2011 Judges
Eric K. Thompson, Founder & CTO, AccessData
Eric Thompson is responsible for setting the company's strategic direction and leading its growth as a global provider of computer forensics, cryptography and password recovery software and services. An award-winning expert on the topic of encryption, decryption and computer forensics, Eric Thompson has presented research on cryptography and code breaking to Congress. He has also worked with the DoD and was recognized for his code breaking expertise that led to the largest drug arrest in Bolivian history. He is a frequent guest instructor at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) and at High Tech Criminal Investigation Association (HTCIA) events. Thompson is an honorary lifetime member of the International Association of Computer Investigative Specialists (IACIS).
Warren Kruse, Principal, Cyber Technology, Booz Allen Hamilton
Warren Kruse is a Principal with Booz Allen Hamilton’s Cyber Technology Team, providing functional leadership in Cyber Security Operations, and developing eDiscovery capabilities across the firm’s markets. He is a primary leader for the Red Bank, NJ office, with a major role in the BRAC (Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission) transition. He has spent the last two decades between law enforcement and as a consultant supporting various agencies with incident response, computer forensics and eDiscovery.
Mr. Kruse is the President of the Digital Forensics Certification Board (DFCB), a project of the National Center for Forensic Science, and University of Central Florida.
He is a frequent lecturer on the subjects of eDiscovery, computer forensics, incident response and cybercrime and has extensive experience in computer forensic cases involving some of the largest law firms and corporations in the world. He was a consulting expert for Continental Airlines, US Air, Cirrus Aircraft, for electronic discovery preservation, collection and identification of electronically stored information. He is the author of “Computer Forensics: Incident Response Essentials,” and has supported incident response projects across a wide range of major U.S. corporations and agencies. In addition: led a team of computer forensic experts in a three-year engagement in support of a fraud investigation task force at the world’s largest international cooperative organization; expert for AMD on the AMD versus Intel Antitrust lawsuit; led the forensics on the two billion dollar "Comtraid" theft of IP; supported a financial statement inquiry into 50 officers of a Fortune 500 manufacturing company; and testified as a computer forensic expert for the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on issues involving the intentional destruction of data.
In addition, he was the recipient of the International High Tech Crime Investigative Association’s (HTCIA) “High Tech Case of the Year” award for the “Comtraid” Theft of Intellectual Property investigation.
Carl S. Young -Managing Director and Chief Security Officer
Carl S. Young, Managing Director at Stroz Friedberg, is an applied physicist and internationally recognized security risk consultant. As part of the firm’s Business Intelligence & Investigations practice, he serves clients as an expert advisor on individual and holistic security risk matters related to physical security, insider threats and terrorism. He is also a key contributor to the practice’s multidisciplinary due diligence and M&A engagement teams.
Prior to joining Stroz Friedberg, Mr. Young was a risk strategist and Global Head of Physical Security Technology at Goldman Sachs. There, he delivered a broad spectrum of security risk solutions, such as providing quantitative analyses of security risk, evaluating the effectiveness of proposed security technologies, creating unique anti-terrorism security solutions, and developing facility risk assessment and mitigation frameworks in high risk and/or complex environments . In particular, he led the security technology planning and installation effort for the new Goldman Sachs headquarters building at 200 West Street.
Over the course of fifteen years, he held a succession of senior posts at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”) while managing sensitive national security programs. Mr. Young is credited with significantly enhancing the US government’s technical capabilities in addressing counterintelligence, counterterrorism and high-risk criminal threats.
In 1997, The White House awarded Mr. Young the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB) James R. Killian Award, in recognition of his individual contributions to national security. Mr. Young served as a consultant for four years to the renowned JASON Defense Advisory Group where he developed technical security solutions for a variety of government sponsors. During that time, the Director of Central Intelligence appointed him to serve on a blue ribbon panel to examine the effectiveness of technology in the Intelligence Community. Mr. Young was also selected to participate in the Council on Foreign Relations Roundtable Group on Homeland Security.
Mr. Young currently instructs on the technology of security and safety as an adjunct professor in the Department of Protection Management at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY) in New York. He is a respected author whose physical security and risk articles appear in a number of scientific journals. Moreover, his recently published book, Metrics and Methods of Security Risk Management (Syngress 2010), has received critical acclaim for providing a much-needed analytic framework to assess security risk.
Mr. Young holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Mathematics and Physics respectively from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Donald R. Proctor Senior Vice President, Office of the Chairman and CEO Cisco
Don Proctor is a Senior Vice President at Cisco in the Office of the Chairman and CEO. As the leader of Cisco's Cybersecurity Task Force, he works with Cisco customers and partners, as well as worldwide government leaders in defense, civilian agencies, and the intelligence community to advance the safety, privacy, and integrity of their critical network infrastructure. In his tenure at Cisco, Proctor has served on or led a broad variety of Cisco's corporate boards and councils, including the Enterprise Business Council, the Cisco Development Council, the Software Council, the Diversity and Inclusion Council, the Public Policy Council, and the Cancer Support Network.
Proctor joined Cisco in 1995 and has held a variety of leadership positions in the company's enterprise, commercial, and service provider businesses. Most recently, he led Cisco's software development group and was responsible for Cisco's VoIP, web collaboration, Cisco IOS, network management, and global government solutions businesses. Before that, he was Vice President and General Manager of Cisco's Service Provider Switching Group, the Voice Technology Group, and the Collaboration Software Group. Early in his tenure at Cisco, he led the product team that developed Cisco's first integrated voice/data router. Prior to joining Cisco, he worked for software maker Sybase
A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, Proctor is also part of the professional faculty in the Management of Technology graduate program at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business and formerly taught in the UC Berkeley Extension Telecommunications Engineering certification program.
