About our presenters_
sam curry, chief security officer, cybereason
Sam Curry is a security visionary and thought leader and has been interviewed by hundreds of journalists, has published broadly and has talked in media on security trends, threats and the impact of "cyber" on us all. He recently won an Award as a 30 year visionary from SC Magazine and is a Visiting Fellow at the National Security Institute. Previously, Sam was CTO & CISO for Arbor Networks (Danaher and NetScout) and was CSO & SVP R&D at Microstrategy in addition to senior, executive security roles at McAfee and CA. He spent 7 years at RSA (the Security Division of EMC, where he was a distinguished engineer and Fellow nominee) as CSO, Chief Technologist and SVP of Product. Sam also has 24 patents in security from his time as a security architect, has been a leader in two successful startups and is a board member of the Cybersecurity Coalition, of SSH Communications and of Sequitur Labs (in the IoT security space) in addition to a number of advisor-ships across the security spectrum.
Dr. alon kaufman, Co-Founder and CEO, Duality Technologies
Alon Kaufman, Co-Founder and CEO of Duality Technologies, has 20 years of experience in the hi-tech arena, commercializing data-science technologies, leading industrial research and corporate innovation teams. Prior to founding Duality he served as RSA’s global director of Data Science, Research and Innovation. In addition to his leadership experience, he is accomplished in the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning and how they interplay with security and privacy, with over 30 approved US patents in these fields. He holds a PhD. in Computational Neuroscience and machine learning from the Hebrew University and an MBA from Tel Aviv University.
