Panel - DNS Systemic Vulnerabilities and Risk Management: A Discussion

The experts on this panel will provide their views on systemic risks facing the DNS and provide thoughts on measures that should be undertaken to remediate the risks. The panelists will discuss both the challenges and the security benefits that will arise from the implementation of DNSSec. Rod Beckstrom is a highly successful entrepreneur, founder and CEO of a publicly-traded company, a best-selling author, avowed environmentalist, public diplomacy leader and, most recently, the head of a top-level federal government agency entrusted with protecting the nation’s communication networks against cyber attack. Throughout 2008, Rod served as the Director of the National Cybersecurity Center (NCSC) at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, where he reported to the Secretary of DHS, and was charged with cooperating directly with the Attorney General, National Security Council, Secretary of Defense, and the Director of National Intelligence (DNI). Prior to joining DHS, he served on the DNI’s Senior Advisory Group. Rod is unique in having experienced the inner workings of two, highly-charged, often competing, federal security agencies created in the wake of the September 11th attacks, an event that he says, “changed my life.” Dan Kaminsky is the Director of Penetration Testing at IOActive where he specializes in design-level fault analysis, particularly against massive scale network applications. Previously of Cisco and Avaya, Kaminsky has operated professionally in the security space for over ten years. He is well-known for his "Black Ops" series of talks at the well-respected Black Hat Briefings. He regularly collects detailed data on the health of the worldwide Internet, and used this data to detect the worldwide proliferation of a major rootkit. Recently, he discovered a major flaw in the Internet’s DNS infrastructure and worked with security engineers around the world, protecting countless organizations and individuals against this threat. Paul Mockapetris is Chairman and chief Scientist at Nominum, a company which supplies DNS and DHCP software to carriers and others. Paul is the inventor of the DNS protocol, and was the first implementer of SMTP. He believes he put the "S" in SMTP, and that complexity is the enemy. He is the veteran of several Silicon Valley successes and disasters. Ken Silva's bio: As Chief Technology Officer, Ken Silva oversees VeriSign's mission critical Internet infrastructure that enables and protects billions of interactions every day across the world's voice and data networks. Mark Weatherford was appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to his most recent position as Executive Officer of the California Office of Information Security and Privacy. In this role, he has broad authority over California’s cyber security activities and is responsible for state government information security program policy, standards, and procedures. He also oversees the first-in-the-nation Office of Privacy Protection, which provides information, education and privacy practice recommendations for consumers, business and other organizations on identity theft and other privacy issues./span>