Events
January 18, 2005
GTISC Security Summit
Location
Georgia Tech Global Learning Center, Room 236
84 Fifth St. NW (between Spring St. and Williams St.)
Atlanta, GA 30308
404-385-3516
Program
10:00 am -- Registration
10:30 am -- Keynote Address
"The Road to Regulation: Do you really want to go there?"
Orson Swindle -- Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
11:15 am -- Panel Discussion
Moderated by Doug Isenberg -- Editor and Publisher, GigaLaw.com; Attorney practicing technology and Internet legal issues, Needle & Rosenberg, P.C.
Panelists:
Garry Betty -- President and Chief Executive Officer, EarthLink
Art Coviello -- President and Chief Executive Officer, RSA Security
Rich DeMillo -- Imlay Dean and Distinguished Professor of Computing, Georgia Tech
Paul Judge -- Chief Technology Officer, CipherTrust
Chris Rouland -- Chief Technology Officer, Internet Security Systems
12:00 pm -- Panel Question & Answer Session
Participant Bios
Orson Swindle
Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
Orson Swindle was sworn in as a Republican Commissioner on the Federal Trade Commission December 18, 1997. Commissioner Swindle was appointed in December, 2001 as head of the United States Delegation to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Experts Group to review the 1992 OECD Guidelines for the Security of Information Systems.
Mr. Swindle has had a distinguished military career and served in the Reagan Administration from 1981 to 1989 directing financial assistance programs to economically distressed rural and municipal areas of the country. As Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Development he managed the Department of Commerce's national economic development efforts directing seven offices across the country. Mr. Swindle was State Director of the Farmers Home Administration for the U.S. Department of Agriculture financing rural housing, community infrastructure, businesses, and farming.
In 1992, Mr. Swindle became the first national leader of United We Stand America and in 1993 worked with Jack Kemp, Vin Weber, William Bennett and Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick to form Empower America. In 1994 and in 1996 he was a Republican candidate for Congress in Hawaii's 1st Congressional District.
As a Marine aviator serving in South Vietnam on November 11, 1966, Mr. Swindle was shot down from the skies over North Vietnam while flying his 205th and last combat mission.
He was captured by the North Vietnamese and held Prisoner of War in Hanoi for the next six years and four months. On March 4, 1973, Mr. Swindle was released from captivity.
Mr. Swindle retired from the U.S. Marine Corps in 1979 with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. His 20 military decorations for valor in combat include two Silver Stars, two Bronze Stars, and two Purple Hearts.
Mr. Swindle earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Management from Georgia Tech in 1959 and a Master of Business Administration from Florida State University in 1975.
He was born in Thomasville, Georgia, on March 8, 1937, and grew up in Camilla, Georgia. He and his wife, Angie live in Alexandria, Virginia.
Doug Isenberg
Attorney practicing technology and Internet legal issues, Needle & Rosenberg, P.C.
Editor and Publisher, GigaLaw.com
Doug Isenberg is Of Counsel at Needle & Rosenberg, where he practices technology and Internet legal issues, including domain name disputes, licensing, trademark prosecution and advice, copyright counseling and enforcement, privacy, software licensing and more.
In addition to practicing law, Doug is the founder, editor and publisher of GigaLaw.com , an award-winning website about Internet legal issues. He authored the book The GigaLaw Guide to Internet Law (Random House 2002), and is an adjunct professor at Georgia State University College of Law. Doug is also a frequent writer and commentator on intellectual property and technology law topics, including columns that have been published by The Wall Street Journal Online, CNET News.com and Internet World magazine.
Doug wrote a special report titled "The Internet, Copyright, and You" for the 2002 edition of the World Book encyclopedia's Year Book. He appears live on-air on CNN and CNN Headline News frequently to discuss legal issues relating to technology.
Doug is chair-elect of the Intellectual Property Law Section of the State Bar of Georgia and is a member or board member of a number of civic organizations. He is admitted to practice law in the state of Georgia.
Garry Betty
President and Chief Executive Officer, EarthLink
It's with a certain Southern style that Garry Betty has deftly steered EarthLink to its position as a leading national Internet Service Provider (ISP). With his hands firmly on the wheel and his eyes toward the future, Garry is hell-bent on the ultimate destination: achieving profitable growth by cost effectively providing excellent service and innovative technological solutions for our customers.
Before joining EarthLink, Garry spent some quality time - and a harrowing ski trip - with Sky Dayton, the then 23 year-old founder of EarthLink. In those meetings, Garry recognized EarthLink's enormous potential and was immediately smitten with the possibilities. Since joining the company in 1996, Garry has seen EarthLink grow from being a small regional ISP with less than 100,000 members, to a national brand with more than five million subscribers.
Garry brought a powerful blend of southern charm and a war chest of experience that would change the very landscape of not only EarthLink, but the Internet industry itself. He was instrumental in spearheading and executing most of EarthLink's major milestones: taking the company public; the strategic alliance with Sprint, which unequivocally put EarthLink on the map from both an industry and financial perspective; the company's merger with long-time competitor MindSpring; and, most recently, bringing the company to profitability.
Garry's hard work and determination have earned him tremendous respect and recognition among the Internet, financial and business communities. The Atlanta native is also a hometown hero and was named both Georgia Institute of Technology's Young Alumnus of the Year and the Atlanta Business Chronicle's "Outstanding Young Person" award.
Before joining EarthLink, Garry served as president and CEO of Digital Communications Associates, Inc. (DCA), and was the youngest CEO on the New York Stock Exchange, a distinction he is quick to point out when referred to now as a "seasoned" Internet executive. At DCA, Garry led the company out of a two-year slump, reporting 1993 FY revenues of $242 million, and he successfully reorganized the company, including three divestitures and three acquisitions. Garry also served as senior vice president of sales, marketing and international operations at Hayes Microcomputer Products, and has been credited with turning the modem into a consumer commodity.
Garry's career began at IBM, where he gained experience in purchasing, materials management, corporate contracts, product management and management of subcontracted manufacturing operations. He received IBM's prestigious President's Excellence Award in 1982 for his work associated with the IBM Personal Computer.
Garry graduated in 1979 from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering. In 1993, he was named the institute's Young Alumnus of the Year, was included on the "Top 40 Under 40" list in Atlanta's business community, and was named Outstanding Young Person by the Atlanta Business Chronicle. He was also 1993 Chairman of "Georgia's High Tech Month," which focused on technology and its achievements statewide. In 1994 Garry received Georgia Tech's College of Engineering Award from the Council of Outstanding Young Engineering Alumni; in 1999 he was listed as one of Upside Magazine's "Elite 100," and in 2000 he received Georgia Tech's College of Engineering Award from the Academy of Distinguished Engineering Alumni. In 2001, Garry was awarded the annual Technology Leadership Award given by the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. In 2004, he was named one of the Most Influential Atlantans by the Atlanta Business Chronicle. Currently, he sits on the external advisory board for the School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Tech and is a trustee of the Georgia Tech Foundation. He also sits on the Board of Directors of Global Payments, Inc., the Carter Center Board of Councilors and is chairman of the Georgia Tech Advisory Board.
Art Coviello
President and Chief Executive Officer, RSA Security
As president and CEO of RSA Security Inc., Art Coviello is responsible for the Company's vision, strategy and day-to-day operations.
Since joining RSA Security in 1995, Mr. Coviello has been a driving force in the rapid growth of the Company, increasing revenue from $25 million in 1995 to more than $255 million in 2003. In 2003, Business 2.0 Magazine named RSA Security one of the top 10 fastest growing technology companies in its annual top 100 survey.
Mr. Coviello's contribution has helped establish RSA Security as a leader in e-security. The Company is now recognized as the de facto standard for two-factor authentication and encryption, and as an emerging leader in identity and access management. Mr. Coviello has strengthened the company�s position in the e-security market through the successful acquisitions of Xcert International, 3G International, TransIndigo, and Securant Technologies, and through strategic partnerships with Microsoft and Accenture.
Mr. Coviello's expertise and influence have made him a recognized leader in the industry, where he plays a key role in several national cyber-security initiatives and advises government agencies. He currently serves as Co-Chair of TechNet New England and is a leading member of TechNet's CEO Cyber Security Task Force. He is also a founding Board Member of the Cyber Security Industry Alliance (CSIA), where he serves as Co-Chair of the Standards Committee. In 2003, he was appointed to co-chair the National Cyber Security Summit's Corporate Governance Task Force, a public-private initiative co-organized by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and industry associations, including the Business Software Alliance (BSA), the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA), TechNet, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Coviello has spoken at numerous conferences and forums around the world.
Mr. Coviello has more than 20 years of strategic, operating and financial management experience in high technology companies. Before joining RSA Security, Mr. Coviello served as chief operating officer for CrossComm Corporation, an internetworking vendor. He has also held various finance and management positions in graphics software and semiconductor equipment companies. In addition, he has served on numerous outside boards of directors. He began his career at Deloitte & Touche as a CPA.
Mr. Coviello graduated magna cum laude from the University of Massachusetts.
Rich DeMillo
Imlay Dean and Distinguished Professor of Computing, Georgia Tech
Richard A. DeMillo is the Imlay Dean and Distinguished Professor of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He returned to academia in 2002, after a career as an executive in industry and government. He was Chief Technology Officer for Hewlett-Packard, where he had worldwide responsibility for technology and technology strategy. Prior to joining HP, he was in charge of Information and Computer Sciences Research at Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore) in Morristown, New Jersey, where he oversaw the development of many internet and web-based innovations. He has also directed the Computer and Computation Research Division of the National Science Foundation.
Before joining industry during the height of the internet boom, he was Professor of Computer Sciences and Director of the Software Engineering Research Center at Purdue University. He also held major faculty positions at Georgia Tech where he was the founding Director of the Software Research Center and a visiting professorship at the University of Padua in Padua, Italy.
The author of over 100 articles and books, Dr. DeMillo's research has spanned several fundamental areas of computer science and includes fundamental innovation in computer security, software engineering and mathematics. His present research interests are focused on information security and nanotechnology. He is developing hardware-based architectures for trusted computing platforms. He is also working on computing and communication architectures for massively distributed nano-scale components.
He is active in many aspects of the IT industry, serving on advisory boards and panels and he is a member of the Boards of Directors for several companies.
Paul Judge
Chief Technology Officer, CipherTrust
Paul Judge is responsible for product management, research, technology relationships and intellectual property. Serving as CipherTrust's corporate spokesperson, Paul is responsible for developing strategic initiatives in support of the company's business and technology goals. Paul joined CipherTrust in May 2000 as director of research and development, bringing experience from leading companies including IBM and NASA. Within a year, Paul was appointed to CTO and has made significant technological contributions to CipherTrust's IronMail(tm). Since his arrival, Paul has served as CipherTrust's lead inventor on six patent-pending technologies in secure messaging and anti-spam. Recent recipient of a Ph.D. in network security from the Georgia Institute of Technology, he regularly speaks at industry and academic conferences, including the RSA Conference and FTC Spam Forum. A nominee for the MIT TR100, Paul has authored numerous papers that have been published in leading academic journals and spotlighted at academic conferences.
Christopher Rouland
Chief Technology Officer, Internet Security Systems
Christopher Rouland brings over 14 years of experience to the role of CTO and is responsible for guiding the company's overall technology strategy with a commitment to developing products and services that preemptively protect organizations from cyber threats. Rouland joined ISS in 1998 and prior to his appointment to CTO, served as the vice president, X-Force where he was instrumental in building and growing ISS' R&D capabilities and delivering the core technology for the 'Virtual Patch'. In this role, Rouland was credited with the discovery and naming of the Slammer worm. He began his career deploying some the first commercial and government Internet connections in the early 90s, including such sites as 'senate.gov.' Rouland has also contracted his security expertise to several government agencies and has held positions as software engineer and network architect. Prior to joining ISS, he served as Vice President of Distributed Technology for Lehman Brothers, Inc.