Program Overview

Amy Rose is the PSIRT Manager at NVIDIA and is a leader in the design and implementation of the Minimum Viable Security Bar program. She has worked in Product Security Incident Response as well as various other security roles for multiple companies and has an interest in improving processes to make life easier. Amy lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina with her family.

Omar Santos is an active member of the security community, where he leads several industry-wide initiatives and standard bodies. His active role helps businesses, academic institutions, state and local law enforcement agencies, and other participants that are dedicated to increasing the security of the critical infrastructure.

Omar is the author of over 20 books and video courses; numerous white papers, articles, and security configuration guidelines and best practices. Omar is a Principal Engineer of Cisco’s Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) where he mentors and lead engineers and incident managers during the investigation and resolution of security vulnerabilities.

Cassi Rodano has recently become the manager of the PSIRT - Technical Program Management at Dell Technologies. In this role, she oversees the team that is responsible for coordinating the response to and disclosure of vulnerabilities impacting Dell products to provide customers with timely information, guidance, and mitigation options. Cassi is part of the FIRST PSIRT SIG and a mentor in the Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS) mentor/mentee program.

Patricia Tarro is the Product Manager for Dependency Management at Dell Technologies. In this role, she is responsible for defining the Dell enterprise-wide approach to managing risks from third-party components and internal dependencies. Tricia has over 30 years of Information Technology experience, spending the past 3 years with the Product and Applications Security team. In 2020, she earned a master’s degree in Administration of Justice and Homeland Security with a concentration in Cybersecurity and Intelligence. Currently she is pursuing a doctoral degree in Homeland Security at St. John’s University in Queens, NY.

Aditi Sharma is the Product Manager for SBOM within the Product and Application organization at Dell Technologies. In this role, she is responsible for driving the Dell enterprise-wide strategy for SBOM generation, management, compliance, business alliance and customer requests. Over the past 15 years in technology , she has enjoyed working with customers and designing solutions in automotive, telecom and security space. Aditi is an Electrical and Electronics Engineer and holds CSPO, GIAC and Data Analytics and Visualization certifications. She is an active member of SAFECode and aspires to contribute more in the open source community.

Emer O'Neill: Emer O’Neill is the Senior Manager of the VMware Security Response Center, a group which is part of Research & Development (R&D) at VMware. With more than 19 years of technical, program management and leadership experience in the high-tech industry, Emer has been with VMware for the past 12 years and worked in the customer facing Global Support Services (GSS) as both a technical support engineer and then manager and more recently in 2016 moved to R&D leading a global team whom are responsible for analysis and remediation of software security issues in VMware products. Emer holds a MBS in Business Practice from UCC & the Irish Management Institute.