Midwest InfaGard SuperConference 2010
How We are All Connected
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Super Conference Hotel/Conference Information
The conference will be held at the Kalahari resort in the Wisconsin Dells. The room rates are $99 plus tax per night. Call 1-877-253-5466 to make your room reservation. Ask for the Infragard Meeting 2010 room block.
The price guarantee is only good until Sunday April 18, 2010.
Wednesday, May 19th
10:00 am - 4:30 pm - Golf Outing at Trappers Turn in Wisconsin Dells
5:30 pm Hot and Cold Snacks
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm – Ali Pabrai, CEO of ecfirst
Topic: Getting Started with ISO/IEC 27000 – A Global Information Security Framework
This executive brief will focus on the two standards that influence information security initiatives worldwide, the ISO 27001 and ISO 27002. The ISO 27001 International Standard is about requirements related to security techniques for information technology and information security management systems. The ISO 27002 International Standard was developed to provide a model for establishing, implementing, operating, monitoring, reviewing, maintaining and improving an ISMS.
7:00 pm - 7:15 pm - Break
7:15 pm - 8:15 pm Jonathan Watson, Analyst for Federal Bureau of Investigation
Topic: Introduction to al-Shabaab
This presentation examines al-Shabaab, a Somalia-based Islamist terrorist group responsible for beheadings, suicide bombings, and recruiting young men in Minneapolis to fight jihad in East Africa. This unclassified presentation discusses the failed state of Somalia, links to East Africa al-Qa’ida, and al-Shabaab’s use of the Internet to reach and recruit American youth. One hour with Q&A.
8:15 pm –Networking Social
Wednesday Evening Sponsor(s): FishNet Security, ISSA Milwaukee, Masterlink Corporation, Netwittness (sponsors are a work in progress and may change)
Thursday, May 20th
8:00 am - 8:30 am – Registration
8:30 am - 8:45 am – Introduction and Welcome by the FBI
8:45 am - 10:00 am – Dave Russell, Senior Security Engineer - CDW
Topic: Digital Forensics and Domestic Terrorism
Computer forensics has been use often to prove "simple" criminal cases, but these techniques are becoming increasingly valuable to broader issues of terrorism as well. This talk will tell the story of one such case (though names and locations will be changed to protect the not-yet-convicted) that involves a radical domestic group and the attack of several professors. The talk will also describe how digital forensics ultimately led to the identities and locations of the perpetrators. It will also touch on the notion of academic freedom and privacy, and how these issues contributed to the case.
10:00 am - 10:30 am - Break
10:30 am - 11:45 am – Gary Ficken, President of Bimm Ridder Sportswear
Topic: Disasters Can Happen to You
Gary will speak about how the floods of 2008 destroyed over 1000 small businesses in Cedar Rapids and the hurdles the small businesses of Cedar Rapids have faced to rebuild. He will talk at length about what his business faced and experienced. There will be a video shown during the presentation.
12:00pm - 1:15 pm - Hot Lunch
1:00 pm - 2:15 pm – John Jackson, Executive Vice president of Fusion Risk Management.
Topic: Conducting a Public and Private Interdependencies Workshop
Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity and Emergency Management – all of these are important and top-of-mind topics for Public agencies and Private companies. Most companies have developed some combination of these plans and believe they are prepared should an emergency happen or a disaster strike one of their locations.
The key words in the previous paragraph are “one of their locations”. Most companies develop emergency plans based on the event affecting them, but they fail to consider what the impact would be of an outage to another organization that they rely on or conduct business with.
During this session, John Jackson for the Chicago Chapter will explain the many types of public and private interdependencies that can impact us, and outline a workshop approach to identifying and addressing external interdependencies.
2:15 pm - 2:30 pm - Break
2:30 pm -4:00 pm – Todd Nilson, Managing Director, Social & Talent Solutions for SPR Companies
Topic: Social Media Issues and Answers
The popularity of social media tools grows every day and employees consider it a right to be able to access their LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter profiles in the workplace. This places a special strain on security professionals charged with keeping sensitive data secure. In this presentation, Todd Nilson, director of social media for SPR Companies, will provide an overview of the current risks of social networking in the business enterprise weighed against its potential benefits. The discussion will include a look at current demographics concerning the use of social media in the workplace and developing trends that may have an impact upon security.
4:00 pm Closing Remarks
Speaker Biographies:
Dave Russell
Dave Russell started off life as an application developer, but quickly found that security was where the fun was. He has been with the CDW security team (officially) 4 years now, and has assisted in the investigation of several criminal computer forensic cases. He has worked with local, state and federal law enforcement agencies, and is a member of the Wisconsin Area Computer Crimes Investigators group in Madison, WI.
DGary Ficken
Gary Ficken is President and Co-owner of Bimm Ridder Sportswear located in Cedar Rapids, IA. The company was started in 1988 and produces licensed apparel and headwear for professional sports teams in North America. Bimm Ridder provides apparel and headwear for sale in over 200 stadiums and arenas across the United States. In addition, he is President of the Cedar Rapids Small Business Recovery Group, chairs the Flood Sub-Committee of the Small Business Task Force, and serves on the Government Affairs committee at the Chamber of Commerce. He also sits on the Sales Tax Oversight committee for the City of Cedar Rapids. Ficken and his wife Sally have three daughters Brittany, Madeleine and Sophie and live in Cedar Rapids.
Ali Pabrai
Uday Ali Pabrai, CISSP (ISSAP, ISSMP), Security+, is CEO of ecfirst, an Inc. 500 business (2004). A highly sought after information security and regulatory compliance expert, he has successfully delivered solutions on compliance and information security to organizations worldwide.
Author of the forthcoming book, Precision Security, he developed a unique security methodology called, BizShield: The Seven Steps to Enterprise Security. Mr. Pabrai has presented opening keynote and been a featured speaker at several conferences, including Naseba (Dubai), ISSA, HCFA, HIPAA Summit, Microsoft Tech Forum (HIMSS), Internet World (India), DCI Expo, Comdex, Net Secure, NCPDP, HIMSS Midwest Conference, National Council for State Board of Nursing IT Conference, and many others.
Mr. Pabrai’s clients have included hundreds of hospitals, long term care facilities, Microsoft, HP, Symantec, Kemin, Ernst&Young, Elkay, Intuit, Pella, Principal Financial, U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center, U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, as well as numerous federal, state and county governments.
Jonathan Watson
Jonathan Watson has been an Intelligence Analyst with the Federal Bureau of Investigation for five years. He previously worked criminal matters, particularly mortgage fraud and municipal and police public corruption. Jon is currently Chief Reports Officer of the FBI’s Minneapolis Division. In that capacity, he is responsible for passing intelligence to foreign governments and other federal agencies. Jon is an attorney licensed to practice law in the state of Minnesota.
John Jackson
John has over 30 years of IT and IT Risk Management experience and is widely regarded as an early and current visionary and leader in Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity. John founded Chi/Cor Information Management's IT consulting practice in 1980, which was the organization that developed the industry's first contingency planning software tool. In 1984, he became one of the first employees of Comdisco Disaster Recovery Services and was instrumental in launching its hot site and consulting businesses during his eighteen year with the company.
John ran Comdisco's European operations from 1994 thru 1996, set up several Asia-Pacific recovery businesses during the early 1990's, and was named president of Comdisco Continuity Services in 1999. In his capacity leading Comdisco's worldwide services organization, John directed the division's sale to SunGard in 2001, after which he moved on to general management positions with Hewlett-Packard and IBM, running both of their domestic Business Continuity organizations and achieving record results for IBM in 2004.
John co-founded Fusion Risk Management in the fall of 2005, where he currently serves as Executive Vice President. John is very active in the disaster recovery/business continuity industry, serving on the Executive Advisory board of Disaster Recovery Journal, the Editorial Advisory board of Continuity Insights magazine, and has served on the Advisory Board of Private and Public Businesses, Inc. He is the Chicago InfraGard chapter’s Past President and Membership Officer and has served the past two years as the Ethics Officer for the InfraGard National organization.
Todd Nilson
Todd brings over fourteen years of Information Technology recruiting and leadership expertise both in consulting and executive placement. As director of Talent Acquisition Partners, he works directly with customers on new search approaches, engages in top-level searches, and deploys the SPR recruiting team on all direct hire business. Todd helps his customers hire more effectively by bringing a vigorous focus and disciplined, deliverable-driven approach to all of his searches. He directs SPR Companies’ social media presence and marketing campaigns and consults with clients in the Fortune 1000 about social media engagement and branding.
In 2001, Todd began his career with SPR as the senior technical recruiter and employment manager of the Milwaukee SPR office, where he sourced, screened, and placed Information Technology professionals in a wide variety of technical disciplines.
Prior to SPR, Todd has been a senior Information Technology recruiter for Olsten Professional Staffing and Adecco and a consultant specialized in Information Technology recruiting projects, contingency and retained hire search, and recruiting process. He has served as the director of Internet Research and led IT focused searches and consulting engagements with the acclaimed boutique retained search firm Spano Pratt.
He holds a bachelor's degree in Print Journalism and English from Penn State University, a master's degree in English literature from Duquesne University, and is all-but-dissertation towards a Ph.D. in English from the University of Kentucky. Throughout his academic career, he incorporated heavy use of computers in the classroom as a research tool.
Todd is a published writer on recruiting process and is a professional speaker on the topics of recruiting, employment branding, social media they impact the recruiting process, effective job search techniques, and networking. Todd is a past president of the Wisconsin Professional Recruiters Resource. He chairs the placement committee at AbilITyConnection, a Goodwill Industries organization dedicated to finding meaningful employment in IT for persons with disabilities. He is also a board member of Milwaukee's Bucketworks, a meeting place for technology, business, the arts, and leadership excellence. Finally, he is an active member of the Society for Information Management, the Illinois Recruiters Network, the Chicago Skilled Recruiters Network, and Web414.
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