Karen Walsh is a lawyer and former internal auditor turned cybersecurity and privacy regulatory compliance subject matter expert. She worked in financial services for 12 years and spent 11 years teaching at the college level. She’s worked with leadership teams as a contract compliance manager, developing programs and guiding staff to establish best practices. During her time teaching at the University of Hartford, she received the “Sustained Excellence in Teaching Award for Part-Time Faculty.” She’s been published by the ISACA Journal, Dark Reading, HelpNet Security, Nextgov, Security Boulevard, Security Magazine, TechAeris, and Techspective. She also writes for GeekMom where she discusses her passion for Star Wars, Marvel, and LEGO.

Luciano Ferrari is an information security leader and IoT hacking expert. He holds multiple security certifications, including CISSP, CISM, CRISC, and PCIP, and has worked at Fortune 500 companies in both technical and leadership roles. He drives progress at his own company, LufSec, where he works on security-related issues and projects. Luciano has conducted hundreds of IT security audits and penetration tests, including audits and tests on IoT devices for cable companies. He has also leveraged his IT security expertise in manufacturing, semiconductor, financial, and educational institutions. With his background in electronics and microelectronics, his distinct specialization is definitely on hardware hacking. Luciano is passionate about sharing his knowledge with others and teaching. His other areas of expertise include IT infrastructure, networking, penetration testing, risk, vulnerability, and threat management. In private, he enjoys researching new technologies and participating at security conferences and in bug bounty programs.

Cristian Calinescu is a Microsoft certified Senior Infrastructure Engineer and Infrastructure Security Operations Manager. His areas of expertise are Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, 2012 R2, 2016, 2019, Microsoft Active Directory, Azure Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange (2003 - 2019), Virtualization (Hyper-V, VMWare), Linux OS, PowerShell (including scripting). Cristian has been involved in various maintenance and/or implementation projects based on the technologies mentioned above. He has also participated in network design and implementations projects as well as assisting customers migrating to the latest technologies.