South Africa

Manuel is currently employed as the Chief Operating Officer at Telspace Systems. Manuel has a passion for Information Security and over the years has gained a significant amount of knowledge and experience in the both the technical (operational) and management areas of Information Security. Manuel throughout his career has been involved in Information Security related… read more »

Maletsema has a software development background and has since moved on to acquire skills and experience in areas of information management, contracts management, business process development and improvement, strategy development and implementation, incident management, IT continuity management, delivery of projects, IT governance, risk management and compliance. She is currently working at Eskom Holdings as a… read more »

MAESON MAHERRY: Co-founder of the LAWtrust business 11 years ago which set out to become the leader in identity based security in South Africa. MAESON MAHERRY Being awarded the contract for the South African National ID card PKI by the Department of Home Affairs which will roll out to every adult citizen of the country… read more »

Network and security engineer with 14 years’ experience, Lydie Nogol is an information security manager in a leading telecoms company in Central Africa, in charge of implementing information security programmes company-wide. Key activities are risk management and compliance, policies and controls development, security operations, culture and communication. Nogol leads an amazing team of security officers… read more »

Kovelin Naidoo is a senior cyber security strategist within the field of critical infrastructure security, privacy and risk management within varying markets. He has led the development and implementation of an enterprise-wide security programme, and aided many organisations to meet regulatory requirements, improve operational quality and keep costs in line, while keeping constant pace with… read more »

Keith has many years of business experience both locally and internationally, having held senior management positions in the banking industry. He also runs his own consultancy business, 4IR Consulting, Where he focuses on leveraging people and technology within the 4IR world to achieve sustainable results. He is also a senior lecturer at a number of… read more »

During his career, Jonathan Coetzee has been involved in a number of fields with a security focus, including penetration testing and software development. Currently, he works as a security engineer at Telic Consulting, where he has been involved in projects for financial institutions, including advising on resilience engineering and implementing dynamic authorisation models. His interests… read more »

John Maynard is a Cisco technology and cybersecurity leader in EMEAR with a proven track record of delivering security sales results globally. His deep technology and security experience spans over 17 years working in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Americas, Asia Pacific and Japan. Maynard has a strong background in management, strategy and planning,… read more »

Originally from the UK, Jeremy Matthews is a 20-year veteran of the local IT industry, with a range of experience covering enterprise software sales, application integration, Web enablement and IT security. Matthews established the local Panda Security office in April 2006, opening the international vendor’s first presence on the African continent. Panda Security is the… read more »

Jayson E Street is the author of Dissecting the Hack. He is also the DEFCON Group’s global coordinator. He has also spoken at DEFCON, DerbyCon, UCON and at several other CONs and colleges on a variety of information security subjects. His life story can be found on Google under Jayson E Street. He is a… read more »

Born in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) Jason grew up spending large amounts of his time writing programmes in any programming language he could get his hands on. This keen interest, led to a post-graduate Engineering degree at WITS with focus on Computer Science and telecommunications. Head of engineering at The Foundery: RMB’s disruption and innovation unit… read more »

Jason Jordaan is considered a leading authority in the field of digital forensics and cyber crime investigation and prevention, in a forensics career that began in 1991. As the principal forensic scientist of DFIRLABS, Jordaan is responsible for the leadership of the practice, digital forensics quality assurance, complex digital forensics engagements, research and development, and… read more »

Jacqueline Fick is currently employed by Cell C as executive head: Forensic Services (Head of Department) and has also temporarily managed the Information Security portfolio. Her duties include: Oversight of all proactive and reactive investigations; Predictive/forensic trend analysis; Fraud risk assessments; Law enforcement support; Cyber forensic technology services; and Advising and reporting to business, the… read more »

Herman Young has been hacking and defending organisations for over 20 years now. He started his IT career as a VAX/VMS sysadmin; hacked, trained and developed products and services at SensePost; consulted on Information Security at various large organisations and is currently the Chief Security Officer for Investec, where he coordinates Information Security across the… read more »

Helge Husemann is a Security Expert on a mission: protecting businesses from malware. Husemann has spent the past 15 years immersed in technology and has been focusing in on the ways that malware disrupts, disables and destroys businesses. The threats that keep business owners and IT departments up at night have evolved from disruptive viruses… read more »