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​IN A WORLD WHERE THINGS ARE SELDOM AS THEY SEEM.

Selected Invited Talks, Keynotes, Speaking Engagements, Paper Presentations:
2022:
  • CIO/CISO Executive Leadership Summit: How Data Privacy and Security add value.
  • IAPP PSR '22: (Int'l Assn Privacy Professionals): Practical Differential Privacy and De-identification, Austin, TX
  • TROPT: The Rise of Privacy Forum, Sand Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA
  • RSA Security Conference June, 2022, San Francisco, CA
  • NIST/IAPP LinkedIn Live: Shaping the Future of Privacy Workforce: Insights from the NIST PWWG, February
2021:
  • IAPP PSR '21: (Int'l Assn Privacy Professionals): Differential Privacy and De-identification: How Real?, San Diego
  • IAPP Privacy Engineering invited webinar: Practical Differential Privacy
  • Day of SheCurity: Building an Inclusive Security Program, Santa Clara, CA
  • University of British Columbia, Vancouver: Computer Science Student Assn: Darknet Investigations, invited talk
2020:
  • CSTA '20 (Computer Science Teachers of America): Engaging Marginalized Learners
  • IAPP PSR '20: Privacy Paradox in Jurisdictional Geolocation for Compliance
​2019:
  • Darknet Investigation Techniques for Law Enforcement at National Cryptocurrency and Dark Web Symposium at California District Attorney’s Association (CDAA), San Diego, CA
2018:
  • Anatomy of a Crime: Secure DevOps or Darknet Early Breach Detection at USENIX LISA18, Large Installation Systems Administration, Nashville, TN,  keynote
  • SmartSecure Cities, California has a Privacy Law? CA v GDPR Privacy Law & Technology, San Jose
  • Darknet Investigations- Safe and Legal Techniques, at High Tech Crime Investigation Assn (HTCIA) Conference, Washington, DC
  • Darknet Intellectual Property Crime, at Berkeley IP Scholars conference, Berkeley Law School
  • Practical Darknet Investigation Techniques in the Alameda County Crime Lab at National Cryptocurrency and Dark Web Symposium at California District Attorney’s Association (CDAA), Newport Beach, CA
  • Darknet Investigation, California Association of Criminalists (CAC), invited speaker, Concord, CA
  • Darknet Investigations, Women in e-Discovery, Mountain View, CA
  • Darknet Investigations, HTCIA, Milpitas, CA
  • Home Depot Hack: Reverse Engineering POS malware, invited guest lecturer at Merritt College, Oakland, CA
  • Password Cracking and Darknet Hacks: Malware Reverse Engineering at DevPulseCon, Mountain View, CA
  • Privacy Breaches, GDPR, NISD and SOC2, ISACA Silicon Valley
  • Darknet Investigation and Forensic Techniques at FBI RCFL, Seattle, WA
  • Darknet Investigation & Forensic Techniques at American Association of Forensic Scientists (AAFS), Seattle, WA
  • A Freedom Hosting Darknet Case Study: Anatomy of a Takedown, at American Association of Forensic Scientists (AAFS), co-presentor with Gareth Owenson, Seattle, WA
2017:
  • Dark Networks, Santa Clara University, Department of Computer Engineering, Santa Clara, CA, invited lecture
  • Darknet Cryptography, at City College of San Francisco, in CNIT 141: Cryptography for Computer Networks, guest lecturer
  • GDPR Enforcement and the Darknet, at ISACA Silicon Valley Fall Conference, Santa Clara, CA,  invited talk
  • GDPR and Breaches, Early Detection on the Darknet, at ISACA Fall Conference, San Francisco, CA, invited talk
  • Darknet Investigations, at University of Portsmouth School of Computing, Portsmouth, UK, invited talk
  • Darknet Investigations, at High Technology Crime Investigation Association (HTCIA), International Conference, Anaheim, CA, invited talk
  • Protecting the Grid from Cyber Threats Working Group, Pentagon City, Lexington Institute, invited talk
  • CyberSecurity for the SmartGrid, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Capitol Hill, Washington DC, Lexington Institute, Securing Smart Grid Data Conference, invited talk
  • MLAT World Treaty Cartel Internet Overlay for Digital Traffic Analytics, MLAT.is, 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Technologies for Homeland Security (HST17), Boston, MA, invited talk
2016:
  • NACACS, ISACA’s North America Computer Audit, Control and Security Symposium, Orlando, FL. Invited talk jointly with Rebecca Herold, the Privacy Professor. (International Information Systems Audit and Control Assn)
2015:
  • American Accounting Association Transformative Technologies Workshop, Chicago, IL- invited talk
  • Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) Institute: Cybersecurity in the Financial Services Industry, U. of Delaware, Lerner College of Business & Economics [View YouTube video]
  • Generally Accepted Privacy Principles (GAPP): invited speaker to North America Computer Audit & Control Association Symposium, NACACS15, Orlando, FL [View YouTube video]
2014:
  • PETS 14, Privacy Enhancing Technology Symposium, Amsterdam: MLATs and Path Selection
  • ECA 14 Eastern Communications Association Panel, Providence, RI: with TV & film producer Garland Waller
2013:
  • USENIX '13 Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet (FOCI13), Washington DC: Legal Hostility factors in Anonymous Network Routing
2012:
  • EnergySecurity '12 conference, Portland, OR: Legal Aspects and Case Law in Smart Grid Privacy: invited panelist
  • B-Sides Las Vegas Security Conference during Defcon/Black Hat week: SmartGrid, Surveillance & Subpoenas
2011:
  • Northeastern U. NIST SmartGrid Cybersecurity Conference, on Smart Grid Privacy Legal Frameworks
  • Jubilee Christian Church, Boston, MA, invited speaker and panelist on cyberstalking
2010:
  • Babson College, Has IT Killed Privacy?, Wellesley, MA: invited talk
  • Boston University, Craigslist Killer and Location-Based Technology: invited talk
  • Project Management Institute (PMI) National Conference, Boston, MA: COBIT and IT Standards: invited talk
2009:
  • Bentley University Usability Forum, Waltham, MA: invited talk
  • Suffolk University: Project Mgt & OpenSource: MBA class, Sawyer School of Business, Boston, MA, invited talk
  • Project Management Institute (PMI) Annual Conference, Waltham, MA: COBIT and IT Standards, invited talk
Press(Sample)
7/1/18- Be Prepared – Cybersecurity Incident Response Planning, CALCPA Technology and Business Resource Guide
5/15/17- ‘Dangerous’ ransomware campaign roils global computer networks, EENews
6/26/15- SWIFT Institute and University of Delaware collaborate on cyber security challenges, SWIFT Institute
3/18/15- Experts: Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights may ease privacy compliance, TechTarget Media
6/18/09- Mass. legislator: Revisit data security law, Boston Business Journal
6/22/09- State moving to rework data security law, Boston Business Journal
5/14/09- Mass. Senate seeks to amend, weaken data breach notification law: A bill being discussed in the Massachusetts Senate proposes major changes to the state’s data breach notification law, including encryption requirements and the law’s jurisdiction. TechTarget Media

Legislative Testimony
  • Testimony (and text) before the Massachusetts Legislature on Data Breach Laws, Massachusetts General Law (MGL) Chapter 93H and its regulations, 201 CMR 17.00
  • Testimony before the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs & Business Regulation (OCABR)on Data Breach Laws, Massachusetts General Law (MGL) Chapter 93H and its regulations, 201 CMR 17.00
  • Testimony before the Massachusetts Legislature on impact on employers of a bill amending MGL 149, which provides leave for victims
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