Conference Day One: Tuesday, November 17, 2009

7:00 Registration And Coffee

7:50 Chairperson’s Welcome And Opening Remarks

8:00 Keynote Remarks: Defending The Cyberspace Domain: USSTRATCOM Strategic Goals And Responsibilities For Cyber Warfare

  • Operational cyber security responsibilities at USSTRATCOM
  • Initial goals and development for the creation of a sub-unified “CYBERCOM”

VADM Carl Mauney
USN, Deputy Commander
United States Strategic Command

8:45 Cyber Security Initiatives At The US Army

  • Implementation of DoD cyber security directives at the US Army
  • Developments in Army tactics, techniques, and procedures in response to cyber threats

BG Steven Smith
USA, Chief Cyber Officer
CIO/G-6

9:30 Networking Break

10:15 NSA and Cybersecurity - The Agency's Role in Support of the National Cybersecurity Effort

Dennis Bartko
Special Assistant to the Director for Cyber Security
National Security Agency

11:00 Defining Requirements For DoD Network Security Enhancements

Roberta Stempley
Deputy CIO and Vice Director for Strategic Planning
DISA

11:45 IC perspective: Defending IT Systems And Networks: IC Initiatives And Strategic Goals

  • Tools and capabilities that provide network defenders with better situational awareness
  • Layered approaches to computer network defense from perimeters, across enclaves, to host-level capabilities
  • IC interdependent initiatives for cyber security

Sherrill Nicely
Deputy CIO
Office of the Director of National Intelligence

12:30 Lunch

1:45 Identifying And Reducing Operational Security Weaknesses In Software

  • Ignorance of software security weaknesses in your applications is putting you and your mission at risk
  • Prevalence of attacks using the weaknesses listed in the CWE Top 25
  • Methods to identify and address these potential vulnerabilities

Robert Martin
Principal Engineer
MITRE

2:30 Successful Case Study at the Department of State: Measuring Organizational Network Security Risk

  • Discover how the State Department’s “Risk Score Manager” has reduced 83% of the measured risk over 11 months
  • Why focusing attention on progress in correcting vulnerabilities and configuration management weaknesses with monthly grades should be evaluated for wider use in the government

John Streufert
Chief Information Security Officer, DCIO for Information Security
US Department of State

3:15 Networking Break

3:45 Improving Information Assurance Within The DoD/IC Community

  • NSA strategic level IA goals
  • Creating smarter, self defending networks
  • Strengthening identity management and authentication requirements

Richard Schaeffer
Director
Information Assurance, NSA

4:30 Cyber Changes Everything: The Cyber-Defense Revolution

  • Assessments of the strategic and economic consequences of possible cyber-attacks and cyber-assisted physical attacks
  • The likelihood of possible cyber attacks
  • Cost effectiveness of security counter measures

Scott Borg
Director and Chief Economist
US Cyber Consequences Unit

5:15 End Of Main Conference Day 1