KUCI: Privacy Piracy

Mari Frank Interviews Amit Yoran, CEO of Netwitness and Kevin Nixon MSA, CISSP, CISM

mit Yoran
Amit Yoran led the management buyout of NetWitness from ManTech in 2006 and serves as the Chairman and CEO. Prior to NetWitness, he was appointed as Director of the National Cyber Security Division of Homeland Security, and as CEO and advisor to In-Q-Tel, the venture capital arm of the CIA. Formerly Mr Yoran served as the Vice President of Worldwide Managed Security Services at the Symantec Corporation. Mr. Yoran was the co-founder of Riptech, a market leading IT security company, and served as its CEO until the company was acquired by Symantec in 2002. He served as an officer in the United States Air Force in the Department of Defense's Computer Emergency Response Team.
www.netwitness.com
Kevin Nixon
Kevin Nixon has over 25 years experience in MIS design and development, Information Security, Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery and US and European Regulatory Compliance. He joined Datacastle in January 2008 as the Director of Security Business Strategy & Product Marketing. Kevin was responsible for public policy review and compliance analysis. He educates corporate management and staff on pending and existing technology legislation relevant to client employees, customers, partners, and vendors. In his role, Kevin has testified before the Republican High Tech Task Force, Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee & the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and several infrastructure security boards and committees including:
* Disaster Recovery Workgroup for the Office of Homeland Security (under Richard Clarke, Special Advisor to the President for Cyberspace Security and Chairman of the Critical Infrastructure Protection Board)
* Executive Board of the Internet Security Alliance (ISA)
* Chairman of the Best Practices Information Security Management Committee, ISA
* Executive Board Member of the Accredited Standards Committee, X9, Inc., the only industry-wide forum that brings together bankers, securities professionals, manufacturers, regulators, associations, consultants, and others in the financial services arena to address technical problems, find the best solutions, and codify them as nationally accepted standards.
* US TC68-SC2 & US TC68-SC6 Delegation Member to the International Standards Organization (ISO) on Financial Data Protection, Privacy and Security Standards
* Consultant to the Federal Trade Commission on the roll out of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003 (FACTA) on web security best practices for the AnnualCreditReport.com website
* Appeared as Cyber-terrorism Expert on CNBC?s Squawk Box with Mark Haines
Kevin served as Director of Information Systems Security & Business Continuity at Alliance Data Systems and as the Banking Security Officer of World Financial Network National Bank. Kevin has held positions for oversight of all regulatory compliance, data security, and data privacy issues as well as; compliance with FFIEC Banking Regulations and directed the OCC & SAS 70 Audits for the corporation.
From 1984 until 1997, Kevin worked for AMR AA/SABRE where he held various management positions of increasing responsibility. In 1995, Kevin managed the SABRE division's implementation and compliance to all European Union & European Commission regulations for Computerized Reservation Systems, which also included external audit management, and all SABRE contract management.
Kevin is known for building strategic alliances, converting complicated regulatory and compliance language and translating it into common sense, easy to understand solutions. Kevin is a Master Security Architect (MSA); a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP); a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and attended the SMU Cox School of Business.
Contact Information:
Kevin M. Nixon, MSA, CISSP, CISM
Mobile (214) 649-6305
E-mail: Kevin.Nixon@datacastlecorp.com
Company Webpage: http://www.datacastlecorp.com
Media Relations Contact: media@datacastlecorp

Mari FRank Interviews Rick D’Angona Chief Security Officer of Experian at Data Protection Summit

ick D'Angona is Chief Information Security Officer for Experian Americas. Rick has overall responsibility for information security strategies across Experian business units. He works to bridge the gap between the technical aspects of information security and executive management by providing guidance on best practice compliance controls as a way to support corporate objectives. He presents to Experian audiences around the United States and collaborates with the Experian UK team to continually improve the application of information security principles to the rapidly changing business environment. Rick was a featured speaker at the 5th World Consumer Credit Reporting Conference held in Capetown, South Africa in October, 2006. Rick joined Experian in January 2005 after serving as Vice President of Corporate Information Security at State Street Corporation where his responsibilities included governing the implementation of security controls for the world's largest custodian of mutual funds. Prior to joining State Street he was Director of Online Brokerage for Fidelity Investments, responsible for enhancing the electronic distribution channels to increase sales revenues and minimize costs. He was involved in all aspects of the process including targeted marketing campaigns, regulatory compliance and print/mail fulfillment. Rick has more than 25 years experience in information systems management, application development and design and is now meeting the significant challenge of providing security solutions for Experian.

Mari Frank, Esq Interviews Kathyrn Montgomery, Professor , Author of Generation Digital

Tom Coughlin
Tom is the Founder and President of Coughlin Associates and Chairman of the 2007 Data Protection Summit. Tom has over 25 years of experience in the data storage industry as a working engineer and high level technical and corporate executive. For several years he has been collaborating with the Center for Magnetic Recording Research at the University of California, San Diego on the sanitization of disk drive data. In addition to regular technical and market consulting projects he is the publisher of several reports covering technology and applications for digital storage devices and systems including storage components, capital spending, storage technology trends, a series on storage and digital entertainment and a series on system storage. He has 6 patents on magnetic recording and related technologies. Tom is the founder and organizer of the annual Storage Visions Conference (which celebrated its sixth year in 2007). Tom is a senior member and officer of the Santa Clara Valley IEEE, as well as a member of APS, AVS, IDEMA, SNIA, AAAS, and SMPTE. Websites:www.dataprotectionsummit.com or www.TomCoughlin.com
Jay Kramer
Jay brings to iStor over 20 years of sales and marketing executive management experience. He has been a world recognized technology consultant specializing in the network storage industry for both private and NASDAQ listed organizations along with providing consulting services to the leading network storage product companies. Prior to joining iStor Networks, Kramer was Chairman of the ILM Summit and Data Protection Summit which are leading sources of information on network storage. His background includes the emergence of Infinity I/O Inc. as a leading provider of storage network education, training, and certification. Jay has an extensive marketing management background having been VP of Marketing for Creative Design Solutions, Inc., an OEM provider of Network Attached Storage (NAS) technology, VP of Marketing for Maxtor/Seagate Corporation which acquired CDS and Director of Strategic Planning & Business Development for the Storage Systems Division of Unisys Corporation. In this position, Kramer directed their fibre channel and storage networking business initiatives.
Kramer has also served the network storage industry in a number of leadership positions over the last decade. He was previously elected to the Board of Directors of the Fibre Channel Industry Association for 7 years running and served as the first CFO for the organization. He continues to serve in an advisory position with leading technology conferences such as the Flash Memory Summit and Data Protection Summit. Jay has also been a featured speaker for many industry conferences including Storage Networking World and Storage World Conference.
Jay holds dual degrees in Marketing and Finance from The Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University.
Visit Jay's Website: www.istor.com

Mari Frank Interviews TomCoughlin, Technology Expert and Jay Kramer VP Marketing IStore

om is the Founder and President of Coughlin Associates and Chairman of the 2007 Data Protection Summit. Tom has over 25 years of experience in the data storage industry as a working engineer and high level technical and corporate executive. For several years he has been collaborating with the Center for Magnetic Recording Research at the University of California, San Diego on the sanitization of disk drive data. In addition to regular technical and market consulting projects he is the publisher of several reports covering technology and applications for digital storage devices and systems including storage components, capital spending, storage technology trends, a series on storage and digital entertainment and a series on system storage. He has 6 patents on magnetic recording and related technologies. Tom is the founder and organizer of the annual Storage Visions Conference (which celebrated its sixth year in 2007). Tom is a senior member and officer of the Santa Clara Valley IEEE, as well as a member of APS, AVS, IDEMA, SNIA, AAAS, and SMPTE. Websites:www.dataprotectionsummit.com or www.TomCoughlin.com
Jay Kramer
Jay brings to iStor over 20 years of sales and marketing executive management experience. He has been a world recognized technology consultant specializing in the network storage industry for both private and NASDAQ listed organizations along with providing consulting services to the leading network storage product companies. Prior to joining iStor Networks, Kramer was Chairman of the ILM Summit and Data Protection Summit which are leading sources of information on network storage. His background includes the emergence of Infinity I/O Inc. as a leading provider of storage network education, training, and certification. Jay has an extensive marketing management background having been VP of Marketing for Creative Design Solutions, Inc., an OEM provider of Network Attached Storage (NAS) technology, VP of Marketing for Maxtor/Seagate Corporation which acquired CDS and Director of Strategic Planning & Business Development for the Storage Systems Division of Unisys Corporation. In this position, Kramer directed their fibre channel and storage networking business initiatives.
Kramer has also served the network storage industry in a number of leadership positions over the last decade. He was previously elected to the Board of Directors of the Fibre Channel Industry Association for 7 years running and served as the first CFO for the organization. He continues to serve in an advisory position with leading technology conferences such as the Flash Memory Summit and Data Protection Summit. Jay has also been a featured speaker for many industry conferences including Storage Networking World and Storage World Conference.
Jay holds dual degrees in Marketing and Finance from The Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University.
Visit Jay's Website: www.istor.com

Mari Frank Interviews Jeff Chester, Founder of Center for Digital Destiny

Jeffrey Chester is the founder and executive director of The Center for Digital Democracy. He has been an important force in public-interest media issues for more than twenty years. His book, Digital Destiny: New Media and the Future of Democracy, will be published in January 2007 by The New Press. In 1992, he co-founded the nonprofit Washington, D.C.-based Center for Media Education (CME), along with Kathryn Montgomery, Ph.D. Jeff was a co-founder of the Telecommunications Policy Roundtable, and helped write its groundbreaking set of principles for the digital age in 1993. In 1995-1996, during the debate on the Telecommunications Act, he played a key role in fighting proposed deregulatory ownership measures for the broadcasting, newspaper, and cable industries. In 1996, Newsweek magazine named him one of the Internet's fifty most influential people. In 2000, Jeff created CME's project on open access and the future of the Internet, which he transferred to the Center for Digital Democracy upon the establishment of that organization in 2001. He is credited with helping to frame the debate and for uncovering key industry documents that helped expose the cable industry's plans for the Internet. During 2000 he co-led the effort, to impose conditions on the merger of AOL and Time Warner. In 2001, he was awarded a prestigious Public Interest Pioneer Grant from the Stern Family Fund. Under his leadership, CDD played a pivotal role fighting the plans of FCC Chairman Michael Powell, during 2001-3, to further sweep away media ownership safeguards. Jeff led the campaign during 2004-6 to expose how the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, under former Chair Kenneth Tomlinson, was engaged in a pressure campaign designed to weaken news and public affairs programming on PBS.
Prior to his media policy career, Jeff was a psychiatric social worker, investigative journalist, and a documentary filmmaker.
To learn more, visit www.democraticmedia.org .

Mari Frank Interviews James Rule, Professor, Berkeley, Author of Privacy in Peril

ames Rule is a Distinguished Affiliated Scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California, Berkeley. A former fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, he is the author of Private Lives and Public Surveillance and Privacy in Peril, and a winner of the C. Wright Mills Award. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, Washington Monthly, and New York Times Book Review.

mari Frank Interviews Ari Schwartz,Deputiy Director of the Center For Democracy and Technology

Ari Schwartz is the Deputy Director of the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT). Schwartz's work focuses on increasing individual control over personal and public information. He promotes privacy protections in the digital age and expanding access to government information via the Internet. He regularly testifies before Congress and Executive Branch Agencies on these issues.
Schwartz also leads the Anti-Spyware Coalition (ASC) , anti-spyware software companies, academics, and public interest groups dedicated to defeating spyware. In 2006, Schwartz won the RSA award for Excellence in Public Policy for his work building the ASC and other efforts against spyware. He was also named one of the Top 5 influential IT security thinkers of 2007 by Secure Computing Magazine.
www.cdt.org

mari Frank Interviews Mugzzi, Cyber Business ID ’Theft Victim and Author

Feb 6, Mz. Mugzzi- Author, Professional Medium, Victim of Cyber and Business Identity Theft
Mz. Mugzzi, also known as Mugzzi or Sam, has been working successfully on the internet for over 9 years. She is an author, professional Medium and Radio Host. Most recently she has also been the victim of Cyber and Business Identity Theft. She will tell her horror story and what she had done to remedy the situation.
She started out working an hour a week on her first web site known as Live Advice. At the time she had been teaching part time at two community colleges in the disciplines of Business/Marketing and Computers. She was a faculty member for 7 and a half years. Although her passion was in teaching she had a calling to start operating as a psychic advisor on the internet.
Her popularity grew quickly and the need to teach full time waned to the growing number of callers that was looking for authentic, intelligent, medium readings and life coaching skills. As her callers began to line up back to back for insight, Mugzzi's confidence began to grow and the opportunity to start her own psychic website was born. She took the best of the best and added them to her psychic site known as Predict My Future.com. Gaining more exposure and creditability her career as a psychic medium continued to grow.
The opportunity to begin a radio show happened while she filled in for a friend, Robin Zodiac, on CRNi.net. As her call volume began to grow on the show she decided to start her own show which can be heard on Sunday mornings from 10:00am until 11:00am pacific time. She has recently been joined with a Co-Host, Mark Nelson, to help further promote the gifts of Mediumship readings.
In her spare time she is also assisting law enforcement on cold case files. This is providing an avenue for continued growth and to give back to society. She is also working with terminally ill patients to help them by providing intuitive health readings coupled with various health providers and also, in the event where needed, to help prepare them to cross over.
Currently, Mz. Mugzzi is now working on her book and being available as a radio guest and other opportunities as they arise. With all that going on Mugzzi still hopes to work with script writers in order to get her TV series produced and aired. More will come from this adventurous woman who is striving to bring creditability to the metaphysical industry. Mz. Mugzzi is not another card flipper.
To learn more visit http://www.mzmugzzi.com.

Mari Frank, Esq. Interviews Harry Hammitt, Publisher Access Reports

Harry Hammitt is editor/publisher of Access Reports, a biweekly newsletter on the Freedom of Information Act and open government laws and policies. He is the primary editor of Litigation Under the Federal Open Government Laws published by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC).
He received his B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1975. He holds an M.A. in journalism from the University of Missouri and a J.D. from George Washington University Law School. He has worked as an information specialist for the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and for FOI Services, a third-party requesting company that deals primarily with businesses in the food and drug industry.
He became editor of Access Reports in 1985 and became publisher in 1989. He has written and lectured extensively on access and privacy issues in both the United States and Canada. He is a past president of the American Society of Access Professionals and has conducted that organization's annual seminar on business information issues for more than ten years. He was inducted into the FOI Hall of Fame at the Freedom Forum in Arlington, Virginia, in 2001.
Please see www.accessreports.com

Mari Frank Esq. Interviews Evan Hendricks Publisher of Privacy Times and Author of Credit Scores and Credit Reports

981- Present Editor/Publisher of Privacy Times
Since 1981, I have been Editor/Publisher of Privacy Times, a biweekly, Washington-based newsletter that reports on privacy and information law, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). The newsletter ranges from 8-12 pages, 23 issues per year. Thus, I have researched, written, edited and published many articles on Congressional and State legislative actions, judicial opinions, industry trends and actions, executive branch policies and consumer news as they related to the FCRA.
1992 - Present Expert Witness
Qualified by the federal courts in FCRA and identity theft cases. (Complete list attached). I have read extensive deposition testimony by credit bureau and credit grantor personnel. This is significant because CRAs and credit grantors do not openly discuss or publish information on their procedures and practices for handling personal data, and the best (and possibly only) sources for finding candid descriptions of CRAs' and credit grantors' procedures and practices in relation to credit reporting data are the depositions of CRA and credit grantor employees in FCRA litigation.
1998 - Present Privacy Expert Consultant, U.S. Social Security Administration
Regularly review policies and practices in relation to the collection, use and disclosure of personal data and Social Security numbers and provide feedback and recommendations.
2002 - 2004 Member, Experian Consumer Advisory Council
Along with other Council members, I provide an outsider's view on credit reporting, marketing and other privacy issues.
July - October 2002 Consultant to U.S. Postal Service
Working with the USPS's Chief Privacy Officer, I assisted in reviewing and editing the re-write of the USPS's Privacy Act notices, with an emphasis on "Plain English."
Recent Testimony Before Congress & The FTC
"Identity Theft: Recent Developments Involving the Security of Sensitive Consumer Information," Senate Banking Committee, March 15, 2005
"The Accuracy of Credit Report Information and the Fair Credit Reporting Act;" Senate Banking Committee, July 10, 2003
"The Role of FCRA in the Credit Granting Process," House Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions & Consumer Credit, June 12, 2003
"Database Security: Finding Out When Your Information Has Been Compromised," Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism and Government Information, Nov. 4, 2003
Fighting Fraud: Improving Information Security," House Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions & Consumer Credit, and Oversight, April 3, 2003
"Information Flows: The Costs and Benefits to Consumers and Businesses of The Collection and Use of Consumer Information," Federal Trade Commission, National Workshop, June 18, 2003
Books
Credit Scores and Credit Reports: How The System Really Works, What You Can Do (Privacy Times, 2004)
Your Right To Privacy: A Basic Guide To Legal Rights In An Information Society (2nd Edition, Southern Illinois University Press, 1990), (Includes a chapter on credit reporting)
Former Secrets: Government Records Made Public Through The Freedom of Information Act (Campaign For Political Rights, 1982)
International Lectures
24th International Conference of Data Protection & Privacy Commissioners (Cardiff, Wales - Presentation published in conference proceedings, 2002)
The 23rd International Conference of Data Protection Commissioners (Paris, La Sorbonne - Presentation published in conference proceedings, 2001)
The 22nd Annual Conference on Data Protection (Venice, Italy -- 2000)
The 16th Annual Conference on Data Protection (The Hague, The Netherlands -- 1994).
In the 1980s, served as an expert consultant to both the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and Privacy Commissioner of Australia.
Presentations/Instruction At Recent CLE & Professional Seminars
"The New FACT Act: Challenge & Opportunity," Privacy & American Business, Feb. 9-10, 2004
"Understanding the FACT Act And The Impact of Multi-Agency Rulewriting Process," Glasser LegalWorks, Sept. 28-29. 2004
"12th Annual National Conference," National Credit Reporting Association, Nov. 10-12, 2004
"Advanced Consumer Litigation," Texas Bar CLE, Feb. 10-11, 2005
"Financial Privacy Litigation," (Impact of FACT Act), Practicing Law Institute, February 28- March 1 (New York City)
Professional Societies
Past President and Board Member, American Society of Access Professionals
www.accesspro.org
Industry Certification
FCRA Certification, National Credit Reporting Association (www.ncrainc.org).
Media
In addition to being a paid consultant and special guest on CNN's IMPACT news in 1996, I am quoted regularly by major and small newspapers (including The Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek and Money Magazine), regarding issues of privacy generally and the privacy implications of consumer reporting specifically. I have appeared on ABC Nightline and World News Tonight, NBC Nightly News, CBS Evening News, CNN News Watch, CNBC, MSNBC, Fox News, various local affiliates, and such shows as the Oprah Winfrey Show and Geraldo, regarding a wide range of privacy issues.
Education
Bachelor of Arts, Columbia College, Columbia University, New York, N.Y. (1979)
Evan Hendricks P.O. Box 302
Cabin John, MD 20818
(301) 229 7002
(301) 229 8011 [fax)
www.privacytimes.com