About RSA Conference

Dmitri Alperovitch is the Co-Founder and CTO of CrowdStrike Inc., leading its Intelligence, Research and Engineering teams. A renowned computer security researcher, he is a thought-leader on cybersecurity policies and state tradecraft. Prior to founding CrowdStrike, Dmitri was a Vice President of Threat Research at McAfee, where he led company's global Internet threat intelligence analysis.

With more than a decade of experience in the field of information security, Alperovitch is an inventor of ten patented and sixteen patent-pending technologies and has conducted extensive research on reputation systems, spam detection, web security, public-key and identity-based cryptography, malware and intrusion detection and prevention.

As a recognized authority on online organized criminal activity, cyberespionage, cyber warfare, and cybersecurity, Alperovitch has significant experience working as a subject matter expert with all levels of U.S. and international policy makers, intelligence and law enforcement agencies on analysis, investigations, and profiling of transnational organized criminal activities and cyber threats from terrorist and nation-state adversaries. He is a well-respected technical and policy thinker on the most difficult global cybersecurity issues, and is a frequent speaker at military, intelligence, law-enforcement, academic and security industry conferences. Alperovitch has published and given numerous talks on the contemporary issues in cybersecurity policy such as cyberdeterrence doctrine, Chinese-sponsored cyberespionage and the use of cyber weapons on the future battlefield. Alperovitch is frequently quoted as a cyberpolicy and cybersecurity expert source in national publications, including The New York Times, USA Today, and The Washington Post, The Associated Press and Reuters.

In 2010 and 2011, Alperovitch led the global team that investigated and brought to light Operation Aurora, Night Dragon and Shady RAT groundbreaking cyberespionage intrusions, and gave those incidents their names. Prior to joining McAfee, Alperovitch led the research team and the Software-as-a- Service business at Secure Computing.

Alperovitch has served on the board of Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC) Industry Advisory Board. In 2011, he was the recipient of the prestigious Federal 100 Award for his contributions to the federal information security.

Alperovitch holds a master's degree in Information Security and a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, both from Georgia Institute of Technology.

Asheem Chandra has helped create and grow multiple technology businesses and product lines to market-leading positions - both as a former operating executive and as a venture capitalist at Greylock. As a company board director, he works closely and supportively with founders and management teams to help create and grow "category-leading" companies that provide customers with highly-differentiated product capabilities and superior business value.

Chandra joined Greylock from Check Point Software, where he was vice-president of business development and product management. During his 6+ year tenure, Check Point grew from $10M to $500M+ in annual revenues. Chandra founded the business development and product management organizations, led corporate marketing during high growth years and directed Check Point's product/business strategy, product management and industry partnerships. Chandra is also credited with creating, growing and leading Check Point's OPSEC Alliance into the largest and most successful security partner program in the IT industry. Prior to Check Point, Chandra was vice-president of marketing with CoroNet Systems (a venture-backed startup acquired by Compuware), where he helped create and define a new product category for application-aware network monitoring. Previously, Chandra held strategic marketing and product line positions with SynOptics/Bay Networks and AT&T Bell Laboratories. During his 3+ year tenure at SynOptics/Bay, the company grew from $175M to $900M+ in annual revenues. At AT&T Bell Labs, Asheem represented AT&T at IETF standards committees for TCP/IP management protocols.

Chandra is a charter member of TiE Silicon Valley. He is on the panel of judges for the Wall Street Journal Global Technology Innovation Awards, is on the advisory board and program committee for the RSA Conference and is part of the VC program at DeVenCI (Defense Venture Capital Initiative).

Born and raised in India, Chandra holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Case Western Reserve University.

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Todd Inskeep has more than 20 years of experience in information security and Internet customer experience ranging from secure radio and desktop systems to security architecture and eCommerce strategy at Bank of America. He has filed multiple patent applications, and spent time as an Executive-in-Residence at the MIT Media Lab's Center for Future Banking under Bank of America's sponsorship. Before joining Bank of America, Inskeep spent several years on radio and desktop security systems in the Information Security group of the National Security Agency (NSA) in Fort Meade, Maryland.

Active in the information security community, Inskeep taught security and risk management classes at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte's NSA-Designated Center of Excellence in Information Assurance from 2003 to 2009. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional from the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium, Inc. (ISC) and is a member of the Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE). He has served on the annual RSA Information Security Conference Program Committee since 2002.

Inskeep earned a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV. He also earned a master's degree in strategic intelligence/signals intelligence from the Joint Military Intelligence College in Washington, D.C.

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Benjamin Jun oversees the technology and services groups at Cryptography Research. He has developed many widely deployed systems for the protection of financial transactions, pay television, and consumer products. Jun specializes in secure commercial systems, concentrating in technologies for tamper resistance, transaction security, content protection, and anti-cloning.

Jun's engineering efforts have enabled recovery from sophisticated piracy and fraud attacks. He has worked on teams that discovered Differential Power Analysis, fielded the DES Keysearch Machine, and developed technologies deployed in billions of devices worldwide. His team bridges the gap between cutting-edge security research and fielded commercial products, and Jun regularly speaks on tamper resistance and other security topics.

Jun currently serves on the Board of Advisors of the RSA Conference. Before joining Cryptography Research, Jun worked at IDEO Product Development, Bain & Company, and the Institute for Defense Analysis. He holds a bachelor's and a master's degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University where he was an NSF Graduate Fellow and a Mayfield Entrepreneurship Fellow.

For Verizon Business, John Madelin focuses on enhancing the company's delivery of security solutions to Verizon Business' enterprise and government customers in the EMEA region.

Madelin has more than 15 years of experience in a variety of senior roles in the security field, including expertise in network security, cryptography and identity management. Before joining Verizon Business, Madelin headed up BT's UK business continuity, security and governance practice. He was previously commercial vice president EMEA at Entrust Technologies, and director of corporate and business development at RSA Security.

Madelin is a sought-after speaker on the strategic implications of network security and identity management, and is a founder member of the AXIS forum, a network of C-level executives engaged in understanding the enabling implications of security technology. He is also a member of the Institute of Information Security Professionals.

In his Program Committee role, Dr. Hugh Thompson is responsible for identifying domestic and global trends within the ever-changing security landscape to help set the agenda for both the Europe and U.S. Conferences. He also plays a direct role in the selection of session topics and speakers while looking at new ways to architect educational programming.

A world-renowned application security expert, Dr. Thompson holds a B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the Florida Institute of Technology. For the past four years he has been an adjunct professor at Columbia University, where he teaches a graduate course that explores cutting edge techniques for secure software development and software vulnerability exploitation. Thompson is also Advisory Board member for the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization; on the Editorial Board of IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine, and Senior VP and Chief Security Strategist at Blue Coat Systems, Inc.

Thompson has co-authored four books, more than 80 academic and industry papers and has spoken at more than 50 industry events including the Forrester Security Summit, Usenix Security Conference, SecurIT Conference, Microsoft TechEd, McAfee Worldwide Management Conference and the Gartner IT Security Summit. In 2006, Thompson was named one of the "Top 5 Most Influential Thinkers in IT Security" by SC Magazine and has been interviewed by top news organizations including the BBC, CNN, MSNBC, Financial Times, Washington Post and others.