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2011
Speakers
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Here are this year's confirmed speakers
so far. |
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Speaker |
Bio |
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Antonio A. Rucci

IC Programs
Developer,
Global Security Directorate
Oak Ridge
National Laboratory,
Department of Energy,
Oak Ridge, Tennessee
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With more than 27 years of counterintelligence and security
experience, Tony Rucci has worked at Oak Ridge National
Laboratory (ORNL) since 2004, when he was hired to spearhead the design
and accreditation of the Multiprogram Research Facility. After
accreditation, Mr. Rucci served as the Director of Intelligence
Operations, and in 2007, assumed responsibilities as the Collection
Manager and Cyber Initiatives. In 2010, he returned to his community of interest and became an IC Programs
Developer for the Global Security Directorate.
Before joining ORNL, Mr. Rucci served 21 years as a U.S. Army Counterintelligence
Warrant Officer / Special Agent, conducting security and technical espionage
investigations to protect national interests, culminating with his
assignment as the Counterintelligence Operations Officer for
the Director of Security, White House Military Office (WHMO).
Mr. Rucci was the lead
counterintelligence officer for over 70 Presidential visits to
foreign countries, where he ensured the WHMO mission was successfully performed, provided force protection
measures to ensure the security of military forces, and provided
critical intelligence affecting the President to the Military Aide to the President and the U.S.
Secret Service by fusing disparate
information from national intelligence agencies, host country law
enforcement agencies, and State Department personnel into a
coherent, succinct threat picture. These assessments were then used
to develop and successfully implement security countermeasures.
Tony speaks regularly at
government and industry events on such topics as Critical
Infrastructure Protection, SpearPhishing, Social Networking and
Insider Threats. Mr. Rucci and his wife Pam are “Proud Empty
Nesters” of one son and reside in Knoxville, Tennessee. |
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Lawrence Dietz
JD, MBA, LLM

General
Council and Managing Director,
Information Security,
TAL Global Corporation
Read Larry's
PSYOP
Regimental Blog
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Lawrence Dietz has over 30 years of diversified military and
commercial information security experience. Recent projects include
work for the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention in
Atlanta, GA and assignments in support of the US DoD Joint Chiefs of
Staff and the US Special Operations Command. Previously at
Symantec Corporation for 6 years, Dietz formerly served as Senior
Director of Government Solutions. Other roles at Symantec included
Corporate Strategist, Director of Enterprise Marketing for North
America, and Director of Market Intelligence, Analyst and Government
Relations. A well respected analyst, he held key analyst roles with
Zona Research and Giga Information Group. Mr. Dietz has
been an analyst of the market for information security products and
services since 1978. He has published a wide array of
articles and reports and is a sought after speaker.
A licensed attorney in California and
a recognized authority in compliance, Dietz has lectured
internationally on critical legal issues related to Cyber warfare,
the Internet and Electronic Commerce. He retired as a Colonel in the
U.S. Army Reserve, where assignments included a variety of
Intelligence and PSYOP positions. He holds BS in BA from
Northeastern University, MBA from Babson College, JD from Suffolk
University, LLM in European Law from Leicester University, United
Kingdom, and Masters in Strategic Studies from the U.S. Army War
College. |
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E. Eugene Schultz
Ph.D., CISSP, CISM

Chief
Technology Officer,
Emagined
Security

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Eugene Schultz, Ph.D., CISM, CISSP,
GSLC is the Chief Technology Officer at Emagined Security, an
information security consultancy based in San Carlos, California. He
is the author/co-author of five books: UNIX security, Internet security, Windows NT/2000 security, incident response, and intrusion detection and
prevention.
Dr. Schultz has written over 120
published papers. He was the Editor-in-Chief of Computers and
Security from 2002-2007, is currently on the editorial board for
this journal, and is an associate editor of Network Security. He is
also a certified SANS instructor, senior SANS analyst, member of the
SANS NewsBites editorial board, co-author of the 2005 and 2006
Certified Information Security Manager preparation materials, and is
on the technical advisory board of three companies.
Dr. Schultz has previously managed an
information security practice as well as a national incident
response team. He has also been professor of computer science at
several universities, retired from the University of California at
Berkeley. He has received the NASA Technical Excellence Award, the
Department of Energy Excellence Award, and the ISACA John Kuyers
Best Speaker/Best Conference Contributor Award. He received the
Vanguard Conference Top Gun Award (for best presenter) twice, the
Vanguard Chairman's Award, and the National Information Systems
Security Conference Best Paper Award.
Named a Distinguished Fellow of the
Information Systems Security Association (ISSA), Dr. Schultz has
also received the ISSA Hall of Fame award as well as the ISSA's
Professional Achievement and Honor Roll Awards. While at Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory, he founded and managed the U.S.
Department of Energy's Computer Incident Advisory Capability (CIAC).
He is also a co-founder of FIRST, the Forum of Incident Response and
Security Teams. |
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Jose Morales, Ph.D.

Research
Associate Professor,
Institute for Cyber Security,
University of Texas at San Antonio
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Jose's
website |
Jose Andre Morales is a Research
Assistant Professor for the Institute of Cyber Security in the
University of Texas at San Antonio. His research area is computer
virology with a current focus on the analysis and behavior-based
detection of malware, anti-malware program evaluation, smartphone
security, and transformation of biological defense mechanisms into
computer systems. He has been working with malware and computer
viruses for over 10 years. He is project lead of OMAS, an online
malware analysis system at
http://omas.ics.utsa.edu, and is a co-author of the book
"Malicious Mobile Code". He is a member of Sigma Xi, ACM and IEEE. |
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Mike Guthrie
RWSP
Assessment
Engineer,
Chickasaw Nation Industries,
Portland, OR
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Mike Guthrie has 10
years experience in cyber security. He was the Network Security
Architect at Bonneville Power Administration in the northwest. At
Mentor Graphics he spent time as a network engineer providing
enterprise networking, firewall and VPN support for a global network
comprising of 72 connected sites world wide.
Most recently Mr. Guthrie spent
his time doing penetration tests on Industrial Control Systems. His
background is specifically related to control systems in the bulk
power generation and transmission areas. During this time he
developed unique perspectives on the areas of compliance and
regulation in the power industry. Currently Mr. Guthrie works for
Chickasaw Nation Industries as a part of the CNI red team.
Mr. Guthrie has spoken and
taught at security conferences such as the Techno Forensics and
Digital Investigations Conference, Black Hat and DEF CON. |
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Ed Shirey
GWAPT
Security
Administrator,
Chickasaw Nation Industries,
Salt Lake City, UT |
Ed has a background in
application development and software architecture, and uses this
experience to help his team poke holes in web applications and
develop tools. |
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Lynette Hornung-Kobes
MAPS, MSIA,
CIPP, SABSA SCF
Senior Privacy and Computer Security Architect,
Northrop Grumman Information Systems,
Washington DC |
Lynette Hornung-Kobes is currently a Senior
Computer Security and Privacy Consultant with Northrop Grumman
Information Systems.
Lynette has her CIPP (Certified
Information Privacy Professional) and SABSA SCF and SCPA
Certifications. She has a Master of Science in Information Assurance
from Iowa State University, a NSA Center of Excellence, as well as
her Master of Arts in Political Science from Iowa State University.
She has provided project leadership to a variety of Department of
Justice components, including the Office of the Solicitor General,
Interpol and the Office of the Chief Information Officer with
security and privacy services. She also worked on a project
with DOJ and OMB where she served in a liaison role between the two
agencies on their joint project. She was an IT Security Specialist
with the Department of Justice prior to joining Northrop Grumman
where she worked on Certification and Accreditation on an enterprise
level for the Public Key Infrastructure.
Lynette was a contributing author to books on Identity Theft by Dr.
Steffen Schmidt and Michael McCoy, including Who is You? and
The Silent Crime: What You Need to Know About Identity Theft.
She
has been an invited speaker at various computer security conferences, including COSAC, NetSec, and
the Computer Security Institute, where she has presented on topics
dealing with security and privacy. She is a current member of the Privacy Smart
Grid and the Enterprise Security Architecture Smart Grid. |
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Jason Kobes
MSIA, CISSP, FEAC CEA, SABSA SCPA, SABSA SCF, SABSA
SCPR,
CNSS NSTISSI

Senior Cyber Architect,
Northrop Grumman Information Systems,
Washington DC
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Jason
Kobes works as a Senior Cyber Architect for Northrop Grumman, where
he currently supports the Department of Justice Deputy CIO for
Security.
Jason has been leading efforts to
secure and test the security of many different DOJ systems and
environments. Jason also has assisted with the development of the
conceptual security architecture for the NIST Smart Grid integration
project, was the identity management and data architect for the FBI
NDex conceptual design, and recently was the external technical
security consultant for the OMB MAX portal project. Jason is now
supporting the redesign of the Federal Prison Industries Web Store
as the project security architect.
Jason's areas of research are
accountable anonymity systems and applying enterprise security
architecture. Jason is advisor to the Northrop Grumman, Purdue
University research project. He has recently spoken about security,
enterprise security architecture and business process & architecture
improvement methods at SABSA World Congress and the Computer
Security Institute (CSI) annual conferences. Jason is also an
instructor for the Federated Enterprise Architecture Institute where
he teaches Enterprise Security Architecture. |
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Rob Jackson
WINNER
Department of Defense 2010 DC3 Forensics Challenge
and
EC-Council International Civilian team awards
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Robin Jackson was born and
raised in Montana. He entered the Army as a Russian linguist
and went on to learn about and love computers in his work in the
military intelligence community.
After leaving the Army, Jackson worked in the Supervisory Control
and Data Acquisition (SCADA) industry, eventually building a
successful consulting company in that field. After selling his
company Jackson became an Internet pioneer, buying ownership of the
first Web Hosting company in the State of Montana.
Jackson has received numerous
awards for his classified and unclassified work and holds several
computer certifications including CompTIA Security+, Wetstone's
Certified Hacking Investigator and Certified Steganography
Investigator and the Cyberterrorism Defense Analysis Center DHS
Sentinel Incident Response and Handling certification.
Jackson was a member of the Williams
Twins Forensics team which won the Department of Defense's 2010 DC3
Forensics Challenge and the EC-Council's International Civilian team
award. |
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Jason Schaller
CISSP, CCNA Security, MCITP Enterprise Administrator, MCSE:
Security, Security+

Network
Services Manager,
Anderson ZurMuehlen |
Jason has over 14 years of
experience in Information Technology and has been involved in
various consulting activities. In his career he has provided network
engineering, expert witness testimony, project management, Public
Safety IT support, Government IT support (Local, State and Federal),
as well as various public and private industry IT and management
support.
Jason is the U.S. Coast Guard
Auxiliary Division 130-10 (Division covers the State of Montana)
Communications officer and is a qualified Coast Guard
Instructor/Trainer.
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Justin Jones
BS, Network+, Security+
Member,
National Cyber
Defense Force |
Justin became interested in
information security when he took a self-instructed class in
computer security and penetration testing while attending the
University of Great Falls, where he graduated with honors in 2010.
Last winter Justin received his Network+ and Security+
certifications a mere five weeks from one another and continues to
study feverishly for his C|EH and CISSP. Justin actively
participates in the Helena chapter of 2600. When he finds time
to step away from his computer, he can be found mountain biking, fly
fishing, and whitewater rafting around Montana. |
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Brad Smith
RN, ASCIE, MCNPS, CISSP,
NSA-IAM,
C|EH

Director,
Computer Institute of the Rockies
Event Sponsor - Host
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Brad started working with computers in 1972, was featured in 1995 HIMSS -
Microsoft Medical Software section and in 2005 was named the Microsoft
2005 Small Business Solution Provider Partner of the Year, an
award given to only one small business for the entire world.
Brad works with rural financial and medical
facilities, helping them meet complex Federal and State laws without
going broke.
He is on the ECcouncil (Certified Ethical Hacker) Advisory Board and
is a frequent International speaker with this group. Brad
spoke at Hacker Halted-Egypt and Hacker Halted-Malaysia last year.
Brad has recently been appointed the Director of the National Cyber
Defense Force which is dedicated to helping individual and business
defend themselves in cyber space. |
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