Protecting Florida's Digital Landscape

Jude Fils-Aime

Associate Director Enterprise Security Solutions, Verizon Business Group

As a thought-leader in Verizon's security practice, Jude is focused on advising organizations in their digital transformations and cybersecurity readiness, including: 5G, data analytics, software-defined, cloud and zero-trust architectures. He is a technologist with over 25 years of IT, sales and consulting experience, and has held management and principal engineering positions with various companies in both New York and Atlanta. As a board member of several technology organizations, he regularly advises C-Level executives and startups. He currently resides outside of Atlanta with his family, where he is active in his dojo and the local aviation community.

Wes Withrow

Senior Client Partner, Verizon Business Group

Wes Withrow is a Senior Client Partner- Cybersecurity Solution with Verizon, a strategy leader, technical direction agent to governments, Fortune 500 account strategist, team director, and hands-on technology expert recognized for eliciting top performance in technical teams. Wes is a motivational and collaborative professional who creates peak staff engagement via an immersive digital culture experience with cross-functional teams who collaborate with clients on the “art of the possible” to maximize and accelerate secure digital transformation.

Christopher McClan

Christopher helps companies and organizations secure their information. A Professional Services leader, Christopher leads global teams at Verizon to consult on, and deliver solutions to, large enterprise and government customers and make their organizations more secure. Christopher believes the best Cyber Security solutions deliver the right mix of people, processes and technology in an appropriate and cost-effective way. Christopher has over 20 years of Information Technology experience and has spent many of these working in Cyber Defense. This includes many years leading portfolios of projects building and delivering Security solutions for customers of BAE Systems and being a leader in Verizon’s Cyber Defense Professional Services practice for the last 5 years (and counting!). Just some of the solution areas that Christopher leads in include; SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) deployments; transition clients to MSS (Managed Security Services) solutions; Vulnerability Management implementations; designing, implementing and supporting SASE (Secure Access and Service Edge) deployments; firewall and other network security device upgrades and migrations; and Zero Trust advice and assessments. Recent career highlights include securely and rapidly scaling client’s remote connectivity capabilities in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Cyber Security has been a constant through Christopher’s career. From the security of individual systems and services through to entire organizations. Christopher’s practical experience is backed up by a BSc in Computer Science, an MBA and qualifications including CISSP, CSSP and PMP.

Bryan J. Langley — Moderator

Senior Fellow, Center for Digital Government

Bryan J. Langley serves as the senior vice president of defense development at the Indiana Economic Development Corporation, where he is responsible for developing a strategic plan for long-term state investment in the defense marketspace, with the goal of tripling federal defense investments by December 2024. Bryan served as executive director of the Indiana Department of Homeland Security and the Homeland Security Advisory (HSA) for US DHS. He previously served as global security manager at Columbus-based Cummins Inc. (NYSE: CMI) and as a senior consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton Consulting. He also worked in the White House as the U.S. assistant chief of protocol under the George W. Bush administration.