Speakers

Mr. Daryl Haegley's distinguished career includes over 30 years of military, federal, civilian, and commercial consulting experience.  In his last assignment within the Office of the Principal Cyber Advisor to the Secretary of Defense, his role encompassed overseeing strategic cyber efforts to protect the control systems and operational technology (OT) enabling the Department of Defense's (DoD) critical missions.

Significant accomplishments include leading a multi-Federal Department coordination and writing of the report to the President addressing cyber physical systems skills and training gaps and drafting the DoD's Control Systems Cyber Defense Reference Architecture. His current role is the first DoD Senior Executive Service position created to focus on OT, Technical Director-Control Systems Cyber Resilience, he serves as the senior Air Force and Space Force expert providing policy and technical oversight for Air and Space Force world-wide operations dependent upon critical infrastructure control systems. Established the Cyber Resilience Office for control Systems (CROCS) overseeing and prioritizing security for all installation OT.

For over decade, Mr. Haegley is readily recognized as DoD's leading champion in bringing awareness and critical thinking to the ever-increasing cyber threat to control systems.

Mr. David McKeown performs the duties of the Department of Defense (DoD) Deputy Chief Information Officer for Cybersecurity (DCIO(CS)) and DoD Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). In this role, he provides expert policy, technical, program, and defense-wide oversight support to the DoD on all cybersecurity matters. He is responsible for leading the DoDwide cybersecurity program and associated governance processes. He partners with industry to improve cybersecurity and information sharing through the defense industrial base and represents the Secretary of Defense and DoD CIO in international discussions and negotiations on cybersecurity topics in both bilateral and multi-lateral (alliance and coalition) channels. He leads the development of the cybersecurity investment priorities for the Department and provides planning guidance to the Office of the Secretary of Defense’s components.

Mr. McKeown has over 38 years of experience in the Department of Defense having served 27 years in the Air Force and 11 years as a government civilian. He spent 21 years as an Air Force Cyberspace Operations officer skillfully leading numerous organizations and high-visibility initiatives to include the Air Force Cybersecurity Program as a member of the Air Staff.

Prior to his tour as the DCIO CS, Mr. McKeown served as the Director of Enterprise Information and Mission Assurance for the United States Army Information Technology Agency and as the Cybersecurity Center Chief and Enterprise Services Center Chief for the Defense Information System Agency Joint Service Provider in the Pentagon. In these roles, he led the Pentagon Computer Incident Response Team providing twenty-four-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week network security monitoring and intrusion detection, attack sensing and warning, and incident response and handling for the Department's key leadership and staffs.

Katerina Megas is Program Manager for the NIST Cybersecurity for Internet of Things (IoT) and the AI and Cybersecurity programs. With a Masters in Information Systems, PMP and ScrumMaster certifications, she has over 25 years of experience developing and leading technology and corporate strategies for organizations in both the private and public sectors. She has over 25 years of experience working in a wide range of technology areas ranging from organizations' development and execution of technology strategies to achieving their CMMI certification.

She loves traveling and appreciates her wonderful colleagues who cover for her at work while she piles her family into a minivan taking road trips across Europe and the U.S. in search of the non-touristy experience.

Jessie Posilkin serves as the Acting Executive Director of the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) at the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA). The TMF is an innovative technology investment program that enables federal agencies to deliver services to the American public more securely, equitably, and effectively.

Posilkin has previously served as Customer Experience Portfolio Director for the TMF, and led the Acquisitions Consulting Team at 18F, working to improve the way that the government buys technology by developing the use of the Agile Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA). She has also worked in a variety of non-profits as an organizer and technologist, supporting her colleagues to become stronger users of technology and finding ways for online systems to help social workers, lawyers, and food pantry managers help their clients

Ms. Victoria Yan Pillitteri is a supervisory computer scientist in the Computer Security Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Ms. Pillitteri is the Manager of the Security Engineering and Risk Management Group and leads the Risk Management Framework team/Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA) Implementation Project. In that role, she develops the suite of risk management guidance used for managing cybersecurity risk in the federal government and coordinates the associated stakeholder outreach and public-private sector collaboration efforts.

Ms. Pillitteri leads the Joint Task Force working group, a partnership with the Department of Defense, the Intelligence Community, and Civilian Agencies to develop a unified security framework to protect the U.S. Government from cyber-attacks, and is co-chair of the Federal Cybersecurity and Privacy Professionals Forum hosted by NIST. Ms. Pillitteri previously led programs in smart grid and cyber-physical systems cybersecurity, worked on the Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity, the Privacy Framework, and served as a program analyst in the NIST Office of the Director.

Ms. Pillitteri holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland and an M.S. in Computer Science with a concentration in Information Assurance from The George Washington University. She has completed the Key Executive Leadership Program at American University and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Senior Executive Service Candidate Development Program, receiving an SES certification by the OPM Qualifications Review Board. Ms. Pillitteri is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Rachel Wilson is a Managing Director of Morgan Stanley Wealth Management and Chief Data Officer. Her team of security professionals is responsible for protecting all sensitive client data from any type of theft, loss or compromise. She also oversees the resilience of Wealth Management’s critical infrastructure and the continuity of core business processes at times of turbulence. Additionally, Rachel supervises the client fraud risk program, which institutes technical and business controls to help prevent unauthorized access to or misuse of client funds. As a senior subject matter expert, Rachel regularly advises Wealth Management leadership and clients on the cyber threat landscape and mitigation strategies.

From 2017-2020, Rachel served as the first-ever Head of Wealth Management Cybersecurity. In this role, Rachel advised senior business and technology leaders on a range of cybersecurity issues, including secure code development standards, secure network architecture, vendor relationships, advanced persistent threat (APT) detection and mobile security. Her team drove innovation for new cybersecurity and authentication technology in the pursuit of protecting the integrity and confidentiality of firm and client data. In 2019, Rachel was recognized by Morgan Stanley Wealth Management as part of the MAKERS Class, a program that honors women who serve as groundbreakers, innovators and advocates. She was also named one of the Top Women in WealthTech 2020 by ThinkAdvisor.

Prior to joining the firm in 2017, Rachel spent 15 years at the National Security Agency (NSA), where she held several key senior executive-level leadership positions. Between 2008 and 2010, she ran NSA’s counterterrorism operations and led a global enterprise in detecting and disrupting terrorist plotting against the U.S. and its allies. Between 2010 and 2012, Rachel served as NSA’s Chief of Operations in the U.K., working out of the U.S. Embassy in London. In this role, she worked with U.K. intelligence services to counter terrorist and cyber threats to the 2012 Olympics. Returning to the U.S. in 2012, Rachel spent nearly five years leading NSA’s cyber exploitation operations as the Deputy and then Chief of the Remote Operations Center within NSA’s Tailored Access Operations. In this capacity, she led the planning and execution of thousands of cyber exploitation operations against a wide array of foreign intelligence, military and cyber targets, and served as the committing official for many of NSA’s highest risk and most important intelligence gathering activities.

As a cybersecurity visionary, Sumedh is passionate about making the world’s digital journey safer. His education and early experiences as a coder led him to Qualys, where he rose from engineer to president and CEO. He joined Qualys in 2003, shortly after the company’s founding and in an era when organizations started using the cloud but didn’t know what to call it. His contributions and leadership helped propel Qualys to its current success in cybersecurity.

Sumedh became president and CEO in 2021. In 2019, he was named president, and prior to that, he was chief product officer, driving the company’s vision of making enterprise security more efficient and disrupting the VM space with integrated capabilities like patch management and cybersecurity asset management. A “product fanatic and engineer at heart,” Sumedh was instrumental in dramatically expanding the original Qualys platform’s scope, integrations, and automations. He also scaled the company’s engineering talent internationally with a global 24x7 follow-the-sun product team. He is a co-inventor of five U.S. patents for cybersecurity technology in Qualys offerings.

Previously, Sumedh was an engineer at Intacct, an early cloud-based financial and accounting software provider. He also worked at Northwest Airlines developing complex algorithms for its yield and revenue management reservation system. He has a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering with distinction from Savitribai Phule Pune University.