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Previous Microsoft roles include CTO DoD and Chief Architect DoD. Prior to Microsoft, Dan managed a medium sized company where he held a multifaceted responsibility within a senior management role providing critical direction and strategic leadership. As an entrepreneur in the early IT days, Dan created a successful startup that developed a unique document imaging system for Health Maintenance Organizations (HMO).
Dan gains his military experience from 21 years of service as an Army aviator flying attack helicopters and Test Officer in R&D for tactical communication systems and information technology. Dan’s tours include US, Germany, Korea, and Iraq.
Dan holds a Ph.D. in Information Assurance and Cybersecurity, an MBA in Management Information Technology, and a BS in Information Technology.
A graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, Dr. Ross served in many leadership and technical positions during his twenty-year career in the United States Army. He is a five-time recipient of the Federal 100 award for his leadership and technical contributions to critical cybersecurity projects affecting the federal government and is a recipient of the Presidential Rank Award. Dr. Ross has also received the Department of Commerce Gold and Silver Medal Awards and has been inducted into the National Cyber Security Hall of Fame. In addition, Dr. Ross has been inducted into the Information Systems Security Association Hall of Fame and given its highest honor of Distinguished Fellow. During his military career, Dr. Ross served as a White House aide and a senior technical advisor to the Department of the Army. He holds a Bachelors degree in Engineering from the U.S. Military Academy and Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the Naval Postgraduate School specializing in artificial intelligence and robotics.
Session Speakers
Prior to joining Attivo Networks, Mr. Cole held executive positions at FireEye, McAfee and Symantec. He’s retired from the U.S. Army, where he worked in intelligence, communications, and cryptography around the world including building out the Network Security Services at the Pentagon. Mr. Cole served previously on numerous boards and government committees and today serves on (ISC)² Board of Directors as Treasurer and Chair of Audit and Risk. He also serves on the NASA Advisory Council as a Member-At-Large under appointment by the NASA Administrator.
In 2014, he received the Government Computer News Industry IT Executive of the Year award, and in 2015 he was inducted into the Wash 100 by Executive Mosaic as one of the most influential executives impacting Government. In 2018 he was awarded the Reboot Leadership Influencer Award by SC Media. He has a bachelor’s degree in computer networking and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).
He spent 22 years in the U.S. Navy. He has worked as both software and systems engineer on a variety of Department of Defense projects and early on was chosen as a member of the project to bring Internet access to ships at sea. Following this highly successful project he was selected to head the team that built a Network Operations and Security Center (NOSC) that provided services to the commands ashore and ships at sea in the Norwegian Sea and Atlantic Ocean . He served as the Leading Chief of Information Security at the NOSC for six years. While there he created a Strategy and Training plan for the development of an expert team that took personnel with little or no experience and built them into expert team members for manning of the NOSC.
He is an Instructor, Curriculum Developer, Technical Editor and Author for Computer Forensics, and Hacking courses. He is the author of the EC Council Ethical Hacking Core Skills, Advanced Penetration Testing and ICS/SCADA Security courses. He has presented at the Blackhat USA, Hacker Halted, ISSA and TakeDownCon conferences as well as many others. He has chaired the Cybercrime and Cyberdefense Summit in Oman and was Executive Chairman of the Oil and Gas Cyberdefense Summit. He is author of Building Virtual Pentesting Labs for Advanced Penetration Testing 1 st and 2 nd edition, Advanced Penetration Testing for Highly Secured Environments 2nd Edition and Backtrack: Testing Wireless Network Security. He holds a BS in Computer Science from National University in California and a MS in Software Engineering from the Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Texas. He developed the Strategy and Training Development Plan for the first Government CERT in the country of Oman that recently was rated as the top CERT for the Middle East. He serves as a professional training consultant to the Oman Information Technology Authority, and developed the team to man the first Commercial Security Operations Center in the country of Oman. He has worked extensively with banks and financial institutions throughout the Middle East, Europe and the UK in the planning of a robust and secure architecture and implementing requirements to meet compliance. He currently provides consultancy to Commercial companies. He provides training and consultancy to the Oman CERT and the SOC team in monitoring and incident identification of intrusions and incidents within the Gulf region. He holds the CEH, ECSA. LPT, APT, CHFI and a number of other certifications.
Wayne and his group have delivered Security assessments, Penetration Test assignments and customized training for International Corporations and many Government Agencies such as: EPA, FAA, DOJ, DOE, DOD + 8570: Air Force, Army, Navy, Marines, CIA, FBI, NSA and many more USA Gov bodies.
In Europe: NATO, Europol, MOD (Military of Defense UK) various EU Law Enforcement, Dutch Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Justice, local European Law Enforcement: UK, Ireland, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, Denmark.
ASIA: Singapore Gov, Philippines’ Presidential Office, the Undersecretary, and Cyber Crime Police Specialist Unit. Jakarta, Tax Investigations Office. Various Malaysian Gov agencies.His experience in the public / defense sector is equally complemented by assignments undertaken for heavyweight world renowned corporations.
He is imminently qualified in his field in that he holds a string of professional qualifications in Networking to name a few (MCT, MCSE, Cisco, Network+) and IT Security (CEH, ECSA, LPT, CHFI and CCE) besides a bachelor’s degree in science.
In addition to his responsibilities at Microsoft, Brian is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University-Bloomington and an Affiliate Faculty member of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. Brian also currently serves as Treasurer of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) and as a Vice President of the Board of Directors of Seattle Opera. Brian received S.B., S.M., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 1990, 1991, and 1996, respectively.