Speakers & Organizers   

Executive Council

Dr. Norman A. Bailey
Gen. Thomas McInerney  
Cdr. Richard Marcinko
Gen. Paul E. Vallely

Executive Board

Dr. Robert Katz,
Executive Director
John J. Loftus,
President
Clare Lopez,
Vice President

Advisory Board

Talia Adar
Brent M.P. Beleskey
Ilana Freedman
Dr. Gary Katz
Eugene Lebovitz
Alex Porter

2007 SPEAKERS

Dr. Richard Benkin
Prof. Louis Rene Beres
Col. Bill Cowan
Dr. Andrew M. Colarik
Col. Gordon Cucullu
Nonie Darwish
Drs. Jill Dekker
Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld
Steve Emerson
Ilana Freedman
Dave Gaubatz
Jerry Gordon
Col. Jonathan Halevi
Joe Kaufman
Aaron Klein
Steven Lutz
Laura Mansfield
Cdr. Richard Marcinko
Ryan Mauro
Gen. Thomas G. McInerney
Richard Miniter
Bob Newman
Dr. William Radasky
Klaus Schmidt
Avi Shachar
Wayne Simmons
Khalsa Hari Singh
Gen. Paul E. Vallely

Secular Islam Summit:
(held concurrently and
in association with The
Intelligence Summit)

Whalid Phares
Shaker al-Nabulsi
Irshad Manji
Amir Taheri
Magdi Allam
Ibn Warraq
Fatemolla
Afshin Ellian
Wajeha Al-Huwaider
Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi

2006 Speaker list

ADVISORY COUNCIL
Louis Rene Beres
Yossef Bodansky
Brent Budowsky
Col. Gordon Cucullu
Col. Bill Cowan
Nonie Darwish
Drs. Jill Dekker
Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld
Brigitte Gabriel
Yoram Hessel
Tawfik Hamid
Gen. Thomas G. McInerney
Bahukutumbi Raman
Wayne Simmons
Robert Spencer
Gen. Paul E. Vallely

DIRECTORS
Dr. Robert Katz
Executive Director
John J. Loftus
President
Clare Lopez
Vice President
Lee Mason

MODERATORS
Chris Blackburn
Randall H. Lipson
Don Pitts

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Marshall Beddoe
R&D, MuSecurity
www.MuSecurity.com
Biography
Speaker's Photo Marshall Beddoe is currently performing research and development at MuSecurity, creating a next generation vulnerability discovery platform. Prior to Mu, Marshall was a senior research scientist at McAfee, Inc. performing security research on a wide range of subject matter. Marshall's main interests revolve around cross disciplinary approaches to information security. This interest has allowed him to pioneer research in the area of protocol reverse engineering, vulnerability discovery and decentralized systems. Marshall is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and has presented material for the U.S. military and Fortune 500 companies.


Session TE13: Information Warfare
February 18, 11:00 - 11:45
A Cross Disciplinary Approach to Information Security
Abstract:
Security research is currently performed by a relatively small community of people. While the size of the researcher community allows information to be shared efficiently, the community over specializes themselves, causing difficulty for the natural introduction of more abstract and metaphorical concepts. The purpose of this talk is to present concepts adapted from the study of biological systems in order to solve and/or optimize currently existing problems found in the realm of information security.

This talk will discuss:
  • Structural analysis of file formats and network protocol packets using biological sequence algorithms adapted from genomics research.
  • Optimized decentralized worm propagation algorithms borrowing concepts of emergent behavior from insects and other natural phenomenon.