We held a VIP event alongside the annual RSAC Conference in San Francisco
When: Tuesday April 29th – 6-9 PM
Where: University Club of San Francisco (4th floor lounge)
What: Networking, speeches, drinks, snacks
The AMTSO reception on Tuesday April 29th was an evening of networking, discussion, guest speakers and more.
Attendees enjoyed drinks and snacks while meeting with AMTSO members and others with an interest in cybersecurity testing, hear ingabout what’s going on at AMTSO, learning from our panel discussion, and joining the debate.
6:00–7:00PM : Open doors, networking
7:00–8:00PM : Welcome speeches
Expert panel
AMTSO Awards Ceremony
8:00–9:00PM : Networking
THE UNIVERSITY CLUB OF SAN FRANCISCO
800 Powell Street, San Francisco, CA 94108
We gathered at the venerable University Club of San Francisco, just a mile from the Moscone Center at the top of historic Nob Hill. The 4th-floor lounge space features a balcony with spectacular city views.
The event included an open bar and fabulous canapes from the club’s renowned kitchens.
These industry luminaries all took part in our panel discussion on collaboration and cooperation across the cybersecurity world:
Director of Cybersecurity, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Eva Galperin is EFF’s Director of Cybersecurity. Her work is primarily focused on providing privacy and security for vulnerable populations around the world. To that end, she has applied the combination of her political science and technical background to everything from organizing EFF’s Tor Relay Challenge, to writing privacy and security training materials (including Surveillance Self Defense and the Digital First Aid Kit), and publishing research on malware in Syria, Vietnam, Lebanon, and Kazakhstan. Since 2018, she has worked on addressing the digital privacy and security needs of survivors or domestic abuse. She is also a co-founder of the Coalition Against Stalkerware.
Director and co-founder, Center for Threat-Informed Defense, MITRE
As the Director and co-founder of MITRE’s Center for Threat-Informed Defense, Jon Baker advances the state of the art and the practice in threat-informed defense globally. He has extensive experience leading R&D teams and collaborating with industry to advance cybersecurity for all.
VP & CISO in Residence, Zscaler
Sam Curry is a 30-year veteran of the cybersecurity industry. He began his career in signals and cryptanalysis and was the first employee at Signal 9 Solutions, a small start-up that invented the personal firewall, executed the first commercial implementation of Blowfish, and devised early stealthy (symmetric key) VPN technology that was ultimately sold to McAfee.
Sam would go on to serve as Chief Security Architect there and as head of Product for McAfee.com before holding several positions at RSA including head of RSA labs at MIT, head of product, and CTO, as well as Distinguished Engineer for EMC. After seven years with RSA, Curry acted as SVP and CISO at Microstrategy, CSO & CTO for Arbor Networks before it became Netscout, and as CSO for Cyberreason.
Sam is a Forbes contributor, holds 17 active patents in cybersecurity and a master’s degree in counterterrorism, and sits on two boards of directors. In addition, he teaches courses at Harvard (online), Wentworth Technology Institute, and Nichols College. He is also a Fellow at the National Security Institute at George Mason University.
We handed out several awards during the event, recognising member companies and individuals who have made special contributions to AMTSO.
Our thanks and congratulations to all award winners!
These AMTSO members registered to attend – plus many special guests!
People from these non-member companies and organizations were also on the guest list:
* Selected participants only. Logos included indicate only that an individual from the entity represented has signed up to attend our event, no assertion is made or implied that any represented entity supports or endorses AMTSO or our events.
