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ITSEF 2009 Agenda
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM Registration and Continental Breakfast
Foyer
8:30 AM - 10:10 AM General Session
McCaw Hall
8:30 AM - 8:45 AM Welcome Remarks
- Bob Bragdon, Publisher, CSO Magazine
Introductory Remarks
- Robert D. Rodriguez, Chairman and Founder, Security Innovation Network, IT Security Entrepreneurs' Forum
8:45 AM - 9:15 AM Opening Keynote
- LTG Keith Alexander, Director, National Security Agency
9:15 AM - 10:00 AM
Panel: Supply Chain Security Risks, Challenges and Specific Innovation Needs
The critical importance of addressing our country's supply chain challenges cannot wait any longer In particular for solution providers/entrepreneurs that build IT security software, firmware and hardware products. The goal of this panel is to educate and raise awareness of the problem, consequences, best practices, requirements and specific needs of innovative solutions that may help mitigate risk to this important issue. Increasing a discipline of best practices and defining a culture within your company towards mitigating risk to this problem should be of paramount importance. By taking responsibility to adequately address supply chain challenges within your company we will minimize the risk of products being compromised. In particular, the products that are embedded into our nation's critical infrastructures and command and control operating systems which ultimately impact the national security of our country.
Moderator:
- Matthew D. Howard, General Partner Norwest Venture Partners
Panelists:
- David Jevans, Chief Executive Officer, IronKey Inc.
- John Stewart, VP, CSO, Cisco Systems
- Dr. James I. Finley, Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer, The Finley Group, LLC
Former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology, Department of Defense - Mitchell Komaroff, Director, Globalization Task Force, Department of Defense
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM BREAK
Foyer
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM General Session
McCaw Hall
10:30 AM - 11:20 AM
Panel: Critical Infrastructure
Moderator:
- Dr. Douglas Maughan, Program Manager, Department of Homeland Security, Science & Technology Cyber Security Research & Development Program
Panelists:
- Richard Jackson, CISO, Chevron
- John Carlson, SVP, BITS/Financial Services Roundtable
- Marcus H. Sachs, Executive Director, National Security Policy, Verizon
11:20 AM - 12:10 PM
Panel: Is There An Innovation Crisis in America?
As we face a global liquidity crisis, what are the implications for the continuing pace of innovation in America? Silicon Valley may still dominate capital committed to new business formation and America still attracts the lion's share (85%) of global venture capital dollars, but for how long? Will increased regulation and economic disincentives for entrepreneurs and venture capitalists kill the entrepreneurial spirit that has defined America's historic success? Judy Estrin's recent book, "Closing the Innovation Gap" argues that the fundamental cycle of innovation in the united States is broken. Is she correct? Will entrepreneurs leave the U.S. And take their intellectual capital to Asia and other countries? What are some of the public policy and private industry responses to the innovation crisis? Pascal Levensohn of Levensohn Venture Partners moderates a panel of experts, including Lesa Mitchell, Vice President of Advancing Innovation at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, to identify the structural signs of an incipient innovation crisis in the U.S., assess the national security implications of such a crisis, and debate the extent to which innovation is waxing or waning in our country.
Moderator:
- Pascal N. Levensohn, Founder and Managing Partner, Levensohn Venture Partners, Honorary Forum Chairman
Panelists:
- Dr. Curtis Carlson, President & CEO, SRI International, Inc.
- Gururaj "Desh" Deshpande, Chairman, Sparta Group LLC
- Lesa Mitchell, Vice President, Advancing Innovation, Kauffman Foundation
12:10 PM - 1:45 PM Networking Lunch
McCaw Hall Lawn
The ITSEF is providing the opportunity for attendees to sit down in an informal and intimate (8 - 10 per table) setting with security leaders from private industry, Federal Government and venture capital. This optional "Information Sharing Hour" is designed to promote awareness and learning opportunities on how solution providers can best shape their vision, roadmap and assess their current path to meet the market needs.
1:45 PM - 3:25 PM General Session
McCaw Hall
1:45 PM - 2:35 PM
Panel: What are the Challenges, Processes and Technology Needs to Ensure Mission Assurance
This panel will discuss plans to close the cyber vulnerability gaps today (stop the bleeding) and for tomorrow. They will delve into the specific details of IA metrics, technology needs, processes, requirements and operations needed to ensure a safe IA program. How these all come together in a seamless architecture and how this is applicable to the audience. Information will be shared on how solution providers can be of value-add. What the DoD, DISA and NSA are doing to ensure IA and how does this fit with solution provider's technology development roadmaps.?
Moderator:
- Robert F. Lentz, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber, Information and Identity Assurance and DoD Chief Information Assurance Officer
Panelists:
- Richard Hale, Chief Information Assurance Executive, Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)
- Christopher Perry, Senior Technical Director, Cyber Security, CACI International
- Richard C. Schaeffer Jr. Information Assurance Director, National Security Agency (NSA)
- Willis Janssen, Chief, Systems & Network Analysis Center, National Security Agency
2:35 PM - 3:25 PM
Panel: Future Threats: What am I NOT Seeing on CNN?
The Internet as we know it did not originate or evolve with security as a primary objective. As Internet use has become more commercial and ubiquitous, however, the need for a more secure infrastructure has increased. Most security solutions today are added to the network and information systems that were not designed from the "ground up" with security in mind. In addition, our critical infrastructure (financial, energy and public utilities, transportation, border control, etc.) increasingly relies on the same transport technology derived from the first-generation Internet.
Today we are increasingly exposed to a broad and growing range of cyber threats, from foreign government attacks, to terrorism, to organized crime, industrial espionage and malicious mischief. Many of these attacks can also lead to implicit or explicit threats to our physical security, such as panic due to financial system lock-out, poor threat detection at the borders, transit system manipulation, etc. What should we be on the lookout for, what preventative steps can be taken and are there long-term solutions that industry and government should be working towards?
Moderator:
- Jeff Karras, General Partner, Levensohn Venture Partners
Panelists:
- Bill Crowell, Security Consultant, Former Deputy Director NSA, Former CEO of Cylink, Corp.
- Lewis Shepherd, CTO, Institute for Advanced Technology in Governments, Microsoft
- Mark Weatherford, CISO, State of California
3:25 PM - 4:00 PM BREAK
Foyer
4:00 PM - 5:20 PM General Session
McCaw Hall
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM
Presentation: Choosing Technology Partners in a Competitive Market, Why Some Make it and Others Do Not
- Dave Bryan, President, ManTech International Corporation, Defense Systems Group
General Bryan served as the Vice Director of DISA and Commander, Joint Task Force Global Network Operations and will discuss what he uses today to effectively screen and choose technology partners. He will also speak to his experience as the VP of Defense Group, Northrop Grumman IT when he attended the inaugural ITSEF where he met and invited 12 emerging companies to Washington DC for review. He will describe his thought process on why he selected 5 of the 12 companies to work with and not the other seven. As President of ManTech International's billion-dollar Defense Systems Group, General Bryan is initiating a major cyber business campaign and is actively looking for emerging companies who have leading edge technologies and services that are differentiators in a very competitive market. He will discuss hot topics, his understanding of how the new administration will affect technology purchases, what is going on in the marketplace, his priorities for the immediate future and associated capital expenditures.
4:45 PM - 5:15 PM Closing Keynote:
- John W. Thompson, Chairman of the Board & CEO, Symantec Corporation
5:15 PM - 5:20 PM Closing Remarks
- Robert D. Rodriguez, Chairman and Founder, Security Innovation Network, IT Security Entrepreneurs' Forum