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Squashing the Cyber Adversary
Cyber security, interlocked from silicon to satellite, is the nexus of all critical infrastructure, keeping the lights on, banks open and water clean and available. Security will be sharply redefined in the next decade as what is currently known as “cyber security” evolves into secure communication that enables cross-sector resiliency throughout critical infrastructure and key resources such as electric power, gas/oil, finance and water. The key is resiliency, as we cannot prevent the adversary from creating increasingly sophisticate attacks. Resiliency varies directly with global collaboration in technology, policy, and partnerships that transcend competitive and geographic boundaries. In securing our infrastructures and our way of life, we face a formidable adversary that thrives on inherent cooperation and information sharing from partners – the other witted criminals and nefarious actors. To defeat this adversary requires even greater collaboration, partnership and global cooperation in order to preserve our way of life. This discussion explores the policy and technology components to strengthening our position, from international best practices and standards, to the significance of our position in high performance computing, to the ability to infuse our network fabric with intelligence and situational awareness, gathered from all points in the network and multiple critical infrastructure sectors.
ABOUT: Dr. Phyllis A. Schneck, Vice President and Director, Threat Intelligence, Americas, McAfee, Inc.
Founding Chairman and Chairman Emeritus, InfraGard National Members Alliance
Dr. Phyllis Schneck is Vice President and Director of Threat Intelligence for the Americas for McAfee, Inc. In this role, she is responsible for design and applications of McAfee’s threat intelligence, strategic thought leadership and evangelism around technology and policy in cyber security, and leading McAfee initiatives in critical infrastructure protection and cross-sector cyber security. Schneck created and Chairs the McAfee Critical
Infrastructure Protection Advisory Board.
For more than 14 years, Schneck has had a distinguished presence in the security and infrastructure protection
community, most recently as a Commissioner and a working group Co-Chair on public-private partnership, and a working group Chair on Network Situational Awareness for the CSIS Commission to Advise the 44th President on Cyber Security. Schneck recently Co-Chaired the Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Congress and is leading the follow-up effort for the first global strategic plan for CIP. Schneck currently represents McAfee, Inc. on the Enduring Security Framework, on the High Performance Computing working panel.
Schneck served for eight years as chairman of the National Board of Directors of the FBI’s InfraGard program and founding president of InfraGard Atlanta, growing the InfraGard program from 2000 to over 30,000 members nationwide. In this role, she was primarily responsible for the strategic growth and vision of the private sector side of the InfraGard Program, and for growing the relationship between InfraGard and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) through several Directorates. As examples, Schneck was chiefly responsible for the first Memorandum of Understanding between DHS and InfraGard and for engaging DHS officials with all local InfraGard Chapters nationwide. She was also responsible for creating the first overall strategic plan in 2002, and worked with the team to augment the plan for engaging the private sector in integrated infrastructure protection
information, and dissemination and participation in the creation of National Policy, such as the National Infrastructure Protection Plan.
Named one of Information Security Magazine’s Top 25 Women Leaders in Information Security, Schneck briefed the governments of Japan, Australia and Canada by invitation on information sharing and infrastructure protection, has worked with the UK infrastructure protection and cyber security authorities on US partnership, and was the moderator of the White House Town Hall Meeting in Atlanta for the National Strategy to Secure
Cyberspace in June of 2002. She holds three patents in high-performance and adaptive information security, and
has six research publications in the areas of information security, real-time systems, telecom and software
engineering.
Before joining McAfee, Schneck was vice president of Research Integration for Secure Computing, where she conceived and built the early intelligence practice into a full Beta program for data as a service and managed the IP portfolio for the entire email security and intelligence suite. Prior, Schneck was the vice president Enterprise Services for eCommSecurity. Prior to that, she served as vice president of Corporate Strategy for SecureWorks,
Inc., and was founder and chief executive officer of Avalon Communications, a provider of real-time security technology that was acquired by SecureWorks, Inc. Schneck also held various information science technical positions with CygnaCom Solutions, the MITRE Corporation, Computer Sciences Corporation, IBM Systems Integration Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the University Of Maryland’s Department of
Meteorology.
Schneck received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech, and pioneered the field of information security and security-based high-performance computing at Georgia Tech. She maintains a seat on the Advisory Board of the Johns Hopkins University Department of Computer Science, served on the Steering Committee for the Sam Nunn Information Security Forum as well as a term on the Georgia Tech Advisory Board, and cofounded the Georgia Tech Information Security Center and the Georgia Electronic Commerce Association's
Working Group on Information Security.
  
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