Partial listing of confirmed speakers

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Linda Cureton

CIO, NASA Goddard

Ms. Linda Y. Cureton is the Director of the Information Technology and Communications Directorate and the Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). As the CIO, Ms. Cureton is responsible for ensuring that GSFC's information assets are acquired and managed consistent with Agency and Federal Government policies. She is responsible for ensuring that the Center's Information Technology strategy aligns with NASA's vision, mission, and strategic goals. The Information Technology and Communications Directorate: provides the information infrastructure and tools that effectively and securely support management, science, research, and technology programs; develops, implements, and operates specialized IT systems to support mission planning and operation; and provides systems that disseminate information to the public and that preserve NASA's information assets.

Prior to her arrival at GSFC, Ms. Cureton was the Deputy Assistant Director for the Office of Science and Technology and the Deputy Chief Information Officer at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF). The Office of Science and Technology is responsible for providing leadership in the innovative and efficient application of science and technology used to collect, clarify, and communicate information needed to reduce violent crime, collect revenue and protect the public. As the ATF Deputy CIO, she was responsible for ensuring that the use of Information Technology for the Bureau's mission and business requirements fulfill customer and stakeholder needs.

Previously, Ms. Cureton served as Associate CIO, Acting Deputy CIO, and Acting CIO of the Department of Energy. There, she had a broad range of responsibilities including: strategic planning, network and information security, information architecture, capital planning and IT investment, network and telecommunications services, operational support of voice, data, video, LAN/WAN, and computer systems, and application development and maintenance for corporate systems.

Ms. Cureton also served the Department of Justice in the Justice Management Division and was responsible for managing the Department of Justice Data Centers, which supported mission critical computing requirements for the Drug Enforcement Administration, Bureau of Prisons, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

As a strong advocate for the practical application of technology, she serves as a member of organizations such as the Government Information Technology Investment Council, the American Council for Technology, and Women in Technology.

Ms. Cureton earned a Bachelor of Science Degree from Howard University in 1980 graduating magna cum laude with a major in Mathematics and a minor in Latin. She also received a Master of Science Degree in Applied Mathematics from Johns Hopkins University in 1994, and a Post-Master's Advanced Certificate in Applied Mathematics from Johns Hopkins University in 1996. She performed extensive research in numerical analysis and has been published in the "Journal of Sound and Vibration."

David Ferre

Senior Product Manager, Endpoint Security at Novell
David Ferre is senior product manager of endpoint security for the Systems & Resource Management (ZENworks) business unit within Novell. The business unit is responsible for developing enterprise systems management from the desktop to the data center.

With over 12 years experience in the software industry and more than 14 years in IT, he has worked in various roles including product management, sales, marketing, and services. David also taught advanced security classes at Neumont University.

David is a graduate of David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah with a BS in Accounting and has also completed various industry certifications.

Jack Gold

Founder and Principal Analyst, J.Gold Associates
Jack Gold is Founder and Principal Analyst at J.Gold Associates. Mr. Gold has over 35 years of experience in the computer and electronics industries, including work in imaging, multimedia, technical computing, consumer electronics, software development, and manufacturing systems. He is a leading authority on mobile, wireless, and pervasive computing, and advises clients on business analysis, strategic planning, architecture, product evaluation/selection, and enterprise application strategies. Before founding J. Gold Associates, Mr. Gold spent 12 years with META Group as a Vice President in Technology Research Services. He also held positions in technical and marketing management at Digital Equipment Corp. and Xerox.

Marne Gordon

GRC Market Manager, Tivoli Software Division, IBM
Marne Gordan is the GRC Market Manager for IBM’s Tivoli Software Division, where she is responsible for maintaining intelligence on prevalent regulations and standards related to information security and IT governance. Previously, Ms. Gordan was Director of Regulatory Affairs for Cybertrust, where she built the information security and privacy compliance practice and managed industry relations in financial services and healthcare, as well as the Federal Government and International markets. With over 10 years of experience in electronic and retail banking, Ms. Gordan began her career with America’s Community Bankers, managing industry relations for its for-profit subsidiaries. Prior to joining Cybertrust, she developed the Internet banking product line at the STAR EFT Network, developing secure Web sites and integrated home banking programs for small banks and credit unions. Ms. Gordan is a qualified provisional BS7799 information security auditor.

Matt Hines

Marketing Communications Manager, Core Security Technologies
Matt Hines is the Marketing Communications Manager for Core Security Technologies, where he is responsible for helping to craft the company's outward messaging and promoting the adoption of proactive security testing to help organizations better understand and improve their overall security posture. Prior to joining Core Security Technologies in early 2008, Mr. Hines worked as a reporter, editor, and blogger covering the computing industry, specifically the IT security space, for a range of leading industry publications including InfoWorld, eWEEK, and CNET News.com. As a writer, Mr. Hines committed years of coverage to the emergence and maturation of today's thriving malware and cyber-crime economies, and the efforts of businesses, law enforcement officials, legislators, and end users to respond to electronic attacks.

Phil Hochmuth

Senior Analyst, Enterprise Research, Yankee Group
Phil Hochmuth is a senior analyst in Yankee Group's Enterprise Research group, with expertise in network security hardware and software, network access control technologies, network infrastructure, and mobile security. Prior to Yankee Group, Hochmuth was a senior editor at Network World magazine, covering enterprise routing and switching, WLANs, VoIP, and open-source software. He also served as a systems integrator for a New Hampshire-based VAR, installing networks and prepress systems for clients in the newspaper and publishing industry.

Michael Horne

District Manager, Fortify Software Inc. - Northwest Region
Michael Horne is District Manager for the Northwest Region at Fortify Software. Mr. Horne has over 15 years of experience in the application security and software development lifecycle market, having provided enterprise solutions to information security executives and application development teams throughout North America. Prior to Fortify Software, Mr. Horne managed enterprise customers at Rational Software (now part of IBM) and Telelogic Corp.

Mike Kazmierczak

Senior Sales Engineer, Cenzic
Mike Kazmierczak is a Senior Sales Engineer for Web application security software company Cenzic. With over 12 years of experience within the enterprise software and security market, much of which having included deployments at many Fortune 500 companies, Mr. Kazmierczak has worked extensively with customers to deploy and protect their Web sites. Previously, he served as Senior System Engineer for Proofpoint, where he was the technical contact for channel sales. While at Netscape/AOL, Mr. Kazmierczak was a Principal Product Manager for the Netscape Directory Server in addition to being a Principal Consultant within the organization's Professional Services group, deploying the Netscape SuiteSpot offering.

Eric M. Krauss

Director Sales - Americas
SanDisk Corporation
Enterprise Division Eric Krauss is the Director Sales – Americas for SanDisk, the industry leader in End-Point Security strategies. Krauss combines more than 22 years experience in the high tech industry and has served in Senior Sales Management and Business Development positions for companies such as Ashton-Tate, Borland Software, Standard Micro Systems, Proteon and WatchGuard and SecureWave (Lumension Security). With the past 10 years focused on the Security Sector, Krauss brings a broad range of experience with respect to layered security strategies which include perimeter firewall, VPN, encryption, AV, malware control, content security, secure messaging and data leakage.

With the current Federal Government and Fortune 1,000 industry's focus on data leakage, desktop support and compliance issues, Krauss provides consulting and solution strategies to enable these organizations to minimize the risk of end-point and desktop threats by managing the threat of rouge devices and applications.

Russ McRee

Security Analyst / Researcher, holisticinfosec.org
Russ McRee, GCIH, GCFA, CISSP, is a security analyst / researcher and founder of holisticinfosec.org, where he advocates a holistic approach to the practice of information assurance. Mr. McRee conducts constant vulnerability and malware research, wrestling with the challenges of Web application security and new ways to interpret malicious network traffic. Currently doing major work for Microsoft Online Service’s Security Incident Management team, he’s also contributed a friend-of-the-court brief, successfully used during sentencing, for one of the U.S. Department of Justice’s first successful prosecutions of a botnet operator. A frequent speaker at industry events, Mr. McRee has also provided information security analysis and architecture services for Expedia and the City of Seattle justice system. He writes toolsmith, a monthly column for the ISSA Journal, and has written for numerous other publications including Information Security, (IN)SECURE, SysAdmin, Linux Magazine, and OWASP.

Simone Seth

Senior Researcher, Information Security Forum
Simone Seth is a Director at Pricewaterhouse Coopers, where she serves as an industry analyst while supporting the Information Security Forum (ISF), an association dedicated to researching and documenting leading information risk management and information security business practices in today’s global marketplace to support its 300+ member companies. Ms. Seth is responsible for creating a business presence in North America for the ISF. Her strategic efforts focus on increasing existing member involvement and creating opportunities for U.S.-based Fortune 50 companies to join the organization. Ms. Seth has spent the past 20 years working in the areas of information security, information risk management, data privacy, regulatory compliance, SOX compliance, and IT governance for eminent investment banks including the Chase Manhattan Bank, JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, and CitiGroup, as well as for Deloitte & Touche

Peter Tippett

Vice President Research and Intelligence – Security Solutions, Verizon Business
Dr. Peter Tippett is Vice President of Research and Intelligence – Security Solutions for Verizon Business, and is the Chief Scientist of the security product testing and certification organization, ICSA Labs. An information security pioneer, Tippett has led the computer security industry for more than 20 years, initially as a vendor of security products, and over the past 15 years, as a key strategist. He is widely credited with creating the first commercial antivirus product that later became Norton AntiVirus.Tippett is best known for his creation of enterprise risk metrics, and large risk intelligence and compliance management programs for enterprises.

Tippett took up his current role at Verizon following the 2007 acquisition of security specialist Cybertrust by Verizon Business. At Cybertrust, Tippett was the Chief Technical Officer, and was instrumental in developing the Cybertrust Security Management Program, which has served over 1,000 organizations for 11 years. He was also Chairman of MD-IT, an intelligent transcription company.

Before Cybertrust, Tippett was the CEO of the NCSA, then ICSA Labs, and was Chairman of TruSecure, the largest private U.S. security services company. In the early 1990s he directed the Enterprise and Security products group at Symantec. In addition to start-up and CEO positions, Tippett has led large software development, product management, production labs, technology research, and intelligence teams in his business career.

Early in his IT career, when he was founder and CEO of software company Certus International, Tippett pioneered and commercialized a string of now-common technologies, including what is now called the "rescue disk," code signing (hashing for execution control), trusted file execution, anomaly detection, and aspects of mail merge and the "un-do" command.

Tippett recently served on the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) to guide U.S. efforts in healthcare IT, information security, and computational sciences research. He has a Bachelor's Degree in Biology from Kalamazoo College, and holds a Doctor of Medicine Degree and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Biochemistry from Case Western Reserve University. He has worked as an emergency room doctor and as a helicopter emergency physician in both Ohio and California. He still carries a current California physician and surgeon license.