CSIIRW Keynote Speakers
Susan Alexander
Senior Advisor and Chief, Initiative Integration
Joint Interagency Cyber Task Force
Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Schedule: Keynote (Wed. 8:00 AM)
Presentation Title: Change the game or win the war: The metaphor matters
Ms. Alexander is the Senior Advisor to the Director of the Joint Interagency Cyber Task Force. She leads integration and assessment of the Government-wide cybersecurity strategy and associated investment portfolio known collectively as the Comprehensive National Cyber Initiative (CNCI). Ms. Alexander came to ODNI from the Office of the Secretary of Defense, where she was the Chief Technology Officer for Cyber, Information and Identity Assurance, guiding development of the technical strategy for assured net-centric operations and handling the pipeline portfolio: programs to identify emerging commercial capabilities, market-shaping partnerships with the private sector, and research investment at DoD labs and DARPA. An early architect of the leap-ahead component of CNCI, Ms. Alexander developed the framework for the National Cyber Leap Year and its game-change methodology (Read More)
Sean McGurk
Director, Control Systems Security Program
National Cyber Security Division, Department of Homeland Security
Schedule: Keynote (Wed. 12:15 PM)
Presentation Title: TBD
Mr. McGurk had 28 years of service in the United States Navy with 20 years in the Navy's nuclear weapons program, serving on six fleet ballistic missile submarines and several shore facilities. He led two submarines as Chief of the Boat, and served as the Command Master Chief for a Tactical Electronics Warfare Squadron and the Navy's only forward deployed Carrier Air Wing. He worked as an arms control inspector for the Department of Defense where he conducted numerous inspections throughout the Soviet Union and subsequent Commonwealth of Independent States in accordance with the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF), the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) and the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Treaties. (Read More)
Nabil Adam
Fellow, IGD, S&T Directorate, DHS
Professor of Computers and Information Sys, Rutgers Univ.
Department of Homeland Security
Schedule: Keynote (Wed. 1:00 PM)
Presentation Title: TBD
Dr. Adam serves as a Fellow and Sr. Program Manager at the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) – Infrastructure & Geophysical Division (IGD), Science & Technology Directorate where he manages more than $30 Million as a part of the Complex Event Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis (CEMSA) program initiated in 2008. He also serves as the technical lead for the Unified Incident Command & Decision Support System program and has initiated the Cyber-physical Systems Security program. Dr. Adam is a Professor of Computers and Information Systems at Rutgers University; the Founding Director of the Rutgers University Center for Information Management, Integration and Connectivity (CIMIC); and the Director of the recently established information Technology for Emergency mAnageMent (i-TEAM) Research Laboratory. (Read More)
Ty Znati
CNS Division Director
National Science Foundation
Schedule: Keynote (Fri. 1:00 PM)
Presentation Title: TBD
Dr. Znati received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Michigan State University in 1988, and a M.S. degree in Computer Science from Purdue University, in 1984. He is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science, with a joint appointment in Telecommunications in the Department of Information Science, and a joint appointment in Computer Engineering at the School of Engineering. He currently serves as the Director of the Computer and Network Systems Division at the National Science Foundation. Dr. Znati also served as a Senior Program Director for networking research at the National Science Foundation. (Read More)
Melissa Hathaway
President
Hathaway Global Strategies
Schedule: Keynote (Fri. 8:00 AM) & CIO/CTO Prespectives Panel (Thu. 12:15 PM)
Presentation Title: TBD
Melissa Hathaway is President of Hathaway Global Strategies, LLC and a Senior Advisor at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center. Having served in two Presidential administrations, Ms. Hathaway brings a multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional perspective to strategic consulting and strategy formulation for public and private sector clients. She is raising public awareness by writing and speaking publicly about current real-world problems and is building information and research bridges among academic, industrial and government stakeholders. From February 2009 to August 2009, Ms. Hathaway served in the Obama dministration as Acting Senior Director for Cyberspace in the National Security Council. In that capacity she assembled a team of experienced government cyber experts to conduct the 60-Day Cyberspace Policy Review. (Read More)
Garet J. Moravec
Director
Cyber and Information Assurance
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Corp.
Schedule: Banquet (Wed. PM) & CIO/CTO Prespectives Panel (Thu.)
Presentation Title: Holistic Cyber Approach
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Garet Moravec is Director of Cyber and Information Assurance for Lockheed Martin Aeronautics' $300B Joint Strike Fighter (F-35) Program. He is responsible for the overall scope, technical direction, and guidance of the F-35 cyber and Information Assurance (IA) Integrated Product Team, overseeing a budget of $500M with $100M annual revenue. His team provides technical engineering support to the major product teams of Air Vehicle, Mission Systems, Mission Planning Systems, as well as the Autonomic Logistics and Global Sustainment Systems. (Read More)
James Whittaker
Director of Test Engineering
Google
Schedule: Keynote (Thu. 8:45 AM)
Presentation Title: How Google Tests Software
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James A. Whittaker joined Google in May 2009 as a Test Engineering Director where he oversees the testing of Chrome browser, Chrome operating system and a bevy of other products. Formerly an Architect with Microsoft’s Visual Studio Team System, he directed product strategy for Microsoft’s test business and led internal teams in the application of exploratory testing. Dr. Whittaker previously served as Professor of Computer Science at Florida Tech. There, he was named a Top Scholar by The Journal of Systems and Software, and led a research team that created many leading-edge testing tools and technologies, including the acclaimed runtime fault injection tool Holodeck. (Read More)
David Nicol
Department of ECE and Information Trust Institute
University of Illinios Urbana-Champaign
Schedule: Keynote (Thu. 8:00 AM)
Presentation Title: Securing the Perimeter : Challenges in Enforcing Global Access Control
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David M. Nicol is professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he serves as Director of the Center for Assured Critical Applications and Infrastructure Security (CACAIS). He has been PI or co-PI on approximately $60M of research contracts with government agencies and industry, and has published over 190 articles in leading conferences and journals. He is co-author of the widely used textbook "Discrete-Event Systems Simulation", has served as the Editor-in-Chief of ACM's flagship journal on discrete-event simulation, "ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation", and has organized many conferences related to simulation. He was elected Fellow of the IEEE (2003) and Fellow of the ACM (2006) for his research contributions.
Rich Pethia
Director
CERT
Schedule: Keynote (Fri. 8:45 AM) & CIO/CTO Prespectives Panel (Thu. 12:15 PM)
Presentation Title: 20+Years of Cyber (in)Security: What have we seen? What have we learned? What might we do?
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Richard Pethia is the Director of the CERT Program at Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute (SEI). The mission of the CERT Program is to identify, develop, apply, and broadly transition new technologies and practices that improve security. The CERT Program grew from the CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) that Mr. Pethia established in 1988 with DARPA sponsorship. The charter of the CERT/CC was to serve as a focal point for reporting and responding to security vulnerabilities, to respond to security emergencies on the Internet and to serve as a model to help others establish Computer Security Incident Response Teams. (Read More)
Dawn Cappelli
Senior Member of Technical Staff
Software Engineering Institute
Schedule: Keynote (Fri. 12:15 PM)
Presentation Title: Risk Mitigation Strategies: Lessons Learned from Actual Insider Attacks
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Dawn Cappelli is a Senior Member of the Technical Staff in CERT at Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute (SEI). She has over 25 years experience in software engineering, including programming, technical project management, information security, and research. She is technical lead of CERTs insider threat research, including the Insider Threat Study conducted jointly by the U.S. Secret Service and CERT.
Michael R. Grimaila
Department of Systems and Engineering Management
Air Force Institute of Technology
Air Force Research Laboratory
Schedule: Keynote (Fri. 3:30 PM)
Presentation Title: Mission Assurance: Challenges and Opportunities
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Michael is an associate professor and a member of the Center for Cyberspace Research at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT), Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, USA. He is a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP), and holds NSA IAM/IEM certifications. He teaches and conducts research in the areas of data comunications, database, information assurance, information operations, and information warfare. Dr. Grimaila serves as an Editorial Board member of the Information System Security Association (ISSA) Journal and consults for a number of DoD organizations. (Read More)
Tom Longstaff
Senior IA Advisor
Information Warfare Systems Branch
Schedule: Keynote (Thu 4:15 PM)
Presentation Title: Cyber Science – moving from the toes to the shoulders of giants.
Dr. Tom Longstaff is the senior advisor for the Information Warfare Systems Branch in the Applied Information Science Department of the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL). APL is a University Affiliated Research Center (UARC), a division of the Johns Hopkins University founded in 1942 and located in Laurel, MD. Tom joined APL in 2007 to work with a wide variety of infocentric operations projects on behalf of the US Government to include information assurance, intelligence, and global information networks. Prior to coming to APL, Tom was the deputy director for technology for the CERT at Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute. (Read More)
Hart Rossman
Vice President
CTO Cyber Security Solutions
SAIC
Schedule: Keynote (Wed. 8:45 PM) & CIO/CTO Prespectives Panel (Thu. 12:15)
Presentation Title: Gov 2.0 and Collaborative Security Models: Security platforms and architectures of participation are the foundations of a winning strategy
Hart Rossman is Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Cyber Security Solutions at SAIC. He is a Senior Research Fellow with the Supply Chain Management Center within the RH Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland in the area of Cyber Supply Chain Assurance. Concurrently, Mr. Rossman is a faculty member with the Institute for Applied Network Security, represents SAIC’s Incident Response Team in FIRST, and is a founding member of the Corporate Executive Programme. He is on the Editorial Board for "IT Professional" magazine, a publication of the IEEE and co-author of their “Insecure IT” column. Mr. Rossman co-authored NIST SP 800-64rev2, “Security Considerations in the System Development Life Cycle.” He has earned a CISSP, CSSLP, received his B.A. in Communication from the University Of Maryland, College Park, and received his MBA from the University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business. You can follow him on Twitter: @HartDanger
Scott Augenbaum
Supervisory Special Agent
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Schedule: Keynote (Thu. 3:30 PM)
Presentation Title: A break down in trust, the emerging threat of Cyber Crime in connection with our dependence on Web 2.0 technologies
Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) Scott E. Augenbaum started his career as a Support Employee in the FBI's New York Office in 1988. He spent six years working as an Operations Assistant and Accounting Technician for the New York Office's Foreign Counter Intelligence Branch. He graduated City College of New York in 1992 and worked on his Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Information Technology and Finance at Fordham University's Lincoln Center Campus, New York, NY. In November of 1994, he was promoted to a Special Agent (SA) and went to the FBI Academy at Quantico, Virginia. In June of 1995, SA Augenbaum reported for duty in the FBI Albany Division, Syracuse Resident Agency.
Jim Stikeleather
Chief Technology Officer
Dell Services
Schedule: Keynote (Wed. 4:15 PM) & CIO/CTO Prespectives Panel (Thu. 12:15)
Presentation Title: TBD
For more than 25 years, Jim Stikeleather has designed, developed and implemented information and communications technologies that help businesses and institutions succeed. Organizations worldwide rely on Jim for guidance on digital infrastructures, evaluation of emerging technologies, and strategic guidance on applications. He participates in international technology standards bodies and has multiple book and industry-article contributions to his credit. Currently, Jim leads "future of technology" initiatives for Dell Services, the approximately $8 billion IT services arm of Dell. Previously, he led technology start-ups and turnarounds as well as the advancement of technology departments within large global enterprises. He was a founder of the Technical Resource Connection (TRC), which was acquired by Perot Systems in 1996.
Thomas Overman
Chief Architect, Energy Solutions Cyber Security
Boeing Defense, Space & Security
Schedule: CIO/CTO Prespectives Panel (Thu. 12:15 PM)
Tom Overman enlisted in the Navy more than 30 years ago, and spent his first few years maintaining electromechanical telephone and electrical distribution equipment. In 1985 he was commissioned as a Reserve Cryptologic Officer. Tom has also worked as a software product manager and Program Manager at firms such as ROLM and Applied Materials. After 9/11 Tom spent most of the next three years on Active Duty. He served as Defensive Information Operations staff Officer for the military Task Force supporting the 2002 Olympics. His next assignment was to manage a multi-site program extending NSA’s secure data network to additional US Field Sites. Prior to joining Boeing, he served as CIO of Bend Research, a Pharmaceutical Research firm, and as President of a small consulting firm. From a Cyber Security perspective, Tom’s main focus is on finding ways to design-out vulnerabilities rather than just to compensate for them.
Michael E. Bartell
Chief Information Officer
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Schedule: CIO/CTO Prespectives Panel (Thu. 12:15 PM)
Michael E. Bartell, former CIO at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in Wash., D.C., was named CIO at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in December 2009. Bartell has more than 34 years of broad experience and leadership positions with familiar institutions in Washington, D.C. He was also chief privacy officer for FDIC and director of FDIC's Division of Information Technology (IT). He was the CIO and associate executive director of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from 1995 to 2002. From 1987 to 1995 he directed the IT program for the U.S. Senate. From 1982 to 1987 he served in several roles at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, including special assistant to the Departmental CIO. He began his federal career with the Bureau of Economic Analysis at the U.S. Department of Commerce. (Read More)