Presented at
DEF CON 16 (2008),
Unknown date/time
(Unknown duration).
Ever had to sweat through an interrogation or watch some poor sap suffer a similar fate? Have you ever wanted to turn the tables and put those cruel individuals responsible on the chopping block? Well, now you can! With representatives from NSA, NASA, FBI, IRS, DHS, and other fine Federal agencies, you will have an abundance of opportunities to attempt to humiliate, harass, threaten, or even bring them to tears. Go ahead hack away and take your best shot! Remember, what is said on this panel in Vegas, stays on this panel in Vegas...
Again this year we will have many federal agencies -
Information Assurance Panel: CERTS, first responder's organizations from agencies including DC3, DHS USCERT, NSA, OSD, and NDU
Law Enforcement Counterintelligence Panel: including DC3, FBI, IRS, NCIS, NASA, NWC3, US Postal IG
Each of the agency reps make an opening statement regarding their agencies role, then open it up to the audience for questions.
Agencies that will have representatives include: Defense Cyber Crime Center (DC3), FBI, IRS, NCIS, NASA, DHS USCERT, DoJ, National White Collar Crime Center (NWC3), NSA, US Postal IG, Office of the Secretary of Defense, National Defense University.
For years Defcon participants have played "Spot the Fed." For the 3rd year, the feds will play "Spot the Lamer". Come out and nominate a Lamer and watch the feds burn'em.
Presenters:
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Tim Kosiba
- FBI
Timothy Kosiba has been a Forensic Examiner with the FBI CART Program for 12 years, and managing the CART-BWI Laboratory in Linthicum, Maryland for the last 6 years. Mr. Kosiba has a B.S. in Management Information Systems from the University of Baltimore, and M.S. in Forensic Science from George Washington University. Currently, he is also the Program Manager for the Forensic Networks Program within CART, and is responsible for managing the deployment of 25 Storage Area Networks around the country, for use in examining and reviewing digital evidence. Mr. Kosiba is also a Certified ASCLD/LAB Inspector in the discipline of Digital Forensics.
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Rich Marshall
- NSA
Mr. Richard H. L. Marshall is the Senior Information Assurance (IA) Representative, Office of Legislative Affairs at the National Security Agency (NSA). NSA's Legislative Affairs Office is the Agency's point of contact for all NSA matters concerning Congress and is committed to maintaining a relationship with Congress built on trust, candor, completeness, correctness, consistency, and corporateness. Mr. Marshall has been instrumental in framing critical appreciation by key Senators and Representatives on Information Assurance and its impact on helping to protect the nation's critical infrastructures. As an additional duty, Mr. Marshall also represents NSA in the National Centers of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Program in Boston, Massachusetts and the Detroit, Michigan areas where he led the effort to establish an International Consortium on Information Assurance.
Mr. Marshall was selected by Dick Clarke, the Cyber Advisor to the President to serve as the Principal Deputy Director, Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office (CIAO), Bureau of Industry and Security, Department of Commerce where he led a team of 40 dedicated professionals in coordinating and implementing the Administration's National Security for Critical Infrastructure Protection initiative to address potential threats to the nation's critical infrastructures. He persuasively articulated the business case for enhancing information assurance in government and private sectors, and championed national outreach and awareness of information assurance issues to key stakeholders such as owners and operators of critical infrastructures, opinion influencers, business leaders, and government officials.
Before being nominated by the DIRNSA and approved by the SECDEF to serve in an Executive Development assignment to help lead the CIAO, Mr. Marshall served with distinction as the Associate General Counsel for Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Office of the General Counsel, National Security Agency for over eight years. In that capacity, Mr. Marshall provided advice and counsel on national security telecommunications and technology transfer policies and programs, the National Information Assurance Partnership, the Common Criteria Mutual Recognition Arrangement, legislative initiatives and international law. Mr. Marshall was the legal architect for the Joint Chiefs of Staff directed exercise "Eligible Receiver 97" that spotlighted many of the cyber-vulnerabilities of our nation's critical infrastructures and helped bring focus on this issue at the national leadership level.
Mr. Marshall graduated from The Citadel with a B.A. in Political Science; Creighton University School of Law with a J.D. in Jurisprudence; Georgetown School of Law with an LL.M. in International and Comparative Law; was a Fellow at the National Security Law Institute, University of Virginia School of Law in National Security Law; attended the Harvard School of Law Summer Program for Lawyers; the Georgetown University Government Affairs Institute on Advanced Legislative Strategies and participated in the Information Society Project at Yale Law School and in the Privacy, Security and Technology in the 21st Century program at Georgetown University School of Law.
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Marc Moreau
- RCMP
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Tom Pownall
- RCMP
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Cynthia Cuddihy
- RCMP
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Ken Privette
- USPS IG
Ken works as the Special Agent in Charge of the Computer Crimes Unit (CCU) at the United States Postal Service Office of Inspector General. His Unit conducts computer crime investigations and provides computer forensics support to a force of over 650 agents who conduct fraud and internal crime investigations for the U. S. Postal Service. Over the past two years Ken's team has doubled in size, now managing a computer forensics workload of more than 900 requests per year.
Ken spent much of his professional life as a Special Agent with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service both overseas and state-side where he conducted investigations involving computer crime, terrorism, and counterintelligence matters.
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Mischel Kwon
- USCERT
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Ray Kessenich
- DCITA
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Bob Hopper
- NW3C
Mr. Hopper manages NW3C Computer Crimes instructor cadre who provide computer forensics training to state and local Law Enforcement throughout the United States. The Computer Crimes Section offers basic, intermediate and advance training in computer forensics and computer crimes as well as provides technical assistance and research and development for computer forensic examiners.
Mr. Hopper retired with nearly thirty years service with the Arizona Department of Public Safety and thirty seven years in Law Enforcement. Mr. Hopper's Law Enforcement career included assignments in Narcotics, Air Smuggling, White Collar Crime and Organized Crime. Mr. Hopper also developed and managed the Arizona DPS Regional Computer Forensic Lab. This computer forensic lab grew from a two man unit in 1998 to a state of the art computer forensic lab that, in 2005 when he retired, had grown to seven state, local and federal agencies and nearly twenty five computer forensic examiners.
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David Helfen
- NCIS
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Barry Grundy
- NASA
Barry J. Grundy has worked as a Special Agent for the NASA Office of Inspector General (OIG), Computer Crimes Division (CCD) for the past six years. In that time he has been responsible for conducting computer intrusion investigations related to NASA systems. In 2005, SA Grundy received the annual Inspector General's award for his investigative efforts. He currently serves as the Resident Agent in Charge of the Eastern Region of the NASA OIG CCD, responsible for the supervision of criminal investigations related to cyber events at eight NASA Centers. Before working for the NASA OIG, SA Grundy was employed as a Special Agent for the Ohio Attorney General's Office, Health Care Fraud Unit, where he was responsible for the computer seizure and forensic media analysis support for the unit in addition to maintaining a normal health care fraud case load.
Prior to his law enforcement career, Grundy served for six years in the United States Marine Corps. All of his active duty service was spent in Reconnaissance Battalions, eventually as a Recon Team Leader, Scout/Sniper, and Combat Diver.
SA Grundy currently lives in Maryland with his wife, Jo Ann and son, Patrick. Hobbies include motorcycles, computers, and outdoor activities.
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James Finch
- FBI
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Mike Convertino
- AFCC
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Jim Christy
- DC3
Jim Christy, FX/DC3
* Dir of Futures Exploration
* Dir the Defense Cyber Crime Institute
* R&D of digital forensic tools and processes
* T&Validation of tools both Hardware & software used in an accredited digital forensics lab
* Dir of Ops for Defense Computer Forensics Lab
* LE/CI Liaison to OSD IA
* DoD Rep to President's Infrastructure Protection Task Force
* US Senate Investigator Perm Sub of Invest
* 11 years Dir of AF OSI Computer Crime Investigations
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Dr. Linton Wells II
- NDU
as Lin Wells
Linton Wells II, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Networks and Information Integration
Dr. Linton Wells II serves as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Networks and Information Integration). He resumed these duties on November 14, 2005 after serving as the Acting Assistant Secretary and DoD Chief Information Officer from March 8, 2004. He became the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence) on August 20, 1998 which became Networks and Information Integration in 2003. Prior to this assignment, he had served in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Policy) from 1991 to 1998, most recently as the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Policy Support).
In twenty-six years of naval service, Dr. Wells served in a variety of surface ships, including command of a destroyer squadron and guided missile destroyer. In addition, he acquired a wide range of experience in operations analysis; Pacific, Indian Ocean and Middle East affairs; C3I; and special access program oversight.
Dr. Wells was born in Luanda, Angola, in 1946. He was graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1967 and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in physics and oceanography. He attended graduate school at The Johns Hopkins University, receiving a Master of Science in Engineering degree in mathematical sciences and a PhD in international relations. He is also a 1983 graduate of the Japanese National Institute for Defense Studies in Tokyo, the first U.S. naval officer to attend there.
Dr. Wells has written widely on security studies in English and Japanese journals. He co-authored Japanese Cruisers of the Pacific War, which was published in 1997. His hobbies include history, the relationship between policy and technology, scuba diving, and flying.
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