Jack Rhysider, host and creator of the award winning podcast Darknet Diaries, is a veteran to the security world. He gained his professional knowledge of security by working in a Security Operations Center for a Fortune 500 company, a place to where threats are detected and stopped.

Amanda Berlin is the Lead Incident Detection Engineer for Blumira and the CEO and owner of the nonprofit corporation Mental Health Hackers. She is the author for a Blue Team best practices book called “Defensive Security Handbook: Best Practices for Securing Infrastructure

David Kennedy is a subject matter expert in cybersecurity with over 19 years of experience, whose career has ranged from a Chief Security Officer (CSO) for a Fortune 1000 company, to testifying in front of Congress, and guest appearances on hundreds of national news and syndicated TV shows.