Advanced Cyber Security Center Launch Conference

The Cyber Challenge and the Opportunity for New England

September 20, 2011 - The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, Massachusetts

Every public and private sector organization with complex IT systems is at risk of undetected attacks. With over 80 percent of the nation's IT infrastructure in private hands, we will not realize a secure cyber environment without a much deeper level of collaboration.

The Advanced Cyber Security Center (ACSC) Launch Conference is part of a larger initiative to build the regional and national partnerships necessary to achieve this enhanced collaboration.

This by-invitation-only convening of leading university, industry, and government cyber security experts and stakeholders marks a milestone in the development of the Advanced Cyber Security Center (ACSC), a cross-sector, public-private collaboration addressing the most critical cyber security challenges.

Our list of distinguished speakers includes:

  • Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, U.S. Senate [video presentation]
  • Honorable Deval Patrick, Governor, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
  • Attorney General Martha Coakley, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
  • Secretary Gregory Bialecki, Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
  • Mel Bernstein, Senior Vice Provost for Research and Graduate Education, Northeastern University
  • Gary Gagnon, Vice President and Corporate Director, Cyber Security, The MITRE Corporation
  • Jack Goldsmith, Henry L. Shattuck Professor, Harvard Law School
  • Alfred Grasso, President & CEO, The MITRE Corporation
  • William Guenther, President, Mass Insight Global Partnerships
  • Bret Hartman, Chief Technology Officer, RSA and EMC Fellow
  • Douglas Maughan, Division Director, Cyber Security Division, Science & Technology Directorate, Department of Homeland Security
  • Ronald Rivest, Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Co-founder, RSA
  • Tom Quinn, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer, State Street Corporation
  • Carlos Solari, Vice President, Cyber Security Technology and Services, CSC
  • Chris Wysopal, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Veracode

    • The Conference was hosted by Alfred Grasso, President and CEO, The MITRE Corporation and fellow executives from the charter membership of the ACSC.

    The ACSC is a cross-sector, industry-driven collaboration hosted at The MITRE Corporation organized to address the most sophisticated and critical cyber security challenges and establish the region as a national leader in cyber security R&D innovation and related education programs.