David Abramowitz

David has spent the last 25 years of his career in cybersecurity helping organizations to ensure the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of information by preventing, detecting, and responding to cyber attacks.  Over this time, he has had multiple roles including technical lead and advisor, security practitioner, and manager of security operations including enablement and services.  In his current role as Trend Micro Federal’s Chief Technologist his core responsibility as a cybersecurity evangelist for cloud and network security, virtualization, and endpoint protection strategies is to help protect the integrity of organization’s security architecture against attacks, damage, and unauthorized access. He received his bachelor’s degree in computer science from Brandeis University, and a master’s degree in computer science from George Washington University. His first Mac was a Mac Plus from 1987 which is still intact and functional. When he is not playing drums/singing in a rock cover band called 45 RPM, he’s on the ice playing hockey in a local adult league and is also a trained voice actor and ordained cantor. If you’re extra nice to him, he may tell you about the time his family auditioned for Family Feud.