Application Security

Frank Fischer is an IT veteran of 20+ years and worked in companies such as Microsoft, Google, and Deutsche Telekom as well as startups in various roles in developer relations and engineering. He is working inside Product Management for Snyk in the field of applying AI to source code. He holds an MSc in Physics from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, an MSc in IT and MSc in Organisational Psychology from the University of Liverpool, UK. Besides work, family, and study - you can find Frank diving in the waters around Malta.

Mike Vizard is a seasoned IT journalist with over 25 years of experience. He also contributed to IT Business Edge, Channel Insider, Baseline and a variety of other IT titles. Previously, Vizard was the editorial director at Ziff-Davis Enterprise as well as editor-in-chief at CRN and InfoWorld.

Jeff has spent over 15 years in Product roles helping both the organizations he worked for and their customers transform and measure their business processes, Development, and QA. He especially enjoys cultural and mindset transformations for their ability to create lasting progress.

Max spent seven years with London’s Metropolitan Police Service as a police officer, intelligence analyst and covert internet investigator, including working in the money laundering unit in Scotland Yard. He also worked as Assistant Director of the ICC Commercial Crime Services investigating commercial crime, fraud, and serious organised crime groups. Before joining Immersive Labs Max spent three years training the private sector and government agencies including the UK’s GCHQ and its cyber summer school in ethical hacking and open source intelligence and was the subject matter expert in darknets and cryptocurrencies.
Max has now been with Immersive Labs for over four years and is heading up the team of over 50 cyber experts creating all of the content on the Immersive Labs platform helping customers stay ahead of the threats and be resilient against cyber attacks.

Daniel Shugrue has over 20 years of experience working in security and communications technology. Prior to working at Digital.ai, Daniel worked in Confidential Computing at Microsoft, IoT Security at CyberX, Web App Firewall security at Akamai, and authentication at RSA. Daniel is a father of 2 boys, enjoys bicycling and playing guitar, and holds a degree in Mandarin Chinese from Washington University in St. Louis and an MBA from Babson College.

Sharon is a veteran technology editor and former journalist with more than 20 years of experience writing and editing IT books and certification guides and print and digital magazines such as CRN, eWEEK, Computerworld and CIO.com, among others. She is passionate about diversity, equity, inclusion and social justice. She currently lives near Philadelphia, PA with her husband, son and a neurotic pit bull mix.