Russia, Ukraine & Cyber Threats Expert Forum

Co-hotsted by “Suits and Spooks” and
the Monterey Cyber Security Initiative (MCySec) 

Monterey Institute, Irvine Auditorium, 499 Pierce Street, Monterey CA
17-18 April 2014
DEADLINE TO REGISTER: Friday April 11

It is our distinct pleasure to invite you to join a conversation with a forum of experts on the cyber components of the current Crimean crisis and global security risks to critical infrastructure. Confirmed guest speakers from Russia, Ukraine, Estonia, the United Kingdom and the United States will discuss this timely topic in a Chatham House-rules environment.

This forum is co-hosted by “Suits and Spooks,” founded by Taia Global, Inc., and the Monterey Cyber Security Initiative (MCySec) at the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS), a graduate school of Middlebury College. “Suits and Spooks” is a limited-attendance, cyber security event held three times per year in Washington D.C., New York City and Singapore. This year, Monterey has been added to the list of venues.  Additional sponsors are Basis Technology Corporations, Kaspersky Lab, O’Reilly Media and Recorded Future.

Monterey Institute students, faculty and staff are offered complementary registration on the MCySec website (http://go.miis.edu/cysec). Interested participants who are not from the Monterey Institute should register on the “Suits and Spooks” website (http://suitsandspooks.com). Here reduced rates for non-MIIS, Monterey-area faculty, students, military and government may also be obtained. A detailed agenda can be found on either website.

Confirmed presentations include:

• John Arquilla  –  Professor and Chair, Department of Defense Analysis, Graduate School of Operational and Information Sciences, Naval Postgraduate School
• Nicholas Brookes  –  Director, Deputy Global Head Financial Intelligence Unit, Credit Suisse
• Douglas Bruns  –   Technical Director, Global Security Operations Center, BAE Systems
• Jeffrey Carr  –  Chief Executive Officer, Taia Global; Founder, “Suits and Spooks” 
• Glenn Chisholm  –  Chief Technical Officer, Cylance
• Scott Donnelly  –  Senior Analyst, Recorded Future
• Rob DuBois  –  Principal, Peace Consulting; U.S. Navy SEAL (retired)
• Chris Diehl  –  Principal and Co-founder, The Data Guild
• Jeffrey “JC” Dodson  –  Vice-President, Cybersecurity; Global Chief Information Security Officer, BAE Systems
• Roderick Jones  –  Chief Executive Officer, Concentric Advisors
• Robin J. Lee  –  Partner, Technology Transactions Practice Group; Member of the Cooley Business Department.
• Itamara Lochard  –  Director, Monterey Cyber Security Initiative (MCySec), Monterey Institute of International Studies
• Edward V. Marshall  –  Vice President, Credit Suisse
• Carmen Medina  –  Specialist Leader, Deloitte; 30+ years CIA including Director of the Center for the Study of Intelligence
• Brian Mefford  –  Founder, The Committee for Open Democracy
• Christopher Michael  –  Director of Cybersecurity Engineering and Strategy, BAE Systems
• Glib Pakharenko  –  Director at Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Ukraine
• Jaan Priisalu  –  Director General, RIA – Estonian Information System’s Authority; Founding Civilian Head – Estonian Cyber Defense League
• Thomas Rid  –  Reader in War Studies, King’s College London
• Roel Schouwenberg  –  Senior Researcher, Global Research and Analysis Team, Kaspersky Lab
• Anna Vassilieva  –  Director, Graduate Learning Initiative in Russian Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies

Should you have any additional questions, please contact us via email at CySec@MIIS.edu or via Twitter @MIIS_CySec. We very much welcome your participation in this important, inter-disciplinary discussion of this timely topic