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March 2010 .ics file

 List Item Monday, March 1, 2010

Topic: "Hacker Profiling/Cyber Threats and Terrorism"
 
This presentation explores the frightening mentality, tactics, and thinking of professional hackers. Learn hacker motivations and modus operandi through examination of real world case histories. Understand the tactics hackers use to commit blackmail, extortion, sabotage, commercial espionage and even facilitate terrorism against our country. More importantly, learn about new methods to accurately profile hackers in order to detect them before they can strike -- or catch them after they already have, even in the absence of any other evidence. Learn common sense ways to detect, to prevent and to mitigate hacker intrusion attempts. This is an interesting and informative event you won't want to miss.

Presenter: Paul Williams

Paul Williams is regarded as one of the foremost experts on secure network design in the U.S. today. Mr. Williams has thirty-five years of breakthrough innovation and invention in cyber security, artificial intelligence, high speed databases, professional software development, software quality test engineering, electronics, communications, mechanical engineering, weapons development and defense related technologies.

Mr. Williams has extensive experience in the energy sector securing electric utilities and gas transmission facilities, specifically SCADA/DCS equipment and real time operations control rooms and their inter-connected business networks. He has also performed cyber, physical and social engineering “Red Team” penetration tests for multiple electric power utility SCADA facilities on behalf of the Electric Power Research Institute, an electric power industry-funded technology research organization based in Palto Alto, California.

Mr. Williams has consulted for numerous Fortune 500 businesses and is a regular lecturer and highly sought after speaker. Mr. Williams is an active public speaker who attracts large audiences and often draws coverage from radio, television and print media. He conducts scores of high profile cyber-security speaking engagements nationally and internationally every year. Mr. Williams consistently speaks at seminars and conferences conducted by prestigious national organizations like the Federal Bureau of Investigation, United States Secret Service, U.S. Department of Justice, FBI InfraGard, ACP, ASIS, IIA, ISACA, ISSA, as well as at universities and colleges across the nation.

 Mr. Williams is certified by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA IAM and IEM) and is a nationally recognized authority on the white hat side of network security.



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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