Friday, May 21

What CEO's are looking for in their employees - "creativity"

There is compelling new evidence that CEOs' priorities in this area are changing in important ways. According to a new survey of 1,500 chief executives conducted by IBM's Institute for Business Value (NYSE: IBM - News), CEOs identify "creativity" as the most important leadership competency for the successful enterprise of the future. http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/109596/what-chief-executives-really-want?mod=career-leadership

Wednesday, May 19

Speaker Line up for ICCS FBI/Fordham August 2010

http://www.iccs.fordham.edu/program.htm
Confirmed Distinguished, Plenary & Parallel Speakers

•Hira Agrawal, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist, Telcordia Technologies
Piscataway, NJ USA
•Kevin Albano
Security Consultant, Mandiant
El Segundo, CA USA
•Panos Anastassiadis
Chief Executive Officer and President, Cyveillance Inc.
Arlington, VA USA
•Preet Bharara
United States Attorney, Southern District of New York
United States Department of Justice
New York, NY USA
•Thomas Brown
Assistant United States Attorney, Southern District of New York
United States Department of Justice
New York, NY USA
•Carter Bullard
Chief Executive Officer / President, QoSient, LLC
New York, NY USA
•Consuelo Carver
Assistant Legal Attache
Moscow, Russia
•Jeffrey Collins
Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation

•Blake Cornell
Board Member, Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
New York, NY USA
•Eric David
Head of Anti-Malvertising, Google
San Francisco, CA USA
•Rich DeMillo, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor Georgia Tech College of Computing
Atlanta, GA USA
•Michael Dunner
Microsoft

•Robert Flaim
Supervisory Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation
Washington, D.C. USA
•Cesar Gonzalez
Captain of the Spanish Guardia Civil

•Louis E. Grever
Executive Assistant Director, Science and Technology Branch, Federal Bureau of Investigation
Quantico, VA USA
•Andrew Hoog
Chief Investigative Officer, viaForensics
St. Louis, MO USA
•Kuan-Tsai Huang, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer, Taskco Corporation
Chappequa, NY USA
•Kathleen Kiernan, Ph.D.
Chairperson of the Board InfraGard National Members Alliance
Jacksonville, FL USA
•Andrew Lewman
Executive Director, TOR Project
Dedham, MA USA
•Bruce Maggs, Ph.D.
Vice President for Research, Akamai Technologies
Professor, Duke University
Cambridge, MA USA
•Nick Mankovich, Ph.D.
Sr. Director Product Security & Privacy, Philips
New York, USA
•Annemarie P. McAvoy
Chairperson, Fordham Adjunct Faculty Committee
Adjunct Professor, Fordham University School of Law
New York, NY USA
•Ryan McGeehan
Incident Response Manager, Facebook
Palo Alto, CA USA
•Nasir Memon, Ph.D.
Professor, Polytechnic Institute of New York University
New York, NY USA
•Eileen Monsma
Netherlands Police Agency, National High Tech Crime Unit
in cooperation with the University of Utrecht
Netherlands
•Petros Mouchtaris, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Internet Services Research Telcordia Technologies
Piscataway, NJ USA
•Sanjai Narain, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist, Information Assurance and Security Department
Telcordia Technologies
Piscataway, NJ USA
•Tom O'Hara
Emergency Manager, Suffolk County Office of Emergency Management
Yapank, NY USA
•Joseph C. Opacki
Forensic Investigator, Federal Bureau of Investigation
Washington, D.C. USA
•John Otero
Senior Partner, www.BlackStormCSF.com
•Jason Passwaters
Federal Bureau of Investigation
•John Pignataro
Director, Security Incedent Response Team, Citi Group
New York, NY USA
•Carol Porterfield
National Security Agency
Fort Meade, MD USA
•Chuck Rosenberg
Partner, Hogan & Hartson, LLP, former U.S. Attorney
Eastern District of Virginia
Virginia, USA
•Thomas Rushmore
President and CEO, TJR LLC
New York, New York
•Thomas Ryan
Managing Partner, Provide Security

•Ed Skoudis
Faculty Fellow, SANS Institute
Bethesda, MD USA
•Alex Southwell, J.D.
Adjunct Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law
Partner, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP
New York, NY USA
•Eugene H. Spafford
Professor of Computer Science and Executive Director, Purdue University Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)
W. Lafayette, IN USA
•Edward Stroz
Co-President, Stroz Freiberg LLC
New York, NY USA
•Akio Sugeno
Director, Internet Engineering and Operations
Telehouse International Corporation of America
Staten Island, NY USA
•Paul Syverson, Ph.D.
Mathematician, Center for Hight Assurance Computer Systems (CHACS)
Naval Research Laboratory (NRL)
•Kazuo Takaragi
Senior Chief Researcher, Hitachi, Ltd.
Kawasaki, Japan
•John Verry
Principal Enterprise Security Consultant, Pivot Point Security
Hamilton, NJ USA
•David Weisman
PayPal.com
San Jose, CA USA
•Bill Woodcock
Research Director, Packet Clearing House
Berkeley, CA USA
•Amit Yoran
Chief Executive Officer, NetWitness Corporation
Herndon, VA USA

Nokia acquires MetaCarta

4/9/2010 - Nokia announced today that it has acquired MetaCarta Inc. MetaCarta, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a privately owned company which employs over 30 people and has expertise in geographic intelligence solutions. MetaCarta's technology will be used in the area of local search in Location and other services.   http://press.nokia.com/PR/201004/1401778_5.html

Microeconomic Decision-Making

...In the United States, decisions about infrastructure projects usually are made in private and/or public boardrooms and generally are not focused on resilience.

...Engineers and architects have key roles to play both in consulting the client on innovations and in producing plans and specifications.

...if a designer works in close cooperation with the owner the goal of resilience can be achieved, to at least some degree, by advocating for it during the process. The resilience will be built-in, therefore, through the microeconomic decisions that are made in the thousands of projects that are projected to be built – at a total cost of almost $1 trillion – to expand, maintain, and improve the nation’s infrastructure over the next five years.

...To that end, Lieutenant Colonel Steve Hart of the U.S. Military Academy's Civil and Mechanical Engineering Department developed not only a course of study but also the first, in 2010, of what is intended to be an annual symposium for his students (and those from other universities) to explore Critical Infrastructure Resilience and Protection. One of the principal lessons learned from his efforts this past year is that there are very few engineering departments currently focused on the resilience of Critical Infrastructure.

...That may change in the not-too-distant future, though, thanks in large part to Colonel Hart's efforts. Fortunately, there is a growing awareness that: (1) The roadmap to achieving resilience is paved with many microeconomic decisions; and (2) Both education and career development are critical to the long-term process of building resilience – primarily by following the ASCE Guidelines mentioned earlier.

To view the entire writing - http://www.domesticpreparedness.com/Infrastructure/CIP-R/Leadership_and_Stewardship_in_Microeconomic_Decision-Making/

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