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Larry Denton currently serves as Applied Insights’ Chief Growth Officer. Leveraging over 20 years of experience in senior Government and Industry leadership roles, he is responsible for growth and marketing strategy, opportunity development and customer relationships. Prior to coming to Applied Insight, his Government experience included positions on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), Deputy Director of Legislative Affairs for Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Intel and Analysis (I&A) as well as Deputy Program Executive Officer (PEO) at the National Security Agency. On HPSCI, he was responsible for organizing and executing over 50 classified briefings for Congressional members allowing oversight across the Intelligence community. At DHS he lead coordination of all communications and activity from DHS to 16 Intel agencies and 7 Congressional oversight committees. In his role as Deputy PEO at NSA his portfolio included several billion dollars in contracts and programs, including two Major Automated Information Systems (MAISs). In Industry, he was a senior Account Executive at a large telecom firm and has been Capture Manager and Vice President, Business Development at two large defense companies. These roles included responsibility for a 5B+ pipeline, well over 1B in annual submissions and achieving nearly $500M in Awards. His Business Development roles have included both Domestic and International responsibilities as well as commercial and Government customers. Throughout his career, Larry has been involved in all aspects of the Intelligence community and is dedicated to serving the warfighter. Larry holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Naval Academy (1993) and is incredibly proud to have served in the United States Navy as a Surface Warfare Officer. He resides in Severna Park, Maryland with his wife, twin daughters, and son.

Joe Carrigan believes that social engineering is the biggest blind spot in the security industry today. This talk opens with a story that demonstrates the physiologic reasons that social engineering attacks are successful. The talk then provides an overview of social engineering, its goals and techniques. Finally, Joe will provide a three-layer defense strategy to help thwart social engineering attacks.

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