[iwar] Black Hat Keynote Speakers Announced

From: B.K. DeLong <bkdelong@pobox.com>
Date: Thu Jul 24 2003 - 06:34:29 PDT

I thought some of the keynotes would be of particular interest to iWarriors:

--------------------------------------
For Immediate Release

Contacts:

B.K. DeLong
press@blackhat.com
+1.617.797.2472

BLACK HAT BRIEFINGS 2003 KEYNOTES INCLUDE
TOP COMPUTER SECURITY GURUS FROM GOVERNMENT, CORPORATE AND INTERNATIONAL
SECTORS

Includes PGP Creator Philip Zimmermann and Dept. of Homeland Security IAIP
Cyber Program Director Marcus Sachs.

http://www.blackhat.com/ -- Black Hat Inc. today announced the keynote
speakers for this summer's Black Hat Briefings and Training 2003, the
annual conference and workshop designed to help computer professionals
better understand the security risks to their computer and information
infrastructures by potential threats. This year's show will focus on 10
tracks of hot topics including Application Security, Routing &
Infrastructure, Policy, Law & Society, Firewalls, Access Control, Physical
Security, Incident Response & Computer Forensics, Core Services, Privacy &
Anonymity and Intrusion Detection. One of the tracks is also dedicated to
various panels of industry pundits. The event is being held July 30 - 31,
2003 at the Caesars Palace Hotel and Casino in the heart of Las Vegas.

Top-notch speakers will deliver to the conference's core audience of IT &
network security experts, consultants and administrators the newest
developments on the vital security issues facing organizations using large
networks with a mix of operating systems.

"Black Hat continues to grow this year by adding a 5th track of speakers
and 20% more presentations," said Jeff Moss, Founder and Organizer of Black
Hat Briefings. "Due to the continuing focus on application security, we
have added a second track devoted to this topic. This show will be our
largest yet, in attendees, sponsors and speakers. With a keynote from Phil
Zimmermann and the CSO of Oracle participating on panels; to a real Federal
Judge presiding over The Hacker Court -- new tool and vulnerability
releases at this summer's Black Hat will be hot."

The keynote speakers for this year's Black Hat Briefings include:

          -- Philip Zimmermann, Creator of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP). He is
currently a special advisor and consultant for the PGP Corporation.
Zimmermann is best known for being the target of a three-year criminal
investigation, because the U.S. Government held that export restrictions
for cryptographic software were violated when PGP was spread around the
world following its 1991 publication as freeware. Zimmermann currently
consults for a number of companies and industry organizations on matters
cryptographic, and is also a Fellow at the Stanford Law School's Center for
Internet and Society. Before founding PGP Inc, Zimmermann was a software
engineer with more than 20 years of experience specializing in cryptography
and data security, data communications, and real-time embedded systems.

         Zimmermann will also be participating in a panel highlighting "The
Law of Vulnerabilities" put together by Gerhard Eschelbeck, CTO of Qualys
Inc. The panel also includes Mary Ann Davidson, Chief Security Officer of
Oracle, Black Hat organizer Jeff Moss, Simple Nomad, founder of NMRC and a
Senior Security Analyst for BindView Corporation, and JD Glaser, President
& CEO, NT OBJECTives, Inc. The panel will be moderated by Black
Hat-favorite Richard Thieme.

          -- Bruce Schneier, Founder and the Chief Technical Officer of
Counterpane Internet Security, Inc. Schneier is an internationally renowned
security technologist and author of six books on security and cryptography,
including the security best seller, "Secrets & Lies: Digital Security in a
Networked World." His first book, "Applied Cryptography," has sold over
150,000 copies world-wide, and is the definitive work in the field.
Schneier will be "Following the Money" in the computer security industry
and looking at the influences it has.

         -- Marcus Sachs, P.E., Cyber Program Director, Information
Analysis and Infrastructure Protection, US Department of Homeland Security.
Sachs is responsible for developing the implementation plan for the
President's National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace. Marc was previously the
Director for Communication Infrastructure Protection in the White House
Office of Cyberspace Security and was a staff member of the President's
Critical Infrastructure Protection Board. Marc retired from the United
States Army in 2001 after serving over 20 years as a Corps of Engineers
officer. He specialized during the later half of his career in computer
network operations, systems automation, and information technology. His
final assignment in the Army was with the Defense Department's Joint Task
Force for Computer Network Operations where he was the Senior Operations
Analyst and Technical Director.

         -- Dario Forte, CFE, CISM. Forte is Security Advisor for the
newly-formed European Electronic Crimes Task Force (EECTF) supported by the
U.S. Secret Service in Milan. He has been active in the field of
information security since 1992. He is 34 years old, with almost 15 years
as Police Investigator in the Drug and Organized Crime Enforcement,
CyberCrime Unit. He teaches classes and presents lectures on Information
Security Management and Incident Response/Forensics at universities and
other accredited institutions worldwide. He is an Intrusion Instructor for
the Department of Homeland Security Internet Forensics Training Program
given at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center.

Other Black Hat Briefings 2003 speakers include:

         -- Thomas Akin, Founding Director, Southeast Cybercrime Institute.
Akin is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) who
has worked in Information Security for almost a decade. He is the founding
director of the Southeast Cybercrime Institute a division or Continuing
Education at Kennesaw State University. He serves as chairman for the
Institute's Board of Advisors and is an active member of the Georgia
Cybercrime Task Force.

         -- Jay Beale, Senior Research Scientist, George Washington
University Cyber Security Policy and Research Institute. Beale is a
security specialist focused on host lockdown and security audits. He is the
Lead Developer of the Bastille project, which creates a hardening script
for Linux, HP-UX, and Mac OS X, a member of the Honeynet Project, and a
core participant in the Center for Internet Security.

         -- Chris Conacher, Black Hat Consulting. Conacher has over 6 years
experience in formal Information Security roles. This time has been spent
with the Fortune 500 companies BAE Systems (formerly British Aerospace and
Marconi Space Systems), BAE Systems Airbus and Intel Corporation. He has
also worked for the Information Risk Management consultancy practice of
'Big 5' firm KPMG LLP where he specialized in 'High-Tech' companies. Chris'
time in Information Security has seen him working in England, France,
Germany, Greece, Russia and the USA. His specialties include the
development, deployment and review of corporate information security
programs; the secure integration of Mergers & Acquisitions; data protection
in disaster recovery planning; and information security business impact
analysis.

         -- Roger Dingledine, Founder & OWner, Moria Research Labs.
Dingledine is a security and privacy researcher. While at MIT under
professor Ron Rivest, he developed Free Haven, one of the early
peer-to-peer systems that emphasized resource management while retaining
anonymity for its users. Currently he consults for the US Navy to design
and develop systems for anonymity and traffic analysis resistance. Recent
work includes anonymous publishing and communication systems, traffic
analysis resistance, censorship resistance, attack resistance for
decentralized networks, and reputation.

         -- Himanshu Dwivedi, Managing Security Architect, @stake. Dwivedi
is a Managing Security Architect at @stake, Inc. At @stake, Himanshu leads
the Storage Center of Excellence (CoE), which focuses research and training
around storage technology, including Network Attached Storage (NAS) and
Storage Area Networks (SAN). Himanshu's focus in security is networking
technology and storage architecture, specifically Fibre Channel Security.

         -- Jennifer Granick, Litigation Director, Center for Internet and
Society, Stanford Law School. Ms. Granick's work focuses on the interaction
of free speech, privacy, computer security, law and technology. She is on
the Board of Directors for the Honeynet Project and has spoken at the NSA,
to law enforcement and to computer security professionals from the public
and private sectors in the United States and abroad. Before coming to
Stanford Law School, Ms. Granick practiced criminal defense of unauthorized
access and email interception cases nationally. She has published articles
on wiretap laws, workplace privacy and trademark law.

         -- Honorable Philip M. Pro, Chief United States District Judge for
the District of Nevada. Judge Pro was appointed United States District
Judge for the District of Nevada, at Las Vegas, on July 23, 1987. Judge Pro
also served as United States Magistrate Judge for the District of Nevada,
from 1980 until his elevation to the District Court, during which he
supervised pretrial proceedings in the MGM Grand Hotel Fire Litigation.
Judge Pro received his J.D. degree from Golden Gate University School of
Law in June 1972.

         -- The Honeynet Project is a non-profit, all volunteer security
research organization dedicated to researching the blackhat community, and
sharing the lessons learned. Made up of thirty security professionals, the
Project deploys Honeynet around the world to capture and analyze blackhat
activity. These lessons are then shared with the security community. The
Honeynet Project began in 1999 and continues to grow with the founding of
the Honeynet Research Alliance.

         -- Larry Leibrock, Associate Dean and Technology Officer,
University of Texas McCombs Business School. Leibrock has held or currently
holds clinical teaching and research appointments at McCombs Business
School, Institute for Advanced Technology, The University of Texas Law
School, Emory University, Helsinki School of Economics and Monterrey
Technologica in Mexico City and Monterrey. He is a member of IEEE, ACM,
Internet Society, FIRST and USENIX/SAGE and is also a member of the
Department of Defense Software Engineering Institute and a participant in
the Air Force Software Technology Conference.

         -- Neel Mehta, Application Vulnerability Researcher, ISS X-Force.
Mehta works as an application vulnerability researcher at ISS X-Force, and
like many other security researchers comes from a reverse-engineering
background. His reverse engineering experience was cultivated through
extensive consulting work in the copy protection field, and has more
recently been focused on application security. Neel has done extensive
research into binary and source-code auditing, and has applied this
knowledge to find many vulnerabilities in critical and widely deployed
network applications.

         -- Richard Salgado, Senior Counsel, Computer Crime and
Intellectual Property Section of the United States Department of Justice.
Salgado specializes in investigating and prosecuting computer network
cases, such as computer hacking, denial of service attacks, illegal
sniffing, logic bombs, viruses and other technology-driven privacy crimes.
Often such crimes cross international jurisdictions; Mr. Salgado helps
coordinate and manage the investigation and prosecution of those cases and
participates in policy development relating to emerging technologies such
as the growth of wireless networks, voice-over Internet Protocol,
surveillance tools and forensic techniques.

To register for BlackHat Briefings, visit the Web site at
http://www.blackhat.com. Please direct any conference-related questions to
info@blackhat.com.

For press registration, contact B.K. DeLong via email at press@blackhat.com
or phone at +1.617.797.2472. (Please read:
http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-link/pressreg.html for further information
regarding media credentials.)

About Black Hat Inc.

Black Hat Inc. was originally founded in 1997 by Jeff Moss to fill the need
for computer security professionals to better understand the security risks
and potential threats to their information infrastructures and computer
systems. Black Hat accomplishes this by assembling a group of
vendor-neutral security professionals and having them speak candidly about
the problems businesses face and their solutions to those problems. Black
Hat Inc. produces 5 briefing & training events a year on 3 different
continents. Speakers and attendees travel from all over the world to meet
and share in the latest advances in computer security. For more
information, visit their Web site at http://www.blackhat.com

###

--
B.K. DeLong
bkdelong@pobox.com
617.797.2472
http://ocw.mit.edu                        Work.
http://www.brain-stream.com               Play.
http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org        Potter.
http://www.attrition.org                       Security.
http://www.city-of-doors.com               Sigil
------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~-->
Free shipping on all inkjet cartridge & refill kit orders to US & Canada. Low prices up to 80% off. We have your brand: HP, Epson, Lexmark & more.
http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5510
http://us.click.yahoo.com/GHXcIA/n.WGAA/ySSFAA/kgFolB/TM
---------------------------------------------------------------------~->
------------------
http://all.net/ 
Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ 
Received on Thu Jul 24 13:09:13 2003

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.8 : Fri Dec 05 2003 - 14:28:45 PST