Qualys Security Conference

Qualys Security Conference

QUALYS SECURITY CONFERENCE

Munich

January 21, 2020

Security at a Crossroads

Explore the profound impact of digital transformation on the security industry and what it means for practitioners, partners and vendors. Join us in Munich for the 2020 Qualys Security Conference. You’ll hear from industry experts, see major innovative extensions to the Enterprise TruRisk Platform, get practical experiences and tips, and network with Qualys engineers and other security experts, all of which will help you accelerate your security career.

Agenda

8:00 – 9:00 Registration & Welcome Coffee
9:00 – 9:15 Welcome to QSC
9:15 – 11:00 Keynote: The Evolution of the Qualys Platform: Unveiling the Latest Updates and Next-Gen Initiatives
Sumedh Thakar, President and Chief Product Officer, Qualys
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11:00 – 11:30 Break
11:30 – 12:00 Real-Time Vulnerability Detection, Prioritization and Response
Chris Carlson, VP of Strategy, Qualys
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12:00 – 12:30 Securing the Digital Transformation with DevOps: Cloud and Container Security Automation
Badri Raghunathan, Director of Product Management, Qualys
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12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 14:45 The Two Faces of the Digital Age
David Garcia, Global Head of Cyber Intelligence & Security Operations Center, Boehringer Ingelheim
14:45 – 15:15 Threat Hunting with Qualys: Going Beyond Your EDR Solutions
Chris Carlson, VP of Strategy, Qualys
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15:15 – 15:45 Continuous Compliance for Hybrid Environments
Shailesh Athalye, VP of Compliance Solutions, Qualys
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15:45 – 16:15 Break
16:15 – 16:45 Moving Security Up the Stack – Web Application and API Security
Dave Ferguson, Director of Product Management, Qualys
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16:45 – 17:05 Making ICS Security, A Part of Overall Vulnerability Management Program
Dharmesh Ghelani, Principal Product Manager - OT Security, Qualys
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Control systems are vulnerable to cyberattack from inside and outside the control system network. See how Qualys ICS enhances VM program by detecting OT/ICS assets and assess vulnerabilities and security in a non-disruptive way.

17:05 – 17:30 Closing Remarks
18:00 – 22:00 Networking Cocktail

Conference Highlights

Meet the engineers and discuss the roadmap.

At the conference, you will meet Qualys engineers, the driving force behind our Enterprise TruRisk Platform, hear our roadmap for the future and have the opportunity to provide direct feedback and suggestions.

Listen to customer experiences and best practices.

Listen to best practices and user case study presentations, connect with our product managers and fellow Qualys customers and tally up your CPE credits.

Who should attend the conference.

CIOs, CSOs and CTOs; directors and managers of network, security and cloud; developers and DevSecOps practitioners; Qualys partners and consultants; or anyone passionate about security.

QSC19 Video Highlights

Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten Kempinski, Munich

Conference Location

Qualys Security Conference will be held at Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten Kempinski.

Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten Kempinski

Maximilianstrasse 17
80539 Munich, Germany
Tel: +49 89 2125 0
kempinski.com

Conference Pricing

Attendance at QSC is complimentary. This includes access to all general sessions, breakout sessions, breakfast, lunch, breaks, and receptions.

Travel and hotel accommodations are not included with QSC.

David Garcia

David Garcia

Global Head of Cyber Intelligence & Security Operations Center, Boehringer Ingelheim

David Garcia is Global Head of Cyber Intelligence & Security Operations Center. He has more than 15 years of experience managing security services and helping different organizations to face critical security incidents, as well as to develop their security posture. David joined Boehringer Ingelheim in September 2016 and he is currently running the Security Operations Center and the Global Cybersecurity program. David is also driving the IT talent attraction program in Boehringer Ingelheim Spain.

Sumedh Thakar

Sumedh Thakar

Chief Product Officer, Qualys

As Chief Product Officer at Qualys, Sumedh oversees worldwide engineering, development and product management for the Enterprise TruRisk Platform and integrated suite of security and compliance applications. A core systems and database engineer, Sumedh started at Qualys in 2003, architecting and delivering Qualys' PCI compliance platform to meet the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) requirements.

Jimmy Graham

Jimmy Graham

Sr. Director of Product Management, Qualys

Jimmy Graham is the Sr. Director of Product Management for Vulnerability Management. He has been deeply involved in information security and vulnerability management for over 10 years, and has managed teams covering security operations, incident response, application security, vulnerability management, penetration testing, governance, and compliance.

Chris Carlson

Chris Carlson

VP of Strategy, Qualys

Chris Carlson is a vice president of strategy at Qualys, where he is in charge of the product definition, roadmap and strategy for the Cloud Agent Platform. During his 20+ year career in the infosec industry, Carlson has attained expertise in multiple areas, ranging from firewalls, VPNs and intrusion prevention systems to real-time event-processing, security analytics and next-generation endpoint platforms. Prior to joining Qualys, he held security architecture roles at UBS and at Booz Allen Hamilton, and product management positions at venture-funded startups and at leading vendors, including Hexis Cyber Solutions, Agent Logic, Informatica and Trustwave.

Pablo Quiroga

Director of Product Management, Qualys

Pablo Quiroga is a Director of Product Management at Qualys, where he is in charge of the product definition, roadmap and strategy for the IT asset visibility & management initiatives. With over 10 years of experience in Enterprise Software and the IT industry, Pablo has helped numerous customers gain significantly better visibility to support data-powered decision that often led to multi-million-dollar savings and risk avoidance.

Hari Srinivasan

Hari Srinivasan

Director of Product Management, Qualys

Hari Srinivasan is director of product management for Qualys’ security for cloud and virtualization. He has expertise in numerous enterprise software disciplines including cloud security and analytics, automation, systems management, data center transformation, Hybrid Cloud, PaaS - DBaaS, compliance and configuration management. He previously worked at Oracle both as an engineer and spent over a decade in multiple areas in product management positions.

Asif Awan

Asif Awan

CTO of Container Security

Asif is a passionate cybersecurity entrepreneur with a broad business and technology expertise that spans enterprise, healthcare and financial domains, and cloud, mobile and deep learning technologies. He was the founder and CTO of Layered Insight till it was acquired recently by Qualys. He is now the CTO for Container Security at Qualys. Layered Insight was a pioneer in the container security space that offered a solution for providing deep visibility and protection for containerized and serverless workloads, using an innovative application-centric approach. It's the only infrastructure and orchestration agnostic solution that's zero-touch to developers and DevOps, and fully portable for cloud and edge workloads.

Asif is a pioneer in the Mobile Application Management space. Back in 2011, he identified a serious gap in the enterprise solutions being offered for BYOD, envisioned an innovative user-space virtualization solution, and founded Plursona to build that solution and realize the business vision. Plursona was acquired in 2012 by HPE (Aruba Networks) for its best-in-class technology. Asif has held various technology and business leadership positions at HPE (Aruba Networks), Motorola Mobility, Wells Fargo, Juniper Networks and Boston Scientific (Guidant).

Dave Ferguson

Dave Ferguson

Director of Product Management, Qualys

Dave Ferguson is Director of Product Management for Web Application Security at Qualys. After writing code and developing applications for over a decade, Dave transitioned to focus on application security. Prior to Qualys, he led the global application security program at Sabre Corporation and worked as a Principal Consultant at FishNet Security (now Optiv). Dave is author of the OWASP Forgot Password Cheat Sheet and holds CISSP and CSSLP certifications.

Shailesh Athalye

Shailesh Athalye

VP, Compliance Solutions, Qualys

Shailesh Athalye (CISA, CRISC, CEH, ISO 27001 LA) drives product management and engineering for Qualys line of compliance products including Policy Compliance, File Integrity Monitoring, Security Assessment Questionnaire. With over 15 years of experience in the fields of IT GRC and information security, he has been a driving force for creating innovative ways to streamline risk, configuration and compliance management use cases.

Hadi Jaafarawi

Hadi Jaafarawi

Managing Director, Qualys Middle East FZE

With more than 20 years of Security and Business Development experience in the IT sector in the Gulf Region, Hadi Jaafarawi manages Qualys Field Operations in the Middle East region across both direct and indirect sales. His main focus is understanding and addressing customer requirements to assist them in achieving their overall business goals and IT security objectives. Prior to joining Qualys, Hadi has held a variety of leadership positions with I(TS)2. In addition, he was a certified trainer for I(SC)2, EC-Council and ArcSight and delivered numerous security courses across the Middle East region.

Badri Raghunathan

Badri Raghunathan

Director of Product Management, Qualys

Badri Raghunathan is a director of product management at Qualys, responsible for spearheading Qualys’ product initiatives around cloud-native infrastructure (containers, serverless). A technology entrepreneur at heart, Badri thrives on understanding customer problems, building differentiated products, and taking them to market. Badri has worked in product and engineering management roles in a variety of industries, including security, networking and consumer electronics. Most recently, Badri was a founder at an early stage cloud DevSecOps startup, and prior to that, he led cloud-based security and networking products at companies like Symantec and Cisco. Badri holds 9 U.S. patents and has several more applications in the pipeline. He holds an MBA from the University of California Berkeley, and M.S. and B.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Oklahoma State University and the University of Madras, respectively.