Past Monthly Luncheon Speakers21 Oct 2008, 11:00 Jim has been in the IT industry for over 10 years. He developed applications and appliances for broadcast radio, internet and satellite devices. He is the founder of Bluenotch, a consulting firm focused on Intrusion Detection and Analysis. Jim is actively involved in SANS and GIAC--He is on the GIAC Advisory Board, a GIAC Technical Director, a Stay Sharp instructor, a local mentor and a proctor. He holds many certifications including the GCIA, GCIH, and GCFA. 16 Sept 2008, 11:00 Maj. Gen. William T. Lord is Commander, Air Force Cyberspace Command (Provisional), Barksdale Air Force Base, La. He is responsible for establishing cyberspace as a domain in and through which the Air Force flies and fights, to deliver sovereign options for defense of the United States. In his current duty, he is creating the Air Force major air command for organization, training and equipping of combat forces to operate in cyberspace. 19 Aug 2008, 11:00 Colonel Samuel R. Douglas is the Chief, Operational Systems Management Division, Headquarters Air Mobility Command, Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. The Operational Systems Management Division oversees AMC's deployable communications systems, information management systems, and communications services such as frequency management. The division is responsible for policy guidance, program management, resource allocation and information management as they pertain to deployable and operational communications systems. The division also manages enterprise information management including publishing, business and records management, and the freedom of information act process. Colonel Douglas is a native of Huntsville, Texas. Upon completion of Huntsville High School in 1979, he entered the Air Force in 1983 after his commissioning as a distinguished graduate of the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps, Grambling State University, Grambling, La. 15 Jul 2008, 11:00 Before assuming her current position, Colonel Giorlando was Commander of the 96 th Mission Support Group, 96 th Air Base Wing, Air Armament Center , Air Force Material Command, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida . 17 Jun 2008 Deployed to Al Udeid AB Qatar for 365 days in support of Operation(s) Iraqi and enduring freedom as well as sustaining operations in other countries! During his deployment TSgt Miles as the Non-Commissioned Officer in Charge of the A63 Theater Frequency Management Cell (TFMC) located in the Combined Air Operations Center (CAOC). He was responsible for leading airmen and contractors in assigning, managing and deconflicting electromagnetic spectrum for 19 sites in 10 nations. 20 May 2008 Dr. Agrawal is the Dean for the College of Engineering at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). He also serves as the Director of the Institute for Bioengineering and Translational Research at UTSA and holds the Peter Flawn Professorship in Biomedical Engineering. He took the lead role in establishing the Joint Biomedical Engineering Graduate Program at UTSA and the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA). Prior to joining UTSA in 2003, he worked at the UTHSCSA since 1991 and before that he served on the faculty at Duke University. Dr. Agrawal’s research specializes in the area of orthopedic and cardiovascular biomaterials/implants. During his professional career, Dr. Agrawal has been the recipient of several honors and awards, and has authored more than 250 scientific publications and 18 patents. Internationally known for his work, he is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and was elected the 2006 President of the U.S. Society for Biomaterials. He was the Program Chair of the Annual Scientific Meeting of this society for 2001. Additionally, he is a member of the following professional groups: American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Tissue Engineering Society, Sigma XI Society, Orthopaedic Research Society, American Society for Testing and Materials, and Biomedical Engineering Society. Dr. Agrawal also serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Biomedical Materials Research, Journal of Biomedical Materials Research (Applied Biomaterials), Journal of System of Systems (IEEE), Nanomedicine, Journal of ASTM International, and the Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine. Dr. Agrawal’s work has resulted in several patents, which have been licensed to commercial entities. His bioengineering research group has been responsible for the launching of three companies in San Antonio. He is also a founder of Xilas Medical, Inc. (now Diabetica Solutions), a San Antonio based medical device company working in the area of diabetic foot problems. Xilas was recently selected as the first company in Texas to be funded ($1 million) by the Governor’s Emerging Technology Fund. Most recently Dr. Agrawal has co-founded TheraSams, Inc., a company with the goal of developing and marketing new technologies for drug eluting cardiovascular stents. In 2007 he was awarded the Chancellor’s Entrepreneurship and Innovation Award from the University of Texas System and the Healthcare Hero Award for biomedical research by the San Antonio Business Journal. 25 Mar 2008 Colonel Mark S. Kross is the Commander of the 26 th Network Operations Group (26 NOG), Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. He commands 13 units and over 700 Airmen worldwide. The Group is a cornerstone unit of the 67 th Network Warfare Wing, America ’s first operational wing dedicated to flying, fighting, and winning in cyberspace. The 26 NOG operates, manages, and secures the network battlespace as part of Air Force Network Operations (AFNetOps), providing battlespace awareness and defense of Air Force enterprise networks. The Group trains, certifies, deploys, sustains, and assesses AFNetOps forces for Warfighting HQs and Combatant Commanders. Colonel Kross was born Jun 27, 1961 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and graduated from S. R. Butler High School, Huntsville, Alabama in 1979. He entered the Air Force in 1983 after graduating from the University of Alabama. He has held a variety of assignments involving command, expeditionary communications, software development, training, and operations. Click here to link to the presentation. (Note: large file - 4+ MB) 26 Feb 2008 Colonel Quill Ferguson was born in Detroit Michigan, USA. He attended North Carolina Agricultural and technical State University and was a distinguish military graduate in the Reserve Officers Training Program. Upon graduation in 1981, he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the US Army Signal Corps. He also holds two Master Degrees in Business Management from Saint Mary University, Leavenworth Kansas and in National Strategic Studies from the Unites States Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Over the past 24 years, Colonel Ferguson has held a variety of command and staff assignments in both combat and non-combat arms units. He started his Army career as a Signal Platoon Leader and Armor Battalion Communications Officer in the 82 nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Following that assignment he served in Alaska as an Infantry Battalion Communications Officer, Signal Company Commander, and as the 6 th Infantry Division Radio Officer. He later commanded the U.S. Army Space Command, Defense Satellite Communications Center, at Camp Roberts, California. That assignment was followed by professional internships with Headquarters, Strategic Air Command at Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha Nebraska, and with the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon, Washington, DC. Colonel Ferguson went on to assess, and was accepted in to the 160 th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, Fort Campbell, Kentucky, as the Task Force Communications officer and later served as the J6 for US Special Operations Command, South at Albrook Air Force Base, Republic of Panama. Colonel Ferguson’s most recent assignments include, Commander, 51 st Signal Battalion (Airborne), Fort Bragg, N.C., Deputy Brigade Commander, 1 st Signal Brigade in Yongsan, South Korea and finally, prior to the arriving at SHAPE and attending the US Army War College, Colonel Ferguson served as the United States Bilateral Affairs Officer to the Republic of Macedonia. Colonel Ferguson served as the Division Chief & Director, System Management Division in The NATO CIS Services Agency. Currently, Colonel Ferguson serves as the Division Chief & Director, Information Management Division in United States Army North (USARNORTH) Fort Sam Houston, TX. Click here to link to the presentation. (Note: Large file - 7+ MB) 15 Jan 2008 Mr. Feuerlein has more than 20 years of Information Assurance (IA) experience for both Federal Government and DoD organizations. As the Director of Training and Senior Information Assurance Consultant for SecureInfo Corporation, Mr. Feuerlein is responsible for delivering IA training solutions to DoD and Federal agencies worldwide with a focus on Certification and Accreditation (C&A) support to NIST SP 800-37, DIACAP/DITSCAP and DoDIIS processes. Mr. Feuerlein is a retired U.S. Navy veteran who performed various information security related tasks while serving in the U.S. Navy. 27 Nov 2007 John Dickson is a principal at Denim Group, a serial entrepreneur, and a strong supporter and advocate of John is a former U.S. Air Force officer who specialized in network defense and command and control while on active duty and in the Reserves. He has been a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) for over ten years. He joined Denim Group after holding several leadership positions at SecureLogix Corporation, including Regional Vice President of International Operations. John also held management positions at KPMG’s Information Risk Management practice in John is the current Chairman Elect of the North San Antonio Chamber of Commerce and a founder and former chairman of the San Antonio Technology Accelerator Initiative (SATAI). He has been actively involved in the keeping and expanding defense contractor jobs in He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from 23 Oct 2007 Bill Byrom has supported customers as a Tektronix Application Engineer for 20 years. For the last 14 years he has focused on RF test equipment. He currently supports Tektronix Real-Time Spectrum Analyzers and Arbitrary Waveform Generators in the South Central US. He is a native Texan, growing up and getting an education in 19 Sept 2007 Dr. Gregory White has been involved in computer and network security since 1986. He spent 19 years with the Air Force and is currently in the Air Force Reserves assigned as a mobilization assistant to SAF/XCI in the Pentagon. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Texas A&M University in 1995. His dissertation topic was in the area of Computer Network Intrusion Detection and he continues to conduct research in this area today. He serves as the Director of the Center for Infrastructure Assurance and Security and is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). Dr. White has been involved in security instruction for many years. He taught at the U.S. Air Force Academy for seven years where he developed and taught courses on Computer Security and Information Warfare. He built the nation’s first undergraduate information warfare laboratory while at the Academy and twice received the Academy’s Computer Science Research Excellence Award. At UTSA Dr. White continues to develop and teach courses on computer and network security. He has been very active in the development and presentation of cyber security exercises for several of the critical infrastructures as well as state exercises in Texas and Oklahoma and community exercises in Texas, Virginia, and Ohio. He has also been involved in the development of the Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition and has led both regional and national competitions. Dr. White has written numerous articles and conference papers. He is also the co-author for five textbooks on security and has written chapters for two others. His research is currently funded by DHS and the Air Force under contract with the Air Force Research Labs. His current research initiatives include an examination of organizational issues affecting computer security, high-speed intrusion detection, infrastructure protection, and the development of the Community Cyber Security Maturity Model (CCSMM). Sample of Recent Books, Publications, and Papers Goles, White, Beebe, Dorantes, Hewitt, “Moral Intensity and Ethical Decision-Making: A Contextual Extension”, The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems, Volume 37, Issue 2-3 (Spring-Summer 2006), pp. 86-95 Nestler, Conklin, White, Hirsch, Computer Security Lab Manual, McGraw Hill, New York, NY, 2006 Ramachandran, White, “The Community Cyber Security Maturity Model”, Proceedings of the 2006 Workshop on Information Security and Assurance (WISA), the SIGSEC pre-ICIS Workshop, Milwaukee, WI, Dec. 10, 2006. White, “Critical Infrastructures: Their Dependence on Computer Systems and Networks and Susceptibility to Disruption by a Cyber Attack”, InfaGard 2006 National Conference, Washington D.C., August 22-24, 2006. White, Dodge, “The National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition”, Proceedings of the 10 th Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education, June 5-8, 2006, The University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. Conklin, White, “e-Government and Cyber Security: The Role of Cyber Security Exercises”, Proceedings of the 39 th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 4-7 January 2006, Kauai, Hawaii. White, Williams, “Collegiate Cyber Defense Competitions”, The ISSA Journal, October 2005, p. 42-45. Grance, Nolan, Burke, Dudley, White, Good, Guide to Single-Organization IT Exercises, Special Publication 800-84, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), August 2005 Goles, White, Dietrich, “Dark Screen: An Exercise in Cyber Security”, MIS Quarterly Executive, Vol 4. No. 2, June 2005. |