As the red team captain for the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (NCCDC) since 2007 Mr. Cowen has learned a lot on how to effectively coordinate a red team across multiple teams and objectives. In this presentation we will go over lessons learned, what’s effective, what you would think is helpful but hurts and how to get a team of normally solo super stars to become a team of super friends … villains depending on what side of them you are on.
David Cowen, CISSP, is a partner at G-C Partners, LLC based in Dallas, Texas. Mr. Cowen is one of the authors of Hacking Exposed:Computer Forensics first and second editions, the third edition of the Anti-Hacker Toolkit and the upcoming ‘Computer Forensincs, A Beginner’s Guide’ all from McGraw Hill. Mr. Cowen is also the author of the popular Hacking Exposed Computer Forensics Blog and a graduate of the University of Texas at Dallas with a B.S. in Computer Science. Mr. Cowen is the captain of the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition’s Red Team. Mr. Cowen has been working doing computer forensics since 1999 and information security since 1996 acting as an expert witness in civil cases around the nation.