Brad Arkin - Director of Product Security and Privacy Adobe Systems Incorporated

Brad Arkin is a Director of Product Security and Privacy at Adobe Systems Incorporated. He is responsible for the Adobe Secure Software Engineering Team (ASSET) and Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT), as well as cross-company coordination and initiatives related to security and privacy. Mr. Arkin has worked in software security for more than 12 years. He served as a Technical Director for @Stake's New York office and as a Senior Manager at Symantec. Earlier, he worked at Cigital, where he co-founded the company’s software security group. Mr. Arkin holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary, a Master of Science in Computer Science from George Washington University, and MBA degrees from Columbia University and London Business School.

For more information (Adobe ASSET team blog): http://blogs.adobe.com/asset/

Eric Baize - Product Security Office EMC

Eric Baize leads EMC’s Product Security Office with company-wide responsibility for product security assurance, covering vulnerability response handling, security development lifecycle implementation and coordination of security certifications. He also represents EMC on SAFECode’s Board of Directors. Additionally, Mr. Baize leads RSA’s product strategy for securing virtual and physical infrastructures.

Previously, Mr. Baize pioneered EMC’s push towards security. He was a founding member of the leadership team that defined EMC’s vision of information-centric security, and which drove the acquisition of RSA Security and Network Intelligence in 2006.

Prior to joining EMC, Mr. Baize held various positions for Groupe Bull in Europe and in the US where he was successively the security architect, product manager and director of security strategy, responsible for the company’s security product line.

Mr. Baize holds a M.S. degree in Computer Science from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications in Brest, France, and is a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) by the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA). He is holder of a US patent, author of international security standards and a regular speaker at security conferences in the US and Europe.

Gunter Bitz - Senior Manager Product Security SAP AG

Dr. Gunter Bitz (MBA and CISSP) is responsible for the Product Security Governance and Strategy at SAP AG. This includes testing security strategies to find security vulnerabilities in the software products and to ensure the integrity of the software supply chain.

As Director of SAP’s fraud prevention competence center, Dr. Bitz has developed concepts for financial fraud detection and prevention by means of using IT systems as an automated detection of misconduct.

Previously, he was an information security manager for SAP, where he was responsible for protecting SAP’s intellectual property. Dr. Bitz has also developed and implemented measures to protect SAP from the consequences of industrial espionage.

Dr. Bitz presents his work regularly in front of international audiences such as at the RSA and the Information Security Solutions Europe (ISSE) conferences. He is also a member of several committees for various security conferences.

For more information: https://www.xing.com/profile/Gunter_Bitz

Bob Dix - Vice President, Government Affairs & Critical Infrastructure Protection Juniper Networks, Inc.

Bob Dix is the Vice President of Government Affairs & Critical Infrastructure Protection for Juniper Networks. Mr. Dix is a widely recognized subject matter expert and a leading policy expert in furthering government—especially in industry partnerships to protect this nation’s critical infrastructure.

Mr. Dix has served in senior executive positions in the IT sector. Prior to joining Juniper, he served as the Executive Vice President for Government Affairs & Corporate Development at Citadel Security Software. While with Citadel and continuing at Juniper, Mr. Dix has been active in IT and Telecommunications industry leadership roles.

Among his various roles with Juniper, Mr. Dix serves on the Industry Executive Subcommittee (IES) of the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC). Mr. Dix represented Juniper as Chair of the Cyber Security Collaboration Task Force and also participates on several other NSTAC initiatives, examining issues related to national security and emergency preparedness communications.

Dix is active with the Partnership for Critical Infrastructure Security (PCIS), where he is the principal representative of the IT sector, and was elected to the Executive Committee in 2008. Dix has been active in facilitating improved integration of the private sector CI/KR community into the planning and execution of the National Exercise Program, testing our nation’s emergency preparedness, including the TOPOFF, NLE, and Cyber Storm series of National Level Exercises.

Dix also represents Juniper Networks on the National Security Task Force of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce and with TechAmerica. He continues to represent Juniper and participate with the IT-ISAC and the Communications Sector Coordinating Council, and also represents Juniper on the Board of Directors for SAFECode.

Paul Nicholas - Director, Global Security Strategy and Diplomacy Microsoft, Chairman of SAFECode

Paul Nicholas is the Chairman of SAFECode and he also leads Microsoft’s Critical Infrastructure Protection Program, which focuses on driving strategic change aimed at advancing infrastructure security and resilience. He manages a team that addresses the global challenges related to critical infrastructure and, in particular, challenges related to supply-chain security, risk management, operational response, emergency communications and information sharing.

Prior to joining Microsoft, Mr. Nicholas spent over eight years in the United States Federal Government focusing on emerging threats to economic and national security. From 2002-2004, he served as a White House Director for Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection. In that capacity, Mr. Nicholas led the coordination of the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace. He also has served in the legislative branch working in the United States Senate as a senior policy advisor for Senator Robert F. Bennett, as a staff member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Technology Terrorism and Government Information, and as an assistant director for the United States Government Accountability Office.

He earned his B.A. from Indiana University and an M.A. in National Security Studies from Georgetown University, and he is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional.

Gary Phillips - Senior Director, Standard Tools and Technologies Symantec

Gary Phillips is a Senior Director of Standard Tools and Technologies in the Office of the CTO for Symantec Corporation and is a member of SAFECode’s Board of Directors. In his position at Symantec, Mr. Phillips manages a diversity of responsibilities, including open source operations and strategy, product security, interactions with all standards bodies, standards compliance, shared development tool investigations, shared code management, technology control planning and software supply chain management.

Prior to joining Symantec, Mr. Phillips held several senior management and technology leadership positions for Compaq, Schlumberger, Western Geophysical, and Fairchild. He is also currently a member of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) board of directors, the International Committee for IT Standards (INCITS) executive board, the Software and Information Industry Association software board, and the board of directors for IT-ISAC.

Mr. Phillips earned his Bachelors degree in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology and attended graduate school at the University of South Florida and the University of Houston.

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/glphillips

Janne Uusilehto - Head of Product Security Nokia Vice Chairman of SAFECode

Janne Uusilehto is the Vice Chairman of SAFECode and he is also the Head of Nokia Product Security for which he is globally responsible for Nokia’s product security development. His team is the overall owner of Product Security and Product Security related education, awareness and process improvement tasks. He started working for the company in 1998.

Mr. Uusilehto first started his career in the ICT industry in 1982 where he worked as an independent software developer and consultant for small businesses. He then started working with security related tasks as an IT Support and Electronic Banking Specialist for several Finnish banks. Mr. Uusilehto was also a member of the Merita-Nordbanken Cash Management Services team who initiated Internet sales portals for Finland in mid 1990’s.

Currently, Mr. Uusilehto is also a member of several Nokia internal security related management boards, Nokia’s main representative to Trusted Computing Group, Chairman of TCG Mobile WG, and Chairman of DIGITALEUROPE mobile Security Issue group.

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/uusilehto