 Howard A. Schmidt
President & CEO, R & H Security Consulting LLC; Former White House Cyber Security Advisor
Howard Schmidt has had a long distinguished career in defense, law enforcement and corporate security spanning almost 40 years. Most recently, he was the chief security strategist for the US CERT Partners Program for the National Cyber Security Division, Department of Homeland Security. He also served as VP, CISO and chief security strategist for eBay. He retired from the White House after 31 years of public service in local and federal government. He was appointed by President Bush as the vice chair of the president's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board and as the special adviser for Cyberspace Security for the White House in December 2001. He assumed the role as the chair in January 2003 until his retirement in May 2003. Prior to the White House, Howard was CSO for Microsoft Corp. Before Microsoft, Schmidt was a supervisory special agent and director of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) Computer Forensic Lab and Computer Crime and Information Warfare Division. While there, he established the first dedicated computer forensic lab in the government. He is regularly featured on CNN, CNBC and Fox TV. He is a co-author of the Black Book on Corporate Security and author of Patrolling CyberSpace, Lessons Learned from a Lifetime in Data Security.
 Johnny Long
Security Researcher and Author, Google Hacking for Penetration Testers
Johnny Long is a professional hacker and security researcher by
trade. Although the job of breaking into buildings and bypassing
computer security sounds like the stuff of Hollywood movies, Johnny has
made a career of just that. By wielding real world attacks against
hundreds of Government and Fortune 100 companies, Johnny has uncovered
and exploited security weaknesses in the world's most secure facilities
and networks. Beyond the cloak-and-dagger world of emulated espionage,
Johnny's role as a security researcher continually helps empower unique
groups of the Internet's most elite "good guys". A highly acclaimed
public speaker, Johnny has given talks around the world on topics such
as Google Hacking, computer security, computer forensics, and hacker
culture, drawing on his unique insight into the mind and tactics of
hackers.
 Johnny
Cache
Hacker for hire and
co-author of Hacking Exposed Wireless
Best known by his hacker handle, "johnny cache," Jon Ellch is
responsible for many wireless hacking tools. These include jc-wepcrack
(a distributed wep-cracker) jc-aircrack (a complete aircrack re-write in
C++), and also helped h1kari create pico-wepcrack (a FPGA accelerated
WEP brute forcer). Cache is currently pursuing is Master's degree in
computer security. He is also co-author of "Hacking Exposed Wireless".
His latest accomplishments can be found in Airbase, available at
www.802.11mercenary.net
 David Litchfield
Renowned security expert and author of The Database Hackers Handbook
David Litchfield leads the world in the discovery and publication of computer security vulnerabilities. This outstanding research was recognized by Information Security magazine who voted him as 'The World's Best Bug Hunter' for 2003.
He is also the author of the Oracle Hacker's Handbook and is a co-author of The Database Hacker's Handbook, The Shellcoder's Handbook and SQL Server Security
To date, Litchfield has found over 150 vulnerabilities in many of today's popular products from the major software companies (the majority in Microsoft, Oracle). He is also the original author for the entire suite of security assessment tools available from NGSSoftware, including the flagship vulnerability scanner Typhon III.
Litchfield founded a company named Cerberus Information Security which was acquired by @stake in July 2000. A year and a half later he founded Next Generation Security Software with five colleagues from @stake.
 Roberto Preatoni
Strategic Director, WabiSabiLabi (WSLabi)
Roberto Preatoni is an international speaker in IT security and digital warfare conferences, he has spoken at many events including Defcon 11/13 - USA, 22nd Chaos Communication Congress - Germany, HITB 2004-2005-2006-2007 - Malaysia and Paranoia 2006 – Norway and scheduled for the Microsoft Blue Hat Conference in September 2007. Additionally, Roberto Preatoni lectures on Internet Abuse at the Applied Computer Science faculty of the University of Urbino, Italy. Mr Preatoni is the author of Asymmetric Shadows (Ombre Asimmetriche), a book on asymmetric digital warfare. Roberto Preatoni is the founder of the independent cyber crime observatory of server sid attacks “Zone-H” and the key lecturer in its worldwide security programme. Roberto Preatoni provides advice to several governments and institutions in matters related to cyber crime.
 Sanjay Bavisi
Co-founder and president, EC-Council
Sanjay is the Co-Founder and President of
EC-Council, which came together post the 9/11 incident where issues of
cyber terrorism were raised in the fore front of security of nations at
large.
Jay, as he is popularly known, regularly
shares the platform with Legislators and Policymakers, to Senior
Officials of Government Agencies and Educators at various international
conferences and seminars.
Having always championed Ethical Hacking
and Countermeasures, Sanjay is a prolific writer, having contributed
regular articles, and currently authoring a timely perspective entitled,
“Myth Busted: Ethical Hacking”. He has the distinction of having worked
as lead negotiator in securing several e-business projects for an
established IT solutions company specializing in Customer Relationship
Management solutions. He is a leading consultant, columnist and speaker
for many local and international companies and government organizations.
 Mark
Logsdon
Deputy Head: Group Information Risk
Management, Barclays
Mark Logsdon has worked in the security
industry for 30 years, gaining holistic security experience - physical,
personnel and electronic. Having held a number of posts within the most
sensitive parts of UK Government where he was vetted to the highest
level, Mark joined Barclays Bank in 2007 to become Deputy Head of
Information Risk Management.
 Jake
White
Former Springbok coach & author
Jake White, appointed Springbok coach on
Friday 13th February 2004, reached the pinnacle of his international
coaching career by guiding South Africa to World Cup success in 2007. As
well as winning the prestigious RWC, the Spingboks won the IRB Team of
the year award, Jake was named IRB coach of the year and Bryan Habana
was named IRB player if the year for 2007.
With this win, Jake recorded a double
after his under-21 squad won the World title in 2002, a feat no other
Coach has managed to achieve.
His Springboks enjoyed a 70% success rate
and, during his four years, Jake’s Boks beat every team. He was also the
helm of the Springboks when they won for the first time at Twickenham in
10 years – and when the Boks beat England at the World Cup he had
completed four additional successive wins within a year.
Jake currently divides his time between
Johannesburg and Cape Town where he has business interests, is still
involved in rugby in a consulting role to the International Rugby Board
and assists developing Rugby nations. |
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