Conference Speakers
Seth Fogie, Keynote Speaker, Vice President of Airscanner Corp.
Seth Fogie will be our keynote for the 2008 IT Security Conference for K20.
Fogie has co-written numerous technical books on information security, including the best-selling Maximum Wireless Security, Security Warrior from O'Reilly, Cross-Site Scripting Attacks: XSS Exploits and Defense from Syngress.
In addition, he has co-written the HIPAA medical education course for the Texas Medical Association and is acting Site Host for Security for InformIT.com where he writes articles and reviews, and manages weekly information on security-related books and articles.
Fogie is vice president of the Dallas-based Airscanner Corporation. And last but not least, he is
acting CSO for White Wolf Security, a company dedicated to cyber exercises and cyber conflict
leadership training.
Ted Sherrill IV, Senior Directory Security & Regulatory Compliance, Oracle Corp
Ted Sherrill has a BBA in accounting and MBA in information systems. He has morethan 13 years experience with Oracle in many different functions, including data-warehouse center of excellence, business intelligence, database, applications, procure to pay, master data management, and identity management. For the last 6 years Ted has focused on security and regulatory compliance, the last two in remediating risks within Higher Ed. He is the creator and architect of the Oracle Data Privacy Shield, which remediates risk concerning sensitive data (e.g., SSNs, PIIs, credit cards).
Marina Arseniev, Director of Enterprise Architecture, Security & Data Management Services, Administrative Computing Services at University of California
Marina Arseniev is Director of Enterprise Architecture, Security, and Data Management Services for Administrative Computing Services at the University of California, Irvine. She is focused on building strategic technical roadmaps to best meet customer and organizational objectives.
With over 20 years of IT experience, her responsibilities include leading the planning of the Information Technology Reference Architecture for administrative systems, assessing and strengthening data and application security, and implementing strategic campus-wide initiatives. Recent projects include a Facilities Management ERP implementation, the UC Irvine Data Warehouse, the Campus Business Portal, and application infrastructure and integration planning.
Arseniev completed degrees in Physics at Reed College and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Jon Allen, Information Security Officer, Baylor University
Jon Allen is the Information Security Officer at Baylor University. He has been working in Information and Network Security for almost 10 years.
Allen is a member of the EDUCAUSE Effective Practices committee and chairs the Encryption sub-committee. He has presented at EDUCAUSE, Acuta, Resnet and the Institute for Applied Network Security, on topics ranging from 802.1x to whole disk encryption.
Gabriel Iovino, Principal Security Engineer, REN-ISAC
Gabriel Iovino is a Principal Security Engineer with the Research and Education Networking Information Sharing and Analysis Center (REN-ISAC).
The REN-ISAC is an integral part of higher education's strategy to improve network security through information collection, analysis, dissemination, early warning, and response.
Iovino holds a Master's degree in Network Security from Capitol College and a Bachelor;s of Science with a concentration in Computer Information Systems from Indiana University. Before joining the REN-ISAC, Iovino worked for Indiana University in the following areas: support center, messaging support and information security.
Gunnar Peterson, Managing Principal, Arctec Group
Gunnar Peterson is a Managing Principal at Arctec Group. He focuses on distributed systems security for large mission critical financial, financial exchanges, healthcare, manufacturer, and insurance systems, as well as emerging start-ups.
Mr. Peterson is an internationally recognized software security expert and is frequently published. He is an Associate Editor for IEEE Security & Privacy Journal on Building Security, an Associate Editor for Information Security Bulletin, a contributor to the SEI, CERT and DHS Build Security In portal on software security, leader of the OWASP XML Security Gateway Evaluation Criteria project and an in-demand speaker at security conferences.
He maintains a blog at http://1raindrop.typepad.com
Joe St Sauver, Ph.D., Security Programs Manager, Internet2
Joe St Sauver, Ph.D., is Internet2's Security Programs Manager, on contract with Internet2 through the University of Oregon. St Sauver is a member of numerous security working groups, including the Internet2/EDUCAUSE Security Task Force, the Internet2 SALSA security advisory group, the REN-ISAC Technical Advisory Group, and he's one of just a handful of senior technical advisors for the carrier anti-spam forum, the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG), a group representing 600 million consumer mailboxes.
Some of his recent talks have included:
-- "A Normative Campus Security Agenda," a talk at EDUCAUSE Security Professionals 2008, describing what new chief information security officers (CISOs) should be thinking about as they build their local security programs
-- "Cyberinfrastructure Architectures, Security and Advanced Applications," explaining why firewalls and perimeter based defenses are increasingly problematic for many higher education sites
-- "Spam, Domain Names and Registrars," a talk for MAAWG which looked at what domain name registrars are most closely associated with spamvertised domain names
-- "Planning for Certain High Risk Security Incidents," looking at potential national scale disasters, and what we should collectively be doing to mitigate those risks
Other talks have focused on securing DNS and DNSSEC, botnet mitigation strategies, the role of capacity planning in network security, real time notification during a disaster or other emergency, disaster recovery and business continuity, route injection and hijacked address space, CALEA and numerous other topics.
Born in Minnesota, St Sauver says that coming to Fargo is like coming home, and he hopes that there will be snow for the meeting! This will be St. Sauver's second time speaking at our event; his earlier two talks for us and most of his other publicly available presentations can be found linked from his homepage at http://www.uoregon.edu/~joe/
Marc Wallman, Director of Enterprise Computing and Infrastructure, NDSU
Marc Wallman is Director of Enterprise Computing and Infrastructure at North Dakota State University, which includes: Enterprise Application Development, Enterprise Systems, Network Engineering and Operations, and Research Computing Services.
Wallman has completed several years toward a terminal degree in philosophical theology at the Graduate Theological Union, holds an MS in computer science from NDSU, an MA in theology from Luther Seminary, and a BA in physics from Luther College. He has contributed to regional IT conferences as presenter and panelist, as well as to IT publications. Wallman is the past co-recipient of the Larry L. Sautter Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Information Technology from the University of California at Berkeley.
Wallman's background is in system administration, while his current professional activities focus on network issues at the regional and national levels. These activities include participation in the Northern Tier Network Consortium and service on the EDUCAUSE Network Policy Council.
Beth Young, Principal Network Security Analyst, MOREnet
Beth Young is a Network Security Analyst - Principal at MOREnet, the Missouri Research Education Network. With 15 years of experience in IT, her current responsibilities include incident response, proactive bot hunting, reverse engineering malware and other special research projects.
Young started as a programmer, writing customized software for the American Red Cross in
Springfield, MO. From there, she became a system administrator for the mini-computer and pulled cable
for the first network in the Springfield Red Cross building. She moved to Columbia, MO in 1993 to
manage several computer labs on the University of Missouri-Columbia campus. In 1996, she moved to the
central IT department on campus and was instrumental in installing the Gigabit Ethernet backbone which
connected every building on campus. She joined the MOREnet Security group in 2001. Young regularly
gives presentations at regional and national conferences on the topic of network security.
Young earned her Master of Science degree in computer information systems from Missouri State
University. She belongs to the Central Missouri InfraGard Members Alliance and is a Certified
Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).
Bruce Curtis, Network Engineer, North Dakota State University
Bruce Curtis is a Network Engineer at North Dakota State University. While in the past he was an assistant Unix System Administrator and helped support PCs, he now mainly works with networks (routers and switches). Curtis has modified tools such as the Labrea Tarpit to add blocking of hosts that are scanning NDSU's network. Curtis has taken a class in hacking created by Verisign and has used the knowledge from that class to identify vulnerable or compromised hosts with various scanning tools and/or from network statistics.
Curtis prefers to look ahead to the future and is active in both the Internet2 Multicast and IPv6 Working Groups, and he likes the security philosophy of the Jericho Forum. Curtis says, "Make sure your network traffic is encrypted--you never know who may be listening with a big antenna."
Barbara Chung, Microsoft Solution Specialist, Live@EDU
Barbara Chung is a Microsoft Solution Specialist for Live@edu. She has worked for Microsoft for 10 years, working in security and infrastructure for customers across the U.S.
Karla Hammer, Senior Technology Consultant; Brady, Martz & Associates, P.C.
Karla Hammer is a senior technology consultant with Brady, Martz & Associates, P.C. Hammer graduated from the University of Mary with two Masters Degrees: MBA in management and M.S. in information technology.
Hammer is certified in Homeland Security (CHSII) and serves on the Homeland Security National Emergency Response Team: Long-Term Community Recovery & Mitigation. She also serves on the InfraGard (sponsored by the FBI) ND Information Member Alliance board of directors.
John B. Weaver, President, JBW Group International Inc.
John B. Weaver is an IRCA-certified ISO 27001 auditor and British Standards Institution-qualified in Information Security Management System (ISMS) Implementation with over twenty years experience in Internet and Information Security. He directed Information Security for a global IP network providing security architecture, policy, regulatory compliance, operational processes, security metrics and business continuity planning for both public and internal networks.
Weaver has provided information security consulting to Fortune 50 and International companies in Energy, Telecommunications, Banking and Finance, Healthcare, Software Development and other vertical markets in the United States, Japan, Canada, Mexico, and Central America. He is a sought-after speaker and frequent media resource on issues of Internet and Information Security, Cyberterrorism, legal and regulatory compliance and protection of the National Infrastructure.
Alyssa Martin, Director of Policy Services, North Dakota School Boards Association
Alyssa Martin is the Director of Policy Services for the North Dakota School Boards Association. She previously served as a college lecturer at colleges in North Dakota and Minnesota. Martin has a M.A. and B.A. in English from the University of North Dakota and is originally from Minot, North Dakota.
Britt McAlister, Manager of Enterprise Applications, North Dakota State University
Britt McAlister currently manages enterprise servers and development at NDSU.Previously, she spent 6 years as a consultant, architect and developmentmanager at Microsoft. She also spent 10 years building/architectingintelligence and battlefield decision support systems for the USmilitary.
Jennifer Klemetsrud Puhl, Assistant United States Attorney
Jennifer Klemetsrud Puhl is an Assistant United States Attorney in
Fargo, North Dakota. She prosecutes technology-facilitated sexual
exploitation crimes against children.
John Gieser, Manager of Support and Technical Services
IT Security Conference for K20 welcomes John Gieser as a 2008 guest speaker.
Fessenden Public Schools
IT Security Conference for K20 welcomes Fessenden Public Schools as a 2008 guest speaker.
North Dakota State University
Information Technology Services
North Dakota EduTech
Education Technology Services for K-12 Schools