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IT Hot Topics 2009

Conference Speakers

We’re pleased to offer this great lineup, with presentations and panel discussions from industry experts from across the country.

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Johnny Long
Hacker | Husband | Father |
Thursday Keynote
   
  Johnny LongA presenter that needs no introduction, we are pleased to have Johnny Long join us before he embarks on his upcoming year-long adventure with his family to Africa.

Johnny’s spent his career breaking into the world’s most secure facilities as a professional hacker. His insight into the
threats your clients face is first hand, and his recommendations come from real-world experience attacking and securing hundreds of Fortune 100 and Government networks and facilities.
 
John Jabbusch
President & Chief Engineer, CAD, Inc..
Thursday Breakout
   
  John Jabbusch
 
 
Ryan Linn
Information Security Engineer, SAS
Thursday Breakout
   
 

Ryan Linn is an Information Security Engineer at SAS Institute. Employed in the computer industry since 1997, he has held positions ranging from web developer to Unix Systems Programmer at a large university to his current position in Information Security. Ryan has been responsible for working with large scale deployments of various flavors of *nix, high availability web and database clusters, as well as for application programming in high availability environments. Ryan is now part of the team responsible for information security globally in one of the largest privately held software companies in the world.


 

Jack Wiles
Penetration Team Leader & President, The Training Co.
Thursday Breakout
   
  Jack is a Security Professional with over 30 years experience in security related fields. This includes computer security, cyber-crime prevention, disaster recovery and physical security. He is a professional speaker and has trained federal agents, corporate attorneys and internal auditors on a number of computer crime related topics.

Jack is also a co-founder and a Senior Partner of TheTrainingCo, lead author in a variety of security titles from Syngress and an active and (in many cases) founding member of several federal public-private security initiatives including the U.S. Secret Service's Electronic Crimes Task Force, FBI-led Infragard and a host of other DoD and high-tech crime units.

His training methods are quite unique and very unforgettable. He uses a combination of fascinating personal 'war stories', humor, professional magic and whatever else it takes to make students remember forever some of the things that he teaches them.

Jack is also a Vietnam veteran who served with the 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam in 1967-68. He recently retired from the U.S. Army Reserves as a lieutenant colonel and was assigned directly to the Pentagon for the final 7 years of his career. In his spare time, he is a senior contributing editor for several local, national and international magazines.

Neal Hamilton
Technical Consultant, ProCurve Networking
Thursday Breakout
   
  Neal Hamilton, Technical Consultant for ProCurve Networking, provides technical leadership to channel partners and key end user accounts in the southeast. He oversees new product introductions, training, and on-going technical development in this geography.

Neal joined HP in 2005. His 29 year experience in networking ranges from pulling cable with AT&T Long Lines to designing and implementing large scale international networks. Prior to HP Neal worked as the Network Architect for RSA, Lead Systems Engineer for Nortel’s Carrier Packet division, Lead Network Planner for Wachovia Bank where he designed the bank’s first IP based branch network, and a Consultant at AT&T designing WANs for large retail and banking customers including Lowe’s, BP, and Repsol. In addition, Neal provided technical leadership and mentoring while holding various management positions at ITT and Racal-Datacom.

Over the years Neal served in the USMC, attained dozens of network certifications as well as earning his BS and MS degrees in Economics.
 
Anthony Paladino
Managing Director Systems Engineering, Airtight Networks
Thursday Breakout
   
  Anthony is Managing Director of the US and International Systems Engineering Teams. He has over 12 years experience in data networking, wireless networking and information security. For the last 7 years Anthony has been dedicated to the study of wireless LAN vulnerabilities and the proper deployment of wireless intrusion detection/prevention systems.

Prior to joining AirTight in 2005, Anthony held key Sales Engineering positions at both AT&T , Intellitactics, and PageNet. He also held a Product Development role at Cervalis (disaster recovery solutions) and was the first member of AirDefense's Wireless Security Engineering team. Anthony has a BS in Technical Communications from Drexel University.
 
Trey Ford
Director of Solutions Architecture, White Hat Security
Thursday Breakout
   
  Trey Ford serves as Director of Solutions Architecture at WhiteHat security. As a former QSA that performed PCI onsite audits around the world, Trey brings a refreshing energy and perspective to risk and PCI initiatives. As an active member of the PCI and Application Security community, Trey is a frequent speaker at ISSA, ISACA, OWASP, RSA, BlackHat, the occasional university, and other industry events.
 
Stephen Dellinger
Shareholder, Littler Mendelson, P.C.
Thursday Breakout
   
  Mr. Dellinger advises and represents employers in a broad range of employment law matters and labor issues. His practice focuses on employment related litigation involving Title VII, the ADA, the FMLA, ADEA, and wage and hour issues as well as labor matters under the NLRA. Mr. Dellinger also represents employers and management in wage and hour and discrimination class/collective actions. Mr. Dellinger also advises and defends retail and hospitality clients with regard to accessibility issues under Title III of the ADA. Mr. Dellinger has routinely litigated cases before federal, state and administrative agencies.

 
George Bokas
SE, Juniper Networks
Thursday Breakout
   
  George Bokas is a Systems Engineer for Juniper Networks focusing on the Enterprise market in the Carolinas. He lives in Concord, North Carolina. He has over ten years experience providing network solutions to customers in the Enterprise and Service Provider space. George has helped many Fortune 500 customers with security related projects and is excited about the unique value that Juniper Networks is offering customers in today's complex environment, where Network Security is clearly a top priority for corporate executives and share holders.
 
 
Brett Wilson
SE, Breach
Thursday Breakout
   
  Brett Wilson is the Vice President of Business Development and International Sales at Breach Security, Inc. He has more than 15 years of diverse management experience in the information security, data center management, storage, communications and avionics industries. Brett has held management positions in business development, strategy, product management and professional services at Symantec Corporation, including assignments directing the company’s alliances with Cisco and IBM and managing corporate strategy projects on behalf of Symantec’s executive staff. Prior to Symantec, he managed research and development-related federal field marketing and governmental affairs for the semiconductor and avionics units of Rockwell International (now Conexant Systems and Rockwell Collins, respectively). Earlier in his career, Brett worked as a consultant developing market strategies for Regional Bell Operating Companies. Brett has a Bachelors Degree from Cornell University and an MBA from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).
 
Patrick Ogdin
Systems Engineer, Splunk
Thursday Breakout
   
  Patrick Ogdin
 
Tam Kitchens
Sr. Network Engineer, CAD
Thursday Breakout
   
  Tam is a Senior Networking Engineer with Carolina Advanced Digital. He’s an IT professional with over 29 years of experience in the industry. His diverse experience includes data communications, airport security equipment, Automatic Call Distribution (ACD), early VoIP trials, Systems Engineering and Network Engineering.

Tam Joined Delta Air Lines in 1980 where he supported data and voice communications for Delta’s Reservations Centers. He has also worked for BellSouth where he provisioned Internet connectivity for Enterprise customers, and served on several decision committees including BellSouth’s VoIP vendor selection committee. Tam has done engineering and consulting for the banking, healthcare and communications industries as well as federal government agencies including the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

Tam served in the US Navy as an Avionics Technician prior to joining Delta. He earned his BS and MS in Computer Science and has earned many industry certifications over the years including Microsoft, Novell, Cisco, Juniper, Bluecoat and HP Procurve.

 
Kory Thornberg
Network Engineer, Wireless Specialist, CAD
Thursday Breakout
   
  Kory Thornberg is a Network Engineer with Carolina Advanced Digital with a specialty in Wireless. Kory has spent over 10 years as an IT professional working for companies like Texas Instruments and Intel while spending the last 7+ years in the wireless field alone. Kory is an all around network engineer with experience in both the LAN and the WAN side. During his time here at Carolina Advanced Digital, Kory has obtained numerous certifications such as CWNA, HP AIS, JNCIA EX/SSL/UAC/WX, Packeteer Certified Specialist, Bluecoat WAN Opt and Web Security.
 
Mark Holobach
Systems Engineer, SonicWALL
Thursday Breakout
   
  Mark came to SonicWALL when Aventail the SSL VPN vendor was purchased by SonicWALL in the summer of 2007. Mark has been in the remote access business since 1996 when he was a Senior Sales Systems Engineer for remote access vendor Livingston Enterprise. After the acquisition by Lucent he was responsible for the support of the entire Southeast territory for the entire Lucent product portfolio Prior to coming to Livingston he was a team leader at EDS helping create and manage GM’s partner and dealer network along with running the EDS technical demo center in Michigan. Mark is married and has three children and enjoys motorcycle riding as a getaway from the rigors of work.
 
 
Joseph Belsanti
VP Marketing, Winmagic
Thursday Breakout
   
  Joseph Belsanti
 
 
 
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