Physical, Network & Software Security Assurance

Agenda

5:30-6:00 Networking & Pizza

6:00-6:15 Overview of Associations

6:15-7:15 Penteston - Tom Brennan

7:15-8:00 Software Security Assurance - White Board - Cindy Cullen

8:00-8:30 Networking

Physical & Network Security - topic changed to Penteston

SSA can be daunting for an organization especially with agile development methodologies and expanding pervasiveness of applications including mobile & IoT. This talk will address why software security is hard, how changing methodologies are making it even more challenging and lessons learned from the trenches. Techniques on how to demonstrate the value of a program will also be shared.

Speaker:
Cindy Cullen has over 20 years of experience leading cybersecurity and information risk programs.

Cindy is President of the NJ Chapter of (ISC)2, is an ICIT Fellow advising congress and staff on cybersecurity issues, was CISO at Telcordia/Bellcore, VP of IS at Citi, CTO at SAFE BioPharma and designed an S-SDLC process for Bristol Myers Squibb. She served on the Bridgewater-Raritan Regional School Board for 9 years include as VP and President. Cindy is an in demand speaker with experience at national & international venues (i.e. NIST, OWASP, RSA, ...)

She received the Digi Award for industry leadership for the pioneering use of interoperable digital identities by National Cancer Institute, BMS and Sanofi, reducing the cost and time required to get critical medicines to market more quickly. Cindy’s leadership and innovation were recognized by the White House initiative on National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyber Space (NSTIC) winning the Computer World’s Computer Laureate Award 2012.