Troy Leach, CISSP, CISA; technical director, PCI Security Standards Council
Troy Leach is the Technical Director for the PCI Security Standards Council (SSC). In his role with the Council, Leach is developing and implementing a comprehensive Quality Assurance Program to promote consistency within the Council's QSA, ASV, PA-DSS, and PED programs. Prior to joining the Council, he led the incident response program at American Express. In this position, he reviewed more than 300 cases where account data has been compromised. Over the past 15 years, he has held positions in systems administration, network engineering, IT management, security assessment and forensic analytics.
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Michelle Dickman, president and CEO, Trigeo
Michelle Dickman is president and chief executive officer of TriGeo Network Security. Ms Dickman has spent more than 20 years in the software and financial industries combined. Much of her extensive management, sales and marketing experience has been focused on the midsize enterprise which is TriGeo's core market. Dickman also brings considerable business development and management skills to TriGeo. As the co-founder and President of an ERP software company, Dickman grew that organization from ten to nearly one hundred employees, with four regional offices, and annual growth ranging from 20 to 60 percent. Her leadership ultimately led to the organization's acquisition by a public company.
Sudha Iyer, director of product management, LogLogic
Sudha Iyer has a strong security and technology background and has held variety of positions in engineering and product management at Oracle and Adobe Systems. The past seven years she has been focused on technologies and products that help enterprises manage risk and fraud effectively. She is a certified information systems security professional and has an MBA.
Dr. Amit Sinha, fellow & chief technologist, Motorola Enterprise Wireless LAN
Dr. Amit Sinha serves as fellow and chief technologist of Motorola's Enterprise Wireless LAN division. He was the chief technology officer of AirDefense, prior to its acquisition by Motorola. Dr. Sinha specializes in wireless communications and security and has authored over 25 journal/conference papers, contributed chapters to three books, and is the inventor of 16 U.S. patents. Prior to AirDefense, he served as chief technologist at Engim, a multi-channel 802.11 chipset company he co-founded. He received his S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and Computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his B.Tech. degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology where he was awarded the President of India Gold Medal for graduating summa cum laude.
Kimber Sperling, senior product manager, CISA, CISSP, BigFix
Kimber brings nearly 12 years experience in the information security industry, starting her career at Ernst & Young specializing in IT compliance; helping Fortune 500 organizations meet both regulatory and internal information security requirements. This included developing risk assessment, compliance, policy management, and product purchase security evaluation programs. She then spent 5 years at NetIQ, responsible for driving the strategy and marketing around the company's policy-based security products and sharing her regulatory compliance expertise with customers in all types of industries. Kimber is a frequent Industry presenter and is often called upon as a subject matter expert to deliver presentations to groups such as Information Systems Security Association (ISSA), Information Systems Assurance & Control Association (ISACA), the FBI's InfraGuard and at conferences such as NetFocus, Gartner Security Summit and Black Hat.