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Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center

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Lance Spitzner

Mr. Lance Spitzner is Founder and President of HoneyTech, an international security consultancy specializing in security awareness, onsite training and strategic security planning. He is internationally recognized as a leader in the field of cyber threat research, training and awareness. He invented and developed the concept of honeynets, is the author of the book Honeypots: Tracking Hackers and co-author of Know Your Enemy: 2nd Edition. He has published over thirty security whitepapers and articles, including several publications in the Know Your Enemy series. Mr. Spitzner worked for Sun Microsystems for four years as a senior security architect, helping secure Sun's customers around the world. He is founder of the Honeynet Project; an international, non-profit security research organization that captures, analyzes, and shares information on cyber threats at no cost to the public. He has spoken to numerous organizations, including the NSA, FIRST, the Pentagon, the FBI Academy, the President's Telecommunications Advisory Committee, MS-ISAC, the Navy War College, the British CESG, the Department of Justice, and Monetary Authority of Singapore.

He has consulted around the world, working and presenting in over 20 countries on 6 different continents including Germany, Brazil, UAE, Oman, Singapore, Japan, India, Philippines, Norway, Australia, Poland, Mexico and the United Kingdom. His work has been documented in the media such as CNN, BBC, NPR, and Wall Street Journal. Mr. Spitzner serves on the Distinguished Review Board for the Air Force Institute of Technology, Technical Review Board for CCIED, Information Assurance Curriculum Advisory Board at DePaul University, and was one of the original faculty members of the SANS Institute. Before information security, Mr. Spitzner served seven years in the Army, four as an officer in the Army's Rapid Deployment Force. Mr. Spitzner earned a B.A. from the University of Illinois-Champaign and an M.B.A. from the University of Illinois-Chicago.

Barbara Chung, CISSP, CISM, Security Advisor for Education, Microsoft Corporation, has been with Microsoft since 1998, working across the span of US commercial and public sector industries to mitigate the complex challenges that they face in the current security environment. Her current responsibilities are focused on the implementation of strategic security services to the higher education and K-12 communities, including strategic security response, security evangelism, and education for the Windows platform.