The Nexus Between Law Enforcement and You
The World of Cyber Law Enforcement

This fascinating event will feature representatives from the multi-faceted world of "cyber law enforcement," to include representatives from the FBI, United States Attorney's Office, and the San Diego District Attorney's Office. The group will discuss, via panel discussion, a variety topics related to the world of Cybercrime; including the latest trends, pitfalls faced by law enforcement when addressing cybercrime, and the essential and necessary relationship between the private sector and law enforcement.
Don't miss this opportunity to learn more about the inner workings of cyber law enforcement.
PANELISTS:
SSA Mark Culp
Mark Culp is a Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) in San Diego who manages a Cyber Crimes squad focused on criminal computer intrusions, crimes against children, intellectual property crime, and Internet Fraud. SSA Culp served as an SSA at FBI Headquarter's Computer Intrusion Section in Washington D.C. from August, 2005 to April, 2008. Prior to that he was a case agent in San Diego for nineteen years. SSA Culp holds a masters degree in computer science and a bachelors degree in business administration. He has investigated numerous financial crimes, computer crimes and computer intrusions during his 23 year career with the FBI.
AUSA Mitch Dembin
Mitch is in his third tour as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in San Diego and currently serves as the Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property crime coordinator. In prior incarnations, Mitch served the office as Chief of its Financial Institution Fraud Section and as Chief of its General Crimes Section. Before rejoining the government in April of 2005, Mitch was the Chief Security Advisor for Microsoft Corporation. Mitch came to Microsoft from EvidentData, Inc., a firm specializing in computer forensics, digital evidence and computer security where he was its president. Before that, he served for a combined 15 years as a federal prosecutor in San Diego, California, and in Boston, Massachusetts, and also was in engaged in a private law practice for two years in Springfield, Massachusetts. He has been a cybercrime prosecutor since 1991. Mitch started his legal career with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, DC.
DDA Brendan McHugh
Brendan McHugh is a San Diego County Deputy District Attorney and the Project Director for the Computer and Technology Crime High-Tech Response Team (CATCH). CATCH is a multi-jurisdiction task force covering San Diego, Riverside and Imperial Counties. The task force is comprised of investigators from federal, state and local agencies, and state and local prosecutors. Brendan has been a Deputy District Attorney with the San Diego County District Attorney's Office since 2007, and was a Riverside County Deputy District Attorney prior to that. Before becoming a prosecutor, Brendan worked for ten years in the local engineering community with a number of wireless communications technology companies such as PCSI, ADC, Torrey Sciences, RC Networks and Intel. Prior to working in the private sector engineering community, Brendan was an Electronic Warfare Technician in the United States Navy assigned to the Fleet Tactical Deception Group, Pacific.
MODERATORS:
Miles Hale
Assistant Vice President of Secure Business Solutions Division, SAIC
Miles Hale has twenty-three years of experience in IT. For Science Applications International Corporation, he has been providing security architecture, policy, and access control procedures for commercial businesses and government agencies. This includes evaluation of business IT requirements and applicable regulations, as well as providing recommendations on documentation and establishment of security policies and procedures to enhance network security and provide business continuity, security architecture, security policy development, requirements analysis and design of secure applications, systems, and networks, enterprise-level vulnerability assessment, security process modeling, and C&A (certification and accreditation). His work includes roles as Program Manager in support of government national infrastructure initiatives for electronic health records, including network architecture support, product analyses, role-based access control, identity and authentication integration (including a medical PKI pilot program), data warehousing business integration, intrusion detection, and contingency planning.
Prior to joining SAIC, Miles retired as a U.S. Navy pilot, where he specialized in Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW), including staff assignments for a Carrier Air Wing Commander and the Chief of Naval Air Training.
Bill Unrue
President, Anonymizer
Bill Unrue is a visionary leader with 20+ years of producing exceptional results in a variety of business settings. He currently serves as President of the Anonymizer division of Abraxas Corporation. For the prior nine years, he led the company as Chief Executive Officer and Senior Board Member of Anoymizer, Inc. Under Unrue’s leadership, Anonymizer was repositioned from a consumer direct subscription model to an enterprise class SAAS model. Subscriptions were sold to U.S. government customers for Information Operations defense from cyber opponents such as foreign governments and terrorists.
DATE:
November 19th, 2009
TIME:
7:30AM - Registration/Networking/Breakfast
8:00AM - Program Begins
9:30AM - Program Ends
LOCATION:
FBI San Diego Head Quarters
9737 Aero Drive
San Diego 92123
COST:
Pre-Registration: (Please pre-register by noon on 11/18/09)
$10.00 - CommNexus Sponsor
$20.00 - Non-Sponsor
At the Door:
$20.00 - CommNexus Sponsor
$30.00 - Non-Sponsor
Students, Military & Press: FREE
SIG CO-CHAIRS:
Bill Unrue, Anonymizer
Miles Hale, SAIC
John Rotchford, SASI
Duke Ayers, SAIC
Bill Donohue, 24 Hour Fitness
Date:
Thursday, November 19, 20097:30AM-9:30AM
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9737 Aero DriveSan Diego , CA 92123
