Cyber Security

Program will discuss:

• How do we protect the critical infrastructures in the federal & state/local government

• How do we securely share intelligence information

• What about some of the new technology standards in security

• Best Practices and Case Studies

Patti Titus CISO - TSA

Dennis Heretick CISO - DoJ

Dr. Ron Ross Chief Computer Scientist - NIST

Phil Heneghan CIO - USAID

John McCumber Strategic Program Manager, Public Sector Group - Symantec Corporation

Tim Kelleher Vice President, Enterprise Security Services, Federal Systems - Unisys Corporation

About the Panel

Jim served over 27 years in the federal government. He served as Senior Advisor to Governor Ridge in the White House Office of Homeland Security (OHS). He provided advice to OHS on the National Strategy and Information Management in support of the OHS mission. From February 1998 until December 2002, Jim also served as the Vice Chair of the Federal Government CIO Council overseeing numerous governmentwide IT initiatives. He was also a member of the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board.

Prior to this, from August 1997 until April 2002, Jim was the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Information Systems and Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the Department of the Treasury. He provided oversight, strategic planning and management direction on over $3.0 billion in annual information technology and information infrastructure programs within Treasury and its fourteen Bureaus. Jim also served as the Acting Assistant Secretary for Management for the Treasury Department from January 20, 2001 until February 8, 2002. In that role he provided oversight of all Treasury bureaus and served as the principal policy advisor to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary on matters involving the internal management of the Department and its bureaus. Jim received the Secretary Certificate of Appreciation on February 12, 2002 for his efforts during this transition period.

Prior to his Treasury positions, Jim worked for 15 years at the U.S. Secret Service where he held key IT management positions, including the Chief of the Communications Division, providing world class telecommunications in support of Secret Service tactical and operational requirements.

Jim has extensive public speaking experience and frequently serves as a featured speaker at industry events. He has developed, and currently teaches part-time, a graduate level course on Information Systems Security and Risk Assessment at the University of Maryland. Jim was given the Stanley J. Drazek Excellence in Teaching Award in 1998 by the University of Maryland.

Jim has an undergraduate degree in Business Administration and Computer Science and a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Maryland with an area of concentration in Information Systems Management.

Since joining public service in March 2000, Ms. Titus has been assigned to various emerging technology projects and has worked extensively on enterprise network security projects. Before joining public service Ms. Titus worked in start up companies within the DC metropolitan area as Vice President of Sales and Marketing. She spent several years in the Information Technology industry in various capacities. Prior to this she spent approximately 13 years living and working overseas with her family while on duty with the US State Department, Department of Defense, and Government of Switzerland.

Ms. Titus has two children Heather Wood, 25 years old and Ryan Wood, 23 years old. She is currently engaged to be married to Thomas Wiesner, Deputy CIO at the Department of Labor with an early 2008 wedding planned. She enjoys spending time hiking with her two dogs and is an avid reader.

In April 2005, Mr. Heretick was selected as the recipient of the Federal CIO Leadership Award. This award recognized his accomplishments in implementing a comprehensive Federal IT Security Program. Mr. Heretick was selected for the Federal 100 Award in 2006. Through his exemplary leadership in implementing innovative, enterprise-wide security solutions, the Department of Justice IT Security Council was selected for the SecurE-Biz 2005 Cyber Security Team Award.

Dr. Ross previously served as the Director of the National Information Assurance Partnership, a joint activity of NIST and the National Security Agency. A 1973 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, Dr. Ross served in a variety of leadership and technical positions during his twenty-year career in the United States Army. While assigned to the National Security Agency, he received the Scientific Achievement Award for his work on a national information security project and was awarded the Defense Superior Service Medal upon his departure from the Agency. During his military career, Dr. Ross served as a White House aide and as a senior technical advisor to the Department of the Army. Dr. Ross is a graduate of the Program Management School at the Defense Systems Management College and holds both Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the United States Naval Postgraduate School.

During his military career, Mr. McCumber also served in the Defense Information Systems Agency and on the Joint Staff at the Pentagon as Information Warfare Officer during the Persian Gulf War. In addition to his professional responsibilities at Symantec Corporation, Mr. McCumber is currently a Professorial Lecturer in Information Security at The George Washington University in Washington, DC and is technical editor and a monthly columnist for Security Technology and Design magazine. Mr. McCumber is the author of Assessing and Managing Security Risk in IT Systems: a Structured Methodology from Auerbach Publications. He lives in Oakton, Virginia and Cary, North Carolina.

Tim started his career with AT&T in 1979 and held various management positions over his 21 year career with the firm including six years with Bell Labs. While in the AT&T government markets business unit, he developed AT&T's operational solution for the original FTS2000 contract, and subsequently held a number of other positions in support of that contract until ultimately assuming the responsibility for the program P&L of $350 million annually. Tim then became one of the founding executives and a vice president and general manager in AT&T Solutions where he helped launch the IT Outsourcing and Managed Services business unit. While in this position, he assumed the leadership role for the $1.1 billion managed services contract with Textron Inc.

Tim left AT&T in 2000 to become the chief operating officer of FastTide, Inc., an Internet content delivery networking start-up firm located in McLean Va. After a number of years in the start up arena, Tim joined Booz Allen Hamilton in 2003 where he led the development of an IT managed services practice in the Communications Services business unit.

Tim joined Unisys in 2004 as the partner and vice president and general manager of the Global Infrastructure Services business unit in support of the U.S. federal government Civilian agencies where he successfully led the capture of more than $200M worth of infrastructure managed services.

Tim holds a master's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Clarkson University and has completed the Advanced Management Program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.