Speakers at the Threat and Vulnerability Management Conference

March 26, 2009

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.


James Hansen

James Hansen is a Sr. Product Manager for BigFix, Inc., focused on all things security and compliance related. He currently manages the BigFix Security Configuration and Vulnerability Management product line and is responsible for driving the end to end BigFix solutions. For the last ten years, James has provided systems and security focused consulting services and products to organizations throughout the world and leveraged various software solutions to help organizations leverage their investments to achieve higher degrees of productivity, efficiency, and general security. By combining his unique sense of customer satisfaction with his hands-on implementation experience and security background, James provides a perspective-based insight into security and compliance related issues and organizational investments in technology to solve these issues.


Richard Linke
With over 20 years of experience in the IT/IS security related fielded, Richard has a proven track record for building and creating winning teams and process, while managing the business through growth and change. For the past 3 years he has been involved in creating a Security Patch Management process, today this process is rated one of the top in the industry. He has been involved in every phase of growth for a successful security organization, from startup through expansion and rapid change - to acquisition and installation as a permanent division within a large global company.


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.


Scott Shepard
Scott Shepard, CISSP, CISM, is a Principal Consultant for GlassHouse Technologies, Inc.  He is an information security expert who has led the development of a broad portfolio of market-leading, differentiated security service solutions and architectures. In his prior position as the Directory of Security Architecture at Motorola, he led the development and technical build-out of the “E-zones” architecture in support Motorola’s Seamless Mobility business vision. Scott received recognition for this unique security implementation with multiple industry awards.


Ralph Thomas

Mr. Thomas serves as deputy director for the iDefense Intelligence Operations, and heads the iDefense Malicious Code Intelligence Group (Malcode), responsible for the active collection of open-source intelligence, and the reporting and analysis of public reports and outbreaks of malicious code. Mr. Thomas also directs the malicious code research lab in iDefense, which is tasked with the development of tools for discovery and analysis of malicious code and related threats. Before joining iDefense, Mr. Thomas worked as Principal Computer Forensics Consultant in several data acquisition and litigation support projects and regularly served as an expert witness in federal court. Early in his career, Mr. Thomas designed hardware and real-time software in the controls and digital television sectors before turning his attention to enterprise software. A Certified Lotus Specialist, he has expertise in e-mail archiving, document imaging, Siebel, SAP and Oracle Applications. Mr. Thomas holds an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Dortmund in Germany.

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