The Future of Cyber: Lateral Security, Edge Ecosystems, External Attack Surface Mgmt – Christopher Kruegel, Theresa Lanowitz, Vinay Anand – ESW #316

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Guests
Chief Product Officer (CPO) at NetSPI

Vinay Anand is a seasoned technology leader with expertise in leading product strategy, engineering, business development and product marketing for security, software and networking products. Vinay has spent a major portion of the last 20 years focused on developing security solutions for enterprise markets.

Most recently Vinay was the VP of Products for Prisma Cloud – Palo Alto Networks’ public cloud security platform. Prior to this, Vinay was responsible for Anthos Trusted Services covering security, compliance and service management for hybrid clouds at Google. Vinay came to Google from IBM where he was the Vice President of Global Product Management and Strategy for IBM Security, driving strategy and product innovation for the $2B IBM security portfolio. Before that, Vinay was the VP & GM for the ClearPass Security business at Aruba, an HPE company. Prior to Aruba, Vinay held leadership roles in McAfee, Symantec & Cisco Systems.

VP Security Services at VMware

Christopher Kruegel is VP Security Services at the Network and Security Business Unit (NSBU) at VMware. Before that, Christopher was a co-founder at Lastline, where he served in various positions (CEO, Chief Product Officer, and Chief Scientist) until the acquisition by VMware. In addition, Christopher is a Professor of Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara (currently on leave). Christopher’s research interests are computer and communications security, with an emphasis on malware analysis and detection, web security, and intrusion detection. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers in top computer security conferences. He is also the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award, an MIT Technology Review TR35 Award for young innovators, an IBM Faculty Award, and several best paper awards.

Theresa Lanowitz is a globally recognized cybersecurity leader, former Gartner analyst, and former Chief Cybersecurity Evangelist with AT&T Cybersecurity and LevelBlue.

She is the creator of Executive-led Growth, a strategy that emphasizes the importance of business understanding in the cybersecurity market.

With a distinguished career in the technology industry, Theresa has held influential roles at companies including Gartner, Borland, Taligent, and Sun Microsystems, significantly impacting application security and emerging technologies.

Theresa is a globally respected leader known for her deep and diverse experience in cybersecurity. She frequently speaks at major industry conferences, including RSA and Black Hat sharing her insights on market trends, AI integration, and the evolving threat landscape. She’s been published in Forbes, Dark Reading, SC Media, ISMG, InformationWeek, and more, with her contributions reflecting a deep commitment to advancing cybersecurity practices and fostering innovation within the industry.

Theresa holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.

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