Speaker Bios

We are very pleased to have the following group of presenters for this year's conference. 

• Dan Geer - Chief Information Security Officer of In-Q-Tel will deliver the keynote
• Michael Corn - Chief Privacy and Security Officer of UIUC will discuss privacy in higher ed (see his EDUCAUSE article co-authored with Jane Rosenthal, Director of the Privacy Office at the University of Kansas)
• Noel Greis - Director, Center for Logistics and Digital Strategy, Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at UNC Chapel Hill, will speak about security awareness for millennials (see The Millennial Cybersecurity Project report)
• Rodney Petersen - Managing Director of the Washington Office and Senior Government Relations Officer at EDUCAUSE will provide an update on government policies and their potential effects on the higher ed community
• Ron Ross - Fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to speak on standards development and risk management
• George Tubin - Senior Security Strategist at Trusteer will speak about emerging malware trends
• David Sherry - Chief Information Security Officer at Brown University will lead a session on the EDUCAUSE Identity and Access Management Toolkit
• Sean Smith - Professor of Computer Science at Dartmouth will discuss misperception and security
• Emily Eckland - Director of Digital Strategy & Awareness Campaigns at the National Cyber Security Alliance will lead a panel discussion on K-12 security awareness
• Richard Biever, Chief Information Security Officer at Duke University, and Shilen Patel, Senior IT Analyst at Duke University will lead a break-out session on multi-factor authentication