Keynotes

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 over $600 million in 2009.

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. 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 EnerNOC (a leader in Demand Response Systems for energy conservation).

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

Richard McAniff leads all product research and development at VMware with more than 28 years of software development leadership experience. Most recently, Richard spent 21 years at Microsoft. As corporate vice president for Microsoft Office, he was responsible for several major software tools including Excel and Access.

He also oversaw the Business Intelligence effort within Office and development of Web components for the SharePoint Portal Server. In addition, Richard helped guide the development of Office 2000, Office XP, Office 2003 and Office 2007. Before serving as corporate vice president, he served as general manager of the Visual Basic development system. Prior to joining Microsoft in 1987, he was a member of the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. During his seven years there, he worked on numerous projects including probability analyses for alternative fuels. Richard holds a master's degree in systems and industrial engineering from the University of Arizona, a master's degree in resource economics from the University of Massachusetts, and a bachelor of science degree in economics from the University of Massachusetts.

Enrique Salem is president and CEO 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. Throughout his 16-year tenure at Symantec, Salem held a variety of senior management roles, most recently as COO. Prior to that, he served as group president, Worldwide Sales and Marketing.

William J. Lynn III is the 30th Deputy Secretary of Defense. Lynn’s career has included extensive public service at various levels within government. Lynn served as the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) from 1997 until 2001 and for four years prior to that he was the Director of Program Analysis and Evaluation (PA&E) in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

Before entering the Department of Defense in 1993, Lynn served for six years on the staff of Senator Edward Kennedy as liaison to the Senate Armed Services Committee. Prior to 1987, he was a senior fellow at the National Defense University and was on the professional staff of the Institute for Defense Analyses. From 1982 to 1985, he served as the executive director of the Defense Organization Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Lynn also has experience in the private sector from 2001-2009. He served as senior vice president of Government Operations and Strategy at Raytheon Company. He also served as executive vice president of DFI International, a Washington-based management consulting firm, from 2001 to 2002.

A graduate of Dartmouth College, Lynn has a law degree from Cornell Law School and a master’s in public affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. His publications include a book, Toward a More Effective Defense, as well as articles in various newspapers and professional journals. He has been recognized for numerous professional and service contributions, including three DoD medals for distinguished public service, the Joint Distinguished Civilian Service Award from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and awards from the Army, Navy and Air Force.

James A. Lewis is a senior fellow at CSIS and directs its Technology and Public Policy Program. His research involves innovation and economic change; Internet policy and cyber security; space programs; and intelligence reform. Before joining CSIS, he was a member of the U.S. Foreign Service and Senior Executive Service, where he worked on national security and technology-related issues. The policies he helped to develop include counterinsurgency in Asia and Central America, military basing in Asia, conventional arms transfers, commercial remote sensing, high-tech exports to China, and Internet security. Lewis led the U.S. delegation to the Wassenaar Arrangement Experts Group for advanced civil and military technologies. He was also assigned to the U.S. Southern Command (for Operation Just Cause), the U.S. Central Command (for Operation Desert Shield), and to the U.S. Central American Task Force.

Lewis has authored numerous publications since coming to CSIS, including Securing Cyberspace in the 44th Presidency; Building an Information Technology Industry in China; Waiting for Sputnik: Basic Research and Strategic Competition; Globalization and National Security; Spectrum Management for the 21st Century; Assessing the Risk of Cyber Terrorism; China as a Military Space Competitor; and Preserving America’s Strength in Satellite Technology. He appears frequently in the press and serves on several advisory boards. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1984.

As Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security from 2005 to 2009, Mr. Chertoff led America in blocking would-be terrorists from crossing borders or implementing their plans if they were already in the country. He also transformed FEMA into an effective organization following Hurricane Katrina. His greatest successes have earned few headlines – because the important news is what didn’t happen. Before heading up the Department of Homeland Security, Mr. Chertoff served as a federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Earlier, during more than a decade as a federal prosecutor, he investigated and prosecuted cases of political corruption, organized crime, corporate fraud and terrorism – including the investigation of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

At the Chertoff Group, Mr. Chertoff will provide high-level strategic counsel to corporate and government leaders on a broad range of security issues, from risk identification and prevention to preparedness, response and recovery. “Risk management has become the CEO’s concern,” he says. “We help our clients develop comprehensive strategies to manage risk without building barriers that get in the way of carrying on their business.” Mr. Chertoff is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College (1975) and Harvard Law School (1978). From 1979-1980 he served as a clerk to Supreme Court Justice William Brennan, Jr.

Mike McConnell is Executive Vice President and leader of the Intelligence business for Booz Allen Hamilton and is a member of the firm’s Leadership Team. Mr. McConnell previously served from 2007-2009 as U.S. Director of National Intelligence (DNI), a position of Cabinet rank under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. As DNI, Mr. McConnell served as the principal intelligence advisor to the President and as a member of the U.S. National Security Council.

Mr. McConnell’s career has spanned over 40 years focusing on international developments and foreign intelligence issues, first as a career intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy, as the Senior Intelligence Officer on the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as Director of the National Security Agency, and later as Senior Vice President with Booz Allen Hamilton after retiring from the U.S. Navy as Vice Admiral after 29 years of service. Over the past few years, Mr. McConnell’s area of focus has been counter-terrorism, cyber security, counter-proliferation, and foreign intelligence. While managing the U.S. Intelligence Community, an organization of 100,000 people, he had responsibility for a global enterprise and budget of over $47B. In this capacity, Mr. McConnell had extensive interactions with the White House, the President’s Cabinet, the Congress, International Leaders, and the U.S. Business Community.

Serving first under President George H. W. Bush and later President Clinton, Mr. McConnell served as Director of the National Security Agency (NSA) from 1992-1996. He also served as a member of the senior leadership team of the Director of Central Intelligence to address major programmatic and substantive foreign intelligence issues from 1992 until 1996.

Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist and author. Described by The Economist as a "security guru," he is best known as a refreshingly candid and lucid security critic and commentator. When people want to know how security really works, they turn to Schneier. Regularly quoted in the media, he has testified on security before Congress and has written articles and op eds for many major publications.

Bill Veghte is Executive Vice President of HP Software & Solutions, a $3.6 billion business unit delivering innovative software and services that help enterprises develop, manage, defend and automate applications and infrastructure. Of equal importance for our more than 50,000 customers is using these products and services to protect and optimize business data.

Before joining Hewlett-Packard, Bill spent the past two decades at Microsoft in a variety of senior leadership roles in engineering and sales. Most recently, he managed the company’s $15 billion global Windows business and was instrumental in launching Windows 7. He is known for his passion for technology, commitment to customers and ability to achieve results.

Mike Denning leads the Identity and Access Management business at CA Technologies. He is responsible for ensuring the company’s products, services and partnerships help customers minimize risk, boost compliance and confidently adopt virtualization technologies and cloud services by controlling users, their access and what they can do with information.

Denning joined CA Technologies in November 2010 from VeriSign where he spent 11 years leading several organizations, most recently as vice president and general manager, Enterprise Security Services.

Tim Brown
Chief Security Architect and Distinguished Engineer
CA Technologies

Brown has overall technical direction responsibilities for CA Technologies security products in the IAM sector. This includes solutions for controlling and managing identities and roles; controlling access to data, systems and applications; and controlling information use. Brown has been involved in many areas of security including threat research, vulnerability management, and encryption.

Michael Daly
Corporate Director, Information Technology Enterprise Security Services
Raytheon Company

Daly’s responsibilities range from global information security policy and cyber intelligence and analysis, to network and data protections. Daly has worked with both the private sector and the federal government, and he also participates on the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee to the President of the United States and the Transglobal Secure Collaboration Program.

Philippe Laflandre
Vice President and Head of EADS Corporate Trust Center

With 30 years serving private and public sector companies, today Laflandre leads the EADS Corporate Trust Center within the Cybersecurity Center of EADS-Cassidian. Concurrently, he is the Secure Collaboration vice president for the newly created digital European Hub Boost Aerospace, and he also serves as vice-chair of the Transglobal Secure Collaboration Program.

Keith Ward
Director, Enterprise Security and Identity Management
Northrop Grumman Corp.

Ward is a recognized expert in security and identity management. He led the remediation for Cyber Security - Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) for Northrop Grumman. Ward serves as Chairman of Transglobal Secure Collaboration Program (TSCP), a government-industry partnership focused on solving the challenges of secure information sharing across organizational and geographic boundaries.

Tom Gillis is the Vice President and General Manager for the high-growth Security Technology Business Unit at Cisco. Tom is a respected authority and thought leader in how mobile internet will change the nature of work. Tom was co-founder of IronPort Systems, the leading internet security company acquired by Cisco. At Ironport, he redefined the email security industry. Tom is the author of the book “Security for the Web 2.0 World”. A passionate believer in the distributed workforce, he believes companies who will lead the charge in how we access information will deliver orders of magnitude in work productivity and growth in the next decade.

Richard Water was a forensic psychologist for the State of Michigan prison system and a crime scene analyst/profiler. Now-retired from government service, Walter consults with agencies and governments.

A former Philadelphia Police Officer and FBI Special Agent who later became the Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Customs Service in Philadelphia, Fleisher was the prime mover behind the Vidocq Society’s creation. It was Fleisher who proposed that the fledgling group be named after M. Vidocq, whose memoirs he had read and reread over the years. Fleisher is a principal of Keystone Intelligence Network, a private investigation and polygraph firm.

General Keith B. Alexander, USA, is the Commander, U.S. Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) and Director, National Security Agency/Chief, Central Security Service (NSA/CSS), Fort George G. Meade, MD. As Commander, USCYBERCOM, he is responsible for planning, coordinating and conducting operations and defense of DoD computer networks as directed by USSTRATCOM. As the Director of NSA and Chief of CSS, he is responsible for a Department of Defense agency with national foreign intelligence, combat support, and U.S. national security information system protection responsibilities. NSA/CSS civilian and military personnel are stationed worldwide.

He was born in Syracuse, NY, and entered active duty at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

Previous assignments include the Deputy Chief of Staff (DCS, G-2), Headquarters, Department of the Army, Washington, DC; Commanding General of the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command at Fort Belvoir, VA; Director of Intelligence, United States Central Command, MacDill Air Force Base, FL.; and Deputy Director for Requirements, Capabilities, Assessments and Doctrine, J-2, for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. GEN Alexander has served in a variety of command assignments in Germany and the United States. These include tours as Commander of Border Field Office, 511th MI Battalion, 66th MI Group; 336th Army Security Agency Company, 525th MI Group; 204th MI Battalion; and 525th MI Brigade.

Additionally, GEN Alexander held key staff assignments as Deputy Director and Operations Officer, Army Intelligence Master Plan, for the Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence; S-3 and Executive Officer, 522nd MI Battalion, 2nd Armored Division; G-2 for the 1st Armored Division both in Germany and Operation DESERT SHIELD/DESERT STORM in Saudi Arabia.

GEN Alexander holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the U.S. Military Academy and a Master of Science degree in Business Administration from Boston University. He holds a Master of Science degree in Systems Technology (Electronic Warfare) and a Master of Science degree in Physics from the naval Post Graduate School. He also holds a Master of Science degree in National Security Strategy from the National Defense University. His military education includes the Armor Officer Basic Course, the Military Intelligence Officer Advanced Course, the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, and the National War College. His badges include the Senior Parachutist Badge, the Army Staff Identification Badge, and the Joint Chief of Staff Identification Badge.

Philippe Courtot has a history of building innovative companies and transforming them into industry leaders. As CEO of Qualys, he has worked with thousands of companies to improve their IT security and compliance postures. 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, Chairman and CEO of Verity and Chairman and CEO of cc:Mail. He holds a Masters Degree in Physics from the University of Paris.

Paul is a forecaster with over two decades experience exploring long-term technological change and its impact on business and society. He advises private and governmental clients worldwide, and teaches at Stanford where he is a Consulting Professor in the Engineering School, and is a Visiting Scholar in the Stanford Media-X Program. Paul writes a column on technology issues for ABCNews.com, and his essays have appeared in a wide range of publications including The Harvard Business Review, Foreign Policy, Fortune, Wired, The Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, The New York Times and the Washington Post. He is a Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, and holds degrees from Harvard College, Cambridge University, and Stanford University.

Dave Cullinane is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for eBay where he is responsible for security programs to protect eBay and its many businesses. Prior to joining eBay, Dave was the CISO for one of the largest banks in the United States. He has more than 30 years of security experience.

Dave is a founding member and Chairman of the Board of the Cloud Security Alliance. He is also the President of the IT-ISAC – an organization for sharing security related information across companies in the IT industry. He serves on ASIS International's CSO Roundtable Committee and is on the Editorial Advisory Board of CSO Magazine and SC Magazine. The eBay Security Team was named “Security Team of the Year” by SC Magazine in 2010.

As worldwide chief technology officer, George Kurtz is responsible for driving the integrated security architectures and platforms that have propelled McAfee into a leadership position in digital security. His entrepreneurial background and ability to commercialize nascent technologies enable him to drive innovation throughout McAfee by identifying market trends and correlating them with customer feedback to optimize product direction and development.

Kurtz's previous roles at McAfee include senior vice president and general manager of the Risk and Compliance Business Unit, where he was responsible for driving worldwide growth in the risk and compliance segments. He helped transform McAfee from a point product company to a provider of security risk management and compliance optimization solutions. Kurtz formerly held the position of senior vice president, McAfee Enterprise, where he was responsible for helping to drive the growth of the enterprise product portfolio on a worldwide basis.

Prior to joining McAfee, Kurtz was chief executive officer of Foundstone, Inc., which was acquired by McAfee in October 2004. Before Foundstone, he served as a senior manager and the national leader of Ernst & Young's Security Profiling Services Group.

Kurtz was awarded the Software Council of Southern California's Software Entrepreneur of the Year 2003 and Software CEO of the Year 2005, as well as Fast Company's Fast 50, American Electronics Association's Outstanding Executive, Deloitte's Fast 50, Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist, Orange County's Hottest 25 People, and numerous other honors.

In addition to co-authoring "Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions," one of the top-selling security books ever published, Kurtz has written for many other industry publications.

Kurtz holds a Bachelor of Science from Seton Hall University and has earned several industry designations, including Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), and Certified Public Accountant (CPA).

Kurtz was recently granted patents number 7,152,105 and 7,543,056 describing a "system and method for network vulnerability detection and reporting." Additional patents are pending.

Kurtz lives in Southern California.

Francis deSouza is senior vice president of the Enterprise Security Group at Symantec. In this role he leads engineering, product management, field enablement, business development, and operations for Symantec's Endpoint Security and Management, Data Loss Prevention, and Information Risk Management businesses.

Most recently, deSouza served as senior vice president of Information Risk Management where he led Symantec's compliance and security management, messaging security, and archiving businesses. deSouza joined Symantec through the company's acquisition of IMlogic in February 2006.

At IMlogic, he was founder and chief executive officer, building the company into a recognized leader in the rapidly growing market for instant messaging security with more than 750 customers across 23 countries.

Prior to IMlogic, deSouza served as product unit manager at Microsoft, directing a team in the development of the enterprise real-time communications platform, including instant messaging, chat, Voice over IP and NetMeeting. Previously, he founded Flash Communications, which quickly emerged as a leader in the corporate instant messaging space and was acquired by Microsoft in 1998.

deSouza graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Michael Barrett is the chief information security officer for PayPal. He is responsible for ensuring the security of PayPal’s 78 M active accounts worldwide. He oversees the information systems and services that protect the integrity and confidentiality of PayPal customer and employee information. Before joining PayPal, Barrett was VP of security and utility strategy at American Express, where he helped define the company’s information-security program and directed its Internet technology strategy.

Jonathan is a Vice President at Forrester Research, covering security. He advises end user organizations on their security strategies and implementations, with an emphasis on risk management, identity, and data protection. He also advices vendors on strategy, positioning, and go-to-market. Over the past fifteen years, Jonathan has written and spoken extensively on security in many business and IT venues, focusing on trends, innovations, and challenges in security solutions and practices.

George Thangadurai is the General Manager, PC Client Services Division, PC Client Group in Intel Corporation. He leads the organization that is responsible for driving Services revenue on all Intel PC client platforms from a portfolio of Services enabled on Intel’s platform capabilities through our ecosystem partners.

Until September 2009, George was Director of Strategy, Platform Planning and Services in the Mobile Platforms Group & Virtual Client PC organization. In this role, George lead the organization that was responsible for the business, roadmap & platform strategy, platform & ingredients’ planning, services programs and ecosystem planning for Intel's Notebook PC & Netbook platforms. Additionally, since 2008 George has been General Manager for the Intel Anti-theft Technology Services program focused on platform & data protection.

Until 2004, George was Director of Platform & Communications planning where he played a key role in driving platform, chipset / graphics and wireless strategy & planning for Intel Centrino™ notebook platforms including the first mobile optimized integrated graphics chipsets. Before moving to strategic planning in 1998, George was a microprocessor & platform architect on 486SL™, Pentium™ and Itanium™ processor / platforms. George joined Intel in 1991 and has 9 US patents.

Prior to joining Intel, George was a platform architect in Encore Computer Systems dealing with high performance, real time response multiprocessing computers used in space & defense. Prior to coming to the USA, George was a project manager for the Telecom Switching Projects for the Center of Development for Telematics (CDOT), Government of India.

George holds a Masters in Computing Engineering from the University of Rhode Island, USA and Bachelors in Electronics & Communication Engineering from Madurai University, India. He has 2 IEEE published research papers and one conference paper.

Michael Waters is manager of enterprise information security at Booz Allen Hamilton. He is responsible for Booz Allen’s information security policies and procedures, operations and business continuity management, reporting directly to the CIO.

Dr. Michio Kaku is a theoretical physicist, best-selling author, and popularizer of science. He’s the co-founder of string field theory (a branch of string theory), and continues Einstein’s search to unite the four fundamental forces of nature into one unified theory.

William Jefferson Clinton was the first Democratic president in six decades to be elected twice – in 1992 and then in 1996. Under his leadership, the country enjoyed the strongest economy in a generation and the longest economic expansion in U.S. history. After leaving the White House, President Clinton established the William J. Clinton Foundation with the mission to strengthen the capacity of people to meet the challenges of global interdependence. Today the Foundation’s staff and volunteers are working to improve lives through several initiatives, including the Clinton Health Access Initiative, the Clinton Climate Initiative, and the Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative. President Clinton has also dedicated much time and assistance in recovery efforts and fundraising for victims of recent devastating natural disasters, such as the 2004 tsunami in South Asia, Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Hurricane Ike in 2008 and most recently the earthquake in Haiti.

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, Thompson 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.

Star of BBC3's hugely popular THE REAL HUSTLE, Alexis Conran has turned the world of scamming into an entertaining art form and is acknowledged both as a uniquely talented performer and someone you do not want to be playing cards with. Born in Paris but raised in Greece and, aged 16, came to London.

After studying at LAMDA, Alexis followed a curious desire to study the art of magic and his training inevitably re-acquainted him with an old friend - the pack of cards. Within three years he was working as a professional magician specialising in card cheating. He started performing at exotic, celebrity-fuelled private parties worldwide.

Whilst working as an actor on the horror film BELOW Alexis was asked to join some of the actors in a poker game. During one round he noticed one of the players cheating by stacking the deck before the deal. Alexis decided to use his card skills to make it impossible for the cheat to win. The cheat could not accuse him of cheating because he knew that he had been made. That game kick-started a whole new career for Alexis and his magic shows became exhibitions in fraud, cons, dice, casino and card cheating as he was able to use his acting skills to get into character.

In 2003, he was part of a team asked to advise the writers and actors on the hit TV series HUSTLE for the BBC. His extensive knowledge of hustling, pickpockets and con artists gave the show an authenticity that didn't go unnoticed. Following this, Alexis was asked to star in a new TV show for the BBC, THE REAL HUSTLE, which, since its debut in 2005, has become one of BBC3's flagship series.

Alexis has recently become a contributor to BBC's Watchdog and helps show consumers how to avoid becoming the victim of a fraud.

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.