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Speakers at the Threat and Vulnerability Management Conference
March 26, 2009 |
 Daniel M. Harris
Danny is with Aon's Information Security Services group, and is
instrumental in the development and refinement of corporate security
policies, standards, and procedures. Specializing in security
awareness training, Danny is responsible for the delivery of key
security awareness training for the organization, as well as for the
development, implementation, and maintenance of the corporate
technical information security website.
Danny's involvement also includes security audits, security
vulnerability and risk assessments on Aon's Internet connections,
E-commerce sites, and internal systems. Additionally, he functions
as a consulting engineer and architect for secure network systems,
with extensive involvement in the deployment of E-Mail content
filtering and virus scanning at Aon. Danny is a key member of Aon's
Information Security Incident Response Team, where he assists with
incident handling. He also evaluates and recommends security
products for Aon.
Danny also teaches in the Computer Security and Forensics
Investigation program at Wilbur Wright College in Chicago and has
been an instructor with the SANS Institute for five years.
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James Hansen
James
Hansen is a Sr. Product Manager for BigFix, Inc., focused on all things security
and compliance related. He currently manages the BigFix Security Configuration
and Vulnerability Management product line and is responsible for driving the end
to end BigFix solutions. For the last ten years, James has provided systems and
security focused consulting services and products to organizations throughout
the world and leveraged various software solutions to help organizations
leverage their investments to achieve higher degrees of productivity,
efficiency, and general security. By combining his unique sense of customer
satisfaction with his hands-on implementation experience and security
background, James provides a perspective-based insight into security and
compliance related issues and organizational investments in technology to solve
these issues.
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Richard Linke
With over 20 years of experience in the IT/IS security related
fielded, Richard has a proven track record for building and creating
winning teams and process, while managing the business through
growth and change. For the past 3 years he has been involved in
creating a Security Patch Management process, today this process
is rated one of the top in the industry. He has been involved in
every phase of growth for a successful security organization,
from startup through expansion and rapid change - to acquisition
and installation as a permanent division within a large global
company.
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 Derek Milroy MCSE, CCNA, CISSP, GSEC
Derek has been implementing security in corporate environments, as both an
internal employee and a consultant, for five years. Although he has
implemented firewalls, IDSs, and VPNs for various employers and clients he
focuses heavily on securing Microsoft hosts and Domain structures. He has
hardened hundreds of hosts in environments ranging from less than a dozen
servers to enterprise environments with over 1000 servers and thousands of
users. In conjunction with hardening he has also crafted and implemented
standards, policies, and procedures to maintain the security of his
employer's / client's environments.
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 Scott
Shepard
Scott Shepard, CISSP,
CISM, is a Principal Consultant for GlassHouse Technologies, Inc. He is an
information security expert who has led the development of a broad portfolio
of market-leading, differentiated security service solutions and
architectures. In his prior position as the Directory of Security
Architecture at Motorola, he led the development and technical build-out of
the “E-zones” architecture in support Motorola’s Seamless Mobility business
vision. Scott received recognition for this unique security implementation
with multiple industry awards.
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Mr. Thomas serves as deputy
director for the iDefense Intelligence Operations, and heads the iDefense
Malicious Code Intelligence Group (Malcode), responsible for the active
collection of open-source intelligence, and the reporting and analysis of
public reports and outbreaks of malicious code. Mr. Thomas also directs the
malicious code research lab in iDefense, which is tasked with the
development of tools for discovery and analysis of malicious code and
related threats. Before joining iDefense, Mr. Thomas worked as Principal
Computer Forensics Consultant in several data acquisition and litigation
support projects and regularly served as an expert witness in federal court.
Early in his career, Mr. Thomas designed hardware and real-time software in
the controls and digital television sectors before turning his attention to
enterprise software. A Certified Lotus Specialist, he has expertise in
e-mail archiving, document imaging, Siebel, SAP and Oracle Applications. Mr.
Thomas holds an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Dortmund
in Germany.
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