Speaker Biographies

About Dave Cullinane
CISO, VP of eBay

CSO Magazine’s 2006 Compass Award --
“Visionary Leader of the Security Profession”

Keynote Presentation: Cloud Security: Building Trust in the Cloud

Dave has more than 20 years of security experience and is Board Certified in Security Management by ASIS International as a Certified Protection Professional (CPP). He is also a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and a former Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP).  Prior to joining eBay, Dave was the CISO for Washington Mutual, one of the largest banks in the United States.  Prior to that Dave was a Senior Consultant for nCipher, Inc., the Director of Information Security for Sun Life of Canada's U.S. operations and helped create Digital Equipment Corporation's Security Consulting Practice.

Dave is a Charter Member of the Alliance for Enterprise Security Risk Management (AESRM) and the Global Council of Chief Security Officer and is past International President of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA).

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About Joseph C. Granneman, CISSP

Active member in the FBI Infragard program and the Chicago Electronic Crimes Task Force

Session title: Data Protection and Access Control in the Cloud

Joseph Granneman is considered a leading authority in the information security fields. With over 20 years of technology experience in both health care and financial services, Granneman speaks regularly on risk management, electronic medical records and incident response.  He holds certifications from Microsoft, Novell, Citrix and is also a CISSP and has written articles for Information Security Magazine, CSO and CIO magazine, SC magazine, and Advance for Health Information Executives. He was active in the Health Information Security and Privacy Security Working Group for Illinois which developed the frameworks for the security and privacy of a national electronic medical record.  He was a member of the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) Security Working Group. 

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About Richard E. Mackey, Jr.

Vice President, SystemExperts

Session title: Compliance and the Cloud

Dick is regarded as one of the industry's foremost authorities on distributed computing infrastructure, compliance, and security. He has helped many organizations, from online retailers and application service providers to major manufactures assess and improve their security programs. He has advised leading Wall Street firms on overall security architecture, virtual private networks, enterprise wide authentication, and intrusion detection and analysis. Mackey has been a frequent speaker at conferences and a regular contributor to major publications on topics such as regulatory compliance, security standards, identity management, and service-oriented architecture security.

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About Jeffrey Ritter

Founder and CEO, Waters Edge Consulting

Session title: Vendor Management in the Cloud

Building on a global career in law, technology, standards development and academic research, Jeffrey's training, systems design and advisory services help organizations identify all of the rules by which systems and data are to be managed, and assure that compliance with those rules can be achieved faster, cheaper and with improved governance. Jeffrey is a well known online host and moderator of the e-symposia for ISACA, ISC(2) and ISSA.

For six years, he served as legal advisor to I-4, a private membership research organization serving the top chief information security officers in Europe and North America. As a public speaker and lecturer, Jeffrey is recognized for his effectiveness at translating complex legal and technology concepts into functional knowledge useful to legal and non-legal audiences.