Speakers

S.S.A. Steve Bongardt

Supervisory Special Agent Steve Bongardt has been assigned to the Behavioral Analysis Unit, National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crive (NCAVC), Quantico, Virginia since January 2004. Prior to his assignment at the BAU, SSA Bongardt spent eight years in the FBI's New York Field Office, where, as a field agent, he spent substantial time overseas working on the Osama Bin Laden/Al-Qaeda affiliated Major Cases of the FBI - the East African Embassy Bombings, the USS Cole Attack in Aden, Yemen (for which he was Co-Case Agent), and the September 11th Attacks. SSA Bongardt was in the very first group of FBI agents to work in Afghanistan after 9/11. Additionally, SSA Bongardt worked cyber crime and national security related matters. Assigned to BAU-1, Counterterrorism / Threat Unit, his current duties are to provide behaviorally based investigative and operational support to complex and time sensitive crimes and other matters of significance involving acts of violence focusing upon terrorism, threats, cyber crime, stalking, school violence, bombings, arsons, and anticipated and active crisis situations.
Over the last three years at the BAU, SSA Bongardt has worked extensively on the behavioral assessment of computer intrusions and the cyber-related crime scene, Word Count Strategy content analysis, and the application of Social Network Analysis and behavioral assessment to counterterrorism investigations.
SSA Bongardt graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1985 and was a Naval Aviator for seven years. Upon leaving the Navy in 1993, SSA Bongardt spent two years in institutional capital markets on Wall Street, entering the Bureau in December 1995. He is currently pursuing a graduate degree in Forensic Psychology at Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia.

Richard G. Clarke, CIC, CPCU, RPLU, CITRMS

Dick Clarke is a veteran of the property/liability insurance industry, having worked as underwriter, consultant, and broker through hard and soft market cycles. He is current Senior Vice President with the regional brokerage, J. Smith Lanier & Co. headquartered in Georgia. (J. Smith Lanier & Co. is a member of the RiskProNet nationalagency network.)
He continues to publish articles on a variety of executive liability and E&O subjects and functions as an expert witness, as well as consultant, to buyers of commercial insurance and to insurance companies concerning product development. He is a long time National Faculty member of The Society of CIC and is a former member of the National Board of Trustees. His book entitled "Three Dimensions of Executive Loability Insurane" will enter a fourth edition in 2008. He was an original recipient of the CPCU Society's "Distinguished Instructor in Insurance" award. He holds the CIC, CPCU, RPLU, and CITRMS professional designations and his speciality is making commercial insurance easier to understand.

Bill Dean

Mr. Bill Dean is a local computer forensics and computer security expert with more than 12 years of experience in the information technology field. Bill possesses an Associates degree in Computer Science and a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology. Bill has had information security responsibilities in regulated environments such as HIPAA, FDIC, and NCUA. Bill was the presenter for last year's "Presenting Digital Evidence in Court" that focused on digital forensics.
Bill routinely provides presentations and is a published author on the topics of Computer Forensics and Computer Security. Bill is currently resposible for the mobile encryption of more than 600 laptops and is currently engaged in a project to ensure that only encrypted thumb drives are used for East Tennessee's largest healthcare companies. Along with many other technical certifications, Bill is a Certified Computer Examiner and a member of the International Society of Forensic Computer Examiners.

Steve Hewitt, Supervisory Intelligence Officer
Tennessee Department of Safety/Homeland Security Tennessee Fusion Center (TFC)

Steve Hewitt served with the Nashville Metropolitan Police Department (MNPD) from 1985 - September 2006. His career with MNPD included assignments as Patrol Office, Field Training Officer, Patrol Sergeant, 11 years with the MNPD SWAT team, Entry Team leader for 3 years, and Vice Division Street Drug Unit Sergeant. In 1998, Steve was promoted to Lieutenant and transferred to the MNPD Intelligence Division where he formed a tactical surveillance unit comprised of SWAT team members specializing in surveillance and apprehnsion of career or high profile offenders and felony crimes in progress apprehensions.
Following a domestic extremist case in 2000, he was assigned to serve as the MNPD representative to the FBI Domestic Terrorism Working Group. Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, he became a full time member of the newly formed Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) in Nashville. He continued in the JTTF assignment until December of 2005, working International Terrorism cases and simultaneously supervising the MNPD's newly formed Anti-terrorism unit. Steve was transferred to the Metro Nashville Training Academy in December of 2005, where he managed the Trainee Operations Sections from December of 2005 until September of 2006, when he left the MNPD to join the Tennessee Office of Homeland Security (TOHS) as Supervisory Intelligence Officer (SIO).
As TOHS SIO, Steve began working in partnership with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) to develop the Tennessee's Fusion Center. In his capacity as Supervisory Intelligence Officer, Steve serves as the Office of Homeland Security's principle TFC supervisor and project coordinator. His responsibilities include overseeing the establishment, maintenance, and analysis activities within the TFC related to terrorism, criminal activities with a possible nexus to terrorism and other homeland security related information - intelligence. Steve's responsibilities further include managing the Office of Homeland Security activities as it pertains to the development and coordination of systems and relationships to the TFC. This includes a broad set of Communities of Interest (COIs), enabling intelligence and information analysis, collaboration, and the accomplishment of information sharing missions in suppor tof homland security throughout Tennessee. These COIs include Tennessee component agencies, other government agencies, federal, state, local, tribal government and law enforcement, the U.S. Intelligence Community, private industry, citizen groups, and international entities as required.

Brett M. Lambo

Brett Lambo is the Director of the Cyber Exercise Program for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's National Cyber Security Division (NCSD).
Mr. Lambo leads the NCSD Cyber Exercise Program which, in collaboration with cyber security partners, designs, develops, and conducts cyber exercises at the federal, state, regional, local, and sector level. DHS's most recent exercise, Cyber Storm II, was the second installment in the NCSD's national cyber exercise series. Cyber Storm II was a large-scale, national/international cyber exercise designed and executed in close coordination with partners from 40 private sector companies, 18 Federal departments and agencies, 9 states, and 5 countries.
Prior to his position at NCSD, Mr. Lambo played a lead role in the DHS Office of Infrastructure Protection's Critical Infrastructure protection partnership efforts. He was closely involved in the creation, development, implementation, and operation of the sector partnership and the Critical Infrastructure Partnership Advisory Council (CIPAC) - DHS's principal mechanism for public-private and Federal/State collaboration for critical infrastructure protection. Other engagements included the information sharing strategy for the National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP), as well as the development and exercise of the Office of Infrastructure Protection's incident management plans, procedures and operations - including deployment for real-world incidents such as Hurricane Katrina and the 2007 California wildfires.
Prior to his tenure at DHS, Mr. Lambo spent almost 10 years as a consultant to Federal and State government agencies. Mr. Lambo holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Chicago.

Kevin Mandia

Kevin Mandia founded Red Cliff Consulting after leading Foundstone's Incident Response practice, where he gained worldwide recognition as an expert in incident response and computer forensics. Prior to joining Foundstone, Kevin was a Special Agent with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI), where he specialized in computer intrusion cases. Upon leaving the AFOSI, he developed a computer intrusion response course specifically requested by the FBI. Kevin has trained more than 400 FBI agents as well as personnel from the State Department, the CIA, NASA, the U.S. Postal Service, the Air Force, and other government agencies.
Kevin is a regular speaker at numerous forums, including Networld+Interop, Blackhat, Infragard, HTCIA, SC Magazine's Information Security Forum, and Techno Security. He is a guest Professorial Lecturer at Carnegie Melon University and the George Washington University. Kevin has responsed to more than 40 computer security incidents in the last 4 years, running the gamut from international computer intrusion to theft of Intellectual Property. The author of two essential books on incident response by McGraw-Hill, Kevin holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Lafayette College and a M.S. in Forensic Science from the George Washington University.

Erik Rolf

As President and founder of Deliberare, Inc., an information security and technology consulting firm, Erik Rolf leverages fifteen years of information security and technology eperience in consulting, financial services, telecommunications, and healthcare. He has organized multiple systems engineering, security, and regulatory compliance initiatives for multi-national corporations and has extensive experience in deploying diverse security technologies as well as in providing customized information security and technology training. Rolf is currently engaged in designing the security and technical infrastructure of the Nationwide Health Information Network, Trial implementation, a health information technology project sponsored by the Office of the National Coordinator, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Prior to founding Deliberare, Rolf held the positions of Chief Technology Officer for an East Coast debit card and merchant processing corporation and Senior Security Engineer for a major US information security consulting firm. Rolf's responsibilities have included Securing Critical Informatoin Systems, Application and Vulnerability Assessments, Payment Card Industry (PCI) Cardholder Information Security (CISP) Compliance and a range of Security Audits. Previously, Rolf worked for a wholly owned subsidiary of ABN AMRO Bank, one of the twenty largests banks in the world. During his seven-year tenure, Rolf's responsibilities included ensuring the secure and efficient operation of all information technology and telecommunication systems necessary to manage an investment portfolio of over $30 billion in assets. Additionally, Rolf engaged in multiple regulatory compliance and business continuance efforts, including those required under Gramm-Leach Bliley and Securities and Exchange Commission mandates. Rolf began his career with MCI Telecommunications where he was responsible for domestic and international voice and data network engineering and provisioning, as well as call center technology management. While with MCI, Rolf worked with customers spanning all major industry segments, worldwide. Rolf is a member of the Information Systems Audit and Control Association, the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium, the Information Systems Security Association and FBI InfraGard.
Rolf holds a Bachelor of Science in Business administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Det. Randy Stone

Randy Stone has been with the Wichita Police Department for 21 years, 15 of those as a Detective. He has been doing high tech investigations and computer forensics for 11 years.
He is certified through IACIS as a CFCE and continues to participate as a coach. Detective Stone also holds the Security+ and CPTS (Certified Penetration Testing Specialist) through Mile2.
He is part owner of a small computer security and forensics company in Wichita called Midwest Cyber Associates and was recently hired as a consulting employee with SAIC.
In his spare time, he is a member of a computer security and information assurance unit in the Army Reserves, where he has been a member for 24 years.

Timothy L. Thomas

Timothy L. Thomas is an analyst at the Foreign Military Studies Office (FMSO) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He retired from the U.S. Army as a Lieutenant Colonel in the summer of 1993. Mr. Thomas received a B.S. from West Point and an M.A. from the University of Southern California. He was a U.S. Army Foreign Area Officer who specialized in Soviet/Russian studies. His military assignments included serving as the Director of Soviet Studies at the United States Army Russian Institute (USARI) in Garmisch, Germany; as an inspector of Soviet tactical operations under CSCE; and as a Brigade S-2 and company commander in the 82nd Abn Division. Mr Thomas has done extensive research and publishing in the areas of peacekeeping, information war, psychological operations, low intensity conflict, and political-military affairs. He is the assistant editor of the journal "European Security", an adjunct lecturer at the USAF Special Operations School, and a member of two Russian organizations, the Academy of International Information and the Academy of Natural Sciences.
Books by Mr. Thomas:
Dragon Bytes: Chinese Information War 1995-2003, printed by the U.S. Government Printing Office.
Cyber Silhouettes, 2005 book on terrorist, Chinese, Russion, and U.S. information operations concepts; used currently as a text a several armed forces colleges.
2007: Decoding the Virtual Dragon
Recent articles by Mr. Thomas:
"China's Military Culture", 2008
"China's Conducts non-Military Operations in Preparation for Informatized War", 2008
"Cyber PSYOP", study of the Lebanon-Israeli conflict, IO Sphere Journal, 2007
"Cyber Mobilization" chapter in the book Terrorism in the 21st Century, 2007
Information Technologies:
"Virtual Peacemaking: the Use of Information Technology in Conflict Prevention", (Swedish Journal on Peace Operations in the 21st century, Military Review 1998)
Mr. Thomas's articles have also appeared in Russian, Chinese, Bulgarian, and Czech publications and he has co-authored several articles with Russian military officers. Mr. Thomas speaks and reads Russian.

Paul Williams, Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Paul Williams is regarded as one of the foremost experts on secure network design in the U.S. today. Mr. Williams has twenty-eight years of breakthrough innovation and invention in cyber security, artificial intelligence, high speed databases, professional software development, software quality test engineering, communications, and weapons and defense related technologies.
As Chief Technology Officer of Gray Hat Research, Mr. Williams possesses extensive experience developing effective security solutions and conducting security risk assessments for large commercial and government customers, including the United States intelligence community. He is an expert in rapidly solving complex cyber crime investigations through a variety of innovative and proprietary techniques.
Mr. Williams is an active public speaker who attracts large audiences and often draws coverage from radio, television, and print media. He conducts scores of high profile cyber-security speaking engagements every year. Mr. Williams consistently speaks at seminars and conferences conducted by prestigious national organizations like the Federal Bureau of Investigation, United States Secret Service, U.S. Department of Justice, Infragard, ACP, ASIS, IIA, ISACA, ISSA, as well as at universities and colleges across the nation. He has also spoken internationally from an information technology standpoint at a Nort Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) conference on national security in Zurich, Switzerland. Mr. Williams is certified by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA IAM and IEM) and is a nationally recognized authority on the white hat side of network security.
As a result of Mr. Williams' special skills in the field of computer security, he has collected a wide assortment of hacking tools, worms, Trojan Horses, and computer viruses for advanced research purposes. In 1994, his personal collection of 22,000 computer viruses and 800 Trojan Horse programs was among the largest anywhere in the world. He maintains his collection for advance research purposes to this day.