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Robert W. Beggs, CISSP CISA
CEO
DigitalDefence
About Mr. Beggs
Robert Beggs is the founder CEO of DigitalDefence. As leader of Canada's leading incident response and forensics consultancy, he has served clients in the banking, insurance, brokerage, and mortgage industries, as well as several small and medium enterprises from a variety of market verticals. He has been responsible for the technical leadership and project management of more than 400 consulting engagements, including policy development and review, standards compliance attack and penetration testing of wired and wireless networks, third party security assessments, incident response, and other consulting projects. His experience with military, financial, and other systems related to critical infrastructure have prepared him to provide a high degree of practical security. Robert is a founder and proud sponsor of the Toronto Area Security Klatch, TASK, North America's largest user group focused solely on security issues. He holds the MBA in Science and Technology from Queen's University, and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional and a Certified Information Systems Auditor.
Topic: The Gathering Storm - Securing Data in the Cloud
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Christopher Calvert
Manager - Security Analysis
TELUS
About Mr. Calvert
Chris Calvert works at TELUS, leading the Security Analysis team within the Chief Security Office. His team is responsible for vulnerability management (including security assessments and emerging threat assessment), security policy, and security awareness/communications. Chris is active within the global internet security community fighting the threats that jeopardize consumers, businesses, and governments. Chris has worked in the service provider space for 14 years with responsibilities in operational internet security, cyber crime investigation, and managed security services for over a decade.
Topic: Service Provider Network Security Monitoring and Emerging Threats
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Raoul Chiesa
Senior Advisor, Strategic Alliances & Cybercrime Issues
UNICRI - United Nations Interregional Crime & Justice Research Institute
About Mr. Chiesa
Raoul "Nobody" Chiesa was born in Torino, Italy, in 1973. After being among the first Italian hackers back in the 90's (1986-1995), Raoul decided to move to professional InfoSec, founding in 1997 @Mediaservice.net, a vendor-neutral and well known security consulting company. The company operates worldwide, being as well the oldest ISECOM Training Partner for the OPST, OPSA, OPSE and OWSE international security certifications. The company's Red Team held also the following industry certifications: PCI-DSS QSA, PCI-DSS ASV, ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Auditor, CISA, CISSP, ITIL, SANS GCFA, ECCE. Raoul is a founder member of CLUSIT - the Italian Information Security Association - and he is a Board of Directors member at ISECOM, CLUSIT, OWASP Italian Chapter, Italian Privacy Observatory (AIP/OPSI). Both Raoul and its security team work on research areas such as X.25 and PSDN networks, VoIp Security, Malware Analysis, Social Engineering, SCADA & Industrial Automation, Home Automation, Satellite communication, Mobile Security, SS7 threats and much more.
Topic: SCADA Security: from Physical Security to Cyberwarfare
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Elizabeth Denham
Assistant Privacy Commissioner of Canada
About Ms. Denham
Elizabeth Denham was appointed Assistant Privacy Commissioner of Canada with primary responsibility for the federal private sector privacy law, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA). Immediately prior to this appointment, she served as Director of Research, Analysis and Stakeholder Relations with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.
Ms. Denham has extensive experience in the privacy and access field from the perspectives of both government and private sector, including several years of senior level leadership in provincial and municipal governments, as well as health and regulatory organizations in Alberta.
Topic: Privacy: The Intelligence Solution
Why Protecting Personal Information also Strengthens Security
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Eugene F. Ferraro, CPP, CFE, PCI, SPHR
Founder/CEO
Business Controls, Inc.
About Mr. Ferraro
Mr. Eugene F. Ferraro, CPP, CFE, PCI, SPHR has been a corporate investigator for over 28 years. Specializing in the investigation of workplace violence, employee dishonesty, fraud, harassment, discrimination, substance abuse, and criminal activity in the workplace, he has conducted thousands of investigations for employers (public and private) throughout the World. He is the current program advisor for the PCI Review Course and is a faculty member. He is also a sitting member of the ASIS International Commission on Standards and Guidelines. He has written numerous articles on the topic of substance abuse and workplace investigations for Security Management magazine and is a frequent book critic for the magazine. Mr. Ferraro is also the author of eight books of which Investigations in the Workplace (2006), is his most recent.
Topic: The Enemy Within: Vendor Fraud and the Right of Privacy
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Douglas Fleming
Technical Account Manager
Arbor Networks
About Mr. Fleming
Doug Fleming works at Arbor as a Techincal Account Manager, providing customers with engineering assistance, design decisions, product development and partnership building managed security and network solutions. Doug has more than 15 years experience implementing routing, security and access solutions into and through service provider networks. In addition to handling field duties, he is a significant contributor to Arbor's overall managed services strategy and direction, as well as product and services architecture. With over 17 years in the Internet network operations, security and telecommunications industry, Doug has extensive technical and service development experience serving in various engineering, product and sales engineering roles at UUNET and MCI. He currently consults with several global Internet Service Providers and government agencies, and is an active member of NANOG and VOIPSA.
Topic: Service Provider Network Security Monitoring and Emerging Threats
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Rob Holmes
CEO
IPCybercrime.com LLC
About Mr. Holmes
Rob Holmes is Founder & CEO of IPCybercrime.com. Raised in New Jersey in a family of private investigators, Rob worked his first trademark infringement case at the age of twelve. While aspiring as a stand-up comedian in Los Angeles in the early 90s, he was employed at a premiere intellectual property investigative firm. Here, he found himself assigned to investigate a new breed of faceless perpetrators: online infringers. Rob conducted some of the world’s first IP-related Internet investigations, and pioneered the study of the “virtual crime scene”. His regular clients include 20 of the 100 Best Global Brands. He is editor of the blog Knockoff Report and author of the book "Brand Protection Bible" due out in late 2010. Throughout his career, Rob has been sought as an advisor to a wide range of officials and businesspeople. Rob has been featured on television, books, and newspapers; and has been well-received as a speaker on the topic of IP Cybercrime.
Topic: IPCybercrime: Knockoffs & the Web
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Ken Newans
Emcee
About Mr. Newans
Ken Newans was Sports Director for CFCN TV & Radio from August 1, 1968 until his retirement on June 30, 1996. His career highlight was being involved in the coverage of the Olympic Games that included 1976 Innsbruck, ‘80 Lake Placid, ‘84 Sarajevo, ‘88 Calgary Winter Olympics and the 1976 Montreal, ’84 Los Angeles and ’92 Barcelona Summer Olympics.
He has been named to the Canadian Boxing Hall of Fame, the Football Hall of Fame and the Rural Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame. In 2008, the University of Calgary honoured him with the creation of the Ken Newans Athletic Award in recognition of his support of university athletics.
In demand as a Master of Ceremonies and guest speaker Ken hosts public speaking and media relations seminars for companies and the National Sports Centre.
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Bilhar (Bill) Mann
Senior Vice President of Strategy
Security Business Unit, CA
About Mr. Mann
Bilhar (Bill) Mann is Senior Vice President of Strategy and is responsible for driving CA’s security product strategy.
Bill joined CA in 2003 and he has held a number of strategic, product management, engineering and business development roles spanning the complete portfolio of CA’s security solutions - Identity and Access Management (IAM), Threat Management and Security Information Management (SIM). During this period, he has been instrumental with CA’s advancement in the security space by driving product development and spearheading acquisitions including Netegrity in 2004 and IDFocus, Eurekify and Orchestria in 2008.
Prior to CA, Bill was in the web caching, media streaming and content distribution space with JustOn, Novell and Volera and the email and web security sector with Worldtalk.
Topic: The Changing Landscape of Identity and Access Management. A discussion of how Virtualization and Cloud will impact Identity and Access Management
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Bernhard Otupal, M.Sc.
Assistant Director, Financial and High Tech Crime Sub-Directorate
INTERPOL IPSG
About Mr. Otupal
Mr. Bernhard Otupal is the Assistant Director of the Financial and High Tech Crime Sub-Directorate at the General Secretariat of Interpol in Lyon/France where he is in charge of Interpol´s activities in the fields of financial crime, high tech crime, counterfeited currency and credit cards and intellectual property right violations. He holds a Master of Science degree in Forensic Computing and Cyber Crime Investigations of the University College Dublin. Mr. Otupal is a frequent consultant and trainer around the globe on topics related to high technology crime, psychological aspects related to the internet and international aspects of law enforcement.
Topic: Global Police Response to the Global Cyber Threat
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Dennis Shepp, MBA, CPP, CFE, PCI
Advisor
Dennis Shepp Security Management Professional Inc.
About Mr. Shepp
Dennis Shepp is currently an independent security management advisor and educator. In 2008 and 2009, he was a security advisor for King Abdulla University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Previously he completed a two-year term as faculty with the Security Academy at the College of Technology in the State of Qatar. Dennis was a senior partner with for 25-years with a security management and investigative consulting firm. He graduated from the University of Alberta; Security Management program and has an MBA from Royal Roads University. His graduate studies included attending Grenoble’s Ecole de Management studying international business. Dennis is Board Certified in Security Management as a Certified Protection Professional (CPP) and investigations as a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and Professional Certified Investigator (PCI). He is an active member of ASIS International.
Topic: How Can I Manage My Organization to Face the Local Challenges?
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