SOURCE Boston 2009 Speaker List

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CONFIRMED KEYNOTES

AMIT YORAN Chairman and CEO NetWitness Corporation	MARCUS RANUM Chief Security Officer Tenable Network Security	PETER KUPER Principal HypAdvisor Consulting LLC
Since completing a management buyout from Mantech in 2006, Amit Yoran serves as the Chairman and CEO of NetWitness Corporation, a leading provider of network security analytic products. Prior to NetWitness he was 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 it’s CEO until the company was acquired by Symantec in 2002. He formerly served an officer in the United States Air Force in the Department of Defense's Computer Emergency Response Team. Mr Yoran serves as an independent director on the boards of several innovative security technology companies Boards, including; Guardium, Digital Sandbox, and IronKey. He previously served on the board of Cyota until the company’s acquisition by RSA in 2006, Guidance Software (GUID) through the company’s successful IPO in 2007 and as an advisor to Intruvert Networks until the company’s acquisition by McAfee in 2003. Mr. Yoran received a Master of Science degree from the George Washington University and Bachelor of Science from the United States Military Academy at West Point.	Marcus J. Ranum, Chief Security Officer of Tenable  Network Security, Inc., is a world-renowned expert on security system design and implementation. Since the late 1980's, he has designed a number of groundbreaking security products including the DEC SEAL, the TIS firewall toolkit, he Gauntlet firewall, and NFR's Network Flight Recorder intrusion detection system. He has been involved in every level of operations of a security product business, from developer, to founder and CEO of NFR. Marcus has served as a consultant to many FORTUNE 500 firms and national governments, as well as serving as a guest lecturer and instructor at numerous high-tech conferences. In 2001, he was awarded the TISC "Clue" award for service to the security community, and also holds the ISSA lifetime achievement award. In 2005 he was awarded Security Professional of the Year by Techno Security Conference	Frequently quoted and interviewed, Peter is known for his candid insights helping technology entrepreneurs and investors alike for over a decade.Peter is currently working with Windspeed Ventures and HypAdvisor Consulting, using the combined efforts to help technology companies attain their maxmum potential values. Previously, Peter was the lead software analyst at Morgan Stanley where he wrote a number of industry-defining reports and market-moving stock calls. Before joining Morgan, Peter was a director and equity analyst at SG Cowen, where he covered the software sector with a particular focus on security. He has also been an equity analyst and vice president at FAC/Equities and a research analyst at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods.