Critical Infrastructure Assurance

Wednesday, 10:30, Regency E

Chair

Panelists: Presidential Decision Directive 63 (PDD-63) has ordered the strengthening of the nation’s defenses against emerging unconventional threats to the United States to include those involving terrorist acts, weapons of mass destruction, assaults on our critical infrastructures and cyber-based attacks. The panel will discuss the events subsequent to the signing of Presidential Decision Directive on Critical Infrastructure Protection (PDD-63) and the activities of various Federal department and agencies as called for in the First Annual National Plan for Information Systems Protection.
 
Overview of PDD-63  Mr. Davis
National Information Infrastructure Assurance Plan Mr. Tritak
Federal Sector Coordination Mr. Burke
Research and Development Mr. Davis
Private Sector Outreach Ms. Wong
Legal Initiatives Mr. Mitchell
 

Stevan D. Mitchell is a Trial Attorney with the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section of the United States Department of Justice.  He has recently completed service as a Member of the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection (PCCIP) and as part of the Executive Management team for the Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office (CIAO) during its transition to the Department of Commerce.  As a PCCIP Commissioner, Mr. Mitchell was responsible for many of the legal studies and recommendations produced and published by the Commission.
 
As an Trial Attorney with the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, Mr. Mitchell has litigated cases under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and provides oversight, consultation and guidance on investigations and prosecutions involving illegal uses of advanced technology.  Mr. Mitchell is also the co-author of the Department's intellectual property rights prosecution manual.

Mr. Mitchell has made numerous public appearances, speeches and presentations pertaining to computer crime, electronic search and seizure, criminal intellectual property enforcement, and electronic evidence issues.  He has also assumed an active role in the Section's legislative responsibilities, drafting and commenting on legislative proposals with substantial bearing on the investigation and prosecution of high-technology crime.

In the international arena, Mr. Mitchell has participated in several inter-departmental working groups assembled by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and the Department of Commerce, and has served as the Department of Justice representative on delegation visits to China, Mexico, Ukraine and Russia.  He has also served as host to many international delegations visiting the Department of Justice.

Mr. Mitchell earned his law degree from the Florida State University College of Law, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review.  After completing a judicial clerkship in the Southern District of Florida, he joined the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice through its Honor Graduate Program.

Ms. Nancy Wong served as a commissioner in 1997 on the President’s Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection as a private industry representative, with experience in both the energy and information technology industries.  She took a leave of absence from her position as department head for information assets and risk management with Pacific Gas and Electric Company, where she oversaw the development and implementation of corporate policies, standards and business processes to manage and protect the company’s information technology assets.  From 1993-1996, Ms. Wong led PG&E’s 900-person corporate computer and network operations department.  In this position, she managed an annual budget of $60-80 million and the planning and daily operations of the company’s entire corporate computing and telecommunications infrastructure, one of the largest private networks in the country.  Ms. Wong was selected as one of the “Top One Hundred Women in Computing for 1996” by McGraw-Hill Publishing Companies.

Ms. Wong holds a master’s degree in finance and a bachelor’s degree in computer sciences and mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley.

Mr. Thomas Burke is the Assistant Commissioner for Information Security in the Federal Technology Service of the General Services Administration.  Tom has been involved with information systems security for over 32 years.  Since joining GSA, Tom has participated in the evolving face of information security and guided the organization in its transition from traditional communications security services to the open systems security services offered today.

Tom is an active participant on the National Security Telecommunications and Information Systems Security Committee (NSTISSC), where he also serves as the Chair of the Subcommittee on Telecommunications Security.  He is also the civil agency representative to the Department of Defense Military Communications Electronics Board (MCEB)

Recently, Tom was appointed Chief Infrastructure Assurance Officer (CIAO) for the General Services Administration and the Executive Agent for the Federal Sector in the implementation of PDD-63.

Mr. John C. Davis is the Director of the National Computer Security Center at the National Security Agency (NSA) and the NSA representative to the Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office (support for the National Security Council). Mr. Davis served as the NSA Commissioner to the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection (PCCIP) from April 1997 until October 1998 when the PCCIP office transitioned to the Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office (CIAO). As the lead Commissioner on the Information and Communications team, and the Research and Development team, he was instrumental in developing the Administration's national policy and implementation plan for protecting our nation's most critical infrastructures.

Mr. Davis holds a bachelor's and a master's degree in physics and a master's degree in electrical engineering.

 
 

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