Mick fell in love with the idea of cyberspace around 9-years-old after reading “Neuromancer,” thinking “I could do that.” He is still trying to do “that.”
Former perennial spot the fed participant, Mick has seen threat intelligence work, and... not.
After spending too long in government and a stint in South Bend, Mick is a Global Security Advisor on Splunk's SURGe team.

Taking a break from Gooning at DEFCon, he's back for another year to moderate a spicy panel you'll want to see.

Charlie has worked in threat intelligence for over a decade, focusing mostly on financial services but has also worked for an email security vendor providing threat intelligence to a variety of verticals. He is now a part of a team that provides threat intelligence to banks of all sizes.

Lauren Proehl is the Director of Global Cyber Defense at Marsh McLennan. She is an experienced incident responder and threat hunter who has helped identify and mitigate cyber adversaries in Fortune 500 networks. After leading investigations ranging from data breaches to targeted attacks, she now works to define some part of the limitless unknowns in cyberspace and make cybersecurity less abstract, and more tangible. Lauren sits on the CFP board for BSides Kansas City, heads up SecKC parties, and tries to escape computers by running long distances in the woods.

Silas Cutler is an experienced security researcher and malware analyst. His focus has been researching organized cyber-crime groups and state-sponsored attacks.