Daniel Bailey, RSA Labs [Presentation]
Daniel Bailey is the RFID Solutions Architect at RSA Laboratories, the research
division of RSA Security. Before joining RSA Security, Bailey was a product manager
for wireless networks at NTRU in Burlington, MA, a provider of embedded security
technology. At RSA Security, Bailey is working to spearhead RSA Security's efforts
in developing RFID security technologies. He has extensive public speaking experience
at both industry and academic conferences. In addition, Bailey has been a leader
in standardization efforts including serving as chairman of the ZigBee Alliance
security working group, contributing co-editor for security of IEEE 802.15.3, and
author of portions of the IEEE 1363a and 802.15.4 standards. Further, he has published
papers in both the academic and popular press on computer security and cryptography.
Bailey holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic
Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Simson L. Garfinkel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology [Presentation]
Simson L. Garfinkel is a researcher in the field of computer security and award-winning
commentator on information technology. Currently a doctorial candidate at MIT's
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Garfinkel's research interests
include computer security, the usability of secure systems, and information policy.
He writes monthly columns Technology Review's Magazine and website and for CSO Magazine,
for which he was awarded the 2004 Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Award
for Best Regularly Featured Department or Column. Prior to joining CSAIL, Garfinkel
founded Sandstorm Enterprises, a computer security firm that develops offensive
information warfare tools used by businesses and governments to audit their systems.
Garfinkel is the author or co-author of twelve books on computing, published by
O'Reilly and Associates, MIT Press, Springer-Verlag, and IDG Books. He is perhaps
best known for his book Database Nation: The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century.
Consumer advocate Ralph Nader called this book "A graphic and blistering indictment"
of the techniques used by businesses to invade our privacy and our lives. Garfinkel
holds three degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a masters
of science degree from Columbia University.
Brian Levine, University of Massachusetts [Presentation]
Brian Levine joined the UMass Computer Science faculty in Fall 1999. He received
his Master's and PhD in Computer Engineering from the University of California,
Santa Cruz in 1996 and 1999, respectively. He received his B.S. in Applied Mathematics
and Computer Science from the State University of New York at Albany in 1994. Dr.
Levine has numerous publications in the areas of network privacy and security, group
communication, and mobility. Before joining UMass, he had worked briefly at Sun
Labs, Bell Labs, INRIA (RODEO group in Sophia-Antipolis), and Sprint Advanced Technology
Labs.
Richard M. Smith, Privacy Foundation, ComputerBytesMan
Richard M. Smith has been described by The New York Times as
"perhaps the nation's most vocal authority on data privacy."
Smith has been in the computer business since the early 70s, and has
been involved in microprocessors from day one. He began his career as
a programmer, co-founded a software company, and became the head of
the nonprofit Privacy Foundation, where he served until November,
2001. Since September 11, he has changed his focus from privacy to
security. He is now focuses on technology related to security issues
and he operates a web site that reports "computer bites man"
stories, named ComputerBytesMan.com. He lives and works in Brookline,
Massachusetts.
Bhavani Thuraisingham, NSF, MITRE
Dr. Bhavani
Thuraisingham is the Program Director for Cyber Trust and Data and
Applications Security at the National Science Foundation and has been
on IPA to NSF from the MITRE Corporation since October 2001. She is
part of a team at NSF setting directions for cyber security and data
mining for counter-terrorism. She has been with MITRE since January
1989 where was the department head in Data and Information Management
in the Information Technology Division and later chief scientist in
data management in MITRE's Air Force Center. She has conducted
research in secure databases for over eighteen years and is the
recipient of IEEE Computer Society's 1997 Technical Achievement Award
for and recently IEEE's 2003 Fellow Award for her work in database
security. She is also a 2003 Fellow of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science. Dr. Thuraisingham has published over 200
refereed conference papers and over 60 journal articles in secure data
management and information technology. She serves (or has served) on
editorial boards of journals including IEEE Transactions on Knowledge
and Data Engineering, ACM Transactions on Information and Systems
Security, the Journal of Computer Security and Computer Standards and
Interface Journal. She is the inventor of three patents for MITRE on
Database Inference Control and has written 6 books on data management
and data mining for technical managers and is currently writing a text
book on database and application security based on her work the past
eighteen years.
Moderator: Timothy W. Finin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County [Presentation]