Invited Speakers

Alessandro Zanasi Abstract Scientific Director, Intelligence and Security Study Center University of Bologna

Alessandro ZANASI is intelligence and security research advisor. After graduation in nuclear engineering, he was Carabinieri officer in Scientific Investigations Center in Rome and IBMer for 16 years in Bologna, Paris and San Jose' Scientific Centers. META Group Inc. (Stamford, USA) analyst prior to cofounding Temis SA (text mining software house), now present in Italy, France, Germany and USA.

Currently professor of Data Mining and Knowledge Management at University of Bologna and, since 2005, advisor, as ESRIF (European Security Research and Innovation Forum) member, to European Commission for what regards security and intelligence research and their funding.

Co-author of "Text mining and its applications to Intelligence, CRM and KM" (2007).

Steven M. Bellovin Abstract,  Presentation Professor of computer science Columbia University

Steven M. Bellovin is a professor of computer science at Columbia University, where he does research on networks, security, and especially why the two don't get along. He joined the faculty in 2005 after many years at Bell Labs and AT&T Labs Research, where he was an AT&T Fellow. He received a BA degree from Columbia University, and an MS and PhD in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. While a graduate student, he helped create Netnews; for this, he and the other perpetrators were given the 1995 Usenix Lifetime Achievement Award. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and is serving on the Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Advisory Board; he has also received the 2007 NIST/NSA National Computer Systems Security Award.

Bellovin is the co-author of "Firewalls and Internet Security: Repelling the Wily Hacker", and holds several patents on cryptographic and network protocols. He has served on many National Research Council study committees, including those on information systems trustworthiness, the privacy implications of authentication technologies, and cybersecurity research needs; he was also a member of the information technology subcommittee of an NRC study group on science versus terrorism. He was a member of the Internet Architecture Board from 1996-2002; he was co-director of the Security Area of the IETF from 2002 through 2004.

Matt Bishop Abstract,  Presentation Professor Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, USA

Matt Bishop is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California at Davis, in Davis, California, USA. His main research area is the analysis of vulnerabilities in computer systems and networks, especially their origin, detection, and remediation. He is active in the areas of network security, the study of denial of service attacks and defenses, policy modeling, software assurance testing, and formal modeling of access control.

Matt has worked with electronic voting, being one of the leaders of the technical portion of the California Top-to-Bottom Review of e- voting systems certified for use in the state. He also was involved in developing regulations for electronic recordation in California. Finally, his textbook, "Computer Security: Art and Science", was published in 2002 by Addison-Wesley Professional.

He teaches software engineering, machine architecture, operating systems, programming, and (of course) computer security.

Aljosa Pasic Abstract,  Presentation Head of AIM department Atos Research & Innovation

Aljosa Pasic is a department director inside of Atos Research & Innovation, based in Madrid. He is also the chairman of "Trust, Security and Dependability" Working Group of European Technology Platform NESSI. He graduated Information technology at Electro technical Faculty of Technical University Eindhoven and has been working for Cap Gemini before joining Sema Group Spain (now part of Atos Origin) in 1998. During this period, he coordinated and participated in a number of European research projects, such as ACTIVE, IMPULSE, E-COURT, CB-BUSINESS, SPARTA, SECURE-PHONE, SECURE-JUSTICE, Certiver, BIMUS, ESFORS etc. He is also certified as Project Manager Professional (PMP) and collaborates frequently with international institutions such as ENISA.

Marco Cremonini Abstract,  Presentation Assistant Professor Department of Information Technology, University of Milan

Marco Cremonini is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Information Technology of the University of Milan, Italy. He got his Ph.D. in Electronic and Information Technology Engineering at the University of Bologna. He previously worked as a Research Assistant at the Institute for Security Technology Studies (ISTS) of the Dartmouth College, NH, USA.

His research activity is focused on network security, economic aspects of security technologies, privacy, and security in ubiquitous computing.

Andreas U. Schmidt Abstract,  Presentation Senior Researcher Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology SIT Darmstadt, Germany

Andreas U. Schmidt is Senior Researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology SIT in Darmstadt, Germany. After studying mathematics and physics at the University Frankfurt, Germany, he received his doctorate in the field of mathematical physics in 1999. Research stays led him to Durban, South Africa, and Pisa.

In his 8 years at SIT, Andreas worked on a broad spectrum of research subjects ranging from long-term security of digital documents to information economy and market models for digital goods. His current interests focus on the creation and mediation of trust between technical systems and humans in mobile situations. Andreas is an active member of the Trusted Computing Group, published numerous research papers on TC, is a co-inventor on some patents in communication security. He initiated EU FP7 projects and is currently task leader in one.

Christel Cao-Delebarre Presentation Senior Solicitor and Avocat Beachcroft LLP

Christel is an English and French qualified Solicitor/Avocat. She started in London as an international telecoms lawyer and spent three years with a London based firm specialising in this area. Christel advised there on multi-jurisdictional telecoms regulatory work and related commercial agreements. She gained a solid French legal background having studied French law for six years in Paris and worked for two years at a Parisian firm, Cabinet Alain Bensoussan, which specialises in high technologies. There she drafted and negotiated software licensing and multimedia contracts and advised on data protection compliance issues. She also spent two years at Eurostar advising at executive level on legal aspects of major IT, distribution and refurbishment projects and regularly worked in English and French, under both English and French law.

Luigi Logrippo Abstract,  Presentation Professor Universite du Quebec en Outaouais, Canada

Luigi Logrippo received a degree in law from the University of Rome La Sapienza (Italy) in 1961, and in the same year he started a career in computing. After working for several computer companies, he moved to Canada and in 1969 he obtained a MSc in Computer Science from the University of Manitoba, which was followed by a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo in 1974. He was with the University of Ottawa for almost thirty years, where he was Chair of the Computer Science Department for seven years.

In 2002 he moved to the Université du Québec en Outaouais, Département d'informatique et d'ingénierie, while remaining associated with the University of Ottawa as an Adjunct Professor. His interest areas are formal and logic-based methods and their applications. For a number of years he worked on the development of tools and methods for the formal specification language LOTOS. Current research deals with the formal analysis of the feature-rich communications services that are made possible by internet telephony and the web, of the policies that govern them, and of their interactions. He is addressing the theory of 'normative systems' as a framework that will enable to develop a common view of many types of policy systems found in IT, in laws or in regulations. Application areas include access control methods, privacy, presence features, web services, and e-commerce. He is a member of the ACM. He participates in ITU WG 11, 17,and 19, as well as in IFIP WG 6.1.

Fabrizio BAIARDI is currently a full time professor with the computer science department, Università di Pisa. He is also the chair of a computer science curricola at Polo Marconi, La Spezia and teaches security courses both in La Spezia and in Pisa.

His research interests are in risk analysis and mitigation of critical infrastructures and, in particular, in the definition of formal models to support the assessment and assure that an assessment will return the same results even if it is conducted by distinct groups. These models make it possible to avoid an approach based upon FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) and support the design and implementation of automatic tools to support the assessment. From this point of view, a critical issue is the ability of measuring the return of an investment and to relate this measure to available information on vulnerability and threats.

Another research theme of Fabrizio BAIARDI is how the trend towards virtual machine and virtual machine monitors makes it possible to design infrastructures with better security and resilience.

Fabrizio BAIARDI has been involved in the assessment of several SCADA infrastructures as well as in that of computer infrastructure of large companies. He has also designed several courses on computer and network forensics for polices in Italy and abroad.

Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham Abstract Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Cyber Security Research The University of Texas at Dallas

Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham joined The University of Texas at Dallas in October 2004 as a Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Cyber Security Research Center in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science. She is an elected Fellow of three professional organizations: the IEEE (Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers), the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) and the BCS (British Computer Society) for her work in data security. She received the IEEE Computer Society's prestigious 1997 Technical Achievement Award for "outstanding and innovative contributions to secure data management."

Dr Thuraisingham's work in information security and information management has resulted in over 80 Journal articles, over 200 refereed conference papers and workshops, and three US patents. She is the author of seven books in data management, data mining and data security including one on data mining for counter-terrorism and another on Database and Applications Security and is completing her eighth book on Trustworthy Semantic Web. She has given over 30 keynote presentations at various technical conferences and has also given invited talks at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and at the United Nations on Data Mining for counter-terrorism. She serves (or has served) on editorial boards of leading research and industry journals and currently serves as the Editor in Chief of Computer Standards and Interfaces Journal. She is also an Instructor at AFCEA's (Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association) Professional Development Center and has served on panels for the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board and the National Academy of Sciences.

Dr Thuraisingham is the Founding President of "Bhavani Security Consulting" - a company providing services in consulting and training in Cyber Security and Information Technology

Prior to joining UTD, Thuraisingham was an IPA (Intergovernmental Personnel Act) at the National Science Foundation from the MITRE Corporation. At NSF she established the Data and Applications Security Program and co-founded the Cyber Trust theme and was involved in inter-agency activities in data mining for counter-terrorism. She has been at MITRE since January 1989 and has worked in MITRE's Information Security Center and was later a department head in Data and Information Management as well as Chief Scientist in Data Management. She has served as an expert consultant in information security and data management to the Department of Defense, the Department of Treasury and the Intelligence Community for over 10 years. Thuraisingham's industry experience includes six years of research and development at Control Data Corporation and Honeywell Inc.

Thuraisingham was educated in the United Kingdom both at the University of Bristol and at the University of Wales.

Cristina Leone  Abstract,  Presentation Finmeccanica, Product Policy

Cristina Leone is in Finmeccanica, Product Policy Function, coordinating companies activities in the field of security research programmes, managing centrally their participation strategies. She is also Italian Rep in the FP7 (Seventh Framework Programme) - Security Programme Committee and Sherpa of the ESRIF (European Security Research and Innovation Forum) Vice Chair. She is the Vice Chair of the ASD's (Aerospace and Defence Industry Association) Security R&T Committee and Member of ASD's Defence R&T Committee. She graduated (Master Degree) in Electronic Engineering at University of Rome “La Sapienza” and worked in Alenia Spazio before moving to Finmeccanica in 2003. In that position, she was project manager and technical responsible for a number of projects in the field of space equipment.

Mario Gerosa  Abstract,  Presentation Senior Editor, Architectural Digest

Mario Gerosa is a journalist, senior editor (redattore capo) of Architectural Digest Italy, after being the senior editor at Condé Nast Traveller for many years. He has an architectural degree and is the author of "Second Life" (Meltemi, 2007). He also wrote "Mondi virtuali" (Castelvecchi, 2006, with Aurélien Pfeffer), a book about virtual worlds. His new book, "Rinascimento virtuale", will be published in march 2008. He is a member of the OMNSH (Observatoire des mondes numeriques en sciences humaines) and he teached Landscape Communication at the Faculty of Architecture of the Politecnico of Milan.

In 2006 Mr. Gerosa founded Synthravels, the first tour operator for virtual worlds, featured in The Observer, Newsweek, National Geographic, and launched the Convention for the Protection of the Virtual Architectural Heritage. His new interests are the arts generated in virtual worlds and in social networks.

Dino Pedreschi Abstract Mobility, Data Mining and Privacy

Dino Pedreschi was born in 1958 in Italy, and holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pisa, obtained in 1987. He is currently a full professor at the Dipartimento di Informatica of the University of Pisa. He has been a visiting scientist and professor at the University of Texas at Austin (1989/90), at CWI Amsterdam (1993) and at UCLA (1995). His current research interests are in data mining and logic in databases, and particularly in data analysis, in the integration of data mining and databases, in spatio-temporal data mining, and data privacy techniques. He has taught classes on programming languages, databases and data mining in universities in Italy and abroad. He is a member of the program committee of the main international conferences on data mining and knowledge discovery; he is an associate editor of the journal Knowledge and Information Systems. He is a co-chair of ECML/PKDD 2004, the European conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases. He served as the coordinator of the undergraduate studies in Computer Science at the University of Pisa, and as a vice-rector of the same university, with responsibility in teaching affairs. He co-leads the Pisa KDD Lab - Knowledge Discovery and Delivery Lab - a joint research initiative of the University of Pisa and the Information Science and Technology Institute of the Italian National Research Council, the earliest Italian research group specifically targeted at data mining and knowledge discovery. Email or Web.

Jan Sablatnig Abstract,  Presentation Researcher, Technical University of Berlin

Jan Sablatnig attained his masters degree in astrophysics at the TU Berlin in 2003.He spent several years researching image and video compression in the independent computer company LuraTech, collaborating in the JPEG2000 standard committee. He is currently preparing his PhD thesis in the area of consistency in scalable virtual environments at the TU Berlin.

His current research interests involve most technical aspects of virtual environments and computer games, especially security, physical modelling, peer to peer architectures and also social aspects. He believes that virtual environments are on the brink of major upheavals, both technically and socially, and that "My Winnipeg" was the best film at this year's Berlinale film festival.

Jon Collins Abstract,  Presentation Service Director, Freeform Dynamics

As Service Director, Jon is a member of the Freeform Dynamics management team and is responsible for looking after the company's portfolio of services and alliances strategy, which are intimately linked given the open collaborative culture of the organisation.

Also an active industry analyst, Jon has an end-user background, having worked as an IT consultant, network manager and software engineer for companies such as Admiral Management Services Ltd, Alcatel and Philips Electronics. Through positions such as these, Jon has accumulated significant real world expertise and experience in many areas of IT service delivery over the years, including IT service management, IT security, infrastructure management, IT architecture and application development.

Jon has worked as an industry analyst since 1999 for companies including IDC, Bloor Research, Quocirca and Macehiter Ward-Dutton. He is a widely published author and has acted as an advisor to leading vendors including Cisco, EMC, IBM and Microsoft; and to large IT user organisations in the Government, Telecommunications and Financial Services sectors.

Current areas of focus: Information Management, Information Security

Ron Mraz Abstract President, Owl Computing Technologies, Inc

Ron Mraz, as President and founder of Owl Computing Technologies, Inc., directs advanced development of secure data transfer systems. Ron has over 25 years of private sector experience in a variety of technical positions including major research facilities at Westinghouse and IBM. He began his career developing microprocessor controls for switching power converter systems with Westinghouse Research. He then participated in the development of several high performance vector and supercomputing systems for IBM Server and IBM Research Divisions. Additionally, he developed metrics for analyzing communication hardware in high performance networks for super computer and real-time applications such as streaming video transmission.

Dr. Mraz received his Doctorate in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1992. He holds a Masters of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from Syracuse University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University. He is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and a member of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA). He holds 8 patents and has published more than 12 articles in the field of Computer Engineering.