Keynote Speakers

Art Coviello is responsible for RSA’s strategy and day-to-day operations as it delivers EMC’s global vision of information-centric security.

Mr. Coviello was Chief Executive Officer of RSA Security, Inc. prior to its acquisition by EMC in 2006. He joined the company in 1995 and has been a driving force in its rapid growth, increasing revenue from $25 million in 1995 to revenues of more than a half billion in 2007. Under his stewardship RSA became acknowledged as the de facto standard for two-factor authentication and encryption, and as a leader in identity and access management. Mr. Coviello’s expertise and influence have made him a recognized leader in the industry, where he plays a key role in several national cyber-security initiatives. He currently serves as Co-Chair of TechNet New England. Mr. Coviello has spoken at numerous conferences and forums around the world.

Mr. Coviello has more than 30 years of strategic, operating and financial management experience in high technology companies. In addition, he currently serves on the Board of Directors at Sana Security, Crossbeam Systems and EnerNOC.

Mr. Coviello graduated magna cum laude from the University of Massachusetts.

As Senior Vice President at RSA, The Security Division of EMC, Mr. Young is responsible for strategy, products, engineering and delivery across all of RSA's Identity and Access Assurance, Security Information and Event Management, and Data Security solutions.

As a leading expert in topics related to information-centric security, Mr. Young has spoken at numerous industry events including FORTUNE Brainstorm: TECH, Gartner IT Security Summit, Burton Catalyst, RSA Conference (U.S., Europe and Japan), BITS Authentication Forum, Digital ID World, and others.

Prior to joining RSA, Mr. Young was vice president of safety and security premium services for America Online, Inc. (AOL). While at AOL, Mr. Young launched and managed several services including AOL Passcode and McAfee VirusScan Online - some of the most successful premium offerings in AOL's history.

Mr. Young also founded and was president of Cyveillance, Inc., a firm leveraging search technologies to help companies manage business risk related to their intellectual property on the Internet, and also spent several years in various advisory positions with Mercer Management Consulting.

Mr. Young holds a B.A. from Princeton University and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School.

Herbert (Hugh) Thompson is Chief Security Strategist at People Security and a world-renown expert on application security. He has co-authored several books on the topic and has written more than 80 academic and industrial publications on security. In 2006, he was named one of the "Top 5 Most Influential Thinkers in IT Security" by SC Magazine and was featured (along with Harri Hursti) in "Hacking Democracy", the Emmy-nominated HBO documentary on e-voting vulnerabilities. He currently hosts "The Hugh Thompson Show" on AT&T’s techchannel (techchannel.att.com). The show is taped in front of a live studio audience in New York and features industry luminaries in IT security.

Amy Barzdukas is General Manager for Internet Explorer and Consumer Security in the Windows Client business group at Microsoft Corp. She works on development and implementation of the product strategy behind Internet Explorer and for successfully bringing that strategy to life and to the market to meet the browser, security and PC health needs of consumers and small businesses. She also manages the team that is introducing Microsoft Security Essentials, the no-cost consumer security solution that will be introduced later this year with the goal of expanding availability of real-time AV protection to those who would otherwise not be able to acquire it. A technology enthusiast, Barzdukas showcases Microsoft’s innovations and uses customer feedback to help shape the technologies and services that will change how people view computing and the web.

Since joining Microsoft in 1997, Barzdukas has served as senior director for Windows Live OneCare, director of product management in the Microsoft Security Technology Unit, group manager in the Content Security Business Unit, and group product manager in the Emerging Technologies group. She was also chief of staff in the Global Marcom Group, lead product manager in the Consumer Windows Division, and has served as lead product marketing manager for Microsoft Press®.

Before joining Microsoft, Barzdukas worked in marketing, PR and sales in the publishing industry for 11 years, most recently serving as director of marketing for the trade division of Oxford University Press (OUP) in New York. While at OUP, she led an Internet task force and drove the company’s efforts to launch its first Web properties, which brought her to the high-tech world. She also has done freelance copywriting, feature writing and marketing consultation for a variety of publications and publishers in the United States and the United Kingdom.

Keith Mularski is a Supervisory Special Agent assigned to the Cyber Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Mularski received his appointment to the position of Special Agent with the FBI in 1998. After attending the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, Mularski was assigned to the FBI's Washington Field Office where he investigated National Security Matters for seven years. During this time Mularski worked on a number of high profile investigations such as the Robert Hanssen espionage investigation, and the 9/11 Terrorist attack on the Pentagon.

In 2005, Mularski transferred to the FBI's Cyber Division and is now detailed to the National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance (NCFTA) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The NCFTA is a joint partnership between law enforcement, academia, and industry which seeks to maximize overlapping public/private resource synergies creating a dynamic cyber-nerve-center for tactical and proactive responses to Cyber-Crime. While detailed to the NCFTA, Mularski continues to successfully work with Private Industry Subject Matter Experts on a number of joint Cyber-Crime initiatives such as the Digital Phishnet and Slam Spam projects. Mularski's emphasis has been in the development of proactive initiative targeting of organized international Cyber-Crime groups. Most recently, Mularski worked undercover penetrating cyber underground groups which resulted in the dismantlement of the Darkmarket criminal carding forum.

Andy Auld is Head of Intelligence for the e-Crime Department of SOCA. He has worked in intelligence production and operations for 20 years – the last 5 spent on e-Crime threats.

Philippe Courtot has a history of building innovative companies and transforming them into industry leaders. Courtot received the SC Magazine Editor's Award for bringing on demand technology to network security and for co-founding the CSO Interchange, a forum for sharing information in the security industry. Before Qualys, Courtot was the Chairman and CEO of Signio, President and CEO of Verity and President and CEO of cc:Mail. He holds a Masters Degree in Physics from the University of Paris.

Dave Hansen is Corporate Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Security Management Business Unit at CA. In this role he is charged with growing the security management business and ensuring his team is delivering the products, services and partnerships required to meet customer needs for strategic, enterprise level security. Previously, Dave was CA’s Chief Information Officer. In this role, Dave was responsible for global IT strategy, applications development and the global CA infrastructure, IT compliance and CA’s international IT organization. Additionally, he oversaw the internal adoption and implementation of CA solutions based on the company’s Enterprise IT Management (EITM) vision.

Dave has more than 20 years of professional experience leading IT organizations. He joined CA in 2002 and, in 2003, was named Senior Vice President, CA Technology Services for North America. In 2005, Dave was named Senior Vice President for Worldwide Presales where he was responsible for a team of 1,400 employees, enhanced customer relationships, and created technology teams focused on security, storage and infrastructure management.

Prior to joining CA, Dave led IT for the Canadian division of Bowater Inc. where he was responsible for IT infrastructure, technology acquisition and integration, and ERP implementation.

Dave received a Bachelor of Science degree from Lakehead University in Ontario, Canada.