Cybersecurity Conference (2010) Speaker Profiles
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Nada Marie Anid, Ph.D.
Professor and Dean
School of Engineering and Computing Sciences
Year(s) Attended: 2015 – 2010
Dr. Anid earned her Ph.D. in environmental engineering from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), and bachelor's and master's degrees in chemical engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH-Stockholm). She is among the first engineers to study the role of vitamin B12 and other organometallic coenzymes in the dechlorination of important toxic molecules such as carbon tetrachloride and polychlorinated biphenyls. Prior to joining NYIT, she was chair and graduate program director of the Chemical Engineering Department at Manhattan College.
She has been named one of the top 50 most influential women in business in recognition of her business acumen, mentoring, and community involvement by Long Island Business News and as a third-time honoree, was recently inducted into the LIBN Hall of Fame. Dr. Anid also received the 2010 Long Island Software and Technology Network (LISTnet) Diamond Award in recognition of her significant contributions toward the advancement of women in technology on Long Island as well as for her professional achievements in the technology field.
Nada Marie Anid, Ph.D., is the first female dean of NYIT's School of Engineering and Computing Sciences (SoECS). In this role, she oversees 77 engineering and computing sciences faculty members and approximately 1,700 graduate and undergraduate students at campuses located in Manhattan and Old Westbury, N.Y., the Middle East, and China.
Kenneth Brancik, Ph.D.
Author and Consultant
Year(s) Attended: 2010
Dr. Kenneth Brancik is considered one of the world’s foremost thought leaders in information security, with over a quarter century of IT and information security-related work experience and advanced education. He is the author of the book Insider Computer Fraud: An In-depth Framework for Detecting and Defending against Insider IT Attacks. Dr. Brancik has served as a director and security advisor for Verizon Business Security Solutions and more recently as senior executive security consultant within Verizon Business’s Professional Security Solutions (PSS) group. Prior to those positions, he was as a federal bank regulator within the United States Treasury Department’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and within the IT Operational Risk group at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Dr. Brancik also worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP’s Assurance and Business Advisory Services in Washington, D.C., where he served in an audit and advisory capacity to federal government agencies. Dr. Brancik’s initial work experience was as staff IT auditor within Merrill Lynch’s New York City World Financial Headquarters during the Y2K and EMU currency conversion years. Dr. Brancick also held the position of vice president for Citigroup, where he functioned within their PRR department to ensure business units complied with standards for software development projects.
Gale A. Brewer
Manhattan Borough President
Year(s) Attended: 2015, 2010
Gale A. Brewer is the 27th Manhattan Borough President. Brewer previously served on the City Council for 12 years. As councilmember, she successfully passed legislation guaranteeing paid sick leave for most hourly employees, compelling landlords to fix repeat violations, requiring all city data be published online, and implementing the nation's first law protecting domestic workers. She was the founding chair of the Council's Technology Committee in 2002.
Immediately prior to her election to the City Council, Brewer served as project manager for the NYC Nonprofits Project at CUNY's Graduate Center, and before that worked for the Telesis Corporation, a private firm that builds affordable housing in New York City
Prior to her nonprofit and private-sector experiences, Brewer served in city government in various roles, including as New York City Deputy Public Advocate, Director of Mayor David Dinkins' Federal Office in New York City, Executive Director of the Mayor's Commission on the Status of Women, and Chief of Staff to West Side Council Member Ruth W. Messinger.
Brewer has an M.P.A. from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. She did her undergraduate work at Columbia University and Bennington College.
Bill Cheswick
AT&T Research
Year(s) Attended: 2010
Bill Cheswick is an early innovator in Internet security. He is known for his work in firewalls, proxies, and Internet mapping at Bell Labs and Lumeta Corp. He is best known for a book he co-authored with Steve Bellovin and Avi Rubin entitled Firewalls and Internet Security; Repelling the Wily Hacker. He is now a member of the technical staff at AT&T Labs-Research in Florham Park, N.J., where he is working on security, visualization, user interfaces, and a variety of other projects.
Abstract: Rethinking Passwords
Passwords and PINs are used everywhere these days, but their use is often painful. Traditional password advice and rules are seldom appropriate for today's threats, yet we labor with the password rules and servers of yesteryear. Strong passwords are weakening our security, and it is time to fix that. There are numerous proposals for new password solutions. A few half-baked ideas will be presented, but many good solutions are available now. We are facing much more worrisome security challenges: We ought to get this easy stuff right.
Eric Cole, Ph.D. (M.S., '94)
CTO
McAfee, Inc.
Year(s) Attended: 2010
Dr. Eric Cole is an industry-recognized security expert with more than 20 years of hands-on experience. He performs leading-edge security consulting and works in research and development to advance the state-of-the-art in information systems security. Dr. Cole has experience in information technology with a focus on perimeter defense, secure network design, vulnerability discovery, penetration testing, and intrusion detection systems. He earned a master's degree in computer science from NYIT and a Ph.D. from Pace University with a concentration in information security. Dr. Cole is the author of several books, including Hackers Beware, Hiding in Plain Site, Network Security Bible, and Insider Threat. He is the inventor of more 20 patents and is a prolific researcher, writer, and speaker. He is also a member of the Commission on Cyber Security for the 44th President and several executive advisory boards. Dr. Cole is also the CTO of the Americas for McAfee and is actively involved with the SANS Technology Institute (STI) and SANS working with students, teaching, and maintaining and developing courseware. Dr. Cole is a SANS faculty fellow and course author.
Abstract: Future Trends in Network Security
Malicious code and other attacks are increasing in intensity and in the damage they cause. With little time to react, organizations have to become more proactive in their security stance. Reactive security will no longer work. Therefore, organizations need to better understand what the future trends, risks, and threats are so that they can be better prepared to make their organizations as secure as possible. Dr. Cole's in-depth, cross-industry experience allows him to give relevant examples in every instance. This presentation covers security issues that are relevant to IT managers and administrators alike.
David Dewey, Ph.D.
Manager
IBM Security
Year(s) Attended: 2010
David Dewey manages IBM Security’s Advanced Technology Strategy Team, which is responsible for the development of new security engines and product lines for the IBM Security host and network intrusion prevention lines (formerly ISS Proventia). Prior to this role, Dewey managed the esteemed X-Force Advanced R&D team at IBM Internet Security Systems. He has also served as a researcher and discovered, reported, and created proof-of-concept exploits for vulnerabilities in many popular web servers and application servers including Oracle Application Server and Sybase Application Server. He discovered and created proof-of-concept exploit code for vulnerabilities in the Microsoft USB stack, which he presented at Black Hat 2005. Most recently, he has directed his research in the area of Microsoft COM, where he identified several vulnerabilities in the Microsoft ATL that were presented at Black Hat 2009.
Before joining IBM, Dewey served as a pre-sales engineer and security researcher for SPI Dynamics, where he specialized in web application security. His responsibilities included demonstrating the threat posed by hosting insecure web applications for potential customers. Dewey also conducted penetration tests for many large corporations, researched new web application vulnerabilities, and created checks for SPI Dynamics’ web application scanning product.
Dewey holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Va., and is pursuing a Ph.D. in computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Carrie Gates, Ph.D.
V.P. Research
CA Labs
Year(s) Attended: 2010
Dr. Carrie Gates is vice president of research with CA Labs, the research arm of CA Technologies, and is responsible for performing research that has the potential to impact the strategic direction of CA Technologies products and services. Part of this involves identifying opportunities within business units that can be transformed into research relationships performed in collaboration with university faculty and students. Prior to joining CA Technologies, Dr. Gates was an analyst with CERT, Carnegie Mellon University, where she performed research in network security and large-scale traffic analysis. Dr. Gates has more than 40 peer-reviewed publications in the computer and network security field. Her current research interests include insider threat detection, visualization, and usable security, as well as sense-making and network traffic analysis.
Edward Guiliano, Ph.D.
President
New York Institute of Technology
Year(s) Attended: 2015 – 2010
Edward Guiliano has led New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) to worldwide prestige, particularly in the fields of architecture, medicine, communications, engineering, business, and educational technology.
An eloquent spokesman and advocate for the environment and sustainability, global higher education, and educational technology, Dr. Guiliano is a frequent keynote speaker at conferences around the globe. Since he became the university's president in 2000, NYIT has significantly increased the size and quality of its diverse student body of 13,000 students from nearly 50 U.S. states and 100 nations this year; added more than 400 distinguished faculty members; and opened campuses and sites in North America, the Middle East, Asia, and online to complement NYIT's hub campuses in Manhattan and Long Island, New York.
During this time, NYIT has undergone a major renovation of campus facilities while branding itself to raise its national and international profile. The administration also created a 2030 strategic plan to position NYIT as a model for a 21st-century global university. NYIT has been consistently ranked as one of America's best colleges by leading publications.
In March 2012, in recognition of Dr. Guiliano's commitment, scholarship, philanthropy, and transformational long-standing leadership, NYIT named its flagship Manhattan campus building on Broadway the Edward Guiliano Global Center.
Dr. Guiliano holds a bachelor's degree from Brown University and a doctorate from Stony Brook University. He has been awarded two honorary degrees and received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor for his personal accomplishments, social compassion, and outstanding contributions to American society. He is married to best-selling author Mireille Guiliano.
Steve Hanna
Engineer
Juniper Networks
Year(s) Attended: 2010
Steve Hanna is a distinguished engineer at Juniper Networks. As co-chair of the Trusted Network Connect Work Group in the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) and the Network Endpoint Assessment Working Group in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Hanna has a deep and broad understanding of network security. He is the author of many papers, an inventor or co-inventor of 34 issued U.S. patents, and a frequent speaker at industry events.
Abstract: Coordinated Security: A New Paradigm
Today's security environment is composed of isolated independent systems, unable to share information in a structured and actionable way. A Network Access Control (NAC) system authenticates the user and checks endpoint health but cannot pass this information to or receive an alarm from an Intrusion Detection System (IDS). New open standards enable such information sharing, thus addressing complex attacks and reducing costs.
Ayat Jafari, Ph.D.
Professor
NYIT
Year(s) Attended: 2011, 2010
Ayat Jafari, Ph.D., is a Professor of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering at NYIT. Prior to joining NYIT in 1986, he worked at Philips Laboratories, Briarcliff Manor, New York. At NYIT, he has chaired the Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science Department. He is currently the Associate Dean for Graduate Programs, Global, and Special Initiatives in the School of Engineering and Computing Sciences at NYIT. Dr. Jafari's research interests span the areas of computer networks, cyber security, fuzzy logic and neural networks. He is a senior member of IEEE and the Director of the Computer, Network and Information Security (CNIS) laboratory at NYIT. Dr. Jafari received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from City University of New York.
Gerald Mannarino
Director, Computer System Engineering
New York Power Authority
Year(s) Attended: 2010
Abstract: Security for the Power Grid
Nasir Memon, Ph.D.
Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Department,
NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering
Year(s) Attended: 2015, 2010
Nasir Memon, Ph.D., is the founder and director of the Information Systems and Internet Security Laboratory at NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering. He is also the founding director of NYU's Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Security and Privacy a collaborative initiative of multiple schools within NYU, including Steinhardt, Wagner, Stern, and Courantas as well as the university's Abu Dhabi campus
Memon is an affiliate faculty member in the computer science department of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU.
His research interests include digital forensics, biometrics, data compression, network security, and human behavior and security
Memon earned a B.E. in Chemical Engineering and an M.S. in Mathematics from BITS Pilani, India. He received an M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Nebraska.
He has published over 250 articles in journals and conference proceedings and holds a dozen patents in image compression and security. He has won several honors including the Jacobs Excellence in Education Award and several best paper awards. He has served on the editorial boards of many journals and was the editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Information Security and Forensics, a publication of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers.
Memon is an IEEE fellow and an SPIE fellow for his contributions to image compression and multimedia security and forensics. He co-founded the Digital Assembly and Vivic Networks, two early-stage start-ups in NYU Polytechnic's business incubators.
Steven Rubin (B.S., '94)
Dilworth & Barrese, LLP
Year(s) Attended: 2010
Steven Rubin has more than 10 years experience in counseling clients on patent -related matters. He is the chairman of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Long Island Section Power & Energy (PES) and Industrial Applications Joint Societies Chapter, and the Legal Affairs Section Officer for the Long Island chapter. He is a prolific author and lecturer on patent law, and writes a regular column on intellectual property law for the Long Island Chapter of the IEEE. He is frequently called upon by the media to comment on recent events in patent law. Recently, he was quoted by IP Law & Business, Forbes, Information Week, macnewsworld.com, ecommercetimes.com, TechNewsWorld, Linuxinsider, EE Times, IPLaw360.com, and Information Display magazine. Mr. Rubin is licensed to practice law in New York and New Jersey and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He is a graduate of Hofstra University School of Law (J.D., 1997) and New York Institute of Technology (B.S. in electrical engineering, 1994).
Abstract: Protecting and Securing Intellectual Property for Computing Inventions
Intangible intellectual property is easy to steal and conceptually difficult to protect, despite the significant investment that may be involved in generating the property. This presentation will focus on the several types of intellectual property protection available and focus on patents. The basic requirements for patent protection, focusing on issues relating to computing systems, will be discussed, in addition to the four doors that must be passed in order to obtain patent protection in the United States: statutory subject matter, novelty, non-obviousness, and written description requirements. Also covered are some recent court decisions specifically ruling on computing inventions.
Paul Stirpe, Ph.D.
Professor, NYIT
Principal, Letse
Year(s) Attended: 2014, 2010
In the past 25 years, Paul Stirpe has been a researcher at IBM and T.J. Watson Research Centre and a professor of computer science at NYIT, and he has held various IT and security advisement positions in the financial services industry for Reuters, Credit Suisse, Wolters Kluwer, and Bunge Corporation. He has authored numerous patents and research papers.
Stirpe is the founder of Letse, LLC, (Letse.com), a global software and services corporation with offices in New York and Kolkata, India, and more than 15 years of business in financial services. Letse is a technology partner for premier Wall Street and European banks with international presences and is a thought leader in cloud computing for the financial services industry. Stirpe leads the security consultancy Stratta Group (strattagroup.com) focused on providing expert security technology advisement and solutions, and is the chief technology officer of GlobeArc Corporation (globearc.com), a leading provider of business solutions for investors in hedge funds. Stirpe received his Ph.D. in computer science from Boston University in 1992.