Evan speaks often on a variety of topics, including information security, social engineering, ransomware, how to protect your company from hackers, threat management, unifying the information security industry, compliance with industry standards, fixing the talent shortage, and more.

Joe Scargill is the Special Agent in charge of the Minneapolis Field Office for the United States Secret Service. His career with the Secret Service has spanned more than 21 years in a variety of assignments. Special Agent Scargill started his career in the Columbus, Ohio Resident Office.  Following that assignment, he was selected as an instructor at the James J Rowley Training academy, where all special agent trainees as well as assigned special agents and uniformed division officers receive their training.  Following that assignment, Special Agent Scargill was selected as the assistant Attaché to the US Embassy in Sofia, Bulgaria.  He was then promoted to the Assistant to the Special Agent in Charge of the Detroit, MI Field Office.  During his time there, he established the Michigan Electronic Crimea Task Force. Prior to his current assignment as the Special Agent in Charge of the Minneapolis Field Office, he served as the Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the George HW Bush Protection Division in Houston, TX.

Arin is often referred to by his peers as a security enthusiast. With over 20 years of experience leading technology teams and successful security compliance initiatives including HITRUST, HIPAA, SOC2, and PCI-DSS certification, addressing and mitigating security risks is one of Arin’s key strengths. He has a passion for bringing new solutions to market by leveraging cutting-edge technology and automation that expands capabilities for SeaChange clients and brings added efficiencies to internal processes.

Friends and family note his vibrant and down-to-earth personality, and they’re pretty pleased with his generosity as informal tech support and auto mechanic too. While Arin loves spending time with his family, rest assured his hobbies aren’t all calm ones. He likes high-speed driving on race tracks, has been known to do cartwheels in a suit, and used to be in a punk band.

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 of a Blue Team best practices book called “Defensive Security Handbook: Best Practices for Securing Infrastructure” with Lee Brotherston through O’Reilly Media. She is a co-host on the Brakeing Down Security podcast and writes for several blogs. She has spent over a decade in different areas of technology and sectors providing infrastructure support, triage, and design.  She now spends her time creating as many meaningful alerts as possible.

Amanda is an avid volunteer and mental health advocate. She has presented at a large number of conventions, meetings and industry events. While she doesn’t have the credentials or notoriety that others might have, she hopes to make up for it with her wit, sense of humor, and knack for catching on quickly to new technologies.

Oscar holds a Masters of Science in Information Security and a bachelor’s degree in Decision Science and Information Systems. He has been working in information security for sixteen years with experience managing Cyber Security Incident Response programs, Cyber Defense programs, Vulnerability Management programs, working closely with CPI, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and HIPAA controls to ensure compliance. Oscar currently manages a team of pen testers and ethical hackers with over 75 years of experience in security. While working for large enterprise corporations Oscar managed a team of senior security managers specializing in blue team defense with multi-million dollar annual budgets.