Virtual Cybersecurity Summit: Government 2020

Michael Anderson

CISO, Dallas County

Anderson is a seasoned executive with a proven track record of establishing collaborative teams and state-of-the-art programs for both private and public organizations. His inspirational leadership, technological depth and emotional intelligence help him to drive business objectives, while building alliances. Michael is admired for his analytical acumen, attention to detail and for being an excellent listener. As an entrepreneur, Mr. Anderson provides security advisory services and security practitioner mentoring for students and professionals across North Texas. Leaders and friends characterize him as confident, results-oriented, congenial and patient; able to make difficult concepts easy to understand.

Currently, as the CISO for Dallas County; the eighth largest County in the United States, he oversees the Information Technology (IT) security program for approximately 6800 County employees and the electronic records for over 2.6 million residents. Using NIST 800-53 and 800-30, Michael is currently in the process of building an IT security practice for Dallas County that will become an exemplar for other Counties. While serving as the Head of Enterprise Security at BenefitMall, he transformed people, processes and technology converting a young security program to one of praise as stated by EY and other AICPA auditors.

Michael earned an MS in Information Systems and Management from Capella University. He served in the Army for 10 years and brings 20+ years of strategic and tactical expertise within the security, infrastructure, application development and business intelligence disciplines. Michael has active memberships with ISC2, MS-ISAC, GMIS, Evanta, ElevateIT, FutureCon and InfraGard where he enjoys sharing his experiences through various speaking engagements.

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Chuck Brooks

Cybersecurity Evangelist

Chuck Brooks a globally recognized thought leader and evangelist for Cybersecurity. LinkedIn named Chuck as one of "The Top 5 Tech People to Follow on LinkedIn." He was named by Thompson Reuters as a "Top 50 Global Influencer in Risk, Compliance," and by IFSEC as the "#2 Global Cybersecurity Influencer." He is also a Cybersecurity Expert for "The Network" at the Washington Post, Visiting Editor at Homeland Security Today, and a Contributor to FORBES. He has also been featured author in technology and cybersecurity blogs by IBM, AT&T, Cylance, and many others.

In government, Chuck has received two senior Presidential appointments. Under President George W. Bush Chuck was appointed to The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as the first Legislative Director of The Science & Technology Directorate at the Department of Homeland Security. He also was appointed as Special Assistant to the Director of Voice of America under President Reagan. He served as a top Advisor to the late Senator Arlen Specter on Capitol Hill covering security and technology issues on Capitol Hill. In local government he also worked as an Auxiliary Police officer for Arlington, Virginia.

In industry, Chuck has served in senior executive roles for General Dynamics as the Principal Market Growth Strategist for Cyber Systems, at Xerox as Vice President & Client Executive for Homeland Security, for Rapiscan and Vice President of R & D, for SRA as Vice President of Government Relations, and for Sutherland as Vice President of Marketing and Government Relations.

In academia, Chuck is Adjunct Faculty at Georgetown University's Applied Intelligence Program and graduate Cybersecurity Programs where he teaches courses on risk management, homeland security, and cybersecurity. He was an Adjunct Faculty Member at Johns Hopkins University where he taught a graduate course on homeland security for two years. He has an MA in International relations from the University of Chicago, a BA in Political Science from DePauw University, and a Certificate in International Law from The Hague Academy of International Law. In media, Chuck is the featured Homeland Security contributor for Federal Times, featured cybersecurity contributor for High Performance Counsel on cybersecurity, and an advisor and contributor to Cognitive World, a leading publication on artificial intelligence. He has also appeared in Forbes and Huffington Post and has published more than 180 articles and blogs on cybersecurity, homeland security and technology issues. He has 59,000 followers on LinkedIn and runs a dozen LI groups, including the two largest in homeland security.

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Jeffrey Brown

CISO, State of Connecticut

Brown helps companies and government agencies understand their security risk and implement practical, cost-effective security programs. He partners with C-level executives, business leaders, regulators and auditors to build and sustain best-in-class cybersecurity programs.

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Jim Richberg

CISO, Fortinet

Jim Richberg's role as a Fortinet CISO leverages his 30+ years' experience leading and driving innovation in cybersecurity, threat intelligence, and cyber strategy & policy for the US Government and international partners.

Prior to joining Fortinet, he served as the National Intelligence Manager for Cyber, the senior Federal Executive focused on cyber intelligence within the $80B+/100,000 employee US Intelligence Community (IC). He led creation and implementation of cyber strategy for the 17 departments and agencies of the IC, set integrated priorities on cyber threat, and served as Senior Advisor to the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) on cyber issues. He brings a broad enterprise-level approach to cybersecurity honed as a member of the Executive team which created and oversaw implementation of the multi-billion dollar whole-of-government Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI) that generated new Government cyber capability and enhanced cybersecurity in the private sector and critical infrastructure.

Mr. Richberg's broad operational experience -including his 20 years at CIA-- gives him practical insight into difficult cyber problems ranging from advanced threat capabilities to supply chain integrity and election security. He has extensive experience engaging with audiences ranging from Heads of State and CEO's to analysts and IT staff. He brings a strong focus on strategic problem solving (identify and solve the key problem vs. the most visible one) and on framing complex problems in comprehensible terms that facilitate analysis and formulation of solutions.

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Randy Sabett

Special Counsel, Cyber/Data/Privacy Practice Group, Cooley LLP

A former NSA crypto-engineer, Sabett brings to Cooley LLP his extensive experience in data security, privacy, licensing and IP. Sabett has managed numerous data breach responses involving major retailers, financial and healthcare organizations, and on-line service providers. He served on the Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th Presidency and has been recognized as a leader in privacy and data security in the 2007-2014 editions of Chambers USA. Sabett is a member of the board for the Georgetown Cybersecurity Law Institute and the Northern Virginia chapter of ISSA. He also is a frequent lecturer and author, and has appeared on or been quoted by a variety of national media sources.

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Cameron Smith

Director of Product Management, Gigamon

Cameron Smith is a Director of Product Management at Gigamon, responsible for the cloud and virtualization portfolio. He is also co-chair of the Security as a Service working group at the Cloud Security Alliance. Beginning with his first product management role in network security over 20 years ago, he has been working on Cloud, Security, or both ever since. Cameron is a graduate of Yale University.

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Brigadier General Francis X. Taylor (Ret.)

Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis, Department of Homeland Security & CEO, FXTaylor Associates

Brigadier General Francis X. Taylor (Ret.) currently serves as President and CEO of FXTaylor Associates, LLC in Washington DC. After he retired from active duty, General Taylor was nominated and confirmed as US Ambassador at Large and Coordinator for Counterterrorism (2001 to 2002) and Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security and Director of the Office of Foreign Missions (2002 to 2005). On leaving government, he became VP and Chief Security Officer for the General Electric Company managing security operations and crisis management globally until accepting the nomination as Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis for Department of Homeland Security in April 2014. In this role, he was charged with providing the Secretary, DHS senior leadership, the DHS components, state/local, tribal and private sector partners with the homeland security intelligence and information required to keep the country safe, secure and resilient. Mr. Taylor was also a member of the US Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board from 2006 to 2010. .

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Jeff Greene

Director, National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, NIST

Greene is the Director of the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The NCCoE is a collaborative hub where industry, government agencies, and academic institutions work together to identify pressing cybersecurity issues and to develop practical cybersecurity solutions to address them. Prior to joining NIST, Jeff was the Vice President of Global Government Affairs and Policy at Symantec, and served as an appointed member of NIST's Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board from 2015 to 2020. He was also a special government employee at NIST supporting the President's 2016 Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity. Before Symantec Jeff worked on both the House and Senate Homeland Security Committee.

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Jason Rivera

Director, Strategic Threat Advisory Group, Crowdstrike

14+ years innovating at the intersection of security operations and technology. US Government: Former Intelligence Officer/Captain in the U.S. Army; assignments with National Security Agency (NSA), U.S. Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM); served in combat tours overseas.

Private Sector: Built threat intelligence programs for large Fortune 500 companies and US Government agencies. Education: Masters, Security Studies from Georgetown University, and Economics from the University of Oklahoma.  Public Speaking: RSA Conference, Gartner Conference, NATO Conference on Cyber Conflict; InfoSecWorld Conference & Expo.

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Manoj Sharma

Technical Director, Symantec Enterprise Division, Broadcom

Sharma is technical director and leads the Technical Director Organization, at Symantec. He has been associated with Symantec Corporation for the past 19 years. He has worked in a number of roles varying from running and managing IT operations to working with Symantec’s strategic customers globally, providing them with the best solutions to their critical business requirements related to cyber security and application optimization.

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Avi Rembaum

Vice President of Security Solutions, Check Point Software Technologies

Avi Rembaum currently serves as Vice President of Security Solutions for Check Point. In this role, he is responsible for the company's solution center, incident response team, strategic alliance program and security architecture function. Previously, Rembaum was responsible for the company's business relationships with the Tier-1 Telcos in North America. Rembaum first began working in the information and network security industry in 1997, when he joined RADGUARD's marketing team. He also held product management positions at RedCreek and SonicWALL and practice manager roles at RedCreek and Getronics, now CompuCom.

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Jeremy Sheridan

Deputy Assistant Director - Office of Investigations, United States Secret Service

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Randy Trzeciak

Director, CERT Insider Threat Center, CMU

Trzeciak heads a team focusing on insider threat research, threat analysis and modeling, assessments and training. He has more than 20 years of experience in software engineering, focusing on database design, development and maintenance. In addition to his role with CERT, he is an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon's Heinz College, Graduate School of Information Systems and Management.

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