DALLAS
The event has already taken place, thanks for checking!
Join your fellow Proofpoint users at the Dallas Proofpoint User Group!
This interactive event brings together local Proofpoint users, threat researchers, and product experts to review product updates from Proofpoint. You’ll hear from your peers on how they are leveraging Proofpoint and discuss your security-related questions with technical experts, who can help you optimize your investment in Proofpoint technologies.
The User Group will be followed by a networking happy hour, where we’ll enjoy appetizers, drinks, and playing the many video and board games that Farm+Feed has to offer. Farm+Feed combines all of the latest console and PC gaming technology, plus old-school board games, with a chef-driven restaurant to provide the ultimate social and hospitality-inclusive space for gamers.
At this User Group, we'll be discussing:
James Stroud is the Sr. Sales Engineering Manager for Proofpoint’s South and East Mid Market teams. He has 25+ years of experience in Cyber Security, providing leadership and expertise for companies in various sectors, including Federal, State and Local Government, Healthcare and Education. James joined Proofpoint this year after serving as the Global category lead for security at AWS. James holds several industry certifications from AWS, Cisco, and Microsoft.
Brian Reed is Sr. Director of Cybersecurity Strategy at Proofpoint. He comes to Proofpoint from Gartner where he focused on a wide variety of topics - cloud security, data security, incident response, insider threats and security awareness. Since 2015, he published over 50 thought-leading research notes at Gartner, including Cool Vendors reports, Market Guides for Digital Forensics and Incident Response Services and Security Awareness Training, Risk Management research, as well as the last two Gartner Magic Quadrants for Enterprise DLP. Prior to Gartner, he spent over 15 years in a variety of business development, product management, sales and system engineering roles, at companies including Sourcefire (acquired by Cisco), HP, McAfee and Internet Security Systems (acquired by IBM). He is well known in the information security industry and has spoken at numerous Gartner events, as well as other industry events globally. Brian also serves as an advisory board member and holds a BA degree from The University of Georgia and an MBA from Kennesaw State University.
Sarah Sabotka is a Senior Threat Researcher for the Field Facing Threat Research team (within Threat Research and Detection) at Proofpoint where she focuses on crimeware campaigns and communicating the threat landscape to customers. Prior to joining Proofpoint, Sarah spent four years developing and leading the Global Cyber Threat Intelligence team at Experian, where she was also responsible for leading brand monitoring, threat hunting, vulnerability intelligence, and ad-hoc incident response activities; before that she was a Senior Threat Analyst at Goldman Sachs. Sarah earned a Master’s in Cybersecurity from Utica College, where she specialized in both Threat Intelligence and Digital Forensics, and a Bachelor’s in English from the University of Connecticut at Storrs. Her interest in threat intelligence began during her tenure as a Cruelty Caseworker for PETA, where she specialized in OSINT collection and digital evidence preservation to investigate Internet-based crimes against animals; she also was responsible for interpreting and communicating domestic and international animal protection laws to support prosecution of perpetrators, and collaboration with law enforcement from multiple different jurisdictions. Sarah holds certifications in both CompTIA Security+ and SANS GCTI – GIAC Cyber Threat Intelligence, as well as is a member of the FBI Dallas Citizens Academy Alumni Association and InfraGard.
This event is approved and endorsed by (ISC)2 and CPE credits will automatically be credited to your member account within four to six weeks.
Solving for Identity Deception
Zoom | 1:00PM-2:00PM ET
