Dr William Mahoney

William (Bill) Mahoney received his B.A. and B.S. degrees from Southern Illinois University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Nebraska. He is a Research Fellow and Graduate Faculty at the University of Nebraska at Omaha Peter Kiewit Institute. His primary research interests include compilers, hardware and instruction set design, and VLSI. Prior to the Kiewit Institute Dr. Mahoney worked for 20+ years in the computer design industry, specifically in the areas of embedded computing and real-time operating systems. During this time he was also on the part time faculty of the University of Nebraska at Omaha.  His outside interests include bicycling, photography, and more bicycling.

Bill Mahoney

Dr Roger R. Schell

Roger R. Schell is co-founder and President of Aesec Corporation, a new company focused on verifiably secure platforms for secure, reliable e-business.  At Novell he led their Class C2 network evaluation and managed development of product security.  He was VP for Engineering at Gemini Computers where he developed their highly secure (Class A1) commercial product. He served as the founding Deputy Director of the National Computer Security Center.  He originated several key modern security design and evaluation techniques and holds patents in cryptography and authentication.  Dr. Schell has more than 60 publications, and was Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Naval Postgraduate School.  The NIST and NSA recognized him with the 1991 National Computer System Security Award.  Dr. Schell is a retired USAF Colonel.  He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the MIT, an M.S.E.E. from Washington State, and a B.S.E.E. from Montana State.

Roger Schell

Leigh Armistead

Currently the Senior Program Manager for Information Operations and Information Assurance for Honeywell Technology Solutions Inc, Leigh is  also the editor of Information Operations: Warfare and The Hard Reality of Soft Power and Information Warfare: Separating Hype from Reality.   A retired U.S. Naval Officer and former Master Faculty of IO at the Joint Forces Staff College, he is currently enrolled in a PhD program at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Australia. Leigh has published a number of articles on IO in addition to chairing numerous professional IO conferences around the world, including the International Conference on Information Warfare in 2006 and 2007, as well as the IQPC IO Conference in the United Kingdom from 2002 to 2005. Selected five years in a row as a research fellow for the International National Security Studies program to conduct IO-related research, he also helped to develop an online IO course for the National Security Agency.

Leigh Armistead

Doug Webster

Doug Webster is employed by the MITRE Corporation at United States Strategic Command's Global Innovation & Strategy Center in the Partnership Group as an Energy Sector subject matter expert. Previous to this assignment he was the Information Networks and Information Operations subject matter expert for that same organization. He has served as the Joint Information Operations Warfare Center's Technical Representative to United States Strategic Command from 2003-2006. Additionally he served as the Graduate Assistant to the United States Strategic Command/University of Nebraska at Omaha Information Operations Graduate Certificate program. Mr. Webster is a retired U.S. Naval Officer and received his B.S. in Biology from the University of Nebraska at Omaha and M.B.A. from National University in San Diego.

Doug Webster

Kenneth Revett

Currently a senior lecturer at the University of Westminster, Harrow School of Computer Science, specializing in Biometrics at the MSc level, Ken is actively involved in biometrics research – with an emphasis on behavioral biometrics such as keystroke and mouse dynamics. The Harrow lab generates new machine learning algorithms and attribute extraction techniques for keystroke dynamics based authentication and identification algorithms and holds a UK patent on an implementation of keystroke dynamics. The software flowing from this research KBD:-Secure has been tested on numerous study cohorts yielding very positive results (EER @ 1-2%).  Ken and his group are writing the first text on behavioral biometrics entitled “Behavioral Biometrics: A Remote Access Approach”, that is due to be published by John Wiley early in 2008.   In addition, Ken sits on the editorial board of a new journal entitled International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics published by Inderscience,  Ken holds a BSc in Biochemistry, Computer Science, and Neurophysiology as well as a PhD in Computational Neuroscience from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Ken Revett

Brian Lopez
Brian Lopez is a computer scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL).  For the past decade he has led LLNL's Vulnerability and Risk Assessment Program (VRAP) which provides in-depth, multi-disciplinary assessments of threat, vulnerability, and consequence.  Past projects include field work in 28 US states and internationally across a variety of sectors such as electric power, oil, gas, water, chemical, aviation, rail, maritime, financial, telecommunications, national icons, and classified sites. Additionally Brian assembled and led security teams for the 2002 Winter Olympics, California Energy Crisis, and 9/11 response.  He is the co-author of the recent book "Seeds of Disaster" (Cambridge University Press) regarding critical infrastructure security.

Brian Lopez

Dr Kevin Streff

Dr. Streff is the Director of the Center for Information Assurance at Dakota State, which has been recognized by both the National Security Agency and The Department of Homeland Security as a national center of academic excellence in information assurance. Dr. Streff has extensive knowledge of the financial services industry, including banking, insurance, and credit operations, and holds technology-related degrees from Dakota State, Temple, and Capella University, where he graduated with honors in all programs, including his PhD. Dr. Streff is founder and managing partner of Secure Banking Solutions, a security consulting firm focused on improving security in community banks across the country. Dr. Streff is also President of InfraGard - South Dakota, a partnership program between Private Industry and the U.S. government (represented by the FBI). Dr. Streff speaks nationally on security issues and solutions relevant to small and medium-sized banks.

Kevin Streff

Geoffrey Darnton

Geoffrey Darnton is Head of knowledge Transfer and a Business Fellow at the Business School of Bournemouth University, England. He has spent many years in industry in the computer field dealing primarily with information systems, and not just the technology. He has had a stream of research and activity in matters of peace and war for more than 30 years, including dealing with the philosophical problems of defining peace, using econometric techniques to monitor arms agreements, assessing the lawfulness of the possession and use of nuclear weapons, and more recently and exploration of the legal implications of information warfare and applications of content analysis in IW. He has a distinct preference for multi-disciplinary approaches to difficult problems. His interests in information systems and information warfare come together in recent research looking at the roles of religion, ideology, and culture in, and as targets of, information operations

Geoffrey Darnton