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SoBIS2006 Center of Excellence

Themes

BIS Policies and Practices
Risk Management
Law/Investigation

Symposium Goal

  • Learn about present and emerging cyber threats to business continuity
  • Learn why Information Security is not just an IT issue
  • Outline best practices for businesses
  • Participate in panel discussions with leaders in Information Security and Risk Management

Keynote Speakers

Speakers

Bruce Schneier

Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security expert. He is the author of eight books -- including the best sellers "Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly about Security in an Uncertain World," "Secrets and Lies," and "Applied Cryptography" -- as well as the Blowfish and Twofish encryption algorithms. His influential newsletter, Crypto-Gram, is read by over 100,000 people.

Schneier is regularly quoted in the press, and his essays have appeared in national and international newspapers and magazines. He has been interviewed on television and radio about security issues, has testified before Congress, and is a frequent writer and lecturer on issues surrounding security and privacy.

Bruce Schneier

 

Curt Carver

Colonel Curtis A. Carver Jr. is an Army officer and Vice Dean for Resources at the United States Military Academy with over twenty years of service. He has served in a number of leadership positions including platoon leader, company commander, battalion operations officer, and division deputy G-6.

Curt holds a PhD in computer science and is a member of the ACM, IEEE, UPE, and PKP. He has over one hundred academic works and an active researcher in information assurance, adaptive hypermedia and computer science education. He has led numerous software engineering projects within the Army including most notably the divisional information dissemination package TACWEB (currently in use in Korea and Bosnia) and the operational effects dissemination package D-PASS (currently in use in Afghanistan).

Colonel Carver was born in Savannah, Georgia in 1960. He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant of the Signal Corps in 1983 upon graduation from West Point.