Panel Moderator
Jim Routh, CISM, Chief Information Security Officer,
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation
Jim Routh has over 20 years of experience in information technology and information security as a practitioner, management consultant and leader of technology functions and information security functions for global financial service firms. Jim designed and implemented an enterprise wide information security program for the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC) based on risk management best practice, COBIT and ISO 27001 standards. He implemented an information security risk assessment process and a security program for application development. Prior to joining DTCC he was the first CISO for American Express and responsible for the implementation of an enterprise wide implementation of GLBA specific controls and practices within two different banking entities in North America. Prior to that, he led a customer information management function within Risk Management for the US card businesses for American Express. Prior to that he led the information technology function for the Institutional Services and Investment Management businesses for American Express Financial Advisors. Mr. Routh was a management consultant in information technology for dozens of leading financial service firms for over 12 years.
Panelist
Mr. Dennis Brixius, Vice President, Risk Management and
Chief Security OfficerThe McGraw-Hill Companies
Dennis Brixius joined The McGraw-Hill Companies as Vice President and Chief Security Officer in January 2004. In this role, Dennis is responsible for establishing a complete information security program to limit technology-based security problems, protect the McGraw-Hill intellectual property rights, ensure business continuity and protect the privacy of our customers. His role also accommodates information risk analysis and assessment, developing security and risk management among internal technology groups, consulting with business units regarding their changing business and technical plans to ensure that information security issues are addressed early in a project’s development and educating senior management about changes in technical, legal and regulatory arenas affecting information security and business continuity. At the recent RSA Conference, Dennis received the SC Magazine Awards 2007 for CSO of the Year and has also been nominated for the 2007 Information Security Executive of the Year for both the TriState and National levels.
Johna Till Johnson, President and Senior Founding Partner, Nemertes Research
Johna Till Johnson is president and senior founding partner of Nemertes Research, where she sets research direction and works with strategic clients. She has decades of experience in IT structure, processes, and organizations and has worked closely with senior IT executives at leading organizations across a broad range of industries. A widely regarded expert, Ms. Johnson regularly speaks at numerous trade shows, conferences, and seminars, and writes an insightful weekly column in Network World.
Ms. Johnson relates to the challenges senior executives face, as she’s managed large technology operations. Before founding Nemertes, she served as senior vice president and chief technology officer at Greenwich Technology Partners, a $60 million infrastructure consulting and engineering firm. At GTP, she secured $5 million in funding, managed strategic technology investments, partnerships, and acquisitions, and ran the technology practices to which GTP’s consultants and engineers belonged. She also managed the laboratory services, oversaw training, and performed consulting for strategic clients.
Prior to joining GTP, she headed the $12 million Global Networking Strategies Service business unit of META Group, where she advised Global 2000 IT organizations, vendors, and service providers. As senior technology editor of Data Communications magazine, Ms. Johnson managed the lab-testing program, and in the early ‘90s was one of the first experts to accurately predict and justify the rise of the commercial Internet.
Ms. Johnson also has designed and developed security, speech-synthesis, and free-space laser products at companies including Mosler Security Systems and Digitus Corp. She holds a BSEE (CS) from The Johns Hopkins University, has conducted graduate work in nuclear and particle physics at the University of Rochester, speaks three languages, and published a science fiction novel in 1995.
Daniel J. Conroy, Information Security Architecture, Bank of New York Mellon
Daniel J. Conroy is a Vice President at the Bank of New York Mellon Corporation where he overseas Information Security Architecture and testing. In this role, Daniel sets the direction and implementation of information security tool sets, policy and practices for the global banking environment. His tenure in information technology spans over a decade with a focus on threat mitigation and management.
Mr. Conroy attended University College of Tallaght, University of Dublin and graduated with a B.A.(Hons) Degree in Electronic Engineering. Prior to re joining BNYMellon, he had assumed a challenging role as an IT security manager for the Bank of New York. During his 5 year tenure, Daniel was awarded multiple certifications from accredited IT institutions and vendors. After reaching the level of AVP of IT Security for the Bank of New York, he resigned from his role to pursue the challenges that GE offered. In 2006 he joined General Electric's Money Americas division in Shelton, CT as the CISO where he initiated multiple projects and methodologies that enhanced the detection and prevention of security risks.
Daniel resides in Stamford, CT. He is a nationally ranked tri athlete and participates in competitions across the US.
Gabriel Lopez-Walle, Global Risk Management, Lead Security Subject Matter Expert, JPMorgan Chase
Gabriel Lopez-Walle develops corporate security policies and standards and performs risk assessments for technologies introduced at JPMorgan Chase . Prior to working at JPMC, Mr. Lopez-Walle worked at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 's Center for Supercomputing Research and Development as a Systems Manager ; and at the National University of Mexico , National Supercomputing Center as a Systems Manager . He received his MS in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , and his BS in Mathematics at the National University of Mexico .
William Dobson, CISSP, CISM, Senior Managing Consultant, Avaya Professional Services
Mr. Dobson has over thirty years of technical management and consulting experience with information technologies and information security risk management and compliance. His industry exposure includes telecommunications, financial, e-commerce, technology manufacturing, computer forensics and technology transfer. Dobson is also a retired Air Force Colonel where he served in both active and reserve capacity as a special agent, investigative detachment commander, region commander, AFOSI Academy Commandant and headquarters staff officer. His experiences have spanned the individual contributor and manager ranks of information technology and security on both the user and supplier segments. Dobson has been information resources officer with the Central Bank of Denver and an honorarium professor at the University of Colorado, Graduate School of Business, where he taught information technology and emerging technologies to graduate MBA students. Within Avaya, Mr. Dobson is responsible for development and delivery of security and compliance professional services aimed at global financial customers.
Linda Cooper Angles, Director, Information Security & Governance, Guardian Life Insurance Company
As Director of Information Security and Governance Linda is responsible for managing the enterprise-wide information security and risk management program. This includes defining corporate policies and standards, developing and implementing risk management methods, monitoring key information risks, and championing related corporate initiatives. Linda has 20 years of experience in security risk management including at Citigroup where she was a program manager for identity management in Corporate Banking and a Chief of Staff for Global Network Security Services.
Michael Lamberg currently serves as Vice President, Information Security, NYSE Euronext overseeing the domestic security architecture, and security assurance programs. Pre-merger while still working directly for the Securities Industry Automation Corporation (SIAC), he also served as Vice President of Advanced Communications Technologies & Planning overseeing the design and implementation of next generation layer 3 switching, wireless, and security infrastructures for the NYSE trading and enterprise environments.
Mr. Lamberg’s eighteen years with the organization has included a corporate wide information security policy rollout and the architecture, design and implementation of a new highly secure and resilient wireless network for the NYSE trading floor. He was also instrumental in the design and use of multicast networking technology supporting the National Market Systems which lead to coauthoring a patent on the topic (Multicast Data Distribution System, #6,408,000”). In addition, he played a key role in the early development of the customer interface into SIAC’s Secure Financial Transaction Infrastructure (SFTI).
Previously as a government subcontractor, he spent seven years developing software and hardware to enhance the operation of both Navy and Air Force missile jamming systems. He has a B.E. in Electrical Engineering from Stony Brook University and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnic University.
Rob Clyde, Vice President of Technology, Office of the CTO, Symantec Corporation
As Vice President of Technology, Rob Clyde sets the technology vision and strategy for Symantec, a five billion-dollar software company and the world leader in providing solutions to help individuals and enterprises assure the security, availability, and integrity of their information. Specialized teams within Symantec’s Office of the CTO such as Symantec Research Labs, a comprehensive assembly of scientists innovating the next generation of technologies, and the Advanced Concepts Team, which creates innovative first generation security products, were founded under Clyde’s direction.
With more than 25 years of information security experience, Clyde is a recognized industry authority and is a pioneer in the development of intrusion detection and policy compliance products. Throughout his career, Clyde has worked with leading Fortune 500 companies and government agencies to implement sound and practical security policies and solutions. He was a member of the executive team that created AXENT Technologies, Inc., an early innovator in the information security market. Clyde served as vice president of engineering for security management, assisting in growing the company from $8M in 1994, to more than $125M in 2000. In 1980, Clyde was a founder of Clyde Digital Systems, a Utah-based enterprise security software company before merging with Raxco Software eleven years later. Clyde Digital is credited with creating the first commercial intrusion detection system.
Clyde is a founding board member of the IT industry’s Information Sharing and Analysis Center (IT-ISAC) and currently serves as Treasurer on the Executive Committee. He is also a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and was recognized by CRN as one of the Top 25 Innovators for 2003.
Clyde earned a bachelor of science degree in Computer Science from Brigham Young University, where he graduated magna cum laude.
Eric Offenberg, CIPP and Business Development Manager, IBM
Eric Offenberg, CIPP and Business Development Manager at IBM, has nearly 12 years of technology marketing experience across various industries. Eric has established himself as a data governance thought leader, who speaks frequently on governance issues in industry events, webinars and with media and analysts on behalf of IBM. Eric recently spoke at Harvard University Privacy Summer Symposium and in the UK at the Privacy Laws and Business Conference at Cambridge University. Prior to joining IBM, Eric served as an Assistant Product Manager at OKI Data Americas, Inc, for several years. Additionally, Eric has also held Marketing Management positions at Quantex Microsystems, Inc and National Discount Brokers. He holds a Masters of Business Administration with a concentration in Marketing from Rider University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications with a concentration in Public Relations from Rutgers University.
Paul Howard, Managing Director, DISUK Limited
Paul Howard is founder and managing director of DISUK, a British company specializing in the design and manufacture of data storage encryption systems. Howard has specialist knowledge in encryption, tape, SCSI and Fibre Channel. Originally trained in the UK Royal Air Force on communications and encryption systems, Howard worked for Plessey, Wang and Thorn EMI before founding a tape storage company in 1989. Paul is a glider pilot and motor racing enthusiast.
Mark D. Townsend, Director of Solutions Technologies at Enterasys Networks
With more than 13 years experience in data networking at Cabletron Systems and Enterasys Networks, Mark brings a wealth of technology experience and understanding to his organization. He has contributed to platform development for the Enterasys Network Admission Control products and was a key contributor to the Distributed Intrusion Prevention solution.
Mark has several pending patents in information security and is a contributing member of several information security industry standards including the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) Trusted Network Connect (TNC). Mark currently works with customers and technology partners developing solutions for virtualization and information security projects.
Prior to his current position, Mark has served a variety of roles including service and support, marketing, sales management and business development. Mark is often a guest lecturer at universities and industry events.
