The Raleigh ISSA Chapter announces the fourth annual Triangle InfoSeCon. This Information Security conference will be held on Thursday, October 16th, 2008. The conference will be held at the McKimmon Conference and Training Center at NC State University in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Why attend?

The Raleigh ISSA Chapter fall conference is a great opportunity to learn more about information security, talk with companies who provide security products and services and network with fellow information security professionals. CPE Credits will automatically be submitted for attendees with CISSP certification.

Conference Goal: To educate individuals in the Raleigh/Durham/RTP area about information security.

Target Audience:

• Executives who are responsible for regulatory compliance and/or security
• Security professionals
• Individuals who want to know more about information security

The conference will be held at the McKimmon Conference and Training Center. For directions to the center, click on the link.

Morning Keynote: Christopher Burgess, Senior Security Advisor, Corporate Security Programs Organization, Cisco Systems, Inc.

Christopher Burgess is a senior security advisor to the chief security officer of Cisco®, where he focuses on intellectual property strategies. Additionally, Christopher leads the Global Investigative Support team and the Government Security Office, both from within the Corporate Security Programs office. Prior to joining Cisco, Christopher served as a senior national security executive for more than 30 years. He lived and worked in South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Central Europe, and Latin America where he acquired a deep understanding of the people, cultures, and business practices of these respective areas.

Christopher is the co-author of Secrets Stolen, Fortunes Lost, a study of the global threat to intellectual property, which was published by CSO Magazine in June 2006 and excerpted in CIO Magazine in July 2006. He also is the co-author of How to Stop Industrial Espionage, also published in CSO Magazine in August 2006. As an invited speaker, he has addressed various corporate intellectual property strategy teams and industry organizations on the many threats to intellectual property. His breadth of knowledge and expertise also encompasses business continuity, disaster preparedness, emergency management, education, awareness and industrial espionage.

Christopher serves as a member of the advisory board of AtiGeo, LLC, a firm that develops and uses transformational technologies to power and deliver the next generation of services for broad classes of information-delivery solutions across many communications media. He also serves as a member of the advisory board of Vadium Technology, Inc., a cryptographic solution company.

Mr. Burgess's recent speaking engagements include:

Secure World, 2006, San Francisco, CA
Secure Computing Magazine Executive Summit 2006, Napa, CA
US Secret Service Electronic Crimes Task Force, 2006, San Francisco, CA
Anti Phishing Working Group, 2006, Orlando, FL
Building & Enforcing Intellectual Property Value in China, 2007, San Francisco, CA
High Tech Criminal Investigative Association, 2007, San Francisco, CA

Second Keynote: SA Doris Gardner, FBI Charlotte Office

Doris Gardner is a Special Agent in the FBI Office in Charlotte, North Carolina where she supervised the cyber crime squad for over seven years for the entire state. She holds bachelor's degrees in mathematics and computer science from Catawba College, Salisbury, N.C. Her master's degree is in theoretical mathematics from Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, N.C. Within two months of the creation of the cyber crime squad, agents from the squad solved the Lowe's bombing investigation through the electronic trail of an e-mail message. The Cyber Crime squad in North Carolina is responsible for the first federal prosecution of a wireless intrusion and for the longest sentence ever given to a hacker. Under SSA Gardner's supervision, the cyber crime squad operated the longest online piracy undercover operation in the FBI's history, which was responsible for 60 targets across numerous FBI offices within the U.S. and nine foreign countries.

Prior to being assigned to FBI Charlotte, she was assigned to the National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC), at FBI headquarters. As a headquarters supervisor, she managed the infrastructure protection and computer crime program for the southeastern offices of the FBI. Special Agent Gardner was selected to run a multi-federal agency crisis action team which investigated hundreds of intrusions into government systems during 1998-1999. This investigation utilized numerous high tech investigative tools such as data wiretaps, pen registers and traps and traces. Additionally, while at FBI headquarters, she provided international computer crime investigator's training to the International police in Russia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Poland, Romania and Hungary. She served as the chairman for Interpol's High Tech Crimes Region, which includes North, Central and South America from 1997-1999.

Prior to being assigned to FBI headquarters, she was assigned to the FBI's Baltimore division and was the case agent on an FBI undercover operation called "Innocent Images." The Innocent Images investigation targeted individuals who: 1) used the Internet to meet and lure minors into sexually explicit relationships, and 2) used the Internet to distribute or trade child pornography.

Prior to becoming an agent, SA Gardner served as a computer scientist at FBI headquarters. As a computer scientist, she provided technical support to large investigations like VANPAC, which involved the mailing and explosion of two pipe bombs, one exploding in Atlanta, GA killing a lawyer and one in Birmingham, AL, killing a federal judge.

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