Moderator: Katie Noble serves as a Director of PSIRT, Bug Bounty, and the Security Working Artifacts Team at Intel Corp. In her role, she leads the cybersecurity vulnerability Bug Bounty program, researcher outreach, and strategic planning efforts. Prior to joining Intel, Katie served as the Section Chief of Vulnerability Management and Coordination at the Department of Homeland Security, Cyber and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Her team is credited with the coordination and public disclosure of 20,000+ cybersecurity vulnerabilities within a two-year period. During her government tenure, in roles spanning Intelligence Analyst for the National Intelligence Community to Senior Policy Advisor for White House led National Security Council Cyber programs, Katie’s work directly impacted decision making for government agencies in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia.
Tonya Drummonds is the Director of the Security & Customer Trust at Dell Technologies. Her team is responsible for representing the corporate security rules, procedures, controls and compliance to industry standards to customers of Dell Technologies who require vendors to prove their sound security protocol before buying products or services.
Tonya previously managed Enterprise Information Security Governance after filling the role of strategist and leader of the Global Data Classification Program for over 8 years, ensuring that all structured and unstructured data is identified, classified for sensitivity and protected adequately. Her expertise covers security awareness programs, data owner accountability projects, data mapping and minimization which aligns to various global privacy regulation requirements. In her 25+ year career, she has contributed to the company’s focus on data security and has worked diligently to create a security culture, ensuring customer trust.
Lastly, Tonya served as the co-executive sponsor of Diversity & Inclusion for her security organization for the past 2.5 years. Her passion for creating a respectful and supportive workplace that is broadly representative of the customers and communities that Dell serves is contagious. She led several initiatives that showcase global cultures, diversity awareness campaigns, career development/retention programs and volunteer efforts. She enjoys mentoring/career coaching students and fellow professionals in technology and cybersecurity.
Manish Gaur (VMware) Manish Gaur is the Head of Product Security at VMware. He is responsible for the security of VMware's portfolio of software-defined, end-user, multi-cloud, and cloud-native infrastructure products and services. With an early focus on applied cryptography and network security, Manish's career spans from defensive to offensive security. He is passionate about building strong security teams that can combat current as well as future threats and adversaries.
Skip Mann is the driving force behind security advocacy efforts for Lenovo's global security enterprise. As the leader of this team, he is responsible for promoting and evolving Lenovo's commitment to security, with a particular focus on data privacy, infrastructure, product and service, supply chain, and physical security. His efforts ensure that Lenovo remains a trusted leader and enabler of intelligent transformation.
With more than 32 years of experience in the security profession, Skip has led risk management, cyber and physical security, business continuity, and critical infrastructure protection efforts at regional, national, and global levels. He has served in executive positions for 16 years, showcasing his transformational and collaborative leadership style, which has strengthened public and private organizations.
Skip is an organizational resilience thought leader, with a proven track record of building, mentoring, and energizing world-class teams. He is renowned for his ability to drive risk-focused convergence of security and continuity programs, making him a sought-after advisor and speaker on the topic.
Prior to joining Lenovo, Skip held executive positions at the US Department of Homeland Security's Transportation Security Administration, Catalysis Learning Alliance, and several US Department of Defense agencies, including United States European Command, the Central United States Registry, US Army Headquarters, and United States Africa Command.
Tania Ward is a Director within the Vulnerability Response, Community Enablement, and Customer Security Team at Dell Technologies. In this role, she oversees the Vulnerability Response Champions, Vulnerability Response Training, and Customer Security. Prior to this role, Tania has worked as a program manager within Dell Product Security Incident Response Team for just under 6 years. In that time, she revamped the vulnerability response program, instituted company-wide KPIs, and participated in a number of FIRST initiatives. She also participated in establishing the PSIRT and the Multi-Vendor Coordination frameworks from FIRST and participates in SAFECode. Tania is from Northern Ireland and graduated with a degree in Computer Science from the University of Aberystwyth, Wales. She moved to the United States in 1999 to join Microsoft where she spent just over 14 years working on a multitude of different products such as SQL Server, Windows Live, and Microsoft Office.
