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 and 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 more than half a billion in 2007. 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. With more than 30 years of strategic, operating and financial management experience in high technology companies Mr. Coviello also serves on the Board of Directors of Crossbeam Systems and EnerNOC. Mr. Coviello graduated magna cum laude from the University of Massachusetts.

Scott Charney serves as Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President for Trustworthy Computing, Engineering Excellence, and Environmental Sustainability. Trustworthy Computing is Microsoft’s effort to help ensure secure, private and reliable computing experiences for everyone. As part of this effort, the Trustworthy Computing team works with business groups throughout the company to ensure their products and services adhere to Microsoft’s security and privacy policies. It also engages with governments, industry partners, and computer users on important security and privacy issues such as critical infrastructure protection, software assurance, and identity management.

Enrique Salem is president and chief executive officer of Symantec, a global leader in providing security, storage and systems management solutions to help consumers and organizations secure and manage their information-driven world. Salem is also a member of Symantec’s board of directors.

Throughout his 16-year tenure at Symantec Salem held a variety of senior management roles, giving him broad experience across Symantec’s products and operations. Most recently he served as chief operating officer, with responsibility for the day-to-day operations of the company. Prior to that, he served as group president, Worldwide Sales and Marketing where he managed global sales and partner programs, marketing, communications and branding.

Before joining Symantec, Salem was president and CEO of Brightmail, the leading anti-spam software company that was successfully acquired by Symantec in 2004. From 2001 to 2002, he served as senior vice president of products and technology at Oblix Inc., where he spearheaded corporate strategy and development by leading the company's engineering, product management, and technology groups. Prior to Oblix Inc., Salem was vice president of technology and operations at Ask Jeeves Inc. responsible for the engineering group and the company's entire IT operation. Salem joined Symantec in 1990 through the Peter Norton Computing acquisition and held a number of leadership positions, including vice president of security products and the company’s first chief technology officer.

Earlier in his career, Salem was a vice president at Security Pacific Merchant Bank, where he led projects for the development of real-time trading systems.

Salem received a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Dartmouth College. He was named 2007 Corporate Executive of the Year by Hispanic Net as well as 2004 Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst and Young.

Brian Snow, retired NSA IAD Technical Director, started as a government cryptographer working on secure systems including nuclear command and control, tactical battlefield radios, and network security. He created and managed NSA’s Secure Systems Design Division in the 1980’s, and became a Technical Director in 1992 (equivalent to a Corporate Chief Scientist). His credo: Managers are responsible for doing things right; Technical Directors are responsible for finding the right things to do.

Howard A. Schmidt has had a long distinguished career in defense, law enforcement, and corporate security spanning more than 40 years. He brings together the talents of business, defense, intelligence, law enforcement, privacy, academia and international relations through his distinguished career. He currently is Special Assistant to the President and the Cybersecurity Coordinator for the federal government. In this role Mr. Schmidt is responsible for coordinating interagency cybersecurity policy development and implementation and is responsible coordinating engagement with federal, state, local, international, and private sector cybersecurity partners.

Previously, Mr. Schmidt was the President and CEO of the Information Security Forum (ISF). Before ISF, he served as Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer and Chief Security Strategist for eBay Inc. He also served in the position of Chief Security Strategist for the US CERT Partners Program for the National Cyber Security Division, Department of Homeland Security.

Before eBay, he served as the Vice Chair of the President’s Critical Infrastructure Protection Board and as the Special Adviser for Cyberspace Security for the White House. Prior to the White House, Howard was Chief Security Officer for Microsoft Corp., where his duties included CISO, CSO and forming and directing the Trustworthy Computing Security Strategies Group.

Before Microsoft, Mr. Schmidt was a supervisory special agent and director of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) Computer Forensics Lab and Computer Crime and Information Warfare Division. While there, he established the first dedicated computer forensics lab in the government and was responsible for Criminal and Counter Intelligence investigations against DoD systems.

Before AFOSI, Mr. Schmidt was with the FBI at the National Drug Intelligence Center, where he headed the Computer Exploitation Team. He is recognized as one of the pioneers in the field of computer forensics and computer evidence collection. Before working at the FBI, Mr. Schmidt was a city police officer from 1983 to 1994 for the Chandler Police Department in Arizona.

Mr. Schmidt served with the U.S. Air Force in various roles from 1967 to 1983, both in active duty and in the civil service. He had served in the Arizona Air National Guard as computer communications specialist from 1989 until 1998 when he transferred to the U.S. Army Reserves as a Special Agent, Criminal Investigation Division where he continues to serve with the computer crime investigations unit at CID HQ.

Mr. Schmidt also served as the international president of the nonprofit, Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) and was the co-founder and first president of the Information Technology Information Sharing and Analysis Center (IT-ISAC). He is the Vice-Chair of the board of Directors for (ISC)2 and Security Strategist for the board. He is a former executive board member of the International Organization of Computer Evidence, and served as the co-chairman of the Federal Computer Investigations Committee. He is a member of the American Academy of Forensic Scientists. He had served as a board member for the Cyber Crime Advisory Board of the National White Collar Crime Center.

He served as an augmented member to the President Clinton’s Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) in the formation of an Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection (I3P). He has testified before congressional committees, written books on cybersecurity, and received numerous awards including the CSO Magazine “Compass Award,” Baseline Magazine’s “The 50 Most Influential People in Business IT,” as well as the Federal 100 Award to name just a few.

Mr. Schmidt has been a member of the Information Security Privacy Advisory Board (ISPAB). He has also been a member of the Permanent Stakeholders Group (PSG) for the European Network Information Security Agency (ENISA). He was a member of the High Level Experts Group (HLEG) for the ITU and the Global Cyber-security Agenda (GCA).

Mr. Schmidt holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration (BSBA) and a master’s degree in organizational management (MAOM) from the University of Phoenix. He also holds an Honorary Doctorate degree in Humane Letters. Howard was an Adjunct Professor at GA Tech, GTISC, Professor of Research at Idaho State University and Adjunct Distinguished Fellow with Carnegie Mellon’s CyLab and a Distinguished Fellow of the Ponemon Privacy Institute.

Howard is a Ham Radio operator (W7HAS), a private pilot, outdoorsman and an avid Harley-Davidson rider. He is married to Raemarie J. Schmidt, a forensic scientist and researcher and instructor in the field of computer forensics.

Quentin Hardy is National Editor of Forbes Magazine. He joined the magazine in March 1999, and has written cover stories on Google, Hewlett Packard, telecommunications, philanthropy, and technology in Africa, among others. He is a regular on Forbes on Fox, a weekly show on the Fox Cable News Network, and a frequent guest on CNBC’s Kudlow and Company. He speaks at over twenty events a year. Prior to Forbes, Mr. Hardy spent eight years at The Wall Street Journal, covering the Japanese financial meltdown in Tokyo and the late-nineties boom in the Silicon Valley. A recipient of a Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Business Journalism and an Overseas Press Club award, he also teaches at the Information School of the University of California, Berkeley.

Marc Rotenberg is Executive Director of EPIC and teaches information privacy law at Georgetown Law Center. He frequently testifies before Congress on emerging privacy and civil liberties issues. He testified before the 9-11 Commission on "Security and Liberty: Protecting Privacy, Preventing Terrorism." He chairs the ABA Committee on Privacy and Information Protection. Marc is a frequent guest on CNN and NPR. He is also the recipient of several awards, including the World Technology Award in Law.

Michael Chertoff is Chairman & Managing Principal of the Chertoff Group, a security and risk management advisory firm with offices in Washington, D.C. and New York. Judge Chertoff is also senior of counsel at Covington & Burling LLP’s Washington, DC office and a member of the White Collar Defense and Investigations practice group.

Most recently, Mr. Chertoff served as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. As Secretary, he led a 218,000 person department with a budget of $50 billion. Mr. Chertoff developed and implemented border security and immigration policy; promulgated homeland security regulation; and spearheaded a national cyber security strategy. He also served periodically on the National Security and Homeland Security Councils, and on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.

Prior to his appointment to the Cabinet, Mr. Chertoff served from 2003 to 2005 on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Before becoming a federal judge, Mr. Chertoff was the Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. In that position, he oversaw the investigation of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and formed the Enron Task Force, which produced more than 20 convictions, including those of CEOs Jeffrey Skilling and Kenneth Lay.

Mr. Chertoff’s career includes more than a decade as a federal prosecutor, including service as U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, and Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. As a federal prosecutor, Mr. Chertoff investigated and personally prosecuted significant cases of political corruption, organized crime, and corporate fraud.

From 1994-2001, Mr. Chertoff represented major corporations and individuals in numerous white collar investigations and trials. Among other matters, he successfully represented the nation’s largest hospital company in a four year, multi-jurisdictional criminal and civil investigation, represented major corporations in corruption scandals, and obtained acquittals at trial for individual criminal defendants.

Mr. Chertoff has received numerous awards including the Department of Justice Henry E. Petersen Memorial Award (2006); the Department of Justice John Marshall Award for Trial of litigation (1987); NAACP Benjamin Hooks Award for Distinguished Service (2007); European Institute Transatlantic Leadership Award (2008); and two honorary doctorates. His trial experiences have been featured in over half a dozen books and many news articles.

Richard A. Clarke is an internationally-recognized expert on security, including homeland security, national security, cyber security, and counterterrorism. He is currently an on-air consultant for ABC News and teaches at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.

Mr. Clarke served the last three Presidents as a senior White House Advisor. Over the course of an unprecedented 11 consecutive years of White House service, he held the titles of:
- Special Assistant to the President for Global Affairs
- National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism
- Special Advisor to the President for Cyber Security

Prior to his White House years, Mr. Clarke served for 19 years in the Pentagon, the Intelligence Community, and State Department. During the Reagan Administration, he was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence. During the Bush (41) Administration, he was Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs and coordinated diplomatic efforts to support the 1990–1991 Gulf War and the subsequent security arrangements.

As a Partner in Good Harbor, Mr. Clarke advises clients on a range of issues including:
- Corporate security risk management
- Information security technology
- Dealing with the Federal Government on security and IT issues

Philippe Courtot has a history of building innovative companies and transforming them into industry leaders. Philippe 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, Philippe 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 DeWalt is President and CEO of McAfee, Inc., the world's largest security technology company. Since joining McAfee in 2007, DeWalt has driven growth at the company by strengthening its leadership and building out McAfee's offerings through R&D as well as strategic acquisitions. Prior to McAfee, DeWalt oversaw customer operations and sales at EMC Corp. and was responsible for EMC's content management and archiving software business. He has over 20 years of tech industry experience.

John Donoghue is the Wriston Professor of Neuroscience and Engineering and the Director of the Brain Science Institute at Brown University. His laboratory investigates the way the brain turns thought into action. This work is being translated into BrainGate, a brain computer interface to restore useful functions for people with paralysis. Humans with paralysis have used BrainGate to operate computers, robots and other technologies. Dr. Donoghue's research has received many prestigious scientific awards and has been widely featured in media such as the New York Times and 60 Minutes.

Al Zollar, general manager of IBM Tivoli Software, is responsible for the strategic direction and ongoing operations for the Tivoli brand, which manages today’s dynamic infrastructures, giving customers the ability to manage resources and risks, optimize human capital and manage service levels and business processes.

Since joining IBM in 1977 as a systems engineer trainee, Al has held several high-level positions, including serving as general manager for eServer iSeries, Lotus and IBM's Network Computing Software Division.

Phil Dunkelberger is the President and CEO of PGP Corporation. Previous positions include CEO of PGP Inc., the original PGP startup, VP of Sales at Symantec, COO of Vantive Corp. and CEO of Embark. Mr. Dunkelberger also serves as the Chairman of TechAmerica’s Cybersecurity CxO Council and on the TechNet CEO Cybersecurity Task Force. Dunkelberger has a BA in Political Science from Westmont College.

James Bidzos, chairman of the board of directors, executive chairman and founder of VeriSign, is an Internet and security industry pioneer whose accomplishments include building RSA Security into the early standard-bearer for authentication and encryption, and launching VeriSign as a company in 1995 to develop the digital certificate infrastructure for Internet commerce. In August 2009, VeriSign announced the appointment of James Bidzos as executive chairman.

Bidzos served as VeriSign's first president and CEO and also served as VeriSign's chairman of the board of directors from April 1995 until December 2001, as vice chairman from December 2001 to July 2007, and as interim CEO from July 2008 to August 2009. Bidzos served as president and CEO of RSA Security from 1988 to February 1999, and then served as RSA's vice chairman from 1999 to May 2002. He has been named one of Time Magazine's "Digital 50" and is in CRN's “Computer Industry Hall of Fame.”

Robert S. Mueller, III is the sixth Director of the FBI, nominated by President George W. Bush. He was sworn in as Director on September 4, 2001. After receiving his undergraduate degree at Princeton University and his Master’s Degree in International Relations from New York University, Director Mueller joined the U.S. Marine Corps. He served as a Marine officer for three years and led a rifle platoon of the Third Marine Division in Vietnam for one year. For his service, he received the Bronze Star, two Navy Commendation Medals, the Purple Heart, and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry. Following his career in the Marine Corps, Director Mueller went on to earn his law degree from the University of Virginia Law School. Director Mueller has served as a litigator, a U.S. Attorney, and Acting Deputy Attorney General for the Department of Justice.

Singer is the youngest scholar named Senior Fellow in Brookings's 90-year history. CNN named him to their "New Guard" List of the Next Generation of Newsmakers, Foreign Policy magazine named him among the world’s top 100 global thinkers, and Financial Times named Wired for War as a book of the year. Singer is a columnist on defense issues for the Washington Examiner, and, in his personal capacity, served as coordinator of the Obama-08 campaign’s defense policy task force.

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 is also an adjunct professor at Columbia University in New York where he teaches courses on computer security.

Craig Newmark was born December 6, 1952, in Morristown, NJ. He is best known as the founder and an active customer service rep of the San Francisco based craigslist.

Newmark used an e-mail list as a way to share information with his friends in San Francisco starting in early 1995. He launched the first community site for San Francisco in late 1995. As of April 2009, craigslist was receiving more than 22 billion page views per month, and had community websites in over 570 cities with over 50 million unique community members worldwide.

craigslist is a platform where people can help one another with basic needs, like housing and jobs. The site has a culture of trust, based on shared values like “treat people like you want to be treated.” craigslist’s philosophy is to let the on-line community participants play an active role in policing the information that is shared on the list, and to make classifieds and personal ads free to its community members.

Newmark attended college at Case Western Reserve University where he originally wanted to be a physicist, before switching to computers which resulted in Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science in 1975. Newmark continued his education at Case Western, receiving his Masters of Science in Computer Science in 1977. His thesis was entitled "Fundamental Models of Computer Systems and Their Relationship to Information Security."

In 1976, Newmark started his business career with IBM and spent nearly 17 years there until moving on to working in programming for companies such as Charles Schwab, Bank of America, and various other consulting firms. In those days he was fluent in Java, Perl, MySQL, and HTML.

Newmark is a vocal advocate of working with other people who use the Internet to scale up to large numbers, and ways that everyone can pitch in with a few dollars to improve society like DonorsChoose.org, microfinance in the West Bank with KIVA.org or Lendforpeace.org.

Newmark also believes in using the net to support Veterans rights through such groups as Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, IAVA.org, and for public service including such groups as the Sunlight foundation, the Federal Web Managers council, and the Consumers Union. Newmark continues working with various offices of the government and is an active practitioner in social media and advises groups on use of social media. Craig recently joined the board of Our Good Works, as a founding member of the allforgood.org which supports President Obama’s summer of service initiative through serve.gov.

Craig resides in San Francisco's Cole Valley. Between bird watching and testing out new technology, he remains a critical part of craigslist’s customer service, mostly dealing with spammers and scammers. He is an avid fan of science fiction and actually enjoys TV. “He needs to get out more.”

You can see what Craig is up to on his blog at cnewmark.com and he is active in sharing his “Tweets” on twitter.com/craignewmark as well as blogging on Huffingtonpost.com/craig-newmark , and sharing information on his Facebook page facebook.com/craignewmark.

Bob Sullivan is the author of popular blog The Red Tape Chronicles on msnbc.com, and a technology writer with a focus on technology crime and consumer fraud. Sullivan is also the author of three books, including two New York Times Best-Sellers, Gotcha Capitalism, and Stop Getting Ripped Off. Stop Getting Ripped Off, published in January 2010, focuses on consumer protection and education. He appears regularly on various NBC News programs, including the Today show, NBC Nightly news, CNBC, and NBC affiliates around the country. He is the nation’s leading journalist covering identity fraud and has written more than 100 articles on the subject since 1996. His work appears on several MSNBC partner sites, including CNBC, MSN.com, and Wall Street Journal Interactive. He is a contributor to Good Housekeeping magazine. His first book, Your Evil Twin, was published in 2004 and was among the first to describe the digital crime of the 21st Century. Gotcha Capitalism describes the world of hidden fees, the death of the price tag, and how the American free market system has been placed at risk by deceptive corporations. Among his many scoops, Sullivan was the first to tell the world about the existence of Magic Lantern, and top-secret Trojan Horse program designed by FBI researchers to steal encryption passphrases; he was also the first to describe the data theft at ChoicePoint, the first of what would become an avalanche of stories about stolen and lost personal information. Sullivan is the winner of the prestigious 2002 Society of Professional Journalists Public Service Award for his series of articles on online fraud. He has spoken before trade and government groups including the National Association of Attorney Generals. He lives in Maltby, Washington with his golden retriever, Lucky.

A Silicon Valley icon and philanthropist for more than thirty years, Steve Wozniak has helped shape the computing industry with his design of Apple's first line of products, the Apple I and II, and influenced the popular Macintosh. In 1976, Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Computer Inc. with Wozniak’s Apple I personal computer. The following year, he introduced his Apple II personal computer, featuring a central processing unit, a keyboard, color graphics, and a floppy disk drive. The Apple II was integral in launching the personal computer industry. In 1981, he went back to UC Berkeley and finished his degree in electrical engineering/computer science. For his achievements at Apple Computer, Wozniak was awarded the National Medal of Technology by the President of the United States in 1985, the highest honor bestowed on America's leading innovators. In 2000, he was inducted into the Inventors Hall of Fame and was awarded the prestigious Heinz Award for Technology for "single-handedly designing the first personal computer and for then redirecting his lifelong passion for mathematics and electronics toward lighting the fires of excitement for education in grade school students and their teachers." After leaving Apple in 1985, Wozniak was involved in various business and philanthropic ventures, focusing primarily on computer capabilities in schools and stressing hands-on learning and encouraging creativity for students. Making significant investments of both his time and resources in education, he "adopted" the Los Gatos School District, providing students and teachers with hands-on teaching and donations of state-of-the-art technology equipment. He founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and was the founding sponsor of the Tech Museum, Silicon Valley Ballet and Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose. Wozniak currently serves as Chief Scientist for Fusion-io and is a published author with the release of his New York Times Best Selling autobiography, iWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon, in September 2006 by Norton Publishing. His television appearances include reality shows "Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List" and season eight of ABC's "Dancing with the Stars."