Sam Robison is the Senior Director of Fusion and Operations for Equifax in Alpharetta, GA. He is married to the former Blythe Myers of Atlanta, GA. They have one son, McClure (7), and one daughter, Naomi (3). Sam holds a Bachelors of Arts degree from Adrian College and a Master’s of Science in Strategic Intelligence from the National Defense Intelligence College.

Sam, born in Midland, MI, enlisted in the U.S. Army upon graduation from Adrian College in 2000 as an All Source Military Intelligence Analyst. He was commissioned in the Infantry as Second Lieutenant from Officer Candidate School in Fort Benning GA in 2001. He began his career as combat platoon leader, executive officer and Support Platoon Leader in the Republic of Korea. As a first lieutenant, he served as aide de camp for the Deputy Commanding General Fort Carson, CO.

After serving in the Infantry, Sam transferred to Military Intelligence, was promoted to Captain, and served as the Battalion Intelligence Officer and Military Intelligence detachment commander for 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne). He deployed on three tours to Iraq and earned two Bronze Stars during his assignment with 10th SFG(A). After Iraq, he was then assigned company commander for HHC, 1st Special Warfare Training Group (Airborne), Fort Bragg NC. He then attended the National Defense Intelligence College at the Defense Intelligence Agency in Washington DC. Sam was promoted to Major and was assigned to the 513th MI Brigade, where he immediately deployed to Kuwait to serve as Commander of the 513th MI Detachment. Returning from deployment, he served as the S3 for the 297th MI Battalion.

After serving on active duty for 13 years, Sam decided to leave active duty in 2014 and take a commission in the Army Reserves as a Lieutenant Colonel. Concurrently, Sam started his career in Information Security as a Business Information Security Officer (BISO) with CitiGroup. As a BISO he supported the Information Security (IS) program in Retail Services and Branded Cards Operations. Provide advice and oversight to ensure that IS policy is complied with for internal applications, third parties, decision management, and business practices.

In January 2017, Sam took an opportunity to become the Cyber Intelligence Senior Analyst at Equifax and establish a Cyber Threat Intelligence program. Since then Sam and his team of analysts have developed a world class Cyber Threat Intelligence program that identifies and analyzes indicators of compromise, and threat actor Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) that are used for early detection of future cyber-attacks on Equifax and its subsidiaries.

In 2018, Sam added the Insider Threat Program to his responsibilities and has incorporated that team in the threat intelligence program while developing user behavior analytics to proactively identify potential insider threats.

In 2021, Sam added the role of Fusion director to his responsibilities in order to lead Equifax intelligence driven defense strategy.

Brian Penn has over 25+ years of cyber security experience mostly in Vulnerability Management and Compliance. In his current role at Aflac, he is the Security Posture Manager helping to detect vulnerabilities in the network. Prior to joining Aflac, he spent 21 years at InterCall in a similar capacity. He holds a Master’s Degree from the University of Alabama, Birmingham in Management Information Systems and Cyber Security.

As Senior Vice President of Product Management, Shailesh leads the product management team and drives the Qualys product vision helping customers assess and improve their IT, security and compliance posture. Since joining Qualys in 2012, he has worked in various security and compliance roles driving innovative solutions, including remote endpoint protection, endpoint detection and response, and SaaS security. In addition, Shailesh headed engineering, research and product management for Qualys Policy Compliance and File Integrity Monitoring, where he helped customers go beyond compliance to drive their IT GRC objectives. Before Qualys, he focused on security research for Symantec ESM and Compliance solutions. Shailesh holds a master’s in computer applications (MCA) from the Vishwakarma Institute of Technology and has various security certifications including CISA, CRISC, CISM. He is also a regular speaker at industry conferences.

Colton Pepper has over 10 years of experience in cybersecurity and is a subject matter expert (SME) in Vulnerability and Asset Management and Asset Tagging. As a member of the SME team, he works directly with customers and provides consultation to improve their use of the Qualys Vulnerability Management tool. Colton provides guidance to customers at all levels of maturity levels of their VM program to ensure their needs and requirements are met, while adhering to best practices. Prior to joining Qualys, Colton built the VM program for a privately held multinational corporation from the ground up and managed the program until coming to Qualys.

Akshay Borla is the Cybersecurity Engineer of Vulnerability Management for Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, MO. He began his career in Information Security as a Cybersecurity Analyst working for Macys Technology in the Threat Monitoring & Response team. Later he he joined Delta Air Lines as a Cybersecurity Analyst working in the Threat & Vulnerability Management team.

In 2020, Akshay took an opportunity to become the Cybersecurity Engineer at Children’s Mercy Hospital and was tasked with establishing a mature Vulnerability Management program. Since then, the Vulnerability Management program has evolved with continuous scanning of IT/IoT infrastructure and web applications, prioritization of vulnerabilities, efficient patching program, integration capabilities and automation.

He holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Information Systems and a Master’s of Science in Information Systems – Cybersecurity from Georgia State University.

Mehul Revankar is a cybersecurity professional with more than 15 years of experience in Vulnerability Management, Policy Compliance and Security Operations. He leads Product Management and Vulnerability Research at Qualys for VMDR. Before joining Qualys, Mehul led the development of vulnerability and patch management products at SaltStack, and prior to that he led multiple research teams at Tenable. Mehul has a bachelor’s degree in electronics from the University of Mumbai and a master’s degree in computer engineering from George Mason University.

Eran Livne is Senior Director, Endpoint Remediation at Qualys, leading a team tasked with helping customers improve their security posture through cross-platform vulnerability remediation. He has more than 20-years of product management and computer science experience working in diverse IT and security markets. In 2014, Eran founded mobile security company, LetMobile, acquired by Ivanti. Following the acquisition, he drove Ivanti’s enterprise security and endpoint security and management solutions. Eran holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Tel Aviv University and an MBA in high-tech business administration from Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

Kong Yew Chan is director of Product Management at Qualys, leading the container security solution. Prior to Qualys, Kong worked on multiple Kubernetes platforms at VMware and Pivotal. He has over 10 years of experience working on security solutions at Hewlett Packard and TrendMicro. Kong holds a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and an MBA from Babson College.

Jonathan Trull is a longtime security practitioner and CISO & SVP Security Solution Architecture with over 18 years of experience in the cybersecurity industry and is currently the Senior Vice President of Customer Solutions Architecture and Engineering at Qualys. His career has spanned operational CISO and infosec roles with the State of Colorado, Qualys, Optiv, and Microsoft. While at Microsoft, Jonathan led the Microsoft Detection and Response Team (DART) whose mission was to respond to cyber security incidents around the globe ranging from cyber espionage initiated by nation-state actors to ransomware attacks and included the investigation of and response to the NOBELIUM threat actor campaign which leveraged the SolarWinds supply chain. Jonathan also serves as an advisor to several security startups and venture capital firms and supports the broader security community through his work with the Cloud Security Alliance, Center for Internet Security, and IANS. He is also an adjunct faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University where he mentors and coaches those attending the CISO Executive Education Program. Jonathan is a frequent speaker at industry conferences such as BlackHat, RSA, and SANS and holds several industry certifications including the CISSP, OSCP, CCSP, and GCFA. Jonathan is a veteran of the U.S. Navy finishing his career as a Lieutenant Commander supporting the Information Warfare Domain.

Jon Cook has 32 years of experience in Information Technology, with 22 years in the Financial Industry, 18 years in CyberSecurity Vulnerability Management, and over 15 years using Qualys as a primary vulnerability management scanning product.

In his current role at Discover Financial Services, he is product owner of the Scanning and Detection product line for the Vulnerability Management team. One of the major highlights of Jon’s career was when he spoke at Interpol for the 1st Underground Economy Conference in 2008 on Botnets. Jon considers himself privileged to be working with an amazing group of people on Discover’s CyberSecurity team who are driving the Vulnerability Management program to the next level.