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Daniel M. Harris
 Danny is with Aon's Information Security Services group, and is
instrumental in the development and refinement of corporate security
policies, standards, and procedures. Specializing in security
awareness training, Danny is responsible for the delivery of key
security awareness training for the organization, as well as for the
development, implementation, and maintenance of the corporate
technical information security website.
Danny's involvement also includes security audits, security
vulnerability and risk assessments on Aon's Internet connections,
E-commerce sites, and internal systems. Additionally, he functions
as a consulting engineer and architect for secure network systems,
with extensive involvement in the deployment of E-Mail content
filtering and virus scanning at Aon. Danny is a key member of Aon's
Information Security Incident Response Team, where he assists with
incident handling. He also evaluates and recommends security
products for Aon.
Danny also teaches in the Computer Security and Forensics
Investigation program at Wilbur Wright College in Chicago and has
been an instructor with the SANS Institute for five years.
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Paulette Hradnansky
Paulette is a
Senior IT Director in the Home and Networks Mobility business for
Motorola. In her current role, she is responsible for the service
delivery and availability of end to end global IT services to the business
Prior to that role, she served as the Supply Chain IT Operations Director
for 18 months, and the Director of Information Security
Operations at Motorola, where
she was involved in establishing,
building, implementing and directing various information security efforts
across the enterprise for approximately 15
years. In that role, she had global responsibilities for providing security services which included
the vulnerability remediation program, cyber emergency response program,
computer forensics and electronic discovery programs, threat analysis,
detection and security monitoring programs, external business partner
connectivity program and global disaster recovery and response. Paulette
has more than 25 years in the information technology area. Prior to joining
Motorola, Paulette worked for Comdisco, Washington National Insurance
Company and Carl Fischer, Inc. in various capacities.
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Derek Milroy MCSE, CCNA, CISSP, GSEC
 Derek has been implementing security in corporate environments, as both an
internal employee and a consultant, for five years. Although he has
implemented firewalls, IDSs, and VPNs for various employers and clients he
focuses heavily on securing Microsoft hosts and Domain structures. He has
hardened hundreds of hosts in environments ranging from less than a dozen
servers to enterprise environments with over 1000 servers and thousands of
users. In conjunction with hardening he has also crafted and implemented
standards, policies, and procedures to maintain the security of his
employer's / client's environments.
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Muneer Mubashir
 Muneer
works for BMC Software as a solutions consultant, with a particular focus on
Change and Configuration Management processes and solutions. Prior, to his
current role, he worked as a senior professional services consultant with
Marimba Inc for 4 and half years, facilitating Release and Patch Management
implementations at Fortune 500 as well as small businesses. In addition to
implementations, he has also help develop procedures to streamline the
implementation projects across varied environments.I Muneer has a
Bachelors Degree in Computer Science from the University of Toronto and is
in the process of completing the ITIL Service Manager’s certification. His
personal interests also include researching the value of IT in an
organization relative to the overall valuation of companies.
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Jim Resch
 With
over 20 years of industry experience working with both US and Global
organizations on strategic IT initiatives, Jim has been instrumental
in assisting clients and customers select appropriate tools and
technology to implement an effective security infrastructure to
dramatically cut the complexity of keeping up with security
challenges and configuration changes across hundreds of thousands of
enterprise servers, desktops and laptops.
As Director
of Security Management Solutions for BigFix, Inc., Jim is
responsible for working with other industry experts and analysts to
understand the convergence of existing security and configuration
management tools to develop, implement, and support a complete
security management solution leveraging best-of-breed products and
technologies. Prior to joining BigFix, Jim also provided solution
design and consulting services for Neuvis, Inc., Micro Focus, and
Pansophic Systems. In addition to a Bachelor of Arts from the
University of Illinois (U-C), Mr. Resch also holds a Master of
Science degree and an Advanced Graduate Certificate in Computer
Technology from Northern Illinois University and the University of
Illinois (Chicago) respectively.
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Matt Rodgers
 Matt
Rodgers is responsible for product management of Blue Lane's
inline patch proxy for enterprise servers. His focus is to better
understand the needs of customers and provide insight for future
solutions. Most recently Rodgers was responsible for host intrusion
prevention solutions and server security, which included Symantec Host IDS,
Symantec Intruder Alert and Symantec Database Security products. Rodgers
has a wide range of experience, including software engineering, field sales
engineering positions within the security field, as well as seven years of
product management in the security and data networking industry with Lucent
Technologies, Redback Networks and Redcreek Communications. Rodgers
earned his bachelor’s of science degree in computer science from California
State University at Hayward, California.
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