Participating Company Profiles - Day One
DarkLight® is a next generation cybersecurity analytics and automation platform. Driven by artificial intelligence, this groundbreaking solution is a force multiplier which sits on top of existing security investments and leverages the reasoning, knowledge and experience of security analysts to deliver human-quality results, at scale. For most enterprises, the volume of cybersecurity alerts has become a big-data analytics challenge. DarkLight’s patented approach intelligently fuses the massive data streams from the organization’s network and security tools, with threat intelligence sources and contextual information of the enterprise to a cybersecurity knowledge and activity graph. Using the experience and domain expertise of the cyberanalyst, DarkLight automates their analytic tradecraft, leveraging deductive reason- ing to support a data-driven, intelligence-based active defense.
604 Arizona Ave Santa Monica , CA 90401
Company Representative: John Schearer, Chief Executive Officer
John Schearer, CEO, is an award-winning international technologist, inventor, educator, serial entrepreneur and previously served as Practitioner Faculty and Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Pepperdine University’s Graziadio School of Business and Management. He has held executive management positions with numerous start-up and venture backed companies and has successfully commercial- ized early-stage research and development projects. He holds degrees in physics and business from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Mr. Shearer currently holds multiple worldwide patents, granted and pending, in the wireless power and energy harvesting fields and is a board member of both Champion Technology Company (the maker of DarkLight) and Powercast Corporation.
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (www.checkpoint.com), is the largest network cyber security vendor globally, providing industry-leading solutions and protecting customers from cyberattacks with an unmatched catch rate of malware and other types of threats. Check Point offers a complete security architecture defending enterprises – from networks to mo- bile devices – in addition to the most comprehensive and intuitive security management. Check Point protects over 100,000 organizations of all sizes.
959 Skyway Road San Carlos , CA 94070
Company Representative: Dr. Dorit Dor, VP Products
Dr. Dorit Dor, vice president of products at Check Point, manages all product definition and development functions for both the enter- prise and consumer divisions of the company. Her core responsibilities include leading the company’s product management, re- search and development (R&D) and quality assurance (QA) initiatives from concept to delivery. Since joining the company in 1995, Dr. Dor has served in several pivotal roles in Check Point’s R&D organization. She has been instrumental to the organization’s growth and managed many successful product releases. Dr. Dor holds a Ph.D. and M.S degree in computer science from Tel-Aviv University, in addition to graduating cum laude for her Bachelor of Science degree. She has been published in several influential scientific journals for her research on graph decomposition, median selection and geometric pattern matching in d-dimensional space. In 1993, she won the Israel National Defense Prize.
Security Controls Assurance Cloud: Circumventive is the check engine lights for your Inter- net security controls, immediately identifying when any stop working, enabling you to close the gap before it becomes a security breach. By testing security controls with the latest adversary tools, techniques and procedures, you know immediately how effective cyber threats will be at exploiting your network and stealing your data.
9 Jersey Street Marblehead , MA 01945
Company Representative: Matthew Kovar, Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Matthew is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Circumventi, a security controls assurance company. Prior to founding Cir- cumventi in 2010, Matthew founded and led Security and Compliance Matrix Groups and held roles at the Yankee Group, where he worked as Vice President of Research, and Fidelity Investments, where he worked with the Telecommunications, Data Systems and Security group. Matthew holds a Bachelors of Science in Quantitative Methods and Finance from Babson College and an M.B.A from Babson College. Matthew is also a Chartered Financial Analyst from the CFA Institute.
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