Muhammad Muneer
Muhammad Muneer is a Senior Incident Response Consultant at Mandiant. As part of the Incident Response team, Muhammad works on incident response engagements, compromise assessments, and threat hunting engagements. As part of the Strategic Services team Muhammad has delivered Security Program Development and Transformation engagements, with a focus on Incident Response Preparedness and Ransomware Response/Defense, for Canadian and multi-national organizations. Muhammad is also the global lead at Mandiant for the Threat Hunting service developing and delivering threat hunt engagements as well as threat hunt program development and training.
Dan Browne
Dan Browne has been tinkering with computers since he was knee high to a grasshopper, including trs80, the original IBM PC, dial-up bulletin boards and did the whole dotcom internet thing.
During his teen years he was involved in LAN parties and from there became a software developer.
In the mid 2010s he transitioned to cyber security and has experience in red teaming, vulnerability management and ICS/OT.
He joined Mandiant in 2021 and has been there ever since.
He took part in the OpenAI beta in 2021 and has been following the indie LLM scene on various discords along with running his own
home-rolled Llama and stable-diffusion based AIs on various of his home servers.
Ymir Vigfusson PhD
Ymir Vigfusson PhD is the CTO and co-founder of Keystrike and an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Emory University (on leave). He has a bunch of exploits, scientific papers (60+), patents (5+), accolades, talks (2M+ views), startups (Syndis, Adversary), and kids (4) under his belt.
Siggi Bjarnason
Siggi Bjarnason is a Cybersecurity Technical Specialist for Nanitor and has been involved with computers since the early 1980s. He started going online in the days of 300baud dial up modems about a decade before the Netscape Navigator (the first commercial browser, ever) was released. Born and raised in Reykjavik went to collage in Tacoma/Seattle WA area in his 20s where he earned a BS in Computer Engineering. He ended up staying in the US for 30 years, working for large enterprises like Microsoft and T-Mobile US, among others. He moved back to Reykjavik area in 2020 to be closer to family and now works for Nanitor helping them deliver an amazing CTEM solution to the market.
Ken Westin
Ken Westin has been in the cybersecurity field for over 15 years working with companies to improve their security posture, through threat hunting, insider threat programs, and vulnerability research. In the past, he has worked closely with law enforcement helping to unveil organized crime groups. His work has been featured in Wired, Forbes, New York Times, Good Morning America, and others, and is regularly reached out to as an expert in cybersecurity, cybercrime, and surveillance.
Ken is an Oregon Native who splits his time between a house in the woods near Portland and a beach shack on the Oregon Coast with his wife, son, and two dogs. He holds a BA from Lewis & Clark College, a graduate degree from the University of Portsmouth UK, and several security certifications. He is a self-professed guitar and record hoarder and amateur musician
Derek Melber, 19X Microsoft MVP
Derek has built a career out of public speaking, content creation, sales, marketing, and enterprise design around a core set of technologies like identity security, Active Directory/Azure Active Directory, cloud identity, PAM, CIEM, MFA, SSO, Group Policy, and other integrated technologies. Derek has worked for and with companies leading in these areas such as Microsoft, AWS, BeyondTrust, Quest, ManageEngine, Specops, Bloodhound, and more. Derek has authored over 15 books, including The Group Policy Resource Kit and Auditing Windows Active Directory. Derek is always consulting with high profile prospects and customers that need to understand how different identity related technologies work together and what each component is responsible for. Consulting requires the ability to speak to the most technical person, as well as the least technical person, while still communicating the overall concepts and requirements to all levels. Derek maintains these abilities in oral and written forms, as well as mastering the art of communicating to audiences of all sizes to intertwine his knowledge, communication skills, and enterprise design understanding. You can reach Derek at derekm@braincore.net and @derekmelber on LinkedIn.