Independent Expert Speakers

Marcus Ranum
Chief Security Officer, Tenable Network Security

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 implementer of the first commercial firewall product. Since the late 1980's, he has designed a number of groundbreaking security products including the DEC SEAL, the TIS firewall toolkit, the Gauntlet firewall, and NFR's Network Flight Recorder intrusion detection system. He has been involved in every level of operations of a security product business, from developer, to founder and CEO of NFR. Ranum has served as a consultant to many FORTUNE 500 firms and national governments, as well as serving as a guest lecturer and instructor at numerous high-tech conferences. In 2001, he was awarded the TISC "Clue" award for service to the security community, and the ISSA Lifetime Achievement Award. Ranum is chief of security for Tenable Security, Inc., where he is responsible for research in open source logging tools, and product training. He serves as a technology advisor to a number of start-ups, established concerns, and venture capital groups.

Richard E. Mackey
Vice President of Consulting, SystemExperts, ISACA/CISM

Richard E. Mackey is a leading authority on enterprise security architecture and compliance. He has helped many organizations, from online retailers and application service providers to major manufacturers assess and improve their security and compliance programs. He has advised leading Wall Street firms on governance and policy, security architecture, identity management, and intrusion detection and analysis.

Prior to joining the consultancy SystemExperts, he was the director of collaborative development for The Open Group (the merger of the Open Software Foundation and X/Open).  Prior to the merger, he was the Technical Lead of the OSF Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) project. Mackey has been a frequent speaker at conferences and a regular contributor to major publications on topics such as PCI, HIPAA, and GLBA compliance, security standards, identity management, and service-oriented architecture security.

Rich Mogull

Founder, Securosis

Rich Mogull has over 17 years experience in information security, physical security, and risk management. Prior to founding Securosis, he spent 7 years as one of the leading security analysts with Gartner, where he advised thousands of clients, authored dozens of reports and was consistently rated as one of Gartner’s top international speakers. He is one of the world’s premier authorities on data security technologies and has covered issues ranging from vulnerabilities and threats, to risk management frameworks, to major application security. Mogull is the security editor of TidBITS, a monthly columnist for Dark Reading, and frequently contributes to publications ranging from Information Security online to Macworld.

Lenny Zeltser
Lead, Security Consulting, Savvis, CISSP, GSE

Lenny Zeltser leads a security consulting team at Savvis. He is also a board of directors member at SANS Technology Institute, a SANS faculty member, and an incident handler at the Internet Storm Center. Zeltser frequently speaks on information security and related business topics at conferences and private events, writes articles, and has co-authored several books.

Zeltser is one of the few individuals in the world who has earned the highly-regarded GIAC Security Expert (GSE) designation. For more information about his projects, see www.zeltser.com.

Dan Fisher
President/CEO, The Copper River Group

Dan Fisher is president and CEO of The Copper River Group. A consulting firm headquartered in Fargo North Dakota that focuses on technology and payment systems research and consulting for community financial institutions. For nearly thirty years, Fisher has worked in the financial industry using technology to improve the bottom line. He has served as a director of the Federal Reserve Board of Minneapolis, the chairman of the American Bankers Association Payment Systems Committee and a member of the Independent Community Bankers of America Payments Committee. Fisher has written numerous articles on banking technology and the payments system.  He has authored or co-authored six books and recently published a book titled, Capturing Your Customer! The New Technology of Remote Deposit.

Erez Liebermann
Assistant United States Attorney
District of New Jersey

Erez Liebermann is the assistant United States Attorney for the district of New Jersey, responsible for handling computer crime and intellectual property matters, including cases relating to hacking, computer intrusions, insider threats, viruses, phishing and botnets, among others.  Recent cases have included prosecuting an individual that attempted to extort his company by threatening to destroy their computer servers if they did not meet his demands.  He also prosecuted an individual that planted a logic bomb in his company’s servers when he believed he would be laid off.  Ongoing prosecution includes a conspiracy to hack into voice over internet protocol providers and steal access to VOIP routes, all in an effort to secure millions of dollars.  Other matters include white collar crimes, such as commercial fraud, tax fraud and bank fraud.

David Sherry
CISO, Brown University

As CISO at Brown, David Sherry has institutional responsibilities to provide proactive security expertise, engineer robust security architecture, drive identity strategy and policy, and enhance the culture of security awareness. As the university spokesman for information security, Sherry also plays a key role in the record management program, business continuity planning, and copyright compliance and protection. Prior to moving to higher education he spent several years in financial services, with responsibilities for enterprise security governance and regulatory compliance, access controls and operations, identity management, and the security awareness program. During his tenure Sherry managed his InfoSec teams to unprecedented service level and regulatory accomplishments, and recognized best-practice security processes. Sherry is a frequent conference speaker on emerging security topics and best practices, as well as a guest-lecturer throughout the academic year at several New England institutions.

Kelly Manthey
Business Practice Partner, Solstice Consulting LLC

Kelly Manthey is the business practice partner at solstice consulting and brings over a decade of experience in management consulting working with clients to deliver both technology and business process-driven solutions.

Having worked with several fortune 500 companies, Manthey's expertise centers on effective business and technical leadership, as well as providing clients with holistic solutions for delivering enterprise-wide change. Most recently, she has focused on helping clients in regulated industries use process and technology, not only as a means for regulatory compliance, but also as a competitive advantage.

Manthey is an advocate of agile project methodologies and is a Certified Scrum Master. As partner at Solstice Consulting she helps clients achieve success through business process optimization and custom software development.

Brian Schlueter
Lead Security Specialist, "Major Insurance Company"

Brian Schlueter has been an IT professional for the last decade, spending the last five years specializing in Information Security. He started in application security at a large insurance company in Bloomington, IL. While there Schlueter led identity management projects which he continues at his current employer, another major insurance company in Chicago. He has experience in security architecture, application security, identity management, and role-based access control (RBAC), and is writing a book on the relationship between security architecture and identity management.

 

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