Kevin Beaver Founder and Principal Information Security Consultant of Principle Logic, LLC.
Session 3: Ransomware: More Than Just Your Next Incident, It's the Future
Kevin Beaver is an information security consultant, expert witness, and professional speaker with Atlanta-based Principle Logic, LLC. With over 27 years of experience in the industry, Kevin specializes in performing independent security assessments revolving around information risk management. He has authored/co-authored 12 books on information security including Hacking For Dummies (currently in its 5th edition) and The Practical Guide to HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance. In addition, he’s the creator of the Security On Wheels information security audio books and blog providing security learning for IT professionals on the go. Kevin can be reached at www.principlelogic.com and you can follow him on Twitter, watch him on YouTube, and connect to him on LinkedIn.
Nicholas Merker Partner and co-chair of Ice Miller’s Data Security and Privacy Practice
Session 1: GDPR: The Data Security Processes to Remain Compliant
Nicholas Merker is a partner and co-chair of Ice Miller's Data Security and Privacy Practice. His experience is unique, as he is only one of a handful of DSP lawyers in the country who can say that they've worked as a computer systems, network and security engineer for 10 years before practicing law. Merker's forte is being able to quickly judge a room at a client site and determining which hat to wear -- lawyer, technologist, or some combination thereof. Merker's technology background gives him the unique ability to bridge the gap between lawyers and technologists, often times translating between the two disparate disciplines to resolve legal issues. He strives to provide practical advice to clients that they can go implement immediately rather than generate long-winded academic answers to basic legal questions.
Jeffrey Ritter Founder, Ritter Academy
Session 4: Tapping into Incident Management Data to Prevent Future Risk
Jeffrey Ritter is one of the nation's experts in the converging complexity of information governance, security, the use of digital information as evidence and the emergence of cloud-based services. He advises companies and governments on successful 21st-century strategies for managing digital information with legal and business value. He is currently developing and teaching courses on information governance at Johns Hopkins University's Whiting School of Engineering and Georgetown University Law.
Dave Shackleford Owner and Principal Consultant of Voodoo Security
Session 2: 5 Opportunities for Security Improvements in a Cloud Microservices Architechture
Dave Shackleford is the owner and principal consultant of Voodoo Security and a SANS analyst, senior instructor, and course author. He has consulted with hundreds of organizations in the areas of security, regulatory compliance, and network architecture and engineering, and is a VMware vExpert with extensive experience designing and configuring secure virtualized infrastructures. He has previously worked as CSO for Configuresoft, CTO for the Center for Internet Security, and as a security architect, analyst, and manager for several Fortune 500 companies. Dave is the author of the Sybex book Virtualization Security: Protecting Virtualized Environments, as well as the coauthor of Hands-On Information Security from Course Technology. Dave coauthored the first published course on virtualization security for the SANS Institute, and authored the upcoming course on public cloud security from SANS, as well. Dave currently serves on the board of directors at the SANS Technology Institute and helps lead the Atlanta chapter of the Cloud Security Alliance.