Ms Abend was a Managing Director at Bank of New York Mellon and has served at the Federal Reserve Board and as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Critical Infrastructure Protection at the Treasury Department. Valerie was also an Associate Director at KPMG and served on the White House’s Identity Theft Task Force, as Co- Chair of the Financial Services Sector Coordinating Council’s policy committee, the Executive Women’s Forum, and on the Board of Directors for the Internet Security Alliance.

Mr Asher classifies himself as a technologist who happens to specialise in security and loves finding innovative and pragmatic solutions to business problems.

Mr Asher holds a Masters in Information Security from the University of London.

Mr Hypponen has been listed on Foreign Policy Magazine's Top 100 Global Thinkers list. His TED Talk has been seen by 1.5 million people and translated to 40 languages. He's also the Curator for the Malware Museum at the Internet Archive.

As a Commissioner, he has the legal authority to investigate cyber threats and incidents to ensure that essential services are not disrupted in the event of a cyber-attack.

Concurrently, as Chief Executive of CSA, he leads Singapore's efforts to provide dedicated and centralised oversight of national cyber security functions. These include enforcing the cybersecurity legislation, strategy and policy development, cyber security operations, ecosystem development, public outreach and international engagement.

As the Deputy Secretary (Special Projects) and Defence Cyber Chief of MINDEF, he is responsible for leading and coordinating cyber defence policy, capability development, and operations for Singapore’s defence cluster. This includes MINDEF, the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF), the defence technology community, defence industry partners, and MINDEF- related organisations.

Mr Koh also sits on the Boards of the Government Technology Agency (GovTech), Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA) and DSO National Laboratories (DSO) as well as the Public Utilities Board (PUB)'s Board Risk Management Committee.

Prior to his current appointments, Mr Koh served in the SAF and has held various command and staff appointments in MINDEF and the SAF. He was most recently the Deputy Secretary (Technology), overseeing acquisition, technology and logistics issues for MINDEF and the SAF.

Mr Koh is the recipient of the first Billington CyberSecurity International Leadership Award. He has also been awarded the Public Administration Medal - Gold, the Public Administration Medal - Silver (Military), the Public Administration Medal - Bronze (Military), and the Commendation Medal (Military).

Mr Koh has a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Harvard University, USA; and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from King’s College, London, UK.

He and his wife, Marlene, have 3 children, Daniel, Rachel and Michael.

Mr Mandia joined the company as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer in December 2013, when FireEye acquired Mandiant, the company he founded in 2004.

Mr Mandia has spent more than 20 years in information security and has been on the front lines helping organizations respond to computer security breaches. Before Mandiant, he was the Director of Computer Forensics at Foundstone (acquired by McAfee Corporation) from 2000 to 2003, and he was the Director of Information Security for Sytex (later acquired by Lockheed Martin) from 1998 to 2000. Mr Mandia was also a United States Air Force Officer, serving as a computer security officer in the 7th Communications Group at the Pentagon, and a special agent in the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI).

He holds a BS in computer science from Lafayette College and a M.S. in forensic science from The George Washington University.

With more than 25 years of industry and government experience, she serves on the World Economic Forum Global Council on the Future of Cybersecurity, and on the boards of The George Washington University Center for Cyber and Homeland Security, and the UK Cyber Defence Alliance. Ms McGuire is a frequent presenter at international conferences on cyber risk management and resilience, information sharing, and cybercrime, and has testified numerous times as an invited expert witness before the US Congress.

From 2010 to 2012, she served as Chair of the US IT Sector Coordinating Council – one of 16 critical sectors identified by the President and the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to partner with the government on critical infrastructure protection (CIP) and cybersecurity. She is a past board member of the IT Information Sharing and Analysis Center, and a former member of the Industry Executive Subcommittee of the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee.

Prior to her current role, she served for six years as Vice President of Global Government Affairs and Cybersecurity Policy at Symantec. Ms McGuire was responsible for the security vendor’s global public policy agenda, and government regulatory and partnership strategy, which included cybersecurity, CIP, cybercrime, data integrity, and privacy. Previously, she was Director for Critical Infrastructure and Cybersecurity in Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing Group.

Prior to this, she served in numerous positions at DHS, including as head of the National Cyber Security Division/US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT). In this capacity, she provided leadership for DHS on the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI) released by the President in January 2008, led the implementation of the 2008 National Cyber Exercise – Cyber Storm II, and was Head of US Delegation for bilateral cybersecurity talks with Japan in 2007.

Prior to DHS, she served as a program manager for Booz Allen Hamilton for nearly five years specializing in government telecom and computer security agencies, as a manager for a telecom engineering firm that was acquired by Exelon Infrastructure Services, and as a Congressional staffer for seven years.

She holds an MBA from The George Washington University and a BA from the University of California, Riverside.

During his tenure at CyberArk, Mr Mokady has also served as CyberArk’s chief strategist and visionary, overseeing global expansion, management, execution and corporate development.

Prior to his role as CEO, Mr Mokady served as CyberArk’s Chief Operating Officer between 1999 and 2005. During this time, Mr Mokady established CyberArk’s US headquarters in Newton, Massachusetts and successfully transitioned the company to a market leadership position in Privileged Account Security by helping organizations to recognize the connection between privileged accounts and advanced internal and external security threats. Mr Mokady also orchestrated the company’s market expansion in the US, Europe, and Asia by elevating awareness of the security and compliance risks of privileged accounts while successfully implementing and managing channel development, international sales operations and marketing for CyberArk’s award winning information security products.

Prior to CyberArk, Mr Mokady specialised in legal management and business development for international high-tech companies. He previously served as the general counsel at Tadiran Spectralink, a highly specialised producer of secure wireless communications systems.

Mr Mokady was honored by a panel of independent judges with the New England EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™ 2014 Award in the Technology Security category.

A veteran of a Military Intelligence unit, Mr Mokady holds a law degree (LLB) from Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a Master of Science management degree from Boston University.

His influential newsletter “Crypto-Gram” and blog “Schneier on Security” are read by over 250,000 people.

He has testified before Congress, is a frequent guest on television and radio, has served on several government committees, and is regularly quoted in the press.

Mr Schneier is a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Tor Project, and an advisory board member of Electronic Privacy Information Center and VerifiedVoting.org.

Mr Schneier is also a special advisor to IBM Security and the Chief Technology Officer of IBM Resilient.