National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) - Information technology Laboratory (ITL)

5th Annual IT Security Automation Conference and Expo Presentations

Below is a list of presentations from the 5th Annual IT Security Automation Conference and Expo.

Day 1 (10/26/2009)

  • SCAP Introduction
  • Benchmark Development Course (T)
  • NIST/ISAlliance VOIP SCAP Project - Phase II Kickoff

Day 2 (10/27/2009)

  • General
  • SCAP
  • DoD Security Automation Strategy and Activities
  • Health IT and FIPS
  • Computer Network Monitoring, Audit, and Logging
  • Cloud Computing

Day 3 (10/28/2009)

  • General
  • SCAP
  • DoD Security Automation Strategy and Activities
  • Compliance Frameworks/800-53/FISMA
  • SCAP Technical
  • Cloud Computing

Day 4 (10/29/2009)

  • SCAP Workshops
  • Security Automation Workshops

Day 1 (10/26/2009)

SCAP Introduction
Presenter(s) Presentation
MITRE SCAP Introduction
MITRE Making Security Measurable
MITRE OCIL Introduction
Benchmark Development Course (T)
Presenter(s) Presentation
MITRE Introduction
MITRE Phase 1: Writing Good Guidance
MITRE Phase 2: Augmenting Recommendations using SCAP
MITRE Phase 3: Checking Language Overview
MITRE Phase 4: Introduction to Creating Checks
MITRE Phase 5: Benchmark Structure and Tailoring with XCCDF
MITRE Conclusion
NIST/ISAlliance VOIP SCAP Project - Phase II Kickoff
Presenter(s) Presentation

Day 2 (10/27/2009)

General
Presenter(s) Presentation
Cita Furlani (NIST) Conference Welcome Address
Phil Reitinger, Deputy Undersecretary (DHS) Keynote
Tim Grance (NIST) NIST Address
John Thompson, Chairman of the Board and former CEO (Symantec), Mark Bregman, CTO (Symantec) Symantec Address
Mischel Kwon, Vice President Public Sector Security Solutions (RSA, The Security Division of EMC) RSA Address
Alain Mayer (RedSeal) IT Risk - CVSS and Beyond
SCAP
Presenter(s) Presentation
Jim Ivers (Triumfant) Security Automation Through Granular Change Detection
Ed Bellis (Orbitz) Automating Vulnerability Management at Orbitz with SCAP
Jim Hansen (BigFix) BigFix's Experience with Standards
Rajat Bhargava (StillSecure), Tom Lerach (HP) Industry Standards: The Key to Deploying a Closed-Loop Process for Endpoint Policy Compliance
Tiffany Jones (Symantec) Situational Awareness *Secure Ops
Jonathan Couch (iSight) Next Generation SCAP: Threat Intelligence Scoring and XML Reporting Standards
Kim Watson, Paul Bartock Securing the Enterprise Panel
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DoD Security Automation Strategy and Activities
Presenter(s) Presentation
Mark Orndorff HBSS Open Framework Strategy
Mason Brown (SANS) Consensus Audit Guidelines
LtCol Wolfkiel (NSA) ARF, ARCAT, and Summary Reporting (T)
Shawn Oles (NSA), Sandra Harrell-Cook (NSA) CND Data Strategy (T)
Paul Green (G2), George Saylor (G2) Expanding Use of SCAP: Malware Detection and MACE Tool Demo (T)
Health IT and FIPS
Presenter(s) Presentation
Rob Snelick (NIST) NIST HIT Test Infrastructure Project
Kenneth Lin (Booz Allen Hamilton) Architecting Measurable Security in Health Information Technology using SCAP
Ryan Brewer, CISO (CMS) Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Case Study
Tim Polk (NIST) Cryptographic Transition Strategies
Randy Easter (NIST) Cryptographic Validation Programs
Sharon Keller (NIST) Cryptographic Validation Programs
Gerald Beuchelt (MITRE) Secure and Scalable RESTful Health Data Exchange
Computer Network Monitoring, Audit, and Logging
Presenter(s) Presentation
Bruce Gabrielson Insider Threat Panel
Lawrence Dobranski (Nortel Networks), John Nagengast (AT&T), Ben Halpert (Lockheed Martin) Developing an SCAP Solution for Unified Communications
Paul Sand (Salare Security, LLC) Using SCAP for Automated VoIP Configuration, Assurance and Security
Mark Humphrey (Boeing), Scott Armstrong (Gideon Technologies) Baseline Standards for Applying SCAP to Secure VoIP
Bill Heinbockel (MITRE) Common Event Expression (CEE) (T)
Anton Chuvakin Log Standard Challenges
Chip Lutz (Booz Allen Hamilton) NSA Audit Management
Kevin Bingham (NSA) Final Thoughts
Cloud Computing
Presenter(s) Presentation
David Hunter (VMWare), Kunjal Trivedi (Cisco), Nicklous Combs (EMC Federal) A Vision for a Private Cloud
Prakash Sinha (Citrix) App-Centric Scalability, Reliability, and Security in the Cloud
Hasan S. Alkhatib (Microsoft) Security Challenges in Cloud Computing
Jim Blakley (Intel Corporation) The Cloud Architecture Transformation
Victor L. Harrison (Object Management Group (OMG) Board of Directors) Cloud Standards: Opening the Cloud
George Reese (enStratus) Separating Perceptional from Real Security Concerns
Charles Crouchman (Opalis) Why Automation and Interoperability is Critical to Cloud Success

Day 3 (10/28/2009)

General
Presenter(s) Presentation
Tony Sager (NSA) Keynote
Richard Hale (DISA) DoD Address
Ron Ross (NIST) Next Generation Risk Management
Paul Bartock Operating System Vendor Panel
SCAP
Presenter(s) Presentation
Kelly Hengesteg (Microsoft), Chase Carpenter (Microsoft) Microsoft Adoption of SCAP
Steve Grubb (RedHat), Kevin Sitto (G2) The OpenSCAP Project
Paul Bartock Public Sector Adoption of SCAP Panel
Bill Niester (Qualys) Automating the Continuous Compliance Process in the Decentralized Enterprise
Dr. Mike Lloyd (RedSeal Systems, Inc.), Doug Dexter (Cisco) Automating Network Security Assessment
Wyatt Starnes (SignaCert) Enhancing SCAP with Whitelist-based Image Management
Andy Bove Vendor Interoperability Panel
DoD Security Automation Strategy and Activities
Presenter(s) Presentation
Michele Iversen (NSA) DoD Sensor Grid Security Automation Requirements
David Hoon (DISA) VMS/STIG SCAP Strategy (T)
Bruce Gabrielson (Booz Allen Hamilton) Automating Attack Analysis Using Audit Data (T)
NETSPA (T)
Matthew Wojcik (Mitre) Remediation Specification (T)
Compliance Frameworks/800-53/FISMA
Presenter(s) Presentation
Kurt Dillard Understanding the Greatest FDCC Technical Challenges (T)
Arnold Johnson (Information Technology Laboratory) FISMA Implementation Project Update
Kent Landfield (McAfee) FDCC Compliance and Audit
Tony Uceda-Velez (Gideon Technologies) SCAP - Lessons Learned and an Enterprise Use Case
Wende Peters (Johns Hopkins APL) National Information Assurance Engagement Center (NIAEC)
SCAP Technical
Presenter(s) Presentation
Andy Bove (Secure Acuity) Content Validation (T)
Tim Keanini (nCircle) Semantic Technologies Primer (T)
Scott Streit Semantic Engineering and Modeling Panel
Matthew Wojcik (MITRE) Semantic Engineering and Modeling Panel
Paul Cichonski (Booz Allen Hamilton) Semantic Engineering and Modeling Panel
Vaibhav Khadikar (University of Texas at Dallas), Jyothsna Rachapalli (University of Texas at Dallas) Relational Database to Triple Store Migration (T)
Cloud Computing
Presenter(s) Presentation
Ron Knode (CSC) Into the Cloud with SCAP
Ron Ritchey (Booz Allen Hamilton) Using SCAP to Mitigate Risks in the Cloud
Scott Chasin (McAfee) Security as a Service
Aaron Bawcom (Reflex Systems) New Advances in Virtualization Security Enable Secure Cloud Computing
Tom Klaff (Surety, LLC) Cloud-enabled Protection of Data Integrity and Authenticity of Electronic Content
Gary Sumner (DataCastle Corporation) Endpoint Data Protection Services
Pete Nicoletti (Terremark) An Accredited Fed Cloud IaaS

Day 4 (10/29/2009)

SCAP Workshops
Presenter(s) Presentation
Drew Buttner (MITRE), Brant Cheikes (MITRE) The Future of CPE (T)
XCCDF Technical Deep-Dive for Next Version (T)
Matthew Wojcik (MITRE) Where we Stand with Remediation (T)
Security Automation Workshops
Presenter(s) Presentation
Robert Martin (MITRE) Software Assurance Automation (T)
Robert Martin (MITRE) ISO, ITU, Common Criteria, and the Content Automation Efforts (T)
Red Hat OpenSCAP (T)
Penny Chase (MITRE) Malware Attribute Enumeration and Characterization (MAEC) Introduction (T)