Skip to content

customize

Agenda

Sunday, August 15 | Monday, August 16 | Tuesday, August 17 | Wednesday, August 18 | Thursday, August 19 | Friday, August 20

Sunday, August 15, 2010 (Pre-Conference Training)
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Registration
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Pre-Conference Training Sessions Part I
Training Session 1: Zeus Overview (Part I) - SESSION FULL
Training Session 2: Cyber Readiness Exercise (CRX) (Part I) - SESSION FULL
Training Session 3: Introduction to Network Forensics - SESSION FULL
Training Session 4: Introduction to Malware Analysis - SESSION FULL

 

Monday, August 16, 2010 (Pre-Conference Training) (top)
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Registration
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Pre-Conference Training Sessions Part II
Training Session 1: Zeus Overview (Part II) - SESSION FULL
Training Session 2: Cyber Readiness Exercise (CRX) (Part II) - SESSION FULL
Training Session 3: Advanced Network Forensics - SESSION FULL
Training Session 4: Introduction to Control Systems Security for the IT Professional
2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. GFIRST Online Chat Session

 

Tuesday, August 17, 2010 (top)
7:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Registration
8:00 - 10:00 a.m. Opening/Plenary
10:00 - 10:30 a.m. Break
10:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. ISCE Demo – Now made with real collaboration and information sharing
  Policy/Government Threat Landscape Incident Management Coordination Policy/Government

10:30 - 11:30 a.m.

Industry Government Operational Collaboration: Myth or Reality

Moderator: Scott Algeier, Executive Director, IT-ISAC

Panelists: Will Pelgrin, Director, State of New York Office of Cyber Security and Critical Infrastructure Coordination (CSCIC)

Jenny Menna, Director, DHS/CICPA

Cheri McGuire, Director Critical Infrastructure & Cybersecurity, Microsoft

Guy Copeland, Vice President and Special Assistant to CEO, CSC

Al Capone & The Olympians

Presenter: Marita Fowler, Section Chief, Surface Analysis Group, US-CERT

Jeff Brown, Lead Crimeware Analyst, US-CERT

A Small Agency SOC Perspective
NOTE: This will be a closed session; open to Government and contractors supporting Government agencies only

Cyber Exercise - Achieving Value through Innovative Design Best-Practices

Presenter: Chris Fogle, Principal, Delta Risk, LLC
Software Assurance: Mitigating Risks to Improve Incident Management

Presenters: Joe Jarzombek, Director for Software Assurance, DHS NCSD

Bob Martin, Principle Engineer, MITRE Corporation

Sean Barnum, Software Assurance Principal, MITRE Corporation

Thomas Millar, Deputy Operations Manager, US-CERT

11:30 - 1:00 p.m. Lunch
  Policy/Government Threat Landscape Incident Management Coordination Incident Management
1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Building Better Security Management Programs within the United States Government

Presenter: Amit Yoran, CEO, NetWitness

Monitoring Strategies for Detection of Insider Attacks

Presenters: Dawn Cappelli, Technical Manager, CERT|SEI|CMU

Michael Hanley, Member of the Technical Staff, CERT|SEI|CMU

National Cyber Response Strategy: Bridging the dot-gov Domain

Presenter: John McCumber, Chief Strategist, Public Sector, Symantec Corporation

Strategy for Securing Control Systems; Progress towards Improving Cybersecurity

Presenter: Rick Lichtenfels, Deputy Program Director, DHS NCSD
Software Assurance: Mitigating Risks to Improve Incident Management (continued)

Presenters: Joe Jarzombek, Director for Software Assurance, DHS NCSD

Bob Martin, Principle Engineer, MITRE Corporation

Sean Barnum, Software Assurance Principal, MITRE Corporation

Thomas Millar, Deputy Operations Manager, US-CERT

2:00 - 2:30 p.m. Break
  Policy/Government Threat Landscape Incident Management Coordination Policy/Government
2:30 - 3:30 p.m. Government-Industry Cyber Information Sharing

Presenter: Ryan Vela, Lead Cyber Forensic Examiner, General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems

Loose Lips Sink Networks — Is Social Networking Making Your Network Insecure?

Presenter: Frank Nagle, Senior Consultant, Mandiant, Inc.
It’s All a Bunch of B.S. (Bots & Spam)

Presenter: Tiffany Campbell, Exploit Team Lead, US-CERT
Emerging Computing Infrastructures: Security Challenges for Cloud, Smart Grid and Mobile Infrastructures

Moderator: Dr. Laurie Burnham, Associate Director for Outreach, I3P, Dartmouth College

Panelists: Dr. Seymour Goodman, Professor, Georgia Tech

Dr. David Nicol, Professor, University of Illinois

Dr. Barry Horowitz, Professor of Systems and Information and Chairman of Systems and Information Engineering Department, University of Virginia

Information Systems Security Line of Business (ISSLOB) Overview

Presenter: Doug Andre, Program Manager, Requirements and Acquisition Support Program, Federal Network Security, DHS NCSD

3:30 - 3:45 p.m. Break
  Policy/Government Threat Landscape Incident Management Coordination Legal/Law
3:45 - 5:00 p.m. Poetry and Packets: The Role of Metaphors in Cybersecurity

Presenter: Dr. Jakub Pitha, Senior Analyst, Blue Glacier Management Group

Black Hat SEO Exposed

Presenter: Mike Geide, Senior Security Researcher, Zscaler, Inc.

Network Situational Awareness

Presenter: Dr. Timothy Shimeall, Senior Member Technical Staff, CERT/NetSA, SEI/CMU

Towards a Consolidated Cyber Incident Handling Ontology and Process

Presenter: Thomas Millar, Deputy Operations Manager, US-CERT

Law Enforcement Security Technology Risks, Opportunities and Challenges

Presenter: Chen Arbel, Director of Authentication Business Development, SafeNet, Inc.

 

Wednesday, August 18, 2010 (top)
7:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Registration
8:00 - 10:00 a.m. Opening/Plenary
10:00 - 10:30 a.m. Break
10:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. ISCE Demo – Now made with real collaboration and information sharing
  Policy/Government Threat Landscape Incident Management Coordination Coordination
10:30 - 11:30 a.m. Securing Sensitive Data

Presenter: John Bordwine, Public Sector CTO, Symantec Corporation
Understanding the Insider Threat

Presenters: Adam Cummings, Member of the Technical Staff, CERT|SEI|CMU

Randall Trzeciak, Insider Threat Team Lead, CERT|SEI|CMU

Malicious Code Analysis in Industrial Control Systems; Case Studies

Presenter: Eric Cornelius, Senior Cybersecurity Researcher, Idaho National Laboratory
Cyber Resilience Review

Presenter: Bradford Willke, Technical Director, Cyber Security Evaluations, DHS NCSD

Patrick Beggs, Director, Cyber Security Evaluations, DHS NCSD

Information Sharing 2.0: Analysis

Moderator: Scott Algeier, Executive Director, IT-ISAC

Panelists: Brian Willis, Executive Director, ICASI

Dave Cullinane, VP/CISO, eBay and President, IT-ISAC

Randy Vickers, Director, US-CERT

Erik Winebrenner, Global Security Architecture Manager, CSC

11:30 - 1:00 p.m. Lunch
  Policy/Government Threat Landscape Incident Management Coordination Policy/Government
1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Importance of an Agile Baseline when Establishing Cyber Alert Levels

Moderator: Kelly Masone, Deputy Director, Cyber Policy, Blue Glacier Management Group

Don’t Believe the APT Hype: Incident Detection and Response That Works

Presenter: Michael Graven, Director, MANDIANT

 

Minimizing Losses from Zero Days — A New Layer of Defense

Presenter: Dr. Arun Sood, Professor Computer Science, George Mason University

 

The Challenges of Protecting our Nation's Critical Infrastructure Systems

Moderator: Zach Tudor, Program Director, SRI International
National Cybersecurity Protection System (Einstein) Program Overview

Presenter: Brendan Goode, Director, Network Security Deployment, DHS NCSD

2:00 - 2:30 p.m. Break
  Policy/Government Threat Landscape Incident Management Coordination Legal/Law
2:30 - 3:30 p.m. Federal CIO Council ISIMC Guidelines for the Secure Use of Cloud Computing

Presenter: Earl Crane, Director, Cybersecurity Strategy, DHS

 

(Ab)use of Dynamic DNS
NOTE: This will be a closed session; open to Government and contractors supporting Government agencies only

Presenters: William Leonard, Analyst, US-CERT

Jonathan Taimanglo, Analyst, US-CERT

What Went Wrong? A Study of Actual Industrial Cyber Security Incidents

Presenters: Zach Tudor, Program Director, SRI International

Mark Fabro, President and Chief Security Scientist, Lofty Perch, Inc.

Libraries, Embedded Web Servers, and the Kitchen Sink: CRDb

Presenter: Art Manion, Vulnerability Analysis, CERT/CC

 

Media Interest v. Cyber Security

Presenters: Dr. Phyllis Schneck, Vice President and Director, Threat Intelligence, McAfee, Inc.

Anthony Black, General Counsel, Arkansas Department of Information Systems

Kym Patterson, State Chief Security Officer, Arkansas Department of Information Systems

3:30 - 3:45 p.m. Break
  Policy/Government Threat Landscape Incident Management Coordination Policy/Government
3:45 - 5:00 p.m. A Process Approach to the Management of Operational Cyber Security Risks

Presenters: James Cebula, Member, Technical Staff, CERT|SEI|CMU

Antione Manson, Program Manager, Security Management Program, DHS NCSD, Federal Network Security

 

A Look Inside the PDF Attack Vector

Presenter: Jeremy Conway, Product Manager, NitroSecurity

Analyzing Metadata from Offline Phishing Scams
NOTE: This will be a closed session; open to Government and contractors supporting Government agencies only

Presenter: Mark Henderson, Analyst, Internal Revenue Service

 

A Shared Risk - Connecting Systems and Sharing Data

Presenter: Jim Reiner, Information Security Manager, County of Sacramento, California

TIC, MTIPS and Cybersecurity Compliance

Presenters: Donald Benack, Program Manager, Compliance & Assurance, Federal Network Security, DHS NCSD

Sean Donelan, Program Manager, Network & Infrastructure Security, Federal Network Security, DHS NCSD

 

Thursday, August 19, 2010 (top)
7:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Registration
8:00 - 10:00 a.m. Opening/Plenary
10:00 - 10:30 a.m. Break
10:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. ISCE Demo — Now made with real collaboration and information sharing
  Policy/Government Threat Landscape Incident Management Coordination Policy/Government
10:30 - 11:30 a.m. The Great Firewall of China

Moderator: Scott Aken, Vice President, Cyber Security, SAIC

Panelists: Tom Kellermann, Vice President, Core Security

Robert Pate, Chief Security Officer, Renesys

Peder Jungck, CloudShield

Cyber Betrayal: Defending Your Network from Trusted Insider

Presenter: Michael Theis, Executive Director, Insider Threat Management, Raytheon

Discovering Malicious Code Trends Using Bulk Analysis

Presenter: David French, Malware Researcher, CERT/SEI

Attack Attribution: Bridging Privacy & Classification Concerns

Presenter: Jim Butterworth, Senior Director of Cyber Security, Guidance Software

FNS Update: Assess, Influence, Drive, Measure + FISMA

Presenter: Matt Coose, Director, Federal Network Security, DHS NCSD

11:30 - 1:00 p.m. Lunch
  Policy/Government Threat Landscape Incident Management Coordination Incident Management
1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Calling the Shots: Cutting Through the Noise to Set Security Objectives

Presenter: James Strieber, Principal, Strieber Consulting
Appreciating the Little Things

Presenter: Mike Bailey, Senior Security Researcher, Mad Security, Inc.

Social Networking and Protecting Critical Infrastructure

Presenter: Robert Janusaitis, President, InfraGard Houston

Who is Watching Your Ecosystem?

Moderator: Greg Virgin, CEO, RedJack

Panelists: Jim Cowie, Chief Technology Officer, Renesys

Dr. Phyllis Schneck, Vice President, Threat Intelligence, McAfee

Dan Wood, Associate CISO, Department of Treasury

Network Flow Visualization Tools

Moderator: Kevin Thompson, Program Manager, DHS S&T

Panelists: Dr. John McHugh, Senior Principal, Redjack, LLC

Dr. William Pike, Research Lead, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Brianne O’Brien, Project Manager, Secure Decisions

2:00 - 2:30 p.m. Break
  Policy/Government Threat Landscape Incident Management Coordination Threat Landscape
2:30 - 3:30 p.m. A Framework for Continuous Information Security Controls Monitoring and Auditing

Presenter: Dr. Jerald Dawkins, President, True Digital Security

 

Modern Malware "The New & Insider" Attack Vector

Presenter: Ashar Aziz, CEO and Founder, FireEye, Inc.

Practical Host-based Malware Detection using Run-time Features

Presenters: Ross Kinder, Malware Analyst, CERT/CC

Jonathan Woytek, Malware Analyst, CERT/CC

Past, Present and Future of Threats

Moderator: Dr. Kathleen Kiernan, CEO, Kiernan Group

Panelists: Robert Schmidt, Subject Matter Expert, The National Center for the Study of Counter-Terrorism and Cyber Crime, Norwich University

William Casey, Deputy Superintendent, Boston Police Department

Robert Pate, Chief Security Officer, Renesys

Emerging Trends in 2010

Presenter: Dr. Eric Cole, SVP, CTO of the Americas, McAfee

3:30 - 3:45 p.m. Break
  Policy/Government Threat Landscape Incident Management Coordination Incident Management
3:45 - 5:00 p.m. Why the World Needs a New Open Source Security Engine

Presenter: Stuart Wilson, Chief Technical Officer, Endace

Characteristics of Malicious Domain Names

Presenters:
Aaron Shelmire, Member of Technical Staff, CERT/SEI

Ed Stoner, Member of Technical Staff, CERT/SEI

Supertimelines for Incident Responders

Presenter: Hal Pomeranz, Faculty Fellow, SANS Institute and Founder/CEO, Deer Run Associates

Cyber Storm III Panel

Presenters: Brett Lambo, Director of the Cyber Exercises Program, National Cyber Security Division, Department of Homeland Security

Bridgette Walsh, Deputy Director of the Cyber Exercises Program, National Cyber Security Division, Department of Homeland Security

Anatomy of a Security Operations Center

Presenters: John Wang, IT Security Project Manager, NASA

Kenneth Freeman, IT Security Project Manager, NASA

 

Friday, August 20, 2010 (top)
7:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Registration
8:00 - 10:00 a.m. Opening/Plenary
10:00 - 10:30 a.m. Break
  Policy/Government Threat Landscape Incident Management Coordination Incident Management
10:30 - 11:30 a.m. LifeStyle Hacking: GenX/Yers Impact in the Federal WorkForce

Presenters: Dr. Anup Ghosh, CEO, Invincea

Rick Gordon, Managing Director, Civitas Group, LLC

2010 Cyber Security Trends

Presenter: Richard Howard, Intelligence Director, VeriSign

The Prism Network Traffic Volume Display System

Presenter: Dr. Paul Krystosek, Analyst, SEI

Cybersecurity Workforce Panel

Moderator: Cheri Sigmon, Senior IA Officer, OSD-PA Defense Media Activity, Department of Defense

Panelists: Brenda Oldfield, Director, Cybersecurity Education & Workforce Development National Cyber Security Division, Office of Cybersecurity & Communications, Department of Homeland Security

Dr. Ernest McDuffie, Leader, National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education and Associate Director, National Coordination Office for Networking and Information Technology R&D

Casey Coleman, CIO, General Services Administration (Invited) Gary McAlum, Colonel, Retired, U.S. Air Force, Chief Security Officer, USAA San Antonio, TX (Invited)

Gary McAlum, Colonel, Retired, U.S. Air Force, Chief Security Officer, USAA San Antonio, TX (Invited)

Event Detection via DNS and Route Monitoring

Presenters: Dr. Daniel Massey, Associate Professor, Colorado State University

Dr. Alper Caglayan, Senior Scientist, Milcord LLC