Kenny Holmes

Kenny Holmes joined Cisco to lead the next evolution in cybersecurity, bringing over 25 years of Public Sector experience and a track record of building multi-million-dollar SLED businesses at Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, and now Cisco. At Fortinet, he grew the SLED division 350% in four years; at Palo Alto Networks, he helped scale the government business to $300M. Kenny’s deep expertise in cybersecurity and cryptography spans federal and state governments, universities, and major research institutions. He holds a Master’s in Computer Engineering Technology from Ole Miss and executive education in Strategy and AI from Northwestern’s Kellogg School. Based in Chicagoland with his wife and daughter, he’s also a pilot and advocate for autism awareness, especially for girls and women—ask him why he saved the best for last with Cisco Security.

Jeff Hagan

Jeff Hagan is the Vice President of Services and Solutions at Logicalis responsible for Sales of the Managed Services business, including Service Desk, Infrastructure Monitoring & Management, Enterprise Cloud, and Managed Security Services. Jeff has 25 years of experience in the IT industry and brings a unique ability to simplify complexity and to align products, services and solutions to deliver client value.

August Vansickle

OSCE3 | OSCP | CRTO | GCTI | Red Team Operator | Cloud Red Teaming / Purple Teaming | Malware Dev | Malware Analysis

Amanda Taylor

As the Vice President of Security and Risk at DCI, a leading technology service provider for community banks, I am responsible for driving security, resilience, and compliance across our operations. With 15+ years of expertise in business resilience, disaster recovery, information security, and IT regulatory compliance, I’ve built a strong foundation in securing critical banking operations. Passionate about empowering others, I’m dedicated to fostering a culture of security awareness through advanced training programs and mentoring my team. At the core of my work is a commitment to ensuring secure, resilient, and compliant operations that support the future of banking.

Joshua Burget

Joshua Burget is a seasoned IT and network security professional with nearly two decades of hands‑on experience. Joshua brings a rare blend of deep technical acumen and customer-facing expertise, with proven ability to deliver high-impact secure infrastructure solutions. His extensive experience in both public and private sectors enables him to understand and address unique organizational security needs. Whether speaking to executive stakeholders or technical teams, Joshua brings practical insights, strategic foresight, and a passion for secure, scalable innovation.

Jeff Whealen

Jeff Whealen is a Principal Architect specializing in Modern Work solutions, with a deep focus on data security, governance, and AI risk mitigation. With extensive experience helping organizations navigate the complexities of Microsoft Purview, DLP strategies, and data labeling policies, Jeff brings a practical and strategic lens to securing digital environments.

Logan Rhamy

My name is Logan Rhamy, and I am your friendly guide in the ever-changing world of cybersecurity. With over a decade of experience, I specialize in User Education, helping individuals, businesses, and organizations enhance their online security. I have worked with global hospitality companies, regional banks, doctor offices, small business owners, and everyday internet users like you.

Nicki Swart

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicki-swart/

Anthony George

Matthew McGill

Nathan Howard

Nathan Howard is a Cyber Security Engineer at Workday who is passionate about building robust security systems. He brings a unique perspective to his role, forged from four years of experience as a SOAR Engineer at two multi-billion dollar corporations. Nathan specializes in turning complex security challenges into scalable software solutions. When he's not busy taking things apart and putting them back together, you can find him perfecting his latest creation on the smoker.

Garrison LeRock

With almost 10 years of robust experience in cybersecurity at a global private enterprise, Garrison is a dynamic cybersecurity engineer known for leading development and security automation teams in large corporate environments. Outside of work, you can catch Garrison working on his latest AppSec hobby or climbing mountains.

Chrissie Collins

Chrissie Collins is the Director of Cybersecurity Operations at Waterleaf International, a cybersecurity and advanced networking firm. She has over 24 years of experience in information technology and cybersecurity. Before joining Waterleaf in 2023, Chrissie spent 23 years with the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), where she held leadership roles in the Information Security Management Office (ISMO), built and led IT teams, served as the statewide advisor on Transportation Systems Management and Operations (TSM&O) cybersecurity, and chaired the TSM&O Technical Advisory Group. At Cyberleaf, she manages the Security Operations Center (SOC) and oversees detection, incident response, and cyber defense operations.

Adam Sewall

Adam Sewall BS/MSEE, PhD (candidate): Founder & CEO, Waterleaf International/Cyberleaf https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamsewall/ Adam has been a successful senior executive and entrepreneur in network and cyber for more than 25 years. Adam founded Waterleaf International LLC ‘Waterleaf’ (2010) and developed the worlds first commercial low latency microwave networks for the High Frequency Trading (HFT) markets. Waterleaf is comprised of engineers and scientists designing, building and operating smart cities, complex network infrastructure and a prime contractor for the DoD and other agencies. Waterleaf launched the CyberleafSM brand managed Cyber Security as a Service (CSaaS) in 2021 to meet the needs for advanced cyber defense for network and ICS/OT environments. Adam has experience in cybersecurity from offensive and defensive cyber as well as development of Side Channel Analysis and integration of complex cyber defense for network operations on a global basis. He has been an SME on AI/ML and addressing vulnerabilities, resiliency and system defense for critical infrastructure, ICS/OT as well as ground based launch platforms with the NCCOE and next gen networks.

Tara Parker

Tara Parker returns to OzSec with her soft skills! For several years, Tara has worked with highly technical professionals to improve team cohesion and company culture. Specializing in employee engagement strategies, Tara has relied on her soft skills to help technical teams achieve goals and motivate professionals to progress in their careers.

Mike Mahurin

Isaiah Davis-Stober

Isaiah Davis-Stober is bad at writing about himself. Isaiah got started doing security for fun about 6 years ago, loves cats, terrible Bash scripts, automating things in ways that should have never happened, lock picking/bypassing, and tearing apart white labeled IoT devices.

Andrew Hickman

Andrew Hickman is a skilled network security engineer and incident response lead with over a decade of experience in enterprise environments. Currently serving as the Security Engineering Lead at Alias Cybersecurity, he manages SOC operations, leads high-impact incident response efforts, and drives security engineering initiatives across diverse infrastructures. With a background that includes senior roles at Dell Technologies, Andrew brings deep expertise in network design, firewall administration, wireless security, and infrastructure resilience.

Gordon Shumway

Tonya Witherspoon

Samuel Alva

Sara Anstey

Sara Anstey is the Director of Data Analytics and Risk at Novacoast who is passionate about empowering businesses to use everyday data to make strategic business decisions. She believes that the intentional adoption of a data-driven culture can be a key differentiator to companies in today’s security climate. Sara has experience in custom web development, artificial intelligence, data analytics, business intelligence, and applied statistics

Heather Seimens

Angel

Walt Powell

John Dobbin

Dave Carpenter

CISSP, CISM, PMP Dave Carpenter is a business-focused senior executive with over 20 years of military, government consulting, and private industry cybersecurity leadership experience in program management, strategy, policy development and implementation, proposal development and delivery, process improvement, cross-functional management, team leadership and collaboration. Most recently, he was an active Air National Guard Cyberspace Operations Officer, supporting Headquarters Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) as the Division Chief, Communications and Cyberspace Operations (A63) where he developed cyber operations strategy and mission-focus for Great Power Competition, leading the largest geographical area of operations in daily cyber operations and deployed communications. Prior to that role, he was a squadron commander for the 177th Information Aggressor Squadron and the 127th Cyber Operations Squadron, executing Red Team Operations and Cyber Vulnerability Analysis and Hunt mission-sets. Additionally, Dave was the Vice President for Federal Operations for Securicon, LLC, a Virginia-based cybersecurity firm supporting Federal, Military and Commercial Clients. His teams advised multiple federal agencies on information security, risk and compliance, and security architecture solutions to secure federal systems, applications and networks. Further, he worked in the aerospace and defense sector for a tier 1 aerostructures manufacturer as the Integrated Business Team Manager for New Programs, and as a Global Risk Management Program Manager. He is a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), and a Project Management Professional (PMP), and has a degree in Management Information Systems from Oklahoma State University.