9.20 am - Confronting Reality: Perspectives on Cyber Threat Activity and Implications for Indo-Pacific Regional Security
Sandra Joyce, VP Mandiant Intelligence, Google Cloud
Sandra Joyce is a cybersecurity leader and has been head of Mandiant Intelligence since 2017. She oversees threat research activities and operations of the Mandiant Intelligence organization and joined Google in 2022, following Google's acquisition of Mandiant.
Sandra is an officer in the U.S. Air Force Reserve, serving as a faculty member at the National Intelligence University. She is also a member of the Aspen Institute Cybersecurity Working Group, sits on the strategic council of the Silverado Policy Accelerator, and is a member of the Institute for Security and Technology's Ransomware Task Force Steering Committee. She is regularly featured in international print and broadcast media to include CNN, NBC, Bloomberg, BBC World, Today Show, NPR, Wall Street Journal, Deutsche Welle, and others.
Sandra is pursuing her PhD at Johns Hopkins University as an Alperovitch Institute Fellow. She has an MBA from MIT and holds four additional master's degrees in cyber-policy, international affairs, science and technology intelligence, and military operational art and science. Sandra speaks English, Spanish, and German.
10.00 am - Threat Informed Defense vs. the Emerging Threat Landscape
Derek Manky, Global VP Threat Intelligence, Fortiguard Labs
Derek Manky leads FortiGuard Labs’ Global Threat Intelligence Team at Fortinet, bringing over 20 years of cyber security experience. He has established frameworks in the security industry including responsible vulnerability disclosure, which has exercised the responsible reporting of over 1000 zero-day vulnerabilities. Manky has been with the Cyber Threat Alliance since it was founded in May 2014. For more than 15 years he has been highly engaged with collaborative industry efforts and public private partnerships including the Cyber Threat Alliance, FIRST.org, NATO NICP, MITRE CTID, INTERPOL Expert Group, and the World Economic Forum Partnership Against Cybercrime (PAC) & Cybercrime Atlas.
His vision is applied to help shape the future of proactive cyber security, with the ultimate goal to make a positive impact towards the global war on cybercrime. In addition to the Cyber Threat Alliance board, Derek sits on the MITRE Engenuity Center for Threat Informed Defense Advisory Council, Cybercrime Atlas Steering Committee and NYIT’s MSc. Cybersecurity Advisory Board.
11.00 am - Lessons Learned from Defending at World Scale – Enduring and Emerging Trends That Matter Most
Justin Warner, Principal Threat Intelligence Lead, Microsoft
Justin Warner is a Principal Threat Intelligence Lead at Microsoft, where he helps to lead a global effort in discovering, tracking, and disrupting the world's most persistent threats to Microsoft customers. In this role, he manages cyber threat intelligence analysis of state-aligned and criminal threat actors that span Microsoft's product and service offerings, while partnering with other security research teams to protect Microsoft customers. Prior to Microsoft, Justin's career has ranged from highly technical cybersecurity roles to senior leadership positions where he oversaw strategy and delivery of security products and services for several companies, giving him a diverse experience and understanding of the challenges practitioners face. Justin holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science with a specialization in cyberwarfare from the US Air Force Academy.
11.30 am - Panel Discussion
Dr Adrian Tang, Director of Enterprise Security, CSIT
Dr Adrian Tang serves as the Director of Enterprise Security at CSIT, where he leads his R&D teams in researching security threats and vulnerabilities, and in developing novel solutions for the nation's security needs. With over a decade of cybersecurity
experience at CSIT, he has contributed in a variety of technical and leadership roles in vulnerability research, malware analysis and red-teaming across a range of digital technologies.
Adrian has a PhD in Computer Science from Columbia
University, and holds three patents in the area of software security. He has shared his insights at several leading industry and academic conferences, including Black Hat, USENIX, IEEE S&P and CCS. With a strong passion for education, he has taught
topics in reverse engineering and malware analysis at National University of Singapore.