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The Cyber Criminal Revolution - Staying Ahead of the Curve
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While technology allows businesses to communicate and collaborate on an unprecedented scale, technology–savvy criminals have taken advantage of new technology-based opportunities to commit crime. Whether by exploiting security glitches to break into corporate systems or by using malicious code to create armies of remote–controlled "zombie" computers, criminals have adopted new technology as avidly as businesses have. The theft of information via the Internet is a rapidly growing problem as criminals keep pace with technology and employ increasingly sophisticated and fast-spreading attacks. As new technologies are adapted by wider numbers of people, criminals respond by trying to find new vulnerabilities.
Featured Speakers
Kim Peretti
Director, PwC Forensic Services
Kimberly Kiefer Peretti, J.D., LL.M., CISSP, joined PricewaterhouseCoopers in May 2010 as a Director in the Washington D.C. Forensic Services practice. Peretti, a former senior litigator for the Department of Justice's Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, focuses on the prevention, response and remediation of all types of data breaches, including breaches involving
payment card information (PCI), personally identifiable information (PII), and personal health information (PHI). She also services a wide range of clients in matters of cyber intrusions, cyber investigations, cyber security, financial crime, fraud, and regulation, payment systems compliance
and risk mitigation, economic espionage, and Intellectual Property theft.
While at the Department of Justice, Peretti led several benchmark cybercrime investigations and prosecutions, including the prosecution of the infamous TJX hacker Albert Gonzalez who is currently serving 20 years in prison for his role in the largest hacking and identity theft case ever prosecuted by the Department of Justice in which over 170 million credit and debit card numbers were stolen from over 14 major U.S. retailers. Peretti's law review article entitled "Data Breaches: What the Underground World of Carding
Reveals," resulted in a hearing before the US House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee to consider vulnerabilities in the payment card industry. She is a frequent keynote speaker and lecturer on the topic of data breaches, cyber investigations and cyber crime, and has been recognized as an "industry pioneer" by SC Magazine in the information security industry.
Prior to her work at the Department, Peretti practiced law at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison and Mayer, Brown & Platt, focusing on information security, privacy, technology, and financial institution regulation. She is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), and holds an LL.M. (Masters of Law) from the University of Munich, Germany, and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center (magna cum laude).
Steve Elefant
CIO, Heartland Payment Systems
Steven M. Elefant, a point-of-sale payments expert with more than 29 years experience in start-up business ventures and electronic commerce, joined Heartland Payment Systems® in November 2008. In January 2009, he became the executive director of end-to-end encryption and in August, was named chief information officer (CIO).
As CIO, Steve is responsible for developing POS products and executing the company's new E3T security platform that encrypts cardholder data from the point of swipe/entry to the payment card brands. Steve manages a team of IT professionals and works closely with Heartland Chairman and CEO Robert O. Carr and the company's strategic business partners.
Prior to Heartland, Steve was an entrepreneur, founding and managing successful businesses that operated in Silicon Valley and around the world. His breadth of experience spans a wide spectrum including merchant and business services for online consumer auctions and application service provider (ASP) services for digital content and payments management. Steve is a graduate of the University of California at Los Angles (UCLA) and enjoys flying airplanes in his spare time.
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