National Webcast Initiative
Security of Social Networking Sites / Web 2.0
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
2:00pm - 3:00pm (Eastern)
Presenters
Randy Vickers, CISSP
Deputy Director, US-CERT
National Cyber Security Division
Department of Homeland Security
Randy Vickers is the Deputy Director, United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) within the Department of Homeland Security National Cyber Security Division where he oversees global incident correlation and strategic analysis capabilities to reduce the Federal, State, Local, Tribal governments and Private Sector organizations exposure to cyber threats and vulnerabilities. Works directly with law enforcement and intelligence agencies, which include the FBI, DIA, NSA, and CIA, on ongoing computer crime investigations, intelligence gathering, technical analysis, and potential prosecution of individuals or organizations involved in compromise of US Government assets.
Prior to joining the US-CERT, he was most recently the Chief of the Department of Defense Computer Emergency Response Team (DOD-CERT) at the Joint Task Force, Global Network Operations where he provided top-level technical leadership for team members' Net Defense-focused operational reviews of all enemy actions against DoD Networks, determined Information Operation Condition level assessments and identified appropriate and effective DOD-wide security countermeasures and strategies for implementing them. Engineered and directed the activation of network defense measures across DoD networks such as the blocking of risky social networking web sites. Randy was also primarily responsible for systems analysis and correlation of network incidents across the DoD Global Information Grid.
Ph.D. Student
Computing and Information Sciences
Rochester Institute of Technology
Glenn Burdett is a part-time graduate student in Network Security and System Administration, at Rochester Institute of Technology, in the B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences. He is a member of RIT's Scaleable Internet Architecture team. The SIA project is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Future Internet Design (FIND) program.
With 20+ years of experience in technology companies, Glenn has worked in information security, web applications, telecommunications and data communications. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).
He has a BA and an MBA from St. John Fisher College.
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