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Next Meeting Speaker and Bio
Title: Software Testing - Security Panel Discussion
Date: Tuesday May 13, 2008
Time: 4:00 to 6:00 PM
Panel Presentation: Ron Wood, Dan Weiske, Michael Walter, and Rob Rudloff
Bio:
Ron Wood, CISSP, CTFL, Director of the Security practice at Systest Labs, providing software vulnerability testing across the spectrum of commercial, state, and federal customers. Building on his engineering degree, MBA, and MS in Telecom, Ron can interview and interact at all levels of IT Security. Utilizing his extensive background in operations from PCs to Mainframes, LANS to WANS, Ron has the ability to correlate areas of risks and focus evaluations, and then perform the testing for vulnerability assessment. At the core of SysTest Lab's Security Practice are standard testing methodologies to assess risks, controls, application security, network security, and also provide business and executive level planning.
Dan Weiske, CISSP, CISA, CAP, IAM has joined SysTest Labs to perform
Software Security Compliance. Dan has a bachelor's degree in information
technology and a Masters degree in Computer Science Computer System
Security from Colorado Technical University. Dan has more than 8 years'
experience auditing and administrating security polices and controls,
ethical hacking and penetration testing in varied environments. Dan's
expertise with vulnerability and penetration testing utilizes techniques
used by white hat, grey hat, and black hat methodologies. Dan has also
successfully managed many federal projects following NIST (FISMA), ISO
17799-27001, and HIPAA requirements. Dan additionally is providing his
security expertise to review voting machines compliance as part of
SysTest Lab's VSTL practice on behalf of the EAC.
Michael Walter, CISSP, is a Senior Partner at Arsenal Security Group. Michael has a Masters degree in Computer Science, three patents in information security. Michael has presented at over a dozen conferences. Prior to joining Arsenal, Michael worked as a Principal Consultant for a global information security company and pioneered work in risk quantification. Previously, Michael worked at IBM in Ethical Hacking, IBM’s Security Operations Center, and Security Intelligence. Michael’s thesis work in graduate school was behavioral profiling of hacker activity. The result of his work is a tool called ‘IP Profiler’ that is used in IBM’s Security Operations Center. Michael has presented at conferences on a number of issues including Social Engineering, Quantitative Risk, Building Security into the SDLC, Best Practices in Intrusion Detection, and Business Intelligence in Information Security.
Rob Rudloff, CISSP, PMP, is Director of Operations for Security Consulting Services at Solutionary, Inc. Rob holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Colorado (Boulder) and a Masters from Capitol College. Rob has over 15 years of experience in Information Technology and 13 years in Information Security in government and commercial sectors. His experience includes security reviews, mitigation, strategy, architecture, planning, design and implementation. He has consulted clients on projects ranging from security assessments to full scale implementation of enterprise security architectures. Rob has worked in the information security field support 361 Consulting as a security lead, a Senior Manager for PricewaterhouseCoopers and as a Captain in the U.S. Air Force based at the Pentagon and the National Security Agency.
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