Raleigh ISSA Conference

2009 Keynote: John McCumber, Strategic Programs Manager,
Public Sector Group, Symantec Corporation Image of John McCumber

John McCumber is the strategic programs manager in the Public Sector Group of Symantec Corporation. He is currently involved in research and development activities in support of leading edge government information assurance initiatives. John is a retired US Air Force officer and former Cryptologic Fellow of the National Security Agency. During his military career, John also served in the Defense Information Systems Agency and on the Joint Staff at the Pentagon as Information Warfare Officer during the Persian Gulf War. In addition to his professional responsibilities at Symantec Corporation, John is currently a Professorial Lecturer in Information Security at The George Washington University in Washington, DC and is technical editor and a monthly columnist for Security Technology and Design magazine. John is the author of Assessing and Managing Security Risk in IT Systems: a Structured Methodology from Auerbach Publications. He lives in Falls Church, Virginia and Cary, North Carolina.

2009 Keynote: Linda Criddle, President, LOOKBOTHWAYS Inc. Image of Linda Criddle

Linda Criddle is founder and President of LOOKBOTHWAYS, Inc., a company that develops internet safety technologies and products, provides product design, safety reviews, and other consulting services to leading technology companies, regulatory bodies, and law enforcement, and provides practical assistance to consumers navigating the online world.

Prior to establishing LOOKBOTHWAYS, Criddle spent 13 years at Microsoft where she was a pioneer in online safety. The depth and breadth of Linda�s online safety expertise is reflected in her collaboration on numerous patents on behalf of Microsoft in the areas of emerging technologies and online safety, and more recently with multiple patent filings for LOOKBOTHWAYS.

Criddle�s passion and talent for teaching Internet safety principles has benefited youth, parents, and educators, law enforcement and corporations. She is author of the award-winning consumer-oriented books, Look Both Ways: Help Protect Your Family on the Internet , and Using the Internet Safely for Seniors For Dummies. She has also written "Internet Safety for Educators," a distance-learning course offered through Universities. LOOKBOTHWAYS also provides the consumer internet safety website iLOOKBOTHWAYS.com

Keynote title:
Risk Management - Building Safer Software to protect against social engineering and threats to consumer
Software and services are designed to provide great experiences to good people. However, this leaves the companies, services, and their users vulnerable to every kind of predatory behavior - financial, physical, or emotional abuse.What is missing for developers, program managers, designers, testers and managers is a basic undertanding of predatory behavior, and how to view products from a safety perspective. This presentation provides a broad overview of the landscape of risk, and then dives into how to evaluate features for safety, design defensively, and implement cost saving abuse tracking and reporting mechanisms.

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