Featured Speakers:
Mr. Michael B. Donley| Mr. Eric Rosenbach | Rep. Jim Langevin |
Rep. Mike Rogers | General William L. Shelton| Lt. Gen. Larry D. James |
Maj. Gen. Suzanne M. Vautrinot | Ms. Roberta G. Stempfley | Dr. Robert D. Childs|
Dr. Mark Maybury | Mr. Richard Bejtlich| Mr. Jim Bieda|
Mr. Jason Healey | Industry Panel | Mr. Gordon Snow |
Mr.Richard Szafranski| Mr. Steve Winterfeld | Mr. Bill Woodcock |
The Honorable Michael B. Donley
Secretary of the Air Force
Mr. Michael B. Donley is the Secretary of the Air Force, Washington, D.C. He is the 22nd Secretary and was confirmed Oct. 2, 2008. He is responsible for the affairs of the Department of the Air Force, including the organizing, training, equipping and providing for the welfare of its more than 334,000 men and women on active duty, 176,000 members of the Air National Guard and the Air Force Reserve, 170,000 civilians, and their families. He also oversees the Air Force's annual budget of more than $110 billion.
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Secretary Eric Rosenbach
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber Policy
Secretary Eric Rosenbach was appointed the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber Policy on 26 September 2011. In this capacity, he supports the Secretary of Defense and other senior Department of Defense leaders by formulating, recommending, integrating, and implementing policies and strategies to improve DoD's ability to operate in cyberspace. Prior to this position Mr. Rosenbach led the global cybersecurity practice at Good Harbor Consulting, where he advised the executives of Fortune 500 companies on cybersecurity risk mitigation strategies.
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Representative Jim Langevin
Member House Armed Services Committee
Representative Jim Langevin serves on the House Armed Services Committee, where he is the Ranking Member of the Emerging Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee, and serves on the subcommittees on Seapower and Projection Forces, and Strategic Forces. At the request of Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, he is serving his third term on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and he is a member of the Subcommittee on Technical and Tactical Intelligence. Langevin strongly believes that good intelligence is the nation's first line of defense against terrorism and other national security threats.
Securing our nation's technology infrastructure against cyber attack is a top priority for Langevin, both within and beyond his committee work. As the Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of the bipartisan House Cybersecurity Caucus, he has taken on a leadership role in raising awareness of cybersecurity issues in Congress and fostering dialogue and debate on the critical questions surrounding this topic. In addition, he is working to implement the recommendations of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Commission on Cyber Security for the 44th Presidency, which Langevin co-chaired. He is encouraged that the President understands these modern security challenges, and is working closely with the Administration to ensure that the Commission's recommendations are considered as a national security agenda is developed.
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Representative Mike Rogers
Chairman of the U.S. House Intelligence Committee
In the 112th Congress, Representative Rogers was appointed Chairman of the Intelligence Committee for his experience and personal interest in national security. The panel oversees the 17 agencies that make up the U.S. intelligence community, including operations and budgetary oversight, and it is the primary panel responsible for overseeing implementation of the intelligence community restructuring.
As a national leader on security issues, Rogers authored the country’s premier biodefense law to develop medical countermeasures which protect Americans from threats like anthrax, small pox and chemical weapons. He helped shape America’s strategy for fighting al Qaida and the Taliban in the rugged border area between Pakistan and Afghanistan, issued an Intelligence Committee report on Iran’s nuclear ambitions, wrote legislation to reauthorize and strengthen the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and identified the danger of giving Miranda warnings to foreign terrorists.
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General William L. Shelton
Commander, Air Force Space Command
Gen. William L. Shelton is Commander, Air Force Space Command, Peterson Air Force Base, Colo. He is responsible for organizing, equipping, training and maintaining mission-ready space and cyberspace forces and capabilities for North American Aerospace Defense Command, U.S. Strategic Command and other combatant commands around the world. General Shelton oversees Air Force network operations; manages a global network of satellite command and control, communications, missile warning and space launch facilities; and is responsible for space system development and acquisition. He leads more than 46,000 professionals, assigned to 88 locations worldwide and deployed to an additional 35 global locations.
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Lieutenant General Larry D. James
Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance
Lt. Gen. Larry D. James is the Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C. He is responsible to the Secretary and Chief of Staff of the Air Force for policy formulation, planning, evaluation, oversight, and leadership of Air Force intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities. As the Air Force's Senior Intelligence Officer he is directly responsible to the Director of National Intelligence and the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence. He leads more than 20,000 ISR officers, enlisted and civilians across the Air Force ISR Enterprise. This includes the Air Force Intelligence Analysis Agency as well as the Air Force ISR Agency which includes the 480th ISRW, 70th ISRW, National Air and Space Intelligence Center, and the Air Force Technical Applications Center.
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Major General Suzanne M. Vautrinot
Commander, 24th Air Force
Maj. Gen. Suzanne M. "Zan" Vautrinot is the Commander, 24th Air Force, and Commander, Air Force Network Operations, Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. She is responsible for the Air Force's component numbered air force providing combatant commanders with trained and ready cyber forces which plan and conduct cyberspace operations. Twenty-fourth Air Force personnel extend, maintain and defend the Air Force portion of the Department of Defense global network. The general directs the activities of three operation cyber wings, two headquartered at Lackland AFB, and one at Robins AFB, Ga., as well as the 624th Operations Center at Lackland.
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Roberta G. Stempfley
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Cybersecurity and Communication at DHS
Bobbie Stempfley is the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Office of Cybersecurity and Communications, where she plays a leading role in developing the strategic direction for all of CS&C and its components, consisting of the National Cyber Security Division (NCSD), the Office of Emergency Communications (OEC), and the National Communications System (NCS). Prior to this position, Ms. Stempfley was the Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of CS&C and the Director of the National Cyber Security Division.
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Dr. Robert D. Childs
National Defense University Information Resources Management College (NDU iCollege)
For the past decade, Chancellor Robert D. Childs has led NDU’s iCollege. Under his visionary leadership, the college has become the international leader in providing graduate-level certificates, educational services, and learning experiences in Cyber Security, Information Assurance, Chief Information Officer, eGovernment, Chief Financial Officer, IT Project Management, and strategic leader competencies to government employees; and was designated as a “National Center of Academic Excellence (CAE) in Information Assurance Education by NSA and DHS.
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Dr. Mark Maybury
Chief Scientist of the U.S. Air Force
Dr. Mark T. Maybury is Chief Scientist of the U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C. He serves as chief scientific adviser to the Chief of Staff and Secretary of the Air Force, and provides assessments on a wide range of scientific and technical issues affecting the Air Force mission. In this role he identifies and analyzes technical issues and brings them to attention of Air Force leaders, and interacts with other Air Staff principals, operational commanders, combatant commands, acquisition, and science and technology communities to address cross-organizational technical issues and solutions. He also interacts with other services and the Office of the Secretary of Defense on issues affecting the Air Force in-house technical enterprise. He serves on the Steering Committee and Senior Review Group of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, or SAB. He also is the principal science and technology representative of the Air Force to the civilian scientific and engineering community and to the public at large.
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Richard Bejtlich
Chief Security Officer at MANDIANT
Richard Bejtlich is Chief Security Officer at MANDIANT. He was previously Director of Incident Response for General Electric, where he built and led the 40-member GE Computer Incident Response Team (GE-CIRT). Prior to GE, Richard operated TaoSecurity LLC as an independent consultant, protected national security interests for ManTech Corporation's Computer Forensics and Intrusion Analysis division, investigated intrusions as part of Foundstone's incident response team, and monitored client networks for Ball Corporation. Richard began his digital security career as a military intelligence officer at the Air Force Computer Emergency Response Team (AFCERT), Air Force Information Warfare Center (AFIWC), and Air Intelligence Agency (AIA). Richard is a graduate of Harvard University and the United States Air Force Academy. He wrote "The Tao of Network Security Monitoring" and "Extrusion Detection," and co-authored "Real Digital Forensics." He also writes for his blog (taosecurity.blogspot.com) and teaches for Black Hat.
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James Bieda
In January 2011, Jim Bieda joined Cisco to lead its Consulting Engineering team in the Office of the Chief Technology Officer. This team is charged with the identification, development, and evaluation of technologies, architectures, and standards to influence next-generation Cisco products. The team’s current areas of emphasis include: cyber security, cloud/data center virtualization, big data/analytics, converged wired/wireless networks, and machine-to-machine/Internet-of-Things protocols. Jim holds a B.A. from the University of Maryland and an M.S. in Computer Science from The Johns Hopkins University.
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Jason Healey
Director, Cyber Statecraft Initiative of the Atlantic Council
Jason Healey is the Director of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative of the Atlantic Council, focusing on international cooperation, competition and conflict in cyberspace. He also is a board member (and former executive director) of the Cyber Conflict Studies Association, lecturer in cyber policy at Georgetown University, and is a senior consultant at Delta Risk—a boutique cyber defense firm. He is the principal investigator for the first book on cyber conflict history.
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Industry Panel
Dr. Paul Kaminski
CEO Chairman & CEO Technovation
Dr. Kaminski graduated from the Air Force Academy and spent 20 years in the Air Force, including serving as Director for Low Observables Technology, overseeing the F-117 and B-2 programs.
He also led the initial development of a National Reconnaissance Office space system and related sensor technology. He received master’s degrees in both aeronautics and astronautics and
in electrical engineering from MIT and a Ph.D. in aeronautics and astronautics from Stanford. Dr. Kaminski’s career has included large program management and the development and application of advanced technology in both the private and public
sectors. He served as the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology from October 1994 to May 1997. Currently, in addition to chairing the DSB, he serves as a member of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, the DNI’s Senior Advisory
Group, FBI Director’s Advisory Board, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Technical Advisory Board, National Academies Air Force Studies Board, and the Atlantic Council. He also serves as Chairman of the Board for RAND Corporation, Exostar, and HRL
Laboratories; is a Director for General Dynamics, Bay Microsystems, CoVant Technologies, and the USAF Academy Endowment; and is an advisor to the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab and MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He has authored publications dealing with inertial
and terminal guidance system performance, simulation techniques, Kalman filtering, and numerical techniques applied to estimation problems. His company, Technovation, Inc., aims to foster innovation and to develop business and investment strategies related to the
application of advanced technology in the aerospace and defense sectors.
Ms. Lynn Dugle
President of Intelligence and Information Systems at Raytheon
Lynn A. Dugle is a Raytheon Company vice president and president of Raytheon’s Intelligence and Information Systems (IIS) business. She assumed leadership of IIS in January 2009, after serving as IIS vice president and deputy general manager. Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN), with 2011 sales of $25 billion, is a technology and innovation leader specializing in defense, homeland security, and other government markets throughout the world. With headquarters in Waltham, Mass., Raytheon employs 71,000 people worldwide.
Dr. Michael Papay
Vice President of Cyber Initiatives for Northrop Grumman
Michael Papay is sector vice president of Cyber Initiatives for Northrop Grumman. He leads Northrop Grumman’s cyber strategy development and associated activities to advance the company’s leadership role in the cybersecurity community. Dr. Papay works closely with Northrop Grumman corporate leaders, customers and partners to grow the corporation’s cyber business by identifying and pursuing new opportunities to increase market share both in the U.S. and globally.
Mr. Jim Jaeger
Director, DoD & Commercial Cyber Systems
Jim Jaeger is responsible for managing the DoD & Commercial Cyber Systems business area at General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems (GDAIS), including the General Dynamics Digital Forensics Lab. Jim is the Director for a wide range of offensive and defensive cyber programs including our support for the DoD Cyber Crime Center (DC3) where we conduct forensic examinations for the Defense Computer Forensic Lab and perform research, development, test and evaluation for the Defense Cyber Crime Institute. Previously, Jim created our information assurance and critical infrastructure protection group, which has developed a wide variety of Information Assurance tools, ranging from the Air Force’s intrusion detection infrastructure to the only network based multi-level security (MLS) system accredited by the National Security Agency at Protection Level 4 without waivers. Over the past several years, Jim has led forensic investigations into some of the biggest network breaches impacting United States commercial firms.
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Gordon Snow
Assistant Director, FBI Cyber Division
In January 2009, Mr. Snow was appointed as chief of the Cyber Division’s Cyber National Security Section and the director of the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force. In November 2009, he was named deputy assistant director of the Cyber Division. In April 2010, he was named assistant director of the Cyber Division. Mr. Snow is a native of Detroit, Michigan. He graduated from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, with a B.A. in English. He received an M.B.A. with an emphasis in finance from Virginia Tech in 2001 and a J.D. from Catholic University’s Columbus School of Law in 2006. Prior to joining the FBI, Mr. Snow served in the United States Marine Corps for more than 10 years, as both an enlisted Marine and as an officer.
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Richard Szafranski
Senior Fellow at Toffler Associates
Dick Szafranski (BA cum laude Florida State University, MA Central Michigan University) is a senior fellow in Toffler Associates, having been a member of the firm since its creation in 1996. Toffler Associates helps or-ganizations create their future by capitalizing on the opportunities that transition to a knowledge-based economy and organizational forms present. His exten-sive consulting portfolio includes working with CEOs, COOs, and senior executives in global defense, aero-space, satellite manufacturing, telecommunications, associations, the US intelligence community, and other US and non-US Government agencies.
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Steve Winterfeld
Author
Steve Winterfeld has a strong technical and leadership background in Cybersecurity, Certification & Accreditation (C&A), Training, Military Intelligence, Simulations and Project Management. Currently he is TASC Defense/Civil Business Group Technical Director (TD) with additional duties of corporate Cyber TD and Senior CyberWarriorTM Instructor. Past Projects include building the Computer Emergency Response Center (CERT) for US Army South responsible for monitoring security real time then conducting forensic investigations on intrusions and developing the first C&A package for the Global Hawk Unmanned Aerial System (UAS). He holds CISSP, PMP, SANS GSEC, Six Sigma certifications and a MS in Computer Information Systems. He is the Co-Author of "Cyber Warfare: Techniques, Tactics and Tools for Security Practitioners" where he applied his experience as an Army Airborne Ranger, against the new virtual battleground.
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Bill Woodcock
Research Director Packet Clearing House
Bill Woodcock is a pioneering Internet policy maker, who specializes in the creation, promotion, and implementation of economically efficient technologies to stimulate the growth of Internet traffic in both developed and developing countries. A founder and research director of Packet Clearing House, a non-profit research institute investigating Internet routing economics, Woodcock has also successfully operated several commercial ventures in the Internet connectivity and content distribution space.
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