2017 CERT Insider Threat Symposium

The annual CERT Insider Threat Symposium is designed to assist government, law enforcement, industry, and academia in recognizing and mitigating the threat posed by insiders.

May 4, 2017 - Open Session for US Government, Industry, Law Enforcement, Academia

Location:

NRECA Conference Center
4301 Wilson Blvd.
Arlington, VA 22203

Event Agenda:

9:00 – 9:20: Welcome/Introduction/CERT Update

• Mr. Randall Trzeciak, Director – CERT Insider Threat Center

9:20 – 10:00: Community Updates

An Update from the National Insider Threat Task Force (NITTF)

• Mr. Robert Rohrer, Deputy Director – NITTF

An Update from the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence (OUSDI)

• Don Hopkins, Senior Security Specialist, Insider Threat Program Management Office (PMO) for the Security Policy and Oversight Division (SPOD)

10:00 – 10:45: Foreign Espionage, Social Media, and the Unwitting Insider Threat

• Mr. William “Bill” Britt, Cyber Threat Intelligence/Strategic Counterintelligence Analyst – Northrop Grumman Corporation
• Ms. Amy Katru, Insider Threat and Counterintelligence Analyst – Northrop Grumman Corporation

10:45 – 11:00: Morning Break

11:00 – 12:00: Keynote Panel – Landscape of Insider Threat Challenges for Government and Private Sector

Moderated by Summer Fowler, Technical Director – CERT

• Mr. James Trainor, former AD of the FBI Cyber Division; Senior Vice President – Aon Risk Solutions
• Brigadier General (Ret.) Gregory Touhill, first Federal CISO of the United States
• Michael Johnson, former CIO of US Dept. of Energy; CISO – Capital One

12:00 – 1:00: Lunch Break

1:00 – 1:45: Keynote Speaker: How to Sell Your Program to the Board/Senior Management

• The Honorable Tom Ridge, former Secretary of DHS and Governor of Pennsylvania; Chairman – Ridge Global

1:45 – 2:45: Panel – A Behavioral Sciences Approach to Insider Threat Mitigation

Moderated by Mr. Michael Theis, Research Lead - CERT Insider Threat Center

• Dr. Robert Gallagher, Senior Behavioral Advisor - DoD Insider Threat Management and Analysis Center
• Dr. Michael Gelles, Managing Director – Deloitte Consulting LLP
• Mr. Jerry Hanley, Chief Privacy Officer – Department of Energy
• Dr. Kimberly Witzcak, Psychologist – National Security Agency

2:45 – 3:00: Afternoon Break

3:00 – 3:30: Insider Threat Program Governance

• Mr. Homayun Yaqub, Executive Director – Global Security & Investigations, JPMorgan Chase & Co.

3:30 – 4:00: Insider Threat Mitigation: Protecting the Human Point

• Mr. Michael Crouse, Senior Director Business Solutions - Forcepoint

4:00 – 4:30: The Role of Human Resource Management in Countering the Threat from Within

• Dr. David BaMaung, Researcher - Organized Crime and Counter Terrorism Unit of Police Scotland

4:30 – 5:00: Insider Threat Identification & Prediction Through User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA)

• Ms. Jennifer Urgilez, Student (MSISPM), Heinz College Carnegie Mellon University
• Mr. Adrian Piergallini, Student (MSISPM), Heinz College Carnegie Mellon University
• Mr. Daniel Suryanata, Student (MSISPM), Heinz College Carnegie Mellon University
• Mr. Eidan Aleidan, Student (MSISPM), Heinz College Carnegie Mellon University
• Mr. Ernesto Rodriguez Collazos, Student (MSISPM), Heinz College Carnegie Mellon University

5:00: Closing Remarks

• Mr. Randall Trzeciak, Director – CERT Insider Threat Center

About the CERT Insider Threat Center:

The Insider Threat Center at CERT, part of the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, has been researching insider threats since 2001. As a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC), we have been a trusted broker for the DoD, US Government, Law Enforcement, and Academia, providing objective advice on insider threat identification and mitigation. Our mission is to develop and transition socio-technical solutions to mitigate the threat posed by trusted insiders. www.cert.org/insider-threat