Dr. Avi Rubin

"Electronic Voting: A case study of how closed systems fail"

Dr. Avi Rubin is Associate Professor of Computer Science and Technical Director of the Information Security Institute at Johns Hopkins University. Prior to joining Johns Hopkins Rubin was a research scientist at AT&T Labs. Dr. Rubin is author of several books including Firewalls and Internet Security, second edition (with Bill Cheswick and Steve Bellovin, Addison Wesley, 2003), White-Hat Security Arsenal (Addison Wesley, 2001), and Web Security Sourcebook (with Dan Geer and Marcus Ranum, John Wiley & Sons, 1997). He is Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, Associate Editor of IEEE Security & Privacy, and an Advisory Board member of Springer's Information Security and Cryptography Book Series. Rubin serves on the board of directors of the USENIX Association and on the DARPA Information Science and Technology Study Group.

Robert Bagnall

Director of Focused Intelligence, iDEFENSE
CEO, MUSE iNNOVATIONS

Robert J. Bagnall has been in cyber-security for nearly two decades, building, managing, and leading Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) for the DoD, the US Army, the FBI, and Counterpane Internet Security. Mr. Bagnall is also a 13 year Air Force Intelligence veteran who has provided operational intelligence support in such joint environments such as Operation
Desert Shield/Storm, Operation Joint Endeavor, and Operation Just Cause. He is currently the Director of Focused Intelligence at iDEFENSE as well as the CEO of MUSE iNNOVATIONS.

Taylor Boon

Taylor was most recently Chief Technology Officer at BNX Systems for over five years, working to provide enterprise strong authentication solutions using biometrics, smart cards, tokens, and passwords for access to enterpise applications. Prior to his work with BNX Systems, Taylor was a software architect at Network Associates and Saber Software.

J.J. Brennan

The MITRE Corporation

David Corcoran

Partner
Identity Alliance

David holds a computer science degree from Purdue University where he participated in the CERIAS program lead by Dr. Gene Spafford. David has worked on many consulting projects for several well-known companies in the computer and security industry. He has seasoned knowledge in the areas of smart cards, PKI, biometrics, and rapid prototyping.

Don Faatz

The MITRE Corporation

Don Faatz is a Principal Information System Security Engineer with the MITRE Corporation. Don supports the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Office of Modernization Security in developing security architecture for new IRS information systems. Don has Bachelor and Masters degrees in Computer Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Mark Feldman

Principal Computer Scientist
Network Associates Laboratories

Mr. Feldman is a Principal Computer Scientist and manager of Network Associates Laboratories' Host Intrusion Protection group. His expertise is in designing and implementing security-based software. He is a co-designer and co-implementer of TIS' Generic Software Wrappers Toolkit. He has also designed and written software implementing the Privacy Enhanced Mail (PEM)
and MIME Object Security Services (MOSS) protocols. He was one of the implementers of Network Associates Laboratories' first prototype of role-based security leading to Network Associates Laboratories' DTE and
wrappers technologies. At CommerceNet, he worked on the design of protocols in the Financial Services Technology Consortium's Electronic Check and Bank Internet Payment System project

Jason Garman

Computer Forensics Analyst
Mantech National Security Solutions Group

Jason Garman is currently working with computer forensics for the national defense and intelligence communities at Mantech National Security Solutions Group. Previously, he worked at several biotech firms in the Washington, DC area where he helped clients design and implement secure yet easy to use research networks. Jason enjoys working with the practical application of tools and techniques to solve computer and network security problems. Author of O'Reilly's new book "Kerberos: the Definitive Guide".

Don Gay

R&D Projects Marketing, Inc.

Don Gay, as both an engineer and manager, has worked in the Federal Government for 32 years and in industry for 6 years. He consults with and teaches classes to the Navy labs and National labs, among others, in marketing R&D projects to the Federal government.

Shawn Geddis

Federal Consulting Engineer, Apple Computer, Inc.

Shawn Geddis chairs the Secure Trusted OS [STOS] Consortium ( http://www.stosdarwin.org/ ), which he co-founded in 1999. As a Consulting Engineer for Apple Computer, Inc., Federal Systems since 1998, he has helped to extend Apple's collaboration with the Federal Government focusing on security and use of open source. Prior to joining Apple, Shawn worked for more than 8 years as a Networking and Security Defense contractor, a majority of that time helping DARPA support and defend its network infrastructure.

Mr. Peter Hesse

Federal Consulting Engineer, Apple Computer, Inc.

Peter Hesse is the President of Gemini Security Solutions, Inc. Mr. Hesse provides services such as security software development, security evaluations, PKI enablement, and security training to public and private sector organizations throughout the world.

Ken Hornstein

UNIX Guru & Crypto Plumber
ITT Advanced Engineering and Sciences

Ken Hornstein works for the ITT Advanced Engineering and Sciences, supporting the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC. He's been the primary Kerberos developer at NRL for almost 50 dog-years. His business card lists his title as "Unix Guru and Crypto Plumber", but he doesn't know what that means.

John Hurley, Ph.D.

Security Policy Architect, Apple Computer, Inc.

As a part of the software engineering team, John Hurley communicates with other Apple engineers and external organizations on security issues, and writes security related code for OS X. He was previously the manager of the Data Security team, the engineering team responsible for many of the security features of Mac OS X such as the keychain, certificate management and encrypted disk copy. Before joining Apple in 1999, Hurley was a co-founder and Vice President of Aveo, Inc., a computer telephony and internet services corporation. Along with his work credits, Hurley holds two patents on e-commerce technologies. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Keith J. Jones

Principal Computer Forensic Consultant
Foundstone, Inc.

Mr. Jones is a computer forensic consultant for Foundstone. His primary area of concentration is incident response program development and computer forensics. Mr. Jones specializes in log analysis, computer crime investigations, forensic tool analysis and specialized attack and penetration testing. At Foundstone, Mr. Jones has investigated several different types of cases including intellectual property theft, financial embezzlement, negligence, and external attacks. Additionally, Mr. Jones has testified in U.S. Federal Court as an expert witness in the subject of computer forensics. Mr. Jones is a coauthor of the ÒAnti-Hacker Tool KitÓ book and has contributed material to other books such as ÒHackerÕs ChallengeÓ.

Prior to joining Foundstone, he managed and participated with a team on several software development projects to build tools for log analysis, specialized attack and penetration, specialized defensive measures, and vulnerability assessments. Mr. Jones then joined a biotech startup as the senior security administrator, responsible for the company's total information security model in which he completely developed a security and network infrastructure from the ground up.

He has completed two Bachelor of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering, tying hardware and software together needed to combat computer and network security issues. He then went forward to pursue a Masters of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, focusing on Digital Signal Processing and Communications and was published in the digital imaging research circle. His research included cutting edge steganography and watermarking techniques for covert channeling, author identification, and authenticity of digital images.

Ms. Susan Joseph

Principal Secure Systems Engineer
DigitalNet Government Solutions

Ms. Susan Joseph is a Principal Security Systems Engineer at DigitalNet Government Solutions. Ms. Joseph has over 16 years of experience in the computer security industry where she has been a key contributor on various commercial and government security products.

Douglas Kilpatrick

Development Engineer
Network Associates Laboratories

Ms. Susan Joseph is a Principal Security Systems Engineer at DigitalNet Government Solutions. Ms. Joseph has over 16 years of experience in the computer security industry where she has been a key contributor on various commercial and government security products.

Samuel Kline

Chief Development Engineer, SAINT Corporation

Robert A. Martin

CVE Compatibility Lead, The MITRE Corporation

Robert A. Martin is the primary point of contact for CVE compatibility efforts, a member of the OVAL team, and a Principal Engineer in MITRE's Information Technologies Directorate. For the past four years, Martin's efforts have been focused on the interplay of cyber security, critical infrastructure protection, and the use of software-based technologies and services. Martin joined the MITRE Corporation in 1981 after earning a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, subsequently he earned a master's of business degree from Babson College. He is a member of the ACM, AFCEA, IEEE, and the IEEE Computer Society.

Jim Magee

Core OS Engineer, Apple Computer, Inc.

Jim Magee is a technical lead on the Mac OS X/Darwin kernel development team at Apple with 18 years experience in operating systems and operating systems security. Prior to joining Apple, Mr. Magee was a Senior Network Security Consultant with IBM Global Services and specialized in large-scale distributed solutions security. Mr. Magee was also a member of the Gould team that achieved the first Unix C2 evaluation. He also lead several B1 evaluation efforts while at Gould/Encore.

Anil Nigam

Chief Technical Officer, StorCard Inc.

Anil Nigam is a co-founder and presently Chief Technical Officer at StorCard Inc. He has worked in the computer data storage industry for over 29 years. He is an inventor on over 15 Patents and has authored two technical papers. He was previously a founder and Vice-President of Engineering at SyQuest Technology and then co-founded two companies Antek Peripherals Inc. and Flextor Corporation. In all these assignments Mr. Nigam was responsible for the design and development of removable media data storage
products.