Simon has over 20 years of experience in IT Security. He has worked on a variety of positions across the government and private sectors as a consultant and senior manager and has a broad range of theoretical and practical experience relating to the implementation, management, and review of security. He is passionate about sharing and developing skills in information Security, appearing twice as a keynote speaker twice at Information Security Europe and also leading and developing training in the field. Simon holds various degrees alongside a range of certifications including CEH, CISSO, CSSLP, CRISIC, ISO27001, CBP, TOGAF, MCSE, IS7001. He is a lead auditor and a Certified EC-Council Instructor.

Marcos Vinicios Penha has worked in companies in south and north America over the last 20 years. His experience ranges from defensive, offensive, incident response and infrastructure security. He has a variety of certifications in different fields of cyber-security, including CEH, CISSP, CRTE, CRTP, OSCP, F5-CA, Pentest+, CySA+, CASP+, Linux+, and others. Marcos has supported many companies worldwide to fight vulnerabilities, cyber-crime and advanced persistent threats while helping them to improve their maturity, visibility and protection controls. He has solid knowledge about the following subjects: Vulnerability Management, Red teaming, Ethical Hacking and Adversary Simulation, System Hardening, Defense Evasion, Threat Hunting, Incident Response, Blue teaming, Intrusion Detection and Prevention, Endpoint Detection and Response, Next-Gen Firewalls and Web Application Firewalls, and others. Marcos has been supporting the cyber-security community participating as a speaker in a variety of events worldwide.

A computer programmer and cybersecurity expert, Sunil Gupta consults in information technology with a focus on cybersecurity. He is an invited speaker for and a member of many key organizations. Sunil is a technology visionary and cybersecurity professional who thrives on solving complex problems. His career highlights include working with various companies, organizations and products. He is passionate about customer service and his role as a cybersecurity expert, and always exceeds his clients’ expectations. Sunil performs leading-edge security consulting and works in research and development as a security expert to advance the state of the art in information systems security.

Glen D. Singh, CEH, CHFI, CCNA (CyberOps, Security, and Routing & Switching) is a cybersecurity instructor, author, and consultant. He specializes in penetration testing, digital forensics, network security, and enterprise networking. He enjoys teaching and mentoring students, writing books, and participating in a range of outdoor activities. As an aspiring game-changer, Glen is passionate about developing cyber security awareness in his homeland, Trinidad and Tobago. Glen is also the author of the following books: Learn Kali Linux 2019 Hands-On Penetration Testing with Kali NetHunter CompTIA Network+ Certification Guide CCNA Security 210-260 Certification Guide

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.

Juraj Šimunec is Microsoft 365 Engineer experienced with setup and administration of complete M365 platform. His main area of focus is to provide best possible experience for users, but at the same time following best security practices in tenant configuration and integration with various workloads.

Imran Afzal has over 20 years of experience in Systems administration & engineering, leadership, entrepreneurship, teaching, and public speaking. Currently, Imran manages a team of 58+ systems engineers, administrators, and team lead globally.  He started his career with Time Warner (New York City) in 2000 as a systems administrator. That is where he began his career in IT. He has utilized IT skills in many fortune 500 companies such as financial firms, fashion industries, tech media industry, etc. He spearheaded projects like datacenter migration, introduction and deployment of VMWare, monitoring tools implementation, Amazon cloud migration, and many more. Imran earned his bachelor’s in Computer Information Systems from Baruch College, the City University of New York as an honor student. He earned his MBA from the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) in operation management and IT. Some of his certifications are in Linux Systems Management, UNIX Operating Systems, Linux System Administration, System Internals, VMWare Certified Professional, RHCSA, and Windows Server Certified Imran has been teaching since 2010 and provides onsite and online training on many IT subjects.  He has the best selling and highest-rated online courses with 250,000+ students worldwide. He has helped almost 1000+ students to land the job of their dream in IT. He believes in education and giving back. He also established a non-profit school for children from pre-K till 10th grade.