Keynote Speakers... 

 

Bob Goodlatte was elected to serve as the Sixth District's Congressman in November of 1992. The campaign was his first attempt at public office. He was then re-elected to his third term by a wide margin.   He is a graduate of Washington and Lee University School of law, and his undergraduate degree in Government was earned at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. Before being elected to Congress, Bob served as former Congressman Caldwell Butler's District Office Manager, where he was responsible for helping folks across the Sixth District. In 1979, he founded his own private law practice in Roanoke. He is a former partner in the law firm of Bird, Kinder and Huffman, working there from 1981 until taking office. Bob has tackled many problems dealing with new technology including online gambling, security and the integrity of intellectual property. As a member of the Judiciary Subcommittee on intellectual Property and a strong advocate for responsible use of the information superhighway, he continues to encourage its development. 

  

Robert "Tom" Marsh is chairman of the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection. He is tasked with bringing together the combined forces of government and the private sector to advise and assist the President by developing a strategy for protecting and assuring the continued operation of this nation's critical infrastructures. These critical infrastructures include telecommunications, electrical power systems, gas systems, emergency services (medical, police, fire and rescue) and continuity of government operations. Mr. Marsh has an extensive background as an aerospace consultant. He serves as the chairman of the board of CAE Electronics, Inc. and Comverse Government Systems Corp. He is a director of Teknowledge Corp. and a trustee of the MITRE Corp. He is also the director of the Air Force Aid Society. Mr. Marsh is a member of the Board of Visitors of the Carnegie-Mellon Software Engineering Institute and was chairman of the board of Visitors of the US Air Force Institute of Technology. With his vast experience in both commercial industry and the military, Mr. Marsh brings a unique understanding of both government and industry needs in the area of critical infrastructure protection to his position as Chairman of the Commission. 

 

 

Other Speakers... 

 

Dr. Jeffrey Jaffe is Vice President, Technology at IBM Corporation. He directs the Corporate Technology Council, which is responsible for assessing IBM's major technological strategies. He also oversees the IBM Academy of Technology. With these responsibilities, he plays a lead role in the overall management of technology throughout IBM. Dr. Jaffe was recently appointed a member of the Advisory Committee to the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection, which was established to examine both physical and electronic "cyber" threats to key U.S. infrastructures. He has also joined the Senior Technical Review Group of the National Security Agency, a study team which will provide an independent perspective on the study of factors that will shape the U.S. Cryptologic System. He is also on a National Academy of Sciences study on Digitization and Communications Science for the Army Research Laboratory. Dr. Jaffe is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and a Fellow of the IEEE and ACM.

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Dr. Dorothy Denning is Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University, where she is studying and teaching courses in information warfare and assurance, and encryption technology and policy. She chaired the National Research Council Forum on Rights and Responsibilities of Participants in Networked Communities and the first two International Cryptography Institutes, and was president of the International Association for Cryptologic Research from 1983 to 1986. She has been chair of the Computer Science Department and is on the Advisory Board of the Communication, Culture, and Technology program. Before coming to Georgetown in 1991, she worked at Digital Equipment Corporation, SRI International, and Purdue University. Denning has testified before Congress on encryption policy and authored more than 90 publications. Her most recent book, Internet Besieged, is a collecting of articles co-edited with Peter Denning. She received the A.B. and A.M. degrees in mathematics from the university of Michigan and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from Purdue University.

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Dr. Eugene Spafford is a professor of Computer Sciences at Purdue university. He is the founder and director of the COAST Laboratory there --one of the world's foremost dedicated academic centers of research and education in information security. Spafford is a well-known lecturer and author, including serving as co-author of the books Practical Unix and Internet Security and Web Security and Commerce. He is on many editorial and advisory boards, including memberships on the ACM's US Public Policy Committee, and serving as academic editor for the journal "Computers Security. Professor Spafford is a senior member of the IEEE and a Fellow of the ACM. In his spare time, he wonders why he has no spare time.

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Dr. William Harris serves as Commission on the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection. He joined the Commission in February 1997 and is an expert in the field of transportation. During his service as Associate Director for Texas Transportation Institute, he developed a major program in intelligent transportation systems and long range view of transportation issues and their relationship to education and research. Dr. Harris received his bachelor's degree in chemical engineering and a master's degree in metallurgy from Purdue in 1940 and a doctorate of science from MIT in 1948. During World War II he was on active duty in the Bureau of Aeronautics,. US Navy Department in charge of the aircraft armor program. After completing his doctorate, he joined the staff of the naval Research Laboratory, where he pursued studies of the relationship between metallurgical structure, composition, and steel properties with emphasizes on ship failure mechanics. He served the National Research Council as Director and later Chair of the National Material Advisory Board, where he contributed to the commercial and military utilization of high performance materials. During his many years with Battelle Memorial Institute, he worked on pipe line issues, ship failures, the development of research and development in third world countries, and the coordination of national research planning.

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Mr. Kenneth Geide is the Deputy Chief of the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC), and Chief of the NIPC's Computer Investigations and Operations Section (CIOS). The NIPC will fuse representatives from FBI, DOD, USSS, Energy, Transportation, the Intelligence Community, and the private sector to facilitate information sharing among agencies in collaboration with private industry. The NIPC will provide the principle means of facilitating and coordinating the Federal Government's response to an incident, mitigating attacks, investigating threats and monitoring reconstitution efforts. The CIOS is responsible for the program management of computer and information system intrusion investigations, and for providing technical support to investigations involving computer facilitated crimes. Prior to this assignment, Mr. Geide served as the Chief of the Computer Investigations and Infrastructure Threat Assessment Center (CITAC). Mr. Geide also initiated the FBI's Economic Counterintelligence Program, and was instrumental in drafting and achieving the passage of the Economic Espionage Act of 1996. This followed his assignment as Chief of the FBI Counterintelligence and Counterterrorism Training Unit, and national manager for the Development of Espionage, Counterintelligence and Counterterrorism Awareness (DECA) Program and Chief of the Economic Counterintelligence Unit. A 26-year veteran of the FBI, Mr. Giede has served in positions of increasing responsibility in FBI field offices throughout the US. Mr. Geide received his Bachelor's Degree from the University of San Francisco, a Master's Degree from NYU, and is currently completing the degree requirements for a Master of Science Degree in Computer Science with a concentration in INFOSEC from James Madison University.