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Chi-en “Ashley” Shen is a Security Research Engineering Technical Leader at Cisco Talos, specializing in emerging threats spanning nation-state intrusions, financially motivated crime, and spyware campaigns. Prior to Cisco, she worked in Google’s Threat Analysis Group, where she hunted zero-day exploits and tracked botnets. She previously served on Mandiant’s Global Research Team, co-authoring the APT41 report and publishing research on ICEFOG campaigns. In Taiwan, Ashley co-founded Team T5 and worked as a senior threat analyst focused on targeted attacks across the APAC region. A passionate advocate for women in cybersecurity, she co-founded HITCON GIRLS: the first security community for women in Taiwan; and currently organizes Rhacklette, a security community for FINTA in Switzerland. She has presented her research at conferences including Black Hat, Labscon, Pivotcon, HITCON, FIRST, and CODE BLUE. In her spare time she supports the community by delivering training sessions and serving on review boards for Black Hat USA & Asia, HITCON, SOS, and BlueHatIL.

Ohad Jassin is a Vice President General Manager and Israel Site Lead for Microsoft Specialized Clouds. The organization he leads includes high-scale services and product areas that include Azure AI Video Indexer, Edge AI RAG, Edge Security Engineering and Edge Security Research. He is an avid corporate entrepreneur who has incepted, established, and grown many product groups at Microsoft Israel Development Center (ILDC), including Azure Host HW Acceleration and Autonomous Driving Platform. Over the past years, he has been continuously involved in ILDC’s organic growth efforts. Ohad has over 25 years of experience in the Israeli high-tech industry, working at multinational corporates and startups. Before joining Microsoft in 2014, Ohad was the Director of Cloud Engineering and Operations and a leadership team member at SAP Labs Israel, where he worked for a decade, following an additional five years of experience working at different startups. He holds an M.Sc. from Tel Aviv University and a B.A. from Reichman University. Over the years, Ohad has published numerous scholarly papers, was a recipient of the Harold H. Maynard Award by the American Marketing Association and was granted several patents. In his spare time, Ohad is a passionate Tifosi that tries not to miss any F1 Grand Prix race, loves skiing, and is an amateur woodworker.

Diane Dubois is a Senior Security Engineer and Tech Lead Manager for the Memory Safety team at Google. After spending several years focusing on Vulnerability Research and large Security Reviews applied to diverse stacks (from hypervisors to BMCs and Kubernetes), she shifted towards Memory Safety to work on protecting Google and its users from memory corruption. Her other core areas of proficiency are systems and virtualization. She presented at different conferences including BlueHat IL. Diane is also an active contributor to the security community as a member of several conference Review Boards and through her involvement in women's associations.

Daniel Goldberg is a security researcher at Tenzai, over the past two decades he has worked in different fields including Malware Analysis, Vulnerability Research, and Security Tooling. These days he is focused on application security and static code analysis. His work was presented at security conferences such as Black Hat USA and BotConf and he's responsible for the Infection Monkey, an open-source breach and attack simulation tool.

Itai Grady is a Principal Threat Intelligence Manager at Microsoft, leading the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) sites in Israel and India. Previously, Itai was a leading the security research team for some of Microsoft’s leading security products and a member of various research and development teams for over 20 years in several companies, including Aorato (acquired by Microsoft) and 8200 intelligence unit. Itai holds a B.Sc degree at Computer Science.

Benjamin Delpy, is a security researcher known as `gentilkiwi`. A Security enthusiast, he publishes tools and articles that speak about products’ weaknesses and prove some of his ideas. Mimikatz was the first software he developed that reached an international audience. It is now recognized as a Windows security audit tool. He previously spoke at PHDays, ASFWS, StHack, BlackHat, BlueHat and many more. Time to time and in addition to mimikatz, he publishes tools & methods like kekeo but also around NFC systems.

Sherrod DeGrippo is Director of Threat Intelligence Strategy at Microsoft. She was selected as Cybersecurity woman of the year in 2022 and Cybersecurity PR Spokesperson of the year for 2021.  Previously, she was VP of Threat Research and Detection at Proofpoint, where she led a global team of threat researchers, malware reverse engineers and threat intelligence analysts. Her career in cybersecurity spans 20 years with prior roles including leading Red Team Services at Nexum, senior solutions engineer for Symantec, senior security consultant for Secureworks, and senior network security analyst for the National Nuclear Security Admin. She is a frequently cited threat intelligence expert in media including televised appearances on the BBC News, and commentary in the Wall Street Journal, CNN, New York Times, and more. Having presented at Black Hat, RSA conference, RMISC, SleuthCon, and others, Sherrod is a well known public speaker, and the host of THE Microsoft Threat Intelligence podcast. In her personal time, Sherrod spends time with her rescue dog Boris Karloff.

Stav Shulman is a Threat Research Team Lead for Google Cloud with significant expertise in reverse engineering and long-term tracking and hunting of state-sponsored actors. Stav started her career in Incident Response and analysis of mobile malware, focusing on the Android operating system. In the last few years, she has been tracking and analyzing different malware families and threat actors operating against Middle Eastern targets, as well as operations performed by Middle Eastern threat actors. In recent years, Stav presented her research at various conferences (including Kaspersky SAS, BlueHat, BsidesTLV and LabsCon).

Tal Be'ery is the Co-Founder and CTO of ZenGo, building the most secure crypto wallet. Tal is a cyber-security researcher, a returning speaker at the industry's most prestigious events, including Black Hat and the RSA Conference, and a respected member of Facebook's exclusive WhiteHat list. Over the last two decades, Tal established and led numerous Cyber-Security R&D teams, mainly in the field of network monitoring for a wide range of security problems and protocols. Tal also headed research for Aorato (acquired by Microsoft) as VP of Research. Tal holds M.Sc. and B.Sc degrees in CS/EE from Tel-Aviv University and a CISSP certification.

Tomer Teller is a Partner Group Product Manager at Microsoft Security. With over 20 years of experience spanning security research, product strategy, and innovation, Tomer bridges deep technical expertise with a passion for turning complex security challenges into simple, actionable outcomes. Before joining Microsoft, he led Security Research and Innovation at Check Point and holds multiple patents in exploit mitigation and threat detection. Tomer has spoken at major industry conferences including BlueHat, Black Hat, and RSA.

Orel Siso is a Senior Threat Intelligence Analyst at Microsoft, with extensive experience in threat intelligence, APT researcher and cybersecurity. Orel has held significant roles such as Network Security Consultant and CISO as a Service and lead the Threat Intelligence at INCD. Whilst at Microsoft, Orel has been instrumental in uncovering new tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and in identifying emerging state sponsored threat actors to protect our customers globally

Sagi Tzadik (@sagitz_) is a Security Researcher at Wiz and Co-Founder of ZeroDay.cloud. His expertise centers on cloud security research, AI security, and application security, with a focus on uncovering vulnerabilities in complex high-level systems.

Sofia is a Principal Architect working on Strategic Technology Leadership in Defender for Cloud. She is passionate about research and innovation, and has been working in the Cyber Security and Cyber Intelligence fields for more than 17 years (8200, PMO, AT&T Innovation Center, and Head of Research at a Cyber Intelligence startup). Prior to joining Microsoft, she was part of the rapid evaluation team at GoogleX, working on crazy moonshot projects. Sofia holds a PhD and postdoc in the field of IoT Cyber Security.

Yair Netzer is a principal security research manager at Microsoft, managing the STORM security research group, working as part of Microsoft Specialized Cloud organization. STORM focuses on both cloud, on-prem, OS and AI security. As part of this role, Yair leads continuous efforts to harden Microsoft cloud and on-prem products. Before Microsoft, Yair spent 14 years at Intel, as a security researcher, and later as a security manager - within the CSME firmware team, reviewing the root of trust for all Intel shipped products.

Or Yair (@oryair1999) is a security research professional with eight years of experience, currently serving as the Security Research Team Lead at SafeBreach. His primary focus lies in vulnerabilities in the Windows operating system's components and AI systems, though his past work also included research of Linux kernel components and some Android components. Or's research is driven by innovation and a commitment to challenging conventional thinking. He enjoys contradicting assumptions and considers creativity as a key skill for research. Or frequently presents his vulnerability and security research discoveries internationally at top conferences he speaks at such as Black Hat, DEF CON, RSAC, SecTor, and many more.