National Webcast Initiative

Incident Response

Wednesday, June 23, 2010
2:00pm - 3:00pm (Eastern)

Presenters


Photo of Robert Griffin, RSADr. Phyllis A. Schneck
Vice President and Director, Threat Intelligence, Americas - McAfee, Inc.

Dr. Phyllis Schneck is Vice President and Director of Threat Intelligence for the Americas for McAfee, Inc. and part of the Office of the CTO. In this role, she is responsible for design and applications of McAfee's global threat intelligence, strategic thought leadership around technology and policy in cyber security, and leading McAfee initiatives in adaptive security and intelligence in networks for critical infrastructure protection and cross-sector cyber security.

 

For more than 14 years, Schneck has had a distinguished presence in the security and infrastructure protection
community, most recently as a Commissioner and a working group Co-Chair on public-private partnership, and a
working group Chair on Network Situational Awareness for the CSIS Commission to Advise the 44th President
on Cyber Security. Schneck recently Co-Chaired the Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Congress and is
leading the follow-up effort for the first global strategic plan for CIP. Schneck currently represents McAfee, Inc.
on the Enduring Security Framework, on the High Performance Computing working panel and is the Chairman
of the Board of Directors of the National Cyber Forensics and Training Alliance, a partnership between
corporations, government and law enforcement for cyber analysis to combat international cyber crime.

 

Schneck served for eight years as chairman of the National Board of Directors of the FBI's InfraGard program
and founding president of InfraGard Atlanta, growing the InfraGard program from 2000 to over 30,000 members
nationwide. In this role, she was primarily responsible for the strategic growth and vision of the private sector
side of the InfraGard Program, and for growing the relationship between InfraGard and the Department of
Homeland Security (DHS) through several Directorates. Schneck was chiefly responsible for the first
Memorandum of Understanding between DHS and InfraGard and for engaging DHS officials with all local
InfraGard Chapters nationwide. She was also responsible for creating the first overall InfraGard strategic plan in
2002, and represented InfraGard in the creation of National Policy, such as the National Infrastructure Protection
Plan.

 

Named one of Information Security Magazine's Top 25 Women Leaders in Information Security, Schneck
briefed the governments of Japan, Australia and Canada by invitation on information sharing and infrastructure
protection, has worked with the UK infrastructure protection and cyber security authorities on US partnership,
and was the moderator of the White House Town Hall Meeting in Atlanta for the National Strategy to Secure
Cyberspace in June of 2002. She holds three patents in high-performance and adaptive information security, and
has six research publications in the areas of information security, real-time systems, telecom and software
engineering.

 

Before joining McAfee, Schneck was vice president of Research Integration for Secure Computing, where she
conceived and built the early intelligence practice into a full Beta program for data as a service and managed the
IP portfolio for the entire email security and intelligence suite. Prior, Schneck was the vice president Enterprise
Services for eCommSecurity. Prior to that, she served as vice president of Corporate Strategy for SecureWorks,
Inc., and was founder and chief executive officer of Avalon Communications, a provider of real-time security
technology that was acquired by SecureWorks, Inc. Schneck also held various information science technical
positions with CygnaCom Solutions, the MITRE Corporation, Computer Sciences Corporation, IBM Systems
Integration Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the University Of Maryland's Department of
Meteorology.

 

Schneck received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech, and pioneered the field of information
security and security-based high-performance computing at Georgia Tech. She maintains a seat on the Advisory
Board of the Johns Hopkins University Department of Computer Science, served on the Steering Committee for
the Sam Nunn Information Security Forum as well as a term on the Georgia Tech Advisory Board, and cofounded
the Georgia Tech Information Security Center and the Georgia Electronic Commerce Association's
Working Group on Information Security.

 

 

Photo of Robert Griffin, RSAChristopher J. Novak

Managing Principal, Investigative Response, Verizon Business Security Solutions

Christopher Novak is an internationally recognized expert in the field of Investigative Response and Computer Forensics. He has been involved with information security for over 10 years. He has assisted corporations, government agencies, and attorneys with all matters involving IT security compliance, litigation support, computer forensics, fraud investigations, and computer security incident response matters.

 

Christopher is a co-founder of the Verizon Business Investigative Response Unit and an active senior investigator. He has led dozens of tactical response cases over the past 18 months and continues to respond to high-profile cases on a global basis. He works closely with local, state and federal law enforcement agencies as well as joint investigative operations coordinated with foreign law enforcement.

 

As both a manager and a technical forensic investigator, Christopher provides regular advice and guidance to medium and large size organizations on a global basis. He specializes in resolving complex computer security incidents in a discreet manner. He maintains extensive experience on the latest and greatest commercial forensic hardware and software as well as working internally to develop proprietary and situation-specific applications.

 

Christopher is an active public speaker and can be commonly heard at IAFCI, RSA, Gartner, SANS and other popular IT security events around the world discussing various topics ranging from high-level best practices to in-depth and technical training. He has also written numerous articles for various IT Security journals and trade magazines. Most recently he co-authored the 2008, 2009 & 2010 Data Breach Investigations Reports and is an active IT Security blogger.

 

Christopher holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.