2013 Speakers
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Delaware Attorney General C3 Award of Excellence: Leadership and Relentless Pursuit of Cyber Knowledge and SafetyJoseph R. "Beau" Biden, III took office as Delaware's 44th Attorney General in January 2007. As Attorney General, he has actively pursued measures to better protect children, families and communities across the state. Attorney General Biden created the Delaware Department of Justice Child Predator Unit to track and prosecute child sex offenders, and he helped pass state legislation strengthening Delaware's sex offender registry statute. He implemented a Family Division, the first in the country, to streamline law enforcement resources on fighting domestic violence, protecting Delaware's families, and reducing juvenile crime. He established a Community Prosecution Program throughout New Castle County and expanded efforts to fight nuisance crimes in neighborhoods across the state. Beau Biden's public service began at the United States Department of Justice in 1995. From 1995 to 1997, he served as Counsel in the Office of Policy Development, working on a variety of issues, including those related to the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, the Violence Against Women Act, and with regard to missing and exploited children. General Biden served as a Federal Prosecutor in the United States Attorney's Office in Philadelphia from 1997 until 2002. In 2001, General Biden served as Interim Legal Advisor for the United States Department of Justice in post-war Kosovo. Beau Biden was engaged in private law practice from 2002 until his election as Attorney General. General Biden serves as a major in the Delaware Army National Guard's Judge Advocate General's Corps and is assigned to the 261st Signal Brigade in Smyrna, Delaware. In October 2008, the Unit was activated for a 12-month deployment to Iraq. After completing that deployment with his Unit, Attorney General Biden returned to the Delaware Department of Justice in October 2009. Beau Biden is a graduate of Archmere Academy in Wilmington, Delaware, the University of Pennsylvania and Syracuse University College of Law. He was born and raised in Delaware and currently lives in Wilmington with his wife Hallie and their two children. |
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Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary Clarissa Cerda is Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary of LifeLock. Cerda serves on the LifeLock executive leadership team and manages LifeLock's legal, compliance, government affairs, and human resources functions. She brings more than 19 years’ experience of lawyering and negotiation, effective management, and strategic advising in fast-paced, technology corporations, leading law firm and the White House. Before joining LifeLock, Cerda served as vice president, general counsel, and chief privacy officer of Initiate Systems, Inc. and as vice president, general counsel, and assistant secretary for Open Port Technology, Inc. Prior to that, she served as a Corporate and Securities partner at Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal and as the assistant counsel to the President of the United States in the White House. She currently sits on the board of directors of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association. Previously, Cerda has held various national positions on the American Bar Association (ABA), including the co-chair of the ABA’s Science and Technology Law Section's Privacy Committee. Cerda graduated from Harvard College with an A.B. in government. She earned an M. Phil. from the University of Western Australia and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School. She also undertook post-doctoral studies in European Community Law at l’Université Libre de Bruxelles. |
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Consulting Manager Mark Danner, Consulting Manager with National Strategy LLC, a Washington, D.C. business consulting firm where he specializes in Homeland Security and Public Safety affairs. Mark has 20 years experience in providing innovative solutions to complex technology and operational risk problems for both the federal and private sectors. During a diverse career with the U.S. Intelligence Community, he provided key US decision makers with high-value answers to pressing national security questions related to counterterrorism and critical infrastructure protection. He worked on Wall Street with the Corporate Security and Business Continuity Group of Deutsche Bank where he advised internal groups on business resiliency planning and launched a program to model malicious threats against the Bank's global infrastructures. He then joined the management team of NeuralIQ, a cybersecurity firm that allowed users to track the full scope of a computer network attack in real-time. |
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Coordinator, Policy Development and Education Amy has been at the University of Maryland since 1994, serving first in the Office of Student Conduct where she advised the Student Honor Council and adjudicated cases of academic dishonesty. Her prior work was also in the field of student affairs administration in residential life settings at the University of California Davis, Minnesota State University, Mankato, and Carnegie Mellon University. She is currently the coordinator of the Project NEThics group in the Office of Information Technology. Project NEThics is the group charged with promoting acceptable use of information technology and investigating incidents of computing resource misuse. In this role, Amy works with graduate assistant staff members who manage the processing of copyright infringement notices, provides user education on a variety of issues, consults with web developers on copyright and intellectual property questions, serves on the university's trademark committee, coordinates the response to cases involving abuse of information technology resources, and serves as a liaison to departments as cases require (university Police, Office of Student Conduct, Office of the Victim Advocate). Amy also serves as a member of the university's Peer Consultant Network of the Center for Leadership and Organizational Change. She has presented at EDUCAUSE national conferences, the EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic regional conference, as well as at local meetings on topics of policy development, copyright and intellectual property, protection against identity theft, the pluses and perils of social networking, and others. |
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Director Government Affairs Deb Griffith joined LifeLock as the Director of Government Affairs in January 2011 and helps lead on legislative and regulatory matters related to identity theft protection on Federal, State and Local levels. Deb’s background is specialized in the area of training and development and prior to joining LifeLock, Griffith provided consulting services, specialized in training, organizational development, and strategic planning. Some clients included Disney, Nestle, Avery, PowerWave and Acts of Mercy. In addition, Griffith’s insight and multifarious background provided the platform for her advocacy work where she provided consultancy to non-profits and foundations on efforts for partnerships with the public and private sector, academia and government agencies to advance projects and services. Recognized as a leading force on such issues, Griffith provided frequent speaking services, invited for consultations and was actively involved in an advisory capacity with the U.S. Department of State. In 2009, at the request of the U.S. Department of State, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, she participated in roundtable sessions at the White House. As the Southern California State Director for the organization, “Not For Sale”, Griffith launched successful anti human trafficking initiatives engaging academia, legislators, law enforcement, and local communities. She also helped lead a key advocacy unit that influenced national policy related to the crime of trafficking in persons, working with congressional representatives and policy makers. Deb’s experiences span across domestic and global fronts in Asia, Europe, Africa, Central Asia, Middle East and throughout the United States. She conceptualized and executed a monumental collaboration in Rwanda, Kenya and Democratic Republic of Congo on education, social and health development. Utilizing sport and music as tools for diplomacy and community development, Griffith provided strategies for children at risk and capacity building for women in leadership. Public events resulted in 400- 8000 in attendance. Deb served on the board and as advisor for Sons of Congo, working with government, military and service providers in the Democratic Republic of Congo. She also served on the board for Cal State, Fullerton University’s “Legacies” program. For more than 10 years, she has actively served on local PTA membership in various capacities, most recently as the Chair of the “Social Responsibility” Committee. |
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Information Security Researcher Ben Halpert is a man on a mission: to keep all kids, including his own, safe online. Ben comes by his passion and expertise honestly. By day, he is an information security researcher and practitioner for a Fortune 500 firm. By night, he is a champion for the protection of children in cyberspace. Ben is the author of two books for wildly divergent audiences. The Savvy Cyber Kids At Home: The Family Gets A Computer (October, 2010) is a picture book which teaches online safety to preschool age children. For those in the business field, Ben’s next book, Auditing Cloud Computing: A Security and Privacy Guide will be published by John Wiley & Sons in 2011. Seeing a void in the conversation about online safety for children before they begin K-12, Ben created a nonprofit to represent those who cannot speak for themselves: infants, toddlers and preschool children. Savvy Cyber Kids, Inc. was founded in 2007 and is now working with the National Cyber Security Alliance and other organizations towards filling the gap. Ben was a contributing author to Readings and Cases in the Management of Information Security and the Encyclopedia of Information Ethics and Security. Ben writes the security column for Mobile Enterprise Magazine and has contributed to seven NIST special publications and Ben is on the advisory board of numerous colleges and universities. He has keynoted and presented sessions at numerous conferences, including the RSA Security Conference, InfoSec World, IEEE, and ACM conferences. Ben is an adjunct instructor at a local University where he teaches the Master’s of IT information security concentration curriculum. Ben is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and is a PhD candidate at Nova Southeastern University. |
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Plesser Fellow Gautam Hans is the 2012-2014 Ron Plesser Fellow. At CDT, his work focuses on consumer privacy, including mobile technology, government regulation and enforcement, and international issues. Prior to joining CDT, Mr. Hans interned at the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan, and the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, focusing on privacy, consumer rights, and civil liberties policy and litigation. In 2012, Mr. Hans earned his J.D., cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School and his M.S. in Information from the University of Michigan School of Information, where he focused on privacy, intellectual property, and technology law. While in law school, he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review and worked as a student attorney in the Michigan Clinical Law Program and the Entrepreneurship Clinic. Prior to graduate school, he worked as an Editorial Assistant at the Knopf Group of Random House. In 2006, Mr. Hans earned his B.A. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. |
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Partner John Harmon is a partner of Tactical Network Solutions (TNS). TNS was founded in 2007 to provide custom cyber intelligence capabilities, research, training, and expert consultation to government agencies, law enforcement, and other security-conscious commercial organizations. He has spent more than 10 years in the US Intelligence Community as an analyst, software developer, team leader, and entrepreneur in cyber intelligence. Mr. Harmon heads all operations for Tactical Network Solutions where he leads all federal and commercial business development, sales, capture, recruiting, and teaming efforts. These efforts have led to multiple contract awards, product sales, teaming agreements, and TNS doubling in both size and revenue for the past 3 years. Mr. Harmon earned a Master of Science in Network Security from Capitol College and a Bachelor of Science in Management Information Systems from Auburn University. |
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Consumer Education Specialist Aditi Jhaveri is a Consumer Education Specialist in the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection. She helps develop and implement campaigns on critical consumer protection issues such as online safety, financial literacy, avoiding scams, and preventing identity theft. Aditi writes about these issues for the FTC’s general consumer information site, Consumer.ftc.gov. She also writes for OnGuardOnline.gov, the federal government’s partnership site to help people stay safe, secure, and responsible online. |
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Director of Government Affairs Steve is a member of Microsoft’s Public Sector Legal Affairs Group, based in the company headquarters in Redmond, WA. Steve works on a range of policy issues relating to Cloud Computing (including privacy, security, data sovereignty and interoperability), intellectual property and standards, as well as issues related to the broad role that ICT plays in economic development around the world. Steve supports Microsoft’s education businesses on technology policy issues, including data privacy issues. In prior roles at Microsoft, Steve was a member of Microsoft’s Corporate Interoperability and Standards Group and before that Regional Director of Interoperability and Innovation for Asia Pacific, based in Singapore. Steve originally joined Microsoft in 2001 in a copyright counseling role, where he advised Microsoft product groups on copyright and trade secret issues, focusing on issues related to Open Source Software licenses. |
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Laurie Nathan Manager of National Outreach and Partnerships NetSmartz Laurie Nathan is the Manager of Outreach for the NetSmartz Workshop, an educational program of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), and brings with her a background in child exploitation and child abuse prevention to the fight against child endangerment on the Internet. Laurie analyzed Internet-related child exploitation cases and worked closely with law enforcement to have them resolved while working as a staff analyst in the Exploited Child Division (ECD) at NCMEC. As the Director of Programs at Prevent Child Abuse of Metropolitan Washington, she focused on child abuse prevention outreach campaigns for the Washington, D.C. metro area and trained hundreds of volunteers to handle calls on a support line for children. Most recently, Laurie’s focus has been on spreading awareness of the importance of Internet safety education. She has presented on this issue at many educator and law enforcement conferences, including the National Sheriffs’ Association Conference, T + L Conference sponsored by the National School Boards Association, and the Internet Crimes Against Children National Conference. Laurie’s goal is to educate and engage communities on ways to better protect children on- and offline. Laurie is an alumna of Emory University in Atlanta, GA where she graduated with highest honors in Psychology. |
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Jason C. Novotny Jason C. Novotny serves as an Investigator in the Economic Crime Unit of the Johnson County District Attorney’s Office, Kansas, where he investigates identity theft, financial exploitation, and multijurisdictional white collar crimes. Jason is a commissioned law enforcement officer and previously spent four years as a patrol officer with the Lawrence, Kansas Police Department. Before his career in law enforcement, Jason spent 12 years in the financial services industry. Jason’s diverse background and experiences provide him with a unique perspective on the crime of identity theft and its impact on citizens and communities. |
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Veronica Phillips Academic Technology Director Calvert Hall College High School Veronica Phillips is Calvert Hall’s Academic Technology Director and a long time attendee of the C3 Conference. Veronica has been at Calvert Hall College High School in Baltimore, Maryland since 1996 and has a Master’s degree in Educational Technology and Curriculum Integration from Loyola University in Maryland as well as a Certificate of Advanced Study in Education along with Supervisory and Administrative certification with MSDE. With a C3 grant, received in 2012, Calvert Hall was able to promote the C3 Framework for Responsible Use and to create instruction for student understanding of “why” online behavior that highlights the importance of each of the three components is critical. Dr. Katie Shilton, whose presentation at the 2012 C3 Conference was the, “Role of Digital Media Technologies in Adolescents' Academic, Social, and Moral Lives,” agreed to collaborate with Calvert Hall’s peer educators and faculty advisors. Guided by Dr. Shilton’s expertise, a Calvert Hall Peer Ed faculty advisor, Mr. Joey Atas, was able to design a “Pause before you Post” lesson plan for the Peer Education Curriculum. Focusing on decision making skills as well addressing choices and consequences, the students will become informed about the social values of emerging technologies and learn to practice ethical reflection before taking action. |
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Jenna-Lyn Ryckebusch Jenna-Lyn Ryckebusch, MA, currently serves as the Senior Programs Coordinator at the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, NCMEC. She is responsible for coordinating Take 25, a preventive child safety campaign created in honor of National Missing Children’s Day. Prior to working at NCMEC, she oversaw the Community Service Department for Offender Aid and Restoration of Arlington County, VA. Ms. Ryckebusch has her master’s degree in Forensic Psychology and received a Bachelor of Science from Ursinus College in Psychology and Spanish. She is a proud Mentor through Big Brothers and Big Sisters, and a graduate from the Leadership Arlington Youth Professionals Program. |
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Dr. Katie Shilton Dr. Shilton's research focuses on ethics and policy for the design of information technologies, systems, and collections. She received her Master's and Ph.D. in Information Studies from UCLA in 2011. I teach courses in information policy, information and technology ethics. Full CV at http://terpconnect.umd.edu/~kshilton/ |
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Linda Sweeting Instructional Technology Specialist Division of Information Technology Prince George’s County Public Schools Linda Sweeting is currently an instructional technology specialist on the Technology Training Team, Division of Information Technology, for Prince George’s County Public Schools. Her responsibilities include coordinating software and online resources testing, textbook and online resources support, and administrative systems and instructional technology training. She developed the “Just Say Know” initiative, an internet safety awareness program for parents: www.tinyurl.com/safetylinks. This initiative has grown to include Tech Tuesdays, Summer training for teachers and an online class using their Moodle CMS. She deployed an Internet safety song contest through the Vocal Music Program. Additional resources can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/SafetyLinks. Linda has her Master’s in Library Science from the University of Maryland. She started her career as a library media specialist and has collaboratively taught every subject area and every grade Pre-K – 12. She has presented at national state, and local conferences including National Educational Computing Conference, MSET (formerly MICCA), and Powering Up With Technology about grant activities, curriculum management, and technology training initiatives. In addition, Linda facilitates online classes for the Maryland State Department of Education; courses include Online Teaching in Maryland, Online Mentoring, and Web 2.0. Linda is also an avid photographer, sailor, and bread baker. In her spare time, she is writing a bread baking book and is also planning a bread baking blog. |
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Zulma Whiteford St. Louis School Zulma Whiteford is currently the Technology teacher, STEM chair, and primary foreign language teacher at St. Louis School in Clarksville, Maryland, which has been selected as a pilot school for the Generation Safe (iKeepSafe) program. As part of the Generation Safe team, Mrs. Whiteford is working closely with the staff to integrate technology into the curriculum. Prior to St. Louis, Mrs. Whiteford served as the Director of Academic Technology at Our Lady of Perpetual Help School in Ellicott City for six years, where she successfully integrated the use of technology into the curriculum and daily classroom activity. Throughout her teaching career, Mrs. Whiteford has placed strong emphasis on the importance of cyber ethics and security both in and out of the classroom. Not only are the students taught the importance early on, but faculty and parents are educated as well. Mrs. Whiteford holds a Bachelor’s Degree from the College of Notre Dame and a Master's Degree in School Administration from Loyola University. |
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Larry Wong Mr. Wong is Information Assurance and Risk Management Supervisor, and CyberSafety Program manager for the 140,000-student Montgomery County Public Schools in Rockville, MD. |
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Logan Kerwin is a senior at Glenelg High School. He attends the Applications and Research Lab for the Cybersecurity and Networking academy. He has many interests that include hanging out with friends, playing sports, and being an active member in school clubs. His favorite sports team is the Baltimore Ravens, and he enjoys going to as many home games as possible. He also likes to play video games, and ping pong with friends. Net year, he would like to attend Towson University for a major in Information Technology. Matthew Kogan has been playing with computers since before he said his first word. Instead of children's toys, he had keyboards and mice to play with. When he was in elementary school, he spent time creating presentations in Powerpoint. To this day, his interest in computers has not faded. He spends a large portion of his free time playing with computers. Every change he gets, he loves to build and disasemble computer, install and unistall software, and do virtually anything you can do with computes. He can never have too many monitors and computers on his desk at home. He is also interested in website mangement, and he has become the student webmaster of his high school's website. Computers are his number one interest. There is nothing else he would rather spend his career doing. Damian LePore is a senior attending Glenelg High School. He attends the Applications and Research Lab in Howard County for Cybersecurity and Networking. He is an aspiring musician and is extremely tech savvy. He is interested in pursuing a career in the IT field or becoming a professional musician. |
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Davina Pruitt-Mentle, Ph.D. Dr. Davina Pruitt-Mentle, a senior researcher and policy analyst for Educational Technology Policy, Research and Outreach (ETPRO) has worked in the field of STEM education & educational and cyberawareness research since 1990. She has spent the past 12 years conducting research on student and educator cyberawareness and K-16 cyberethics, safety and security awareness programs, and developing programs to help increase the IS/IA workforce pipeline. Research and development interests have focused on the Cyberethics, Cybersafety and Cybersecurity (C3) framework. Some of her recent published work has focused on the state of C3 awareness knowledge and programs, cyberawareness strategies, and SECURE IT, a holistic approach program to promote C3 and connect to careers in IA/IS/Cybersecurity and Digital Forensics. She acts as a CO- PI on the NSF funded CyberWatch Regional Center, PI for the CyberWatch/UMD Digital Forensics Lab, PI of the MD BRAC (Base Realignment and Closure) –EIS-C MD (Expanding IS Capacity in MD), and serves on numerous national, state and local Technology Task Forces and Advisory Boards. She has served as faculty lecturer within the College of Education at UMCP since 2001, and served as Director of Educational Technology Outreach within the College of Education at UMCP from 2001-2008. She has a PhD in Educational Technology Policy from the University of Maryland. |
Speakers from the 2012 C3 Conference |