Having security
in your own company, and providing it to your customers
is becoming an obvious protection as much as having fire sprinklers
in your office. It used to be that security was just a dubious
investment but with the increases in cybercrime, widespread
worm and virus outbreaks and even regulatory requirements in
some cases, security has the attention from the CEO and the
boardroom.
Join us
as we discuss different market opportunities in Security. How
can you protect yourself as well as create value to your customers
in doing so? Will creating a more secure product create more
customer demand and a return on investment? With the evolving
security landscape what are the newest mousetraps? What are
CIO's doing to protect themselves and how are they calculating
their return on security investment ROSI. What can happen if
you don't take today's version of "fires sprinklers"
seriously?
Panelists:
Moderator:
Dr. Clifford Neuman is director of the Center for Computer
Systems Security at the Information Sciences Institute (ISI) of
the University of Southern
California (USC)
About
the Speakers
S. Ramesh,
President of Razorwire Security
Ramesh is the founder and President of RippleImpact. He is an
experienced Chief Software Architect, successful entrepreneur
and active investor. Ramesh is an expert in the management and
design of complex computer systems. He has a dozen years of experience
in the roles of project manager, software architect, and lead
project engineer.
Prior to founding
RippleImpact, Ramesh has worked in the technical and management
capacity in various industries, including finance, Internet technology,
for Internet start-ups and established firms. Ramesh has had to
play the challenging roles of both technical engineer and manager
and has succeeded in this capacity. His major technical successes
include his work on Visual Banker with IBM and Sprint ION.
Mike Rogers,
Manager, Information Protection, AAA of Southern California
Reporting directly to the Chief Information Officer of the Automobile
Club Of Southern California, Mike is currently responsible for
Corporate Information Protection. In this role he is responsible
for the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of all corporate
information assets.
He has over
twenty years of Security, Disaster Recovery, Business
Continuity, INFOSEC, and COMPUSEC experience. Mike is a sector
Chair and member of both the executive board of Los Angeles chapter
of INFRAGARD and the Governor's High Tech Crimes Task Force for
Southern California. He is a member of adjunct faculty for Chapman
University and National University, where he lectures on various
Information Technology and Security related topics.
Prior to
the Automobile Club, Mike was Corporate Security Officer
and Divisional Information Officer for Option One/H&R Block.
He has worked for Science Applications International Corporation
on a variety of security related projects for Military and Federal
Agencies. Earlier in his career he spent several years in government
consulting projects in support of the Defense Information Systems
Agency and Defense Communications Agency. In this capacity he
worked for 10 years for BBN Communications, a world renowned pioneer
in the design, building, and implementation of secure Wide Area
Network Technologies for national security and international banking.
Dr. Clifford
Neuman is director of the Center for Computer Systems Security
at the Information Sciences Institute (ISI) of the University
of Southern California (USC), Associate Division Director of the
Computer Networks Division at ISI, and a faculty member in the
Computer Science Department at USC. Dr. Neuman conducts research
in distributed systems, computer security, and electronic commerce.
He is the principal designer of Kerberos authentication system,
which among other deployments, provides user authentication for
Microsoft's Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Dr. Neuman also developed
the NetCheque® and NetCash systems, and the Prospero Directory
Service. His current research focuses on the use of dynamic security
policies in distributed systems that can support the formation
of dynamic coalition's of cooperating organizations while adapting
and responding to perceived network threats.
Sean Peasley,
Partner, Deloitte & Touche
Mr. Peasley is a Principal in the Security Services practice of
Deloitte & Touche and has been with the firm 15 years. Responsible
for Deloitte's Identity Management practice for the Western Region,
he has over 17 years of experience in information security consulting,
organization and process improvement, information systems auditing,
and application design and implementation. He specializes in the
design and implementation of identity management and infrastructure
security solutions related to enterprise and e Business transformations.
Mr. Peasley has also organized and lead multidisciplinary business
and technical teams for assessing, designing, implementing, and
testing the security and control environment for a broad range
of enterprise resource planning, information systems, and e-Business
transformation projects. He has served clients in diverse industries
throughout his career, including energy, financial services, health
care and manufacturing.
Mr. Peasley has developed the business process and system integrity
methodology for a leading enterprise resource planning product
and has served multiple clients in business transformation efforts
utilizing it. He has addressed various groups on the topics of
identity management, information systems security, systems auditing,
data analysis and retrieval, web and client/server technologies,
and systems management.
