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Thursday, February 14, 2008
2:00pm - 3:00pm (Eastern)

 

Andy Purdy, President of DRA Enterprises, Inc.

Andy Purdy, a lawyer and a CISSP, is President of DRA Enterprises, Inc., specializing in information assurance and cyber security, software assurance, business development, and government relations, and serves on the Executive Advisory Board of BigFix, Inc., a ten-year old company that provides a platform for IT enterprise management and policy enforcement. Mr. Purdy served as the U.S. cyber security "czar" for two years in his role heading the Department of Homeland Security's National Cyber Security Division/US-CERT, until he departed DHS last October, after 3 ½ years at the Department.

Mr. Purdy is currently serving as a member of the DoD Defense Science Board Task Force on Software Assurance. Before joining DHS in 2003, Mr. Purdy served on the White House staff as Deputy to the Vice Chair of the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board (PCIPB), where he helped to draft The National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace.

Previously, Mr. Purdy served as Acting General Counsel and long-time Chief Deputy General Counsel of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, as Counsel to the House Ethics Committee, Counsel to the Senate Impeachment Trial Committee (Judge Walter Nixon), and as a federal prosecutor in Philadelphia. He also served for five years in network television news with NBC and CBS News, and was Senior Staff Counsel of the House Select Committee on Assassinations investigating the assassination of President Kennedy, where he led the inquiry into the medical evidence and the investigation of whether Jack Ruby was involved in a conspiracy to kill President Kennedy.



Paul Laudanski, CEO and Founder of CastleCops®

Paul is an Internet crime investigator and founder of CastleCops. He speaks at conferences and works regularly with law enforcement and security professionals globally targeting various threat landscapes. He has the ability to develop the right tools to address crimes on the Internet and forge new relationships which maximize those results.