Conference Day Two: Wednesday, November 18, 2009

7:15 Registration And Coffee

7:50 Chairperson’s Welcome And Opening Remarks

8:00 Keynote Remarks: Organizational Development And Authority For Cyber Security At The DoD

  • DoD policy for protecting critical information systems and networks
  • Departmental plans and evaluations for the use of cyber assets
  • Anticipating and preventing successful attacks on data and networks

Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Information and Identity Management
OASD/NII

8:45 DC3 Strategic Initiatives And Capabilities

  • DC3 role as the operational focal point for DoD Cyber Security
  • IA partnerships with industry
  • Combating and prosecuting cyber crime at the Department of Defense

Steven D. Shirley
SES, DAFC, Executive Director
DoD Cyber Crime Center

9:30 Networking Break

10:00 The Four Most Promising Initiatives For Improving Federal Information Security

  • Big risk reductions at the Department of State -- offense informs defense
  • Filling the pipeline for great technical security talent - the US Cyber Challenge
  • The human sensor network as an early warning system
  • Procurement -- the game changer

Alan Paller
Director of Research
SANS Institute

10:45 The Threat To DoD Information Systems And Networks

  • An examination of current and developing threats to DoD Networks
  • Defensive capabilities, response, and mitigation strategies
  • Proactive efforts to inform reactive responses

Tony Stramella
Special Assistant to the Director
National Threat Operations Center, NSA

11:30 Congressional Perspective On Cyber Security

Mark D. Young
Special Counsel for Defense Intelligence, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
U.S. House of Representatives

12:15 Lunch

1:15 SCAP Development and Application: Building A Scientific Foundation For Cybersecurity: NIST Objectives For Secure IT Systems

  • NIST’s statutory responsibilities in the cyber domain
  • Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) development and application
  • Creating metrics for security analysis

Tim Grance
Program Manager, Cyber and Network Security
National Institute of Standards and Technology

2:00 Cutting Edge Research And Development In Support Of The Federal Cyber Security Mission

  • Understanding existing and emerging threats
  • Advancing state-of-the-art in insider threat detection, deterrence, and mitigation
  • Ensuring continuing security, survivability, and dependability of national critical infrastructure through pro-active scalable rapid prototyped technologies

Joseph Trien
Cyberspace Sciences and Information Intelligence Research (CSIIR) Group
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

2:45 Networking Break

3:15 Asymmetric Cyber Threats To US Citizens

  • Targeting the data entry process
  • Targeting home systems
  • Polluting law enforcement and government identities

Randy Marchany
Director
IT Security Laboratory, Virginia Tech

4:00 Closing Keynote Remarks: AFRL Research And Development Efforts In Support Of DoD’s Cyber Security Mission

  • Assuring successful operations in high threat environments
  • Achieving dominant offensive cyber engagement
  • Core technical competencies of AFRL’s Information Directorate

Col Lamar Parker
USAF, Acting Director, AFRL Information Directorate, Commander, Rome Research Site
Air Force Research Laboratory

4:45 End Of Main Conference