mark Russinovich and David Solomon. His work has led to the fixing of many critical kernel vulnerabilities, as well as a few dozen non-security bugs.
Previously, Alex was the lead kernel developer for ReactOS, an open > source Windows clone written from scratch, for which he wrote most of the Windows NT-based subsystems. During his studies in Computer Science, Alex worked at Apple on the iOS kernel, boot loader, and drivers on the original core platform team behind the iPhone, iPad and AppleTV. Alex is also the founder of Winsider Seminars & Solutions Inc., a company that specializes in low- level system software, reverse engineering and security trainings for various institutions. In the last three years, he has also contributed to patches and development in two major commercially used operating system kernels.
Paula Januszkiewicz
Paula Januszkiewicz is a CEO and Founder of CQURE Inc. and CQURE Academy. She is also Enterprise Security MVP and a world class cybersecurity expert, consulting Customers all around the world. In 2017, she graduated from Harvard Business School. She has her heart and soul in the company, having deep belief that positive thinking is the key to success. Her quality-driven approach, extreme attention to details and conference speaking publicity have brought CQURE, at its early stage, to the never-ending world of hacks, forensics, data theft and other security challenges. Paula established CQURE in 2007 and since then she has continued to build the team’s professional image and cybersecurity skills, currently owning and managing CQURE departments in New York (US), Dubai (UAE) and Zug (Switzerland), additionally to headquarters in Warsaw (Poland). Since 2007 of CQURE Team’s exceptional quality and unique cybersecurity knowledge, experience and skills is in high demand on enterprise market.
Paula has 14 years of experience in the cybersecurity field, performing penetration tests, architecture consulting, trainings and seminars. She has performed hundreds of security projects, including those for governmental organizations and big enterprises, at the same time being a top speaker and a keynote speaker at many well-known conferences, including Microsoft Ignite (rated No 1 Speaker among 1100 speakers at a conference with 26000 attendees), RSA (in 2017 in San Francisco her session was one of the 5 hottest sessions), Black Hat, TechEd North America, TechEd Europe, TechEd Middle East, CyberCrime etc., where she is often rated as No 1 speaker. Her presentations gather thousands of people.
She also creates security awareness programs for various organizations, including awareness sessions for top management (telecoms, banks, government etc.). She is passionate about sharing her knowledge with others. In private, she enjoys working with her research team, converting the results of her findings to authored leading-edge trainings and tools used in practice in projects. She wrote a book about Threat Management Gateway and she’s currently working on the next one… so stay tuned for more. Recently, Paula has become a member of the Technical Advisory Board at Royal Bank of Scotland - helping to keep its security at the highest level possible!
She has access to a source code of Windows, an honor granted to just few people around the world! Paula is a type that suffers, when doing nothing – every year she takes over 215 flights to provide security services to international organizations.
Volker Kozok
Lieutenant Colonel Volker Kozok works as a technical officer in the legal department of the German Federal Ministry of Defence and is a proven cyber security expert. For more than 20 years, he has been working in various positions in the IT security of the German Armed Forces. In 2002, he planned and trained the Computer Emergency Response Team of the German Armed Forces.
He is a trained IT forensics expert and conducted the first training courses for computer forensics and incident management in the German Armed Forces.
He is a speaker at both national and international events, lecturing on cyber security and data protection topics, and he focuses on the “dark side of the Internet”, which includes the analysis of hacker attacks, cybercrime and social media attacks.
Since 2002, he has been leading the annual US study tour, where cyber security experts of the German Armed Forces and of the industry exchange views on cyber security with US offices and organizations in a 14-day trip in the United States.
At his annual confidential security conference, the international “Bulletproofhosting & Botnetkonferenz”, national and international representatives of the German Armed Forces, authorities, intelligence services, industry and the hacker scene exchange views on example cases, attacks and ways to react.
Jens Müller
Jens Müller is a doctoral candidate at the Chair for Network and Data Security at Ruhr-University Bochum. His research focus is in the fields of the Internet of Things (IoT) and applied IT security – he was recently involved in the “EFAIL” attack against S/MIME and OpenPGP. Jens is an experienced speaker at international IT security conferences (IEEE S&P, Black Hat USA) and freelance penetration tester. In his spare time, he develops open source software and hunts bug bounties.
Prof. Dr. Peter Nieschmidt
Prof. Peter Nieschmidt studierte Philosophie, Pädagogik und Geschichte in Tübingen und München. Nach seiner Promotion war er unter anderem Referent in der ZP der Siemens AG für personalpolitische Grundsatzfragen, wissenschaftlicher Direktor am Sozialwissenschaftlichen Institut der Bundeswehr und Leiter der Planungsgruppe der Hochschule der Bundeswehr in München. Im Jahr 1976 folgte er dem Ruf an die Fachhochschule München und wurde Professor für Politologie. Seit dieser Zeit hält er Vorträge und Managementseminare in zahlreichen Unternehmen, Institutionen und Hochschulen und ist heute ein anerkannter Experte für Arbeits- und Führungsfragen.
Marcus J. Ranum
Marcus J. Ranum is a world-renowned expert on security system design and implementation. He is a pioneer in security technology who was one of the early innovators in firewall, VPN, and intrusion detection systems. Ranum has been involved in every level of operations of a security product business, from developer to founder and CEO of NFR. He holds numerous industry awards.
Dr. Jason Staggs
Dr. Jason Staggs is a Cyber Security Research Engineer and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Computer Science at The University of Tulsa. Best known for his hacking of exotic industrial control systems, Jason's research interests run the gamut and include critical infrastructure protection, telecommunications, penetration testing, network security, and digital forensics. Jason has spoken at national and international conferences, authored various peer-reviewed publications and lectured undergraduate and graduate level courses on a variety of cybersecurity topics. His expertise in digital forensics has enabled him to provide invaluable assistance to law enforcement agencies at the local, state and federal levels in order to solve high-profile cybercrimes. In his spare time, Jason enjoys reverse engineering proprietary network stacks in embedded devices and diving through ancient RFCs to demystify obscure network protocols. Jason attended graduate school at The University of Tulsa where he earned his MS and PhD degrees in Computer Science.
Jayson E. Street
Jayson E. Street is an author of Dissecting the hack: series. Jayson is also the DEF CON Groups Global Ambassador. Plus the VP of InfoSec for SphereNY. He has also spoken at DEF CON, DerbyCon, UCON and at several other CONs and colleges on a variety of information security subjects. He is a highly carbonated speaker, who has partaken of Pizza from Beijing to Brazil. He does not expect anybody to still be reading this far but if they are, please note he was chosen as one of Time’s persons of the year for 2006.
Carsten Strotmann
Carsten Strotmann has been supporting customers with Unix and PC/Windows networks in Germany and abroad for more than 27 years. His specialties are Unix systems, DNS, DNSSEC and IPv6 security. He is a trainer in the field of DNS/DHCP/IPv6/Linux/Unix security for Internet Systems Consortium (ISC), Linuxhotel and Men & Mice. Carsten Strotmann supports customers in operating DNS/DNSSEC/DANE infrastructures at Sys4 AG in Munich, Germany. He also is the author of various articles on IT security topics in specialist magazines.
Martin Vigo
Martin Vigo is a Product Security Lead and Researcher responsible for Mobile security, Identity and Authentication. He helps design secure systems and applications, conducts security reviews, penetration testing and generally helps keep "the cloud" secure. Martin is also involved in educating developers on security essentials and best practices.
Martin has presented several topics including breaking password managers, exploiting Apple's Facetime to create a spy program and mobile app development best practices. These were given at conferences such as DEF CON, Blackhat EU, Ekoparty, BSides Las Vegas, Kaspersky Security Analyst Summit and Shakacon.
Outside the office, Martin enjoys research, bug bounties and scuba diving.
Tillmann Werner
Tillmann Werner is the Director of Technical Analysis at CrowdStrike Intelligence where he is responsible for the analysis of targeted threats, developing defense strategies and prototyping analysis tools.
He loves linking together scientific research with actionable intelligence and specializes in malware reverse engineering, honeypot technologies and containment strategies for large-scale attacks. As a member of the Honeynet Project, Tillmann is actively involved with the global computer security community and is a regular speaker on the international conference circuit.