Cybersecurity Threats Key Theme at Washington, D.C. Conference – July 16-20, 2012

By The Open Group Conference Team

Identify risks and eliminating vulnerabilities that could undermine integrity and supply chain security is a significant global challenge and a top priority for governments, vendors, component suppliers, integrators and commercial enterprises around the world.

The Open Group Conference in Washington, D.C. will bring together leading minds in technology and government policy to discuss issues around cybersecurity and how enterprises can establish and maintain the necessary levels of integrity in a global supply chain. In addition to tutorial sessions on TOGAF and ArchiMate, the conference offers approximately 60 sessions on a varied of topics, including:

• Cybersecurity threats and key approaches to defending critical assets and securing the global supply chain
• Information security and Cloud security for global, open network environments within and across enterprises
• Enterprise transformation, including Enterprise Architecture, TOGAF and SOA
• Cloud Computing for business, collaborative Cloud frameworks and Cloud architectures
• Transforming DoD avionics software through the use of open standards

Keynote sessions and speakers include:

• America the Vulnerable: Inside the New Threat Matrix of Digital Espionage, Crime and Warfare – Keynote Speaker: Joel Brenner, author and attorney at Cooley LLP

• Meeting the Challenge of Cybersecurity Threats through Industry-Government Partnerships – Keynote Speaker: Kristin Baldwin, principal deputy, deputy assistant secretary of defense for Systems Engineering

• Implementation of the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) – Keynote Speaker: Dr. Ron Ross, project leader at NIST (TBC)

• Supply Chain: Mitigating Tainted and Counterfeit Products – Keynote Panel: Andras Szakal, VP and CTO at IBM Federal; Daniel Reddy, consulting product manager in the Product Security Office at EMC Corporation; John Boyens, senior advisor in the Computer Security Division at NIST; Edna Conway, chief security strategist of supply chain at Cisco; and Hart Rossman, VP and CTO of Cyber Security Services at SAIC

• The New Role of Open Standards – Keynote Speaker: Allen Brown, CEO of The Open Group

• Case Study: Ontario Healthcare – Keynote Speaker: Jason Uppal, chief enterprise architect at QRS

• Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE): Transforming the DoD Avionics Software Industry Through the Use of Open Standards – Keynote Speaker: Judy Cerenzia, program director at The Open Group; Kirk Avery of Lockheed Martin; and Robert Sweeney of Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR)

The full program can be found here: http://www3.opengroup.org/events/timetable/967

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