Keynotes

Art Coviello is responsible for RSA's strategy as it delivers EMC's global vision of information-centric security. 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 $700 million in 2010. His 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 has spoken at numerous conferences and forums around the world.

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). He 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 CEO of Symantec, a leader in protecting the world's identities and information. Salem was previously CEO of Brightmail, the leading anti–spam software company. With over 21 years in security technology, he has a deep and unique perspective and is focused on delivering security, backup, and availability solutions in an evolving digitally connected world.

Joe Sullivan is the Chief Security Officer at Facebook, where he manages the company’s teams responsible for information security, physical security, internal and external investigations, and law enforcement relations. In addition to spending most of his time promoting safety and security for Facebook users, Joe also works on other regulatory and privacy-related legal issues.

Marc Benioff is chairman and CEO of salesforce.com. He founded the company in 1999 with a vision to create an on-demand information management service that would replace traditional enterprise software technology. Under Marc’s direction, salesforce.com has grown from a groundbreaking idea into a publicly traded company that is the leader in enterprise cloud computing.

He was appointed by former President George W. Bush as the co-chairman of the Information Technology Advisory Committee and served from 2003 to 2005, overseeing the publishing of critical reports on healthcare information technology, cybersecurity, and computational sciences. Marc is also the author of three books, most recently the national best seller Behind the Cloud.

Previously, Dr. Carter served as Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics from April 2009 until October 2011. As Under Secretary, Dr. Carter led the Department's efforts to accelerate the fulfillment of urgent operational needs; increase the Department's buying power; and strengthen the nation's defenses against weapons of mass destruction and other emerging threats.

Over the course of his career in public service, Dr. Carter has three times been awarded the Department of Defense Distinguished Service Medal. For his contributions to intelligence, Dr. Carter was awarded the Defense Intelligence Medal.

Dr. Carter earned bachelor's degrees in physics and in medieval history from Yale University, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and was awarded his doctorate in theoretical physics from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

Prior to his most recent government service, Dr. Carter was chair of the International and Global Affairs faculty at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and Co-Director of the Preventive Defense Project. Dr. Carter was also Senior Partner at Global Technology Partners, a member of the Aspen Strategy Group, a member of the Board of Trustees of the MITRE Corporation and the Advisory Boards of MIT's Lincoln Laboratories and the Draper Laboratory, and an advisor to Goldman Sachs.

During the Clinton Administration, Dr. Carter was Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy. From 1990 until 1993, Dr. Carter was Director of the Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, and Chairman of the Editorial Board of International Security. Previously, he held positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, and Rockefeller University.

Dr. Carter has served on the Defense Science Board, the Defense Policy Board, the Secretary of State's International Security Advisory Board, and the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States. He is a member of President Obama's Government Accountability and Transparency Board. Dr. Carter is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Diplomacy and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Physical Society.

In addition to authoring articles, scientific publications, government studies, and Congressional testimonies, Dr. Carter has co-edited and co-authored eleven books.

Dr. Carter is married to Stephanie Carter and has two grown children.

As Senior Vice President of the Security and Government Group at Cisco, Chris Young is responsible for Cisco´s overall security vision and the integration of Cisco´s product and cyber security into one platform. With security as one of Cisco´s top engineering priorities, Young is tasked with the development of industry–leading security products and solutions as well as managing a cross–portfolio security strategy and architecture. He oversees a team of more than 2000 employees combining the security technologies group, the global government security solutions group, and Cisco´s own security operations team into a single entity.

He joined Cisco from VMware, where he served as Senior Vice President and General Manager, responsible for strategy, products, engineering, and delivery across all of VMware´s end–user computing solutions. Previously, he served as Senior Vice President at RSA, the security division of EMC, where he was responsible for strategy, product management, product marketing, engineering, and delivery of products across all of RSA's identity and access assurance, security information and event management, governance risk and compliance and data security solutions. He built the company's identity protection and verification business, which today protects more than 200 million online accounts.

He has served as Vice President of safety and security premium services for America Online, Inc. (AOL) and prior to that, he founded and served as president of Cyveillance, a technology provider leveraging search technologies to help companies manage business risk.

As an expert in topics related to information–centric security, he is a regular speaker at security industry events. He has testified in front of the United States Senate Judiciary Committee on the subject of cyber–squatting. Outside of Cisco, Young serves on the board of Rapid7, a privately held company in Boston, Massachusetts, and has served on Princeton University´s Board of Trustees.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, from Princeton University and a Master´s degree in Business Administration, with distinction, from the Harvard Business School.

Demonstrating a unique mix of technical vision, marketing and business acumen, Philippe Courtot has repeatedly built innovative companies into industry leaders. As CEO of Qualys, Courtot has worked with thousands of companies to improve their IT security and compliance postures. He received the SC Magazine Editor's Award in 2004 for bringing On Demand technology to the network security industry and co–founding the CSO Interchange to share information in the security industry. He was named 2011 CEO of the Year by SC Magazine Awards Europe, and is on the board of directors for StopBadware.org and TechAmerica. Before Qualys, he was Chairman and CEO of Signio, Chairman and CEO of Verity and Chairman and CEO of cc:Mail. He has a Masters Degree in Physics from the University of Paris.

Stuart McClure is chief technology officer for McAfee. He joined McAfee in 2004 through the acquisition of Foundstone, which he co–founded, and where he served as president, and CTO. Additional executive and technical leadership positions include Kaiser Permanente, Ernst & Young, and IDG. He is one of the industry's leading authorities, and his best–selling book, “Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions” has been translated into more than 30 languages.

David Brooks is a New York Times Op–Ed columnist. He has been a senior editor at The Weekly Standard, a contributing editor at Newsweek and the Atlantic Monthly, and is current a commentator on "The Newshour with Jim Lehrer." He is author of "Bobos In Paradise" and "On Paradise Drive". His most recent book is "The Social Animal" published in March 2011.

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. His ten–year term as Director was recently extended for an additional two years.

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. After attending Army Ranger and Jump Schools, he 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.

Mike Denning leads the Identity and Access Management business at CA Technologies. Denning 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.

He 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.

Dr. Carrie Gates has opened new avenues for collaboration in the field of cyber security for CA Technologies by leveraging government programs that further research between CA Labs and academia. She has given over 20 invited talks internationally, authored more than 40 peer-reviewed publications related to information security and co-authored an amendment on cloud security research for the America Competes Act that was signed into law in December 2010. In October 2010, she was recognized for her work with a Women of Influence award from CSO magazine.

Tom Reilly is vice president and general manager of Enterprise Security at HP. In this role, Reilly is responsible for the strategy, development and delivery of a portfolio of market–leading products including ArcSight, an HP company; Fortify, an HP company; and HP TippingPoint, which are designed to protect today's applications and IT infrastructures from sophisticated cyber threats.

Previously he served as president and chief executive officer of ArcSight Inc. He also served as chief operations officer for ArcSight.

Prior to ArcSight, he was vice president of Business Information Services for IBM, following the acquisition of Trigo Technologies Inc., a product information management software company. Reilly also served as chief executive officer of Trigo Technologies.

Hugh S. Njemanze is chief technology officer and vice president of worldwide research and development for Enterprise Security at HP. In this role, Njemanze serves as the chief technologist, responsible for overseeing product strategy, development and support for HP Enterprise Security Products.
Njemanze previously cofounded and served as chief technology officer and executive vice president of research and development for ArcSight, an HP company. Prior to ArcSight, Njemanze was chief technology officer of Verity Inc., a provider of knowledge retrieval software products.
Njemanze is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from Purdue University.

Pranav Mehta is a Sr. Principal Engineer and CTO for the Intelligent Systems Group (ISG) within Intel's Intel Architecture Group. His team focuses on optimizing the Intel Architecture (IA) silicon, software, and system building blocks for the Intelligent Systems Group market segments. This involves understanding performance bottlenecks in IA CPU and system architectures for these application segments; developing solutions to remove those bottlenecks; and modeling these solutions to ensure proper ROI before incorporating them into IA platforms. He also sponsors internal and external research and technology development pipelines for ISG.

What started as a way of tutoring his cousins from a distance has turned into a world–changing project that is upending the way that people learn—and the way we currently think about education. Sal Khan, an MIT and Harvard–educated hedge fund manager, created online videos for his cousins to tutor them through math and science. With over 2,200 tutorials and over 100,000 people viewing his lessons each day, the Khan Academy was born. Harvard Business Review recently stated that Khan will successfully educate more people in math and science over the next decade than Harvard has over its entire history.

Hugh Thompson is Program Committee Chairman of RSA Conference, Chief Security Strategist at People Security and a world–renowned 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 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.

Dr. Frank Luntz is one of the most honored communication professionals in America today. Luntz has written, supervised and conducted more than 2,000 surveys, focus groups, ad tests and dial sessions in over two dozen countries and four continents over the past decade.
The “Instant Response” focus group technique pioneered by Luntz has been profiled on 60 Minutes, Good Morning America (Election Day 2008) and on the award-winning PBS show Frontline.

In his latest book Future Babble, Dan Gardner delves deep into psychology to explain why people continue to put so much stock in expert predictions despite the repeated—and sometimes catastrophic failure of efforts to forecast the future.
Gardner is a columnist and senior writer with the Ottawa Citizen. His journalism has won many awards, including a National Newspaper Award, a Michener Citation of Merit and Amnesty International's Media Award.

As Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and leader of Britain's Labour Party, Tony Blair has been a strong advocate of a values–based, activist and multilateralist foreign policy—an agenda that combined tackling terrorism in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo and Sierra Leone, with action on issues like climate change, global poverty, Africa and the Middle East Peace Process. Mr. Blair is also credited for assisting the Northern Ireland Peace Process by helping to negotiate the Good Friday Agreement. Tony Blair's memoir, A Journey: My Political Life was released in September 2010 and made The New York Times Bestseller List within a week. Learn more at www.tonyblairoffice.org