Black Hat Keynote Speakers Announced

[InfoSec News <isn () c4i org>]

Forwarded from: B.K. DeLong <bkdelong () blackhat com>

For Immediate Release

Contacts:

B.K. DeLong
press () blackhat com
+1.617.797.2472

BLACK HAT BRIEFINGS 2003 KEYNOTES INCLUDE
TOP COMPUTER SECURITY GURUS FROM GOVERNMENT, CORPORATE AND INTERNATIONAL 
SECTORS

Includes PGP Creator Philip Zimmermann and Dept. of Homeland Security IAIP 
Cyber Program Director Marcus Sachs.

http://www.blackhat.com/ -- Black Hat Inc. today announced the keynote 
speakers for this summer's Black Hat Briefings and Training 2003, the 
annual conference and workshop designed to help computer professionals 
better understand the security risks to their computer and information 
infrastructures by potential threats. This year's show will focus on 10 
tracks of hot topics including Application Security, Routing & 
Infrastructure, Policy, Law & Society, Firewalls, Access Control, Physical 
Security, Incident Response & Computer Forensics, Core Services, Privacy & 
Anonymity and Intrusion Detection. One of the tracks is also dedicated to 
various panels of industry pundits. The event is being held July 30 - 31, 
2003 at the Caesars Palace Hotel and Casino in the heart of Las Vegas.

Top-notch speakers will deliver to the conference's core audience of IT & 
network security experts, consultants and administrators the newest 
developments on the vital security issues facing organizations using large 
networks with a mix of operating systems.

"Black Hat continues to grow this year by adding a 5th track of speakers 
and 20% more presentations," said Jeff Moss, Founder and Organizer of Black 
Hat Briefings. "Due to the continuing focus on application security, we 
have added a second track devoted to this topic. This show will be our 
largest yet, in attendees, sponsors and speakers. With a keynote from Phil 
Zimmermann and the CSO of Oracle participating on panels; to a real Federal 
Judge presiding over The Hacker Court -- new tool and vulnerability 
releases at this summer's Black Hat will be hot."

The keynote speakers for this year's Black Hat Briefings include:

          -- Philip Zimmermann, Creator of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP). He is 
currently a special advisor and consultant for the PGP Corporation. 
Zimmermann is best known for being the target of a three-year criminal 
investigation, because the U.S. Government held that export restrictions 
for cryptographic software were violated when PGP was spread around the 
world following its 1991 publication as freeware. Zimmermann currently 
consults for a number of companies and industry organizations on matters 
cryptographic, and is also a Fellow at the Stanford Law School's Center for 
Internet and Society. Before founding PGP Inc, Zimmermann was a software 
engineer with more than 20 years of experience specializing in cryptography 
and data security, data communications, and real-time embedded systems.

         Zimmermann will also be participating in a panel highlighting "The 
Law of Vulnerabilities" put together by Gerhard Eschelbeck, CTO of Qualys 
Inc. The panel also includes Mary Ann Davidson, Chief Security Officer of 
Oracle, Black Hat organizer Jeff Moss, Simple Nomad, founder of NMRC and a 
Senior Security Analyst for BindView Corporation, and JD Glaser, President 
& CEO, NT OBJECTives, Inc. The panel will be moderated by Black 
Hat-favorite Richard Thieme.

          -- Bruce Schneier, Founder and the Chief Technical Officer of 
Counterpane Internet Security, Inc. Schneier is an internationally renowned 
security technologist and author of six books on security and cryptography, 
including the security best seller, "Secrets & Lies: Digital Security in a 
Networked World." His first book, "Applied Cryptography," has sold over 
150,000 copies world-wide, and is the definitive work in the field. 
Schneier will be "Following the Money" in the computer security industry 
and looking at the influences it has.

         -- Marcus Sachs, P.E., Cyber Program Director, Information 
Analysis and Infrastructure Protection, US Department of Homeland Security. 
Sachs is responsible for developing the implementation plan for the 
President's National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace. Marc was previously the 
Director for Communication Infrastructure Protection in the White House 
Office of Cyberspace Security and was a staff member of the President's 
Critical Infrastructure Protection Board. Marc retired from the United 
States Army in 2001 after serving over 20 years as a Corps of Engineers 
officer. He specialized during the later half of his career in computer 
network operations, systems automation, and information technology. His 
final assignment in the Army was with the Defense Department's Joint Task 
Force for Computer Network Operations where he was the Senior Operations 
Analyst and Technical Director.

         -- Dario Forte, CFE, CISM. Forte is Security Advisor for the 
newly-formed European Electronic Crimes Task Force (EECTF) supported by the 
U.S. Secret Service in Milan. He has been active in the field of 
information security since 1992. He is 34 years old, with almost 15 years 
as Police Investigator in the Drug and Organized Crime Enforcement, 
CyberCrime Unit. He teaches classes and presents lectures on Information 
Security Management and Incident Response/Forensics at universities and 
other accredited institutions worldwide. He is an Intrusion Instructor for 
the Department of Homeland Security Internet Forensics Training Program 
given at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center.

Other Black Hat Briefings 2003 speakers include:

         -- Thomas Akin, Founding Director, Southeast Cybercrime Institute. 
Akin is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) who 
has worked in Information Security for almost a decade. He is the founding 
director of the Southeast Cybercrime Institute a division or Continuing 
Education at Kennesaw State University. He serves as chairman for the 
Institute's Board of Advisors and is an active member of the Georgia 
Cybercrime Task Force.

         -- Jay Beale, Senior Research Scientist, George Washington 
University Cyber Security Policy and Research Institute. Beale is a 
security specialist focused on host lockdown and security audits. He is the 
Lead Developer of the Bastille project, which creates a hardening script 
for Linux, HP-UX, and Mac OS X, a member of the Honeynet Project, and a 
core participant in the Center for Internet Security.

         -- Chris Conacher, Black Hat Consulting. Conacher has over 6 years 
experience in formal Information Security roles. This time has been spent 
with the Fortune 500 companies BAE Systems (formerly British Aerospace and 
Marconi Space Systems), BAE Systems Airbus and Intel Corporation. He has 
also worked for the Information Risk Management consultancy practice of 
'Big 5' firm KPMG LLP where he specialized in 'High-Tech' companies. Chris' 
time in Information Security has seen him working in England, France, 
Germany, Greece, Russia and the USA. His specialties include the 
development, deployment and review of corporate information security 
programs; the secure integration of Mergers & Acquisitions; data protection 
in disaster recovery planning; and information security business impact 
analysis.

         -- Roger Dingledine, Founder & OWner, Moria Research Labs. 
Dingledine is a security and privacy researcher. While at MIT under 
professor Ron Rivest, he developed Free Haven, one of the early 
peer-to-peer systems that emphasized resource management while retaining 
anonymity for its users. Currently he consults for the US Navy to design 
and develop systems for anonymity and traffic analysis resistance. Recent 
work includes anonymous publishing and communication systems, traffic 
analysis resistance, censorship resistance, attack resistance for 
decentralized networks, and reputation.

         -- Himanshu Dwivedi, Managing Security Architect, @stake. Dwivedi 
is a Managing Security Architect at @stake, Inc. At @stake, Himanshu leads 
the Storage Center of Excellence (CoE), which focuses research and training 
around storage technology, including Network Attached Storage (NAS) and 
Storage Area Networks (SAN). Himanshu's focus in security is networking 
technology and storage architecture, specifically Fibre Channel Security.

         -- Jennifer Granick, Litigation Director, Center for Internet and 
Society, Stanford Law School. Ms. Granick's work focuses on the interaction 
of free speech, privacy, computer security, law and technology. She is on 
the Board of Directors for the Honeynet Project and has spoken at the NSA, 
to law enforcement and to computer security professionals from the public 
and private sectors in the United States and abroad. Before coming to 
Stanford Law School, Ms. Granick practiced criminal defense of unauthorized 
access and email interception cases nationally. She has published articles 
on wiretap laws, workplace privacy and trademark law.

         -- Honorable Philip M. Pro, Chief United States District Judge for 
the District of Nevada. Judge Pro was appointed United States District 
Judge for the District of Nevada, at Las Vegas, on July 23, 1987. Judge Pro 
also served as United States Magistrate Judge for the District of Nevada, 
from 1980 until his elevation to the District Court, during which he 
supervised pretrial proceedings in the MGM Grand Hotel Fire Litigation. 
Judge Pro received his J.D. degree from Golden Gate University School of 
Law in June 1972.

         -- The Honeynet Project is a non-profit, all volunteer security 
research organization dedicated to researching the blackhat community, and 
sharing the lessons learned. Made up of thirty security professionals, the 
Project deploys Honeynet around the world to capture and analyze blackhat 
activity. These lessons are then shared with the security community. The 
Honeynet Project began in 1999 and continues to grow with the founding of 
the Honeynet Research Alliance.

         -- Larry Leibrock, Associate Dean and Technology Officer, 
University of Texas McCombs Business School. Leibrock has held or currently 
holds clinical teaching and research appointments at McCombs Business 
School, Institute for Advanced Technology, The University of Texas Law 
School, Emory University, Helsinki School of Economics and Monterrey 
Technologica in Mexico City and Monterrey. He is a member of IEEE, ACM, 
Internet Society, FIRST and USENIX/SAGE and is also a member of the 
Department of Defense Software Engineering Institute and a participant in 
the Air Force Software Technology Conference.

         -- Neel Mehta, Application Vulnerability Researcher, ISS X-Force. 
Mehta works as an application vulnerability researcher at ISS X-Force, and 
like many other security researchers comes from a reverse-engineering 
background. His reverse engineering experience was cultivated through 
extensive consulting work in the copy protection field, and has more 
recently been focused on application security. Neel has done extensive 
research into binary and source-code auditing, and has applied this 
knowledge to find many vulnerabilities in critical and widely deployed 
network applications.

         -- Richard Salgado, Senior Counsel, Computer Crime and 
Intellectual Property Section of the United States Department of Justice. 
Salgado specializes in investigating and prosecuting computer network 
cases, such as computer hacking, denial of service attacks, illegal 
sniffing, logic bombs, viruses and other technology-driven privacy crimes. 
Often such crimes cross international jurisdictions; Mr. Salgado helps 
coordinate and manage the investigation and prosecution of those cases and 
participates in policy development relating to emerging technologies such 
as the growth of wireless networks, voice-over Internet Protocol, 
surveillance tools and forensic techniques.

To register for BlackHat Briefings, visit the Web site at 
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About Black Hat Inc.

Black Hat Inc. was originally founded in 1997 by Jeff Moss to fill the need 
for computer security professionals to better understand the security risks 
and potential threats to their information infrastructures and computer 
systems. Black Hat accomplishes this by assembling a group of 
vendor-neutral security professionals and having them speak candidly about 
the problems businesses face and their solutions to those problems. Black 
Hat Inc. produces 5 briefing & training events a year on 3 different 
continents. Speakers and attendees travel from all over the world to meet 
and share in the latest advances in computer security. For more 
information, visit their Web site at http://www.blackhat.com

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--
B.K. DeLong
Press Coordinator
Black Hat Briefings
and
Def Con XI

bkdelong () blackhat com
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