Marshall D. Abrams Invited Essay Program

As Director of Government Research, Mr. Brian Witten leads all federally sponsored research and development within Symantec. Symantec Government Research is charged with the responsibility of developing technology for future Symantec products and services emerging from federally sponsored research solving nationally critical problems. Symantec pursues much of this research in partnership with world renowned universities. An experienced information security expert, Mr. Witten has also worked closely with both established industry leaders and early stage venture backed companies founded on disruptive technology.

Prior to joining Symantec, Mr. Witten worked at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the U.S. military’s central research and development organization charged with sponsoring revolutionary, high-payoff research to maintain the technological superiority of the U.S. military. While at DARPA, he focused on creation of new network security technologies to protect current and future information systems supporting "Network Centric Warfare." At DARPA, Mr. Witten managed an R&D investment portfolio of more than $150 million in U.S. and international efforts.

Mr. Witten began his technology career as on officer in the U.S. Air Force where he first began collaborating with leading academic institutions and commercial firms in information security research while assigned to Rome Laboratories and Air Force Research Labs (AFRL).

Mr. Witten received his B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Colorado.

Mary Ellen Zurko leads security architecture and strategy for Lotus Workplace, Portal, and Collaboration Software at IBM. She defined the field of User-Centered Security in 1996. She is on the steering committee for New Security Paradigms Workshop and the International World Wide Web Conference series. She has worked in security since 1986, at The Open Group Research Institute and Digital Equipment Corporation, as well as IBM. She is a contributor to the upcoming O.Reilly book, .Security and Usability: Designing Secure Systems that People Can Use.

Dr. Rebecca Mercuri became an overnight celebrity during the media frenzy that ensued when the U.S. Presidential election ended in a dead heat in November 2000. A few weeks earlier, she had successfully defended her Doctoral Dissertation "Electronic Vote Tabulation: Checks and Balances" at the University of Pennsylvania, and then found herself writing testimony in the now-legendary Bush v. Gore case that was working its way through the legal system. Her testimony was presented to the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals and referenced in one of the briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court. Since then, she has provided formal testimony on voting systems to the House Science Committee, Federal Election Commission, U.S. Commission of Civil Rights, and the U.K. Cabinet, has been quoted in the U.S. Congressional Record, and has played a direct role in municipal, state, federal, and international legislative initiatives. Rebecca's comments on election technology are frequently cited by the media, and she authors the quarterly "Security Watch" column in the Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery (archived at www.notablesoftware.com).

Rebecca is a senior member of the IEEE and serves in their working group on voting system standards. She is a co-founder of the Princeton professional chapter of the ACM/IEEE computer society. Having completed a fellowship at the John F. Kennedy School of Government in their Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Dr. Mercuri's research efforts are currently supported by Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute.

Lance Spitzner is a geek who constantly plays with computers, especially network security. He loves security because it is a constantly changing environment, your job is to do battle with the bad guys. This love for tactics first began in the Army, where he served for seven years, four as an Armor officer in the Army's Rapid Deployment Force. Following the military he received his M.B.A and became involved in the world of information security. Now he fights the bad guys with IPv4 packets as opposed to 120mm SABOT rounds. His passion is researching honeypot technologies and using them to learn more about the enemy. He is founder of the Honeynet Project, moderator of the honeypot maillist, author of Honeypots: Tracking Hackers, co-author of Know Your Enemy and author of several whitepapers. He has also spoken at various conferences and organizations, including SANS, Blackhat, FIRST, the Pentagon, NSA, CIA the FBI Academy, JTF-CNO, the President's Advisory Board, the Army War College, DOJ, West Point and Navy War College. When not actively leading the Honeynet Project, Lance consults for Honeypot Technologies Inc.

Lance Spitzner earned a B.A. History from the University of Illinois - Champaign and an MBA from the Univiversity of Illinois - Chicago.

When not involved in network security he attempts to have as much fun as possible. He developed a love for Scuba Diving, spending several months exploring dive sites in the remote islands of Indonesia. When not diving, he comes up with other excuses to get out, especially roller blading or hiking. He also loves military history, especially the tools and tactics of medieval warfare. This is where he gets his interest for network security, as there are many similarities between information security and combat tactics.

Dr. Daniel Geer oversees the strategy and direction of @stake's approach to digital security. Over the last 25 years, he has researched, developed, and instructed on the use of technology in medical computing, distributed systems management, and digital security. Dr. Geer has an extensive background in medical computing, culminating in a systems manager role for the Health Sciences Computer Facility at Harvard University. He went on to manage systems development for MIT's Project Athena, the first large distributed computing plant. Project Athena introduced much of the general organization of enterprise computing we now take for granted, including the X Windows System and Kerberos.

In the private sector, Dr. Geer served as a Director of Engineering at Open Market, Inc. and as Chief Scientist and Vice President of OpenVision Technologies (now Veritas). Prior to joining @stake, he was Vice President and Senior Strategist at CertCo, the leading on-line risk assurance authority.

An expert in modern security protocols and network solutions, Dr. Geer has been called to testify before the House Science Committee and the Subcommittee on Technology about public policy in the age of electronic commerce.

Dr. Geer speaks and publishes regularly on a range of issues in digital security. His November 1998 speech, "Risk Management is Where the Money Is," has been widely quoted, warranting both reprint as a special issue of the RISKS Digest and prompting editorial comment in Wired Magazine. With Avi Rubin of ATT Research and Marcus Ranum of Network Flight Recorder, he is co-author of The WebSecurity Sourcebook.

He holds a Sc.D. in biostatistics from the Harvard University School of Public Health as well as an S.B. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT. He recently completed his term as President of USENIX, the advanced computing systems association.

Dr. Roger R. Schell is President of ÆSec, a new company focused on appliances built on hardened platforms for secure, reliable e-business on the Internet. For several years he managed the successful development and delivery of security for several Novell releases of network software products including an integral PKI, an international crypto API, and an authentication service with exposed SSL capability. Dr. Schell was co-founder and Vice President for Engineering of Gemini Computers, Inc., where he directed development of Gemini's highly secure (Class A1) network processor commercial product. He was also the founding Deputy Director of the DoD (now National) Computer Security Center. Previously he was an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Naval Postgraduate School.

Dr. Schell received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the MIT, an M.S.E.E. from Washington State, and a B.S.E.E. from Montana State. He originated several key modern security design and evaluation techniques and holds patents in cryptography and authentication. He is widely regarded as the "father" of the Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria (the "Orange Book"). The NIST and NSA have recognized Dr. Schell with the National Computer System Security Award, the nation's highest honor in the information security field.

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Butler Lampson is an Architect at Microsoft Corporation and an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at MIT. He was on the faculty at Berkeley, at the Computer Science Laboratory at Xerox PARC, and at Digital's Systems Research Center. He has worked on computer architecture, local area networks, raster printers, page description languages, operating systems, remote procedure call, programming languages and their semantics, programming in the large, fault-tolerant computing, transaction processing, computer security, and WHSIWYG editors. He was one of the designers of the SDS 940 time-sharing system, the Alto personal distributed computing system, the Xerox 9700 laser printer, two-phase commit protocols, the Autonet LAN, and several programming languages.

He received an AB from Harvard University, a PhD in EECS from the University of California at Berkeley, and honorary ScD's from the Eidgenoessische Techniche Hochschule, Zurich and the University of Bologna. He holds a number of patents on networks, security, raster printing, and transaction processing. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received the ACM's Software Systems Award in 1984 for his work on the Alto, the IEEE Computer Pioneer award in 1996, the National Computer Systems Security Award in 1998, and the Turing Award in 1992.

More information may be found at http://research.microsoft.com/lampson/.