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Speaker BiographiesScott C. Algeier Peter Allor Stacy Arruda Martha Austin Ashar Aziz Sean Barnum Brian Bartholomew Patrick T. Beggs Prior to joining DHS Mr. Beggs has over 12 years of operational experience in Cyber and Physical Security, spanning the commercial, federal civilian, DOD, Law Enforcement and Intelligence communities. Mr. Beggs is a former Army Infantry Non-Commissioned Officer and holds a B.S. in Political Science from Radford University.
Richard Bejtlich
Richard Bejtlich is Director of Incident Response for General Electric. Prior to joining GE, Richard operated TaoSecurity LLC as an independent consultant, protected national security interests for ManTech Corporation's Computer Forensics and Intrusion Analysis division, investigated intrusions as part of Foundstone's incident response team, and monitored client networks for Ball Corporation. Richard began his digital security career as a military intelligence officer at the Air Force Computer Emergency Response Team (AFCERT), Air Force Information Warfare Center (AFIWC), and Air Intelligence Agency (AIA). Richard is a graduate of Harvard University and the United States Air Force Academy. He wrote "The Tao of Network Security Monitoring" and "Extrusion Detection," and co-authored "Real Digital Forensics." He also writes for his blog (taosecurity.blogspot.com) and TechTarget.com, and teaches for Black Hat. Tim Belcher Jon Bird Adam Bookbinder Ryan Brewer Christopher Buse
Christopher Buse is the Chief Information Security Officer for the State of Minnesota. In this capacity, Christopher is responsible for designing and implementing the enterprise security architecture for state government. Before accepting this position, Christopher served as the Manager of Information Technology Audits for the Minnesota Office of the Legislative Auditor. During his 19 years as an auditor, Christopher planned and oversaw information technology audit work done on large government computer systems. Christopher also provided state of the art technology tools and training for financial audit professionals who worked for the office. Christopher Buse graduated from St. Cloud State University in 1986 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting. Since graduation, he has supplemented his accounting degree with numerous computer science and management information systems courses. Christopher is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), and a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).
Christopher is active in many professional organizations and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Minnesota Chapter of the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA). Christopher has held many leadership positions in ISACA during his career, including President. Ovie Carroll Ovie has over 20-years law enforcement experience. Prior to joining the Department of Justice, Ovie was the Special Agent in Charge of the Computer Crimes Unit at the US Postal Service, Office of Inspector General, responsible for all computer intrusion investigations, computer forensic analysis and all deployment, installation and monitoring of technical surveillance equipment in support of criminal investigations.
Ovie has also served as the Chief, Computer Investigations and Operations Branch, Air Force Office of Special Investigations, Washington Field Office where he was responsible for coordinating all national level computer intrusions occurring within the United States Air Force. He has extensive field experience applying his training to a broad variety of investigations and operations.
The Cybercrime lab is responsible for providing computer forensic and other technical support to DOJ attorneys throughout the United States as it applies to implementing the Department's national strategies in combating cyber crimes and intellectual property crimes worldwide.
In addition to his career fighting computer crime, Ovie has extensive experience conducting and managing investigations into murder, fraud, bribery, theft, gangs and narcotics and counterintelligence.
Supervise the White Collar Crime Section of the USAO/NDGA which comprises 21 AUSAs, 4 paralegals, and 1 financial analyst.
RANDY S. CHARTASH has been an Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia since mid-1991. AUSA Chartash is the Chief of the Economic Crime Section. AUSA Chartash has conducted all phases of criminal prosecutions with special emphasis on white collar crimes.
In 2001, AUSA Chartash was the recipient of 2001 Attorney General's Award for Exceptional Service. This is the highest award given to Department of Justice attorneys. In 2000, AUSA Chartash was the recipient of the 2000 Director's Award, Executive Office of the United States Attorney, for Superior Performance as an Assistant United States Attorney. This award honors Assistant United States Attorneys whose continual performance of their duties is superior to that other employees performing comparable duties; 2000 National Crime Victims Rights Award for Outstanding Dedication and Effectiveness in Enhancing Crimes Victims Fund Collections. This award recognizes Assistant United States Attorneys whose efforts in a particularly difficult case exceeded requirements of laws protecting the rights to victims and the Attorney General=s Guidelines for Victim And Witness Assistance.
Higher Education: J.D. University of Miami School of Law
Jim Christy
Senior Cyber Crime Investigator with expertise in Cyber Crime, Information Assurance, Digital Forensics, and Infrastructure Protection/Homeland Security. Successful record serving as a Supervisory Special Agent, the Air Force Office of Special Investigations and the Defense Cyber Crime Center (DC3) for over 23 years, retiring 1 Dec 2006. DC3 brought Jim back to the government as the Director of Futures Exploration (FX) as an IPA (Intergovernmental Personal Act). FX is responsible for intelligence analysis, outreach/marketing, and strategic relationships with other government organizations, private sector, and academia for DC3. Jim consulted with David Marconi (writer of Enemy of the State, Mission Impossible 2 & Live Free or Die Hard) and contributed technical advice on critical infrastructure attacks used in the movie Live Free or Die Hard. In Oct 03, the Association of Information Technology Professionals awarded Jim the 2003 Distinguished Information Science Award for his outstanding contribution through distinguished services in the field of information management. Previous recipients of this prestigious award include Admiral Grace Hopper, Gene Amdahl, H. Ross Perot, General Emmett Paige, Bill Gates, Lawrence Ellison, David Packard, and Mitch Kapor. Jim also teaches two graduate courses at George Washington University, Elliott School of International Affairs, "The Cyber Threat to American National Security” and “National Cyber Policy". Roland Cloutier Previously, he held executive positions with several consulting and managed security services firms, specializing in critical infrastructure protection including EDS, Paradigm, and ANS. He is a former federal law enforcement officer holding investigative and international field operation positions with the USDVA and the DoD, and is also a former Air Force Protection Specialist, having served in the Persian Gulf War specializing in International Aerospace Protection. Roland is a member of the High Tech Crime Investigations Association, the State Department Partnership for Critical Infrastructure Security, and the FBI’s Infraguard Program. He also serves as a member of Security for Business Innovation Council, the Center for Information Policy Leadership, and as an advisor to the Board for Vigilant Corporation. Guy Copeland In 2005, Mr. Copeland led the formation of and, from January 2006 to January 2008, served as the elected, first Chairperson of the Information Technology Sector Coordinating Council. He continues on the council’s Executive Committee. He led the formation of and co-chairs the Cross Sector Cyber Security Working Group, an officially recognized, joint government and industry body with over 200 representatives from all critical sector and government coordinating councils. He helped co-found and serves as CSC's member on the board of directors of the Information Technology Information Sharing and Analysis Center where he was a past president. Within the Information Technology Association of America (now TechAmerica), he led in the creation of and served as chairman of the Information Security Committee for several years and serves as co-vice chairman of the Homeland Security Committee. At the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Mr. Copeland has contributed to reports with recommendations in the area of cyber threats, cyber crime and critical infrastructure protection, including the recent “Securing Cyberspace for the 44th Presidency.” He was a 2005 Senior Fellow at the Homeland Security Policy Institute of George Washington University.
Mr. Copeland was named a 2008 recipient of the Federal Computer Week Federal 100 awards. He received the 1999 Award for Excellence in information technology from AFCEA International. A senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), in 1983-84, he was an IEEE Congressional Science Fellow in the office of Senator John Warner. Mr. Copeland has an MS degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and a BS degree in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Jim Cowie
Jim has more than 15 years entrepreneurial and software development experience in high performance computing, network modeling and simulation, web services, and security. Prior to founding Renesys, Jim was a principal at Cooperating Systems, a consulting services company that provided rapid software prototyping and technology planning for advanced research and development in academia and industry. Jim’s fascination with the Internet’s impact on security and collaboration dates back to 1995, when he authored the first web-based collaborative environment for cryptographic key factoring. Jim is the primary architect of SSFNet, the first open-source network simulation framework to support transparent parallelization and multiprocessor execution. Jim holds a B.S in computer science from Yale University. David Cowings Thomas Cross is the Manager of IBM ISS’ X-Force Advanced Research team. Tom leads a group of some of the world’s most respected information security experts, who are engaged in a daily effort to identify, analyze, and mitigate computer security vulnerabilities.
Andrew Cruikshank
Andrew Cruikshank joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Office of the General Counsel, in February 2009, in the Science and Technology Law Unit, and currently works with Special Technologies and Applications Office. Other Professional Experience: Previously, Mr. Cruikshank was an Assistant Attorney General for The District of Columbia for almost three years prosecuting juvenile offenders for all types of crimes. Additionally, Mr. Cruikshank was an Assistant District Attorney in Monroe County (Rochester) NY for 11 years and for the last four years he was a member of the Violent Felony Offense Bureau prosecuting violent offenders and repeat offenders. Mr. Cruikshank also was in private litigation practice for four years in Rochester, NY. Higher Education: Princeton University and Albany Law School of Union University. Robert K. Cunningham
Robert K. Cunningham is the associate leader of the Information Systems Technology Group and is responsible for initiating and managing research programs in information assurance and evaluations of information assurance systems. Dr. Cunningham received an Sc.B. degree in computer engineering from Brown University in 1985, an M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Boston University in 1988, and a Ph.D. degree in cognitive and neural systems from Boston University in 1998. From 1985 to 1987, he worked at Raytheon, designing and developing a parallel and distributed operating system for the next generation weather radar system. After completing his master's degree in 1988, he became a staff member of the Machine Intelligence Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, where his research focused on machine learning, digital image processing and image and video understanding. He also developed parallel implementations of algorithms for enhanced visualization and image region classification and contributed to early drafts of the real-time message passing interface (MPI/RT) specification. In early 1998 he moved to the Information Systems Technology Group, where he started researching and developing intrusion detection systems that do not require advance knowledge of the method of attack. His interests broadened to include detection and analysis of malicious software, including computer worms. Most recently he has become interested in automatically detecting software faults in mission critical software. In all cases he has been interested in evaluating the performance of these systems. In 2001 Dr. Cunningham led the research working group for the NSA’s computer network defense research and technology transition program manager, and received a commendation for his work from the director. In 2002 he participated in a study for DARPA developing a research program to detect and quarantine computer worms. In 2004 he was elected to the executive committee of the Institute for Information Protection (I3P), and later that year he was appointed to the executive advisory board for the Advanced Research and Development Activity (ARDA) organization. In 2005 and 2006, Dr. Cunningham managed the research team of a multi-institution effort to secure process control systems for the I3P and DHS. Dr. Cunningham is a member of the editorial board of the IEEE Security and Privacy magazine, is a member of Sigma Xi and a senior member of the IEEE. Mitch is in his third tour as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in San Diego and currently serves as the Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property crime coordinator. In prior incarnations, Mitch served the office as Chief of its Financial Institution Fraud Section and as Chief of its General Crimes Section. Before rejoining the government in April of 2005, Mitch was the Chief Security Advisor for Microsoft Corporation. Mitch came to Microsoft from EvidentData, Inc., a firm specializing in computer forensics, digital evidence and computer security where he was its president. Before that, he served for a combined 15 years as a federal prosecutor in San Diego, California, and in Boston, Massachusetts, and also was in engaged in a private law practice for two years in Springfield, Massachusetts. He has been a cybercrime prosecutor since 1991. Mitch started his legal career with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, DC. Mitch is credited with having founded the San Diego Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory, a national prototype, which provides assistance to the federal, state and local law enforcement agencies serving San Diego and Imperial Counties.
Dave DeWalt
Dave DeWalt is President and Chief Executive Officer of McAfee, Inc., the world's largest security technology company based in Santa Clara, Calif. Since joining McAfee in April, 2007, DeWalt has driven growth at the company by strengthening its leadership team and building out McAfee's solution offerings through research and development as well as several strategic acquisitions. Under DeWalt's leadership McAfee has continued to relentlessly tackle the world's toughest security challenges. With a clear security-focused strategy set by DeWalt, McAfee has expanded with consecutive quarters of double-digit year-over-year revenue growth. Prior to McAfee, DeWalt oversaw customer operations and sales at EMC Corporation and was also responsible for EMC's content management and archiving software business. DeWalt joined EMC in 2003 when EMC acquired Documentum, the global leader in enterprise content management, where he served as president and CEO. DeWalt has more-than 20 years in the technology industry-spanning engineering, product management, marketing, and sales management. He has held positions at companies including Eventus Software, Segue Software, Quest Software and Oracle Corporation. DeWalt is a frequent guest on international business programs and has also been quoted in BusinessWeek, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and many other leading publications. DeWalt was named one of the 25 most influential executives in high technology by the readers of the industry publication CRN. He received his B.S. in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from the University of Delaware. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and children. Colby DeRodeff
Colby DeRodeff has spent nearly a decade working with global organizations guiding best practices and empowering the use of ArcSight products across all business verticals including government, finance and healthcare. In this capacity he has been exposed to countless security and organizational challenges giving him a unique perspective on todays information security challenges. Recognized as an expert in the field of IT security, Colby's primary areas of focus are insider threat, the convergence of physical and logical security, as well as enterprise security and information management. As the leader of ArcSight's Technical Marketing team, Colby drives content for customers to more easily identify and solve complex real-world issues. He has helped ArcSight grow from the earliest days as a sales consultant and implementation engineer, to joining the development organization where he was one of the founders of ArcSight's Strategic Application Solutions team delivering content solutions to solve real world problems such as compliance and insider threat. Colby has held several consulting positions at companies; such as Veritas where he was responsible for deploying their global IDS infrastructure and ThinkLink Inc, where he maintained an enterprise VoIP network. Colby attended San Francisco State University and holds both the SANS Intrusion Analyst (GCIA) and Network Auditor (GCNA) certifications. Bob Dix is the Vice President of Government Affairs & Critical Infrastructure Protection for Juniper Networks, an industry leading technology company delivering trusted high performance networking and security solutions to the global marketplace. Mr. Dix has enjoyed a distinguished career in both the public and private sector, and is widely recognized across industry and government as a subject matter expert and a leading policy expert in furthering government – industry partnerships to protect this nation’s critical infrastructure. He was honored in 2008 with the prestigious Federal 100 award.
Mr. Dix has served in senior executive positions in the IT sector, as well as appointed and elected positions in the public sector. Prior to joining Juniper, he served as the Executive Vice President for Government Affairs & Corporate Development at Citadel Security Software. While with Citadel and continuing at Juniper, Mr. Dix has been active in IT and Telecommunications industry leadership roles.
Among his various roles with Juniper, Mr. Dix serves on the Industry Executive Subcommittee ( IES ) of the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee ( NSTAC ). In that role, he represents Juniper and its CEO, who is a Principal member appointed by the President of the United States. Mr. Dix represented Juniper as Chair of the Cyber Security Collaboration Task Force and also participates on several other NSTAC initiatives, examining issues related to national security and emergency preparedness communications. He served as Vice Chair of the Global Infrastructure Resiliency Task Force.
Mr. Dix has served as Chairman of the IT Sector Coordinating Council since April, 2008. He was elected to the inaugural Executive Committee in 2006 and has served previously as Secretary and Vice Chair.
Dix is active with the Partnership for Critical Infrastructure Security ( PCIS ), where he is the principal representative of the IT sector, and was elected to the Executive Committee in 2008. Dix has been active in facilitating improved integration of the private sector CI/KR community into the planning and execution of the National Exercise Program, testing our nation’s emergency preparedness, including the TOPOFF, NLE, and Cyber Storm series of National Level Exercises.
Mr. Dix has served in a variety of leadership roles with the Industry Advisory Council ( IAC ), where he recently completed a two-year term as an elected member of the Executive Committee, following terms as Chair and Vice Chair of the Information Security & Privacy Shared Interest Group.
Dix also represents Juniper Networks on the National Security Task Force of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce and with TechAmerica, formerly known as the Information Technology Association of America ( ITAA ). He continues to represent Juniper and participate with the IT-ISAC and the Communications Sector Coordinating Council, and also represents Juniper on the Board of Directors for SAFECode.
During the 108th Congress, Mr. Dix served as the Staff Director for the House Government Reform Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and the Census.
Previously Mr. Dix had served as a senior professional staff member to the House Oversight Subcommittee on the District of Columbia during the late 1990’s.
During his career, Mr. Dix also was privileged to serve his community as a local government elected official for 12 years. Mr. Dix was appointed by former Governor Allen to serve as a member and Vice Chairman of the former Virginia Baseball Stadium Authority.
Mr. Dix has also been a community volunteer for his entire adult life, primarily focusing his attention on organizations and activities involving young people and character development. He has coached a variety of sports during his volunteer career including football, baseball, and basketball, and continues today to coach AAU/Travel girls’ basketball. In addition, he serves as President of the Virginia High School League Foundation Board of Directors and as a member of the Board of Trustees for the non-profit, Youth for Tomorrow.
.Will Dormann Richard Downing Casey Dunlevy Mark Eckenwiler Joel Ebrahimi Over the course of his career, Mr. Ebrahimi has developed a specialization in high-speed packet analysis, firewall integration, network intrusion prevention/detection, host-based intrusion prevention, open vulnerability and assessment language (OVAL), common vulnerabilities and exposure (CVE) and compliance. He holds a Bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Jenny Ellickson Debra Ennis I joined the Legal Compliance Department as a Court Order Coordinator in 2000. As a Coordinator I assisted the law enforcement community with court orders, search warrants, surveillances, and exigent situations. I was appointed to Lead Analyst in December 2005 and later became the Supervisor of Court Order Compliance in February 2006. In 2008 I was promoted to Associate Director – Law Enforcement Resource Team where I currently oversee both the Court Order and Subpoena groups.
Oliver Friedrichs
Prior to starting Immunet, Oliver was the Director of Emerging Technologies, Symantec Security Response Friedrichs served as co-founder and director of Engineering at SecurityFocus until the company's acquisition by Symantec in 2002. Friedrichs managed the development of DeepSight Threat Management System, the industry's first early warning technology for Internet attacks. Friedrichs also created and grew the DeepSight Threat Analyst team providing thorough analysis of emerging Internet threats.
Prior to joining SecurityFocus, Friedrichs served as co-founder and vice president of Engineering at Secure Networks, Inc., where he architected and managed the development of Ballista network security auditing software, later rebranded CyberCop Scanner by Network Associates. In 1998 Secure Networks, Inc. was later acquired by Network Associates, where Friedrichs founded COVERT (Computer Vulnerability Exploitation Research Team) with the exclusive goal of researching and discovering new security vulnerabilities.
Friedrichs also architected and developed a prototype of the industry's first commercial penetration testing product, codenamed SNIPER. The technology was acquired by Core Security Technologies in 2001 and further developed to become CORE IMPACT, the company's flagship product and market leader for automated penetration testing.
Friedrichs has more than 13 years of expertise in security technologies including network assessment, intrusion detection systems, firewalls, penetration testing and honeypots. As a frequent speaker, he has shared his expertise with many of the world's most powerful organizations including the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Secret Service, the IRS, the DOD, NASA, AFOSI, and the Canadian DND.
Friedrichs attended the University of Manitoba and is the co-author of Hack Proofing Your Network: Internet Tradecraft and Extreme Exploits: Advanced Defenses Against Hardcore Hacks: ISBN 0072259558. In addition, he has had several securities related patents issued.
Bryce began his IT journey at 10 years of age with a Commodore 64 and a 300 baud modem. As a contributing author of the internationally bestselling book /Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions/, Bryce helped bring the secret world of hacking out of the darkness and into the public eye. Bryce has held security positions at global ISPs and Fortune 500 companies as well as being a senior member of Foundstone's world-renowned attack and penetration team. Bryce also served as senior instructor and co-author of Foundstone's "Ultimate Hacking: Hands-On" series. He has taught the art of ethical hacking and countermeasures to thousands of IT professionals from a who's who of top companies, financial institutions, and government agencies around the globe. Bryce currently teaches Security 504: Hacker Techniques, Exploits and Incident Handling, Security 560: Network Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking, Security 517: Cutting-Edge Hacking Techniques, Security 550: Advanced Information Recon, Security 401: SANS Security Essentials Bootcamp Style, and Security 561: Network Penetration Testing: Maximizing the Effectiveness of Reports, Exploits, and Command Shells for the SANS Institute. Bryce is an active member of several security-related professional organizations, he speaks at a variety of conferences, and he holds a number of certifications: CISSP, GCIH, GSEC, CEH, CHFI, Security+, and CCNA. Bryce is currently the lead consultant and co-founder of Layered Security
Seth Geftic Richard Goldberg Josh Goldfoot is a Trial Attorney with the Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section of the U.S. Department of Justice. In addition to prosecuting computer intrusion cases, he advises investigators and other prosecutors on privacy statutes, the Fourth Amendment, and other implications of emerging technologies on law enforcement. He is an accomplished software developer and computer technician, and received a United States patent in 2008 for shape recognition technology. He was a Special Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia for six months in 2007 and 2008. He has worked in technology law since 1999, when he advised Internet startups in Silicon Valley on intellectual property issues. Prior to joining the Department of Justice in 2005, he did appellate and civil litigation, and clerked for judge Alex Kozinski on the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. He is a graduate of Yale University and earned his law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law.
Rick Gordon is an expert on security technology, business strategy and early-stage finance. At Civitas Group, his focus areas include cyber security, identity management, and critical infrastructure protection. Previously, he served as CEO of an early-stage specialized encryption software company, where he was responsible for raising the company's initial investment capital and developing critical relationships with key strategic partners in the information security industry. Mr. Gordon was also a technology investment banker at Bear, Stearns & Co., serving many emerging technology companies and participating in several technology initial public offerings.
Mr. Gordon has also served as a submarine officer in the U.S. Navy. He received his MBA from The Darden School at the University of Virginia and his BS in Engineering with Merit from the U.S. Naval Academy.
Paul Green Jim Hansen Candina Heath Tim Henderson Shawn Henry Mr. Henry entered on duty as a special agent with the FBI in 1989. Upon completion of training at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, he was assigned to the Washington Field Office, where he investigated a variety of matters, focusing primarily on public corruption. He was also a member of the SWAT team. In 1995, he was the recipient of the Director’s Award for Outstanding Criminal Investigation.
Mr. Henry was promoted to Supervisory Special Agent in the Public Corruption Unit at FBI Headquarters in 1996, with program management oversight for public corruption investigations nationwide. In 1999, he was designated Chief of the Computer Investigations Unit within the National Infrastructure Protection Center at FBI Headquarters. In that capacity, he was responsible for all criminal computer intrusion matters. He was appointed as a representative for the United States delegation to the G8 as a member of the cyber crime subgroup.
In 2001, Mr. Henry was promoted to field supervisor of the Computer Crimes Squad for the Baltimore Field Office, with responsibility for investigation of computer intrusion and computer fraud matters, computer forensic examinations, and technical operations. In 2003, Mr. Henry was named Assistant Inspector and Team Leader in the Inspection Division at FBI Headquarters, where he led teams conducting evaluations and audits of FBI field offices and Headquarters divisions.
Mr. Henry was selected as Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Philadelphia Field Office in 2004, with oversight for all administrative matters, special operations, technical services, and the Field Intelligence Group. Mr. Henry was subsequently detailed to FBI Headquarters to assist in the implementation of the National Security Branch. In 2006, he was selected as a member of the Senior Executive Service to serve as Chief of the Executive Staff to the Executive Assistant Director of the National Security Branch.
In 2007, Mr. Henry was named Deputy Assistant Director of the FBI’s Cyber Division, with program management responsibility for all FBI computer investigations worldwide.
Mr. Henry has earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from Hofstra University in New York, and a Master of Science in Criminal Justice Administration from Virginia Commonwealth University.
Sean Hoar has served with the United States Department of Justice in Eugene, Oregon, as an Assistant United States Attorney since 1991. His caseload consists primarily of complex white collar and high tech crime. He also serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Oregon School of Law where he teaches Cyber Crime. He has twice received the Director’s Award, and has received a variety of other departmental and agency accolades.
Other Professional Experience: Served as Assistant District Attorney for the Lane County District Attorney’s Office in Eugene, Oregon from1987-91 were he supervised the District Court Division and prosecuted a wide range of felony offenses including narcotics, property and violent crime in the Circuit Court Division.
Higher Education: Linfield College, BA; Florida State University, MS; University of Oregon School of Law, JD;
Jason Hoffman
Jason Hoffman joined Kaiser Permanente as Director of Information Security Assurance and Risk. Mr. Hoffman is responsible for development and delivery of Kaiser's Enterprise Security Risk Management Program, as well as, the Security Awareness & Training Program. Prior to joining Kaiser Permanente, Mr. Hoffman served as Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer of Greater Bay Bank, N.A., a $7 billion community banking organization that provides personal and business financial solutions throughout the greater San Francisco Bay Area through its 8 community banking franchises, and throughout the United States through its specialty finance division. Greater Bay Bank was acquired by Wells Fargo & Co. in 2007.
Mr. Hoffman has more than 16 years of experience in security, information technology, and audit. Prior to accepting his role with Greater Bay Bank, he served as Information Security Officer at VeriSign, Inc. and held security and audit positions at Wells Fargo Bank and the University of California, San Francisco.
Mr. Hoffman is also one of the founders of a talented working group of security executives and university professors that have volunteered for Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology (TRUST) to create a college level IT Security curriculum that would bring information security education and awareness from the boardroom to the classroom.
In 2006, Mr. Hoffman was named by his peers as the winner of the Information Security Executive of the Year West People's Choice Award. He was also selected as a finalist in the Information Security Executive of the Year West Award and nominated for the Information Security Executive of the Year National Award.
Mr. Hoffman has earned several accreditations and certifications in the information technology field, including Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), and Certified Internal Auditor (CIA). He is also a member of many professional organizations, such as the Department of Homeland Security/SRI International Identity Theft Technology Council, Information Systems Security Association CISO Executive Forum, Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), the San Francisco chapter of Infragard, and the San Francisco chapter of the U.S. Secret Service Electronic Crimes Task Force. Mr. Hoffman graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Legal Studies.
Rob Hoffman
Rob Hoffman is the operational manager of the ICS-CERT. He is a founding member of the Control System Security Program and has worked in enterprise computer security for the past 15 years. Rick Howard
Mr. Howard is responsible for the day-to-day intelligence gathering and distribution efforts at iDefense and is charged with developing strategic and tactical plans for the department. He is an experienced computer security professional with proven success in the utilization of network intelligence for network defense. Prior to joining iDefense, Mr. Howard led the intelligence gathering activities at Counterpane Internet Security and ran Counterpane’s global network of Security Operations Centers (SOCs). Mr. Howard served in the US Army for 23 years in various command and staff positions involving nformation technology and security and retired as a lieutenant colonel in 2004. He spent the last two years of his career as the US Army’s Computer Emergency Response Team Chief (ACERT), where he coordinated network defense, network intelligence and network attack operations for the Army’s global network. Mr. Howard holds an MS in Computer Science from the Naval Postgraduate School and an Engineering degree from the United States Military Academy, where he also taught computer science later in his military career Wesley Hsu
Wes Hsu is the Deputy Chief of the Cyber and Intellectual Property Crimes Unit at the United States Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles, California. In 2005, he was named one of the Best Lawyers under 40 by the National Asia and Pacific American Bar Association. He has also received a Distinguished Service Award from the U.S. Attorney in Los Angeles. Captain Jeffrey Jaime, USAF (Ret.) served as an information systems security architect for the Department of Defense Joint Task Force’s Global Network Operations, directing overall operations of the Joint Computer Network Defense situational awareness capabilities within the DoD Centaur Program. Captain Jaime is also a former member of the DoD Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) assigned to the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA).
Captain Jaime earned a Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Information Systems from Park University and a Master’s of Science in Information Systems Technology from George Washington University. He is a certified Computer Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) Information Security Specialist
Tiffany O. Jones Joe Jarzombek After retiring from the U.S. Air Force as a Lt. Col. in program management, Jarzombek worked in the cyber security industry as vice president for product and process engineering. He later served in two software-related positions within the Office of the Secretary of Defense prior to accepting his current position.
As a Project Management Professional (PMP) and Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP), Joe Jarzombek has spoken extensively on measurement, software assurance, and practices for security-enhanced acquisition and development. He encourages further participation in DHS-sponsored public-private software assurance efforts via the Software Assurance Forum, Build Security In website, and Community Resources and Information Clearinghouse.
Tiffany O. Jones
Tiffany Jones heads Symantec’s North & Latin American Government Affairs team in Washington D.C. Prior to working for Symantec in March 2003, Ms. Jones was Deputy Chief of Staff of the President’s Critical Infrastructure Protection Board at the White House. Ms. Jones graduated from the US Coast Guard Academy and spent several years as a CG officer afloat and liaison at CG Congressional Affairs. Chris Jordan Prior to joining McAfee, Jordan was the CEO and Founder of Endeavor Security. He also served as an original member of the Army Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT), development and implementing CERTs for several government and commercial organizations.
Jordan is a graduate of Virginia Tech with a BS in Computer Science and also has a Master of Science in Computer Science from George Mason.
Michael Kaiser
Michael Kaiser is the Executive Director of the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA). He joined NCSA in 2008. Kaiser leads all of NCSA’s efforts to promote and advance cyber security to home users, K-12 educators, small business and the higher education community. Throughout his career, Kaiser has been involved in developing new programs and expanding the capacities of communities to respond to victims of crime. He has developed training and other programs on the use of technology in crimes such as stalking and identity theft, and programs exploring the use of technology to improve community policing. He co-authored "The Official eBay Guide to Buying, Selling, and Collecting Just About Anything" (1999). Tom Kellermann
Tom Kellermann is responsible for building Core's relationships with key industry and government partners, and helping further the acceptance of auditing security defenses to reduce organizations' operational risk. Additionally, Kellermann represents Core at US, international and industry security working groups, helping these organizations promote improved security practices and policies. Specifically, Tom is a Commissioner and Chair of the Threats Working Group on The Commission on Cyber Security for the 44th Presidency. Tom also serves as the Chair of the Technology Working Group for the Financial Coalition Against Child Pornography. Tom Kellermann formerly held the position of Senior Data Risk Management Specialist the World Bank Treasury Security Team. Tom was responsible for Cyber-intelligence and policy management within the World Bank Treasury. Tom regularly advised central banks around the world per their cyber-risk posture and layered security architectures.
Along with Thomas Glaessner and Valerie McNevin, he co-authored the book E-safety and Soundness: Securing Finance in a New Age and the White Paper, E-security: Risk Mitigation in Financial Transactions. Tom is also the author of numerous World Bank white papers on cyber security: Mobile Risk Management, The Digital Insider, Phishing in Digital Streams, Bots: Cyber Parasites, Zero Day, and Money Laundering in Cyberspace. See: http://www.worldbank.org/finance/esecurity
Tom is an active member of the IPv6 Forum and is an active member of the American Bar Association’s working group on Cyber-crime. Tom is a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM).
Shannon Kellogg Since February 2004, Kellogg has been a Member of the Board of Directors of the National Cyber Security Alliance. In late 2007, Kellogg was appointed to the CSIS Commission on Cyber Security for the 44th Presidency. Beginning in April 2009, Kellogg is serving as Chairman of Tech America’s Information Security Committee. Robert Kern Other Professional Experience:
1982 - 1984 Private Practice - Ohio
1984 - 1987 Trial Attorney, Tax Division, Dept. Of Justice, Washington, D.C.
1987 - 1991 Special Litigation Counsel, IRS District Counsel,
Cleveland, Ohio
Higher Education:
B.A. (cum laude) 1979 - Indiana University of Pennsylvania
J.D. 1982 - Ohio Northern University
Managing Editor, Ohio Northern Law Review 1980-1981
Ross Kinder Lee Klarich Matthew Lamberti Before starting as IPLEC, Mr. Lamberti served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of California for almost four years, prosecuting federal crimes involving intellectual property, computers, fraud, terrorism, and other matters. Before becoming an AUSA, he worked for four years as Counsel to the United States Senate Judiciary Committee and to United States Senator Dianne Feinstein. There, his responsibilities included covering crime, cybercrime, terrorism, homeland security, technology, victims' rights, and the Constitution. He also spent two years as an associate with a law firm in Washington D.C. doing general and appellate litigation. Higher Education: B.A., Yale University; M.Phil., Oxford University; J.D., Stanford Law School.
Brett Lambo
Brett Lambo is the Director of the Cyber Exercises Program for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's National Cyber Security Division (NCSD). Mr. Lambo leads the NCSD Cyber Exercises Program which, in collaboration with cyber security partners, designs, develops, and conducts cyber exercises at the federal, state, regional, local, and sector level. DHS's most recent major exercise, Cyber Storm II, was the second installment in the NCSD's national cyber exercise series. Cyber Storm II was a large-scale, national/international cyber exercise designed and executed in close coordination with partners from 40 private sector companies, 18 Federal departments and agencies, 9 states, and 5 countries. Prior to his position at NCSD, Mr. Lambo led activities in the DHS Office of Infrastructure Protection's Critical Infrastructure protection partnership efforts. He played a central role in the creation, development, implementation, and operation of the sector partnership and the Critical Infrastructure Partnership Advisory Council (CIPAC) - DHS's principal mechanism for public-private and Federal/State collaboration for critical infrastructure protection. Other engagements included elements of the National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP), as well as the development and exercise of the Office of Infrastructure Protection's incident management plans, procedures and operations - including deployment and incident management activities for real-world incidents such as Hurricane Katrina. Prior to his tenure at DHS, Mr. Lambo spent almost 10 years as a consultant to Federal and State government agencies. Mr. Lambo holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Chicago. Rob Lee
Rob Lee is a Director for MANDIANT (http://www.mandiant.com), a leading provider of information security consulting services and software to Fortune 500 organizations and the U.S. Government. Rob has over 13 years experience in computer forensics, vulnerability discovery, intrusion detection, and incident response. Rob graduated the U.S. Air Force Academy and served in the U.S. Air Force as a founding member of the 609th Information Warfare Squadron, the first U.S. military operational unit focused on Information Operations. Later, he was a member of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations where he conducted computer crime investigations and computer forensics. Prior to joining MANDIANT, he worked on contracts for a variety of government agencies where he was the technical lead for a vulnerability discovery team, contractor lead for cyber forensics branch, and led a security software development team. Rob also coauthored the bestselling book, Know Your Enemy, 2nd Edition. In addition to working for MANDIANT and the SANS Institute, Rob is currently pursuing his MBA at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Rob is the curriculum lead for Computer Forensic Training at the SANS Institute (http://forensics.sans.org) and has trained over 8,000 analysts worldwide.
.Mr. Levy has served in the Department of Justice for 22 of the last 24 years. He is on his 3d tour of duty with the Department. From 1980 through 1983 he was an Assistant in the U.S. Attorney's office in Philadelphia where he specialized in white collar prosecution. In 1983 he was named Senior Litigation Counsel. From 1985 through 1989 he was a Special Attorney in the Philadelphia Strike Force of the Organized Crime Section. He prosecuted drug, tax and fraud cases there and handled several civil and criminal forfeiture actions.
After a brief period in private practice, Mr. Levy returned to the U.S. Attorney's office Criminal Division in 1990. In 1991 he was named Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division and in 1993, he was made First Assistant. On April 1, 2001, Attorney General John Ashcroft appointed him to serve as the interim United States Attorney.
With the appointment of a new U.S. Attorney on September 17, 2001, Mr. Levy is now the Chief of Computer Crime in that office.
Mr. Levy began his career as an Assistant Defender with the Defender Association of Philadelphia. He has served as an Assistant District Attorney in Philadelphia and as an Assistant Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He has been in private practice as a sole practitioner and has worked for large and small law firms as well.
He is a 1966 cum laude graduate of Brown University and a 1969 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Rick Lichtenfels Prior to becoming the CSSP Deputy Director in April 2009, Mr. Lichtenfels spent the previous 4 years at the DHS National Communications System (NCS) where he led the NCS’ Modeling, Analysis and Technology Assessment branch. Martin J. Littlefield Senior Litigation Counsel, WDNY (1994-2009)
AUSA, WDNY (1982-present)
Other Professional Experience:
Private Practice 1981-1982
Assistant District Attorney, Erie County (1974-1981)
Higher Education:
B.A., University of Toronto, 1971
J.D., State University of NY at Buffalo Law School
Senior Counsel and Litigation Coordinator for Computer Crime
-responsible for coordinating litigation both within the office and assisting USAOs with litigation -related matters
Other Pertinent Experience:
6.5 years at CCIPS
2 years in Civil Division Litigating immigration cases in Court of Appeals
2 year clerkship with the Honorable Michael A. Teleson, District Judge, Rochester, NY
Nearly 4 years working in USAOs in Buffalo and Rochester while in College
Office and EOD Date:
Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, Criminal Division
EOD at CCIPS- 11/1997 EOD as Justice Lawyer- 10/1995
Cornell Law School, Ithaca, NY -1993
University of Rochester, Rochester, NY - 1990
Mr. Mandia is an internationally recognized expert in the field of information security. He has over seventeen years experience, beginning in the military as a computer security officer at the Pentagon. He has assisted attorneys, corporations, and government organizations with matters involving information security compliance, complex litigation support, computer forensics, expert testimony, network attack and penetration testing.
He is co-author of Incident Response: Performing Computer Forensics (McGraw-Hill, 2003) and Incident Response: Investigating Computer Crime (McGraw-Hill, 2001). Mr. Mandia holds a Master of Science in Forensic Science from The George Washington University. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional, and has held government security clearances at the Top Secret and higher levels.
Art Manion Robert A. Martin Sean McAllister Sean McBride John McCumber In addition to his professional responsibilities at Symantec Corporation, Mr. McCumber is currently a Professorial Lecturer in Information Security at The George Washington University in Washington, DC. In addition, Mr. McCumber is the author of Assessing and Managing Security Risk in IT Systems: a Structured Methodology from Auerbach Publications. Cheri McGuire Prior to joining Microsoft, Ms. McGuire served in numerous positions at DHS, including as Acting Director of the National Cyber Security Division and US-CERT. Prior to DHS, she served as a program manager at Booz Allen Hamilton for nearly five years, and as a Congressional staffer for seven years in the U.S. House of Representatives. She earned an MBA from The George Washington University and a BA from the University of California at Riverside.
Sean McGurk Chris Merriam: Mike Mellor Jenny Menna Prior to joining the Department of Homeland Security, Ms. Menna held a variety of program management roles for a large systems integration firm. She received both her M.A. and B.A. from the University of Chicago and is a certified Project Management Professional.
Adam Meyers Michael Montecillo Cary Moore
With over ten years of subject matter expertise in digital forensics, counterespionage operations and counterintelligence support to network operations, Cary Moore has served as an expert witness in several successful court cases. At Guidance Software, he continues to leverage the latest in EnCase technology to be successful in eDiscovery and Incident Response. Prior to Guidance Software, he was a Special Agent for the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, where he held the role of Computer Crime Investigator. In this position he specialized in Computer Forensics, Covert Remote Forensics, Cyber Counterintelligence, Counterespionage Investigations, and Technical Surveillance and Countermeasures. Cary holds degrees in Criminal Justice and Information Technology.
Robert Moore Office and EOD Date: Office of Legal Education, Jan 2000
Higher Education: Bachelor of Science Degree, Upper Iowa University
Associate in Arts Degree, Chaminade University of Honolulu
Paralegal Certificate, The Judge Advocate General’s School
Mr. Miller has been a federal prosecutor for 9 years and has worked for the Department of Justice in Washington D.C., San Francisco and Houston. Prior to working for the Department of Justice, Mr. Miller worked as an Assistant District Attorney for 5 years. Mr. Miller has tried in excess of 60 cases in both federal and state court. Mr. Miller has lectured extensively on Intellectual Property Rights domestically and in Asia, South America and Central America. Mr. Miller currently serves as the lead prosecutor in the Justice Department’s initiative to combat online piracy. Mr. Miller received the 2008 Anti-Piracy leadership award from the Software & Information Industry Association. Mr. Miller also received the 2008 U.S. Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General Award for Protecting the American Marketplace.
Tom Murphy Charles Nelson Intelligence Liaison Officer to HQS US Air Forces Europe, Directorate of Intelligence (USAFE/A2) Plans & Programs (A2X), Ramstein Air Base, Germany Chief, Mission Support Division - Bad Aibling Station, Germany Chief, Internet Research Technology Lab - Information Operations Technology Center (IOTC)/Advanced Technology Group, Ft Meade, MD NSA Unified Cryptologic Architecture (UCA)/System Engineering & Program Mgt Office, Systems Engineer and Branch Mgr for Access Programs, Ft Meade, MD CIA – Various assignments as Technical Operations Officer, Field Engineer, Systems Engineer, and Project Manager Charles Nelson
Tyler Newby
Tyler Newby is a Trial Attorney in the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section of the United States Department of Justice’s Criminal Division. He has also served as a Special Assistant United States Attorney in the Cyber Unit of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia in Alexandria from 2007 - 2009, where he prosecuted a variety of intellectual property and cybercrime cases. Mr. Newby was trial counsel on the first criminal copyright infringement jury trial involving BitTorrent and the first criminal copyright infringement jury trial concerning an Internet-based music piracy group. Andy Ogielski Thomas Oscherwitz AUSA since 2000. CHIP Attorney since 2006. Higher Education: University of Wisconsin Law School
Timothy O’Shea Tim O’Shea is Senior Litigation Counsel and an Assistant United States Attorney in the Western District of Wisconsin. He has served as the Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property coordinator (CHIP) for over a decade. His cases have included system intrusions, attacks on computer systems and illegal counterfeit and distribution of copyrighted material. He has lectured extensively to law enforcement regarding federal computer crime and evidentiary issues. He received the Department of Justice Director’s award for superior performance as an Assistant United States Attorney in 2002. Tim received his J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1991 and his B.A. from Northern Illinois University in 1986.
Joseph Panzarella
Joe has worked with Litigation Support programs for 12 years. He began his Litigation Support career at the San Diego District Attorney’s Office in 1997, where he worked on all major criminal cases, which included several death penalty murder cases. In 2003, Joe was hired by the US Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia as a Litigation Support Manager. During the past 6 years, Joe has implemented a paperless system for the processing of millions of pages received by the district each year and has trained the staff on how to use the system effectively. He also instituted a training program to have the attorneys use electronic media and images when presenting their cases in court. These two major programs have save thousands of work hours for the attorneys and their legal staff from the time of indictment to the trial in any given case. He has also done extensive training at his office and at the NAC (National Advocacy Center) in Columbia, SC. He has been certified in IPRO and IConnect and has taught PowerPoint, Sanction II, IPRO, EScanIt and Concordance to a national audience. He oftentimes is called upon to assist other USAO districts with their Litigation Support issues. He has been asked to train several offices to include the District of Rhode Island and the District of Utah. In these districts, he was able to give hands-on training and assisted their offices to streamline their Litigation Support needs and workload. He consults with upper management to help them make decisions in the Litigation Support area to improve productivity throughout the office. Jason Passwaters
Since October 2008, Technical Analyst (TA) Jason Passwaters, through Harris Corporation, has been contracted to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Investigative Analysis Unit, Strategic Analysis Program. The Strategic Analysis Program develops and applies customized analytical methods to process collected digital information in support of FBI investigations. TA Passwaters' analysis is focused on, but not limited to, log file analysis and network packet capture analysis. Other Professional Experience: From March 2004 to October 2008, TA Passwaters worked as a Technical Surveillance Countermeasures Specialist for the United States Marine Corps. TA Passwaters technical experience focused on computer and network analysis and security (802.11 & 802.3), analog/digital telephony (VOIP/VTC), and physical component analysis. Higher Education: TA Passwaters holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Management and is currently pursuing his Master of Science in Software Engineering degree. Rob Pate
Rob Pate is the Chief Security Officer at Renesys. He recently was Vice President for Cybersecurity and Privacy at McNeil Technologies. Prior to McNeil, Mr. Pate served as the Deputy Director of Outreach and Awareness at the National Cyber Security Division (NCSD) at the Department of Homeland Security as well as the Director of Focused Operations with the United States Computer Incident Readiness Team (US-CERT). He founded the Government Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (GFIRST). This Government information sharing effort is focused on daily information exchange at the technical operators across different incident response teams representing the defense, intelligence, law enforcement, and federal civilian agency communities. In addition to his GFIRST activities, Mr. Pate led the US-CERT situational awareness program which was focused on providing the government with early indications and warnings as well as the Chief Information Security Officer’s (CISO) Forum for the entire federal government. Mr. Pate came to the Department of Homeland security from an operational environment where he was the Director of an Incident Response Team for the largest federal civilian agency and the largest healthcare provider in the world. Mr. Pate has a mathematics degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel as well as graduate work at Johns Hopkins, Stanford, and Georgetown Universities. He completed the Senior Executive Leadership Program at Georgetown University. In 2006, he was selected as a” Federal 100” award winner for his contributions to government information technology. Mr. Pate is a member of the InfraGard Nation's Capital Members Alliance and serves as the Vice President of Special Projects on the National Board.
Chirag Patel Out of school, he worked for a subsidiary of John Hancock, Independence Fixed Income Associate (IFIA), as a Systems Officer. IFIA has over $4 billion of assets. Mr. Patel managed and evolved their network from an unwired to a wired world.
Mr. Patel left IFIA in 2002 to pursue a career with the Supreme Court of the United States. He earned his CISSP in 2004 and has since worked as a cyber security professional since. Mr. Patel responsible for ensuring the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the Court’s data by overseeing and assisting in the operations of the Court CSIRC and Disaster Recovery teams.
Mr. Patel is also a Masters of Arts candidate at Georgetown University in Communication, Culture and Technology. The degree uses an interdisciplinary lens to analyze the effect of technology across economics, law, policy, business and culture.
David Perry
David Perry brings more than 25 years of technical education and support experience to his role as Global Director of Education at Trend Micro. In this position, Mr. Perry represents the company’s Internet content security awareness endeavors through speaking engagements and presentations, working to educated network administrators, computer users, and the public at large about computer virus protection.Previously, he worked at Cybermedia Corporation, where he appeared in more than 170 television and radio broadcasts as a company spokesperson; and at McAfee Corporation, where he managed all online and Web-based support. Mr. Perry began his career as Technical Support Analyst at Peter Norton Computing (now Symantec). Dr. Shari Lawrence Pfleeger
Shari Lawrence Pfleeger is a senior researcher at the RAND Corporation, a not-for-profit company doing high-quality, high-impact research in the public interest. At RAND, she works on policy and decision-making issues that help organizations and government agencies understand whether and how information technology supports their mission and goals. From 1982 to 2003, Dr. Pfleeger was president of Systems/Software, Inc., a consultancy specializing in software engineering and technology. From 1997 to 2000, she was also a visiting professor at the University of Maryland's computer science department. She was founder and director of Howard University's Center for Research in Evaluating Software Technology (CREST), and was a visiting scientist at the City University (London) Centre for Software Reliability, principal scientist at MITRE Corporation's Software Engineering Center, and manager of the measurement program at the Contel Technology Center. She began her career as a developer and maintainer for real-time, business-critical software systems. Thus, she has experience both with the practical problems of software development and the theoretical underpinnings of software engineering and computer science. Pfleeger is well-known for her work in empirical studies of software engineering and for her multi-disciplinary approach to solving information technology problems.
For several years, Dr. Pfleeger was associate editor-in-chief of IEEE Software, where she edited the Quality Time column, and then associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. From 1998 to 2002, she was a member of the editorial board of Prentice Hall's Software Quality Institute series. A member of IEEE, the IEEE Computer Society, and the Association for Computing Machinery, Pfleeger was elected to the executive committee of the Technical Council on Software Engineering from 1996 to 2000.
Frequently invited to give keynote presentations and tutorials at conferences, Pfleeger was the general chair of the Second International Symposium on Software Metrics (in London, England) and the program co-chair of the Fourth International Symposium on Software Metrics (in Albuquerque, New Mexico). She and Dr. Jarrett Rosenberg (Sun Microsystems) chaired the Workshop on Empirical Studies of Software Engineering, WESS98. Pfleeger was program co-chair of the International Conference on Software Maintenance, held in Amsterdam in 2003.
Jonathan Pollet has over 10 years of experience in both Industrial Process Control Systems and Network Security. After graduating from the University of New Orleans with honors and receiving a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering, he was hired by Chevron and designed and implemented PLC and SCADA systems for onshore and offshore facilities.
Throughout his career, he has been involved with IEEE, ISA, ISSA, UTC, CSIA, and other professional societies. Pollet has developed and presented workshops on SCADA Security to the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, Utility Telecom Council, and has spoken at many conferences and workshops around the world.
Phillip Porras is a Program Director of systems security research in the Computer Science Laboratory at SRI International, and has been a Principal Investigator for many INFOSEC research projects sponsored by DARPA, DoD, NSF, NSA, and others. He is an active researcher, publishing and conducting technology development in intrusion detection,
alarm correlation, malware analysis, active networks, and wireless security. Phillip has participated on numerous program committees, editorial boards, and commercial company technical advisory boards. He holds seven U.S. patents, and have been awarded Best Paper honors in 1995, 1999, and 2008. Wendi Rafferty Ranny Reynolds David M. Ross Marcus Sachs John Sabo is Director, Global Government Relations for CA, Inc., providing expertise in the use of security and privacy technologies in trusted infrastructures and is active in industry-focused cyber security and critical infrastructure protection initiatives. He is a member of the OASIS IDtrust Member Section Steering Committee, is a board member and past President of the Information Technology-Information Sharing and Analysis Center (IT-ISAC); member of the IT-Sector Coordinating Council, where he also serves on the Executive Committee; and Immediate Past Chair of the ISAC Council.
Mr. Sabo is also active in information privacy, serving as an appointed member of the DHS Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee, and is a past member of the NIST-sponsored Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board (ISPAB). He is a board member and President of the non-profit International Security Trust and Privacy Alliance (ISTPA). Before working in the private sector, Mr. Sabo was Director of the Social Security Administration’s Electronic Services Staff where he helped lead the development of e-government services and identity systems. He is an invited speaker at international security and privacy conferences, has authored published journal articles, and contributes to technical studies on security, privacy and trust issues. He holds degrees from King’s College (Pennsylvania) and the University of Notre Dame, and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).
Phyllis Schneck
Vice President, Threat Intelligence For more than a decade, Dr. Phyllis Schneck has held a distinguished presence in the security and infrastructure protection community. Currently serving as vice president of threat intelligence at McAfee, she is responsible for the design and application of McAfee’s Internet reputation intelligence, strategic thought leadership around technology and policy in cybersecurity, and leading McAfee initiatives in critical infrastructure protection and cross-sector cybersecurity. Schneck recently served as a commissioner and a working group co-chair on the public-private partnership for the CSIS Commission to Advice the 44th President on Cyber Security. Schneck also served for eight years as chairman of the National Board of Directors of the FBI’s InfraGard program and as founding president of InfraGard Atlanta, growing the InfraGard program from 2000 to over 26,000 members nationwide. Named one of Information Security Magazine’s Top 25 Women Leaders in Information Security, Schneck holds three patents in high-performance and adaptive information security, and has six research publications in the areas of information security, real-time systems, telecom and software engineering. Before joining McAfee, she served as vice president of research integration at Secure Computing. Schneck holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech where she pioneered the field of information security and security-based high-performance computing.
She is responsible for providing the Investigative Analysis Unit with a vision and setting goals and objectives to address the FBI’s technical digital analysis needs. She provides technical oversight of 32 government and contractor digital technologists supporting five programs: Strategic Analysis, Intrusion Analysis, Malware Analysis, Special Networks & Applications and Analytical Support. SSA Sewell entered the field of computer forensics in 1997 as a Computer Analysis Response Team Certified Forensic Examiner and has since gone on in the field of computer forensics to become the chair of the Scientific Working Group on Digital Evidence (2003-2008) and an ASCLD/LAB Inspector and Assessor. Other Professional Experience: Prior to entering the FBI, SSA Sewell worked in private industry for over 17 years as an electrical design Engineer with the Westinghouse Electric System Group in Baltimore, Maryland.
Higher Education: University of Maryland graduate with a bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering.
Ron Shaffer Josh Shaul Prior to Application Security, Inc., Josh was with SafeNet, Inc. working on the industry’s first complete IPsec accelerator chip. In over five years with SafeNet, he was responsible for the design, development and enhancement of SafeNet’s embedded security solutions, covering a wide range of applications.
Josh is the foremost security policy and standards guru at the firm, with added expertise in trusted computing and application-level security issues. He is the author of the acclaimed Practical Oracle Security: Your Unauthorized Guide to Relational Database Security, which received resoundingly positive critical reviews. He’s spoken at numerous global conferences including Microsoft TechEd, McAfee FOCUS, CSI Exchange, GFIRST, IOUG COLLABORATE, Midwest Oracle Users Group (MOUG), Toronto Oracle Users Group (TOUG), Federal Information Assurance Technology Forum and OWASP.
Josh holds a BS in Computer Systems Engineering from the University of Massachusetts.
Aaron Shelmire is a member of the technical staff in the Networked Systems Survivability Program at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI). Prior to joining the SEI he had been and Information Security Analyst for the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center and the National Science Foundation’s TeraGrid project.
Jordana Siegel
Jordana Siegel is the Outreach and Awareness Program Director for the DHS National Cyber Security Division. She leads all internal coordination and external affairs for the division in the areas of public policy, international affairs, public affairs, and stakeholder engagement Her responsibilities include promoting cyber security awareness among and within the general public and key communities, maintaining relationships with governmental stakeholders to share information about cyber security initiatives, and fostering public, private, and international partnerships on critical cyber security issues. Steven D. Shirley
Prior to assuming his current position, Mr. Shirley was the AFOSI Vice Commander, or chief operating officer, for a worldwide investigative organization with 2,400 people operating at 191 locations around the globe. During his Air Force career he commanded counterintelligence, antiterrorism, and investigative operations at every level of the Air Force. He also served as a counterintelligence support officer to a unified command; and served on the Office of the Secretary of Defense staff where he developed positions to protect DoD sensitive programs during arms control treaty inspections. He retired from Air Force active duty in 2004 with the rank of colonel and was appointed to the Senior Executive Service. Jerrold Smith Lawrence R. Sommerfeld Christopher Sonderby From 2003 until his arrival in Bangkok in January 2006, Mr. Sonderby served as Chief of the Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property (“CHIP”) Unit of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California. He also headed the Computer Crimes Section for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Sacramento, and has prosecuted a broad range of federal crimes in his career. He has served as an adjunct professor at the Boalt Hall School of Law at the Univ. of California at Berkeley, and is a graduate of the Univ. of Chicago Law and the University of Michigan.
Reeny Sondhi is Senior Manager of Product Security Assurance in the Product Security Office at EMC Corporation. She is responsible for driving the strategy and execution of the EMC Security Development Lifecycle, a companywide initiative to build security into every phase of the product development lifecycle. She also manages the EMC Product Security Response Center, which is responsible for reporting, managing, and resolving security vulnerabilities in EMC products and the EMC Security Certifications program. She has a B.S. in Electronics & Telecommunications Engineering and a Master's Degree in Business Administration.
Michael J. Stawasz
Mick Stawasz is a Senior Counsel with the Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section of the U.S. Department of Justice. Mick’s work for the Department focuses on the effect of emerging technologies on law enforcement and the novel legal questions these innovations create. He is a frequent lecturer nationally and internationally on computers and networks and obtaining evidence from them. Mr. Stawasz is a former Special Assistant United States Attorney from the Eastern District of Virginia. Prior to joining the U. S. Department of Justice, he litigated criminal and civil cases with law firms Goodwin Procter in Boston, Massachusetts and Dow, Lohnes & Albertson in Washington, DC. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and earned his Juris Doctorate from the Georgetown University Law Center
John Strand
John Strand currently is the owner and senior security researcher with Black Hills Information Security, and a consultant with Argotek, Inc for TS/SCI programs. As a certified SANS instructor he teaches: 504 "Hacker Techniques, Exploits and Incident Handling," 517, "Cutting Edge Hacking Techniques," and 560 "Network Penetration Testing." He is a contributing author of Nagios 3 Enterprise Network Monitoring, and a regular contributor to SearchSecurity's "Ask the Expert" series on the latest information security threats. He also regularly posts videos demonstrating the latest computer attacks and defenses at vimeo.com/album/26207. He started the practice of computer security with Accenture Consulting in the areas of intrusion detection, incident response, and vulnerability assessment/penetration testing. John then moved on to Northrop Grumman specializing in DCID 6/3 PL3-PL5 (multi-level security solutions), security architectures, and program certification and accreditation. He has a master's degree from Denver University and is currently also a professor at Denver University. In his spare time he writes loud rock music and makes various futile attempts at fly-fishing.
James Strieber Robin Taylor Ms. Taylor also has experience prosecuting complex financial fraud cases, including criminal tax violations, environmental crimes, investment fraud, and immigration matters. Ms. Taylor has tried numerous felony cases to verdict and has argued seven cases before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Zach Tudor is currently a Program Director in the Computer Science Laboratory at SRI International. Zach serves as a technical resource for various projects, and supports operational and research and development cyber security programs including the Cyber Security Research and Development Center (CSRDC) for the Department of Homeland Security.
Prior to his work at SRI, Zach led a team of cyber security engineers and analysts directly supporting the Control Systems Security Program (CSSP) at DHS, whose mission is reducing the cyber security risk to critical infrastructure control systems in the US and its strategic partners world wide.
He has held several senior-level consulting positions, including Vice President of SAIC’s Enabling Technology Division, and Senior Manager for Department of Defense programs at BearingPoint's Security Practice.
Zach is a retired U.S. Navy Submarine Electronics Officer, where he served in numerous technical and management positions at sea and ashore.
Dan VanBelleghem Rhiannon Weaver John Weinschenk Robert K. West
Bob is responsible for creating and executing Echelon One’s corporate strategy. He has over 23 years of experience in information security, physical security, awareness, strategic planning, governance, organizational change, relationship management, computer network design, implementation and management. Bob is a frequent speaker on the subject of information security and on the advisory board for Agilance, Security Growth Partners, TriCipher and Trusteer. He is on the board of directors for the Cincinnati Information Systems Security Association (ISSA), the University of Cincinnati’s College of Information Technology Advisory Board and has also been on Securent’s advisory board (acquired by Cisco), a member of RSA Security’s Customer Advisory Council, and the ISS Customer Advisory Council. He is also been quoted in many periodicals including the Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek.
Previously, Bob was Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Fifth Third Bank in Cincinnati where he was responsible for the enterprise information security strategy. Prior to joining Fifth Third, Bob worked for Bank One in Columbus where he held several key leadership roles, including Information Security Officer for Bank One's Retail Group. Prior to joining Bank One, Bob was a manager with Ernst & Young’s Information Security Services practice in Chicago, and a Senior Systems Officer with Citicorp International in New York and Chicago.
Bob received the 2004 Digital ID World Conference award for Balancing Innovation and Reality, and a 2004 InfoWorld 100 Award for implementing cross-company authentication using SAML. Bob graduated from Michigan State University with a Bachelor of Arts in German and then received his Master of Science in Management Information Systems from North Central College.
Brian Willis is a Senior Information Security Analyst with Intel Corporation. Brian has nearly 20 years experience as an Information Security Professional and his current responsibilities include coordinating Critical Information Infrastructure Protection activities with government agencies and law enforcement and assessing strategic and operational cyber threats. Brian represents Intel on cyber security issues in various industry associations and government-related cyber security programs. Brian is the current President of the IT Information Sharing Analysis Center (IT ISAC) and the Executive Director of the International Consortium for the Advancement of Security on the Internet (ICASI). Prior assignments at Intel include leading information security efforts in over 25 mergers and acquisitions, managing information security for the Greater European and Asian Regions, and various security management and various individual contributor roles within Intel’s Information Security organization. Brian is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Information Systems Security Architect (ISSAP) and Information Systems Security Manager (ISSMP).
Tom Wills of VeriSign iDefense supervises the Security Operations Center for the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center. Prior to VeriSign, he worked for SAIC and Intel Corporation. Mr. Wills has over ten years of experience in information technology and 24 x 7 network operations. Mr. Wills participated as a planner in Cyber Storm, T4 and NLE 2008. He holds a Masters Degree in Education from Lehigh University and a Bachelors Degree in History from Johns Hopkins University.
Stephen Windsor leads Booz Allen Hamilton’s Digital Forensics & Incident Response Team which supports the Federal government, intelligence community, military, defense industry, and major financial organizations. Stephen’s primary focus is on responding to and managing Advanced Persistent Threat intrusion investigations and developing forensic analysis collection and analysis tools. Stephen holds a Bachelor of Science from Towson University and is an adjunct faculty member at Stevenson University.
Amit Yoran
Amit Yoran has been serving as Chairman and CEO of NetWitness since November of 2006. Prior to NetWitness, he was appointed as Director of the US-CERT and National Cyber Security Division of the Department of Homeland Security, and as CEO and advisor to In-Q-Tel, the venture capital arm of the CIA. Formerly Mr. Yoran served as the Vice President of Worldwide Managed Security Services at the Symantec Corporation. Mr. Yoran was the co-founder of Riptech, a market leading IT security company, and served as its CEO until the company was acquired by Symantec in 2002. He served as an officer in the United States Air Force in the Department of Defense's Computer Emergency Response Team. Mr. Yoran serves as a commissioner on the CSIS Commission on Cyber Security for the 44th Presidency and numerous other industry advisory bodies.
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