The CyberWatch Mid-Atlantic CCDC is being broadcast live:
:: Friday: 12:00 PM – 9:00 PM
:: Saturday: 9:30 AM – 10:00 PM
The full agenda is available here.
2011
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Mar. 11, 2011
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Mar. 10, 2011
Jason Christopher
Technical Lead for Smart Grid Security
Federal Energy Regulatory CommissionMr. Jason D. Christopher is the Technical Lead for Smart Grid Security at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. He is a representative on the Federal Smart Grid Task Force (SGTF) and the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel-Cyber Security Working Group (SGIP-CSWG). Independent of his work at the Commission, Jason is a corresponding member on the IEEE Energy, R&D, and Communications Policy Committees. For the past three years, Jason has focused on the development of reliability and cyber security standards for the nation’s power grid. Prior to FERC, he worked on a variety of infrastructure projects, particularly in the field of SCADA design and implementation.
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Mar. 9, 2011
Wende Peters
Information Assurance Lead
JHU APLWende Peters is a member of the Principal Professional Staff at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, specializing in architectures and systems engineering for full spectrum cyber operations on behalf of the Department of Defense and the U.S. Government. She served as the Director of the National Information Assurance Engagement Center, and has provided research and strategy leadership in the area of Cyber Mission Assurance, emphasizing the analysis of cyber systems and cyber warfare and their correlation to warfighter mission objectives. Ms. Peters previously served as the US Navy’s Chief Engineer for the Tactical Tomahawk Weapons Control System. She holds a bachelors degree in mathematics and a masters degree in applied computer systems.
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Mar. 9, 2011
Alan Paller Founder and Research Director SANS Institute
Alan Paller is founder and research director of the SANS Institute, a graduate degree granting college and security training and research institution with more than 120,000 alumni in seventy countries. At SANS, he leads a global security innovation program that identifies people and practices that have made a measureable difference in cyber risk reduction, and illuminates those innovations so other security practitioners can take full advantage of them to improve security in their enterprises. He also oversees the Internet Storm Center (an early warning system for the Internet), NewsBites, (the semi-weekly security news summaries that go to 210,000 people), (the authoritative summary of all critical new vulnerabilities discovered each week), and the identification of the most damaging new attacks being discovered each year.
He has testified before both the US Senate and House of Representatives. In 2000 President Clinton recognized his leadership by naming him as one of the initial members of the President’s National Infrastructure Assurance Council. The Office of Management and Budget and the Federal CIO Council named Alan as their 2005 Azimuth Award winner, a singular lifetime achievement award recognizing outstanding service of a non-government person to improving federal information technology. In May of 2010, the Washington Post named seven people as “worth knowing, or knowing about” in cyber security. The list included General Alexander who heads the US Cyber Command, Howard Schmidt, the White House Cyber Coordinator, other national leaders, and Alan.
Earlier in his career Alan helped build a software company, took it public, and merged it into a larger company listed on the New York Stock Exchange. His degrees are from Cornell and MIT.
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Mar. 8, 2011
Kevin Rogers
President, CEO, and Founder
Cypherpath LLCAfter 20 years becoming an expert in the education and training industry, Mr. Kevin Rogers co-founded Cypherpath in response to the growing concern for network security compliancy, now mandated by the U.S. government. His extensive experience as founder and vice president of sales at Knowlogy Inc. during the 1990s, followed by 10 years as Vice President of Public Sector Sales at Global Knowledge, Mr. Rogers is highly recognized for his innovative ideas, dynamic partnership-building skills, and successful sales growth. He has produced over $270 million in training sales since 1991.
After the “cyber shockwave” exposed the real threats that exist for protected data and intelligence, Mr. Rogers recognized an opportunity to establish an enterprise learning company in 2010 that would offer a product solution, CertificationLive™, to meet the ever-growing demand for quality education and validation of security professionals.
Mr. Rogers is a graduate from Radford University. Mr. Rogers is a member of Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA), Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC), and the Cyber Security Forum Initiative (CSFI). Mr. Rogers also serves as the chair for the curriculum committee under the Coalition for Advancing Cybersecurity Education (CACE)and serves as an Advisor to the Global Institute for Cybersecurity + Research. He currently sits on the CAPP and Public Advocacy Boards for CompTIA.
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Mar. 7, 2011
2011 CyberWatch Mid-Atlantic CCDC Guest Speaker: Dr. Tom Longstaff
Dr. Tom Longstaff is the Chief Scientist for the Cyber Missions Branch of the Applied Physics Laboratory. APL is a University Affiliated Research Center, a division of the Johns Hopkins University. Tom joined APL in 2007 to work with a wide variety of infocentric operations projects on behalf of the U.S. Government to include technology transition of cyber R&D, information assurance, intelligence, and global information networks.
Tom’s academic publications span topics such as malware analysis, information survivability, insider threat, intruder modeling, and intrusion detection. Tom is Chair of the Computer Science, Information Assurance, and Information Systems Engineering Programs at The Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering. Tom is also a fellow of the International Information Integrity Institute and an editor of the IEEE Security & Privacy journal.
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Mar. 5, 2011
2011 CyberWatch Mid-Atlantic CCDC Guest Speaker: Gilbert Sorebo
Gilbert Sorebo Chief Cyber Security Technology Strategist and AVP SAIC
Date: March 11th
Time: 4:30-5:00 PMMr. Sorebo is a Chief Cyber Security Technologist and Assistant Vice President for SAIC where he assists government and private sector organizations in complying with legal and regulatory requirements and address ongoing risks to their infrastructure. He has been working in the information technology industry for more than eighteen years in both the public and private sector. In addition to federal and state governments, Mr. Sorebo does security consulting in the financial services and electricity sectors. He is also a frequent speaker at national security and utility conferences, such as the RSA Security Conference, CSI Annual Conference, Metering America, Autovation, and the FIRST Annual Conference, where he has given talks on information security liability, Sarbanes-Oxley, E-Discovery, and breach notification. He currently leads projects involving NERC CIP and security assessments of electric utilities. He is helping more than a dozen utilities address their Smart Grid security requirements, including the drafting of several Cyber Security Plans required under the Department of Energy Smart Grid Grant requirements.
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Mar. 4, 2011
2011 CyberWatch Mid-Atlantic CCDC Guest Speaker: Ajay Gupta
Ajay Gupta Director of IT Security Services Prince George's Community College
Date: March 11th
Time: 2:30-3:00 PM
Presentation: “SCADA vs. Office Networks: Who has the Greater Insecurity Complex”Ajay Gupta is an authority on cyber security, IT strategy, and the implications for business risk and competitiveness. He applies keen analytical insight combined with ongoing research and extensive consulting experience to offer uncommon understanding of the strategic issues affecting the vital information organizations rely upon for their sustainability and prosperity.
A CISSP-certified Information Security Professional, he has 15 years of experience that includes senior IT security and research posts with Deloitte & Touche, Ernst & Young, Mitre, and Mitretek (now Noblis) prior to his founding of Gsecurity in 2002.
Ajay is the creator and host of , a weekly program on the VoiceAmerica Talk Radio Network – the single largest producer of original Internet talk radio programming in the world, which airs every Thursday at 4:00 PM Eastern Time, 1:00 PM Pacific, and on demand.
Ajay is co-author of two best-selling books written for the university level and published by Addison Wesley: Hack I.T.,Security through Penetration Testing (2002), outlining the development of a penetration testing methodology and Defend I.T., Security by Example (2004), a compilation of IT, security, and privacy case studies.
Ajay has contributed chapters to two books: “Plugging Security Holes in Online Environments” for the Handbook of Research on Information Security and Assurance (2008), published by IGI Global and for which he also served as an editor, and “Managing Security Concerns” for Managing e-Business in the 21st Century (2003), published by Heidelberg Press. Among other writings are numerous articles, which have appeared in such publications as InformIT.com, Biz Monthly.com, and Everything Infosec, and he is presently serving on the editorial board for Information Science Reference.
His earlier career includes senior IT security and research posts with Deloitte & Touche, Ernst & Young, Mitre, and Mitretek (now Noblis). Project assignments included performing diagnostics and review for a client network that resulted in recommendations for developing an industry leading security posture, and working on a team that assisted the government of Hong Kong in defending against an intrusion into their technology infrastructure by one of the world’s most dangerous hackers at the time – a benchmark case in cyber security.
Ajay has held faculty appointments in the area of information security and data forensics at Golden Gate University, Champlain College, and Prince George’s Community College. He has been an invited lecturer and participated as a panelist at public and private organizations worldwide, including the Government of Hong Kong; ASIS International; EDUCAUSE; the International Economic Summit; the National Council for Higher Education Loan Providers; the Direct Marketing Association; the Cyberethics, Cybersafety, and Cybersecurity Conference; the Carey Business School at Johns Hopkins University; Loyola College; Ball State University; and the Maryland Higher Education IT Conference.
In addition to numerous memberships in professional and industry working groups, Ajay currently serves as Chair of the Maryland chapter of InfraGard, a public-private partnership with the FBI’s cyber crimes unit, and Co-Chair of the Green Markets Committee of the Chesapeake Regional Technology Council. Past leadership posts include Chair of the Information Security and Data Privacy Working Group of Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley’s Transition Team; Vice-Chair of the International Business Strategy Advisory Council; Reviewer for National Science Foundation grant applications; Board Member of the Prince George’s County Economic Development Corporation Technology Assistance Center (an incubator); Programs Chair for the Technology Council of Maryland’s Tech Network Steering Committee; and Vice President for Financial Affairs of the Maryland India Business Roundtable.
Ajay holds an M.B.A. from Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business; and both an M.S. and B.S. (cum Laude) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park. He is a member of Tau Beta Pi (the national engineering honor society), Beta Gamma Sigma (the international honor society in business management), and Phi Kappa Phi (the national honor society).
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Mar. 3, 2011
2011 CyberWatch Mid-Atlantic CCDC Guest Speaker: Alan Greenberg
Alan Greenberg Tech Director Cyber and Information Solutions Boeing
Date: March 12th
Time: 12:30-1:00 PMMr. Greenberg is the Technical Director for Boeing’s Cyber and Information Solutions Business headquartered in Arlington VA. Mr. Greenberg supports Boeing’s Cyber Technology development, integration and certification-accreditation across the different business units throughout Boeing. He has supported SMART Grid efforts at Boeing for the last three years.
Mr. Greenberg joined Boeing in January 2004 after serving as the Information Assurance-Cyber Lead and Program Manager at Raytheon’s Communication Network Group located in Ft. Wayne IN. Mr. Greenberg retired from the Army as a Signal Corps Officer serving in a variety of assignments including Battalion, Brigade and Division G6 assignments, Operations Officer on a major fielding team; Signal Battalion Operations Officer; Communications Officer at the VII Corps TAC during Desert Storm, and as a Program Manager at NSA’s Information Assurance Division.
Mr. Greenberg has a Masters Degree from Central Michigan and a Bachelor Degree from Western Illinois. -
Mar. 2, 2011
2011 CyberWatch Mid-Atlantic CCDC Guest Speaker: Michael Lefebvre
Mike Lefebvre Cybersecurity Strategist Northrop Grumman Information Systems
Date: March 11th
Time: 5:30-6:00 PMMike Lefebvre is a Cybersecurity Strategist for Northrop Grumman Information Systems. In this role, he supports several cross-sector strategic cyber initiatives and independent research and development projects. He also serves as a curriculum developer and instructor for Northrop Grumman’s Cyber Academy, and is an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Applied Information Technology at George Mason University. Previously, he interned as a software engineer at Booz Allen Hamilton. Mike holds a master’s degree from Georgetown University and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia.
