Did you ever wonder if the Feds were telling you’re the truth when you asked a question? Join current and former federal agents from numerous agencies to discuss cyber investigations and answer your burning questions. Enjoy the opportunity to grill ‘em and get down to the bottom of things!
Agencies that will have representatives include: Defense Cyber Crime Center (DC3), National White Collar Crime Center (NWC3), US Department of Treasury, Internal R evenue Service (IRS), and the US Navy SEALs. This year, the “Meet the Feds” panel has gone Hollywood with special guests - Mr. David McCallum and Mr. Leon Carroll from CBS’s NCIS!
Each of the agency reps will make an opening statement regarding their agencies role, and then open it up to the audience for questions.
Jim Christy is a retired special agent that has specialized in cyber crime investigations and digital forensics for over 26 years with the Air Force Office of Special Investigation and over 40 years of federal service. Jim returned to the federal government first as an IPA and now as an HQE and is the Director of Futures Exploration (FX) for the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center (DC3). FX the DC3 innovation incubator is responsible for outreach/marketing, and strategic relationships with other government organizations, private sector, and academia for DC3. He was profiled in Wired Magazine in January 2007. Jim consulted with David Marconi (writer of Enemy of the State, Mission Impossible 2 & Live Free or Die Hard) and contributed technical advice on critical infrastructure attacks used in the movie Live Free or Die Hard. In May 2011, the Air Force graduated the first NCO’s for a new AF career field, Cyber Defense Operations at Keesler AFB, MS. The staff of the course honored Jim by presenting the top graduate of the class with the “Jim Christy Award”. In 2006, Christy created the DC3 Digital Forensics Challenge an international competition that in 2011 had 1,800 participants spanning all 50 states and 53 countries. The exercises are designed to develop, hone, and engage participants in the fields of cyber investigation, digital forensics, and cyber security. It is one of the first venues to employ crowd sourcing in “real world” mission focused solution development. In Oct 2003, the Association of Information Technology Professionals awarded Jim the 2003 Distinguished Information Science Award winner for his outstanding contribution through distinguished services in the field of information management. Previous recipients of this prestigious award include Admiral Grace Hopper, Gene Amdahl, H. Ross Perot, General Emmett Paige, Bill Gates, Lawrence Ellison, David Packard and Mitch Kapor. From 17 Sep 01 – 1 Nov 03, Jim was the Deputy Director/Director of Operations, Defense Computer Forensics Lab, DC3. As the Dir of Ops for the DCFL he managed four sections with over 40 computer forensic examiners that supported Major Crimes & Safety, Counterintelligence and Counterterrorism, as well as Intrusions and Information Assurance cases for the Department of Defense.
Leon Carroll grew up in Chicago and graduated from North Dakota State University (where he played on college Division II National Championship football teams). He served 6 years in the Marines and then continued in the Marine Reserves in Long Beach (under the command of PV Sunset member Lt Col Jacques Naviaux). Carroll was a member of the U.S. Marine Corps when he joined NCIS in 1980. Leon worked at a halfway house for pre-release felons in Fargo, North Dakota, and then became a special agent with the Naval Investigative Service, later known as the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), serving in several places including Panama and aboard the USS Ranger. He retired two decades later, but returned after 9/11, serving another year and a half to help with the agency's expanded role in counter-terrorism. After his second retirement, he and his wife moved to the Los Angeles area. As a retired NCIS agent with over 20 years of experience, Mr. Carroll received an unexpected opportunity to work as a technical adviser to the NCIS TV program in Los Angeles. He was recruited in 2003 by the producers who said they needed someone who could provide the show with the “spit-polish shine of authenticity.” Working on both NCIS and NCIS Los Angeles, Mr. Carroll is a technical adviser to the script writers, actors and director, and has also written scripts for a few episodes himself. He works under the leadership of Mark Hyman of football fame. They do 24 episodes per season.
Andy Fried is a Senior Consultant with Cutter Consortium's Business Technology Strategies and Government & Public Sector practices. His unique skill set has earned him a worldwide reputation; his background includes working as a uniformed police officer, a computer programmer and security analyst, and a Senior Special Agent with the US Department of the Treasury, a post he retired from after a 20-year career. Mr. Fried's extensive knowledge allows him to identify large data sources that are seemingly unrelated and combine them to produce findings that would not be otherwise identified. His passion and tenacity for identifying and stopping Internet criminal activity has earned him the respect of leading industry experts. During his last two years at the US Treasury, Mr. Fried was credited with identifying and mitigating over 3,000 fraudulent online schemes. He currently works as a security researcher for a nonprofit organization involved in identifying organized criminal enterprises responsible for fraudulent schemes, denial-of-service attacks, malware propagation, and large-scale botnets. Mr. Fried's work routinely involves data mining and analysis of data sets that contain hundreds of millions of records. Early in his career, Mr. Fried was a programmer for Bionetics, a life sciences medical research group at the Kennedy Space Center, where he became a technology evangelist, identifying work processes that could be automated, conducting R&D for new computer hardware and software programs, and assisting biostatisticians in aggregating and processing the voluminous research data generated by data acquisition systems. At Bionetics, Mr. Fried was tasked with providing technical support to NASA's Internal Security Office, including one high-profile case involving the arrest and investigation of a kidnapper/rapist. At NASA's suggestion, he moved from Bionetics into a computer security analyst position within the newly formed Lockheed Space Operations Corporation (LSOC). He soon became involved in processing and analyzing digital data related to the kidnapping/rape investigation and developed a suite of forensic software programs. His software became the first set of programs designed specifically for use by law enforcement and was adopted by the FBI, IRS, and Air Force Office of Special Investigations. Soon after, the IRS recruited Mr. Fried for a Special Agent position, citing a need to develop the capability to detect, investigate, and prosecute computer-related crimes. He went on to help establish the Criminal Investigation Division's Computer Investigative Specialist (CIS) program, a similar program for IRS Inspection, the System Intrusion and Network Attack Response Team (SINART), and the Computer Security Incident Response Capability (CSIRC). More recently, Mr. Fried developed databases and innovative techniques to proactively detect online schemes targeting the IRS. He identified various sources of intelligence and information, developed strategic alliances with private organizations, and designed automated systems to obtain and analyze large data sets for the purpose of identifying and mitigating online schemes. Mr. Fried also designed, developed, and implemented his agency's network-based digital video surveillance system. He additionally developed strategic alliances with a large number of domain registrars, ISPs, government- sponsored CERTs, and private organizations involved in various forms of network security for the purpose of increasing the ability to mitigate fraudulent behavior as quickly as possible. In 2008, Mr. Fried presented a proposal to IRS management to form a new division whose sole mission was to monitor, detect, and mitigate online fraudulent schemes targeting the IRS and US taxpayers. The proposal was adopted and led to the formation of IRS Online Fraud Detection and Prevention (OFDP). Mr. Fried is on the executive board of directors of the Fraternal Order of Police in Washington, DC, and is affiliated with several security organizations that cannot be named. He is a frequent presenter at Black Hat and DEF CON. Mr. Fried has a BS degree in criminology.
Jon Iadonisi is the founder of White Canvas Group – a company that specializes in cultivating alternative and disruptive strategies. His depth of experience, diversified expertise, and unique operational background has provided a perspective that has enabled him to contribute to solving national security problems. He has spent the past fifteen years using innovative computing technologies coupled with cutting edge scholarship to solve complex problems, some of which later became implemented as new strategies and capabilities for the U.S. Government. He is regularly sought by the Department of Defense, various Intelligence agencies, and members of the US Congress to provide expert opinion and briefings on information age unconventional warfare. Prior to joining the private sector, Jon served as a Navy SEAL, where he designed, planned and led various combat operations that integrated innovative technologies and tactics into the operating environment, ultimately creating new capabilities for the Special Operations Community and Central Intelligence Agency. He is a combat-wounded and decorated veteran who earned a B.S. in Computer Science from the US Naval Academy, and M.S. in Homeland Security from San Diego State University. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and guest lectures at San Diego State University and Georgetown Law School. He is an academic and athletic all American who participated in the 2000 Olympic Rifle team trials. He enjoys fine wine, good books, music, and outdoors activities.
Rich Marshall is the Founder and President of X-SES Consultants, LLC, the former Vice President of Cyber Programs at Triton FSI and is a nationally and internationally recognized thought leader on cyber related issues. He provides an impressive professional network and is known for facilitating the establishment of programs and contracts. He has extensive leadership experience in formulating growth strategies, integrating policy, culture and training with technology issues, building relationships and delivering lasting results. He is also a strategic thinker who knows how to lead and very importantly, knows where to lead. He previously was a member of the Senior Cryptologic Executive Service (SCES) and the Defense Intelligence Senior Executive Service (DISES). Prior to joining Triton FSI, he was the Director of Global Cyber Security Management, National Cyber Security Division, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) by special arrangement between the Director, National Security Agency (DIRNSA) and the Secretary of DHS. Within DHS he directed National Cyber Security Education Strategy; and the Software Assurance; Research and Standards Integration; and Supply Chain Risk Management programs. Mr. Marshall was previously the Senior Information Assurance (IA) Representative, Office of Legislative Affairs at the National Security Agency (NSA) where he served as the Agency's point of contact for all NSA Information Security (INFOSEC) matters concerning Congress. He devised the IA legislative strategy, helped shape the passage of the revised Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and was the Comprehensive National Cyber Security Initiative (CNCI). In 2001, Mr. Marshall was selected by the Cyber Advisor to the President to serve as the Principal Deputy Director, Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office (CIAO), where he led a team of 40 dedicated professionals in developing, coordinating and implementing the Administration's National Security for Critical Infrastructure Protection initiative and the National Cyber Security Strategy to address potential threats to the nation's critical infrastructures. From 1994 to 2001, Mr. Marshall served with distinction as the Associate General Counsel for Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Office of the General Counsel, National Security Agency. In that capacity, Mr. Marshall provided advice and counsel on national security telecommunications and technology transfer policies and programs, national security telecommunications technical security programs, the National Information Assurance Partnership, the Common Criteria Mutual Recognition Arrangement, legislative initiatives and international law. Mr. Marshall was the legal architect for the Joint Chiefs of Staff directed exercise "Eligible Receiver 97" that spotlighted many of the cyber-vulnerabilities of our nation's critical infrastructures and helped bring focus on this issue at the national leadership level. Mr. Marshall graduated from The Citadel with a B.A. in Political Science; Creighton University School of Law with a J.D. in Jurisprudence; Georgetown School of Law with an LL.M. in International and Comparative Law; was a Fellow at the National Security Law Institute, University of Virginia School of Law in National Security Law; attended the Harvard School of Law Summer Program for Lawyers; the Georgetown University Government Affairs Institute on Advanced Legislative Strategies and participated in the Information Society Project at Yale Law School and in the Privacy, Security and Technology in the 21st Century program at Georgetown University School of Law.
David McCallum: Born David Keith McCallum, Jr. in Glasgow, Scotland on Sept. 19, 1933, he was the son of David McCallum, Sr., the famed principal violinist for numerous orchestras in the United Kingdom, including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and cellist Dorothy Dorman. After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, he made his debut in a 1946 BBC Radio production of "Whom the Gods Love, Die Young." Bit and supporting roles in British features and on television soon followed, often as troubled youth, as benefitting his brooding intensity. Among his more notable turns during his period was in 1958's "Violent Playground," where his psychotic gang member is spurred by poverty and rock and roll to take a classroom of school children hostage. McCallum's American film debut came as the mother-fixated Carl von Schlosser in John Huston's "Freud" (1962), with Montgomery Clift as the pioneering analyst. The following year, he played Royal Navy Officer Ashley-Pitt, who devised the method of dispersing the dirt from tunnels dug under a POW camp in "The Great Escape" (1963). An early American television appearance on "The Outer Limits" (CBS, 1963-65) became one of his most enduring, thanks to the eye-popping makeup applied to McCallum. His character, a bitter Welsh miner, agreed to take part in an evolutionary experiment, which turned him into a hyper-intelligent mutant with a massive domed cranium. The image was memorable enough to make McCallum a go-to for numerous science fiction efforts in the ensuing decades. In 1964, McCallum was cast as Illya Kuryakin, a minor character on the spy series "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." Despite having only two lines, the producers saw that McCallum and star Robert Vaughn had considerable chemistry together, and boosted the character to co-star status. The move changed McCallum's career forever. Kuryakin's cool demeanor, physical proficiency with any weapon, and passion for art, music and science - not to mention his wealth of blonde hair - made him an immediate favorite among female viewers, whose fan mail to the actor was the most ever received in the history of MGM, which produced the show. For the series' three years on the air, McCallum was at the apex of television stardom, and netted two Emmy nominations and a Golden Globe nod, as well as major roles in several films. He was the tormented Judas in George Stevens' epic Biblical drama "The Greatest Story Ever Told" (1965), and took the lead in a number of minor features, including 1968's "Sol Madrid" and "Mosquito Squadron" (1969), many of which traded on McCallum's popularity in "U.N.C.L.E." by casting him in action-oriented roles. During this period, McCallum also orchestrated and conducted a trio of lush, sonically adventurous records that put unique spins on some of the period's more popular songs. In the 1970s, McCallum was a fixture on television in both America and England. In the States, he was a staple of science fiction and supernaturally-themed TV features, including "Hauser's Memory" (NBC, 1970), as a scientist who injected himself with a dying colleagues brain fluid to preserve defense secrets from foreign agents, while "She Waits" (CBS, 1972) cast him as the husband to a possessed Patty Duke. He also briefly returned to series work with "The Invisible Man" (NBC, 1975-76) as a scientist who used his invisibility formula to aid a government agency against evildoers. His work in England hewed more towards dramatic fare: in "Colditz" (BBC, 1972-74), he was an aggressive RAF officer who put aside his anger towards the Nazis to help organize an escape from a notorious German war prison, while in "Sapphire & Steel" (ITV, 1979- 1982), he and Joanna Lumley played extraterrestrial operatives who investigated strange incidents involving the time-space continuum. In 1983, he reunited with Robert Vaughn for "The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E." (CBS), which saw Illya retired from espionage to design women's clothing in New York. The escape of a top enemy spy brings both U.N.C.L.E. men back into action, albeit with other, younger agents. The TV- movie was intended as the pilot for a new version of the series, but the show was never greenlit. After logging time on countless, unmemorable series like "Team Knight Rider" (syndicated, 1997-98) and "The Education of Max Bickford" (CBS, 2001-02), McCallum found his next hit with "NCIS," a police procedural drama about Navy investigators. McCallum played Chief Medical Examiner Donald "Ducky" Mallard, an eccentric but highly efficient investigator with a knack for psychological profiling. A close confidante to Mark Harmon's Jethro Gibbs, he served as father confessor and paternal figure for the show's offbeat cast of characters. The show's slow-building popularity brought McCallum back to a television audience made up in part of the children of viewers who sent him fan letters back in the "U.N.C.L.E." days, granting him a rare burst of second stardom.
Justin Wykes joined the National White Collar Crime Center in December 2006 as a Computer Crime Specialist. He is currently responsible for the development and updating of the "Basic Cell Phone Investigations" course as well as instructing multiple basic and advanced level courses. He has ten years experience building, fixing and repairing computers, and earned his A+ certification in September of 2006. After earning a Bachelor of Science degree from Grand Valley State University in Criminal Justice, with an emphasis in Law Enforcement, Mr. Wykes spent five years as a Special Agent for US Army Counterintelligence. The last two of those years were spent as a computer forensic examiner for the Cyber Counterintelligence Activity. As a Special Agent for CCA, Mr. Wykes conducted multi-agency investigations in security compromises, espionage, and terrorism.