Speakers & Organizers   

Biography
G. Ken Hunter separated in July 2002 from the Navy as a Lieutenant Commander, having served 16 years, including his years at the U. S. Naval Academy. He graduated with a Computer Sciences degree. Upon graduation, Ken joined the cryptologic/security community, spending several years on classified missions and detailed to posts involved with all aspects of Information Warfare strategy and tactics. He held a TS/SCI clearance, with a counter-intelligence polygraph.

He graduated the Naval Postgraduate School in 1998, earning a Masters in Computer Sciences. He finished first in his class, received the Grace Hopper award for his thesis, and taught evening classes on new programming paradigms (at the request of the faculty, who also attended). Ken’s thesis designed the entire software suite for a new class of smaller, low resource satellites. This included both the space-based and the ground station software. PANSAT was the first experimental version of these satellites. It went up on the John Glenn Space Shuttle mission and continues operating to this day. Included in the thesis were several math-based technology advances for low resource fault-tolerance. Due to their significance, the Navy has republished this portion of Ken’s thesis twice.

Ken is one of the rare individuals with both theoretical grounding and practical experiences in several technology disciplines: security, operating systems, programming, networking and advanced mathematics.

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Session TE32: Information Sharing and Information Assurance - Can They Work Together?
February 20, 10:00 - 10:45 Abstract:
Within the Intelligence Community, these Sharing and Security are viewed as separate disciplines. But for each to achieve its individual mission, they need to be united into a single "Information Sharing Assurance." However, both technical and cultural issues are in the way, and technology has been unable to address the cultural obstacles. At least, up to now.

This Technology panel's view of the underlying technology problem is best summed up by Bertrand Russell: "The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution."

The first speaker will talk about a different view of computers that redefines the fundamental technology problem, and in the near future, will yield a permanent solution to this persistent issue of systems security. And to deal with the real problems facing the audience today, the other two speakers will provide practical comments about some technologies available today and some thoughts on the specific uses and limits of cryptography in sharing environments.

The speakers have had relevant cyber security experiences with the NSA, the US Navy, and the FBI, plus private sector experiences in Systems Integration, Cryptography, and Hi-tech products. And the panelists do not represent any of the available technologies that will be discussed.