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Bio: Dr. Livia Brandt (fictional)

Dr. Livia Brandt is a Principal Analyst for Identity Adversary Research at Northbridge Cyber Intelligence, where she focuses on the collision point between modern authentication, social engineering, and cloud identity abuse. Her work maps how attackers operationalize credential theft, token replay, and privilege escalation across SaaS-heavy environments—and how defenders can shift from “logged-in equals trusted” to continuous, context-driven verification.

Before joining Northbridge, Brandt led incident-driven research for a European security consultancy, supporting response teams on business email compromise, MFA fatigue campaigns, and cloud directory intrusions. She is known for translating messy, real-world attack patterns into pragmatic controls—phishing-resistant authentication, least-privilege baselines, and identity telemetry that actually catches abuse.

Brandt holds a PhD in applied security systems, speaks regularly at industry forums, and advises organizations on identity hardening programs that scale without turning IT into a bureaucracy. When she’s not writing about identity threat detection, she’s usually pushing for one unfashionable idea: fewer exceptions, cleaner privilege, better outcomes.

Dr. McAlmont is CEO of NINJIO Cybersecurity Awareness Training, and is one of the nation’s leading education and training executives. Prior to NINJIO he served as President of Career and Workforce Training at Stride, Inc., had a decade-long tenure at Lincoln Educational Services, where he was President and CEO, and also served as CEO of Neumont College of Computer Science. His workforce and ed tech experience is supported by early student development roles at Stanford and Brigham Young Universities. He is a former NCAA and international athlete, and serves on the BorgWarner and Lee Enterprises boards of directors. He earned his doctoral degree in higher education, with distinction, from the University of Pennsylvania, a master’s degree from the University of San Francisco, and his bachelor’s degree from BYU.

Dr. Khera is a veteran cybersecurity executive with more than two decades worth of experience working with information security technology, models and processes. He is currently the Chief Strategy of ITSEC Group and the Co-founder and CEO of ITSEC (Thailand). ITSEC is an international information security firm offering a wide range of high-quality information security services and solutions with operation in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Dubai.

Previously the head of cyber security Presales for NOKIA, Dr. Khera has worked with every major telecom provider and government in the APAC region to design and deliver security solutions to a constantly evolving cybersecurity threat landscape.

Dr. Khera holds a Doctor of Information Technology (DIT) from Murdoch University, a Postgraduate Certificate in Network Computing from Monash University and a Certificate of Executive Leadership from Cornell University.

Dr. Khera was one of the first professionals to be awarded the prestigious Asia Pacific Information Security Leadership Awards (ISLA) from ISC2 a world-leading information security certification body under the category of distinguished IT Security Practitioner for APAC.

Ebraheem Yousaf is a cybersecurity professional specializing in Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC), space systems security, and cloud security. As the COO of CypherGuard, he focuses on developing cutting-edge threat protection strategies and security frameworks. He has hands-on experience in SOX audit management, vulnerability assessments, and cybersecurity operations, with certifications in cloud and network security. Passionate about securing critical infrastructure, Ebraheem is dedicated to advancing cybersecurity resilience in space technologies and beyond.

Experienced Chief Executive Officer, Chief Security Officer, Chief Information Security Officer (second person to hold the CISO position in history), University Professor, Security Consultant, Keynote Speaker, Computer Science Researcher, and Prolific Author (six published books) with a demonstrated history of working in the telecommunications industry beginning at Bell Labs and leading to SVP/CSO position at AT&T. Skilled in Cyber Security, Network Architecture, Wide Area Network (WAN), Managed Services, and Network Design. Strong entrepreneurship professional with PhD in Computer Science from the Stevens Institute of Technology, and also a graduate of Columbia Business School. Directly served four Presidential Administrations in Cyber Security, and now serves as a Member of the M&T Bank Board of Directors, Senior Advisor for the Applied Physics Lab at Johns Hopkins University, Adjunct CS Professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology, CS Department Instructor at New York University, and Member of the NSA Advisory Board (NSAAB).

Elena Georgescu, a young word master always happy to help and curious to learn more about technology, is a Communication and PR Officer at Heimdal Security, a leading European provider of cloud-based cybersecurity solutions.

Cybersecurity Portfolio Manager at Getronics

Eric Bassier leads product and technical marketing at Quantum, he and his team are responsible for driving Quantum’s product and go-to-market strategy globally. Eric has over 18 years of experience designing, managing, and marketing enterprise storage products, and his writing has appeared in Wired, Business Solutions, Data Center Post, Data Center Knowledge, and more. Follow him at @ericbassier.