Billy Rios & Jeff Carr

Billy Rios is currently a Security Engineer for Microsoft where he studies emerging risks and cutting edge security attacks and defenses. Before his current role as a Security Engineer, Billy was a Senior Security Consultant for VeriSign.  Billy performed network, web-application, wireless, social engineering security reviews for various clients in the Fortune 500.  Most importantly, Billy helped clients understand the existing and emerging security risks that their businesses face, so that they could make an informed business decision. Prior to joining VeriSign, Billy worked as a penetration tester for the Advanced Security Center (Ernst and Young), breaking into information systems and helping clients in the Fortune 500 understand existing and emerging security risks. Before his life as a consultant, Billy helped defend US Department of Defense networks as an Intrusion Detection Analyst and was an active duty Officer in the US Marine Corps.

Billy has presented at numerous conferences including: Blackhat, RSA, Bluehat, DEFCON, PacSec, HITB, the Annual Symposium on Information Assurance (ASIA), as well as several other security related conferences.

Billy has an undergraduate degree in Business (with a formal concentration in Information Systems) from the University of Washington and a Master of Science Degree in Information Systems (with Distinction) from Hawaii Pacific University.  Billy is currently pursuing his MBA.

Jeffrey Carr (Principal, GreyLogic) is a cyber intelligence expert who writes the IntelFusion blog and specializes in the investigation of cyber attacks against governments and infrastructures by State and Non-State hackers. His work has been quoted in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, BusinessWeek, WMD Insights, The Industry Standard, and InfoSecurity News. His book, Inside Cyber Warfare, will be published by O'Reilly Media in late 2009.

Mr. Carr is also the Principal Investigator for Project Grey Goose, an Open Source intelligence investigation into the Russian cyber attacks on Georgia, the Indian Eastern Railway Website defacement and the Israeli-Palestine war in 2008 and 2009.

Abstract of the Presentation:  Sun Tzu was a Hacker - A Examination of the Tactics and Operations from a Real World Cyber Attack

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