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Identity Management-"Progress & Best Practices"

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Identity Management-Part 1
Involvement & Priorities

Identity Management-Part 2
Priorities & Best Practices

Identity Management-Part 3
Best Practices and Future Vision


DHS's Mocny on Involvement

FBI's Morris on Involvement

OSD's Dee on Involvement

DHS's Mocny on Top Priorities

FBI's Morris on Top Priorities

OSD's Dee on Top Priorities

DHS's Mocny on Progress & Best Practices

FBI's Morris on Progress & Best Practicies

HP's Donovan on Progress & Best Practices

Juniper Networks Dix on Progress & Best Practices

OSD's Dee on Progress & Best Practices

Safe Net's Moorcones on Progress & Best Practices

DHS's Mocny on Vision for the Future

FBI's Morris on Vision for the Future

HP's Donovan on Vision for the future

Juniper Networks Dix on Vision for the Future

OSD's Dee Vision for the Future

Safe Net's Moorcones on Vision for the Future Part 1

Safe Net's Moorcones on Vision for the Future Part 2


Program will discuss:
  • Progress Report on the Identity Management efforts in the Federal Government
  • Progress & Best Practices with ABIS (DoD), IAFIS (DoJ/FBI), & IDENT (DHS) Programs
  • Challenges still ahead
  • Lessons Learned
  • A Vision for The Future for Identity Management


Panelists:
Bob Mocny- Director, US VISIT Program, DHS
Stephen Morris- FBI CJIS Division's Policy, Administrative and Liaison Branch Deputy Assistant Director
Mr. Tom Dee- Director, Joint Rapid Acquisition Cell, Director, Defense Biometrics, OUSD AT&L / DDR&E, OSD
Michael Donovan- Chief Technologist, HP Enterprise Services
Robert Dix- President, Government Affairs & Critical Infrastructure Protection, Juniper Networks
Joseph J. Moorcones- Corporate Vice President & General Manager Commercial Enterprise Data Protection Division, SafeNet Inc



Moderator: Jim Flyzik -Flyzik Group



About the Panel

Jim Flyzik
President
The Flyzik Group


Jim Flyzik is the President of TheFlyzikGroup www.theflyzikgroup.com . The company specializes in Strategic Business Consulting, Performance Based Contracting Consulting and Training and Thought Leadership media events. The company assists small, medium and large companies in providing world-class government services. Jim also serves as the Chairman of the Information Technology Association of America Committee on Homeland Security. Jim also hosts the monthly radio program, The Federal Executive Forum on WFED 1500 AM and www.federalnewsradio.com .

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 served as Team Leader on Vice President Gore's National Performance Review (NPR) Information Technology Team. Following this assignment, he was selected as Chairman of the Government Information Technology Services Working Group, to implement the NPR Information Technology recommendations and coordinate the government services portion of the National Information Infrastructure (NII). He was given the prestigious Eagle Award as the government information technology executive of the year in 1994, a Meritorious Presidential Rank Award in 1995, the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association Award for Excellence in Information Technology in 1996, the AFFIRM Award for Outstanding Service to the Citizens in 1997, the Industry Advisory Council Award for Special Achievements and Leadership in 1997, the AFFIRM IRM Executive of the Year Award in 1998, and the Distinguished Rank Executive Award from President Clinton in 1999. In 2001 the Federation of Government Information Processing Councils presented him the John J. Franke award for outstanding government service. In March 2002, Jim was selected by the Federal CIO Council to receive the Azimuth Award as the Government Executive of the Year.

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.



Bob Mocny
Director
US VISIT Program - DHS


Robert A. Mocny is Director of the United States Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) program, the largest biometric-based immigration and border management system in the world.

Operated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), US VISIT is part of a continuum of security measures that begins overseas and across our land borders and continues through arrival in and departure from the United States.

Mr. Mocny is responsible for the day-to-day operations of US VISIT. This includes managing the development and deployment of the US-VISIT program, which integrates vital information and makes it available to appropriate federal organizations.

Over the course of his career, he has served in several senior federal government positions related to U.S. immigration policy and operations, including director of the Entry/Exit Project and acting assistant commissioner and assistant chief inspector with the former Immigration and Naturalization Service.

Mr. Mocny is a leading authority on the evolution to an automated entry-exit border system in the United States. He led the establishment of the dedicated commuter lane program Secure Electronic Network for Traveler's Rapid Inspection (SENTRI) at U.S. land border ports and initiated the policy of interagency project teams to meet critical U.S. government mandates.

Mr. Mocny holds a joint degree in Soviet and liberal studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has received numerous awards in his career, including the U.S. vice president's annual Hammer Award for the SENTRI program's innovative use of information technology.



Stephen Morris
FBI CJIS Division's Policy
Administrative and Liaison Branch Deputy Assistant Director


Stephen L. Morris is a native of South Carolina and has been with the FBI for more than 19 years. In 1988, he joined the Bureau as an administrative file clerk in the Honolulu Field Office, and in 1991 was appointed Special Agent, after having graduated from Hawaii Pacific University in 1990. Upon completion of new agents' training at Quantico, Mr. Morris was assigned to the El Paso Field Office, where he primarily investigated violent crimes and drug trafficking, and coordinated the office's Criminal Informant Program. In 1996, Mr. Morris supervised the initiation and implementation of the El Paso Criminal Intelligence Squad, and in 1997 was promoted to Supervisory Special Agent in the Criminal Investigative Division in Washington, D.C.

While assigned to FBI Headquarters, Mr. Morris supervised the FBI's domestic and international Criminal Informant Programs and was actively involved in sophisticated investigations targeting violent crimes, drug trafficking, white-collar crime, and terrorism. In 1999, Mr. Morris received a promotion to the Cincinnati Field Office, where he was assigned responsibility as Supervisory Senior Resident Agent for the Dayton Resident Agency. In Dayton, Ohio, Mr. Morris supervised an investigative squad and initiated multiple task forces targeting violent crime, organized crime, and terrorism. In conjunction with local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies in the Dayton area, Mr. Morris also initiated the region's first computer forensics laboratory based in Montgomery County, Ohio.

In February 2003, Mr. Morris was promoted to Assistant Special Agent in Charge and was assigned to the Houston Field Office. In this capacity, Mr. Morris directed FBI Houston's White-Collar Crime and Civil Rights programs, and was also responsible for all administrative and investigative operations conducted by Houston's six resident agencies covering 39 counties in southeast Texas.

In July 2005, Mr. Morris was promoted into the Senior Executive Service and designated Chief of the Programs Support Section assigned to the CJIS Division in Clarksburg, West Virginia. At the CJIS Division, Mr. Morris managed the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting and LEO programs, and served as Program Manager for the FBI's development of the Law Enforcement National Data Exchange (N-DEx) program.

In March 2006, Mr. Morris was appointed Chief of the FBI's Strategic Information and Operations Center at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C., where he managed the FBI's 24-hour global command center for strategic information and crisis management.

In March 2008, Mr. Morris returned to the CJIS Division where he currently serves as the Deputy Assistant Director of the Policy, Administrative and Liaison Branch.




Michael Donovan
Chief Technologist
HP Enterprise Services



Michael Donovan is an enterprise architect and chief technologist with EDS, an HP company, supporting the needs of the U.S. Department of Defense. Included in this scope is responsibility for technology strategy and development in support of the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, Office of Secretary of Defense, Personnel & Readiness-Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC), Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS), Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) and other defense agencies.

Most recently, Donovan was Chief Architect for the Atlas Consortium, providing the Defence Information Infrastructure (DII) to the UK Ministry of Defence. Previously, he developed and managed enterprise architectures for large organizations in the role of Chief Architect and CTO for the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) and as Chief Architect for EDS' Office of the CIO.

Donovan began his career with EDS in 1986 supporting operations of mainframe systems for General Motors in Auburn Hills, Mich. He moved from there to provide technical leadership for EDS' chargeback systems for cost recovery of mainframe systems utilization. He was Chief Architect for EDS' Service Excellence systems, in use today to track delivery quality and customer satisfaction across the spectrum of EDS clients and services.

Donovan holds five U.S. patents in areas ranging from measurement of computer usage to Web-based customer satisfaction and performance measurement.



Robert Dix
Vice President
Government Affairs & Critical Infrastructure Protection
Juniper Networks



Bob Dix is the Vice President of Government Affairs & Critical Infrastructure Protection for Juniper Networks, an industry leading technology company delivering trusted high performance networking and security solutions to the global marketplace. Mr. Dix has enjoyed a distinguished career in both the public and private sector, and is widely recognized across industry and government as a subject matter expert and a leading policy expert in furthering government - industry partnerships to protect this nation's critical infrastructure. He was honored in 2008 with the prestigious Fed 100 award.

Mr. Dix has served in senior executive positions in the IT sector, as well as appointed and elected positions in the public sector. Prior to joining Juniper, he served as the Executive Vice President for Government Affairs & Corporate Development at Citadel Security Software. While with Citadel and continuing at Juniper, Mr. Dix has been active in IT and Telecommunications industry leadership roles.

Among his various roles with Juniper, Mr. Dix serves on the Industry Executive Subcommittee ( IES ) of the President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee ( NSTAC ). In that role, he represents Juniper and its CEO, who is a Principal member appointed by the President of the United States. Mr. Dix represents Juniper as Chair of the Cyber Collaboration Working Group and on several task forces, examining issues related to national security and emergency preparedness communications. He served as Vice Chair of the Global Infrastructure Resiliency Task Force.

Mr. Dix has served as Chairman of the IT Sector Coordinating Council since April, 2008. He was elected to the inaugural Executive Committee in 2006 and has served previously as Secretary and Vice Chair.

Dix is active with the Partnership for Critical Infrastructure Security ( PCIS ), where he is the principal representative of the IT sector, and was elected to the Executive Committee in 2008. Dix has been active in facilitating improved integration of the private sector CI/KR into the planning and execution of the National Exercise Program, testing our nation's emergency preparedness, including the TOPOFF and Cyber Storm series of National Level Exercises.

Mr. Dix serves in a leadership role with the Industry Advisory Council ( IAC ), where he was elected to the Executive Committee in 2007 following terms as Chair and Vice Chair of the Information Security & Privacy Shared Interest Group.

Dix also represents Juniper Networks on the National Security Task Force of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce and with the Information Technology Association of America ( ITAA ). He continues to represent Juniper and participate with the IT-ISAC and the Communications Sector Coordinating Council, and represents Juniper on the Board of SAFECode.

During the 108th Congress, Mr. Dix served as the Staff Director for the House Government Reform Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and the Census.

Previously Mr. Dix had served as a senior professional staff member to the House Oversight Subcommittee on the District of Columbia during the late 1990's.

During his career, Mr. Dix also was privileged to serve his community as a local government elected official for 12 years. He was elected to the Vienna Town Council in 1988 and re-elected in 1990. In 1991, Mr. Dix was elected to the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors and re-elected in 1995, where he served as the Hunter Mill District representative. During that time, Mr. Dix also served in a number of regional, state, and national municipal leadership positions, including a term as Chairman of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments. Mr. Dix was appointed by the Governor and served as a member and Vice Chairman of the former Virginia Baseball Stadium Authority.

Mr. Dix has also been a community volunteer for his entire adult life, primarily focusing his attention on organizations and activities involving young people and character development. He has coached a variety of sports during his volunteer career including football, baseball, and basketball, and continues today to coach AAU girls' basketball. In addition, he serves as President of the Virginia High School League Foundation Board and as a member of the Board of Trustees for Youth for Tomorrow.




Joseph J. Moorcones
Corporate Vice President & General Manager Commercial Enterprise Data Protection Division
SafeNet Inc.


Joseph Moorcones brings more than 40 years of leadership and experience to SafeNet. Since joining the Company in March 2008 as SafeNet's corporate vice president, Mr. Moorcones has lead the strategic positioning and migration of new technologies into SafeNet. He is responsible for assuring the continued impact of new technologies on the Company's highly successful product portfolios.

In January 2009, Mr. Moorcones was named General Manager of the Commercial Enterprise Data Protection Division (EDP). In this role, he is building the company's comprehensive EDP solution for reducing the cost and complexity of regulatory compliance, data privacy, and information risk management for commercial customers that secures data across the connected enterprise, from core to edge, protecting data at rest, data in transit, and data in use. In addition, the Office of the CTO reports into Mr. Moorcones.

Mr. Moorcones joins SafeNet from Johnson & Johnson, a Fortune 50 company, where he was the Vice President of Worldwide Information Security. In that capacity, he established the Company security strategies and technologies, and oversaw the security implementation of the worldwide information asset protection program that spans 250 independent operating companies within Johnson & Johnson and more than 100,000 global Enterprise users.

Prior to his 10-year tenure with Johnson & Johnson, Mr. Moorcones was the Assistant Deputy Director for Information Security at the United States National Security Agency. During his 24-year career at the agency, he held senior executive positions in information security research and technology, design & manufacturing, strategic planning, business process re-engineering and business development.

Mr. Moorcones also served on the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection, which developed a report of national policy and strategy recommendations for the President to ensure the availability and continued operation of the United States five critical infrastructures (Information & Communications, Energy, Banking & Finance, Physical Distribution, and Vital Human Services).




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