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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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| Jack
Wiles |
| Penetration Team Leader &
President, The Training Co. |
| Thursday Breakout |
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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.
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Neal Hamilton |
| Technical Consultant,
ProCurve Networking |
| Thursday Breakout |
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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.
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Anthony Paladino |
| Managing Director Systems
Engineering, Airtight Networks |
| Thursday Breakout |
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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.
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Trey Ford |
| Director of Solutions
Architecture, White Hat Security |
| Thursday Breakout |
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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.
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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.
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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. |
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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).
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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.
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Kory Thornberg |
| Network Engineer, Wireless
Specialist, CAD |
| Thursday Breakout |
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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.
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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. |
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A
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.
