Cyber Security

• Is Cyber Security a Top Priority in your agency?
• Who handles the responsibility for Cyber Security?
• How closely is Cyber Security-Physical Security-and HR Security coordinated?
• Are we making progress with getting systems Certified and Accredited?
• And much more

Moderator

Jim Flyzik -Flyzik Group

Jim served over 27 years in the federal government. He served as Senior Advisor to Governor Ridge in the White House Office of Homeland Security (OHS). He provided advice to OHS on the National Strategy and Information Management in support of the OHS mission. From February 1998 until December 2002, Jim also served as the Vice Chair of the Federal Government CIO Council overseeing numerous governmentwide IT initiatives. He was also a member of the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board.

Prior to this, from August 1997 until April 2002, Jim was the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Information Systems and Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the Department of the Treasury. He provided oversight, strategic planning and management direction on over $3.0 billion in annual information technology and information infrastructure programs within Treasury and its fourteen Bureaus. Jim also served as the Acting Assistant Secretary for Management for the Treasury Department from January 20, 2001 until February 8, 2002. In that role he provided oversight of all Treasury bureaus and served as the principal policy advisor to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary on matters involving the internal management of the Department and its bureaus. Jim received the Secretary Certificate of Appreciation on February 12, 2002 for his efforts during this transition period.

Prior to his Treasury positions, Jim worked for 15 years at the U.S. Secret Service where he held key IT management positions, including the Chief of the Communications Division, providing world class telecommunications in support of Secret Service tactical and operational requirements.

Jim served as Team Leader on Vice President Gore's National Performance Review (NPR) Information Technology Team. Following this assignment, he was selected as Chairman of the Government Information Technology Services Working Group, to implement the NPR Information Technology recommendations and coordinate the government services portion of the National Information Infrastructure (NII). He was given the prestigious Eagle Award as the government information technology executive of the year in 1994, a Meritorious Presidential Rank Award in 1995, the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association Award for Excellence in Information Technology in 1996, the AFFIRM Award for Outstanding Service to the Citizens in 1997, the Industry Advisory Council Award for Special Achievements and Leadership in 1997, the AFFIRM IRM Executive of the Year Award in 1998, and the Distinguished Rank Executive Award from President Clinton in 1999. In 2001 the Federation of Government Information Processing Councils presented him the John J. Franke award for outstanding government service. In March 2002, Jim was selected by the Federal CIO Council to receive the Azimuth Award as the Government Executive of the Year.

Jim has extensive public speaking experience and frequently serves as a featured speaker at industry events. He has developed, and currently teaches part-time, a graduate level course on Information Systems Security and Risk Assessment at the University of Maryland. Jim was given the Stanley J. Drazek Excellence in Teaching Award in 1998 by the University of Maryland.

Jim has an undergraduate degree in Business Administration and Computer Science and a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Maryland with an area of concentration in Information Systems Management.

The branch is responsible for developing and overseeing agency implementation of policies concerning security, privacy, information access and dissemination, records management, and investing in information technology.

Glenn has been in the Federal government for over 30 years. More than 10 with OMB.

Charbo was the Chief Information Officer for the U.S. Department of Agriculture from August 2002, until coming to DHS in June 2005. Charbo was responsible for the overall management of USDA's information resources and IT assets, overseeing more than 4,000 IT professionals and $1.7 billion in physical assets. He was also responsible for the Department's overhaul of eGovernment initiatives and results in alpha security improvements.

Charbo served as the USDA's Farm Service Agency director of the Office of Business and Program Integration from July until August 2002. He was responsible for planning, developing and administering the agency's programs and policies and provided direction in the areas of economic and policy analysis, appeals and litigation, strategic management and corporate operations, outreach programs and strategic planning, and leadership in the Agency's citizen-centered eGovernment initiatives.

Prior to his present assignment, Mr. Wiesner worked at the Transportation Security Administration during its first year of existence as a new federal agency. He began his executive career at the Department of Treasury where he held a variety of executive positions in the CIO office, including Director of Corporate Systems Management, Director of the Office of Security and Information Systems Security, and Director of Wireless Programs at the Treasury Department.

Prior to his Departmental positions, Mr. Wiesner began his federal government employment at the National Security Agency. After three years, Mr. Wiesner joined the U.S. Secret Service and began a twenty year career. At the Service he advanced to increasing level of managerial responsibilities in the information technology and telecommunications area.

Mr. Wiesner attended the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York. He graduated, with high honors, with an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering.

Mr. Lentz is the Director for Information Assurance (IA) in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Networks and Information Integration/Chief Information Officer. He is the Chief Information Assurance Officer (CIAO) for the Department of Defense (DoD) and oversees the Defense-wide IA Program, which plans, monitors, coordinates, and integrates IA activities across DoD.

Mr. Lentz is also the Chairman of the National Space INFOSEC Steering Council (NSISC), a member of the Presidential Sub-Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS), the Manager of the DoD IA Steering Council, and the IA Domain Owner of the Global Information Grid Enterprise Information Management Mission Area. In his capacity of IA Domain Owner, Mr. Lentz is a member of the DoD CIO Executive Council. He also reports to the Deputy Undersecretary for Security and Counter-Intelligence and is a member of the Information Operations (IO) Steering Council. Mr. Lentz represents DoD on several private sector boards, including the Center for Internet Security (CIS) Strategic Advisory Council, the Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures (CVE) Senior Advisory Council, and the Federal Electronic Commerce Coalition (FECC).

Mr. Lentz has over 26 years of experience with the National Security Agency (NSA) in the areas of financial management and technical program management. He has served as Chief of the Space and Networks IA Office, Chief Financial Officer of the NSA IA Directorate, Executive Assistant to the NSA SIGINT Collections and Operations Group and Field Chief of the Finksburg National Public Key Infrastructure/Key Management Infrastructure Operations Center. He has also served on several strategic planning and acquisition reform panels.

Mr. Lentz has received the NSA Resource Manager of the Year Award, the Defense Meritorious Service Award, 2006 "Top 20" Excellence.gov Award, the 2003 Presidential Rank Award and the 2004 "Federal 100" award. In 2004, Mr. Lentz also received the highest-level honorary award the Department can bestow on a civilian employee, the prestigious Secretary of Defense Distinguished Civilian Service Award.

During his twenty year career in security, Mike was the chief of the Computer Investigations Unit for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) where, as a special agent, his personal projects included the Hannover Hackers case detailed in Cliff Stoll's best-selling book, The Cuckoo's Egg and the original "Internet Worm" investigation. He also served as managing director for a "Big 5" information security practice and has been a leader on security architecture projects in the United States and Europe.

He is recognized as an expert witness on cyber fraud in United States Federal Court, and is a member of the IT Sector Coordinating Council, which was established to facilitate government and private sector policy for DHS. Mike is a distinguished graduate of the National Defense University and helped to establish the IT Information Sharing and Analysis Center which shares watch and warning information on critical infrastructures for the IT community. Mike was recently named one of the Top 25 Most Influential Consultants for 2006 by Consulting magazine.

Prior to Mike's current role, he served as the Vice President of US Enterprise, Commercial and Federal Technical Operations. In this position, Mike was responsible for a team of 1200 System Engineers and Managers who provided pre-sales engineering support to both partners and customers. Mr. Rau as held a variety of other positions at Cisco. Starting as a Systems Engineer in the MD/DC/VA area, he supported Ciscoâ"™s entrance into the switching market. This experience led him to take on worldwide responsibilities for Competitive Marketing in the LAN Switching market. From there, Mr. Rau entered engineering management as a first line SE Manager in the Mid-Atlantic Enterprise market. After 2 years, he moved to a second line role in Federal Systems Engineering. This led to his promotion to SE Director for Federal Systems Engineering.

From his work in the Federal Government Market, Mike moved back into a corporate role responsible for running the Enterprise Technology Leadership Program (TLP). The TLP was responsible for coordinating product and solutions requirements between customers, sales, and the development organization. Mike moved into his current role in March of 2005.

He has been the principal investigator in information assurance since 2002, when the program was designated a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education by the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security. The information assurance program at UMUC is the nation's largest, with over 3000 enrollments in the 2005-6 academic year. It is an online program, with the only remote access laboratory capability in network security.

Previously, he was Director of Federal Government Affairs for AT&T, Chief of Staff to Congressman John E. Porter (R, 10-IL), Executive Director of the Select Joint Committee on Regulatory Agency Reform, and Legislative Liaison for Governor James R. Thompson of Illinois. He is retired from the U.S. Army Reserve, having served 27 years in a variety of command and staff positions. He has been an independent consultant specializing in the application of advanced information technologies to business problems, particularly in information warfare and distance learning.

As a corporate executive, he gained experience with the vulnerabilities of the US telecommunications infrastructure and was involved in responses to catastrophic failures. As a military reservist, he developed methods and doctrines for tracking and responding to terrorist and rear area attacks.