Qualys Security Conference

Himanshu Kathpal is senior director of Product Management at Qualys. He has over 13 years of experience in cybersecurity and product management, with a specialization in vulnerability management, remediation, and next-generation endpoint security. Himanshu is passionate about developing security solutions that align with the company’s cybersecurity product strategy to meet customer needs, reduce the attack surface, and strengthen the organization’s security posture. He holds a master’s degree in engineering from D.Y.Patil University, Pune, as well as an MBA in International Business Management from NMIMS, Mumbai.

Todd Waskelis is the driving force behind the LevelBlue Cybersecurity Solutions, where he leads a dynamic team dedicated to delivering transformative solutions that enhance client defense and protection. As a key figure in ensuring high-quality, innovative service, Todd plays a crucial role in addressing and overcoming the most critical security challenges faced by clients today.

With over 20 years of expertise in the cybersecurity realm, Todd excels in guiding clients through the complexities of the modern cyber landscape. His comprehensive experience covers cyber risk management, threat intelligence, network security, incident response, attack surface management, privacy and data protection, and business resilience. Todd is a highly respected

leader, renowned for his extensive consulting and managed security services background, and is known for his ability to consistently achieve exceptional results across diverse business problems and industries.

Todd holds a B.S. in Management Information Technology and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). His influence extends beyond the office as he frequently contributes to security conferences and advisory councils across various sectors, including healthcare and finance, and actively participates in industry forums. He also serves on the board

of the New Hampshire Chapter of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA). In addition to his professional accomplishments, Todd has a rich background in media relations, encompassing radio, press, and television appearances.

In academia, the private sector, the government and the media, Professor Juliette Kayyem is an international leader in crisis management and homeland security. Juliette currently serves as the faculty chair of the Homeland Security, and Security and Global Health Projects at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

She also serves as a Senior National Security Analyst for CNN, where she has been described as the network’s “go-to” for disasters.

A Pulitzer Prize finalist, she is now a contributing writer for The Atlantic and has a weekly security segment on NPR’s Boston station WGBH. Her most recent book, The Devil Never Sleeps:
Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters, was described in a New Yorker profile of her as an “engagingly urgent blueprint for rethinking our approach to disaster preparedness and response.”

In government, she most recently served as President Obama’s Assistant Secretary for Intergovernmental Affairs at the Department of Homeland Security. Previously, she was Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick’s Homeland Security Advisor. She is the recipient of many government honors, including the Distinguished Public Service Award, the Coast Guard’s highest
medal awarded to a civilian.

She is a frequent advisor to major corporations and associations on national and homeland security, planning for a crisis, cybersecurity and resiliency efforts. From 2020-2022, she served as faculty for a joint effort with Bloomberg Philanthropies and Harvard University to train
mayors and city leaders for pandemic planning. She is a Senior Advisor to Teneo, a global consulting firm. Juliette was named Inc. magazine’s top 100 Female Founders in 2019 and received the Lifetime Achievement Pinnacle Award from the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce in 2023.

Nayeem Islam is the Vice President of Product Management at Qualys for the TotalCloud initiative. Prior to joining he was founder and CEO of Blue Hexagon, a cloud security company that pioneered the use of AI to detect cloud threats. Blue Hexagon is now part of Qualys.

As President and CEO, Sumedh leads the company’s vision, strategic direction and implementation. He joined Qualys in 2003 in engineering and grew within the company, taking various leadership roles focused on helping Qualys deliver on its platform vision. From 2014 to 2021, he served as Qualys’ Chief Product Officer, where he oversaw all things product, including engineering, development, product management, cloud operations, DevOps, and customer support. A product fanatic and engineer at heart, he is a driving force behind expanding the platform from Vulnerability Management into broader areas of security and compliance, helping customers consolidate their security stack. This includes the rollout of the game-changing VMDR (Vulnerability Management, Detection and Response) that continually detects and prevents risk to their systems, Multi-Vector EDR, which focuses on protecting endpoints as well as Container Security, Compliance and Web Application Security solutions. Sumedh was also instrumental in the build-up of multiple Qualys sites resulting in a global 24x7 follow-the-sun product team.

Sumedh is a long-time proponent of SaaS and cloud computing. He previously worked at Intacct, a cloud-based financial and accounting software provider. He also worked at Northwest Airlines developing complex algorithms for its yield and revenue management reservation system. Sumedh has a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering with distinction from the University of Pune.

Sundhar Annamalai is President of LevelBlue, among the largest security service providers globally (previously the cybersecurity services division of AT&T). He brings more than 20 years of experience in technology services and strategic execution to his role, guiding LevelBlue in defining and implementing a strategy that drives product innovation, helps to solve difficult customer challenges, and accelerates revenue and profitability. Sundhar leads product management, engineering, customer operations, consulting, and professional services, focusing on delivering impactful customer outcomes through the development of industry-leading security orchestration and threat detection and response platforms. 

As Senior Vice President of Product Management, Shailesh leads the product management team and drives the Qualys product vision helping customers assess and improve their IT, security and compliance posture. Since joining Qualys in 2012, he has worked in various security and compliance roles driving innovative solutions, including remote endpoint protection, endpoint detection and response, and SaaS security. In addition, Shailesh headed engineering, research and product management for Qualys Policy Compliance and File Integrity Monitoring, where he helped customers go beyond compliance to drive their IT GRC objectives. Before Qualys, he focused on security research for Symantec ESM and Compliance solutions. Shailesh holds a master’s in computer applications (MCA) from the Vishwakarma Institute of Technology and has various security certifications including CISA, CRISC, CISM. He is also a regular speaker at industry conferences.

Mike Orosz is Global Chief Information and Product Security Officer at Vertiv accountable for all aspects of global information and product security. He was previously Sr. Director Global Cyber and Physical Security at Citrix and Global compliance Officer for Citi. Mike also served in the US Army focusing on Intelligence, Security and Analytics. He holds a master’s degree in information sciences, cybersecurity from PennState University.

As the Chief Risk Technology Officer at Qualys, Richard helps customers and the broader security community measure, communicate, and eliminate risk. With over 10 years of experience as a CISO, he’s led and supported security strategy, operations, and governance across critical infrastructure and cloud-native organizations. Richard has published two books, “How To Measure Anything In Cybersecurity Risk” and “The Metrics Manifesto: Confronting Security With Data.” Each provides practical and innovative approaches to quantifying and reducing security risk. His first book is the main curriculum at the US Dept of Defense (DoD) CISO program at Carnegie Mellon University and numerous other institutions of higher education.

Mukesh Choudhary is the Principal SME for Remediation, CAR, and FIM at Qualys. He focuses on managing security solutions such as ‘Patch Management’, ‘File Integrity Monitoring’, and ‘Custom Assessment and Response’. Mukesh helps customers assess and improve risk reduction and conducts workshops on risk reduction and file integrity monitoring.

As Chief Revenue Officer (CRO), Dino is responsible for driving revenue generation including expanding the worldwide sales and partner organizations, continuing to deliver high levels of customer value, and furthering Qualys’ growth momentum.

Dino is a passionate and accomplished leader with over 20 years of experience leading go-to-market teams within cybersecurity and information technology companies. Most recently, Dino served as the CRO for Snyk, an industry leader in developer security, where he was responsible for all customer-facing go-to-market functions. Prior to Snyk, Dino held positions at Mimecast including CRO where he was part of the senior leadership team that scaled the company from $100M to $600M in annual recurring revenue over five years. Earlier in his career, Dino held various senior go-to-market leadership positions at EMC and RSA Security, spanning over 12 years. Dino has a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada.

Lavish Jhamb is Solution Architect for Compliance Solutions at Qualys, focused on building security solutions such as ‘Custom Assessment and Response’ and ‘File Integrity Monitoring’ and helping customers assess and improve their security and compliance posture. He has over 7 years of experience working on security solutions, regulatory standards, and cyber security frameworks, with thorough understanding of operating systems. Lavish holds a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from the Kurukshetra University Institute of Engineering and Technology and a Post Graduate Diploma in IT Infrastructure, Systems and Security from CDAC Pune.

Eran Livne is Senior Director, Endpoint Remediation at Qualys, leading a team tasked with helping customers improve their security posture through cross-platform vulnerability remediation. He has more than 20-years of product management and computer science experience working in diverse IT and security markets. In 2014, Eran founded mobile security company, LetMobile, acquired by Ivanti. Following the acquisition, he drove Ivanti’s enterprise security and endpoint security and management solutions. Eran holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Tel Aviv University and an MBA in high-tech business administration from Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

Kunal is currently VP of Product Management for the CyberSecurity Asset Attack Surface Management (CAASM), Web App and API Security product line at Qualys HQ in Foster City, CA. He is Qualys boomerang. He worked at Qualys for 3 years and incubated the XDR product line from inception. Kunal has spent 15 years working at startups, and big and mid-size companies in cybersecurity, networking, and application security in both product and engineering roles at Juniper Networks, Extreme Networks, Sun Microsystems and Infinera. Prior to re-joining Qualys, Kunal was heading products at Israeli startup in API security and bot management AppSec space.

Jonathan Trull is a longtime security practitioner and CISO & SVP Security Solution Architecture with over 18 years of experience in the cybersecurity industry and is currently the Senior Vice President of Customer Solutions Architecture and Engineering at Qualys. His career has spanned operational CISO and infosec roles with the State of Colorado, Qualys, Optiv, and Microsoft. While at Microsoft, Jonathan led the Microsoft Detection and Response Team (DART) whose mission was to respond to cyber security incidents around the globe ranging from cyber espionage initiated by nation-state actors to ransomware attacks and included the investigation of and response to the NOBELIUM threat actor campaign which leveraged the SolarWinds supply chain. Jonathan also serves as an advisor to several security startups and venture capital firms and supports the broader security community through his work with the Cloud Security Alliance, Center for Internet Security, and IANS. He is also an adjunct faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University where he mentors and coaches those attending the CISO Executive Education Program. Jonathan is a frequent speaker at industry conferences such as BlackHat, RSA, and SANS and holds several industry certifications including the CISSP, OSCP, CCSP, and GCFA. Jonathan is a veteran of the U.S. Navy finishing his career as a Lieutenant Commander supporting the Information Warfare Domain.

As Senior Director of Product Management, Sandeep Potdar leads product strategy and its execution for the Qualys VMDR product portfolio. He is an Engineer-turned-Architect-turned-PM, with close to 2 decades of experience in Enterprise Software and Cybersecurity domains and an extensive consulting experience in various Retail, Banking, Insurance, Travel, and Manufacturing Fortune 500 companies. Prior to joining Qualys, he led Platform and Product Management at Tenable. Before that, he led Product Management at WhiteHat Security and launched several Application Security products. Sandeep has a bachelor’s in computer science engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University, India and a certificate of business excellence from Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.