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Speaker Bios
Matthew Ackley
Matthew Ackley is the Special Counsel to the Richmond Multi-jurisdiction Grand Jury in Virginia. He has been a prosecutor since 1999 in both state and federal courts, serving as a Senior Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney for the City of Richmond, and later as an Assistant in the Office of the Attorney General of Virginia and a Special Assistant United States Attorney in the Richmond Office of the U.S. Attorney. He has prosecuted state and federal narcotics and firearms cases, wiretap investigations and murder cases, including a federal death penalty murder trial. His work has also included national security investigations, Title III wiretap investigations, and utilization of FISA. Mr. Ackley received his undergraduate degree in 1993 from the University of Virginia, and law degree with honors in 1996 from the University of Richmond, T.C. Williams School of Law.
Scott Aken
Scott Aken has been a Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for over five years. He is assigned to the Cyber Squad in Washington, DC and concentrates on cyber investigations including computer intrusions and cyber counterintelligence. He is a member of the FBI’s Cyber Action Team, an immediate response unit for high profile computer intrusions. Prior to joining the FBI, Mr. Aken spent nine years working in the computer and Internet industry in the Washington, DC area. Most recently, he was a Vice President of Product and Program Management for a large Internet infrastructure organization. Mr. Aken also spent four years working with General Electric and is a graduate of GE’s Manufacturing Management Program. Mr. Aken is a graduate of The Ohio State University and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering.
Peter Allor
Peter Allor is the director of intelligence and special assistant to the General Manager for IBM Global Technology Services, Internet Security Systems where he is responsible for guiding the company’s overall security intelligence initiatives and participation in enterprise and government implementation strategies. Allor is also the director of operations for the Information Technology - Information Sharing and Analysis Center (IT-ISAC) as part of the X-Force Internet threat intelligence services-- a task force that provides global information protection solutions analysis for securing IT infrastructure and defending key online assets and critical infrastructures from attack and misuse. He is responsible for managing ISAC operations where members report vulnerabilities, solutions, best security practices and track hackers globally. He also participated in the formation of the Information Technology Sector Coordination Council (IT SCC).
Leonard Bailey is Senior Counsel, responsible for cyber critical infrastructure protection and national security issues at CCIPS since 2000. He graduated from Yale University in 1987 and Yale Law School in 1991. Leonard was also a member of the Dept. of Justice Honors Program in 1991. Before coming to CCIPS, he was Special Counsel and Special Investigative Counsel to DOJ Inspector General from 1997 to 1999.
Mr. Bargar began his formal career in Information Technology by starting a company specializing in technology integration for small to medium sized businesses. Mr. Bargar’s company employed a team of experts and provided professional IT services to the Department of Defense as well as the private sector. In 1998, Mr. Bargar joined the Defense Intelligence Agency as an information Security (INFOSEC) Analyst. In 1999, he became the INFOSEC Assessment lead for the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System (JWICS) and later became the Chief of DIA’s Vulnerability & Penetration RED Team. In 2002, Mr. Bargar accepted the position as the Senior Information Assurance Analyst for DIA’s Chief Information Assurance Officer. DIA transformed to regionalize IT services & applications to recognize economies of scale for IT solutions across the Combatant Commands and Services. Mr. Bargar was selected to be Project Manager (PM) for the Enterprise Risk Management System (ERMS) and oversaw the development of the ERMS from host based vulnerability scanning system, into the Defense Intelligence communities Intrusion Prevention System. In 2005, Mr. Bargar was assigned to serve as the Senior Technology Advisor for Information Assurance (IA) for the Counterintelligence Field Activity (CIFA), where he provided technical direction and leadership to the DOD, Intelligence, Law Enforcement and Counterintelligence communities for IA, Computer Network Defense, Insider Threat Mitigation, Enterprise Risk Management and Critical Infrastructure Protection. In August of 2006, Mr. Bargar was selected to join the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration and DOD Chief Information Officer’s Information & Identity Assurance Office, where he is leading IA Strategy and transformational initiatives for the DoD IA program. Mr. Bargar leads the Departments GIG Mission Assurance initiative and also serves as the DoD co-chair along with DOJ and DHS on the National Cyber Response Coordination Group (NCRCG).
Matthew Bassiur is a federal prosecutor in the Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS) of the U.S. Department of Justice. In this position, Bassiur prosecutes large-scale, multi-jurisdictional intellectual property (IP) crimes; coordinates domestic and international IP enforcement training and outreach; and participates in developing and drafting legislative and policy initiatives addressing all facets of IP crime. He also serves as the intellectual property liaison to industry for CCIPS. His responsibilities as IP liaison include: serving as a contact and resource for intellectual property rights (IPR) holders on federal, state, and local referral issues; organizing victim training conferences across the United States; and holding individual meetings with senior representatives of companies, associations, and other IPR holders. Bassiur was the 2007 recipient of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Award for Distinguished Service as a Federal Government Official. Before joining the U.S. Department of Justice, Bassiur spent more than seven years as an assistant district attorney with the New York County District Attorney’s Office (Manhattan DA).
Rod Beckström is Director of U.S. Department of Homeland Security. He is an entrepreneur and catalyst who has successfully created new businesses and changed established ones through his creative ideas, powerful concepts and passion. He has helped to start more than a half dozen non-profit groups and initiatives including Global Peace Networks which seeded a peace network of CEO's that now has more than 4,000 participants, SV2 (Silicon Valley Social Venture), the Environmental Markets Network, and the Miracle Wine Fund for Micro-lending which has helped move more than $20 million into micro-lending projects globally. He is Chairman, Co-Founder and Chief Catalyst of TWIKI.NET, the industry leading open source enterprise Wiki. Rod also serves as Chairman of Global Peace Networks, Trustee of Environmental Defense, and Director of Jamii Bora Africa Ltd., a micro-lending group with 140,000 members. Rod graduated from Stanford with an MBA and a BA with Honors and Distinction. He served as President of the combined Stanford student body and was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
Ms. Beierly manages a team of cyber-security investigators and responsible for global forensic investigation for Visa Inc. Her team has insights on exploits and fraud patterns related to network breaches and application vulnerabilities. She has worked on some of the largest data breaches in the U.S. and assisted Visa clients and compromised entities with containment and remediation efforts. Ms. Beierly developed and managed Visa’s Payment Application Best Practices (PABP) to address payment application vulnerabilities. On April 15, 2008, the PCI Security Standards Council announced the release of PABP now called Payment Application Data Security Standard (PA-DSS).
Terrence Berg is the First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, Office of the United States Attorney. He has held this position since 2005. He has been a prosecutor since 1989, when he joined the U.S. Attorney's Office in Detroit as an Assistant United States Attorney. As First Assistant, he supervises an office of 100 prosecutors and an equal number of support staff. Berg specializes in computer crime, intellectual property, Identity Theft, and complex white collar crime cases. He worked with the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section of the U.S. Department of Justice from 1999-2000, and also worked for the Michigan Department of Attorney General from 1999-2003, where he supervised the Attorney General's High Tech Crime Unit. He has served as an adjunct professor for the University of Detroit-Mercy School of Law, where he has taught both Trial Practice and a seminar on legal issues in computer crime.
John M. Bodenhausen is an Assistant U.S. Attorney assigned to the White Collar Crime Unit at the Eastern District of Missouri. His responsibilities include computer crimes, intellectual property crimes, identity theft, bank fraud, investment fraud, and election fraud. Prior to joining the U.S. Attorney's Office, he practiced patent law for several years and also spent one year as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable David R. Hansen, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Mr. Bodenhausen worked as a weapons and avionic systems engineer for about ten years, mostly with McDonnell Douglas / Boeing.
Stephen Brannon is a Cybercrime Analyst in the CCIPS Cybercrime Lab. He has worked in the Criminal Division in the Department of Justice and in information security at the FBI.
Ovie Carroll is the Director of the Cybercrime Lab in CCIPS. He has over twenty years of law enforcement experience. He previously served as the Special Agent in Charge of the Technical Crimes Unit at the Postal Inspector Generals Office and as a special agent with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations.
Randy Chartash supervises the White Collar Crime Section of the USAO/NDGA which comprises 21 AUSAs, 4 paralegals, and 1 financial analyst. 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 U.S. Attorney, for Superior Performance as an Assistant U.S. Attorney. This award honors Assistant U.S. 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 U.S. 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.
Dr. Anton Chuvakin, GCIH, GCFA is a recognized security expert and book author. In his current role as a Chief Logging Evangelist with LogLogic, a log management and intelligence company, he is involved with projecting LogLogic’s vision and strategy to the outside world, conducting logging research as well as influencing company vision and roadmap. Chuvakin is an author of Security Warrior and a contributor to Know Your Enemy II, Information Security Management Handbook, Hacker’s Challenge 3, and PCI Compliance, as well as an upcoming book on logs. Anton has published numerous papers on a broad range of security and logging subjects. In his spare time he maintains his security portal www.info-secure.org and several blogs such as one at www.securitywarrior.org.
Gavin Corn clerked for Federal District Court Judge Jose A. Gonzalez, Jr., in the Southern District of Florida. Corn entered the Criminal Division through the Honors Program and have worked in the Narcotic and Dangerous Drug Section, the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section, and CCIPS, with long term details (between 6 months and 2 years each) in the USAO for the Eastern District of Virginia, the District of Arizona, the District of Massachusetts, and the District of Columbia. Corn also served a 1 year detail in Bucharest, Romania, for OPDAT.
Eric Cowperthwaite has more than 20 years experience as a security practitioner and leader, including 9 years of experience in healthcare security. Currently, Eric is the Chief Information Security Officer, Providence Health & Services, headquartered in Seattle, Washington. Where he is responsible for Security Technology and Architecture, Risk Management, Policies, Standards and Plans, Security Operations and Security Incident Management across the Providence enterprise. Prior to that, Eric was the Information Security Officer for Medi-Cal (contracted from EDS), the state of California’s Title XIX Medicaid Insurance program. He also worked for Electronic Data Systems in a variety of other capacities, including the Chief Security and Privacy Office, Network Services, Solution Architect, Security and Privacy Professional Services and Strategic Technology Transformation. Eric was a finalist for the Information Security Executive of the Year, 2007, in the US Western Region and nominated for the national Information Security Executive of the Year. He has recently been selected as a member of Computerworld’s Premier 100 IT leaders for 2008.
Howard Cox is the Deputy Assistant Chief for the Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice. Cox supervises computer crime litigation. He is also an Adjunct Professor for the Department of Forensic Science at George Washington University.
Marc Crandall serves as Products Counsel at Google, Inc., where he addresses a variety of legal issues concerning the development and deployment of Google technology. Before joining the FBI, Mr. Crandall served as Corporations Counsel and Lead Counsel of Internet Compliance and Enforcement with the California Department of Corporations, California’s investment and finance authority, where he developed policy and executed legal duties. He also created and led the State’s first team dedicated to combating Internet-based investment fraud. During this time, Mr. Crandall was appointed as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney with U.S. Department of Justice, investigating and prosecuting violations if federal law.
Mr. Dembosky has been a federal prosecutor and a CHIP attorney for five years. Prior to that, he practiced civil litigation at the law firm of Hangley, Aronchick, Segal & Pudlin in Philadelphia, and served as a law clerk to the Honorable Richard L. Nygaard of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Colby DeRodeff is the Enterprise Solutions Strategist for ArcSight. Mr. DeRodeff is recognized as an expert in the field of IT security. His primary areas of focus are insider threat, the convergence of physical and logical security, as well as enterprise security and information management. Colby recently released his first book, The Convergence of Physical and Logical Security along with William P. Crowell, Brian Contos, and Dan Dunkel. The book takes a realistic look at the history of physical security, an in-depth look at information management and real world case studies that empower security organizations to gain a more holistic security posture through convergence.
Whitfield Diffie is the Vice President and Fellow - Chief Security Officer at Sun Microsystems. Dr. Diffie is the chief exponent of Sun's security vision and responsible for developing Sun's strategy to achieve that vision. Best known for his 1975 discovery of the concept of public key cryptography, Diffie spent the 1990s working primarily on the public policy aspects of cryptography and has testified several times in the Senate and House of Representatives. His position, in opposition to limitations on the business and personal use of cryptography, is the subject of the book, Crypto. Dr. Diffie is also the co-author of the book, Privacy on the Line, which examines the politics of wiretapping and encryption.
Bob Dix is the Vice President of Government Affairs for Juniper Networks, an industry leading Silicon Valley-based hardware and software company. In his role with Juniper, Mr. Dix has been appointed to the Industry Executive Subcommittee ( IES ) of the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee ( NSTAC ), representing Juniper’s CEO, who is a Principal member appointed by the President of the United States. He has recently been honored as a 2008 Fed 100 award winner.
Richard W. Downing is the Assistant Deputy Chief for Technology and Procedural Law at the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section at the United States Department of Justice in Washington D.C. In that role, he addresses a wide variety of complex legal and policy issues that arise with the advance of new technologies. Mr. Downing specializes in the procedural rules that govern the collection of electronic evidence by law enforcement and in online undercover operations, including investigations into computer hacking, identity theft, and other online crimes. He participates in statutory and policy development relating to the modernization of the federal computer hacking statute and the development of electronic evidence gathering laws. Downing also regularly trains investigators and prosecutors on the legal and policy implications of emerging technologies and related criminal conduct.
Michael DuBose is Chief of the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS), in the Criminal Division, Department of Justice, where he supervises 40 attorneys and has responsibility for the Division’s prosecution and policy efforts concerning computer network intrusions, intellectual property crimes, online crimes involving theft of identity and other data, infrastructure protection, international programs, national security, legislation and other issues. He is a two-time winner of the Justice Department’s Director’s Award for the litigation of complex cases involving Internet crime, public safety, and environmental well-being. Prior to joining CCIPS, Mike was Senior Counsel for Enforcement at the Department of Treasury and also served for more than seven years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the District of Maine. Since 1998, he has taught trial practice an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center.
Tom Dukes is a Trial Attorney in the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS), Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice, in Washington, DC, where he is actively involved in the investigation and prosecution of computer hackers, identity thieves, and spammers. Mr. Dukes also serves as a Department of Justice subject matter expert on cybercrime, cybersecurity, and cyberterrorism issues. Dukes was with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Office of General Counsel in 2004 and the U.S. Air Force JAG Corps from 1994 to 2004.
Marty Edwards graduated Magna cum Laude in 1990 from the British Columbia Institute of Technology with a diploma of technology in Process Control and Industrial Automation. During the course of his career in the instrumentation and controls field, he has filled a wide variety of roles, including field service, instrument engineering, control systems engineering and project management. Marty is currently employed at the Idaho National Laboratory, in the Critical Infrastructure Protection and Resilience Division, as the Industry Liaison Lead for the US Department of Homeland Security, National Cyber Security Division, Control Systems Security Program.
Mark Eckenwiler is Associate Director of the Office of Enforcement Operations, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice. He previously worked for 9 years in the Justice Department's Computer Crime Section, where he served as Deputy Chief from 2002 to 2005. His areas of responsibility include federal wiretap law, online investigations, and sensitive investigative technologies.
Rick Estberg has been employed by the Department of Defense for more than 31 years. He began his career with a four-year stint in the Army, serving as a linguist in Berlin, Germany. From 1989-1992 he served as an intelligence advisor to the U.S. European Command, located in Stuttgart, Germany. Over the next five years he held various staff and management positions, including two years as the senior speech writer for his Agency's Director and Deputy Director at Ft. Meade, before being named a Brookings Institution LEGIS Fellow in 1997. In the six years prior to his arrival at the IOSS, Rick held positions on foreign relations and collection management staffs, as well as in several operational offices. He arrived at the IOSS in November, 2003, and is presently the Chief of Staff. He is the recent recipient of his Agency's second highest recognition, the Meritorious Civilian Service Award.
Mark Fabro is the Senior Scientist at Lofty Perch, Inc., (LPI) a market leading security consulting firm focused on SCADA and Process Control System cyber security. As well as being the Chairman of the Canadian Industrial Cyber Security Council, Mr. Fabro’s projects have included working with more than 75 government agencies worldwide with a majority of the programs involving critical infrastructure protection (CIP) and control systems cyber security. Mr. Fabro also leads LPI efforts working with key organizations such as the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and the DHS Control Systems Security Program, doing cyber security assessments, training, and developing recommended practices to industry. In his past, Mr. Fabro held several senior-level consulting positions, including Senior Manager at BearingPoint’s Security Practice, Chief Security Scientist in the Enterprise Security Group at American Management Systems, as well as the Worldwide Director of Assessment Services for Secure Computing Corporation. For his work in cyber security and education, he was recognized as one of the ‘25 Most Influential Consultants’ in the world by the market leading Consulting Magazine.
After law school, Filip served as a law clerk to the Honorable Stephen F. Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and then for Justice Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court. He worked as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Chicago from 1995 to 1999. While an AUSA, he received a Department of Justice Director's Award for Superior Performance as an Assistant U.S. Attorney. Following his service at the U.S. Attorney's Office, Filip was a partner in the Chicago office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. He was nominated by President Bush to be a United States District Court Judge for the Northern District of Illinois, and, after being confirmed 96-0 by the Senate, he was sworn in to that office in March 2004. As a judge, he presided over numerous cases involving criminal, antitrust, securities fraud, immigration and other matters. Filip has taught for many years the Law School of the University of Chicago, where he served from 2004 to March 2008 as the Bustin Lecturer and taught both advanced criminal law and first-year civil procedure. Filip was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate on March 3, 2008, and he was sworn in as Deputy Attorney General on March 10, 2008.
Judge Jeremy D. Fogel was nominated by William J. Clinton on September 8, 1997, to a seat vacated by Robert P. Aguilar; confirmed by the Senate on March 16, 1998, and received commission on March 17, 1998. Education: Stanford University, B.A., 1971; Harvard Law School, J.D., 1974 Professional Career: Private practice, San Jose, CA, 1974-1978; Lecturer, Human Development, California State University, 1977-1978 Law Foundation, Inc., Santa Clara County, CA Bar Association, 1978-1981 Directing attorney, Mental Health Advocacy Project, 1978-1981; Executive director, 1980-1981 Judge, Santa Clara County, CA Municipal Court, 1981-1986 Judge, Santa Clara, CA Superior Court, 1986-1998.
Jack Gabriel currently Serves as the Computer Security lead and Auditing Monitoring Team manager for the Federal Trade Commission. Mr. Gabriel has over 21 years experience in the Information Technology files.
Scott Garland is an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Boston, Massachusetts, where he serves as a Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property prosecutor. From 2002 through January 2008, Scott worked at DOJs Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, first as a Trial Attorney and later as a Senior Counsel. While at CCIPS, Scott was the chief editor of the sections Prosecuting Intellectual Property Crimes 2006 edition, contributed to intellectual property legislation and sentencing guidelines, and prosecuted intellectual property and computer hacking crimes across the country. Before public service, Scott worked as a criminal defense attorney in private practice and as a federal judicial clerk.
Matthew Geiger
Matthew Geiger is a forensic specialist and researcher at CERT. His recent work has focused on data acquisition from encrypted devices, on counter-forensic tool performance and on new utilities for live-system forensics. He has assisted and advised federal security agencies in computer investigations. Prior to joining CERT, he worked as a digital forensic analyst in the private sector, where he led investigations involving corporate fraud, network intrusion, proprietary data theft, corruption and official misconduct for clients that included Fortune 500 companies. His professional background also includes network security design and implementation, incident response and security assessment. He holds a MS degree in information security from Carnegie Mellon University.
Jim Geuin has been employed in State Government for over 16 years, working for the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services and currently the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE). He has served in the statutory position of Information Security Manager for FDLE for over thirteen years. Jim has also coordinated and managed FDLE’s Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), and the Information Resource Management Continuity of Operations (COOP) plan. Prior to joining State Government, Jim worked with control and data acquisition systems, interactive video training development, and as a member of the U.S. Submarine Force for over 23 years. Jim is active with the Florida Citizens’ Police Academy Association, the Tallahassee Infragard Member’s Alliance and the Florida Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FL-ISAC).
Elliott has over 25 years of information technology experience and has worked in the security field for over 10 years. He is currently Director of Security Architecture for the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC), where he has created a number of innovative solutions in the areas of security monitoring and security architecture. He also provides consulting to the organization on critical security issues. Prior to this, Mr. Glazer was Vice President for Security Solutions at American Express, leading many large and small solutions for the Internet, Security, Privacy, and Customer Servicing. Previous to this, Elliott held leadership positions at Citigroup, Sprint International, and BT Dialcom in software development and operations. He has led architecture, development, and operations organizations including an enterprise architecture group, Internet software development, and distrbitured operations among others.
Michael Godfrey is a Senior Special Agent and the National Program Manager for the Internet IPR Enforcement, ICE HQ, at the Cyber Crimes Center. He has twenty-eight years in law enforcement, with twenty-one years with ICE (formerly U.S. Customs); eight years at the ICE Cyber Crimes Center conducting Internet Investigations relating to IPR offenses. From 1991-2000, Mr. Godfrey was assigned to the Orlando field office (U.S. Customs).
Josh Goldfoot is a Trial Attorney with the Computer Crimes and Intellectual Property Section. He has worked in technology law since 1999, when he advised Internet startups in Silicon Valley. 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. Before becoming an attorney he wrote software professionally, and he continues to contribute to software projects in his spare time. Other Professional Experience: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, 1999-2001Clerk, The Hon. Alex Kozinski, 2001-2002;Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, 2002-2005. Goldfoot attended University of Virginia School of Law, JD, 1999.
Robert Hansen (CISSP) is the CEO and founder of SecTheory, LLC. He has worked for Digital Island, Exodus Communications and Cable & Wireless in varying roles from Sr. Security Architect and eventually product managing many of the managed security services product lines. He also worked at eBay as a Sr. Global Product Manager of Trust and Safety, focusing on anti-phishing, anti-DHTML malware and anti-virus strategies. Mr. Hansen authors content on Dark Reading and co-authored XSS Exploits by Syngress publishing. He sits on the NIST.gov Software Assurance Metrics and Tool Evaluation group focusing on web application security scanners and the Web Application Security Scanners Evaluation Criteria (WASC-WASSEC) group. Mr. Hansen is a member of Infragard, Austin Chamber of Commerce, West Austin Rotary, WASC, IACSP, APWG, he is the Industry Liaison for the Austin ISSA and contributed to the OWASP 2.0 guide.
Steve Heymann is a career prosecutor. He originally joined the Department’s Organized Crime Strike Force in 2005, where he specialized in non-traditional organized crime. After the merger of the Strike Forces and the U.S. Attorney’s Offices, he was asked to supervise the criminal division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston, where he was deputy chief of the criminal division for a dozen years. In 2004, he was asked to create a Computer Crime Unit for the Office, which he has supervised since that time. Heymann attended Yale College and Harvard Law School.
Wes 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.
Arnold Huftalen is Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of New Hampshire. He prosecutes white collar crime with emphasis on Intellectual Property Rights and Computer Intrusion matters. Huftalen handles computer related matters and provide guidance to other AUSAs in the Office on such. From 1986 to 1991, he was in Private practice.
Robert Janusaitis is President of Business911 International, Inc. Janusaitis has over 30 years of experience applying knowledge and technology to solve complex risk management issues in energy, healthcare, manufacturing, distribution, key resources and critical infrastructures. A combination of security, audit, business continuity, and emergency response experience, has combined to provide a unique perspective on issues for the private sector and Homeland Security. He has delivered hundreds of presentations domestically and internationally in a variety of industry forums on such topics as security, IT audit, system availability and disaster recovery planning. Bob has developed and delivered employee awareness programs in classrooms and online. He regularly publishes journal articles and educational pieces for trade magazines. Bob has a BBA from Merrimack College, and is currently enrolled in the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University pursuing an MS in Homeland Security. He is the current president of the Houston InfraGard chapter. He is also a member of the Business Reporting Working Group of the International Center for Enterprise Preparedness (INTERCEP). Bob currently provides subject matter expertise to the private sector to integrate business operations with the requirements of Homeland Security.
Joe Jarzombek
Joe Jarzombek is the Director for Software Assurance in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) National Cyber Security Division. He leads government interagency efforts with industry, academia, and standards organizations to shift the security paradigm away from patch management by addressing security needs in work force education and training, research and development (especially diagnostic tools), and development and acquisition practices. 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, Jarzombek has spoken extensively on measurement, software assurance, and acquisition topics.
Nathan Judish is a senior counsel in the Computer Crime and Intellection Property Section. Mr. Judish specializes in issues related to obtaining electronic evidence, including the Fourth Amendment, the Stored Communications Act, the Wiretap Act, and the Pen/Trap statute. Mr. Judish’s recent litigation has involved the constitutionality of compelled disclosure of stored communications held by ISPs and the legal standards for compelled disclosure of cell phone location information.
Eric Klum is an Assistant United States Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Charleston, South Carolina, where he serves as Branch Chief and the Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property prosecutor. Mr. Klumb began working for the United States Department of Justice as a paralegal specialist in 1977. Since then, he has served as: Assistant U.S. Attorney; Lead Attorney, Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force; Criminal Division Chief; Deputy U.S. Attorney; Computer and Telecommunications Coordinator; Assistant Director, Office of Legal Education; and Senior Litigation Counsel for the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section. Mr. Klumb has also twice served time in private practice, taught business law at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Trial Advocacy at the Georgetown University Law Center, and served as a law clerk to the Chief Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court.
Lawrence Kole is Senior Litigation Counsel and Assistant U.S. Attorney. Kole has been a Professional Responsibility Officer (PRO) and Ethics Advisor for branch office, Coordinator of Illegal Reentry after Deportation / Fast Track program, prosecuting health care and financial fraud cases. He served as a judicial law clerk for Honorable William Matthew Byrne, Jr., U.S. District Court, Central District of California in Los Angeles, from 1988-89. Kole was a litigation associate at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Los Angeles from 1989-95, working on antitrust, accounting and professional malpractice, and commercial disputes. While in civil division of USAO, he worked in general civil section on administrative law, medical malpractice, excessive force, tort, employment, and environmental cases. In criminal division of USAO, Kole served as deputy chief of branch office for three years, supervising and training new AUSAs and chairing indictment committee, and served as coordinator for health care fraud, child exploitation, and immigration crimes. Kole currently serves as president-elect of Orange County Chapter of Federal Bar Association.
From 2002-2003, Mr. Krause served in the General Crimes Section where he prosecuted crimes involving, among other things, narcotics, violence and fraud. In 2003, he joined the Major Frauds Section where he investigated and prosecuted white collar crimes including securities fraud, health care and insurance fraud, bank fraud, and identity theft. He joined the Cyber and Intellectual Property Crimes Section in December 2005. From 1994-1995, Krause was a Jesse Marvin Unruh California State Assembly Fellow. From 1998-1999, he was a Law Clerk for Hon. William D. Keller, U.S. District Judge; 1999-2000 Law Clerk, Hon. David R. Thompson, Ninth Circuit, Court of Appeals, 2000-2001 Morrison & Foerster LLP. He recently prosecuted two botnet cases: (1) U.S. v. Schiefer, in which defendant infected computers through instant messaging services and then used the bots to steal personal identifying information from the Pstore of infected computers and to wiretap electronic communications; and (2) U.S. v. A Male Juvenile with the initials B.D.H., in which defendant infected Defense Information Security Agency computers to further an adware scheme.
Mark Krotoski serves as the National Coordinator for the Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property (CHIP) Program at the U.S. Department of Justice. The CHIP program involves about 230 AUSAs and DOJ federal prosecutors specially trained to prosecute cyber crime and intellectual property cases and to provide advice and instruction on issues arising from the collection of digital evidence. Previously, Mark served as Criminal Division Chief and Deputy Chief in the U.S. Attorney Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California and was member of the Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property Unit (or CHIP Unit) where he handled an active case load including intellectual property, trade secret, economic espionage, and intrusion cases. Mark also served for nearly four years as one of four Special Assistant Attorneys General, California Department of Justice. After law school, Mark served as a law clerk to the judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California.
Paul Kurtz is a Former White House Special Assistant to the President and is currently with Good Harbor Consulting.
The Department of Justice has posted Mr. Lamberti overseas to assist countries in Central and Eastern Europe improve their capacity to investigate and prosecute intellectual property crime. Based at the U.S. Embassy in Sofia since November 2007, he covers more than 20 countries, including all of Central and Eastern Europe. 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.
Mike Levy is Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Levy was an AUSA from 1980-83; OC&R Attorney (Philadelphia Strike Force) from 1985 to 1989. He was Deputy Chief, Criminal Division, from 1991 to 1993 and First Assistant from 1993 to 2001. Levy was Interim U.S. Attorney in 2001 and since 2001, the Chief for Computer Crimes Division, U.S. Department of Justice.
Judge Ronald S. W. Lew was nominated by Ronald Reagan on February 2, 1987, to a seat vacated by Laughlin E. Waters. He was confirmed by the Senate on May 7, 1987, received commission on May 7, 1987 and assumed senior status on September 19, 2006. Education: Loyola University, Los Angeles, CA, B.A., 1964; Southwestern University School of Law, J.D., 1971. Professional Career: U.S. Army, 1967-1969; Deputy city attorney, Criminal and Civil Liability Divisions, Los Angeles City Attorney's Office, California, 1972-1974; Private practice, Los Angeles, California, 1974-1981; Los Angeles fire and police pension commissioner, California, 1976-1982; Judge, Los Angeles Municipal Court, California, 1982-1984; Judge, Los Angeles Superior Court, California, 1984-1987.
Martin J. Littlefield is an Assistant U.S. Attorney, Senior Litigation Counsel for the Western District of New York in Buffalo, New York since 1982. From 1981-1982, he was a Civil and Criminal Associate with Mattar, D'Agostino, Kogler & Runfola in Buffalo, New York. From 1974 to 1981 he was an Assistant District Attorney, Chief, Career Criminal Prosecution Unit for Erie County, Buffalo, N.Y.
Robert J. Lloyd, III represents the United States before the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court; draft requests for warrants for electronic surveillance and covert physical searches of terrorism suspects; obtains Attorney General use authority and advises prosecutors on the use of FISA take in criminal proceedings. He entered federal service with FBI OGC in 2004 after a clerkship with the Supreme Court of Virginia and nearly ten years of private practice in Virginia; transitioned to the Department of Justice in October 2005 by joining the Office of Intelligence.Higher Education: B.A., University of Virginia; J.D. College of William & Mary School of Law.
Edward Lowery was appointed Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Secret Service Criminal Investigative Division in February 2008. His areas of responsibility include supervision of all domestic and foreign Secret Service criminal investigations, as well as liaison with other government agencies and local law enforcement. Prior to his current appointment in the Criminal Investigative Division, Mr. Lowery held additional supervisory positions within the Criminal Investigative Division, the Washington Field Office, and the Vice-Presidential Protective Division. Mr. Lowery began his career with the Secret Service in January 1992 in the New York Field Office and later served in the White Plains Resident Office. From 1992 through 1998, he performed protective duties for several years while assigned to the Vice-Presidential Protective Division.
David Marcus currently serves as Security Research and Communications Manager for McAfee® Avert® Labs, focusing on bringing McAfee’s extensive security research to McAfee’s customers and the greater security community. Mr. Marcus formerly served as Senior Security Evangelist and Strategist for McAfee, with more than ten years of technical experience in network solutions, information technology security, network performance and integration, e-learning solutions, as well as management and consulting. Marcus also has responsibilities for all publications from Avert Labs, such as Avert Labs’ journal of security vision Sage. Mr. Marcus has worked for Ajilon Consulting, SmartForce The E-Learning Company, cbtSystems, HAS, Inc., CompuSOLVE, Inc., and prior to joining McAfee served as President and Senior Security Engineer of SecureNET’s Network Security Practice.
Robert A. Martin, is a Principal Engineer at MITRE. For the past 8 years, Robert's efforts have been focused on the interplay of risk management, cyber security and the use of software-based technologies. He is the project leader for the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) effort and the Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Characterizations (CAPEC) initiative. The rest of his time is spent working on the CVE, Common Package Enumeration (CPE), Common Control Enumeration (CCE), and Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language (OVAL) family of security initiatives with special attention to describing how they all fit together into a coherent approach to making security measurable.
Sean McAllister is the Chief of the Enterprise Sensor Grid Management Branch for the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Program Executive Office for Information Assurance and Network Operations. His primary responsibility is managing all network security sensors and management technology including event correlation management and analysis systems. He is also the program manager for the CENTAUR program and the ECOS sensor system. Prior to returning to the DOD he served as the Director of Situational Awareness & Technology within the Department of Homeland Security National Cyber Security Division, United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT). While with the US-CERT he innovated, designed and managed the EINSTEIN Program, Mission Operational Environment, and the Internet Health Service. Before joining the US-CERT, he served as the Technical Director of the DOD Computer Emergency Response Team (DOD-CERT) where he created and managed the technical design and operations of CENTAUR, a very large flow collection and analysis capability across the DOD Global Information Grid. He was also responsible for overseeing all operational technology solutions for the DOD CERT and facilitating other data collection collaborations with other DOD agency partners.
Cathy McGoff is the Senior Manager Google Online Operations Legal Support at Google, Inc. in Mountain View, CA. McGoff manages Google’s Global Legal Investigations Support Team that handles all legal requests and emergency disclosures for user data across all Google properties. Before Google, McGoff managed the compliance department at Yahoo! Inc. for seven years.
Seán McGurk is the Director of the DHS National Cyber Security Division Control System Security Program (CSSP). Mr. McGurk has 28 years 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 Fleet Ballistic Missile 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. Mr. McGurk joined DHS in January, 2008 in his current position.
Ms. Mencer is a Policy Director in Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck’s Government Relations Group. Her work involves identifying policy trends within the DHS and working with clients to develop products and services that help local, state and federal Homeland Security agencies achieve their safety objectives. Prior to joining the Brownstein team, Ms. Mencer was the director of the Office for Domestic Preparedness within the DHS. Appointed by President Bush and confirmed by the United States Senate, she managed a $4 billion budget and directed federal initiatives to help states, local jurisdictions, regional authorities and tribal governments plan, prepare, prevent and respond to acts of terrorism. From 2000 to 2003, Ms. Mencer was the executive director of the Colorado Department of Public Safety. Ms. Mencer is also 20-year veteran of the FBI, serving as a special agent from 1978 to 1986 and supervisory special agent from 1986 to 1998.
Jenny Menna is the Director of the Critical Infrastructure Protection – Cyber Security Program and Acting Deputy Director for Strategic Initiatives of the National Cyber Security Division. The Critical Infrastructure Protection Cyber Security (CIP CS) Program strengthens preparedness by partnering with the public and private sectors to improve the security of the Information Technology (IT) Sector and cyber security across the Nation’s critical infrastructures. The program includes responsibilities for development and implementation of the National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP) IT Sector Specific Plan (SSP); for cross-sector cyber support to Sector Specific Agencies (SSA), as they develop and implement their SSPs and reduce cyber risk to their sectors; and the National Critical Infrastructure and Key Sources (CIKR) Annual Report. Ms. Menna was formerly the Deputy Director of the Infrastructure Programs Office in the Infrastructure Partnerships Division of the Office of Infrastructure Protection.
Adam Meyers is a Principal with SRA International. He is certified as CCE, IAM, IEM. As an information security professional and consultant, Adam Meyers provides clients with complete security expertise, ranging from assessments, forensics, incident response, penetration testing, and security architecture. Additionally he provides physical security assessments and threat analysis. Mr. Meyers is a Certified Computer Examiner (CCE). Prior to joining SRA, he worked with the George Washington University Security Team, as the Network Manager for the 2000 National Democratic Convention, and as a private security consultant, all while pursuing a degree in political science with specific attention to inter-state information warfare.
Mr. Miller is an experienced trial attorney working IP cases assigned to Team IP in the Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section. Prior to joining CCIPs, Mr. Miller worked as an AUSA and Assistant District Attorney.
Scott Miller works in the Advanced Computing Solutions Program, a Los Alamos National Laboratory organization chartered with the forward-thinking research and development of next generation security systems. He was on the FRNSE development team, has developed custom high-speed analysis tools, participates in incident response, and is additionally involved with education and training. He holds a Masters in Computer Science from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.
Tom Murphy brings decades of expertise to Bit9 as its Chief Strategist and Vice President of Products and Services. Murphy comes from Relicore, recently acquired by Symantec, where he was Vice President of Marketing. At Relicore, Murphy was responsible for customer segmentation, marketing communications including innovative demand generation programs to meet sales demand, as well as growing channel sales. Prior to Relicore/Symantec, Murphy was a product marketing executive with Veritas Software, where he generated $25 million in pipeline opportunity per quarter. He came to Veritas via the acquisition of Precise Software Solutions, where he was Director of Product Management and Marketing. Murphy received a bachelor of science degree in Computer and Information Systems and Mathematics from Westfield State College in Massachusetts in 1984 as well as a master of science degree in Information Systems from Northeastern University in 1989.
Prior to joining the Justice Department in 2007, Mr. Newby practiced civil intellectual property litigation in Silicon Valley and San Francisco for six years, where he handled trade secret, copyright, trademark and patent infringement matters for both plaintiffs and defendants. Mr. Newby has been on long term detail to the Cyber Unit of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia since October 2007, where he prosecutes intellectual property and computer crimes.
Dan L. Newsom
Dan Newsom is Senior Littigation Counsel, Assistant United States Attorney, Western District of Tennessee. Newsom has been a State Criminal Prosecutor for approximately seven years, a Federal Criminal Prosecutor for approximately twenty-five years and a Senior Litigation Counsel for the past fifteen years. Over the past twenty-five years, he has had sole responsibility in the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Western District of Tennessee for the oversight of investigations and prosecution of all cases involving adult obscenity, child pornography, and the computer solicitation of children for sexual purposes. Newsom was the recipient of the Director’s Award, United States Department of Justice, presented by the Attorney General of the United States at Washington, D.C. in 2000. He was also the recipient of the 2005 Criminal Justice Professional of the Year Award, presented by the United States Attorney (Western District of Tennessee), the District Attorney General (30th Judicial District), the Shelby County Mayor, and the Shelby County Sheriff. Newsom prosecuted the case of United States v. Robert & Carleen Thomas (July, 1994) This was the first trial in the United States involving the prosecution of individuals for distribution of obscene matter through a computer. He has been a faculty advisor and lectured at the Attorney General's Advocacy Institute, Washington, D.C. (now in Columbia, S.C.).
Richard Nolan is a member of the technical staff in the Networked Systems Survivability Program at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI). The CERT® Coordination Center is a part of this program. Currently, Nolan serves as an internet forensic specialist. In addition to his work in network forensics, Nolan develops best practices for administering and securing information systems and networks. He also develops SEI training courses. Prior to joining the SEI, Nolan served for seven years as a special agent with the United States Department of Justice. While there, he conducted numerous internet-based investigations and executed dozens of federal search warrants at U.S. internet service providers. Nolan holds a BS and MS in Education from Duquesne University. He is also a graduate of the FBI Academy and a member of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association. Nolan’s publications include Advanced Information Assurance for Technical Staff: aForensic Guide to Incident Response for Technical Staff.
Mr. Zot O'Connor is a Senior Security Strategist with the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC), where he focuses on partner outreach and building relationships with Guidance Providers, aka CERTs. Zot has been with the MSRC for over 3 years, and has been involved in the response for events such as WMF, ANI, and Zotob, and heartily denies having anything to do with naming that event. Before Microsoft, Zot worked for the Defense Industry, Linux Madrake (Now Mandriva) and founded the security consultancy White Knight Hackers. He has set up and run a number of community based programs including C.R.I.M.E. and PRS. These programs brought security researchers, academics, law enforcement and business people together to collaborate before it was fashionable. Through these efforts he has been an expert witness, trained Federal, State and City Law Enforcement, and performed various security activities for SOHO, Fortune 100, and government organizations.
Dr. Andy T. Ogielski
Andy has more than 25 years experience encompassing data networking and telecommunications, Internet protocols, wireless systems, software systems, and scientific computing. Before founding Renesys, he was a research professor at Rutgers University where he led multimillion-dollar government funded projects such as scalable Internet modeling and simulation software (SSFNet) that pioneered analysis of large networks exceeding 100,000 multiprotocol hosts and routers. At Bell Communications Research (now Telcordia), Andy built pioneering high-speed network packet traffic recording and analysis systems, fraud detection software, streaming distributed video servers, and network operations software systems. As a research scientist (MTS) at AT&T Bell Laboratories from 1982 to 1989, Andy was involved in very large scale scientific computing. In 1984 he designed and built a special-purpose supercomputer that ran Monte Carlo simulations of complex materials several times faster than a Cray supercomputer built the same year. Andy holds a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Wroclaw, Poland.
Thomas Oscherwitz
In his role as the Vice President of Government Affairs with ID Analytics, Inc., Thomas Oscherwitz monitors and manages compliance with key government laws and regulations in the field of Identity Risk Management like the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA) and the USA PATRIOT Act. Oscherwitz also serves as ID Analytics’ Chief Privacy Officer. Oscherwitz regularly gives consulting advice to ID Analytics customers in the areas of privacy, regulation, and legislation. Oscherwitz joined ID Analytics from the Office of Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) where he served as counsel to Feinstein and represented her for five years on the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology, and Homeland Security. During his tenure in the Senate, Oscherwitz emerged as a legislative expert on identity theft and privacy policy. He participated in every major legislative debate on identity fraud and helped draft key fraud provisions of the FACT Act. Prior to working for Feinstein, Oscherwitz was legislative assistant for Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) where he served as an aide on the House Science Committee and Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law. He also worked as a research fellow in the Program on Medical Ethics for the University of California, San Francisco.
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.
Chris Painter is currently Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General specializing in cyber, national security and international issues. He has been involved in the prosecution of computer crime cases for over 16 years and was previously Principal Deputy Chief of CCIPS and an AUSA in the Central District of California where he prosecuted some of the most notorious computer criminals in the country. Among other things, he co-chairs the National Response Coordination Group, Chairs the G8 High Tech Crime Subgroup and is DOJ’s principal representative on the Director of National Intelligence’s National Cyber Study Group. He received the Attorney General’s Award for Exceptional Service in 2002 for his work on the PATRIOT Act and the Assistant AG’s Special Commendation for Cyber National Security matters in 2007.
Rob Pate recently joined the private sector to bring together the spectrum of Protection, Detection, Response, and Recovery services focused on the right People, Products, and Processes to solve today’s security challenges. Prior to joining the private sector, Rob 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). Rob founded the Government Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (GFIRST), a government information sharing effort 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, Rob 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. Rob 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.
Kimberly Peretti is currently the co lead prosecutor of a global internet based payment system for money laundering and illegal money transmitting. She was also the co lead prosecutor in Operation Firewall, a Secret Service investigation into "Shadowcrew," a website with approximately 4,000 members that was dedicated to facilitating malicious computer hacking and the dissemination of stolen credit card, debit card and bank account numbers and counterfeit identification documents, and has prosecuted a number of other carders and hackers involved in large data breaches.
Donna M. Peterson is the Acting Assistant Section Chief of the Computer Intrusion Section, Cyber Division, FBI. She joined the FBI in August 1999, spent six years in the Los Angeles Division working cyber crime cases, specifically computer intrusions. She came to FBIHQ in 2006 as a program manager overseeing five field offices and six legal attache offices. In 2007, she became the unit chief of the computer intrusion program for the eastern United States, Europe, and Eurasia. In 2008, she became the acting assistant section chief for the CIP, with responsibility for assisting with the oversight of the CIP both programmatically within the Cyber Division and operationally worldwide. Donna was a Russian cryptologic linguist in the U.S. Air Force prior to joining the FBI.
Jonathan G. Pollet is the Vice President of North American Operations for Industrial Defender, Inc. with the following certifications: CAP (Certified Automation Engineer), CISSP, PCIP. Mr. Pollet has over 5 years experience in conducting security vulnerability audits of SCADA, DCS, and PLC-controlled facilities that are critical to the national infrastructure. This also includes participating in the Team Lead role when conducting over 50 security assessments and red team penetration tests on electric power, water utility, oil & gas, and petrochemical real-time process control and SCADA environments. Mr. Pollet has over 8 years experience in Instrument & Electrical Engineering, Industrial Controls, Automation, Power System Analysis, Management of Information Systems (MIS), Computer Hardware and Software Development, SCADA Systems Design and Support, PLC Programming, Communication Systems Design, Project Management, Database Design, Data Integration, Web Solutions Development, and experience with multiple operating systems such as MS-DOS, UNIX, Linux, Windows 3.1, 3.11, 95, 98, NT, ME, 2000, XP, and 2003.
Andy Purdy, an attorney and Certified Information Systems Security Professional, is on the Executive Advisory Board of BigFix, Inc. and is a partner with the law firm of Allenbaugh Samini, LLP (www.alsalaw.com), in Washington, DC. He is also President of DRA Enterprises, Inc. (www.andypurdy.com), specializing in IT consulting, business development, and government relations. DRA Enterprises, Inc. is partnered with Secure Anchor Consulting for cyber risk assessment and mitigation, and Echelon One for security intelligence research. He was a member of White House staff team that helped to draft the U.S. National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace (2003). Shortly after its release by President Bush, Mr. Purdy went to the Department of Homeland Security and helped to form the National Cyber Security Division (NCSD) and the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT), where he worked for three and a half years, the last two as the Acting Director of the NCSD and US-CERT. In 2006 he completed service as a Special Government Employee on the Defense Science Board Task Force on Mission Impact of Foreign Influence on DoD Software. Before joining the White House staff, Mr. Purdy served as Acting General Counsel, and long-time Chief Deputy General Counsel at the U.S. Sentencing Commission. Mr. Purdy served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Senior Staff Counsel of the House Select Committee on Assassinations, Special Counsel to the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (Ethics), and Counsel to the Senate Impeachment Trial Committee (on the articles against Judge Walter Nixon). He also served for five years in network television news as an Associate Producer for NBC News magazines, and Producer for the CBS News broadcast NIGHTWATCH in Washington, D.C.
Kenneth Rohde is a member of the Cyber Security Research Department at the Idaho National Laboratory in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Mr. Rohde is part of the SCADA systems security research team, a principle researcher for vulnerabilities associated with personal electronic devices, and a member of the INL Cyber Security Red Team. Mr. Rohde has 10 years of software engineering experience and 6 years of Linux and Windows systems administration experience. He is currently adjunct faculty with the University of Idaho Computer Science Department.
David M. Ross is a Principal Consultant within the Federal Services Division of Mandiant. Mr. Ross has more than 12 years of experience in a variety of high-end technical fields, ranging from satellite communications systems and network administration to computer forensics and software development. Mr. Ross came to Mandiant from ManTech Corporation where he served as a Senior Information Systems Engineer working within the U.S. Department of State's Cyber Threat Analysis Division of Diplomatic Security. During his time with ManTech, Mr. Ross developed incident response software capable of performing forensic analysis of hundreds of computers simultaneously, which contributed to the division winning the NSA Rowlett award. Before ManTech, Mr. Ross served in the United States Navy as a Cryptologic Technical Operator (CTO) for nine years. His final three years of service were at the Fleet Information Warfare Command's (FIWC) where he provided fly-away incident response support and helped build the Navy's first computer Red Team.
Christian Roylo has nine years of service as a Special Agent with the U.S. Secret Service. He is a member of the Secret Service’s Electronic Crime Special Agent Program (ECSAP) and is currently assigned to the Criminal Investigation Division as a resident affiliate to the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) at the Software Engineering Institute located at Carnegie Mellon University. He is a graduate of the University of Hawaii and prior to being an agent, spent 5 years as a Honolulu Police Officer. Special Agent Roylo specializes in computer forensics, network intrusions investigations, and research and development in emerging technologies.
Mike Russo has been employed in State government for over 33 years working for the Auditor General, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, the State Technology Office, the Department of Management Services and currently the newly formed Agency for Enterprise Information Technology. He is a member of the North Florida Domestic Security Task Force, Domestic Security Law Enforcement Prevention Committee, Domestic Security Oversight Council, a member of the Board of Directors of the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center, a Certified Fraud Examiner and President of the Tallahassee Chapter of Certified Fraud Examiners. Mike is also a Certified Project Management Professional and the current President of the Tallahassee’s Infragard Member’s Alliance in Tallahassee, Florida. Mike was a member of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement during and after September 11, 2001 where he worked to develop training for First Responders in the areas of Weapons of Mass Destruction and Incident Command. After which he has spent the past 6 years establishing Florida’s cyber security initiative in Florida.
Dr. Phyllis Schneck is Vice President of Research Integration for Secure Computing Corporation. In this role, she is responsible for the design and applications of Secure Computing’s Internet reputation intelligence, strategic thought leadership around technology and policy in the security and infrastructure protection space, and management of the company’s intellectual property portfolio. For more than 13 years, Schneck has had a distinguished presence in the security and infrastructure protection community, serving as chairman of the National Board of Directors of the FBI’s InfraGard program and founding president of InfraGard Atlanta. Named one of Information Security Magazine’s Top 25 Women Leaders in Information Security, Schneck briefed the Japanese Government on information sharing and infrastructure protection, and was the moderator of the White House Town Hall Meeting in Atlanta for the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace in June of 2002. She 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.
Edward Schwartz is Vice President and Chief Security Officer for NetWitness, the leading provider of next generation network monitoring solutions. He has performed a broad range of work including technical architecture, engineering and technology management consulting for many commercial and U.S. Government entities, including: the U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Department of State, U.S. Postal Service, AIG, Bristol-Meyers Squibb, Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase, Marriott Corporation, McDonald's Corporation, Merrill Lynch, Mutual of Omaha, Thomson Financial, Vanguard, and numerous others. Prior to joining NetWitness, Mr. Schwartz was Chief Technology Officer for ManTech Security Technologies Corporation, and owner of Securevision LLC, a security and privacy technology consultancy in Washington DC. Mr. Schwartz served on the Boards of Directors of Secured Services, Inc. (OTC: SSVC), and InfoSec (JP), the Executive Committee and Lab Governance Board for the Banking Information Technology Secretariat (BITS) of the Financial Services Roundtable and the Board of Advisors for numerous security start-ups. He has worked as a technical advisor to Boston and New York-based technology venture capital firms, and the Workgroup for the Computerization of Behavioral Health and Human Services Records.
Betty Shave was the first head of the U.S. delegation to the High-Tech Crime Subgroup of the countries of the G8, which works to improve cybercrime statutes and investigations within and outside the G8. She served in that capacity for three years while also participating in the negotiations of the Cybercrime Convention at the Council of Europe. In 2002, in recognition of her work on the Cybercrime Convention, she was a recipient of the Attorney General’s Distinguished Service Award. In April 2008, she was elected Chair of the Council of Europe’s implementation committee for the convention.
For a number of years, Ms. Shave has coordinated CCIPS' international assignments, including the international aspects of cybercrime policy issues, training, and critical infrastructure protection as well as some aspects of CCIPS’ international criminal caseload. She supervises CCIPS’ activities in many multilateral groups, such as the United Nations, the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum, and the Organization of American States.
Malcom Smith is the Forensic Track Manager for the Defense Cyber Investigations Training Academy. Mr. Smith is a Sworn Member of the Maryland State Police (6+ years). He has worked in the MSP Computer Forensics Laboratory as a CFI and he was sworn in as an Expert Witness during criminal proceedings in the State of Maryland. Mr. Smith has served as an Instructor at the DOD Cyber Investigation Training Academy (DCITA).
Christopher Sonderby is the Attaché for US Department of Justice at the U.S. Embassy in Bangkok and the DOJ’s Intellectual Property Law Enforcement Coordinator for Asia. As the DOJ Attaché, he represents the Dept.of Justice in all criminal matters in Thailand and other countries in Southeast Asia, working closely with the U.S. and foreign law enforcement authorities to facilitate both formal and informal mutual legal assistance. His efforts have also led to the recent creation of the IP Crimes Enforcement Network, which consists of key law enforcement officials in the Asia-Pacific region and is designed to improve cross-border cooperation in combating large-scale intellectual property theft. 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.
Arun Sood is Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science and Director, Laboratory of Interdisciplinary Computer Science at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA. His research has been supported by the Office of Naval Research, National Imagery and Mapping Agency, National Science Foundation, U.S. Army Belvoir RD&E Center, U. S. Army TACOM, U.S. Department of Transportation, and private industry. Mr. Sood was awarded grants by NATO to organize and direct advance study institutes in relational database machine architecture and active perception and robot vision. He and his colleagues have developed the concept of intrusion tolerance, and developed a new server security architecture based called Self Cleansing Intrusion Tolerance.
Mona Sedky Spivack is a trial attorney with the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., where she prosecutes a variety of computer crimes, including matters involving corporate hacking and espionage, phishing/vishing, botnet malware installation, illegal spamming, and online identity theft. Prior to joining DOJ, she was a staff attorney, Assistant Director, and Assistant to the Bureau Director with the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection.
Harold Stonebraker is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and a Senior Security Analyst with FireEye, Inc., a leader in anti-botnet protection. Mr. Stonebraker has more than 17 years of network and security experience. He has served as Director of Security and Network Technology for SunGard Asset Management Systems and Security Practice Director for Broadwing Technology Solutions, as well as many years in the commercial IT security world working for Fortune 1000 clients. Mr. Stonebraker has spoken on many security topics ranging from network based IDS implementation, wireless security and how it is defeated, botnets and their insidious nature, and security incident response and the policies, practices and procedures associated with its implementation.
Robin Taylor serves as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of California, Sacramento Division. She joined the office in 1997. She is currently the Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property (?CHIP") coordinator for the Sacramento and Fresno Divisions. Ms. Taylor’s duties include prosecuting computer intrusion and intellectual property cases, as well as training prosecutors and law enforcement. She previously served as the Computer and Telecommunications Coordinator (“CTC”) for the Sacramento division. Ms. Taylor lectures frequently on cyber-crime and intellectual property prosecutions in federal districts throughout the United States. 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 fifteen felony cases to verdict and has argued seven cases before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Dean Turner is the Director, Symantec Global Internet at Symantec Corporation.
Dean Turner's primary role is as the Executive Editor of the Internet Security Threat Report. In addition to being a co-author, Turner coordinates the research and analysis of attack data gathered from Symantec’s DeepSight Threat Management System, Managed Security Services, Business Intelligence Services and Symantec Antivirus Research Automation for use in the publication of the ISTR. Dean is also Symantec's Canadian spokesperson for matters relating to the ISTR having done numerous print, radio and television interviews. Turner has a broad range of expertise from Operations and Network Security to Incident Analysis. He has spoken at various Defense and Security Conferences and maintains a research interest with the academic community on such issues as Information Warfare and Infrastructure Protection.
J. Andrew Valentine is an investigator within Cybertrust’s Forensics and Incident Response team. He maintains a breadth of experience from his more than 8 years within the security industry, as well as a significant depth of expertise surrounding incident response and computer forensic analysis. Mr. Valentine has led many high profile criminal forensic investigations within the United States as well as internationally. Valentine has been published in several industry periodicals including SC Magazine, ComputerWorld, and Computer Fraud and Security Magazine, and has presented at numerous conferences. Prior to joining Cybertrust, Mr. Valentine was an analyst within the Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s Computer Crime Center.
Randy Vickers is the Associate Deputy Director within the Department of Homeland Security National Cyber Security Division, United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) where he oversees global incident correlation and strategic analysis capabilities to reduce the Federal, State, Local, Tribal governments and Private Sector organizations exposure to cyber threats and vulnerabilities. Mr. Vickers works directly with law enforcement and intelligence agencies, which include the FBI, DIA, NSA, and CIA, on ongoing computer crime investigations, intelligence gathering, technical analysis, and potential prosecution of individuals or organizations involved in compromise of US Government assets. Prior to joining the US-CERT, he was most recently the Chief of the Department of Defense Computer Emergency Response Team (DOD-CERT) at the Joint Task Force, Global Network Operations where he provided top-level technical leadership for team members.
As a member of the Forensic team in CERT’s Practices, Development, and Training group, Mr. Waits develops digital forensic training material for law enforcement and intelligence agencies. His research also focuses on emerging trends in the forensic field and tool development. Before joining the Software Engineering Institute, Mr. Waits worked for the National Security Agency.
Julian Waits is the President and CEO of Brabeion Software. Mr. Waits brings a diverse history of executive and technical security experience to Brabeion Software, a pioneer in IT Governance, Risk and Compliance software. Prior to founding Brabeion, Mr. Waits served as Vice President of Business Development at e-Security, the leading provider of Security Event Management where he was responsible for developing key strategic relationships, including PricewaterhouseCoopers and Hewlett Packard. He has held executive positions at a number of other security companies including BNX Systems and BMC Software, where he was Director of Business and Corporate Development and responsible for several key acquisitions as well as dozens of OEM and strategic partnerships. Mr. Waits has also served in engineering roles at Banyan Systems and Compaq Computer.
Ryan Walters is the Director of Security Solutions for the Commercial, State and Local group at Northrop Grumman's Information Technology sector. Mr. Walters supports the critical security needs of the group's customers nationwide, as well as directing the group's Solutions Security Team, responsible for setting and enforcing logical security policies, procedures, architecture standards and best practices, as well as aligning solutions and services for our customers. Previous to his position with Northrop Grumman, Mr. Walters served as a director in the PricewaterhouseCoopers Washington Federal Practice, Technology and Data Services practice, where he focused on helping organizations assess and implement security controls to protect and enable their business and mission objectives. Mr. Walters was also director of development services at Computer Associates where he spearheaded the security response team that architected, implemented and successfully supported the Athens 2004 Olympics. He was also senior manager of security response at Symantec, where he was responsible for developing all data-driven vulnerability products, two of which were selected as Security Products of the Year by SC Magazine.
As a CHIP attorney, Kathryn Warma collaborates with agents to investigate and prosecute cyber and intellectual property cases; serves as an office resource on computer searches and issues “cyber” outreach with LE on computer search and cyber issues; and outreaches with community on cyber crime issues. She has twenty years as a federal civil agency attorney. Higher Education: B.A. in American Studies, U. of Illinois ‘73; J.D. University of Michigan ‘76.
John Weinschenk is the CEO of Cenzic. Prior to joining Cenzic, John was the Vice President of the Enterprise Services Group at VeriSign. In that role, he held worldwide responsibility for marketing VeriSign’s authentication, digital trust and wireless services to Global 1000 companies. Before VeriSign, he served as CEO at TransIndigo. While growing that company from six to more than 50 employees, he shaped it into one of the leading developers of real-time transactional authority, and then oversaw the successful acquisition of the company by RSA. Prior to that, John established numerous pivotal business deals and relationships while holding various executive positions at Entegrity Solutions, including VP of business development and alliances, VP of product operations and VP of worldwide marketing.

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