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Elliot Kendall (Brandeis University)
Creative Techniques
in User Education
While pursuing his B.A. in Computer Science at Brandeis University, Elliot Kendall worked part-time for the school's systems group. After graduating, he stayed on as a full-time systems administrator before recently shifting focus to security. He has developed several security solutions based on open source software and higher education community resources. He is currently researching trends in attacks on higher education targets with the goal of improving technological defenses and user education.
Christopher Misra
(University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Security and Middleware
Christopher Misra is a Network Analyst with the University of Massachusetts
Amherst where he has worked for the past ten years. His responsiblities
including network security management, incident handling, and network
security architecture. Chris has been active with various regional
and national information security organizations including the Internet2/EDUCAUSE
Security Task Force, Salsa, and REN-ISAC, serving on program committees,
participating in working groups, and presenting at conferences. Chris
chairs the Internet2 NetAuth and CSI2 working groups as well as the
REN-ISAC Technical Advisory Group. Chris has also taught courses
on Network Security at UMass for mnay years.
Nicholas Nathans (Federal
Bureau of Investigation)
Digital Forensic Considerations
for IT Administrators
Nicholas Nathans has worked for 11 years in Information
Technology including development, systems and network administration.
For the past four years he has worked for the FBI with a focus on
Digital Forensics.
Daniel Kamalic (Boston University)
Incident Management with Request
Tracker
Daniel Kamalic is the Director of Systems Analysis and Administration
in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University. In
addition to development and instruction specific to BME applications,
he works extensively on Linux as part of a larger team composed of
like-minded individuals in the College of Engineering, working to
bring cutting-edge computational infrastructures to the rest of the
College and beyond.
Before joining Boston University, Dan was at Akamai Technologies,
where he managed the configuration control system for 13,000 servers
in six continents from the boom to the crash of the dot com era. While
at Akamai, he co-founded car sharing service ZipCar. He holds
an S.B. in Mathematics with Computer Science from M.I.T., and worked
there as a UNIX developer and consultant. He also holds a degree
in opera performance from New England Conservatory, but that's another
story.
Gene Kingsley (Holyoke
Community College)
Small School InfoSec Strategies
Gene was educated at Holyoke Community College (A. S., 1991) and Westfield State College (B.S., Criminal Justice, 1993) and UMASS Isenberg School of Management (P.M.B.A., 2002) and The Graduate School at Bay Path College (M.S., Communications and Information Management, 2004). In November of 1998, Gene started as Helpdesk Coordinator and was eventually promoted to his current position Director of Operations for the Information Technology Division.
He is a member of IEEE - computer society, he has been certified
by the SANS Institute (401) having presented on Computer and Information
Security Topics to local area business meetings through the Holyoke
Chamber of Commerce and other community-based functions. He has taught
Business and Computer evening classes as an adjunct professor at
Holyoke Community College as well. He is very active in the community
with both Information Security and various other project management
challenges.
David Escalante (Boston
College)
Correlating and Reporting
Multiple Security Data Sources
David Escalante is the Director of Computer Policy & Security
at Boston College, where he is responsible for all data security
matters. David was nominated for the "Information Security Executive
of the Year" award in 2005 and 2006, and has spoken on security topics
at events such as the RSA Conference, Educause Security Professionals
Conference, and the Campus Technology Conference.
Prior to Boston College, David was the Director of Professional Services, Americas,
for Baltimore Technology, a PKI vendor, and the manager of the Network Consulting
group at Bolt Beranek & Newman, where he consulted with a variety of Fortune
500 companies on network and security issues.
Aaron Stevens (Boston
College)
Correlating and Reporting
Multiple Security Data Sources
Aaron Stevens is an Instructor in the Department of Computer Science
at Boston University, where he teaches undergraduate computer programming.
Since 2003, he has been a consulting programmer for Boston College,
where he develops software tools to support the network security
and policy group, including incident detection, tracking, reporting
and notification.
Joel Rosenblatt (Columbia
University)
Grand Unified Logging Project (GULP)
Joel Rosenblatt has been in IT at Columbia University for the last
29 years. He is currently the head of the Computer and Network security
group, part of the Columbia Information Security Office. He
is responsible for overseeing the security for the approximately
65,000 nodes that make up the Columbia University network. Additional
responsibilities include DMCA compliance and investigations involving
law enforcement. Joel is a member of Infraguard, NYECTF and
other organizations that he can neither confirm or deny the existence
of.
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