......		Meeting Location: Emerging Enterprise Center at Foley Hoag the Bay Colony Corporate Center 1000 Winter Street, Suite 4000 (North Entrance) Waltham, MA  Meeting Time: 6:30 - 9:30 pm Meeting Cost: $25 public, $10 students and active military Register Online Map and Directions
	Thursday, January 24, 2008 Physical and Cyber Terrorism Combating Terrorism with Technology Meeting Overview The recent unprecedented expansion in the breadth and depth of human interaction has invalidated old paradigms of how humans interact with one another.  A critical side-effect of this increased interaction and openness is a new set of fears regarding those who would exploit vulnerabilities linked to those interactions.  In particular, governments and corporations have attempted to define and address particular threats stemming from terrorist actions, and are on the hook by their constituencies to come up with solutions for this menace. The potential scenarios for terrorist damage to individuals or societies are limited only by the human imagination, and have thus led to a new wave of investments in real and virtual protective spaces to overcome these new fears.  These new protective investments take many forms, and may include the imposition of new intrusive logistical procedures at our ports, the encryption of our data into unrecognizable formats, or the development of new software and hardware tools to find and effectively track individuals among crowds.  Still, massive gaps exist at all levels and new technologies remain at the leading edge of humanity’s response to this brave new world.  On January 24th, the EntreTech Forum will bring together national leading figures to discuss this topic and in particular, how the latest technologies coming out of Massachusetts’ academic cluster are being brought to market to address our new fears. SPEAKERS Keynote Speakers:  Jose A. Vazquez - Department of Homeland Security, Director, First Responder Technologies, Science & Technology Directorate Robert Cunningham – MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Associate Leader of the Information Systems Technology Group; Leader of the I3P Survivability and Recovery of Process Control Systems Project. Moderator: Jason Pontin – Editor-in-chief: MIT Technology Review Panelists: Dennis Treece – Director of Corporate Security, Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) Jose A. Vazquez - Department of Homeland Security, Director, First Responder Technologies, Science & Technology Directorate Robert Cunningham – MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Associate Leader of the Information Systems Technology Group; Leader of the I3P Survivability and Recovery of Process Control Systems Project. Joseph Krause - Managing Consultant, Trustwave Jose A. Vazquez – Keynote, Director, First Responder Technologies, Department of Homeland Security, Science & Technology Directorate Jose Vazquez is a native of Alexandria, Virginia.  A 1982 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy he served twenty years in the United States Navy as a Surface Warfare Officer prior to joining the Federal Government as a civilian in September 2002. While in the U.S. Navy, Mr. Vazquez’s sea duty assignments were as a deck and engineering officer onboard a frigate and an aircraft carrier.  Additional sea duty assignments included two department head tours as a combat systems officer, a tour on the staff responsible for planning and executing deployments around South America, where he circumnavigated the continent twice, and a tour as executive officer of an Aegis cruiser.  Throughout his at sea assignments Mr. Vazquez served in the ships firefighting organizations, as a team member, leader and trainer. Ashore Mr. Vazquez served as chief staff officer, Afloat Training Group, Norfolk where he was responsible for training the 125 surface ships of the Atlantic Fleet.  During his last tour on active duty he was assigned to the Chief of Naval Operations staff where he served as the Head for Western Hemisphere Affairs overseeing politico-military issues between the United States Navy and the Navies of North and South America.  In 2002 Mr. Vazquez joined the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and served as the first director for ONR Global’s Latin America office in Santiago, Chile.  Upon his return to the headquarters office Mr. Vazquez was selected as director of the Navy’s Science Advisor Program where he coordinated the support provided by 25 scientist and engineers to the senior commanders of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps.  He also serves as the director of TechSolutions, an innovative, transformational business process focused solely on rapidly delivering needed technology to Sailors and Marines. In September of 2006 Mr. Vazquez joined the Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology Directorate as a Special Assistant to the Under Secretary for Science and Technology and in June 2007 he assumed duties as the director of First Responder Technologies.  Mr. Vazquez received a Masters of Science degree in Applied Science from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.  During his career he has been awarded the Legion of Merit and various other personal awards for his active duty and civilian service. Robert Cunningham – Keynote, Associate Leader of the Information Systems Technology Group; Leader of the I3P Survivability and Recovery of Process Control Systems Project. Robert K. Cunningham is the associate group leader of the Information Systems Technology Group and is responsible for initiating and managing research programs in information assurance and evaluations of information assurance systems. Dr. Cunningham received an Sc.B. degree in computer engineering from Brown University in 1985, an M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Boston University in 1988, and a Ph.D. degree in cognitive and neural systems from Boston University in 1998. From 1985 to 1987, he worked at Raytheon, designing and developing a parallel and distributed operating system for the next generation weather radar system. After completing his master's degree in 1988, he became a staff member of the Machine Intelligence Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, where his research focused on machine learning, digital image processing and image and video understanding. He also developed parallel implementations of algorithms for enhanced visualization and image region classification and contributed to early drafts of the real-time message passing interface (MPI/RT) specification. In early 1998 he moved to the Information Systems Technology Group, where he started researching and developing intrusion detection systems that do not require advance knowledge of the method of attack. His interests broadened to include detection and analysis of malicious software, including computer worms. Most recently he has become interested in automatically detecting software faults in mission critical software. In all cases he has been interested in evaluating the performance of these systems. In 2001 Dr. Cunningham led the research working group for the NSA’s computer network defense research and technology transition program manager, and received a commendation for his work from the director. In 2002 he participated in a study for DARPA developing a research program to detect and quarantine computer worms. In 2004 he was elected to the executive committee of the Institute for Information Protection (I3P), and later that year he was appointed to the executive advisory board for the Advanced Research and Development Activity (ARDA) organization. In 2005 and 2006, Dr. Cunningham managed the research team of a multi-institution effort to secure process control systems for the I3P and DHS. Dr. Cunningham is a member of the editorial board of the IEEE Security and Privacy magazine, is a member of Sigma Xi and a senior member of the IEEE. Jason Pontin – Moderator, Editor-in-chief: MIT Technology Review Pontin is the editor in chief and publisher of Technology Review, an independent publication owned by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that describes emerging technologies. He was hired as the editor of Technology Review in July 2004, and in August of 2005 was also named publisher. As publisher, he is responsible for all the media and business of Technology Review, including its print magazine, Web site, videos, e-newsletters, and events.  Pontin is engaged in what the Boston Globe has described as a "strategic overhaul" of Technology Review, whose goal is to make the venerable magazine (est. 1899) into an interactive, largely electronic publishing company. In 2007, Technology Review was a finalist in the Folio Magazine Eddie Awards in the categories of best technology magazine and best single technology article. That same year, technologyreview.com won third place in the MPA Digital Awards for best business or news Website (after Time Magazine and BusinessWeek), and second place for best online video or video series (after Concierge.com). In 2006, Technology Review was a finalist in the National Magazine Awards in the category of General Excellence. From 1996 to 2002, Pontin was the editor of Red Herring (magazine), a business and technology publication that was popular during the dot-com boom. From 2002 to 2004, he was the editor of The Acumen Journal, a now-defunct magazine about the life sciences that he founded. Pontin has written for many national and international magazines and newspapers, including The New York Times, The Economist, The Financial Times, The Believer Magazine, and Wired. He is a frequent guest on broadcast, public, and cable television news. Pontin was born in London, raised in Northern California, and educated in England, at Harrow School and Oxford University. Dennis Treece – Panelist, Director of Corporate Security, Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) Dennis Treece joined Massport as Director of Corporate Security in September 2002, bringing both government and private-sector experience to this new leadership position. Treece is responsible for all aspects of security within Massport facilities, including the safety and security of Logan International Airport, Massport’s regional airports, the shipping and cruise terminals and the Tobin Bridge. Dennis retired from the Army as a full colonel, in June 2000, after 30 years service.   He held key intelligence and security-related command and staff positions in Europe, the United States and the Middle East. His most recent Army duties involved securing the vast Army telecommunications and computer networks throughout Europe. As the first Information Assurance Program Manager, he was responsible for building an effective emergency-response capability to telecommunications and computer threats, establishing security policies and procedures and managing multimillion dollar budgets to ensure secure networks. Prior to this assignment, Colonel Treece served at the Central Intelligence Agency as an Army Fellow and then as Chief, Military Coordination Group, responsible for coordinating joint activities between the Department of Defense  and CIA. Previous assignments include command and staff positions of high visibility and responsibility from Vietnam to Desert Storm, the Balkans and elsewhere in Europe. He was responsible for overall security and counter-terrorist threat reporting for Desert Shield and Desert Storm; piloted programs for the dissemination of threat information to senior commanders in the Balkans, and operated the cryptographic security program for NATO. His most recent post prior to joining Massport was with Internet Security Systems, a private firm in Atlanta, where he was responsible for computer network security for corporate clients on four continents, including the world’s largest banks, insurance, and other Fortune Global 1000 companies. He built and operated a state-of-the-art computer threat operations center and provided early warning of computer attacks to his clients and to the government. Treece holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Arizona State University and a master’s degree in History from the University of La Verne, California. He is a graduate of the US Army War College and the Command and General Staff College. His awards and decorations include two Legions of Merit, three Bronze Stars, the Purple Heart, the Air Medal for valor, and the CIA Balkan Service Medallion. He is a board certified Homeland Security professional by the American College of Forensic Examiners International. Joseph Krause – Panelist, Managing Consultant, Trustwave Joseph joined Trustwave as a Sr. Security Engineer in 2000.  Since joining Trustwave, Joe has provided Information Security consulting and compliance management services to the world’s largest credit card transaction processors, issuing banks, and acquiring banks.  Additionally, Joe provides Information Security compliance management solutions to higher-ed, private, and public sector organizations of all sizes throughout the world.  Within these client organizations, Joe is responsible for designing and implementing comprehensive information security programs to enable compliance with various industry standards and security compliance regimes.  Joe is expert in many Information Security compliance regimes, including Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (a.k.a “PCI”), HIPAA security, Gramm-Leach Bliley Act (GLBA), and industry recognized Information Security frameworks (ISO 17799, ISO 27001, NSA IAM). Joe joined Trustwave from a career with the National Security Agency, and subsequently as a contractor to the Department of Defense with SAIC.  Joe holds a bachelors degree in Mathematics from the University of Maine, Orono, ME, and a Masters Degree in Computer Science (Telecommunications) from The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
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