John M. (Mike) McDuffie
Vice President, U.S. Public Sector Services
Microsoft Corporation
Tuesday Evening Banquet Speaker (DoubleTree Hotel)
Computing and the Future
Vice President, U.S. Public Sector Services
Microsoft Corporation
Tuesday Evening Banquet Speaker (DoubleTree Hotel)
Computing and the Future
Mike McDuffie is a retired Lieutenant General with over 31 years experience in the U.S. Army and Joint Assignments. After being drafted into the Army in 1969 and graduating from Officer Candidate School, McDuffie was commissioned as an Infantry Officer in 1970. He graduated from Army Flight Training in 1971 and became an Army Aviator and attack helicopter pilot. He flew attack helicopters in Vietnam, and later commanded three companies in the 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kansas. Follow on commands were a battalion and Division Support Command in the 101st Airborne Division, AASLT at Fort Campbell, Kentucky and the 1st Corps Support Command (Airborne) at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. General McDuffie served two tours on the Army Staff, served as the J-4, United States European Command, and two tours on the Joint Staff, JCS culminating as the J-4, Joint Staff in his last assignment.
After retiring from the U.S. Army, McDuffie joined Anteon Corporation, where he served as President and General Manager of the Information Systems Group, a $500 million strategic business unit. In that capacity, he led Anteon’s Department of Defense (DoD) support in the areas of Command and Control, Intelligence, Combat Training Centers, Simulation and Training, Logistics IT Systems, and Medical. In July 2004, McDuffie joined Telos Corporation as the Executive Vice President for Sales, Marketing, and Business Development. Telos is a leader in secure wireless, information assurance, and secure messaging in the Federal Government. In February 2006, McDuffie joined Microsoft Corporation where he is Vice President of U.S. Public Sector Services. In this capacity he is responsible for all Microsoft Services in the Federal Government to include the Department of Defense, all State and Local Governments, and the Public Education System. He has a BS in Aerospace Management from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, and an MS in Logistics Management from Florida Institute of Technology.
Professor, Security Group
University of California at Santa Barbara
Monday Morning Plenary Session (NICS Auditorium)
Electronic Voting Systems: Are Your Votes Really Counted?
Richard A. Kemmerer is the Leadership Professor and a past Chair of the Department of Computer Science at UCSB. His research interests include formal specification and verification of systems, computer system security and reliability, programming and specification language design, and software engineering. Dr. Kemmerer is a Fellow of the IEEE and the ACM. He is a past Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, has served on the editorial boards of the ACM Computing Surveys and IEEE Security and Privacy, and was on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Computer Society. He is a member of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Academic Advisory Board. Dr. Kemmerer received the B.S. degree in Mathematics from Penn State in 1966, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from UCLA in 1976 and 1979, respectively.
CTO, US Public Sector Services
Microsoft Corporation
Monday Afternoon Plenary Session (NICS Auditorium)
End to End Trust
Patrick Arnold is the Chief Technical Officer for Microsoft Public Sector Services. He is a seventeen-year employee of Microsoft and has held a number of systems engineering and management roles. Prior to Microsoft he was with Unisys Government Systems and Sperry Defense Systems in a number of engineering and system engineering roles supporting U.S. Government and U.S. Military customers.
As the CTO for Microsoft US Public Sector Services, Mr. Arnold is responsible for ensuring Microsoft products and solutions are implemented and deployed in a manner that exceed customer expectation. He is a lead advocate of Microsoft's technology and security strategy as it relates to the implementation and use of technology by the US Public Sector. He is a key spokesperson on issues of technology, security, privacy, open standards, technical computing, and interoperability. He is also responsible for understanding the technical needs of USPS customers so they may be shared and understood with key internal product group stakeholders to ensure Microsoft products meet the needs of the Federal Government.
Drector, Business Continuity and Information Assurance
Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)
Tuesday Morning Plenary Session (NICS Auditorium)
Best Practices on Information Sharing of Threats and Warnings between the USG and Industry
Mr. Steve Lines is currently Director of Business Continuity and Information Assurance for SAIC. As such, Steve and his team recently won the Gold Standard Award from the California Emergency Services Association for the emergency operations executed by his company during the Katrina disaster. His team recently received the Special CEO award for their forensic response to a data breach and preventing the exposure of sensitive information. In addition to being the Vice-Chairman of the Network Security Information Exchange (NSIE), he recently founded and now Chairs the Defense Security Information Exchange (DSIE) as a Sub-Council of the Defense Industrial Base Sector Coordinating Council (DIB SCC) representing over 20 of the top defense contractors in sharing threat information with the DoD.
Michael Franz
Professor, Secure Systems and Software Laboratory
University of California at Irvine
Tuesday Afternoon Plenary Session (NICS Auditorium)
Eliminating the Insider Threat In Software Development by Combining Parallelism, Randomization and Checkpointing
Michael Franz is a Full Professor of Computer Science in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and has an additional courtesy appointment as a Full Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the Henry Samueli School of Engineering. Franz received a Dr. sc. techn. degree in Computer Science (advised by Niklaus Wirth) and a Dipl. Informatik-Ing. degree, both from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich. He is a Distinguished Member of ACM and a Senior Member of IEEE.
Director, Government Research
Symantic
Wednesday Morning Plenary Session (NICS Auditorium)
Internet Security Threat Landscape: Current Changes in Targets & Methods
As Director of Government Research, Mr. Brian Witten leads all federally sponsored research and development within Symantec. Symantec Government Research is charged with the responsibility of developing technology for future Symantec products and services emerging from federally sponsored research solving nationally critical problems. Symantec pursues much of this research in partnership with world renowned universities. An experienced information security expert, Mr. Witten has also worked closely with both established industry leaders and early stage venture backed companies founded on disruptive technology.
Prior to joining Symantec, Mr. Witten worked at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the U.S. military’s central research and development organization charged with sponsoring revolutionary, high-payoff research to maintain the technological superiority of the U.S. military. While at DARPA, he focused on creation of new network security technologies to protect current and future information systems supporting "Network Centric Warfare." At DARPA, Mr. Witten managed an R&D investment portfolio of more than $150 million in U.S. and international efforts.
Mr. Witten began his technology career as on officer in the U.S. Air Force where he first began collaborating with leading academic institutions and commercial firms in information security research while assigned to Rome Laboratories and Air Force Research Labs (AFRL). Mr. Witten received his B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Colorado.
Director, Systems Assurance
Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)
Wednesday Afternoon Plenary Session (NICS Auditorium)
Thirteen Rules for Trust
Jeffrey Voas is Director of Systems Assurance at SAIC and is an SAIC Technical Fellow. Before joining SAIC, Voas was the Chief Scientist and Co-founder of Cigital. Voas has been highly active in the software engineering research community for over 18 years. He was the IEEEReliability Society President for 2003, 2004, and 2005, and has been elected to serve on the IEEE Computer Society's Board of Governors for 2008-2010. He co-authored two John Wiley books, is currently an Associate Editor-In-Chief of IEEE's IT Professional magazine, and serveson the Advisory Board of IEEE's Software magazine. He is an adjunctprofessor at West Virginia University and was the IEEE Reliability Engineer of the Year in 2000. He has given numerous keynote lectures, and has performed many program chair, general chair, and program committee roles for IEEE and other non-profit professional societies.He holds two U.S. patents (#6,862,696 and #7,024,592), and has published over 190 publications. Voas's interests are in various aspects of trust, including software testing, reliability, safety, standards, fault tolerance and certification. Finally, he has spent much of the last 15years in business development and mentoring. Voas received his undergraduate degree in computer engineering from Tulane University in1985, and received his M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from the College of William and Mary in 1990. Voas went on and performed a two-year post-doc for the National Research Council between 1990 and1992 at NASA's Langley Research Center.