Preliminary Program:

About the Speakers

Kevin Andryc is currently the Manager of Systems and Application Development at WISER, the World Institute of Strategic and Economic Research, located in the Kittredge Building at H.C.C. As a graduate of the University of Massachusetts, he received his B.S. in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics focusing on robotics and network engineering. Currently he is finishing his master’s degree at the University of Massachusetts performing research funded by Kollmorgen Electro-Optical on PCI/PCI-X bus simulation and image processing on FPGA’s. Kevin has over 15 years worth of experience in the IT industry.

Nancy Kindness Heath is a Security Awareness Specialist with MassMutual Financial Group.  In this role she coordinates Information Security events and communications to employees across the enterprise. She has strong input on updates and changes to information security policies, procedures and industry best practices.  Since joining MassMutual in 2007, Nancy has developed comprehensive communications and presentations tailored to specific audiences and skill sets.  The key to her outstanding awareness program is the ability to have fun with the topics and create a desire for the employees to learn more.  Her suggestions for increased security can be applied at work as well as at home.

Nancy is a graduate of Springfield Technical Community College.  Prior to her employment with MassMutual, she was an Information Security Analyst employed by Dow Jones & Co.  She has 14 years experience in the Information Security field.  Her career focus has been mainframe account provisioning and Information Security Awareness.  She created an outstanding Awareness program for Dow Jones and developed a direction for Dow Jones that won her an award by the Chief Information Officer for its creation and implementation.  

She brings energy and enthusiasm to her job and wants everyone to be as excited about Information Security as she is.

M. E. Kabay, PhD, CISSP-ISSMP began programming computers in assembly language in 1965. In 1976, he received his PhD from Dartmouth College in applied statistics and invertebrate zoology and taught biology, statistics and programming as a university professor in Canada and overseas. In 1979, he joined a compiler team for a new 4GL and RDBMS in the U.S. and then joined Hewlett-Packard Canada in 1980 as an operating systems and database performance specialist, winning the Systems Engineer of the Year Award in 1982. He earned his CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) designation in 1997. He served as Director of Education for the National Computer Security Association (NCSA, later ICSA and then TruSecure) from 1990 to 1999 and then worked with AtomicTangerine where he supported the International Institute for Information Integrity® (I-4®). Since 1986, he has published over 950 articles in operations management and security, written a college textbook on enterprise security (McGraw-Hill, 1996), and served as Technical Editor of the 4th Edition of the Computer Security Handbook (Wiley, 2002). He writes two security-management columns a week distributed by Network World and is working on the 5th Edition of the Computer Security Handbook. He has been an invited lecturer at the United States War College, NATO HQ, and at NATO Counterintelligence training in Germany. He was inducted into the ISSA (Information Systems Security Association) Hall of Fame in December 2004 and earned his ISSMP (Information Systems Security Management Professional) designation in November 2005. Dr Kabay is Associate Professor of Information Assurance in the School of Business and Management at Norwich University, Northfield, VT 05663-1035 USA and currently the full-time Director of the Master's Program in Information Assurance in the School of Graduate Studies (SGS) where he is also the CTO (Chief Technical Officer) of the SGS.

 Susan A. Miller, J.D. is an independent consultant and attorney.  She is also COO, and CPO of HealthTransactions.com.  She has 35 years of professional leadership experience spanning teaching, biochemistry research and law.  Currently she is the assistant project manager for the NJ-HISPC project; and the contract manager for the MA-HISPC project.  She is also the health care research analyst for the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association Federal Employees Program.

Attorney Miller has provided legal and consulting services to several health care vendors, to a national accreditation agency, federal government agencies, the Massachusetts Medical Society, Massachusetts Hospital Association and numerous other entities.  Her clients also include CMS Medicare+Choice, CMS Region 1, CMS Region 4, CMS Region 6, Folio Associates, and NCQA.

Attorney Miller received her undergraduate degree and Masters degree from Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, and her law degree cum laude from Suffolk University Law School in Boston, Massachusetts.

Attorney Miller is the recent past Co-chair of WEDI SNIP, a member of the Steering Committee, is a founding Co-chair of the Security and Privacy Work Group and chairs many of the privacy and security sub-workgroups.   She has worked on numerous legislative initiatives and is responsible for analysis of state and federal health care reform proposals and payment reform.

Attorney Miller had been named the third winner of Melczer award by WEDI in November 2007 for “providing exemplary service by giving her time to WEDI and the industry.” The award recognizes a person “whose business philosophy is to make the world a better place by sharing one’s time and talents.”