PV Information Security and Assurance Conference Program

Pioneer Valley
Information Security and Assurance Conference
April 7, 2007

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Preliminary Program:

	8:30 - 9:00 am	Continental breakfast and Registration
	9:00 - 9:15am	Opening remarks Sue Mackler, Dean of Business Division Jeff Hayden, VP for Business and Community Services
Presentation slides	9:15 – 10:00am	Management of Information Security Policy and Risk Management Mike Whitman, Ph.D., CISSP, Kennesaw State University http://science.kennesaw.edu/~mwhitman/
Presentation slides	10:15-11:00 am	Firewalls and Intrusion Detection Systems Herb Mattord, CISSP, Kennesaw State University http://science.kennesaw.edu/~hmattord/
Presentation slides	11:15am-12:00pm	Information Security @ HCC Joe Tolisano, CIO, Holyoke Community College Gene Kingsley, Director of Information Technology Division, Holyoke Community College
Presentation slides	12:15pm-1:15pm	Lunch and Keynote Address Implementing an Information Security Program and the Partnership between Management and Security Functions James DiDonato, Information Security Officer, Baystate Health, Inc.
	1:15-1:30pm	Door Prize Drawing and Wrap-up (Main prize is SIRIUS satellite radio! Plus many more!)

About the Speakers:

James DiDonato, CHFP, CIA & MBA-MIS, is the Information Security Officer for Baystate Health, Inc. in Springfield, Massachusetts. Mr. DiDonato has been employed in healthcare for 16 years, moving from internal audit to information services about nine years ago. In 2000, he assumed primary responsibility for getting Baystate’s HIPAA efforts off the ground. At various times he was the project manager for both the Privacy and Security projects. He is the former chair of the WEDI/SNIP regional collaborative, ‘The New England HIPAA Workgroup’ (NEHW) and is a member of the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium’s Security Officer Forum.

Mr. DiDonato has conducted numerous presentations within Baystate Health, Inc. and also to regional and national audiences.

Gene Kingsley was born and raised in Painesville, Ohio. He was educated at Holyoke Community College (A. S., 1991) and Westfield State College (B.S., Criminal Justice, 1993) and UMASS Isenberg School of Management (P.M.B.A., 2002) and The Graduate School at Bay Path College (M.S., Communications and Information Management, 2004). In May of 1990 he took a job offer as an evening lab monitor at Holyoke Community College. This began his fifteen year career in the higher education computer industry most of it spent as a help desk coordinator. He left for a short time in 1992 to work at a local computer reseller where worked his way up from general computer configuration to a wide-area network technician.

In November of 1998, he came back to the college as a helpdesk coordinator starting a new service for the college from scratch. He then elevated himself to Operations Manager for a number of years where he was once again promoted to his current position Director of Operations for the Information Technology Division.

He is an active member of IEEE – computer society, he has been certified by the SANS Institute (401) and has presented on Computer and Information Security Topics to local area business meetings through the Holyoke Chamber of Commerce and other community-based functions. He has taught Business and Computer evening classes as an adjunct professor at Holyoke Community College as well. He is very active in the community with both Information Security and various other project management challenges.

Herbert J. Mattord, CISSP, CDP has completed 24 years of IT industry experience before becoming a full-time academic. His experiences as an application developer, database administrator, project manager, and information security practitioner were a valuable background to his role a tenure-track Instructor at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw Georgia. During his career as an IT practitioner, he has been an adjunct professor at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw Georgia, Southern Polytechnic State University in Marietta, Georgia, Austin Community College in Austin, Texas, and Texas State University-San Marcos. He currently teaches undergraduate courses in Information Systems and Information Security and Assurance.

He was formerly the Manager of Corporate Information Technology Security at Georgia-Pacific Corporation, where his practical knowledge of information security implementation and management was acquired. He is the co-author of Principles of Information Security, Management of Information Security and Principles of Incident Response and Disaster Recovery with Dr. Michael Whitman.

Joe Tolisano is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for Holyoke Community College (HCC). He has held that position since July of 2001 and his prior assignment was as Director of Academic Computing at HCC. He has been at HCC since January of 1997 and has over 19 years experience in Information Security Management. As CIO, Joe is responsible for the overall security of information technology at the college. Formally trained by the US Air Force, he has graduated from the Air Force Communications Security Officers School and the Air Forces Communications/Computer Systems School. During his military career, Joe provided communication and information security for components of the Department of Defense, the National Security Agency and the Air Force.

Michael E. Whitman Ph.D. CISSP, is a Professor of Information Systems at Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia, where he is also the Director of the KSU Center for Information Security Education and the Coordinator of the Bachelor of Science in Information Security and Assurance program - the first program of its kind in the Southeast. In 2004, under his direction, the Center for Information Security Education spearheaded KSU's successful bid for the prestigious National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education awarded jointly by the Department of Homeland Security and the National Security Agency. Dr. Whitman is an active researcher and author in Information Security Policy and Curriculum Development, Ethical Computing and Information Systems Research Methods. He currently teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Information Security, Local Area Networks, and Data Communications. Dr. Whitman has five information security textbooks currently in print Principles of Incident Response and Disaster Recovery, Principles of Information Security, 2nd Ed, Management of Information Security (now under revision for 2nd edition) Readings and Cases in the Management of Information Security, and The Hands-On Information Security Lab Manual, 2nd ed. all from Course Technology. He has published articles in Information Systems Research, the Communications of the ACM, the Journal of International Business Studies, Information and Management, and the Journal of Computer Information Systems. Dr. Whitman is a member of the Computer Security Institute, the Association for Computing Machinery, the Information Systems Security Association, the Information Systems Auditing and Control Association and the Association for Information Systems.