George Cheng is Executive Vice President and Group Technology Executive for Internet Services Development at Wells Fargo. In this role, George has responsibility for technology and product development for Wells Fargo's online services.
George joined Wells Fargo in his current capacity in February 1999. He manages a division that has development responsibility for wellsfargo.com and for secured online banking and online commerce products and services. He oversees a system infrastructure that supports the leading Internet banking service in the U.S. with more than 6 million active customers.
Prior to joining Wells Fargo, George was with Bank of America for more than 25 years. With Bank of America, he held senior management positions across a wide range of technology disciplines including global telecommunications services, systems and network software, application development and Internet development.
Speech Topic: Security and Fraud Management in Online Financial Service
Dr. David Luckham is Professor Emeritus at Stanford University, where he directs the Program Analysis and Verification Project. He played a significant role in the founding of Rational Software in 1981, supplying both the Ada compiler from which the company’s first products were developed and serving as a member of the initial software development team. An acknowledged leader in high-level, multiprocessing programming languages, annotation languages, and event-based simulation systems for both hardware and software architectures, Dr. Luckham has published more than one hundred technical articles, two of them winning ACM/IEEE Best Paper Awards. He is also the author of three books on the design of Specification Languages and their application to software testing and verification, and hardware simulation.
Speech Topic: Complex Event Processing for Security
Bill Melohn has spent the last 25 years growing up with the Internet and the world of distributed systems. His first exposure to computer networking was at the University of Hawaii's project Aloha and the University of Illinois PLATO system. As an undergraduate at USC, Bill worked in the Engineering Computer Laboratory on TENEX during the changeover from the NCP ARPAnet to the first TCP/IP network. After graduation, Bill went on to work with computer based education at Control Data Corporation and with Ethernet based terminal server protocols at Digital Equipment, before returning to California in 1986 to work for start up Sun Microsystems, where he created the Internet Engineering group. Bill co-authored several Internet RFCs, including Requirements for Internet hosts and the Point to Point Protocol. In 1991 he moved to file server maker Auspex systems as their director of software, and then to Silicon Graphics where he was the director of network engineering, designing the world's fastest TCP/IP based network equipment, file servers, and web server platforms. In 1998, he moved to startup Flowwise Networks, where as VP of engineering he led the team that designed a routing accelerator that won numerous industry awards before being acquired by Network Equipment Technologies.
Bill is a Vice President of Engineering in the Security Technology Group at Cisco Systems, responsible for security and IP network service technology product development. His team has produced nearly 145 patents, including work in applied cryptography, network address translation, quality of service, keying infrastructure, secure tunneling and configuration, and many other areas. Bill's team is located in San Jose and Scott's Valley California, Boulder Colorado, and Bangalore India. The team won Cisco's Pioneer Technology Award for 2004, placing first out of ~1600 engineering teams in bringing innovation to Cisco's product line with the Dynamic Multipoint VPN product, currently being deployed by the US Department of Justice and several fortune 50 companies. Bill's team has worked with numerous government agencies including designing and deploying with Sprint a distributed defense mechanism against the NIMDA virus for the Executive Office of the President of the United States' whitehouse.gov site.
Speech Topic: Self-defense Network
Brian is an Equity Research Analyst with Morgan Stanley covering the Security Software industry. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley in 2004, he spent three years as an investment banker specializing in mergers and acquisitions at FleetBoston Financial and Bank of America. Before FleetBoston, Brian was an Assistant Vice President in the Leveraged Finance division of First Union National Bank. Brian is a Chartered Financial Analyst and a member of the CFA Institute as well as the Boston Security Analysts Society. He holds a Masters degree in Finance from the Carroll Graduate School of Management at Boston College and received his undergraduate degree from Bryant College.
Speech Topic: e-Security View from Wall Street
Doug Tygar is Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley and also a Professor of Information Management at UC Berkeley. He works in the areas of computer security, privacy, and electronic commerce. His current research includes privacy, security issues in sensor webs, digital rights management, and usable computer security. His awards include a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, an Okawa Foundation Fellowship, a teaching award from Carnegie Mellon, and invited keynote addresses at PODC, PODS, VLDB, and many other conferences.
Doug Tygar has written three books; his book Secure Broadcast Communication in Wired and Wireless Networks (with Adrian Perrig) is a standard reference and has been translated to Japanese. He designed cryptographic postage standards for the US Postal Service and has helped build a number of security and electronic commerce systems including: Strongbox, Dyad, Netbill, and Micro-Tesla. He served as chair of the Defense Department's ISAT Study Group on Security with Privacy, and was a founding board member of ACM's Special Interest Group on Electronic Commerce. He helped create and remains an active member of TRUST (Team for Research in Ubiquitous Security Technologies). TRUST is a new National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center with headquarters at UC Berkeley and involving faculty from Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, Stanford, and Vanderbilt.
Before coming to UC Berkeley, Dr. Tygar was tenured faculty at Carnegie Mellon's Computer Science Department, where he continues to hold an Adjunct Professor position. He received his doctorate from Harvard and his undergraduate degree from Berkeley
Professor Shieh received his B.S. degree from National Chiao Tung University, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from University of Maryland at College Park, respectively. He has published over a hundred high quality research articles, including patents, books, conference and journal papers. His contribution to network security research is significant, and many of his work have been patented and commercialized. To honor his significant contribution, Taiwan Vice President Lu bestowed upon him Distinguished Achievement Award in Information Technology, 2000.
He is the Editor of some of the best international journals, including ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (ACM TISSEC) and Journal of Computer Security, IEEE Internet Computing, and Journal of Information Science and Engineering. He is also a founder and Program Chair of ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS), one of the most prestigious security conferences sponsored by ACM Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control (SIGSAC). He was the Department Chair of NCTU, and a founding Board Director of Chinese Cryptology and Information Security Association (CCISA), where he currently serves as the President. With his leadership, CCISA has evolved as the leading and most active academic security organization in Asia, which hosts many important conferences on the regular basis, such as Asiacrypt, ISC, and ASIACCS. As an Advisor to State Department, Nat’l Telecommunications Project Office, and National Security Bureau of Taiwan, he plays an important role in making national information security policies, and planning national security research focus. His research interests include network security, wireless sensor network security, security assessment, and intrusion detection.
Joe Tomasello is senior product manager of the Avalanche product line at Spirent Communications. In this role he relies on over 20 years of experience in high-performance data networking and security to lead Spirent's security test initiatives.
Prior to joining Spirent Communications, Tomasello worked directly with IT professionals and service providers building medium to large-scale networks and e-commerce solutions at Intel, Novell, Nortel, and Foundry Networks.
He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from CSU, San Jose State and has served as member of the IPv6 and Metro Ethernet Forums.
Joe Tomasello is an experienced speaker, with previous experience speaking at industry conferences such as USIPv6 Forums in Washington DC and China, Network World Magazine seminar Data Center series and Content Distribution networks series.
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Speech Topic: PUT YOUR SECURITY TO THE TEST (BEFORE SOMEONE ELSE DOES) - Proactive Enterprise Security Testing
Dave Rand is Trend Micro’s chief technologist of Internet content security. A longtime industry veteran in networking and information security, Mr. Rand founded Kelkea, Inc., in 2004 to develop and market real-time dynamic anti-spam solutions. Kelkea was acquired by Trend Micro in 2005, enhancing the antivirus and content security company’s anti-spam solutions and bolstering its executive ranks with one of the true pioneers and thought leaders in anti-spam technology.
Prior to Kelkea, in 1996, Mr. Rand co-founded Mail Abuse Prevention System (MAPS) the first anti-spam company. MAPS launched the Realtime Blackhole List (RBL®) and created the standard for IP blocking lists. Kelkea purchased MAPS in July 2004. Also in 1996, Mr. Rand co-founded AboveNet Communications, one of the leading co-location companies with the largest IP network. AboveNet went public in 1998 and was acquired by Metromedia Fiber Network in 1999. Mr. Rand has an extensive hardware and software background, having worked for some of the leaders in networking including Cisco, National Semiconductor, and Novell. He has developed many leading networking technologies, including the Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG®) – the industry standard for tracking bandwidth utilization. Mr. Rand is a leading contributor and has been an active member of the Internet Engineering Task Force since 1991.
Speech Topic: Tales of Today’s Sophisticated Security Threats and Proactive Strategies for Ensuring Happier Endings – Stopping Threats at Their Source
Dr. Lee received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the National Taiwan University in 1971, and the M.S. and Ph. D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1976 and 1978 respectively.
Dr. Lee has been with the Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, where he is a Distinguished Research Fellow and Director since July 1, 1998. Prior to joining the Institute, he was a Professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northwestern University, where he has worked since 1978.
His research interests include design and analysis of algorithms, computational geometry, VLSI layout, web-based computing, software security, bio-informatics, and digital libraries.
He has published over 120 technical articles in scientific journals and conference proceedings, and he also holds three U.S. patents, and one R.O.C patent. He is Editor of Algorithmica, Computational Geometry: Theory & Applications, International Journal of Computational Geometry & Applications, Journal of Information Science and Engineering, and Series Editor of Lecture Notes Series on Computing for World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore.
He is Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of ACM, President of IICM and Academician of the Academia Sinica.
Topic: Information Security Research in Taiwan: Past, Present and Future
Cheng-Yan Kao is Vice Chairman of Institute for Information Industry (III), Taiwan. He is also a Professor at Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan. Dr. Kao is an active member of Bioinformatics Scoiety Taiwan, and Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics society. He is promoting IT applications in wireless sensor network, bioinformatics, and Taiwanese languages.
Topic: Digital Convergence - the Wireless Data Availability and Security
Fred Huang received the Ph.D. in computer science from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, in 1986. From 1986-1994, he was an Associate Professor of Department of Computer Science at National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. From 1997-2000, he was the Chairman of Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. Since 1994, he is a Professor of Department of Computer Science at National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. Since 2002, he also served as the President/Chairman (Founder) of Broadweb Corp., Taiwan. He is now also serving as the Director of Ipv6 RD division, NICI National Ipv6 Deployment Program/Ipv6 Forum Taiwan.
Fred received the Outstanding Teaching Award from the National Tsing Hua University in 1993 and 1998, the Outstanding University/Industrial Cooperating Award from Ministry of Education, Taiwan, in 1998, and Outstanding IT people Award from ITmonth, Taiwan in 2002.
Topic: Security Switch Development Projects in Taiwan
Dave Jevans is a recognized industry expert in Internet security and online fraud. Dave is the CEO of Internet security startup, IronKey. Dave is also the Chairman of the Anti-Phishing Working Group ( www.antiphishing.org), a consortium of over 1,200 financial services companies, ISPs, law enforcement agencies and technology vendors dedicated to fighting email fraud and identity theft online. Dave's distinguished career in Internet security includes executive management positions at Tumbleweed Communications (NASDAQ: TMWD), Teros, Valicert and Receipt.com. He is intimately familiar with all phases of high-tech company lifecycle including startup, mergers and acquisitions, IPO and being publicly traded. In addition, Dave has served in operational and management roles at Apple Computer, Catapult and Differential. Dave is frequently quoted by the media, including American Banker, Bank Technology News, CIO Magazine, CNN, Information Week, MSNBC, PC Magazine, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. He has a Master of Science degree from University of Calgary, Canada. Dave is the inventor of 4 US patents.
Topic: Phishing, Pharming and Crimeware