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    Dates  
     
  Poster Abstract  
  August 30, 2007  
  (Earlier submissions
 encouraged
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  Notification  
  September 7, 2007  
     
Workshop  
September 20, 2007  
   
   
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Phil Windley
Associate Professor, Computer Science
Brigham Young University

BIO: Phil Windley is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Brigham Young University where he teaches courses on digital identity, interoperability, web services, middleware, and programming languages. Phil is also the Executive Producer of IT Conversations and writes and speaks on these topics. Phil writes the popular Technometria blog and is a frequent contributor to InfoWorld and Between the Lines. He is also the author of the book Digital Identity from O'Reilly Media.

Prior to joining BYU, Phil spent two years as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the State of Utah, serving on the Governor Mike Leavitt's Cabinet and as a member of his Senior Staff. Before entering public service, Phil was Vice President for Product Development and Operations at Excite@Home and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of iMALL, Inc. an early creator of electronic commerce tools. Still active in business, Phil serves on the Boards of Directors and Advisory Boards for several high-tech companies.

Phil received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Univ. of California, Davis in 1990.


William Hugh Murray
Sr. Consultant Network & Information Security, Verizon Business, and
Associate Professor, Naval Postgraduate School

BIO: Bill Murray is a Sr. Consultant, Network & Information Security, Verizon Business and Associate Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School. He is Certified Information Security Professional (CISSP) and chairman of the Governance and Professional Practices committees of (ISC)2, the certifying body, Bill is an advisor on the Board of Directors of the New York Metropolitan Chapter of ISSA. He has more than fifty years experience in information technology and more than forty years in security. During more than twenty-five years with IBM his management responsibilities included development of access control programs, advising IBM customers on security, and the articulation of the IBM security product plan. He is the author of the IBM publication Information System Security Controls and Procedures.

Mr. Murray has made significant contributions to the literature and the practice of information security. He is a popular speaker on such topics as network security architecture, encryption, PKI, and Secure Electronic Commerce. He is a founding member of the International Committee to Establish the "Generally Accepted System Security Principles" (GSSP, now referred to as the GISSP) as called for in the National Research Council's Report: Computers at Risk. Bill remains as an active member of this committee. He is a founder and board member of the Colloquium on Information System Security Education (CISSE).

He has been recognized as a founder of the systems audit field and by Information Security Magazine as a Pioneer in Computer Security. In 1987 he received the Fitzgerald Memorial Award for leadership in data security. In 1989 he received the Joseph J. Wasserman Award for contributions to security, audit and control. In 1995 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Computer Security Institute. In 1999 he was enrolled in the ISSA Hall of Fame in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the information security community. In 2007 he received the Harold F. Tipton Award in recognition of his lifetime achievement and contribution. He holds a Bachelor Science Degree in Business Administration from Louisiana State University. He is a graduate of the Jesuit Preparatory High School of New Orleans.


Rachna Dhamija
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Research on Computation and Society at Harvard University and fellow at CommerceNet

BIO: Rachna's research interests span the fields of computer security, human computer interaction and information policy. She is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Research on Computation and Society at Harvard University and a Fellow at CommerceNet. She received a Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley, where her thesis focused on the design and evaluation of usable security systems. Previously, Dhamija worked on electronic payment system privacy and security at CyberCash. Her research has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Economist and CNN.


Jerry Brady
Executive Director and Global Head of IT Security
Morgan Stanley

BIO: Jerry Brady, Executive Director, is the Global Head of IT Security for Morgan Stanley, responsible for IT Security Strategy, Consulting and Assurances, Security Solutions, and Service Delivery.

Mr. Brady has previously been Chief Technology Officer for Guardent, a security services firm later acquired by VeriSign, managed the Security Management Applications business unit and Emerging Technologies for Internet Security Systems, and was VP of Engineering for CertCo (A Bankers Trust Spin-off).

Mr. Brady has also held several management roles in financial services firms including Bankers Trust, JP Morgan, and Touche Ross, and as Chief Security Officer for Prudential, responsible for the company wide Information Security program for all divisions.


Steven R. Woodward
Technical Evangelist, Microsoft Research

BIO: Steven Woodward is one of the key individuals working with the industry and Microsoft partners to better understand the Identity Metasystem and InfoCard. He has briefed many of the largest eCommerce sites, governments, and those in the financial industry on how this technology can be applied to solve their current security challenges on the Internet. He has gained insight into a broad cross section of industries and the challenges they are trying to solve with respect to user authentication and identity theft. A former developer and program manager, Steve has been a Technical Evangelist for 7 of his 10 years at Microsoft.


Brett MacDowell
Executive Director
Liberty Alliance

 
BIO: As Executive Director of the Liberty Alliance, Brett McDowell manages the strategic direction of the organization and all aspects of global operations. He works with the Liberty Alliance Management Board and all of its working groups to facilitate the development and adoption of open, interoperable, privacy-respecting network identity standards. McDowell coordinates Liberty Alliance liaison activities with numerous standards organizations and identity federations worldwide.

McDowell has spent his career dedicated to the advancement of an innovative, networked society through collaborative development and global adoption of open industry standards. Prior to joining Liberty Alliance, McDowell held senior positions with international ICT  standards organizations, including Open Mobile Alliance, VoiceXML Forum, IMS Global Learning Consortium and the SyncML Initiative.
 

Prof. Nasir Memon
Professor
Polytechnic University

 
 

BIO: Click here.

 
Todd Aven
Vice President, Application Risk Assurance
Goldman Sachs
 

BIO: Todd has over 20 years experience in field of computing. He has held a wide variety of positions including systems administration, data center management, software development, product engineering, systems integration and most recently technology risk management. Currently the Program Lead for the firm's Internet Fraud Prevention technology program and a senior security architect, his background in application infrastructure has kept him at the forefront of Internet-facing systems and initiatives for many years.

Todd holds a Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Maryland at College Park.


Thomas Quinn
Vice President and Global Head Application Risk Assurance
Goldman Sachs

 

BIO: Tom has over 13 years experience in the areas of Technology, Systems Management, and Information Security in both the Defense sector and the Financial Services industry. He has been with Goldman Sachs since 1999 holding positions in systems engineering and application and infrastructure security.  In his current role he provides risk consulting services and guidance to Goldman Sachs' Application Development teams and the lines of business they support. 

He actively works with the firm's Investment Research, Private Equity, Investment Banking, Prime Brokerage and Private Wealth Management teams as part of the Leveraging Technology Expertise (LTE) program.  
Most recently Tom's focus has been on improving the use of metrics to drive broad adoption of technology controls as well as the challenges associated with the use of Enterprise Rights Management (ERM) in Financial services. 

Tom holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, International Relations from Old Dominion University and a Master of Science in Information Technology Management from the United States Naval Postgraduate School.  As part of his recruiting efforts, Tom has conducted numerous guest lectures at Universities on Information Security related topics.  He currently serves on an advisory board providing guidance and direction for university matching grant funding of technology companies.


Daniel Schutzer
Executive Director
Financial Services Technology Consortium

 
FSTC web site
BIO:
Fellow and Advisory Board New York Academy of SciencesBITS Advisory Council
ANSI X9 Board member

 

Previous positions include:

  • Citigroup, Director and Senior Vice President
  • Technical Director Naval Intelligence
  • Technical Director Navy Command, Control and Communications
  • Head of Systems New York Metropolitan Region, Univac
  • Director of New Business, Sperry Rand.
  • Bell Labs, Member of Technical Staff and Supervisor Defense Signal Processing
  • Instructor at Syracuse University
  • Project Engineer at IBM.

Dan holds a BSEE degree from The City College of New York and MSEE and Ph.D. degrees from Syracuse University.

Dan has authored over 65 publications and 7 books: Parallel and Distributed Processing, Application of Emerging Technologies in Business, Applied Artificial Intelligence, Military Communications, Command and Control, a chapter on Financial Risk Management in a Financial Management Handbook, and a Chapter in a Book on Electronic Commerce.


Mary Ruddy
Co-lead, Higgins Project and VP Services for Parity Communications

BIO: Mary's focus is on bringing innovative rule-based, role-based software to market and building software ecosystems. Through her work creating and evolving applications infrastructure software for customer relationship management, e-commerce and product life cycle management, she has come to see the need for open, user-centric systems.

Mary is co-project lead for the Eclipse Foundation's Higgins Project and co-founder of socialphysics.org. Currently Mary is VP Services for Parity Communications, Inc. (www.parityinc.net).

Previously Mary was Vice President, Strategic Marketing at Parametric Technology Corporation (NASDAQ:PMTC). Before PTC, she was VP Strategic Alliances at OpenOrders, where she helped sell the company to IBM's WebSphere Commerce Suite software group. Prior to OpenOrders, she was VP Advanced Products at Pegasystems (NASDAQ:PEGA). Mary was an early employee at Pegasystems, which is a developer of rules-based customer service process automation software for the financial services industry. Security and Identity are important issues to customers at all of these companies. Mary has a degree in Mathematics from Smith College and a MSM from the MIT Sloan School of Management.


Phil Venables
Managing Director and Chief Information Risk Officer
Goldman Sachs

 

BIO: As head of the firm’s Information and Technology Risk Management organization, Phil holds worldwide responsibility for Information Security, Technology Risk & Compliance and Business Continuity Planning. Phil is also a member of the Technology Infrastructure Management Team and chairs the firm’s Information Security and Business Continuity Planning Committees and is part of the Corporate Crisis Management Team as well as various other Corporate Risk Governance Groups.

Phil joined Goldman Sachs as a Vice President in 2000 and became a Managing Director in 2003.

Phil has more than 20 years of experience across a range of sectors (defense, petro-chemical and finance) and a range of disciplines (application development, systems and network management, network infrastructure and in recent years information security and risk management).

Phil holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of York (England) and a Master of Science in Computation and Cryptography from The Queen’s College, University of Oxford. Phil is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the British Computer Society and is a Member of the IEE, IEEE and ACM. Additionally, Phil serves on numerous public, private and government advisory boards.


C. Warren Axelrod
Chief Privacy Officer and Business Information Security Officer
United States Trust Company, N.A

 
BIO: At US Trust he interfaces with the firm’s business units to identify and assess privacy and security risks and mitigate them, to have employees become familiar with security policies, standards, and procedures, and to ensure that they are followed.

He has worked in many areas of the financial services industry, at firms such as SIAC, HSBC Securities and Pershing. He is involved at both the industry and national level with security and critical infrastructure protection issues respectively. He is a member of the SIFMA Privacy Committee, the SIFMA Information Security Subcommittee, the FSSCC R&D Committee and several BITS risk and security working groups. He has contributed to a number of BITS publications.

Warren was honored with a Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leaders Award in 2003 and his department's implementation of an intrusion detection system was given a Best in Class award.

He represented financial services information security interests at the Y2K command center in Washington, DC during the century date rollover. He is a founder of the FS/ISAC (Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center) and served two terms on its Board of Managers. He testified at a Congressional Hearing in 2001 on cyber security and contributed a section in the Banking and Finance Sector's “National Strategy for Critical Infrastructure Assurance,” published in May 2002. He is on the Editorial Advisory Board of the ISSA Journal and several other advisory boards, such as for the Technology Managers Forum, the Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection, and the Institute for Innovation and Information Productivity.

Warren has participated in many professional and industry conferences in the US, Europe and Asia. He has published two books on computer management and numerous articles on a variety of information technology and information security topics, including computer and network security, contingency planning, and computer-related risks. Most recently he had two articles on privacy and security published in the ISACA Information Systems Control Journal in the January-February 2007 and March-April 2007 issues.

His third book, “Outsourcing Information Security,” which received a five-star rating on Amazon, was published by Artech House in September 2004. He has written a chapter on return on security investment for “Managing Information Assurance in Financial Services,” due to be published by the Idea Group Inc. (IGI) in June 2007.

He holds a PhD in managerial economics from the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University and honors bachelors and masters degrees in electrical engineering, economics and statistics from the University of Glasgow, Scotland. He is certified as a CISSP and CISM and has NASD Series 7 and Series 24 licenses.