The need for collaboration between industry and the research community cannot be overstated. The risks are too great and our adversaries are “out innovating” us. Open and collaborative models are crucial to protecting our nation's IT critical infrastructures. This dialogue between industry and academia will explore how and where the research community can assist corporations with there most pressing challenges. Opening opportunities for sharing information on real world experiences is extremely valuable to the academic community that is focused on pursuing challenges that they can solve. Partnering the practical with the theoretical on common goals can lead to profound deliverables benefiting everyone.
- Moderator: Robert Rodriguez, Chairman & Founder Security Innovation Network
- Steve Elefant, CIO, Heartland
- Melissa Hathaway, Harvard University, former Sr. Director Cyberspace-National Security Council
- General Michael Hayden, former director of the NSA and CIA
- Dr. Doug Maughan, Program Manager, Department of Homeland Security, Science & Technology Cyber Security Research & Development Program
- Professor John Mitchell, Stanford University, Computer Science Department
General Michael Hayden served as director of the CIA and deputy director of National Intelligence at a time when the course of world events was changing at a rapidly accelerating rate. As the director of the country's keystone intelligence-gathering agency, he was on the frontline of geopolitical strife and the war on terrorism at a time when communication was being revolutionized. He understands the dangers, risks, and potential rewards in the political, economic, and security situations facing the planet. Exclusively represented by Leading Authorities, General Hayden dissects the political situations in the hot spots in every corner of the world, analyzing the tumultuous global environment and what it all means for the American people and America's interests. At the Center of Central Intelligence. After nearly forty years in the U.S. Air Force, General Hayden became director of the CIA in May of 2006, capping a career in service to the United States. Originally appointed by President Bill Clinton to the post of director of the National Security Agency (NSA), General Hayden became the longest-tenured NSA director, serving from 1999-2005. In that time, he worked to put a human face on the famously secretive agency. Sensing that the world of information was changing rapidly and that the Agency would also have to change to keep up with this new atmosphere, General Hayden directed an effort to explain to the American people the role of the NSA and also to make more visible on the national scene. Strategic Command in Dangerous Times. From April of 2005 to May of 2006, General Hayden was the number one military intelligence officer in the country, serving as deputy director of National Intelligence. In this capacity, he oversaw the entire intelligence community, including the CIA, NSA, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and the National Reconnaissance Office. He directed all four agencies to make them work as a unit while maintaining the specialties and unique qualities that made them successful. General Hayden entered active duty in the U.S.A.F. in 1969 after earning a bachelor's degree in history and a master's degree in modern American history, both from Duquesne University. In his military career, General Hayden served as commander of the Air Intelligence Agency and director of the Joint Command and Control Warfare Center. He has also served in senior staff positions at the Pentagon, at the headquarters of the U.S. European Command, at the National Security Council, and the U.S. Embassy in Bulgaria. The general has also served as deputy chief of staff for the United Nations Command and U.S. Forces in South Korea.
Robert D. Rodriguez is the Chairman and Founder of the Security Innovation Network (SINET) www.security-innovation.org The mission of SINET is to enable innovation and collaboration between public and private entities to defeat global cyber security threats, promote small business growth, innovation and enhanced awareness of available technologies into the Federal Government and industry cyber security critical infrastructures. SINET is supported by the Department of Homeland Security - Science & Technology and corporate and public sponsorships. Mr. Rodriguez retired after twenty-two years as a Special Agent with the United States Secret Service. His executive protection experience spanned 11 years at the White House serving Presidents Ronald W. Reagan, George H. Bush, William J. Clinton, George W. Bush, Vice President Dan Quayle and numerous Heads of State. For the last two and a half years of his career Mr. Rodriguez managed Secret Service operations for the Northern District of California and spearheaded the development of the Secret Service’s first public-private partnership cyber initiative in the Bay Area. Since 2005 he has been coordinating the public private partnership outreach for the DHS SRI International Cyber Security R & D Center and is an advisor to Stanford University CS Department and TRUST, a NSF trusted computing grant program that includes seven of our nation’s top universities. Mr. Rodriguez served on an Advisory Board that helped design a public private construct relative to cyber security for the United States Air Force. As an advisor to these programs Mr. Rodriguez brings together representatives from disparate groups (academia, science, private industry, investment banking, government, system integrators, intelligence communities, entrepreneurs, policy makers, innovators, DoD, law enforcement and venture capital) to collaborate on IT security challenges and needs. He presently serves on the Board of Directors for the San Francisco Emerald Bowl and is a certified graduate of the Federal Government’s Senior Executive Service Program.
Steven M. Elefant provides strategic focus for new opportunities and enhancement of existing products and services. Also provides technology vision and leadership for developing and delivering the company's solutions as well as interfacing with intelligence, law enforcement and industry leaders to strategically identify threats. Steve joined Heartland in November 2008 as a consultant, helping Heartland bring its Software as a Service (SaaS) applications to its merchant base. In January 2009, he became the executive director of end-to-end encryption focusing on developing point-of-sale products and executing Heartland’s E3™ security platform that encrypts cardholder data from the point of swipe/entry at a merchant location through the payments processing network and to the card brands. He was named chief information officer in August 2009. Steve was the founder of several successful Silicon Valley startup and venture capital firms. He is co-founder and former chief executive officer of ICVerify, Inc., a leader in payments processing integration of PC-based POS software. The company merged with CyberCash, Inc. in 1998 to form an Internet and physical service provider for electronic payments software. Steve has been an active member of the US Secret Service Electronic Crimes Task Force for more than six years, as well as the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Infragard Electronic Crimes Task Force for the past five years.
Melissa Hathaway is President of Hathaway Global Strategies, LLC and a Senior Advisor at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center. Having served in two Presidential administrations, Ms. Hathaway brings a multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional perspective to strategic consulting and strategy formulation for public and private sector clients. She is raising public awareness by writing and speaking publicly about current real-world problems and is building information and research bridges among academic, industrial and government stakeholders. From February 2009 to August 2009, Ms. Hathaway served in the Obama Administration as Acting Senior Director for Cyberspace in the National Security Council. In that capacity she assembled a team of experienced government cyber experts to conduct the 60-Day Cyberspace Policy Review. In May 2009, the President presented the elegant blueprint of the Cyberspace Policy Review, announced cybersecurity as one of his Administration’s priorities, and recognized Ms. Hathaway’s leadership in conducting the review. In the ensuing months, Ms. Hathaway stood-up the Cybersecurity Office within the National Security Staff to commence the work called for in that blueprint. During the last two years of administration of President George W. Bush, Ms Hathaway served as Cyber Coordination Executive and Director of the Joint Interagency Cyber Task Force in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. She built a broad coalition from within the Executive Branch and established an unprecedented partnership with Congress to obtain bipartisan support for addressing cybersecurity priorities. She developed and created a unified cross-agency budget submission for FY 2008 and for 2009-13, assembling disparate funding sources into a coherent, integrated program. One of the single largest intelligence programs of the Bush administration, the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative has been carried forward by the Obama administration. At the conclusion of her government service she received the National Intelligence Reform Medal in recognition of her achievements. Previously, Ms. Hathaway was a Principal with Booz Allen & Hamilton, Inc., where she led two primary business units: information operations and long range strategy and policy support, supporting key offices within the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community. Earlier in her career she worked with Evidence Based Research, Inc. and the American Foreign Service Association. Ms. Hathaway is frequent keynote speaker on cybersecurity matters, and regularly publishes papers and commentary in this field.
Dr. Doug Maughan is a Program Manager in Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency (HSARPA) within the Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Doug is directing the Cyber Security Research and Development activities at HSARPA. Prior to his appointment at DHS, Doug was a Program Manager in the Advanced Technology Office (ATO) of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Virginia. His research interests and related programs were in the areas of networking and information assurance. Prior to his appointment at DARPA, Doug worked for the National Security Agency (NSA) as a senior computer scientist and led several research teams performing network security research. Doug received bachelors degrees in Computer Science and Applied Statistics from Utah State University, a master’s degree in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University, and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC).
John Mitchell is a Mary and Gordon Crary Family Professor, Professor of Computer Science and (by courtesy) Electrical Engineering, Stanford. Research Interests include: Computer security, access control, network protocols, privacy, software systems, and web security. Programming languages, type systems, object systems, and applications of mathematical logic to computer science. B.S. Stanford University; M.S., Ph.D. MIT.