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Duane Ackerman
Duane Ackerman is chairman and chief executive officer
of Atlanta-based BellSouth Corporation. Mr. Ackerman began his communications career in 1964, and has served in numerous capacities with BellSouth. Mr. Ackerman was named president, chief executive officer of BellSouth Telecommunications, BellSouth's local telephone service unit and largest subsidiary, in November, 1992. He was promoted to vice chairman and chief operating officer of the parent company, BellSouth Corporation, on January 1, 1995, and was elevated to the position of president and chief executive officer of BellSouth on January 1, 1997. On January 1, 1998, Mr. Ackerman was appointed chairman and chief executive officer of BellSouth. In addition to serving as a director of BellSouth Corporation, Mr. Ackerman is also a member of the board of Wachovia Corporation and The Allstate Corporation. His civic commitments include immediate past chair of the Georgia Research Alliance and membership on the board of the Woodruff Arts Center. Mr. Ackerman is the chairman of the national Council on Competitiveness, vice chairman of the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee, a trustee of Rollins College and a former member of the board of governors for the Society of Sloan Fellows of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Mr. David Barron is currently Director-Regulatory in New
Orleans, Louisiana. In this capacity, he is responsible for interfacing
with the Louisiana Public Service Commission on policy issues, customer
service, rate and tariff matters and external affairs involving the
Commission. Mr. Barron also has occasion to work with various Louisiana
State Government agencies and the FCC on issues involving BellSouth.
He was transferred to Birmingham, Alabama in 1986 to be on the South Central Bell headquarters staff for Marketing/Sales. He was responsible for sales promotions, advertising, sales incentives and compensation for the five South Central Bell states. Mr. Barron was promoted to Director and transferred to New Orleans, Louisiana in 1987 to be the Staff Manager for Marketing and Sales operations for Louisiana. In that capacity, he directed product development and deployment for Louisiana, managed sales promotion and compensation, and provided general sales/operational support for both field and business office operations. In 1990, Mr. Barron was transferred to Regulatory and External Affairs in Louisiana as the Director-Regulatory. During his time in Regulatory, BellSouth Louisiana achieved Incentive Regulation; migrated to Price Regulation (which has been enhanced and extended once) and received the support of the LPSC for three 271 applications, the last of which was approved by the FCC. In August of 2002, he was appointed by Duane Ackerman, Chairman and CEO for BellSouth Corporation, to be his representative on the Industry Executive Subcommittee (IES) of the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSATC). David will serve as the Vice-Chairman of IES and will assist Mr. Ackerman in supporting the partnership between the Federal Government and BellSouth in matters involving national security and emergency preparedness. Mr. Barron is a graduate of the University of Mississippi with a BBA in Management and a graduate of the Louisiana State University Executive Management Program. He is a native of Booneville, Mississippi and is married to Susan Koch Barron. He and Susan have two children, Christopher and Patrick.
As Microsoft Corp.’s chief security strategist,
Scott Charney oversees the company’s Trustworthy Computing initiative,
which aims to promote a safe, private and reliable computing experience
for everyone. Charney also leads the Security Strategies Group, which
works with product teams and others at Microsoft to advance the development
of secure products, services and infrastructures through the use of
appropriate policies and controls, the implementation of best practices,
and the development of useable security products and services. He also
collaborates with others in the computer industry and the government
to make computing more secure for all users. Charney’s goal is
to reduce the number of successful computer attacks and increase the
confidence of all users in the security of their personal computer.
Before joining PwC, Charney served as chief of the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS) in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. As the leading federal prosecutor for computer crimes, he helped prosecute nearly every major hacker case in the United States from 1991 to 1999. He co-authored the original Federal Guidelines for Searching and Seizing Computers, the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, federal computer crime sentencing guidelines, and the Criminal Division’s policy on appropriate computer use and workplace monitoring. He also chaired the Group of Eight nations (G8) Subgroup on High-Tech Crime, served as vice chair and head of the U.S. delegation to an ad hoc group of experts on global cryptography policy for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and was a member of the U.S. delegation to OECD’s Group of Experts on Security, Privacy and Intellectual Property Rights in the Global Information Infrastructure. Before working for the federal government, Charney was an assistant district attorney in Bronx County, N.Y., ultimately serving as a deputy chief of the Investigations Bureau. In addition to supervising 23 prosecutors responsible for arson, racketeering, political corruption and economic crimes, he developed a computer tracking system that was later used throughout the city for tracking criminal cases. Charney has received numerous professional awards, including the prestigious John Marshall Award for Outstanding Legal Achievement in 1995 and the Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service in 1998. He was nominated to the Information System Security Association’s Hall of Fame in 2000. That same year, the Washington Chapter of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association presented him with its award for excellence in critical electronic infrastructure protection. Among his other affiliations, he served on the American Bar Association Task Force on Electronic Surveillance, the American Health Lawyers Association Task Force on Security and Electronic Signature Regulations, the Software Engineering Institute Advisory Board at Carnegie-Mellon University, and the Privacy Working Group of the Clinton administration’s Information Infrastructure Task Force. He holds a law degree with honors from Syracuse University in Syracuse, N.Y., and bachelor’s degrees in history and English from the State University of New York in Binghamton. Charney spends some of his free time learning Visual C++® for fun. He also enjoys long hikes in the woods and programming in the Visual FoxPro® database development system.
In September, 1994, Dr. G. Wayne Clough became the tenth
President of the Georgia Institute of Technology and the first alumnus
to serve as president. Dr. Clough received his B.S. and M.S. in Civil
Engineering from Georgia Tech in 1964 and 1965, and a Ph.D. in 1969
in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. During his tenure as president, Georgia Tech served as the Olympic Village for the 1996 Centennial Olympics, and Tech's second Capital Campaign was initiated, raising over $700 million. Research expenditures have increased for seven consecutive years from $212 million to $310 million, a required computer initiative for all students was implemented, and enrollment has increased from 13,000 to 15,500. A state-wide Georgia Tech regional engineering program has been implemented. Seven new residence halls, an aquatic center, a sports performance center, and seven new academic buildings have been built. An additional $580 million projects are underway. An ubiquitous high speed communications network has been installed throughout the campus using fiber and wireless technologies. In 1999, Georgia Tech received the Hesburgh Award, the nation’s top recognition for support of undergraduate teaching and learning; and in 2001 it was ranked among the top ten public universities by U.S. News and World Report. In 2001, Black Issues in Higher Education cited Georgia Tech as the first university to graduate the largest number of African-American engineers at all three levels: Bachelors, Masters, and Ph.D. Dr. Clough has been recognized for his teaching and research, including a total of seven national awards from the American Society of Civil Engineers. He is one of a handful of civil engineers to have been twice awarded Civil Engineering’s oldest recognition, the Norman Medal, in 1982 and in 1996. Other recognitions by the American Society of Civil Engineers include the 1991 State of the Art Award and the 1994 Karl Terzaghi Lectureship. He received the George Westinghouse Award from the American Society of Engineering Education 1986 for outstanding teaching and research. In 1990, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. He was awarded the 2001 National Engineering Award by the American Association of Engineering Societies. In 2001, President George W. Bush appointed Dr. Clough to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, and he chairs the panel on Federal Research and Development. He is a member of the Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in Information Age. Clough’s other current service activities include: Chair, Governor’s Blue Ribbon Natural Gas Task Force; Executive Committee of the U.S. Council on Competitiveness; and Chair, NAE committee: The Engineer of 2020. He is a member of the Executive Committees of Central Atlanta Progress and the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, and a Trustee of Georgia Research Alliance. Clough serves on the Board of Advisors for Noro-Moseley Partners, the southeast’s largest venture capital fund, and the Board of Directors of TSYS of Columbus, Ga. He serves as a special consultant to the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit System for ongoing major seismic retrofit operations. For six years, Clough has been listed among the 100 Most Influential People in Georgia by Georgia Trend magazine. Clough's interests include technology and higher education policy, economic development, diversity in higher education, and technology in a global setting. He is a civil engineer with a specialty in geotechnical and earthquake engineering. Dr. Clough has published over 120 papers and reports and six book chapters.
Mr. Copeland is Vice President, Information Infrastructure
Advisory Programs, with Computer Sciences Corporation, Federal Sector.
He represents CSC's CEO, Van Honeycutt, in the President's National
Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC), a body that
provides industry advice to the President of the United States, regarding
critical, information and telecommunications services supporting our
national economy and other critical functions of society. Mr. Honeycutt
chaired the NSTAC from September 1998, to September 2000. During that
period Mr. Copeland served as the chair of the working body of the NSTAC,
the Industry Executive Subcommittee Working Session. He joined CSC in
January 1988 and served progressively as CSC’s Director of Program
Management Operations, Director of Implementation and Deputy Project
Manager for the Treasury Consolidated Data Network. Later he was Director
of the Network Engineering Center. Mr. Copeland represented CSC for three years on the Board of Directors of the Corporation for Open Systems International. He served as organizing chair for the first ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) Workshop ’95 for the Communications Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and was overall co-chair for the 1996 workshop. He served as a member of the advisory board for “IT Professional,” a new publication of the Computer Society of the IEEE. In 2000, he was the industry co-chair for a government and industry consortium that provided significant recommendations to the Deputy Secretary of Defense on "Information Security for Electronic Business." At the Center for Strategic and International Studies, he contributed to reports with recommendations in the area of cyber threats, cyber crime and critical infrastructure protection. He serves as a member of the advisory committee to a U.S. Secret Service research project on the threat posed by those with inside access to computers and networks. Before CSC, Mr. Copeland's U.S. Army career covered a wide variety of assignments, including research and development projects; directing organizations responsible for fielding, operating and maintaining communications systems; a tour in Vietnam as a helicopter pilot (while still a U.S. resident, Canadian citizen); and Military Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence) for the Joint Tactical Information Distribution System (JTIDS). He represented the United States in negotiating an eight-nation agreement for a cooperative program to develop a NATO version of JTIDS. Mr. Copeland is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). In 1983-84, he was an IEEE Congressional Science Fellow in the office of Senator John Warner (R, VA). He received the 1999 Award for Excellence in Information Technology from AFCEA International. His other memberships include Eta Kappa Nu (Electrical Engineering Honor Society), Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honor Society), Army Aviation Association of America (AAAA) and the Association of the United States Army (AUSA). His degrees are: M.S. Electrical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA; B.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. July 8, 2002.
Richard A. DeMillo is the Imlay Dean and Distinguished
Professor of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is
also Director of Georgia Tech’s Information Security Center. He
returned to academia in 2002, after a career as an executive in industry
and government. He was Chief Technology Officer for Hewett-Packard,
where he had worldwide responsibility for technology and technology
strategy. Prior to joining HP, he was in charge of Information and Computer
Sciences Research at Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore) in Morristown,
New Jersey, where he oversaw the development of many internet and web-based
innovations. He has also directed the Computer and Computation Research
Division of the National Science Foundation. The author of over 100 articles and books, Dr. DeMillo’s
research has spanned several fundamental areas of computer science and
includes fundamental innovation in computer security, software engineering
and mathematics. His present research interests are focused on information
security and nanotechnology. He is developing hardware-based architectures
for trusted computing platforms. He is also working on computing and
communication architectures for massively distributed nano-scale components.
Adam Golodner is the Associate Director for Policy. Prior
to joining the Institute he was Vice President of Wallman Strategic
Consulting in Washington, DC, a telecoms and economic policy consultancy.
Mr. Golodner is the former Chief of Staff of the Antitrust Division
of the United States Department of Justice where he worked on mergers,
enforcement matters, and competition policy. Mr. Golodner focused on
telecoms, media, international, intellectual property and agriculture
issues. He also managed relations with the Congress, the Executive Branch,
the FCC, and various outside parties. He is a frequent speaker on telecoms and competition issues, and has spoken at the Salzburg Seminar, Aspen Institute, Brookings Institution, JFK School of Government, National Policy Association, Legg Mason Telecoms forum, ABA Antitrust Section, DC Bar, NARUC and othervenues. Prior to joining the government 1993, he was a partner in a Denver, Colorado law firm and practiced corporate law. Mr. Golodner graduated from The Colorado College with honors, and the University of Colorado School of Law where he served as articles editor of the law review.
Seymour (Sy) E. Goodman is Professor of International
Affairs and Computing, jointly at the Sam Nunn School of International
Affairs and the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
He also serves as Co-Director of both the Georgia Tech Information Security
Center and the Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy.
Prof. Goodman’s research interests include international developments in the information technologies (IT), technology diffusion, IT and national security, and related public policy issues. His areas of geographic interest include the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, and southern Africa. His earlier research included the areas of statistical and continuum physics, combinatorial algorithms, and software engineering. Dr. Goodman’s current work includes research on the global diffusion of the Internet and the protection of large, international IT-based infrastructures. He has published almost 200 articles and monographs, and given about 300 invited presentations on his research. From 1970-1981, Dr. Goodman was a professor at the University of Virginia (Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, and Soviet and East European Studies). He was a visiting professor at Princeton University (Mathematics, and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs) from 1977-1980, and in 1979 was a visiting professor at the University of Chicago (Economics). Prof. Goodman is Contributing Editor for International Perspectives for the Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery, the world’s oldest and largest professional society for computing, and has served with many government, academic, professional society, and industry advisory and study groups. Recently he served as a recognized advisor to the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection (PCCIP) and organized a series of workshops to assist the Commission, and served as chair of a National Research Council workshop on Technical Responses to Cyber-attack and their Legal Implications. He served as a member of the Defense Science Board Task Force that recommended, among other things, that the ARPANET go public which led to the establishment of today’s Internet. Dr. Goodman has testified before Congress. His research pursuits have taken him to all seven continents and 80 countries, and he has provided Parliamentary or Ministerial-level briefings in many countries including Cuba, Egypt, Israel, Nepal, the Soviet Union, Venezuela, Vietnam, and Zambia, among others. Prof. Goodman was an undergraduate at Columbia University, where he started out as an English major, and obtained his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology (1970), where he worked on problems of mathematical physics.
Brent Greene is the 10th Deputy Manager of the National
Communications System (NCS) and is responsible for the day-to-day policy,
technical, and programmatic oversight in coordination of all Federal
government-wide activities in national security and emergency preparedness
communications. He became the Deputy Manager in April 2001. In 1998-1999, Greene served as Vice President for Electronic Commerce at CAMP, Inc., a non-profit corporation advancing electronic commerce for the Defense Department (DoD) and small and medium size manufacturing enterprises. He managed five Electronic Commerce Resource Centers as part of DoD’s National ECRC program. During 1996 and 1997, Greene was a Commissioner on the President’s Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection (PCCIP), developing national policy and strategy recommendations for the President and leading to a wide range of national CIP initiatives. He was instrumental in the Commission’s establishment and its results, and for this, was awarded the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service. From 1992 through 1996, Greene was a DoD leader in exploring national security issues pertaining to critical infrastructures and information networks. He created DoD’s Infrastructure Policy Directorate, was its first Director for the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, and was charged with developing policy, plans, programs, guidance and oversight for infrastructure assurance, information and infrastructure warfare concepts. Mr. Greene served in other key Defense Department positions within the offices of the Under Secretary of Defense (Policy), the Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition & Technology), the Director, Program Analysis and Evaluation, and the Chief of Naval Operations. In these roles, he coordinated and managed leading edge technology and affordability issues pertaining to information operations, nodal analysis, modeling and simulation, counter-terrorism, satellite capabilities, system security issues, and a broad range of special program technology areas. A 1971 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Greene completed nuclear propulsion training and served a career in submarines, including tours as commanding officer of the nuclear attack submarines USS Skipjack and USS Hyman G. Rickover. He retired as a Navy Captain in 1995 to continue infrastructure-related initiatives within Government. His military awards include the Defense Superior Service Medal, the Legion of Merit, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, the Meritorious Service Medal (two awards), the Navy Commendation Medal (three awards), and the Navy Achievement Medal, as well as various campaign and service awards.
Mr. Kellogg is Vice President for Information Security
Policy and Programs at the Information Technology Association of America
(http://www.itaa.org/infosec). ITAA, America's leading high tech trade
association, provides global public policy, business networking, and
national leadership to promote the continued rapid growth of the IT
industry. ITAA consists of over 400 corporate members throughout the
U.S. and Mr. Kellogg manages the industry's largest information security
program, with over 175 companies involved in ITAA's Information Security
Committee. In 2002, Shannon developed and implemented ITAA's strategy for a number of legislative successes for the IT Industry on information security, including The Cyber Security Research and Development Act. Mr. Kellogg also led ITAA's successful lobbying efforts to incorporate several key provisions in the Homeland Security Act of 2002 and E-Government Act of 2002, including: removal of legal barriers to critical infrastructure threat information sharing between industry and government, inclusion of the Federal Information Security and Management Act, which will strengthen information security in the federal government, and the Cyber Security Enhancement Act, which strengthens penalties for criminal activity conducted over computer networks. Prior to becoming ITAA's VP for InfoSec Programs and Policy, Mr. Kellogg served as Executive Director of the Global Internet Project (http://www.gip.org), an international coalition of senior executives committed to fostering continued growth of the Internet. During his tenure at the GIP, he developed a series of projects focused on Next Generation Internet policy issues and chaired the program committee for "Security, Privacy, and Reliability of the Next Generation Internet," a public-private sector dialogue held in Berlin in November 2000. Mr. Kellogg also has extensive experience in the foreign affairs arena -- with particular regional expertise on Middle East and Turkish affairs -- having served as a Program Officer for the International Republican Institute (http://www.iri.org) during the 1990s. He also served on President Bush's IT National Steering Committee during the 2000 U.S. Presidential Campaign, and served as a Committee Member of the Arlington Country Republican party in 2000. Mr. Kellogg received his M.A. in International Business Transactions from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia and B.A. in Journalism from Park University in Kansas City, Missouri. He and is family currently live in Leesburg, Virginia.
Phil Lacombe is Persident of the Security Solutions Sector
within Veridian, and a corporate Senior Vice President. The Security
Solutions Sector of Veridian provides a full range of security services,
technology and expertise to a range of government agencies – principally
in law enforcement, intelligence and defense. Among the sector’s
offerings are a full suite of information and infrastructure protection
services to U.S. Federal, State and Local agencies including: security
policy, administration and management, accreditation and certification,
counter-intelligence support, counter-terrorism support, analysis, network
protection services, forensics and computer emergency response capabilities,
and more. With Veridian since February 1998, he has served as the corporation’s Vice President for Policy and Communications, Senior Vice President for Cyber-Assurance, President of the Information and Infrastructure Protection Sector and Senior Vice President for Strategic Initiatives before being named President of the Security Solutions Sector in September 2002. Before joining Veridian, Mr. Lacombe was the Director of the President’s Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection (PCCIP), a position he held from September 1996 until delivery of the Commission’s report in September 1997. Established by Executive Order of the President, the PCCIP presented a strategy for dealing with the emerging dimension of cyber threats to the nation’s critical infrastructure. With delivery of the Commission report, Mr. Lacombe was named Director of the CIP Transition Office under the National Security Council to support the inter-agency effort that drafted Presidential Decision Directive 63. Before joining the Commission, Mr. Lacombe was the Managing Director of the Aerospace Education Foundation, a not-for-profit institution providing educational programs nationwide. He also served as the Special Assistant to the Chairman of the Commission on Roles and Missions of the Armed Forces from July 94 through August 95. He was responsible for drafting the Commission’s report, “Directions for Defense”. In January 1994, Mr. Lacombe retired with twenty years service as a colonel in the US Air Force. His assignments in the Air Force included Speech Writer to Secretary of Defense Weinberger, Assistant to the Commander of Air Force Systems Command, Counter Narcotics Strategy at the National Drug Policy Board in the Office of the U.S. Attorney General, where he drafted the first national counter-narcotics strategy, and Director of Public Affairs for US and Air Force Space Commands and the North American Aerospace Defense Command. He is a graduate of the National War College, Air Command and Staff College and Squadron Officers School. He has a Master’s Degree from the University of North Carolina and a BA from the University of Massachusetts.
Carl Landwehr joined the National Science Foundation in October, 2001, as Program Director for the newly established Trusted Computing program. He is an IPA from Mitretek Systems, where he is Senior Fellow in the Center for Information Technology and Telecommunications. In his first two years at Mitretek, he led efforts to support several DARPA activities concerned with Information Assurance and Survivability. Prior to joining Mitretek, he headed the Computer Security Section of the Center for High Assurance Computer Systems at the Naval Research Laboratory for many years, where he led a variety of research projects to advance technologies of computer security and high-assurance systems. He has also served on the computer science faculty at Purdue University, and he has taught courses on topics in computer science and information security at Georgetown, the University of Maryland, and Virginia Tech. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering and Applied Science from Yale University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer and Communication Sciences from the University of Michigan. Dr. Landwehr is an Associate Editor of the new IEEE Security & Privacy magazine, and he has served on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, the Journal of Computer Security, and the High Integrity Systems Journal. He was the founding chair of IFIP Working Group 11.3 on Database Security, is a member of IFIP Working Group 10.4 on Dependability and Fault Tolerance, and he has chaired the IEEE Technical Committee on Security and Privacy. IFIP has awarded him its Silver Core, and the IEEE Computer Society has awarded him its Golden Core. His current research interests include information security and dependable systems.
Dr. John H. Marburger, III is the President’s Science
Advisor and Director of the Office of Science and Technology. He is
the former Director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven
National Laboratory and President of Brookhaven Science Associates.
Dr. Marburger served as the Dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California from 1976 to 1980. He has been a member of numerous professional, civic and philanthropic organizations including the Universities Research Association, the Advisory Committee to the New York State Senate Committee on Higher Education and the Board of Directors of the Museums at Stony Brook. He is a graduate of Princeton University and received a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Stanford University.
Dr. Reddy is the chief research psychologist and research coordinator for the U.S. Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center. In this capacity, she directs all Secret Service research on targeted violence and threat assessment, including the current Insider Threat Study, an operational analysis of insiders who pose a threat to information systems in critical infrastructure sectors. Dr. Reddy’s research and training activities focus on applying threat assessment principles to better understand and prevent targeted violence against public officials; in schools and the workplace; and against critical infrastructures and information systems. Dr. Reddy’s career has focused on understanding and preventing violent behavior, and on the interface of behavioral science and criminal justice. Prior to joining the Secret Service, she was awarded the James Marshall Public Policy Fellowship at the American Psychological Association, where she worked with congressional staff on violence-prevention legislation and authored testimony for congressional hearings. She has also worked at the Federal Judicial Center and as a consultant to the RAND Corporation. Dr. Reddy conducts extensive training for local, state, and federal law enforcement, for agencies in the U.S. intelligence community, for school and corporate security personnel, and for international audiences as well. She has a master’s degree and Ph.D. in social psychology from Princeton University, and a bachelor’s degree from Williams College. Dr. Reddy is author of several publications, and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Threat Assessment.
Mr. O. Sami Saydjari is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Cyber Defense Agency, where he provides vision, leadership and expertise for building a Research and Consulting concern that creates effective systematic defenses for high-value systems against aggressive cyber-attack. Before founding the Cyber Defense Agency, Mr. Saydjari was a Senior Staff Scientist in SRI International’s Computer Science Laboratory, where he was the program leader of the Cyber Defense Research Center (CDRC). While at SRI, Mr. Saydjari led the survivability assessment of the DARPA UltraLog program, whose goal to improve the survivability of software agent architectures to solve large-scale distributed applications. Mr. Saydjari has 18 years of experience performing and directing information assurance research, including 13 years at the National Security Agency and 3 years as a DARPA Program Manager of Information Assurance. Prior to SRI, Mr. Saydjari was the Information Assurance Program Manager for DARPA’s Information Systems Office. He created and drove the security architecture and technology for a common reference architecture for DARPA and DISA’s advanced programs. His focus areas include high-assurance operating systems, network security, public-key infrastructures, and security architecture. Before his assignment at DARPA, Mr. Saydjari was the technical director of the Office of Network Security Infrastructure for the National Security Agency (NSA). In this role, Mr. Saydjari performed an advanced survivability architecture analysis of the MISSI system, including attack trees and fundamental review of required system architecture properties. At NSA, Mr. Saydjari was also the leader of several information assurance research teams in A1 INFOSEC systems design (LOCK), highly assured distributed operating systems design, and trustworthy network systems design. Mr. Saydjari earned his M.S. in Computer Science from Purdue University. The Director of NSA named Mr. Saydjari an NSA fellow in 1993 and 1994. He has published more than a dozen technical papers in the field of information security and has presented the results of his research at both such as the National Cryptologic Quarterly, the National Computer Security Conference, IEEE Security and Privacy Conference, and the ACM New Security Paradigms Workshop. He is based in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin.
Stephen L. Squires is vice president and chief science
officer for Hewlett-Packard Company. He is responsible for providing
leadership in establishing overall strategic scientific and technical
directions, including the architecture of the digital renaissance for
the 21st century Internet. Squires was recruited by the National Security Agency (NSA) as a freshman undergraduate electrical engineering student at Drexel University. He worked as an engineering intern in the advanced computing and communications laboratories of the NSA. Throughout his career as an electrical engineer and computer scientist at NSA, he focused on the most challenging national security problems using advanced information technologies. In addition, he had early access at NSA to the full range of advanced technologies as they emerged, including many in cooperation with DARPA, such as early interactive time sharing systems with graphics, UNIX, ARPAnet, extensible programming systems, local area networks, the early Internet, personal computing, VLSI design, rapid prototyping and the highest performance information system technologies. Squires earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He grew up in suburban Philadelphia where he spent most of his time discovering how things worked and inventing in his parents' garage and his own basement laboratory complete with a vacuum tube voltmeter, signal generators, an oscilloscope and a collection of transistors. He also had access to the laboratories of the Franklin Institute Science Museum, local universities and industry as vice president of his high school’s Future Scientists of America program.
Michael Vatis is Director of the Institute for Security
Technology Studies (ISTS) at Dartmouth College and the Chairman of the
Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection (I3P). ISTS is a
principal national center for research, development and analysis of
counterterrorism and cybersecurity technology. I3P is a consortium of
major research organizations, whose mission is to develop a national
R&D agenda for information infrastructure protection, promote collaboration
among researchers, and facilitate and fund research in areas of national
priority. Mr. Vatis is also Of Counsel with the international law firm
of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver and Jacobson, specializing in e-commerce
and Internet law issues. Mr. Vatis has also served in the U.S. Departments of Justice and Defense. As Associate Deputy Attorney General and Deputy Director of the Executive Office for National Security, he coordinated the Justice Department's national security activities and advised the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General on issues such as counterterrorism, high-tech crime, encryption, counter-intelligence, foreign policy, national defense and infrastructure protection. At Defense, Mr. Vatis served as Special Counsel in the Office of General Counsel, advising the Secretary of Defense, the Deputy Secretary of Defense, and the General Counsel on sensitive legal and policy issues. Mr. Vatis also practiced law with the firm of Mayer, Brown & Platt in Washington, D.C., specializing in Supreme Court and appellate litigation. Before that, Mr. Vatis served as a law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and for then-Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg when she served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Mr. Vatis earned his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1988 and served as Supervising Editor of The Harvard Law Review. He received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University, where he majored in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
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