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Massachusetts Institute of Technology August 19-20, 2004 |
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Speaker BiographiesBelow are biographies of some of this year's speakers. More may show up in the next few days --- keep your eyes open. Jerry Grochow - Thursday, 0920, Welcoming Remarks Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jerrold Grochow (S.B. 1968, S.M., Ph.D.) of Washington, D.C., is vice president for information services and technology at MIT. He is a nationally known information systems executive and has over 30 years of experience in technology management for government, industry and nonprofit organizations. He is the author of two books, "SAA -- A Guide to Implementing IBM's Systems Application Architecture" (1991) and "Information Overload -- Creating Value with the New Information Systems Technology" (1996). Eric Jacobsen - Thursday, 1045, "Securing PCs in Residence Halls, Phase 2" Boston University Eric Jacobsen has been doing security and incident response for Boston University for the past eight years. He is active in the development of security policy and procedure for the university. As a Programmer he is also involved in many aspects of the design and implementation of software to aid and advance the security of the University. This software includes to improve the security of Solaris at install time, software for processing and tracking DMCA compliants, software for incident tracking, and most recently, a comprehensive strategy for improving residential computing security. Charles Griffin - Thursday, 1130, "Full Spectrum Campus Security Overview" Quinnipiac University Charles Griffin is a Ft. Devens, MA Alumnus with the Army Security Agency, former Digital Equipment Corporation Network Consultant, 3Com Network Consultant and current Information Security Officer at Quinnipiac University. He has both Cisco CCNA and CISSP certifications. Johannes Ullrich - Thursday, 1330, "The Disappearing Patch Window. Observations from the Internet Storm Center" SANS Internet Storm Center As Chief Technology Officer, Johannes Ullrich is currently responsible for all aspects of the SANS Internet Storm Center (ISC). The ISC uses DShield.org, which he founded in November 2000, as its data collection and correlation engine. Prior to working for SANS, he worked as a lead support engineer for a web development company and as a research physicist. Johannes holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University at Albany (SUNY), and is currently living in Quincy MA. Mark Eden - Thursday, 1430, "SUS" Microsoft Mark Eden has been in the IT world for the past 23 years working for several companies in varied capacities, mostly focused on operation precision and security. He has been at Microsoft for the past 12 years, working to help customers resolve issues with Microsoft Products. In his current capacity, he is the technical resource for the Microsoft Research University Relations Group. David Bowie - Thursday, 1545, "Introduction to InfraGard" Infragard David Bowie is vice president of the Boston Chapter of Infragard. He has over 20 years experience in networking and telecommunications. He is now with Secure Verification Services, Inc. providing vulnerability assessments and developing security policies for clients. Jeff Schiller - Thursday, 1630 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jeffrey I. Schiller received his S.B. in Electrical Engineering (1979) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As MIT Network Manager he has managed the MIT Campus Computer Network since its inception in 1984. Prior to his work in the Network Group he maintained MIT's Multics timesharing system during the time-frame of the ArpaNet TCP/IP conversion. He is an author of MIT's Kerberos Authentication system. From 1994 through 2003 Mr. Schiller was the Internet Engineering Steering Group's (IESG) Area Director for Security, responsible for overseeing security related Working Groups of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). He was responsible for releasing a U.S. legal freeware version of the popular PGP encryption program. Mr. Schiller is also responsible for the development and deployment of an X.509 based Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) at MIT. He also is the technical lead for the new Higher Education Certifying Authority being operated by the Corporation for Research and Educational Networking (CREN). Mr. Schiller is also a founding member of the Steering Group of the New England Academic and Research Network (NEARnet). NEARnet, now part of Level3, is a major nationwide Internet Service Provider. Tim Russell and James Burrell - Friday, 0930 FBI They're from the FBI, what else did you want to know? Peter Adams - Friday, 1030, "Becoming a more robust network through heterogeneity" UMass Boston Peter Adams is the Administrator of Information Technology at the College of Public and Community Service at UMass Boston. CPCS as a college is committed to working for social justice, and Peter tries to blend common sense and social responsibility to the usual IT skill set. He is a graduate of Rice University and has worked with computers off and on for almost thirty years, but prefers a quiet tent by the side of a lake with no electricity and no telephone. Brian Reilly - Friday, 1115, "Making the Case for Email Attachment Filtering: Strategies and Lessons Learned" Georgetown University Brian Reilly is the University Network Security Officer at Georgetown University. His background includes security policy, security awareness, intrusion detection, incident response, vulnerability assessment, TCP/IP networking, and Unix systems administration in large, distributed academic environments. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), and holds a BA from Georgetown University and an MS in Computer Science from George Washington University.
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