[ISN] Black Hat Keynote Speakers Announced

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    BLACK HAT BRIEFINGS 2003 KEYNOTES INCLUDE
    TOP COMPUTER SECURITY GURUS FROM GOVERNMENT, CORPORATE AND INTERNATIONAL 
    SECTORS
    
    Includes PGP Creator Philip Zimmermann and Dept. of Homeland Security IAIP 
    Cyber Program Director Marcus Sachs.
    
    http://www.blackhat.com/ -- Black Hat Inc. today announced the keynote 
    speakers for this summer's Black Hat Briefings and Training 2003, the 
    annual conference and workshop designed to help computer professionals 
    better understand the security risks to their computer and information 
    infrastructures by potential threats. This year's show will focus on 10 
    tracks of hot topics including Application Security, Routing & 
    Infrastructure, Policy, Law & Society, Firewalls, Access Control, Physical 
    Security, Incident Response & Computer Forensics, Core Services, Privacy & 
    Anonymity and Intrusion Detection. One of the tracks is also dedicated to 
    various panels of industry pundits. The event is being held July 30 - 31, 
    2003 at the Caesars Palace Hotel and Casino in the heart of Las Vegas.
    
    Top-notch speakers will deliver to the conference's core audience of IT & 
    network security experts, consultants and administrators the newest 
    developments on the vital security issues facing organizations using large 
    networks with a mix of operating systems.
    
    "Black Hat continues to grow this year by adding a 5th track of speakers 
    and 20% more presentations," said Jeff Moss, Founder and Organizer of Black 
    Hat Briefings. "Due to the continuing focus on application security, we 
    have added a second track devoted to this topic. This show will be our 
    largest yet, in attendees, sponsors and speakers. With a keynote from Phil 
    Zimmermann and the CSO of Oracle participating on panels; to a real Federal 
    Judge presiding over The Hacker Court -- new tool and vulnerability 
    releases at this summer's Black Hat will be hot."
    
    The keynote speakers for this year's Black Hat Briefings include:
    
              -- Philip Zimmermann, Creator of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP). He is 
    currently a special advisor and consultant for the PGP Corporation. 
    Zimmermann is best known for being the target of a three-year criminal 
    investigation, because the U.S. Government held that export restrictions 
    for cryptographic software were violated when PGP was spread around the 
    world following its 1991 publication as freeware. Zimmermann currently 
    consults for a number of companies and industry organizations on matters 
    cryptographic, and is also a Fellow at the Stanford Law School's Center for 
    Internet and Society. Before founding PGP Inc, Zimmermann was a software 
    engineer with more than 20 years of experience specializing in cryptography 
    and data security, data communications, and real-time embedded systems.
    
             Zimmermann will also be participating in a panel highlighting "The 
    Law of Vulnerabilities" put together by Gerhard Eschelbeck, CTO of Qualys 
    Inc. The panel also includes Mary Ann Davidson, Chief Security Officer of 
    Oracle, Black Hat organizer Jeff Moss, Simple Nomad, founder of NMRC and a 
    Senior Security Analyst for BindView Corporation, and JD Glaser, President 
    & CEO, NT OBJECTives, Inc. The panel will be moderated by Black 
    Hat-favorite Richard Thieme.
    
              -- Bruce Schneier, Founder and the Chief Technical Officer of 
    Counterpane Internet Security, Inc. Schneier is an internationally renowned 
    security technologist and author of six books on security and cryptography, 
    including the security best seller, "Secrets & Lies: Digital Security in a 
    Networked World." His first book, "Applied Cryptography," has sold over 
    150,000 copies world-wide, and is the definitive work in the field. 
    Schneier will be "Following the Money" in the computer security industry 
    and looking at the influences it has.
    
             -- Marcus Sachs, P.E., Cyber Program Director, Information 
    Analysis and Infrastructure Protection, US Department of Homeland Security. 
    Sachs is responsible for developing the implementation plan for the 
    President's National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace. Marc was previously the 
    Director for Communication Infrastructure Protection in the White House 
    Office of Cyberspace Security and was a staff member of the President's 
    Critical Infrastructure Protection Board. Marc retired from the United 
    States Army in 2001 after serving over 20 years as a Corps of Engineers 
    officer. He specialized during the later half of his career in computer 
    network operations, systems automation, and information technology. His 
    final assignment in the Army was with the Defense Department's Joint Task 
    Force for Computer Network Operations where he was the Senior Operations 
    Analyst and Technical Director.
    
             -- Dario Forte, CFE, CISM. Forte is Security Advisor for the 
    newly-formed European Electronic Crimes Task Force (EECTF) supported by the 
    U.S. Secret Service in Milan. He has been active in the field of 
    information security since 1992. He is 34 years old, with almost 15 years 
    as Police Investigator in the Drug and Organized Crime Enforcement, 
    CyberCrime Unit. He teaches classes and presents lectures on Information 
    Security Management and Incident Response/Forensics at universities and 
    other accredited institutions worldwide. He is an Intrusion Instructor for 
    the Department of Homeland Security Internet Forensics Training Program 
    given at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center.
    
    Other Black Hat Briefings 2003 speakers include:
    
             -- Thomas Akin, Founding Director, Southeast Cybercrime Institute. 
    Akin is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) who 
    has worked in Information Security for almost a decade. He is the founding 
    director of the Southeast Cybercrime Institute a division or Continuing 
    Education at Kennesaw State University. He serves as chairman for the 
    Institute's Board of Advisors and is an active member of the Georgia 
    Cybercrime Task Force.
    
             -- Jay Beale, Senior Research Scientist, George Washington 
    University Cyber Security Policy and Research Institute. Beale is a 
    security specialist focused on host lockdown and security audits. He is the 
    Lead Developer of the Bastille project, which creates a hardening script 
    for Linux, HP-UX, and Mac OS X, a member of the Honeynet Project, and a 
    core participant in the Center for Internet Security.
    
             -- Chris Conacher, Black Hat Consulting. Conacher has over 6 years 
    experience in formal Information Security roles. This time has been spent 
    with the Fortune 500 companies BAE Systems (formerly British Aerospace and 
    Marconi Space Systems), BAE Systems Airbus and Intel Corporation. He has 
    also worked for the Information Risk Management consultancy practice of 
    'Big 5' firm KPMG LLP where he specialized in 'High-Tech' companies. Chris' 
    time in Information Security has seen him working in England, France, 
    Germany, Greece, Russia and the USA. His specialties include the 
    development, deployment and review of corporate information security 
    programs; the secure integration of Mergers & Acquisitions; data protection 
    in disaster recovery planning; and information security business impact 
    analysis.
    
             -- Roger Dingledine, Founder & OWner, Moria Research Labs. 
    Dingledine is a security and privacy researcher. While at MIT under 
    professor Ron Rivest, he developed Free Haven, one of the early 
    peer-to-peer systems that emphasized resource management while retaining 
    anonymity for its users. Currently he consults for the US Navy to design 
    and develop systems for anonymity and traffic analysis resistance. Recent 
    work includes anonymous publishing and communication systems, traffic 
    analysis resistance, censorship resistance, attack resistance for 
    decentralized networks, and reputation.
    
             -- Himanshu Dwivedi, Managing Security Architect, @stake. Dwivedi 
    is a Managing Security Architect at @stake, Inc. At @stake, Himanshu leads 
    the Storage Center of Excellence (CoE), which focuses research and training 
    around storage technology, including Network Attached Storage (NAS) and 
    Storage Area Networks (SAN). Himanshu's focus in security is networking 
    technology and storage architecture, specifically Fibre Channel Security.
    
             -- Jennifer Granick, Litigation Director, Center for Internet and 
    Society, Stanford Law School. Ms. Granick's work focuses on the interaction 
    of free speech, privacy, computer security, law and technology. She is on 
    the Board of Directors for the Honeynet Project and has spoken at the NSA, 
    to law enforcement and to computer security professionals from the public 
    and private sectors in the United States and abroad. Before coming to 
    Stanford Law School, Ms. Granick practiced criminal defense of unauthorized 
    access and email interception cases nationally. She has published articles 
    on wiretap laws, workplace privacy and trademark law.
    
             -- Honorable Philip M. Pro, Chief United States District Judge for 
    the District of Nevada. Judge Pro was appointed United States District 
    Judge for the District of Nevada, at Las Vegas, on July 23, 1987. Judge Pro 
    also served as United States Magistrate Judge for the District of Nevada, 
    from 1980 until his elevation to the District Court, during which he 
    supervised pretrial proceedings in the MGM Grand Hotel Fire Litigation. 
    Judge Pro received his J.D. degree from Golden Gate University School of 
    Law in June 1972.
    
             -- The Honeynet Project is a non-profit, all volunteer security 
    research organization dedicated to researching the blackhat community, and 
    sharing the lessons learned. Made up of thirty security professionals, the 
    Project deploys Honeynet around the world to capture and analyze blackhat 
    activity. These lessons are then shared with the security community. The 
    Honeynet Project began in 1999 and continues to grow with the founding of 
    the Honeynet Research Alliance.
    
             -- Larry Leibrock, Associate Dean and Technology Officer, 
    University of Texas McCombs Business School. Leibrock has held or currently 
    holds clinical teaching and research appointments at McCombs Business 
    School, Institute for Advanced Technology, The University of Texas Law 
    School, Emory University, Helsinki School of Economics and Monterrey 
    Technologica in Mexico City and Monterrey. He is a member of IEEE, ACM, 
    Internet Society, FIRST and USENIX/SAGE and is also a member of the 
    Department of Defense Software Engineering Institute and a participant in 
    the Air Force Software Technology Conference.
    
             -- Neel Mehta, Application Vulnerability Researcher, ISS X-Force. 
    Mehta works as an application vulnerability researcher at ISS X-Force, and 
    like many other security researchers comes from a reverse-engineering 
    background. His reverse engineering experience was cultivated through 
    extensive consulting work in the copy protection field, and has more 
    recently been focused on application security. Neel has done extensive 
    research into binary and source-code auditing, and has applied this 
    knowledge to find many vulnerabilities in critical and widely deployed 
    network applications.
    
             -- Richard Salgado, Senior Counsel, Computer Crime and 
    Intellectual Property Section of the United States Department of Justice. 
    Salgado specializes in investigating and prosecuting computer network 
    cases, such as computer hacking, denial of service attacks, illegal 
    sniffing, logic bombs, viruses and other technology-driven privacy crimes. 
    Often such crimes cross international jurisdictions; Mr. Salgado helps 
    coordinate and manage the investigation and prosecution of those cases and 
    participates in policy development relating to emerging technologies such 
    as the growth of wireless networks, voice-over Internet Protocol, 
    surveillance tools and forensic techniques.
    
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    About Black Hat Inc.
    
    Black Hat Inc. was originally founded in 1997 by Jeff Moss to fill the need 
    for computer security professionals to better understand the security risks 
    and potential threats to their information infrastructures and computer 
    systems. Black Hat accomplishes this by assembling a group of 
    vendor-neutral security professionals and having them speak candidly about 
    the problems businesses face and their solutions to those problems. Black 
    Hat Inc. produces 5 briefing & training events a year on 3 different 
    continents. Speakers and attendees travel from all over the world to meet 
    and share in the latest advances in computer security. For more 
    information, visit their Web site at http://www.blackhat.com
    
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    Black Hat Briefings
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