Cyber Threat in Finance and Banking: Reducing the Risk

Allen Cavedine is the Director of Vulnerability Management for Mastercard. In this role, he leads Mastercard’s global red team, Specter, and is responsible for supporting the continuous validation and maturity of security measures against sophisticated attacks. This includes acting as a red team by emulating existing and emerging adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTP) and developing custom attack methodologies in physical, digital/cyber, and social spaces. The team partners with key stakeholders in the enterprise to reportbest practices and identify findings. <br><br>Mr. Cavedine joined Mastercard in 2022 with over 18 years of experience in cybersecurity across multiple roles and industries. He has led teamsand provided hands-on execution in design, implementation, and delivery of technical and procedural security requirements in domestic and international environments. <br><br>He holds a master’s degree from Colorado Technical University in Management – Information Systems Security and a bachelor's degree from Saint Louis University in Management Information Systems.

Mike Oppenheim is currently an Associate Director at Gemini on the Security Team running the Threat Analysis Group whose mission is to protect Gemini through automation driven by intelligence augmented by experts.<br><br> Mike and his team are responsible for the security operations, incident response, threat detection and response, and intelligence missions at Gemini. This includes vulnerability management, brand monitoring, and providing intelligence and investigation support to the Gemini fraud teams.<br><br> Mike previously held several roles within the Mandiant Intelligence Team, was the former Global Head or Research for IBMs X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services Team, and was an operations lead at the NSA Threat Operations Center.<br><br> Mike is a former Marine who is passionate about intelligence and operations to improve tactical and strategic decision making, finding evil and solving crime, and spending time with his family and in the gym.

David has over 20 years of consultative sales experience and more than 10 years of providing enterprise security solutions to global Fortune 500 customers mainly focusing on large financial institutions. <br><br>David previously worked at Check Point Software on the Global and Strategic Accounts teams delivering high-profile clients vital security technology ranging from firewalls to endpoint and cloud solutions. He has also spent time working for an Israel-based Cyber Threat Intelligence company as well as F-Secure before starting at Hack The Box in 2021. <br><br>After starting as the first boots-on-the-ground salesperson for the US HTB Sales organization David has recently been promoted to lead the US Enterprise Sales Organization.

Marshall Livingston is the Head of Sales Engineering at Hack The Box with close to a decade of experience in a range of cyber security roles and holds several industry recognized certifications. Marshall is passionate about Cyber Security, and has particular interests in cyber security training, network security and penetration testing. After starting as the first sales engineer at Hack The Box in 2021 and being a member of the Hack The Box community since launch, Marshall has been promoted to direct the Global Sales Engineering Organization.<br><br> Previously joining Hack The Box, he was performing penetration tests for various clients while running his small business out of Illinois and Colorado. He is recognized for his ability to think outside the box and his ability to explain technical issues to non-technical stakeholders.