South Africa

Dr Peter Tobin is a highly experienced facilitator and consultant, having delivered over 200 workshops and conference presentations in over a dozen countries since 1994. He has developed his knowledge, skills and experience through over 37 years of business activity across a wide range of industries and through his work in a dozen countries across… read more »

Paul Beyleveld is a Consulting Systems Engineer for Cisco Security Sales looking after the sub-Saharan region. He is responsible for providing advice, consultation services and gearing up Cisco customers with end-to-end cyber security capabilities. Paul has over 14 years’ experience in Cybersecurity, six of which were spent at Cisco. Before Cisco, Paul was part of… read more »

Patrick Ryan (CISM, CISA, CRISC, ITIL) has 18 years of IT management consulting experience, which has provided insight into a multitude of industries, business practices and technologies. Prior to starting Mobius Consulting, Ryan headed KPMG’s global methodology development for IT governance and sourcing and was the partner in charge of the KPMG Cape Town IT… read more »

Owen Bredan is a technology visionary and a proven information security leader with success in guiding implementation of leading-edge technology solutions while balancing security initiatives to risks, business operations and innovations. He has a 10-year track record in leading organisations, often in extremely challenging circumstances and in time-sensitive situations. Bredan loves creating new entities and… read more »

O’Shea Bowens is an information security enthusiast with a decade of information security experience. He currently acts as a security operations expert for Novartis, where his primary focus is incident response, malware analysis, and blue teaming functions. He is also the founder of “Null Hat Security LLC, which focuses on incident response, SOC training and… read more »

Olivier Pinchard focuses on vulnerability and threat management, application and network security. Olivier acts as a liaison between customers, the Rapid7 sales team, and the Rapid7 product teams, providing a hands-on, real-world perspective. Over 15 years of Information Technology experience informs his work to help clients deal with the present and future of Cyber Threats…. read more »

Okyerebea Ampofo-Anti specialises in all aspects of media law and public law. Her vast experience includes providing advice on defamation law, print and electronic media law, data protection law and compliance with the Protection of Personal Information Act. Ampofo-Anti’s expertise extends to general commercial litigation and constitutional law, including human rights law and free speech… read more »

Nozipho Mngomezulu has extensive experience advising both local and international clients on all matters relating to the commercial and regulatory aspects of the telecommunications, broadcasting, media and technology environment in South Africa. Her experience includes: Cyber security regulatory issues; Data protection, privacy law and information law; Commercial and media, licence agreements; The competition and BEE… read more »

Nkosana Mbokane is CEO of Technochange Solutions, the ICT organisation that advises some fortune 500 companies on corporate governance, IT governance, IT strategic planning and enterprise risk management. He manages several data centres for clients in SA. Mbokane previously worked in various executive positions for global as well as local South African companies, including: Chevron… read more »

Nithen Naidoo, CIO and co-founder of Snode, has over 12 years of experience providing cyber security services in numerous countries, including the US, UK, Germany, the UAE, Nigeria, Vietnam and Egypt. He has been invited to speak at various conferences, such as The International E-Crime Forum, Information Security South Africa, Microsoft Security Conference and the… read more »

Neil Thacker CISSP, CIPP/E, CEH & OPST is CISO, EMEA for Netskope, has 20 years’ experience in the information security industry, with 10 years’ financial services experience in the insurance and banking arena. He is a member of the ENISA Threat Landscape stakeholder group, where he contributes to the EU agency programme, alongside CERTs, to… read more »

Mutemwa has five years working experience with Telkom SA as a strategy architect in various roles such as designing data centre networks, user-access networks and storage networks. Since joining the Cyber Warfare team at the Council of Science and Industrial Research, he has more than two years working experience firstly as a cyber security specialist… read more »

Mikko Hypponen is a global security expert. He has worked at F-Secure since 1991. Mr. Hypponen has written on his research for the New York Times, Wired and Scientific American and he appears frequently on international TV. He has lectured at the universities of Stanford, Oxford and Cambridge. He was selected among the 50 most… read more »

MARTIN POTGIETER: With over 15 years of experience in cyber security, Martin’s experience ranges from performing offensive assessments to delivering operational security services. Currently MARTIN POTGIETER passion to help organisations defend against cyber attacks has led him to build a Managed Detection and Response service, offering advanced cyber defense capability to clients.

A former CIO at Cell C, Maria Pienaar brings two decades of experience working in the San Francisco and Silicon Valley tech industry to Blue Label Ventures. Over the duration of her career, Maria has helped launch over 30 successful wireless and Internet applications and services for enterprise and consumer markets. Maria has a strong… read more »