From training sessions to briefings to networking opportunities, Black Hat is the world’s leading event for staying up-to-date on the latest trends and developments in information security.

And our CyberMaxx team will be there! We’re excited to not only participate in the exclusive networking events but also showcase our expertise.

Here’s what you need to know about our plans for Black Hat 2024 so we can connect with you.

Join Us at Black Hat 2024

Black Hat 2024 events will be hosted in the Mandalay Bay from August 3rd – 8th.

During that time, attendees can participate in training seminars and get updates on everything happening in InfoSec. They can also connect with fellow cybersecurity practitioners in a fun, stress-free setting during the many social events.

And we’ll be right there with you! Our team looks forward to meeting and reconnecting with industry colleagues. We’ll also use that time to share CyberMaxx’s recent innovations and how they can reshape threat detection and mitigation.

Meet the Team at Black Hat

Ready to get to know the CyberMaxx team? Here’s who you’ll get the opportunity to meet at Black Hat 2024:

Bill Hogan – CRO

Bill has over 30 years of experience in cybersecurity, including roles at EMC, StorageApps, NetApp, Fortinet, and SecurityScorecard. He serves as CyberMaxx’s strategic growth leader.
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Aaron Shaha – CISO

Aaron Shaha is known for building and leading strong teams that provide technology-enabled business solutions for start-ups, industry leaders (Deloitte and its Fortune clients), and government agencies (NSA).
Connect with Aaron

John Pinkham – Sr. Director, Strategic Alliance Partners & Sales Enablement

Since joining the team in 2023, John has used over a decade of experience to help CyberMaxx build and execute its go-to-market strategies — primarily focusing on developing strategic alliances.
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Chris Braden – VP, Channel Sales

Chris is an expert in building partnerships — using strategic channels and alliances to support CyberMaxx’s go-to-market plans.
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Jarod Thompson – Director of Customer Engineering

Experienced Director of Customer Engineering, Solution Engineering, and Customer Experience with a demonstrated history of working in the computer and network security industry.
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Exclusive Networking Events

During Black Hat 2024, CyberMaxx will be attending Synack Exclusive Events where you can connect with us and other professionals:

Whiskey Tasting Reception

Time: 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM on Tuesday, August 6th
Location: Mandalay Bay Hotel, Presidential Suite | 3950 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89119
Event Summary: This evening event will feature top-shelf whiskeys and give cybersecurity professionals a chance to network and socialize in a relaxed setting. Did we mention the venue will overlook the Las Vegas Strip?
Click to learn more and register.

Women in Cyber Networking Meet & Greet

Time: 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM on Wednesday, August 7th
Location: Mandalay Bay Hotel, Presidential Suite | 3950 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89119
Event Summary: This breakfast networking event focuses on empowering women in cybersecurity. It will let professionals connect to share experiences and engage in meaningful conversations on growth and industry advancement.
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Notable Capital Reception

Time: 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM on Wednesday, August 7th
Location: Orla at Mandalay Bay | 3950 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89119
Event Summary: This event will bring together industry leaders and investors for a casual reception — providing an excellent platform to discuss new developments and opportunities in the cybersecurity world.
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Photo Opportunity with Devo

Time: August 6th to 8th during booth hours
Location: Mandalay Bay Booth #1468 | 3950 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89119
Event Summary: Dress your best and visit Devo’s booth #1468 for free professional headshots. They’ll have a photographer there ready to get you your next LinkedIn profile picture.
Click to learn more.

Our Threat Hunting Guide

In an exciting update, CyberMaxx brings a new threat-hunting guide to Black Hat 2024. With a commitment to advancing cybersecurity practices industry-wide, we’ll provide key insights to foster cyber resiliency, including:

• The current threat landscape and emerging tactics
• Techniques and tools for effective threat hunting
• Benefits of effective threat hunting for cybersecurity professionals

Don’t miss the opportunity to be one of the first readers! Find one of the CyberMaxx attendees or schedule a meeting to get the guide.

Schedule a Meeting with CyberMaxx

Whether you want to discuss cybersecurity, access our threat-hunting guide, or just have a brief meet-and-greet, we invite you to book a meeting with one of our CyberMaxx experts at Black Hat 2024.

Schedule a meeting here so we can connect at Black Hat with personalized discussions on industry trends and potential partnership opportunities.

See you there!

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The morning after the first St. Baldrick’s event in 2007, my 9-year-old son Liam burst into tears and heartfelt pleas about staying home from school that day. My wife and I were prepared for just this situation. We both knew that the night before had been magical and inspiring, but the prospect of going to school with a freshly shaved head was, this morning, more reality than Liam was prepared to accept. Liam was afraid he might be teased at school, and this was casting a heavy burden on this little man. I sat down with him and we talked about how lucky we both were that shaving our heads was an option for us, not a given due to illness and treatment. And I told my son how proud I was of his commitment to fighting childhood cancer. Liam pulled it together and stood a little taller that day as he walked out the door on his way to school. He and his friend’s efforts had a contagious effect inspiring over 60 kids to show up at the local RVC event at Madison Hall It has grown itself to an Annual Top 5 event for St Baldrick’s raising over $350,000 shaving over 200 heads at a clip at St Agnes Parish Center.

Eighteen years later, friends from those early days are still committed to raising funds for the charity as are friends from my current organization CyberMaxx, and other alumni and leaders across the tech industry. Our efforts have evolved to the #TechConquersKidsCancer movement tallying over $8,400,000 and our NYC event has raised in excess of $3,400,000 since inception and our compounded impact so much more.

How Bill and Joeys St. Baldrick’s Event Started

In the fall of 2005, Tom Mendoza and I hosted a CIO dinner at Tira Signo on Bleeker Street in NYC. John Lacava, then COO of QBE joined us along with 10 or so senior execs for an intimate dinner and great dialogue.

As dinner concluded and the topics of the evening had been thoroughly bandied about, I turned to John and asked him to give the background for his freshly sheared dome. John filled us in on how several years earlier he and three friends were having a business lunch and started a silly bet about shaving their heads for really no good reason. This silly discussion took a sudden turn when one of the execs threw out the challenge—raise money, shave heads, and donate funds to the fight against childhood cancer. In minutes, all bets were off and all execs were in for the fund-raising challenge. They decided that day to stand in solidarity with kids who lost their hair while going through treatment.

What has happened from there has been magical. Not only did they stand in solidarity, but they became walking billboards for the fight to find a cure. They raised over $100,000 their first year, surpassed that the next few years, saw people rally around their efforts, and inspired shaving parties all over NYC and then other cities.

By the time John was telling us this tale at the Tira Signo dinner, they had raised 17 million dollars and incorporated St. Baldrick’s.

How NetApp Got Involved

John Lacava had NetApp executive Joey Santamorena at hello and the attention quickly turned to me. I obliged the taunt and stated that shaving my head would be something I would do, but it was going to have to be bigger than just a few of us at the table participating before I would agree. “Bill and Joey’s Excellent Shaving Adventure” was born that night, coming to fruition just a few months after we learned about St. Baldrick’s.

Rob Salmon and Eric Mann Step Up to Get Shaved

Fellow NetApp Execs Eric Mann, Sr. VP of Americas Sales, and EVP Rob Salmon both attended the first “Excellent Shaving Adventure” event in NYC. Neither intended to shave, but both left without a hair on their head. Eric raised 25k on the spot, and with his wife’s blessing took a chair with the barbers. And Rob, after sharing an emotional story about a friend who was losing the battle with cancer, committed 10k, grabbed the clippers and started shaving his own head.

Joey Santamorena and I were the last shavees at that first event and after a long and emotional evening, we mugged for a photo—arm-in-arm with Rob and Eric, and the other shavees. We raised over $100,000 that night and something extraordinary started.

20 Years of Celebrities, Fun, and Inspiration

The St. Baldrick’s events are now a global affair. In total, Bill and Joey’s campaigns have hosted more than 100 shaving events worldwide. Often the shaving parties include a celebrity appearance. Justin Tuck, of the NY Giants has been a mainstay at our NYC events shaving heads and adding to the general excitement. Chicago hosted Justin’s former teammates at Notre Dame, RyannGrant and Corey Mays. The 2013 Boston event included Patriots players including Rob Gronkowski and cheerleaders from the Celtics Josh Stamer, a former linebacker, has participated in RTP, and James Edwards and Vinny Johnson made an appearance in Detroit.

The celebrities, the party atmosphere, and the fun had by all at each event kept the mood light, but as you can imagine, as each head is shaved and each story told, the emotions run high. Childhood cancer is an insidious disease that terrifies the parent in all of us. As each grown-up takes his or her place in the chairs and offers their hair to the barbers, we’re all reminded of the blessings in our own lives. It’s inspirational, really. But nothing can describe what it’s like to see a child, nervous and unsure, walk to the stage and accept the signature green cape, offering their own locks to stand in solidarity with all the children living with the horrible burden of a terminal illness. It’s the kids we’re doing this for, and the kids who really inspire each of us to get involved in funding the search for a cure.

Companies’ support of their employee’s efforts is a major boost

NetApp’s commitment to supporting the charitable work of its employees was surely a driving factor behind the early and sustained success of the St. Baldrick’s events hosted by individuals across the world. Their partners and alliances were terrific in their support and as key employees took their talents to new companies across the industry that level of support has been sustaining, contagious, and inspired new levels of support. There are many charities that employers support and St. Baldrick’s is just one of many opportunities we have to give back and get involved. The fact that St Baldrick’s has grown to the largest private fundraiser for pediatric cancer research in the world with almost 90% of all monies raised going directly to research makes it a great charity to rally around.

I wish I had the space to call out every person who has made a difference through their participation, at any level, with St. Baldrick’s. Current and former NetApp and Security Scorecard employees, along with Fortinet, SAP, BMC, UIPath, Varonis, WWT, Mainline RTP, Gotham, Vast and so many employees, leaders, customers, partners, families, and friends, all standing together on behalf of kids battling this terrible disease. Twelve years later we stand at thousands of shavees and volunteers and more than $8,4000,000 donated. Thank you to you all!

#TechTacklesCancer now must take it to the next level

Individuals like Tina Ashmalian and her efforts at SAP, Chris Lynch and his efforts in Boston, George Ballantoni from BMC, Ryan McGinty at Vast, Rob Benoit, Brian Mooney, Dan Bentson at NetApp, Berk Mesta and Eric Mann, Jim Klein at Fortinet, Matt Horner and Joe Koenig from WWT and of course, Joey Santamorena at MainlineRTP and Liam Hogan and Alex Rich at Security Scorecard and those that have engaged over the years have paved the way for more individuals and companies to get behind this. Mark Parrinello, Rick Congdon, and Mike Sweeney are some of the industry’s best who have braved the shave.

The power of one to mobilize the actions of many can come together and find not only the cure and but also find ways that improve the quality of lives of the kids once cured.

We have done a lot. We can do more. We need individuals to lead the way.

The work here will not stop until no child has to endure the struggles of this insidious disease.

2024 Call to Action

Join us on April 8th at Gibney’s in NYC, start your own team of shavees and or join our team and encourage and inspire others to do the same. If you can’t do that please consider donating again. Every donation helps add power to the tech community and can rally around the effort to help fund our efforts to fund a cure!!!

For the kids.

Regards,
Bill Hogan
CyberMaxx CRO

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Join CyberMaxx at InfoSec Nashville on Aug. 13 at the Music City Center to learn how to out-maneuver attackers while networking with the top security professionals in the region. CyberMaxx is proud to be a platinum sponsor this year at InfoSec Nashville. This highly anticipated event brings technologists and security professionals together for a full day of speakers and networking opportunities for over 500 attendees. At InfoSec Nashville, you’ll have the opportunity to:

1. Network with the top security professionals in the Mid-South
2. Learn to out-maneuver attackers by changing the way you defend and attack the threats
3. Take advantage of one-on-one time with CyberMaxx security experts (and eat some delicious food!) Plus, the theme is Top Gun, and who doesn’t love a chance to show off their aviators?

Jon Matthews, the V.P. of Digital Forensics and Incident Response at CyberMaxx, will be a highlighted speaker. During his session, he’ll share insights about ransomware investigation through the eyes of an incident responder based on his experience as a Special Agent with U.S. Army Counterintelligence for nine years.

“Ransomware attacks over the past year have been ruthless, and InfoSec Nashville is the perfect opportunity to sharpen your skillset. We hope to see you there,” said CyberMaxx CEO Thomas Lewis.

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