Cybersecurity Conference (2011) 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.
Thomas D. Bianculli
Senior Director, Emerging Business Office
CTO, Motorola Solutions, Inc.
Year(s) Attended: 2011
Tom Bianculli serves as the Senior Director of Emerging Business Opportunities within the Chief Technology Office of Motorola's Enterprise Mobility Solutions (EMS) business. In this role, Tom is responsible for the exploration and development of new business opportunities and product solutions that fall adjacent to the current enterprise businesses.
Tom joined Symbol Technologies, Inc. in 1994 as a product development engineer in the Advanced Data Capture business in Holtsville, NY. In 1998, he co-led the development of the company's first and industry's leading imaging based two-dimensional handheld data capture product. This development effort was executed in partnership with Olympus Optical Co. Ltd. while living in Tokyo, Japan.
Over the next several years Tom held positions of increased responsibility. As larger investments were made in the emerging imaging data capture product category, he provided technical leadership for the business in this area. Tom formed and led several cross-functional teams from architectural strategy development, working to deliver improved product cycle times, to the formation of a competitive analysis team, focused on delivering competitive content to engineering and sales teams.
In 2004, Tom led the definition, implementation and foundational intellectual property for the data capture division's device management solutions, creating competitive advantage and a clear linkage between the company's products and services and overall vision of enterprise device manageability. He was appointed Director of Electrical Engineering that same year, where he was responsible for managing the electrical engineering product development team for the advanced data capture business.
Just prior to Motorola's acquisition of Symbol Technologies in 2007, Tom was tasked with forming the engineering team within a newly created organization, the Emerging Business Office (EBO). Tom built the initial EBO process, engineering team, budget and definition of key initiatives. Most recently, he was appointed the leader of the EBO organization including both engineering and business development functions. Currently, this team has relationships with key decision makers at major customers, a pipeline of growth initiatives and is executing on projects to drive revenue in new areas and product categories for EMS.
Tom has been granted 19 U.S. patents and is a Motorola Distinguished Innovator. Tom holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnic University, NYU.
Kenneth Brancik, Ph.D.
Managing Director
Northrop Grumman Cyber Security Research (NGCRC)
Year(s) Attended: 2011
Dr. Kenneth Brancik has been a leader for more than 30 years in technology and information assurance for financial services and the federal government in the public and private sectors. He is currently the Managing Director of the Northrop Grumman Cybersecurity Research Consortium and Cyber Architect for the Technology and Engineering Group at NGC. His past work experience includes Director, Trusted Security Advisor, and Consultant for VerizonBusiness Security Solutions Group; Manager for PricewaterhouseCoopers' Advisory and Business Assurance Services in support of the federal government; Senior Technology Examiner at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Technology and Safety and Soundness National Bank Examiner for The United States Treasury Department's Office of the Comptroller of the Currency; Vice President and Manager for Citigroup's Technology Project and Risk Review Group; and Corporate Technology Auditor for Merrill Lynch & Co.
He earned his Doctorate in Computer Science at Pace University (2005) and a Master's Degree in Management and Systems from New York University (2002). Dr. Brancik is the author of the book, Insider Computer Fraud: An In-depth Framework for Detecting and Defending Against Insider IT Attacks, and has co-authored various white papers on cyber security, including "The Optimization of Situational Awareness for Insider Threat Detection," presented this year during the Proceedings of the First ACM Conference on Application Security and Privacy in San Antonio, Texas. He holds several certifications in professional security.
Gale A. Brewer
Manhattan Borough President
Year(s) Attended: 2015, 2011
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.
Timothy Brown
SVP Chief Security Architect and Distinguished Engineer
CA Technologies, Security Business
Year(s) Attended: 2011
Tim Brown is a SVP distinguished engineer and chief security architect for the Security business unit at CA Technologies. He has overall technical direction and oversight responsibilities for the CA security products. With more than 20 years of information security expertise, Brown has been involved in many areas of security including identity and access management, security compliance, threat research, vulnerability management, encryption and managed security services. He has worked with many companies and government agencies to implement sound and practical security policies and solutions. He is an avid inventor with over 20 filed patents, is on the board of the Open Identity Exchange, and has provided expert testimony at a U.S. Congressional hearing entitled "Cyber Security R&D." He also is a frequent speaker on the evolution of security and cloud computing.
Gregory Conti, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Director,
Army Cyber Institute, U.S. Military Academy at West Point
Year(s) Attended: 2015, 2011
Gregory Conti has a B.S. from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, an M.S. from Johns Hopkins University, and a Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology—all in computer science. He is the author of the books Security Data Visualization (No Starch Press) and Googling Security (Addison-Wesley), and has published over 75 articles and papers on cyber conflict, online privacy, usable security, and security data visualization. Conti has published academic research in a variety of scholarly venues and spoken at numerous security conferences, including Black Hat, DEF CON, CyCon, HOPE, Interz0ne, ShmooCon, and RSA. For more information about his work, follow him on Twitter @cyberbgone and visit his website at gregconti.com.
Jeff Crume
Distinguished Engineer
IBM Security Solutions Technical Sales
Year(s) Attended: 2011
Jeff Crume is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and IT Security Architect with 28 years experience in the IT industry. He is the author of a book entitled "Inside Internet Security: What Hackers Don't Want You To Know" and has written articles on cryptography, virtual private networking and identity management. He holds CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) and ISSAP (Information Systems Security Architecture Professional) security industry certifications as well as Distinguished Chief IT Architect credentials from The Open Group. Jeff lived in Beijing on assignment in 2006 where he helped architect secure infrastructures for clients in the Greater China geography. He is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology and serves on the NC State University Computer Science Strategic Advisory Board, the "Information Management & Computer Security" research journal editorial board and has worked with clients in 40 countries across 6 continents.
Gustavo de los Reyes, Ph.D.
Director of Technology Security
AT&T
Year(s) Attended: 2011
Gus is an Executive Director of Technology Security in AT&T. Gus leads the AT&T Security Research Center under the AT&T Chief Security Officer – Ed Amoroso. He has been working on security since 1998 starting with AT&T WorldNet security – AT&T's first consumer Internet service. Gus has had responsibility for defining the security architecture and security requirements for key AT&T IP Services such as AT&T Business and Consumer VoIP Services.Gus began working at AT&T Bell Labs (later AT&T Labs) in 1988 doing design and development of automatic photonic manufacturing systems. He has also contributed to AT&T in the areas of robust design of wireless devices and systems, and service delivery. Before joining AT&T, Gus designed digital control systems for General Electric Aircraft Engines. Gus has a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University. He has a BSME and MSE from MIT.
Raj Goel, (B.S. '94), CISSP
CTO
Brainlink International, Inc.
Year(s) Attended: 2013, 2012, 2011
Raj Goel, CISSP, is an IT and information security expert with more than 20 years of experience in developing security solutions for the banking, financial services, healthcare, and pharmaceutical industries. A well-known authority on regulations and compliance issues, Raj has presented at information security conferences across the United States and Canada. He is a regular speaker on PCI-DSS, HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, and other technology and business issues, and he has addressed a diverse audience of technologists, policy-makers, front-line workers, and corporate executives.
Goel works with small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) of 10-200 employees to help grow their revenues and profitability. He also works with hospitals and regional medical centers across the northeastern United States (including New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, and Pennsylvania), helping them meet HIPAA compliance requirements and utilizing health information systems (HIS) effectively. He received his B.S. in computer science from New York Institute of Technology.
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.
Ayat Jafari, Ph.D.
Professor
NYIT
Year(s) Attended: 2011
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.
Nasir Memon, Ph.D.
Director, Information Systems and Internet Security Laboratory
NYU-Poly
Year(s) Attended: 2011
Nasir Memon is a Professor in the computer science department at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, New York. He is the director of the Information Systems and Internet Security (ISIS) lab at Polytechnic.
Prof. Memon's research interests include Digital Forensics, Data Compression, Computer and Network Security and Multimedia Computing and Security. He has published more than 250 articles in journals and conference proceedings and holds patents in image compression and security with six more pending application. He has won several awards including the NSF CAREER award and the Jacobs Excellence in Education award. His research has been featured in NBC nightly news, NY Times, MIT Review, Wired.Com, New Science Magazine etc.
He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Information Security and Forensics and an associate editor for the IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine.
Prof. Memon is the co-founder of Digital Assembly and Vivic Networks, two early stage start-ups in NYU-Poly's incubator.
He is a fellow of the IEEE and an IEEE Signal Processing Society distinguished lecturer for the years 2011 and 2012.
Gary Morse
President and Founder
Razorpoint Security Technologies
Year(s) Attended: 2011
Gary Morse has 30 years of experience in information technology, with a focus on information security, network architecture, and new media. In particular, he is an expert in security assessments and penetration testing that uncover and identify serious, real-world vulnerabilities used by malicious attackers against corporate networks.
Before founding Razorpoint Security Technologies in 2001, Morse served in IT security and management positions for ConcreteMedia, Thaumaturgix, and IConCMT in New York City.
Prior to those positions, Morse led the technology effort for a state-of-the-art, multinational European information network for the international transportation industry. Earlier in his career, Morse held a number of secret Department of Defense clearances while working on the development of tactical training systems for the U.S. Air Force and Navy.
Currently, Morse holds multiple security certifications including ISC2's CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional), ISACA's CISM (Certified Information Security Manager), and Check Point's NG/NGX CCSA & CCSE.
Kevin M. O'Connell
President and CEO
Innovative Analytics
Year(s) Attended: 2011
Kevin O'Connell is President and CEO of Innovative Analytics and Training, LLC, a "sources and methods" company designed to improve the quality of analysis and decision-making for government and commercial clients. He is the former director of the Center for Intelligence Research and Analysis (CIRA) and Vice President for Intelligence Community Programs within Defense Group Incorporated. His professional interests include national security decision-making, intelligence and intelligence policy issues, and the policy, security, and market issues related to remote sensing. Mr. O'Connell has served on a number of senior government panels, including a DHS information policy board and a DARPA-NGA panel. He is the former Chairman of NOAA's Federal Advisory Committee on Commercial Remote Sensing (ACCRES) and previously served as the staff Director of the Independent Commission on the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) (1999-2000). Mr. O'Connell served as the first Director of RAND's Intelligence Policy Center (2001-2004) during almost a decade at RAND.
Mr. O'Connell joined the Department of Defense in November 1982, and served in various positions as a senior staff officer and intelligence analyst. In 1986, he joined the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research as a research analyst. In 1990, he was assigned as the Senior Analyst in the White House Situation Room, National Security Council, and later served as a Special Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs. From 1993-1995, Mr. O'Connell served on the Community Management Staff of the Director of Central Intelligence, where he was responsible for assessing non-traditional intelligence activities, including the DCI's Openness initiative. Mr. O'Connell then spent almost ten years with RAND in research and managerial capacities.
Mr. O'Connell's recent activities have included research assessments on issues related to intelligence integration, intelligence analysis, and open source issues. He has chaired a number of workshops on cyberspace analytics and security. He has also led research efforts on the market and security issues associated with commercial remote sensing. He has lectured and taught extensively about intelligence at the RAND Graduate School and Georgetown University.
Krishnan Sabnani, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President
Networking Research Laboratory at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs
Year(s) Attended: 2011
Krishan Sabnani is currently Vice President of Networking Research at Bell Labs. He manages all networking research in Bell Labs, comprising nine departments in six countries: USA, France, Germany, Ireland, India, and Belgium. Krishan has conceived and launched numerous systems projects in the areas of internetworking and wireless networking. His successful transfers of research ideas to products in Alcatel-Lucent and (previously) AT&T business units have had a major positive impact on the business. Krishan has also conducted extensive personal research in data and wireless networking. His contributions have played a major role in modern mobile networks, and his recent breakthrough re-engineering of routers has launched a revolution in network designs.
Krishan received the 2005 IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award and the 2005 IEEE W. Wallace McDowell Award. He is a Bell Labs Fellow and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). He received the Leonard G. Abraham Prize Paper Award from the IEEE Communications Society in 1991 and the 2005 Distinguished Alumni Award from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India. He also won the Thomas Alva Patent Award from the R&D Council of New Jersey in 2005, 2009, and 2010. He holds 40 patents and has published more than 70 papers.
Krishan received his B. Tech. in electrical engineering from IIT Delhi in 1975, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Columbia University, New York, in 1981. He joined Bell Labs in 1981.
Rahmat Shoureshi, Ph.D.
Provost
New York Institute of Technology
Year(s) Attended: 2014, 2013, 2011
Rahmat Shoureshi, Ph.D., became NYIT's provost and vice president for academic affairs in August 2011. He is responsible for shaping academic priorities and programs, attracting and supporting outstanding faculty, and expanding research initiatives, especially multidisciplinary efforts. He oversees faculty and curriculum development, planning and budgeting, and initiatives for teaching and learning with technology.
Prior to joining NYIT, he served as dean of the School of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Denver. Dr. Shoureshi has also authored more than 250 technical publications and holds several patents. He is an expert in automation, artificial intelligence, robotics, bioengineering, energy/power engineering, structural engineering, and automotive noise, vibration, and harshness.
He earned his Ph.D. and master's degrees in mechanical engineering at MIT.
Thomas D. Smith, J.D.
Director, Office of Cyber Security (OCS)
Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services (DHSES)
Year(s) Attended: 2011
Thomas D. Smith was appointed Director of the Office of Cyber Security in July 2010. Prior to that, he served as Assistant Deputy Director and Counsel since 2007. In that position, he assisted in the agency's policy direction; managed the agency's large scale procurements; coordinated the agency's legislative program; and served as Co-Chair of the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center's Procurement Workgroup. He also served as the agency's Ethics Officer and Records Appeals Officer.
Before joining the Office of Cyber Security, Mr. Smith served as a supervising attorney at the State Office for Technology where he oversaw the legal team for the State Data Center and served as legislative liaison. From 1986-2000, he worked in the New York State Office of the State Comptroller, where he served as an associate attorney in the Division of Legal Services/Municipal Law Section and the Division of Legal Services/Investments.
Mr. Smith graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College and earned his Juris Doctor from Albany Law School. He and his wife reside in the City of Albany and have three children.
Paul Stirpe, Ph.D.
Professor, NYIT
Principal, Letse
Year(s) Attended: 2014, 2011
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.
Spencer Jay Turkel, Ph.D.
Associate Provost
NYIT
Year(s) Attended: 2011
Spencer Turkel received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in Anthropology, and has been at NYIT for more than 30 years. As a faculty member for more than 20 of those years, he taught courses in anthropology, anatomy, and general biology. In the 1980s he was among the first group of NYIT faculty to utilize desktop computers, videoconferencing, and online technologies in his courses. He has conducted archaeological excavations in the Middle East, North America, and for many years in France. He has been a consultant to the various medical examiners in the New York Metropolitan area as a forensic anthropologist, leading searches for and making identifications of human remains. He was instrumental in the recovery of more than 400 burials at the "African Burying Grounds" in lower Manhattan during the 1990s. He has published numerous articles regarding osteo-archaeology, forensic anthropology, and anatomy. His study of the shoulder ligaments has recently been cited as number 72 among the 100 "classic papers" in the history of Orthopedic Surgery. Dr. Turkel has served as departmental chair, associate dean, and president of the NYIT academic senate. For the last decade he has been the Associate Provost in the Office of Academic Affairs.