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| Nigel A.Jones |
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Since joining QinetiQ in 2004, Nigel A. Jones has led a team delivering a consultancy and research business in security, reslience and intelligence. Nigel's experience is derived from a military career in Information Operations and the design and delivery of education and training.
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| Prof. Len Adleman |
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Leonard Max Adleman is a theoretical computer scientist and professor of computer science and molecular biology at the University of Southern California. He is known for being a co-inventor of the RSA (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman) cryptosystem in 1977. For this, Adleman was a recipient, along with Ron Rivest and Adi Shamir, of the 2002 ACM Turing Award, often called the Nobel Prize of Computer Science.
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| Kirk Bailey |
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Prior to his appointment as the CISO for the University of Washington, Mr. Bailey served as the first ever CISO for the City of Seattle. In November 1995 he founded "The Agora", a successful strategic association of information systems security professionals, technical experts, and officials. Mr. Bailey and his work with the Agora have been reported in newspapers around the US.
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| Bill Cheswick |
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Prior to joining AT&T Research in April 2007, Bill Cheswick served as postmaster and firewall administrator and Designer at Bells Labs. In 1990 he published a paper on firewall design that coined the word "proxy" in its current meaning. He followed this with "An Evening With Berferd", and then co-authored "Firewalls and Internet Security; Repelling the Wily Hacker".
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| Bill Chu |
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Professor and Chairman Department of Software and Information Systems UNC Charlotte. Co-founder of the CIIMPLEX consortium , a $60M consortium with participation of IBM, Boeing, Integresoll-Rand, QAD, Berclain USA, Vitria Technologies, Scandura, INDX, Envsionit Soft, and the National Institutes of Standard and Technology, 1993-2001.
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| Ed Clarke |
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Ed Clark is an expert in conducting national-level vulnerability assessments. He developed the CARVER+Shock Vulnerability Assessment Tool which was recently adopted and fielded by the USDA and FDA. He is a Special Forces Officer with 24 years' experience and an expert in information security, open source intelligence, and Red Team Operations.
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| Nick Coleman |
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Nick Coleman is a leading authority on security matters. In 2006 he became the Independent reviewer of Information Assurance for the UK government looking at how information held in the public sector is protected. He was also responsible for setting up the Institute of Information Security Professionals, serving as its first Chief Executive.
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| Dorothy Denning |
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Dorothy Elizabeth Denning is an American information security researcher. She has published four books and 140 articles. At Georgetown University, she was the Patricia and Patrick Callahan Family Professor of computer science and Director of the Georgetown Institute of Information Assurance. She is now a professor in the Department of Defense Analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School.
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| Whitfield Diffie |
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Whitfield Diffie, Chief Security Officer of Sun Microsystems, is Vice President and Sun Fellow and has been at Sun since 1991. Prior to this he was Manager of Secure Systems Research for Northern Telecom. He is best known for his 1975 discovery of the concept of public key cryptography.
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| Paul Dory |
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Dr Paul G Dorey has responsibility for IT Security and Information and Records Management Standards & Services globally across BP. Amongst other achievements, he has consulted to numerous governments, was a founder of the Jericho Forum, is Chairman of the Institute of Information Security Professionals and currently sits on the Permanent Stakeholders Group of the European Network Information Security Agency.
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| Chris Ensor |
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Chris Ensor has worked in a variety of roles within CESG over the past 18 years. He is now head of profession for Information Assurance within GCHQ as well as Technical Director for CESG. He also sits on the Board for the IISP Board, responsible for skill and accreditation.
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| Martin Hellman |
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Martin Hellman is best known for his invention, with Diffie and Merkle, of public key cryptography. In addition to many other uses, this technology forms the basis for secure transactions on the Internet. Hellman has also been a long-time contributor to the computer privacy debate.
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| Dan Kaminsky |
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Dan Kaminsky, the Director of penetration testing at IOActive, is the world’s most famous security hacker this summer. He found the flaw in DNS server technology that threatened to compromise the entire Internet and managed to get a patch out to protect everybody.
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| Eugene Kaspersky |
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Kaspersky graduated from the Institute of Cryptography, Telecommunications and Computer Science, an institute co-sponsored by the Russian Ministry of Defence and the KGB. He then worked at a multi-discipline scientific research institute until 1991. Kaspersky joined the KAMI Information Technologies Center in 1991, where he and his associates developed the AVP anti-virus product.
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| David Lacey |
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David Lacey is a leading international authority on Information Security Management with more than 20 years professional experience of building Security and Risk functions for large organisations. Amongst other things, he developed much of the content for the British Standard BS7799 and he was a founding director of the Jericho Forum and the Institute for Information Security Professionals.
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| HD Moore |
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H D Moore works as the Director of Security Research for BreakingPoint Systems, where he focuses on the security testing features of the BreakingPoint product line. Prior to this, he co-founded Digital Defense, a managed security services firm, where he developed the vulnerability assessment platform and led the security research team.
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| Tony Neate |
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After a career spanning 30 years as a detective Tony retired from the Police Service and took up his new position within the Cabinet Office as the Managing Director for the Get Safe Online initiative. Tony also acts as a consultant on hi-tech crime and security matters.
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| Gerry O'Neil |
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Gerry O’Neil is Chief Executive Officer of the Institute of Information Security Professionals. He has held senior security, risk and audit positions in a number of major consultancies, and in financial services and government, over a period of more than 20 years. He also provides support, as Senior European Representative, for I-4 (the International Information Integrity Institute).
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| Don Parker |
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Donn Parker pioneered the field of computer security and today consults, researches, writes, and lectures internationally about computer security and crime. He’s also an IS (information systems) management consultant to leading companies and the U.S. government. He was named one of the top five “infosecurity pioneers” by Information Security magazine in 1998.
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| Marcus Ranum |
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Marcus J. Ranum is a world-renowned expert on security system design and implementation. He is recognized as an early innovator in firewall technology, and the implementor of the first commercial firewall product.
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| Ron Rivest |
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Ronald Linn Rivest is the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Computer Science at MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and a member of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). One of the inventors of the RSA algorithm.
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| Corey Schou |
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Dr. Schou is the Director of the National Information Assurance Training and Education Centre (NIATEC) and the Simplot Decision Support Centre (SDSC). Under his leadership, the Information Systems program was designated the National Centre of Excellence in Information Assurance Education. His work has resulted in over 200 monographs, books, articles and formal presentations.
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| Winn Schwartau |
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Winn Schwartau is one of the country's leading experts on information security, infrastructure protection and electronic privacy and is often referred to as "the civilian architect of information warfare." Today, he balances his time between writing, lecturing, building corporate and national security awareness programs and consulting.
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| Gil Schwed |
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Gil Schwed and two colleagues started Check Point Software, the first mass-market firewall that made its debut just as the Internet was taking off in 1993. That product and subsequent Check Point offerings are credited with helping define the nascent markets for network security and virtual private networks.
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| Adi Shamir |
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Adi Shamir is one of the inventors of the RSA algorithm, one of the inventors of the Feige-Fiat-Shamir Identification Scheme and one of the inventors of differential cryptanalysis. He has made numerous contributions to the fields of cryptography and computer science.
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| Eugene Spafford |
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Eugene H. Spafford is a professor of computer science at Purdue University and a leading computer security expert. A historically significant Internet figure, he is renowned for first analyzing the Morris Worm, one of the earliest computer worms, and his participation in the Usenet backbone cabal.
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| Clifford Stoll |
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Clifford Stoll is a U.S. astronomer, computer expert, and author. He has written three books as well as technology articles in the non-specialist press. Stoll's role in catching hacker Markus Hess in the 1980s, led to his authoring the book The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage.
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| Roger Styles |
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Roger Styles is the Central Sponsor for Information Assurance (CSIA) and has been a member of staff of the Cabinet Office since January 2006. He is also the Programme Director of the IA Technical Programme. Roger completed 5 years at GCHQ in Cheltenham, having been heavily involved with their New Accommodation Programme and subsequently set up the operational phase of their PFI services contract.
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| Mike Walker |
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Prof Mike Walker BSc PhD (London) Dr.rer.nat.(habil) (Tübingen) CMath FIMA is the Group Research and Development Director for the Vodafone Group of companies. He sits on scientific advisory boards for the Universities of Warwick and Surrey, the London Development Agency and the UK Government. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and has held a number of positions with standards bodies.
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| Paul Wood |
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Group Business Protection Director for AVIVA. Paul Wood has over 30 years experience in the security arena, dealing with crime, fraud, information security, counter-terrorist and executive protection. Paul is a regular speaker on security matters. He is a contributor to the Directors' Information Assurance Network, sponsored by IAAC, he is a founder member and now Director on the Board of IISP and a member of many other professional security forums. He was awarded the MBE in the 1995 New Years' Honours List.
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| Steve Wozniak |
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Known as the Wizard of Woz, Steve Wozniak along with friend Steve Jobs founded Apple Computers Inc. and started a computer revolution that has yet to slow down. Wozniak and Jobs introduced the Apple II which was one of the first personal computers originally aimed at medium to large size businesses.
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| Philip Zimmerman |
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Philip R. Zimmermann is the creator of Pretty Good Privacy, an email encryption software package. In August 2002 PGP was acquired from NAI by a new company called PGP Corporation, where Zimmermann now serves as special advisor and consultant. Before founding PGP Inc, he was a software engineer with more than 20 years of experience, specializing in cryptography and data security, data communications, and real-time embedded systems. He has received numerous technical and humanitarian awards for his pioneering work in cryptography.
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