Topic of Discussion:

Hear the same powerful compelling talk that has been delivered to the US Secret Service Electronic Crimes Task Force, the Financial Services Technical Consortium, and the Asset Protection Executives Roundtable and many other IT security industry organizations.  Paul Sand will discuss how the introduction of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) substantially changes the threat landscape for an organization.  In effect, VoIP has converted a very trusted and reliable service, voice communication, into a less reliable service that is delivered on an infrastructure that must not be trusted. However, the business drivers behind VoIP are so strong and so compelling that they push organizations to absorb this significant additional cyber risk.  These risks of VoIP will be presented along with potential mitigation and risk management strategies.

Biography of Presenter:

Paul Sand is the President and CEO of Salare Security, a Chicago based IT Security Company built around technology developed at the Illinois Institute of Technology one of the NSA’s Centers of Excellence.  He is a 20+ year veteran of high tech industry having worked at Bell Laboratories, AT&T, Lucent Technologies and mVerify prior to founding Salare Security. He holds 21 US Patents in the areas of voice and data networking and public safety.  Mr. Sand is a working group leader for the Internet Security Alliance’s VoIP Security Project co-sponsored by NIST and DHS. He is active with the ANSI Homeland Security Standards Panel as contributor to the second release of the ANSI publication entitled, The Financial Impact of Cyber Risks: 50 Questions Every CFO Should Ask.  He is also a senior member of the IEEE.