National Cyber Summit 2021 | National Cyber Summit | 28 September 2021 | Von Braun Center, 700 Monroe St SW, Huntsville, AL 35801, USA

National Cyber Summit is the nation’s most innovative cyber security-technology event, offering unique educational, collaborative and workforce development opportunities for industry visionaries and rising leaders. NCS offers more value than similar cyber conferences with diverse focus-areas, premier speakers, and unmatched accessibility. Our core focus is on three things: education, collaboration and innovation.

2021 Speakers

Nicholas Downer
Systems Security Engineer / Instructor, Mill Group Inc.

Jacob Kingston
Lead Red Team Security Engineer / Principal Instructor, Mill Group Inc.

Henry Lugo
Lead Red Team Security Engineer / K54 Instructor, Mill Group Inc.

Fernando Tomlinson
Technical Director, Cyber Operations, CyberFibers

Adam Gordon
Edutainer, ITProTV

Bruce Tucker
Senior Cyber Resilience Engineer, Dynetics

Brian Turner
Executive Assistant Director, Criminal, Cyber, Response, and Services Branch, Federal Bureau of Investigation

Dr. Raj Iyer, SES
Chief Information Officer, Office of the Secretary of the Army

Jon "maddog" Hall
Board Chair, Linux Professional Institute, Co-Founder and Chief Adviser for the Caninos Loucos Project

Lynn Dohm
Executive Director, Women in Cybersecurity (WICYS)

George Harter
U.S. Naval Postgraduate School

Dr. Neil Rowe
Professor, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School

Steven Day
Argonne National Laboratory

Joshua Kuhn
Moraine Valley Community College

William Smallwood
Texas A&M University

Nicholas Carter
Naval Postgraduate School

Duane Davis
Naval Postgraduate School

Cynthia Irvine
Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Naval Postgraduate School

Peter Pommer
Naval Postgraduate School

Austin Babcock
Dakota State University

Dr. Bramwell Brizendine
Cybersecurity Expert and an Accomplished Exploit Developer, Dakota State University

Jun Dai
Associate Professor, California State University, Sacramento

Wenhui Liang
California State University, Sacramento

Cui Zhang
California State University, Sacramento

Matthew Bieker
U.S. Naval Postgraduate School

Jeffrey Dougherty
U.S. Naval Postgraduate School

Thuy Nguyen
U.S. Naval Postgraduate School

Darry Pilkington
U.S. Naval Postgraduate School

Ryan Crawford
Illinois Institute of Technology

Michael Jaynes
Argonne National Laboratory

Roland Varriale
Cyber Security Analyst, Argonne National Laboratory

Sean McCarthy
Lead Associate, Booz Allen Hamilton

Hoyt L Kesterson II
Senior Security & Risk Architect, Avertium

Kimberly Peretti, Esquire
Partner, Alston & Bird LLP

Steven Rivera
Senior Vice President, Redspin

Dr. Thomas Graham, PhD
Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer, CMMC PA, Redspin

Teresa Thomas
Program Lead, Neurodiverse Talent Enablement, The MITRE Corporation

Eve Maler
Chief Technology Officer, ForgeRock

Gary Connor
Brigadier General, USAF (ret) Consultant/Advisor to Janusnet, RockITek, & The Emery Group

Joe Faxlanger
Vice President, Federal Sales Pkware

Brandon Hoffman
Chief Information Security Officer, Intel 471

Darren House
Chief Cyber Advisor, RockITek

Adam Rosen
Vice President, Product Strategy, Stealthbits

Mark Baggett
Vice President, Industrial Control Systems, Mission Secure, Inc.

Eric Dull
Specialist Leader, Deloitte

Chris Crosby
Cyber Security Engineer, COLSA Corporation

Nathan Swab
Director, Health Information Technology, Sentar, Inc.

Paul Puckett

Jason "Max" Klimek
Director, Cyber, DCIO for Special Access Programs IT, System High

Michael "Bear" Newsom
Vice President, Mergers and Acquisitions), System High

Dr. Vinny Troia
Chief Executive Officer, Night Lion Security

Tom Barnett
Cyber Integration Lead, DEVCOM AvMC

Micki Boland
Cloud Security Architect and Check Point Evangelist, Check Point Software Technologies

Dr. Wesley McGrew
Senior Cyber Fellow, MartinFederal Consulting, LLC.

David Dalling
Cyber Chief Technology Officer, Accenture Federal Services

Michael Goodman
Zero Trust and Security Engineering Lead, Accenture Federal Services

Howard Marshall
Global Lead, Cyber Threat Intelligence, Accenture Federal Services

Professor Dr. David Schippers
Chair, Walsh College

Dr. Stanley Barr
Senior Principal Deception Researcher, MITRE

Maretta Morovitz
Lead Cyber Deception Researcher, MITRE

Cornel du Preez
Managing Director, Abricto Security

Reece Johnston
Cyber Security Engineer, DESE Research, Inc.

Chuck Speaks
Senior Program Advisor, Intuitive Research and Technology Corporation

Sid Kaul
Chief Innovation Officer, All Points

Kamilah Smith
Senior Manager, Deloitte Government and Public Services Practice

Lynn Dohm
Executive Director, Women in Cybersecurity (WICYS)

Heather Riley
Principal in Deloitte, Leader of Deloitte's Defense, Security, and Justice Sector

Tonya Ugoretz
Deputy Assistant Director, Cyber Division, FBI

Merritt Baer
Principal Security Architect, Amazon Web Services

Chris Cleary
Principal Cyber Advisor, Navy

Allison Miller
Chief Information Security Office, Optum Senior Vice President, Global Enterprise Cyber Security Office, Optum and UnitedHealth Group

Lieutenant General Robert Ashley, (Ret.)
Former Director, Defense Intelligence Agency

Tania Williams
Assistant Director, The University of Alabama in Huntsville

Omar El-Gayar
Dakota State University

Li-Chiou Chen
Pace University

Andreea Cotoranu
Pace University

Darren Hayes
Pace University

Praviin Mandhare
Pace University

Drew Hamilton
Mississippi State University

Melissa Hannis
Center for Cyber Innovation

Idongesit Mkpong-Ruffin
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University

Melissa Dark
Dark Enterprises

Sidd Kaza
Towson University

Blair Taylor
Associate Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Towson University

Dipankar Dasgupta
University of Memphis

Brandon Didlake
University of Memphis

James McGinnis
University of Memphis

Donte Mitchell
University of Memphis

Christopher Nguyen
University of Memphis

Walt Williams
University of Memphis

Kim-Kwang Raymond
ACM Distinguished Speaker and IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor (2021-2023), The University of Texas at San Antonio

Megan Stigall
The University of Texas at San Antonio

Professor Paul Juras
Vander Wolk Professor of Management Accounting and Operational Performance, Babson college

Brad Thomason
Director, Threat Systems Management Office

Dr. Stanley Barr
Senior Principal Deception Researcher, MITRE

Todd Helfrich
Vice President, Attivo Networks

Micki Boland
Cloud Security Architect and Check Point Evangelist, Check Point Software Technologies

Nic Cofield
Vice President, Client Services, Jackson Thornton Technologies

Linda Palmer
Missile Defense Agency, Cybersecurity Engineering

Bill Floria
Cybersecurity SME, Sentar, Inc.

Bryan Vorndran
Assistant Director, Cyber Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation

MODERATOR:

Corey Petty
PhD Chief Security Officer of Status, Host/Founder of The Bitcoin Podcast and Hashing It Out Podcast

Matt Walker
Deloitte, Solution Manager Cyber and Strategic Risk Services

PANELISTS:

David Champigney
CIO, Huntsville Utilities

Chad B. Jenkins
P.E., Telecommunications Services Department Manager, PowerSouth Energy Cooperative

David Patton
CISO, City of Huntsville

Bill Steiner
ITS Direction, City of Huntsville

Elijah Varga
Division Chief, Cyber Technologies, US Army DEVCOM Aviation and Missile Center – S3I

Tom Fuhrman
Founder & President, VECTORmv LLC

Peder Muller
Chief Systems Architect, Blockchain; Deloitte and Touche LLP

Michael Solomon
PhD, Professor, University of the Cumberlands

Tommy Morris
Ph.D, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Director of the Center for Cybersecurity Research and Education

Bradley Horton
U.S. Army Threat Systems Management Office, Supervisory Intelligence Specialist (Operations) GG15

Ryan Roberts
Deloitte, Principle Cyber and Strategic Risk Services

Dr. Casey Wardynski
Former Assistant Secretary, Army for Manpower and Reserve Affairs

2021 Sponsors

DIAMOND:
• All Points LLC
• accenture
• COLSA
• FBI
• RockITek
• SYSTEM HIGH
• ECS Federal
• Intuitive Research and Technology Corporation

PLATINUM:
• Dynetics Inc.
• Noblis Inc.
• GrayAnalytics
• ManTech

GOLD:
• aws
• Attivo NETWORKKS
• BIGBEAR.AI
• BLUVECTOR
• Checkmarx
• Davidson
• Deltek
• elastic
• FIVE STONES
• FLASHPOINT
• Guidehouse
• HEXAGON PAS
• MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY
• NOKOMIS
• PeopleTec
• RADIANCE TECHNOLOGIES
• Red Hat
• SecurIT360 Logo
• SENTAR
• SHADOWDRAGON
• snowflake
• STEEL POINT SOLUTIONS, LLC
• ARMY ROTC

SILVER:
• accenture
• KORD
• NRW.GLOBAL BUSINESS
• OASIS
• SAIC
• StraitSys
• TRIDEUM
• THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE

BRONZE:
• DESE RESEARCH, INC.
• ITSC Secure Solutions
• SRC SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH CORPORATION

TOTE BAG:
• SYSTEM HIGH

CYBER CUP CHALLENGE:
• Deloitte

CYBER CUP CHALLENGE SCHOLARSHIP
• accenture
• noblis
• TRIDEUM
• THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNRSVILLE

BADGE SPONSOR:
• H2L SOLUTIONS

WOMEN IN CYBER BREAKFAST:
• Deloitte

WIFI:
• Deloitte

JOB FAIR:
• ClearedJobsNet

NCS CYBER LOUNGE:
• LOOKINGGLASS

TRACK SPONSOR-REDSTONE ARSENAL CYBER ECOSYSTEM:
• BIGBEAR.AI

TRACK SPONSOR-LAW ENFORCEMENT/FORENSICS:
• noblis

TRACK SPONSOR-TECHNICAL:
• BIGBEAR.AI

COFFEE CAFE:
• INTUITIVE

CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST:
• ASRC FEDERAL

NOTEBOOK:
• SAIC

DIGITAL AGENDA SIGNAGE:
• exabeam

FLYER DISTRIBUTION:
• OASIS
• Dynetics
• GrayAnalytics
• LOOKINGGLASS
• ManTech
• NRW.GLOBAL BUSINESS
• SAIC
• StraitSys
• TRIDEUM
• THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE

AFTER HOUR EVENTS:
• SENTAR

EXHIBIT HALL PUB CRAWL SPONSOR:
• All Points
• Attivo NETWORKS
• bitglass
• PEERLESS
• XYSTON

JBL PORTABLE BLUETOOTH SPEAKER:
• Riverstone Solutions

AMAZON ECHO DOT WITH CLOCK:
• QUANTUM

YUBIKEY:
• Netsecuris