December 6, 2007

“Use Quantitative Risk Metrics to
Help Improve Security and IT Efficiency”

Key Note Presenter: Peter Tippett
Vice President for Research and Intelligence
for Verizon Business Security Solutions,
powered by Cybertrust
and the Chief Scientist of ICSA Labs.

Bio

Photo by Jim Burger
Peter Tippett is a vice president research and technology for Verizon Business, Security Solutions powered by Cybertrust and the Chief Scientist of ICSA Labs.
An information security pioneer, Tippett has led the computer security industry for more than 20 years, initially as a vendor of security products and, over the past 15 years, as a key strategist. He is widely credited with creating the first commercial anti-virus product which later became Norton Anti-virus where he led the first $300 Million in revenue growth. Tippett is currently best known for his creation of pragmatic enterprise risk metrics and large, risk intelligence and compliance management programs for enterprises. For example the Cybertrust “Security Management Program” has served over 1,000 organizations for 11 years yielding over 40-fold risk reduction with gross margins to Cybertrust exceeding 75% and with a recurring revenue renewal rate exceeding 80%. In addition to start-up and small company CEO positions, Tippett has led large software development, product management, production labs, technology research and intelligence teams in his business career. Tippett makes the relationship with each customer a mutual learning experience with a business-focused philosophy that drives IT practices to be better understood, more effective and more efficient. Experience and Accomplishments
Dr. Tippett studied under two different Nobel Prize laureates at Rockefeller University and has both an MD and a Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University. He was recently appointed by President Bush to serve on the President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) to help guide the US efforts in Healthcare IT, Information Security and Computational Sciences research. InfoWorld recognized Dr. Tippett as one of the 25 Most Influential CTO’s for 2002. In 1998 he was awarded the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year and led ICSA Labs to the Inc 500 list. Tippett was the founding Executive Publisher of Information Security Magazine (5 year term). He has written many articles, papers and chapters on IT and information security topics, is widely quoted, and has contributed to numerous television, radio, and other news and feature stories. He is a frequent strategic advisor to large enterprises, and government agencies including the Joint Chiefs of Staff during desert storm. Earlier, Tippett pioneered and commercialized a string of now-common technologies including what is now called the “Recovery Disk,” processor image signatures, using hash-tables for trusted file execution and anomaly detection, aspects of mail merge and “un-do”,. He ran one of the largest “open source” bulletin boards for CPM software before the first PC was created and was president of the Osborne Group in the early 1980’s. Tippett is a life-long commercial pilot and has held the highest amateur and commercial radio engineer certifications.

Education and Certifications

Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, Michigan, B.A., Biology, 1975
Rockefeller University, NY, NY. 1975-76 Research Assistant to R.B. Merrifield (Nobel Prize, 1984) and Stanford Moore (Nobel Prize, 1972)
Case Western Reserve University, Ph.D., Biochemistry, 1981
Case Western Reserve University, M.D., 1983
American Board of Internal Medicine Certified 1987

Keynote Discussion

Dr. Tippett will present recent data from Verizon Business’ Network, Underground, Labs, and Risk Intelligence operations, and will show how enterprises can get more information security “bang for the buck.” He will describe the common logic errors, organizational issues, compliance drivers and market issues that often lead enterprises to do unnecessary and ill-advised information security work while missing out on “low-hanging fruit” countermeasures, processes, and technologies that can get the job done.

Dr. Tippett will provide a pragmatic discussion that highlights significant data collection, analysis and intelligence operations in seven main areas:
1. Threat and Vulnerability Intelligence
2. Underground Intelligence
3. ICSA Labs Intelligence
4. Forensics Intelligence
5. MSS Intelligence
6. Network Intelligence
7. Risk Intelligence

Presenter: JR Magee
Cisco Unified Communications
for Cisco


We are on the cusp of a new era where the Internet is transforming organizations large and small, and creating an entirely new environment for today’s workforce to communicate, collaborate and achieve. A new era of economic growth, productivity and Internet-driven collaboration technologies are at the core of this transformation. Changing the very nature of work, these technologies are driving the rapid evolution of the workspace, where the desktop is complemented, and in some cases replaced, by smart phones and devices driven by a network-based platform.
As the value of information technology moves from the edge of the network into the core we will see a corresponding transition from transactional communications like phone calls and email to continuous collaborative experiences, similar to today’s social networking. Not only do we now expect to be able to connect to everyone from everywhere through every device—we expect it to be seamless, secure and simple. The intelligent network is what is making this possible.

Collaboration is the future. It is about what we can do together. And collaboration within and between organizations worldwide is accelerating. It is enabled by technology and a change in behavior. Geographically dispersed, cross-functional teams create a virtual boundary-free workspace to capture new opportunities created with consumer and providers from around the world. Investments in unified communications help people work together more efficiently. In particular, collaborative, information search and communications technologies fuel productivity by giving employees ready access to relevant information. Organizations are flatter and more decentralized. At the heart of these changes is the simple premise of connections and information.

Once upon a time, e-commerce and e-operations drove the Internet debate, but now it’s clear we have entered the second phase of the Internet. Although collaborative technologies and ‘Web 2.0’ have been around for many years, employing them throughout entire organizations will deliver a new generation of productivity and growth.

The Ultimate Leverage: Effective Use of Shared Services

Presenter: Susan Hogan
Principal
for Deloitte Consulting

Presenter: Neil Brown
Director
for Deloitte Consulting

In a time of stringent budgets and a desire to be prudent with taxpayer money, government agencies are under pressure to look for ways to improve the productivity of their information technology services. Additionally, in order to meet the service demands of the modern citizen, it is imperative that government IT organizations be able to develop, deploy and maintain leading-edge applications. Of course this requires access to highly skilled specific, and sometimes scarce, technical skills.
One of the ways to manage this issue is through an effective shared services model. Shared services is an organizational strategy to eliminate redundancy and optimize efficiency through the virtual or physical centralization of support resources with a focus of deploying these skills across several initiatives. Benefits from a shared services model include improved ability to leverage scale, enhanced service quality and consistent process, standards, and checks to improve internal controls and staffing flexibility. .
Ultimately, shared services enables you to deploy your resources, both people and money, on the most productive processes. Through the sharing of case studies and key findings from Deloitte Consulting’s 2007 Global Shared Services survey you will learn:

1) What shared services is and various technology service delivery models