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Tuesday, 18 March 2025
Explore the latest breakthroughs shaping the future of cybersecurity. The Emerging Technology track brings together though leaders and innovators to showcase advancements. Gain insights on how these developments will impact defense strategies in the coming years.
Wednesday, 19 March 2025
As cloud adoption accelerates, securing the cloud remains a critical challenge. The Cloud Security track offers deep dives into securing multi-cloud strategies and the latest solutions to safeguard cloud data. Learn from experts on how to tackle cloud-specific threats in a rapidly evolving environment.
Wednesday, 19 March 2025
The ability to swiftly detect, investigate, and respond to cyber threats is crucial for minimizing damage. The Detection & Response track focuses on best practices, tools, and techniques for building robust threat detection and incident response capabilities.
Thursday, 20 March 2025
The Attach Surface & Vulnerability track explores strategies for identifying, assessing, and mitigating vulnerabilities across diverse environments. Learn how to manage these risks with top experts in the industry.
Thursday, 20 March 2025
The Zero Trust track will cover how to implement Zero Trust architectures and secure identities. Discover practical approaches and ensure greater protection against advanced threats.
Cyber Expert Speakers
Additional speakers to be announced soon!
Aaron O'Maley
Attack Surface & Vulnerability Management Track | Aaron is a Customer Success Manager who has helped over 100 Threat Intelligence teams translate their collection requirements into actionable intelligence.
Al Carchrie
Detection & Response Track | Al is a Lead Solutions Engineer and leads the R&D team at Cado Security. He served 22 years in the Royal Air Force, 12 of which operating across multiple Computer Network Defense disciplines, and was part of PwC UK's Cyber Threat Operations team before.
Amit Sheps
Attack Surface & Vulnerability Management Track | Amit brings 15+ years of cybersecurity expertise to his role as Director of Product Marketing at IONIX, where he specializes in external attack surface management.
Andrew Castro
Attack Surface & Vulnerability Management Track | Andy has worked in cyber threat intelligence and vulnerability management for over 8 years in the private sector, including the Defense and Education sectors.
Anthony Bradshaw
Detection & Response Track | Anthony is responsible for the global MDR incident response team at Sophos. He leads a team of highly skilled incident responders who investigate, contain, and neutralize attacks.
Dr. Anton Chuvakin
Detection & Response Track | Dr. Anton Chuvakin is a leader of the security solution strategy at Google Cloud, where he arrived via Chronicle Security (an Alphabet company) acquisition in July 2019.
Ben Hirschberg
Cloud Security Track | ARMO CTO and Co-Founder, a veteran cybersecurity and DevOps professional, as well as a computer science lecturer.
Carl Levine
Detection & Response Track | Carl is the Senior Product Manager at DNSFilter, with over 20 years of tech industry experience. He will be presenting "The Twilight of Blocklists: How AI and DNS Detect Modern Threats."
Craig Roberts
Attack Surface & Vulnerability Management Track | Craig Roberts is a Principal Software Engineer for the Attack Surface Management products at Rapid7. Craig was previously the Field CTO and part of the founding team of Noetic, acquired by Rapid7 in 2024.
Crystal Morin
Cloud Security Track | Crystal is a cybersecurity strategist at Sysdig, a company founded by the creators of Wireshark, Stratoshark, and Falco. She is tasked with bridging the gap between business and security through cloud and container-focused webinars and papers for everyone from executives to technical practitioners.
Dick Lake
Cloud Security Track | Richard "Dick" Lake is a Senior Product Manager on the Cloud Security Customer Experience Engineering Team where he focuses on Microsoft Defender for Cloud.
Dirk Schrader
Attack Surface & Vulnerability Management Track | Being a native of Germany, he brings more than 25 years of delivering IT security expertise at a global scale.
Eric Carter
Cloud Security Track | Eric Carter is the Director of Product Marketing, focused on cultivating Sysdig’s technology cloud and container partner ecosystem.
Erik Buchanan
Emerging Technologies Track | Erik is an AI engineering leader. He led the AI team for LinkedIn's hiring products, and built an education program called AI Academy there to drive LinkedIn's AI-first shift. Erik led engineering for tech startups Connectifier and CloseFactor.
George Prichici
Cloud Security Track | George Prichici is the VP of Product Management at OPSWAT, responsible for its Application Security Solutions.
Greg Kushmerek
Detection & Response Track | Greg brings decades of experience in understanding how security technology works and then explaining it to others, both technically and its business impact.
Heath Mullins
Detection & Response Track | Heath Mullins is the Chief Evangelist at ExtraHop, where he leads thought leadership and advocacy for cutting-edge cybersecurity solutions.
Jamie Cowper
Attack Surface & Vulnerability Management Track | Jamie Cowper is Director of Product Marketing at Rapid7. Based in London, Jamie has more than 25 years of experience in the cybersecurity industry working for both start-ups and large vendors.
Jamie Scott
Emerging Technologies Track | Jamie is the Founding Product Manager at Endor Labs. His session will cover "The Dark Side of Open Source Productivity".
Jason Mar-Tang
Attack Surface & Vulnerability Management Track | Jason is the Field Chief Information Security Officer at Pentera, with over 15 years in IT and 13 in cybersecurity.
Jay Lillie
Detection & Response Track | Jay Lillie is VP Customer Success for CardinalOps where he helps organizations around the world improve their SIEM-based detection posture.
Jeremy Goldsmith
Emerging Technologies Track | Jeremy is an Army Veteran and Cortex Solutions Engineer at Palo Alto Networks. He will be presenting The AI-SecOps Convergence session.
Jimmy Mesta
Detection & Response Track | Jimmy Mesta is the founder and Chief Technology Officer at RAD Security. He is responsible for the technological vision for the RAD Security platform.
Jonathan Sander
Emerging Technologies Track | Jonathan is the Field Chief Technology Officer at Astrix Security. He will be presenting the Beyond Service Accounts: Risk and Realities of Managed Identities session.
Josh Darby MacLellan
Attack Surface & Vulnerability Management Track | Josh is a Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) professional with experience in the financial, tech, and cybersecurity sectors in North America and Europe.
Kanna Sekar
Detection & Response Track | Kanna is a seasoned Cyber Security professional specializing in Business development, Cloud security, Security architecture, Security design, Professional services, Security operations, Incident management, Device management and Vulnerability management etc.
Keith Manville
Detection & Response Track | Keith Manville is a Security Operations Engineer for Google Cloud with expertise in Cloud Security, SOAR, SIEM and Zero Trust.
Kfir Gollan
Emerging Technologies Track | Kfir is the CTO and co-founder of CeTu, the data orchestration platform for the modern SOC. Kfir is an expert in cybersecurity as well as in cloud, analytics, and high-performance data pipeline architectures. He previously led development for Drivenets, a scalable, cloud-native network data processing platform. Kfir started his career in the cybersecurity unit of the IDF and holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the College of Management Academic Studies.
Kim Elias
Emerging Technologies Track | Kim Elias, Senior Compliance Specialist at Vanta, has first hand scaling GRC programs at organizations and now leverages automation and AI in her own work. With expertise in SOC 2, ISO 27001, and risk management, she guides security leaders in operationalizing trust, automating compliance, and strengthening security foundations to navigate evolving threats and regulatory requirements efficiently.
Krithi Vasan
Cloud Security Track | Krithivasan Mecheri is a seasoned professional in product security, AI security, cloud security, and security architecture, currently serving as Senior Director at Palo Alto Networks.
Lara Goldstein
Cloud Security Track | Lara Goldstein is a Senior Product Manager for Microsoft Defender for Cloud, specializing in DevOps security for cloud native applications. With expertise in software supply chain security, AI security, and code-to-runtime visibility, Lara is passionate about enabling developers to fix security issues at the source.
Lauren Wade
Emerging Technologies Track | As a Product Marketing Leader at Vanta, Lauren actively engages with GRC professionals, learning from their challenges and insights to shape solutions that drive real impact. Her work bridges the gap between security teams and innovation, ensuring organizations can navigate evolving risks while maintaining a strong, scalable compliance foundation.
Lior Zatlavi
Cloud Security Track | Lior is the Director of Cloud Security Advocacy at Tenable. He has over 15 years of cyber security experience and has served in an elite cyber security unit.
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Matt Mellen
Cloud Security Track | Matt Mellen is Senior Director of Information Security Operations at Palo Alto Networks. He leads global execution of the services that protect the company from cyberattacks; Cyber Incident Response, Threat Detection Engineering, Security Automation, Cloud IR Engineering, among others.
Matt Tesauro
Attack Surface & Vulnerability Management Track | Matt Tesauro is a DevSecOps and AppSec guru who specializes in creating security programs, leveraging automation to maximize team velocity and training emerging and senior security professionals.
Mark Batchelor
Detection & Response Track | Mark is the Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder of Verosint, developers of a fraud intelligence platform that discovers and prevents account and platform fraud in real-time.
Mark Gillett
Detection & Response Track | Mark Gillett is Vice President, Product Management at eSentire. He has nearly 25 years experience in the cybersecurity industry, driving the evolution of detection, investigation, and response from the early days of SIEM to modern-day Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and Extended Detection and Response (XDR).
Mark Stockley
Detection & Response Track | Mark is ThreatDown's Cybersecurity Evangelist—a man with a passion for making complex security concepts engaging and easy to understand. A renowned speaker, writer, and podcaster, Mark has a wealth of knowledge to share on the subjects of cybersecurity, ransomware and AI.
Michal Gil
Emerging Technologies Track | Michal is head of product for CeTu, the data orchestration platform for the modern SOC. Prior to CeTu, she served in senior product leadership roles at CybeReady, Zerto, and SolarEdge. Michal holds a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.TBS
Orion Cassetto
Cloud Security Track | Orion is a Senior Director of Product Marketing at Palo Alto Networks and is a security enthusiast with more than a decade of experience marketing cybersecurity and Web application security products.
Paul Asadoorian
Attack Surface & Vulnerability Management Track | Paul Asadoorian is currently the Principal Security Researcher for Eclypsium. Paul is also the founder of Security Weekly, a security podcast network (acquired by CyberRisk Alliance in 2020) and now serves as a podcast host for Paul’s Security Weekly.
Ray Heffer
Zero Trust Track | Ray is Americas Field Chief Information Security Officer at Veeam. With almost 30 years in the field, he shares his knowledge and background in information security to offer guidance, support, and expertise to security leaders.
Robert Elworthy
Detection & Response Track | Robert Elworthy is the Product Manager of EDR and previously managed the Solutions Engineering team for ThreatDown Solutions. Before Malwarebytes, Robert worked as a Director of I.T. at Langdale Industries for 8 years.
Ron Eddings
Cloud Security Track | Ronald Eddings is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Hacker Valley Media. He is a cybersecurity professional, and content creator whose ingenuity, dedication, and ambition have earned him a reputation as a trusted industry leader.
Ryan Chapman
Detection & Response Track | Team Lead for the Unit 42 Managed Threat Hunting team with Palo Alto Networks, and has worked in the DFIR for 13 years. He is the author of SANS FOR528: Ransomware and Cyber Extortion and also teaches SANS FOR610: Reverse Engineering Malware.
Sandy Borneman-Wenzel
Detection & Response Track | Principal Architect, Cloud Security at Google Cloud.
Shannon Lucas
Detection & Response Track | Shannon is the Principal Solutions Architect at Cado Security, with over 25 years of experience in cloud security. He also serves as faculty at Brigham Young University teaching fellow cyber enthusiast.
Shashank Golla
Cloud Security Track | Shashank Golla is a Product Marketer at Wiz and has over 9 years of experience spanning software engineering, product management, and marketing in the tech industry. He currently leads strategy and go-to-market initiatives for Wiz’s platform features, helping customers discover and understand how Wiz can solve their security challenges.
Shunta Sharod Sanders
Attack Surface & Vulnerability Management Track | Mr. Shunta Sharod Sanders is a highly skilled, performance-driven, and accomplished IT professional, with 20+ years of demonstrated ability to lead diverse teams of professionals to new levels of success in various highly competitive industries, progressive markets, and fast-paced environments. Coordinate between technical and non-technical individuals.
Snir Ben Shimol
Emerging Technologies Track | Snir is the Co-Founder & CEO of ZEST Security, and an ex intelligence officer with over 15 years of leadership experience.
Tia Hopkins
Attack Surface & Vulnerability Management Track | As Chief Cyber Resilience Officer & Field CTO, Tia Hopkins is focused on engaging with the cybersecurity community, providing thought leadership, supporting strategic customer and partner engagements, and working closely with the sales, marketing, product, engineering, and customer success teams to drive security outcome-focused initiatives.
Tony Goulding
Zero Trust Track | Tony Goulding is a cybersecurity expert and evangelist with over 25 years of experience in the IT security community. He currently works as a Senior Director and Cybersecurity Evangelist at Delinea, where he is involved in product positioning, messaging, analyst relations, market and competitive intelligence, sales enablement, content creation, go-to-market strategy, and thought leadership.
Travis Favaron
Detection & Response Track | Travis is the Head of Product at Verosint, where he leads the development of solutions that help organizations detect, investigate, and remediate account-based security threats.
Tyler Reese
Zero Trust Track | With more than two decades in the software security industry, Tyler Reese is extremely familiar with the rapidly evolving identity and security challenges that businesses face.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Q: What is Spring Cyber Fest?
A: Spring Cyber Fest is a multi-day virtual event hosted by SANS, bringing together cybersecurity experts and practitioners to share insights, best practices, and actionable strategies across various tracks like threat hunting, cloud security, ransomware, and more. Attendees can expect expert-led sessions, hands-on demos, emerging threat insights, and networking opportunities—all at no cost.
Q: How many CPE credits can I earn?
A: You will earn 1 CPE credit for every hour you attend live or watch the recordings. For example, a 120-minute session earns you 2 CPE credits. This is a great opportunity to advance your professional development while learning from industry leaders.
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Q: What can I expect from the event if I’m new to SANS?
A: Expect high-quality, expert-led content tailored for cybersecurity professionals. Each track features sessions designed to provide practical knowledge, innovative solutions, and insights into the latest threats. You’ll also have the opportunity to ask questions and interact with presenters during live sessions.
Q: Do I need to register for reach track separately?
A: Yes, registration is required for each track you’d like to attend. With five distinct tracks, you can customize your experience by choosing the topics most relevant to you. Don’t worry—registering for multiple tracks is quick and easy!
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A: Detailed agendas and speaker lineups will be released closer to the event date. By registering, you’ll receive updates and announcements directly in your inbox, so you’re always in the loop.
Q: Can I attend if I have a busy schedule?
A: Absolutely! Sessions are designed to be flexible, and recordings will be available after the event to those who are registered. You can attend live sessions whenever possible and catch up on the rest at your convenience.
Q: Is Spring Cyber Fest free to attend?
A: Yes, Spring Cyber Fest is completely free! There’s no cost to register or attend any of the sessions.
Q: Who should attend Spring Cyber Fest?
A: Spring Cyber Fest is designed for both cybersecurity practitioners and executives. The event offers a variety of sessions covering an array of topics, ensuring relevant insights for professionals across different roles, industries, and experience levels.
Q: Is the event global?
A: Yes! Spring Cyber Fest is a global event, accessible to attendees worldwide. The virtual format ensures you can join from anywhere to explore cutting-edge content and connect with the cybersecurity community.
Q: Will recordings be available?
A: Absolutely. All sessions will be recorded and made available for registered attendees. You’ll have the flexibility to revisit sessions at your convenience or catch up on those you couldn’t attend live.
Q: Will there be opportunities for networking?
A: Yes, Spring Cyber Fest includes opportunities to engage with fellow attendees and speakers through live Q&A sessions and interactive chats.
Q: How do I ask questions during sessions?
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