The International Conference on Network Security 2006

Richard Bejtlich

Richard Bejtlich is founder of Tao Security (www.taosecurity.com), a company that helps clients detect, contain, and remediate intrusions using network security monitoring (NSM) principles. Richard was previously a principal consultant at Foundstone, performing incident response, emergency NSM, and security research and training. He created NSM operations for ManTech International Corporation and Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation. From 1998 to 2001 then-Captain Bejtlich defended global American information assets in the Air Force Computer Emergency Response Team (AFCERT), performing and supervising the real-time intrusion detection mission.

Formally trained as an intelligence officer, Richard is a graduate of Harvard University and the United States Air Force Academy. He authored the critically acclaimed Tao of Network Security Monitoring: Beyond Intrusion Detection in 2004 and Extrusion Detection: Security Monitoring for Internal Intrusions in 2005. Richard co-authored Real Digital Forensics, and contributed to Hacking Exposed, 4th Ed., Incident Response, 2nd Ed., and several Sys Admin magazine articles. He writes for his Web log (taosecurity.blogspot.com) and teaches at USENIX.

Eric Greenberg

Eric Greenberg is the author of two books, Mission Critical Security Planner and Network Application Frameworks. He led Netscape’s security group managing the deployment of a range of groundbreaking technologies including the one used for nearly all security on the Internet today, the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL/TLS) protocol. As Director of Engineering of Global SprintLink, he led the deployment of one of the largest international networks of its time. In his role as Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Litronic, Inc, Mr. Greenberg prepared the company’s smart card and identity management product and services for its successful IPO. He has served on the staff of Bell Communications Research and holds a bachelors and masters degree in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland and Cornell University. He writes for leading industry magazines, serves on corporate advisory boards, and is frequently quoted in leading media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, CNN, and others.

Andy Purdy

Currently serving as the nation’s cybersecurity chief leading the DHS National Cyber Security Division that he helped launch; White House lead for cybersecurity strategy development for the financial sector, government procurement of secure IT, privacy, government cyber incident sharing, cyber crime, and certification of IT security professionals; Expert on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for organizations and individuals; Successfully helped to lead U.S. Sentencing Commission through intense, compressed regulatory cycle in 2000 and historic 2001 amendment cycle; culminating five-year effort, chaired effort leading to promulgation of the historic Economic Crime Package of amendments

Donald E. Eastlake III
Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Motorola Laboratories

Donald Eastlake III has been involved with network protocols and security for many years with Motorola, IBM, Cybercash, and Digital Equipment Corporation. He is the chairman of IEEE 802.11 Task Group's, whose goal is to produce an amendment to the 802.11 (Wi-Fi) standard supporting mesh networking, and was heavily involved in developing the 802.11i (Robust Security) standard. He also co-chairs the IETF TRILL working group which is applying routing technology to layer 2 addresses. Donald has authored over 42 IETF RFCs, including the only IETF RFC with the word “sex” in its title, and two books: “XML Security: The New Syntax for Signatures and Encryption” and “Internet Open Trading Protocol”.

Stuart Katzke
Senior Research Scientist
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Dr. Stuart Katzke (Prefers to be called “Stu”) began his second career at NIST as a Senior Research Scientist in July 2001. In that role, he provides technical advice to the Computer Security Division (CSD), establishes government-industry partnerships for the purpose of improving the security of critical infrastructure IT systems, and works on NIST’s FISMA implementation project. In January 2000, Stu joined NSA as Chief Scientist of the Information Assurance Solutions Group. Prior to joining NSA, Stu was Chief of the Computer Security Division in the Information Technology Laboratory at NIST from 1987 - 2000. During his 28-year career at NIST, Stu initiated and participated in the Common Criteria Project, conceived and established the National Information Assurance Partnership, and authored numerous publications. His has received a Bronze and Silver Medal from the Department of Commerce and the 2003 Award for Outstanding Contributions in the Field of Mathematics and Computer Science from the Washington Academy of Sciences.

Madjid Nakhjiri

Madjid Nakhjiri is Network architect research scientist at Motorola labs. He has been active in wireless communications R&D since 1994 and in network mobility and security research and standardization since 2000 and is the author of book "AAA and network security for mobile access".

Adele Friedel
Chief Technology Officer
Tenix America

As Chief Technology Officer of Tenix America, Adele Friedel brings over 25 years of technical innovation and consultation experience to the federal government, commercial and civilian markets. Adele is responsible for strategizing and communicating the technical details of Tenix’s Interactive Link Suite and providing support to the defense, intelligence and homeland security communities.

Prior to joining Tenix America, Ms. Friedel worked at Actuate Corporation providing engineering support to federal and commercial accounts such as the U.S. Army, Federal Reserve, World Bank and Marriott. Before that, she worked for BMC Software, Inc. as an advisor to the Federal Reserve System. In this position she facilitated all resources when technical challenges arose and managed technical staff brought in to implement products. Ms. Friedel also performed needs analysis and work-flow studies to determine system configuration requirements and recommend technical system solutions. She also worked at Sun Microsystems Federal where she supported major systems solutions to Federal, Civilian and Defense accounts; in support of database and data warehousing activities. In addition, Ms. Friedel has held positions at Datatel, Inc., NCR Corporation and NBI, Inc.

Russ Housley
Vigil Security LLC.
Founder

Mr. Housley is the Founder of Vigil Security, LLC, and he is coauthor of Planning for PKI published by John Wiley & Sons. He has over 20 years of communications and computer security experience. His expertise is in security protocols, system engineering, system security architectures, and product definition. He is Security Area Director for the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). He is the author of the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS), the security foundation for S/MIME. He is one of the authors of the Internet X.509 Certificate Profile (RFC 3280), commonly called PKIX Part 1. He is one of the authors of the SDNS Message Security Protocol (MSP), the security cornerstone of the U.S. Defense Message System (DMS). He is one of the authors of the IEEE series of LAN/MAN security standards (IEEE 802.10), and he contributed to IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN security standards, particularly IEEE 802.11i.

David McGrew

David is a senior technical leader at Cisco Systems, where he runs the Advanced Crypto Development group. His main interest is building network security systems using cryptography, with an emphasis on performance, scalability and deployability. He holds a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Michigan State University.

Michael Paddon

Michael is a computer scientist who specializes in security. He works for QUALCOMM Inc. and lives in Sydney, Australia. Recently, he has been heavily involved in the development of 3GPP2\'s NFCC feature. He has been working in the computing field for around 19 years and is a past president of the Australian Unix Users\' Group (AUUG).

Michael Aisenberg
Director of Government Relations
VeriSign

Michael Aisenberg is Director of Government Relations for VeriSign, Inc. in Washington, D.C., serving as principal liaison with the Administration and Federal agencies, including the Departments of Homeland Security, Defense, State and Justice. He also manages a portfolio of policy issues, including global infrastructure security, digital signatures, eHealth, intellectual property and government procurement on behalf of the world’s leading Internet trust and identity provider.

Previously, he served for seventeen years as Digital Equipment Corporation's Washington public policy program director and lobbyist, addressing issues including intellectual property, technology trade and tariffs, Federal I/T acquisition policy, critical infrastructure protection, E-commerce policy, the Year 2000 computer problem, export controls, antitrust reform, and Federal R&D budget policy.

Aisenberg is the Vice-chairman and Chair-elect of the Information Technology Sector Coordinating Council. In 2004 he was elected Chairman of the ITAA’s Information Security Committee. He leads VeriSign’s participation in the prestigious Presidential National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC), and serves on the Board of Directors of the ITAA Internet Division, the I/T ISAC and the Internet Security Alliance (ISA) security organizations, where he also chairs the ISA Board’s Government Relations Committee, and is a member of the ABA’s Information Security Committee. .

Robert Dix Jr.
Executive Vice President
Government Affairs & Corporate Development
Citadel Security Software, Inc

Mr. Dix has enjoyed a distinguished career in both the public and private sector. Prior to joining Citadel at the end of 2004, Mr. Dix served the United States House of Representatives during the 108th Congress as the Staff Director for the House Government Reform Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and the Census.

In that role, Mr. Dix worked with Subcommittee Chairman Adam Putnam and Government Reform Committee Chairman Tom Davis to help facilitate transformation throughout the federal government utilizing technology, and support the provisions of the President’s Management Agenda. Mr. Dix worked on important government-wide issues such as e-government, information sharing, and the growing challenge of securing federal government computer networks, systems, and desktops against the increasing threat of a cyber attack. Mr. Dix became widely recognized in government and the private sector for his leadership on these important public policy issues. Previously Mr. Dix had served the Congress as a Senior Professional Staff member to the House Oversight Subcommittee on the District of Columbia during the late 1990’s.

Since joining Citadel, Mr. Dix has been active in IT industry leadership roles, including being elected as the Vice-Chair of the Industry Advisory Council’s Information Security and Privacy Shared Interest Group in 2005 and 2006, as well as being elected to the Executive Committee for the IT Sector Coordinating Council. Dix has continued to be active with the National Cyber Security Partnership and the Cyber Security Industry Alliance. .

Patrick R. Schambach
Sr. Vice President/General Manager
e-Government and Infrastructure Solutions
Nortel Government Solutions

Patrick R. Schambach joined Nortel Government Solutions Inc. in June 2004 after retiring with more than 32 years of federal service. At Nortel Government Solutions, Mr. Schambach is responsible for market management for many civilian agencies, and for directing the operations of divisions performing applications development, information assurance, infrastructure services, and program management for major clients.

Prior to joining Nortel Government Solutions, Mr. Schambach was the founding Associate Under Secretary for Information Technology and CIO of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). TSA was created in response to the events of September 11, 2001, to federalize security operations at airports and other modes of transportation. Mr. Schambach joined TSA in February 2002 as one of its first permanent employees. TSA subsequently moved from the Department of Transportation to the newly created Department of Homeland Security, where Mr. Schambach was an active member of the department’s CIO Council.

Prior to joining TSA, Mr. Schambach was the Assistant Director, Office of Science and Technology, and the CIO of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) for just over five years. Prior to ATF, he spent over 24 years with the United States Secret Service. While at the Secret Service, he was the Deputy CIO and served in a variety of roles related to technology support. Mr. Schambach was appointed to the Senior Executive Service in 1988. .