What are you risking?
What does senior management need to know to protect their company's
information, network and computers? What are the risks of going
without a security strategy? Are the biggest risks internal or external?
What does a sound strategy look like? Where does a company start?
Come for an informative dinner
and listen to what the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau
of Investigation have to say about Information (In)security.
Panelist:
Elena Duarte, Assistant
United States Attorney, US Department of Justice
Elena Duarte has been an Assistant United States Attorney in
the Central District of California, Los Angeles, since May, 2000.
Ms. Duarte specializes in high technology crimes such as Internet
fraud, and has been with the Computer Crimes Section of the United
States Attorney's Office since the section's inception in September,
2001. Before coming to Los Angeles, Ms. Duarte was a federal prosecutor
for five years in Sacramento, California.
Ms. Duarte graduated from Stanford Law School in 1992, and went directly
to the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice in Washington,
D.C., under the Department's Honor Program. During her two years in
Washington, Ms. Duarte served as a Trial Attorney in the Criminal
Division as well as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney at the U.S.
Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia.
Special Agent
Peterson is assigned to the Computer Crimes Squad of the FBI in
Los Angeles which focuses on the investigation of high-technology
offenses including computer intrusions, internet fraud and theft of
intellectual property. SA Peterson has investigated several significant
computer intrusion cases over the past two years involving involving
organized groups that have victimized private companies and government
computers. In addition, she is very knowledgeable about recent computer
intrusions by organized groups in Eastern Europe and can explain the
FBI's cybercrime programs.