Chris Romeo

CEO, Security Journey, Former & Former Chief Security Advocate at Cisco

Chris Romeo is CEO and co-founder of Security Journey, building security culture influencing education.His passion is to bring security culture change to all organizations, large and small, by creating anddesigning gamified security programs. Chris is a highly rated industry speaker and trainer, featured atRSA Conference, OWASP Global AppSec, and ISC2 Security Congress. Chris was the Chief SecurityAdvocate at Cisco for five years, empowering engineers to shift security left in all products at Cisco andled Cisco’s security belt program (Cisco Security Ninja). Chris has twenty-three years of securityexperience, holding positions across the gamut, including application security, security engineering, andincident response. Chris holds the CISSP and CSSLP certifications.

Talk Title Application Security in a Layer Seven World

Abstract : The world of security has morphed over the last twenty years, transitioning from securing the network and core to a world where applications are in the spotlight. Vulnerabilities are rampant within the modern-day application, spanning web, mobile, IoT, and API. If we have applications, then we must have application security.In this talk, Chris shares a decade of experience focusing on application security, sharing application security challenges/trends/future from an academic and industry perspective. You'll appreciate the size and scope of the security problems that applications introduce and explore the modern-day application security toolbox to solve these problems, including SDL, SAST, DAST, and SCA, Docker, and Kubernetes.

Keynote Speakers

Emin Gun Sirer
Professor of computer science at Cornell University
Chris Romeo
CEO, Security Journey, Former & Former Chief Security Advocate at Cisco
Bhunia,Swarup
Director, Warren B. Nelms Institute SEMMOTO ENDOWED PROFESSOR, University of Florida
Nina Taft
Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google
Qiong (Jo) Zhang
Research Scientist at Fujitsu Network Communications

Speakers For Career Panel

Melike Erol-Kantarci
Canada Research Chair in AI-Enabled Next-Generation Wireless Networks Associate Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science , University of Ottawa
Michele D. Guel
Distinguished Engineer & Data Security and Privacy Strategist at Cisco

Speakers

Malek Ben Salem
Technology executive and the Americas Security R&D lead for Accenture.
Judy Furlong
Distinguished Engineer focused on security technology and strategy in the Dell Technologies Chief Technology Office
Jorjeta Jetcheva
Assistant Professor, Computer Engineering Department at San José State University