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6th Annual IT Security Automation Conference and Expo Presentations

Below is a list of presentations from the 6th Annual IT Security Automation Conference and Expo. If any presenters from the conference, or associated workshops, would like to have their presentation listed please send the presentation, presenter's name, presentation date, and track name to david.lee@nist.gov.

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Day 1 (09/27/2010)

  • General Session Presentations
  • Automation Specifications
  • FDCC/USGCB
  • Software Assurance
  • SCAP 101 Tutorial
  • Automation Content Tutorial

Day 2 (09/28/2010)

  • General Session Presentations
  • Automation Specifications
  • Network Automation
  • Innovative Uses of SCAP
  • Security Management and Compliance Automation
  • Security Automation for Cloud Computing

Day 3 (09/29/2010)

  • General Session Presentations
  • SCAP Workshop
  • EMAP Workshop
  • Remediation Workshop
  • SCAP Product Validation Workshop
  • Continuous Monitoring Workshop

Day 1 (09/27/2010)

General
Presenter(s) Presentation
Welcome Address
Honorable Howard A. Schmidt, White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Keynote Address
Phil Reitinger, Deputy Undersecretary, DHS Keynote Address
Track Lead Address
Automation Specifications
Presenter(s) Presentation
Paul Cichonski, BAH Automation Specifications Overview
Chris Johnson, NIST Enterprise Remediation Automation
William Heinbockel, MITRE CEE
George Saylor, G2 The Use of Rules in EMAP
John Wunder, MITRE and Adam Halbardier, BAH ARF
Tim Keanini, nCircle (moderator), Luis Nunez, Cisco, Kent Landfield, McAfee, John Bordwine, Symantec, Jeff Spitulnik, IBM, Todd Dolinsky, HP Vendor Interoperability Panel
FDCC/USGCB
Presenter(s) Presentation
William Corrington, Dept. of the Interior Evolution of the USGCB
Kurt Dillard, G2 Overcoming Technical Challenges in the Windows Baselines
Shelly Bird, Microsoft Lessons Learned from Our FDCC Customers: Unmanaged to Managed
Kent Landfield, McAfee Moving Baselines Forward
Scott Armstrong, Symantec, Tony Uceda-Velez, Symantec Lessons Learned Using SCAP Tools
Steve Grubb, Red Hat Understanding the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Baseline Settings
Software Assurance
Presenter(s) Presentation
Joe Jarzombek, DHS, Don Davidson, DoD, Dan Schmidt, NSA, Tim Grance, NIST, Bob Martin, MITRE SwA Panel: Use Cases, Standards and Roadmap for Enterprise Security Automation
Operational Applications for Automation Protocols
Public/Private Collaboration Efforts for Enterprise Security Automation
Supply Chain and SwA
Bob Martin, MITRE Knowing Your Weaknesses: CWE™
Steve Christey, MITRE Ranking Your Weaknesses: CWSS™
Sean Barnum, MITRE Understanding How They Attack Your Weaknesses: CAPEC™
Penny Chase, MITRE Sharing Understanding of Malware: MAEC™
Steve Quinn, NIST, Joe Jarzombek, DHS, Dan Schmidt, NSA CwA Panel on a Software Assurance Automation Protocol (SwAAP)
SCAP 101 Tutorial
Presenter(s) Presentation
Karen Scarfone, G2 SCAP Overview (NIST 800-126 & 800-117)
Bryan Worrell, MITRE XCCDF Tutorial
Matt Hansbury, MITRE OVAL® Tutorial
Dave Mann, MITRE Standards Development Toolkit
Dave Mann, MITRE CCE™ Tutorial
CPE™ Tutorials
Steve Christey, MITRE CVE® & CVSS
Automation Content Tutorial
Presenter(s) Presentation
Kent Landfield, McAfee Innovating SCAP
Tina Ackerman, NSA Easily Create SCAP Content Using the MACE Wizard
Harold Booth, NIST SCAP Content Validation Tool
Bryan Worrell, MITRE Recommendation Tracker
Peter Parker, G2 SCAP Content Creation Solutions Using the eSCAPe Editor and Libraries
Jim Shelton/Mike Kinney, NSA, Dave Hoon, DISA Secure Configuration Management: Use Cases
Secure Configuration Management: Standards Research
Secure Configuration Management: Remediation Standards

Day 2 (09/28/2010)

General
Presenter(s) Presentation
Stephen Pawlowski, Senior Fellow and CTO for the Intel Architecture Group, Intel Corporation Keynote Address - Bringing the Trust Back into Cyber Space
Tony Sager, Chief of the Vulnerability Analysis and Operations Group, NSA NSA Address - Security Automation: The Trail Ahead
Tim Grance, Program Manager, Cyber & Network Security Program, NIST NIST Address - NIST Security Automation
Automation Specifications
Presenter(s) Presentation
Charles Schmidt, MITRE XCCDF
Brant Cheikes, MITRE CPE™
Jon Baker, MITRE OVAL®
Maria Casipe, MITRE OCIL
Charles Wergin, BAH, Harold Owen, G2 National Checklist Program Submission Interface
Network Automation
Presenter(s) Presentation
Robert Hollis, ThreatGuard, Chris Farrow, VMWare Extending SCAP into the VMWare Virtual Infrastructure
Doug Dexter, Cisco Automated Network Security Assessment
Steve Hanna, Juniper Networks TNC: Open Standards for Network Security Automation
Matt Webster, Lumeta Security Coordination with IF-MAP
Dr. Bruce Gabrielson, BAH Progress in Near-Real Time Attack Detection At the Platform Level
Innovative Uses of SCAP
Presenter(s) Presentation
Michael Tan, Microsoft Security Compliance Manager
Tom Grill, VeriSign, Paul Sand, Salare Security SCAP for VoIP
Kim Watson, NSA, Dr. George Moore, Dept. of State Role of SCAP in an Emerging Strategy for Continuous Certification and Accreditation
Peter Guerra and Shane Shaffer, G2 Automated Creation of SCAP Content
Jack Vander Pol and Kyle Stone, SPAWAR Developing a Government-Funded SCAP-Validated Application
Jim Ivers, Triumfant Leveraging SCAP for TNC, Endpoint Sensor Grid and Automated Remediation
Security Management and Compliance Automation
Presenter(s) Presentation
Mischel Kwon, RSA IT Security: Tying the Pieces Together
Alfredo Rohweder FISMA & Security_Automation
Davd Houlding, Intel Health Client Technologies that Help Assist with Security and Privacy Regulation Compliance
Peter Mell (moderator), COL Michael Jones, HQDA, John Streufert, Dept. of State, Tim McBride, DHS Continuous Monitoring Panel
Cyber Dashboard Overview
CAESARS Reference Architecture
Kelley Dempsey, NIST Security Configuration Management
Earnest Neal, Atlantic Systems Group, Inc., Dirk Barrineau, VA FISMA Automation in a Global Enterprise
Security Automation for Cloud Computing
Presenter(s) Presentation
Peter Mell, NIST, Dennis Moreau, RSA Cloud Security Opening Address
Security Automation for the Cloud
Neil Ziring, NSA (moderator), Mischel Kwon, RSA, Steve Orrin, Intel, Jen Nowell, Symantec, Gregg Brown, Microsoft Security Automation in Private Clouds Panel
Peter Mell, NIST, Christopher Hoff, Cisco, Kent Landfield, McAfee, Duncan Hays, IRS Continuous Monitoring for Cloud Panel
Kent Landfield, McAfee Continuous Monitoring in a Cloud Environment
Ron Knode, CSC CloudTrust 2.0
Steve Orrin, Intel Creating Trustworthy Cloud Systems
Rob Roy, Fortify The Need for Software Security Assurance to Secure Mission Critical Applications in the Federal Cloud
Lee Badger and Chris Johnson, NIST Standards to Acceleration to Jumpstart Adoption of Cloud Computing

Day 3 (09/29/2010)

General
Presenter(s) Presentation
General Session Panel/Discussion
SCAP Workshop
Presenter(s) Presentation
Charles Schmidt, MITRE XCCDF
Charles Schmidt, MITRE XCCDF Discussion Topics
Harold Booth, NIST Vulnerability Data Model
Jon Baker, MITRE OVAL® Future Considerations
John Wunder, MITRE, Adam Halbardier, BAH ARF
EMAP Workshop
Presenter(s) Presentation
EMAP Status Update
OEEL Engineering Session
CERE Engineering Session
Emerging Topics
Remediation Workshop
Presenter(s) Presentation
Chris Johnson, NIST (moderator) Common Remediation Enumeration (CRE) and Extended Remedation Information (ERI)
Matthew Wojcik, MITRE (moderator) Remedation Policy
Matthew Wojcik, MITRE (moderator) Remedation Tasking
Matt Kerr, G2 (moderator) Remedation Language
Karl MacMillan, Tresys Technology Secstate: Flexible Lockdown, Auditing, and Remediation
SCAP Product Validation Workshop
Presenter(s) Presentation
John Banghart SCAP Validation
Continuous Monitoring Workshop
Presenter(s) Presentation
Peter Mell, Harold Booth, and Dave Waltermire, NIST Technical Foundations for Continuous Security Monitoring
Peter Mell, NIST (moderator), Kim Watson, NSA, Ron Gula, Tenable, Duncan Hays, IRS, Randy Barr, Qualys CM Technical Design Panel
David Waltermire, NIST, Matt Coose, DHS Identifying Continuous Monitoring Measures