Title/Abstract: Situational Awareness - Attack Scenarios and Breakout Session

Situational awareness Cyber training using everyday scenarios and case studies that would impact families, facilities, and potentially government. Learn about the Dark Web and the seamy underbelly of the Internet. Who are the attackers and what are their motivations?
* Because of material covered, this presentation will be an exercise for adults only *

He holds a BA in Economics from University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. Before founding LabMD Mike spent 18 years at US Surgical and Mentor. He regularly blogs atMichaelJDaugherty.com and sits on the boards of Snoopwall, a cyber privacy company in Nashua, New Hampshire, The Private Bank of Buckhead in Atlanta, Georgia, and writes for CyberDefense Magazine. He is a private pilot and resides in Atlanta, Georgia.

Title/Abstract: Secret Law: How the FTC Regulates Cybersecurity Without Specifics, Rules or Standards

In America today the FTC, FCC and Homeland Security are jousting over who is going to regulate the internet. Michael J. Daugherty will rivet you about his blood in the water battle with the Federal Trade Commission over their relentless investigation into LabMD's data security practices showing you what they do to those who dare not "go along to get along." What happens inside the Beltway no longer impacts solely inside America's borders.

Mike exposes the real time maneuvers of government lawyers and regulators who are accustomed to no one looking. Is their power lust resulting in a less secure world?

Jodi holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and is currently a Certified Community Bank Security Professional (CCBSP) Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), and Certified Financial Services Security Professional (CFSSP). In her free time, Jodi serves as a volunteer guardian and conservator for the State of Iowa representing elderly/dependent adults and also serves on the board of Ballet Des Moines. Jodi grew up in Adel, Iowa, and continues to reside there with her husband and children.

Speaker Bio: Richard Thieme is an author and professional speaker focused on the challenges posed by new technologies and the future, how to redesign ourselves to meet these challenges, and creativity in response to radical change and identify shift. His column, "Islands in the Clickstream," was distributed to subscribers in sixty countries before collection as a book in 2004. When a friend at the National Security Agency said after they worked together on ethics and intelligence issues, "The only way you can tell the truth is through fiction," he returned to writing short stories, 19 of which are collected in “Mind Games.” A novel FOAM will be available this month (October 2015). He is also co-author of the critically extolled “UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry,” a 5-year research project using material exclusively from government documents and other primary sources, now in 65 university libraries.

His work has been taught at universities in Europe, Australia, Canada, and the United States, and he has guest lectured at numerous universities, including Purdue University (CERIAS), the Technology, Literacy and Culture Distinguished Speakers Series of the University of Texas, the “Design Matters” lecture series at the University of Calgary, and as a Distinguished Lecturer in Telecommunications Systems at Murray State University. He addressed the reinvention of “Europe” as a “cognitive artifact” for curators and artists at Museum Sztuki in Lodz, Poland, keynoted CONFidence in Krakow 2015, and keynoted “The Real Truth: A World’s Fair” at Raven Row Gallery, London, He has spoken for the National Security Agency, the FBI, the Secret Service, the US Department of the Treasury, and Los Alamos National Labs and has keynoted “hacker” conventions around the world. He spoke in 2015 at Def Con for the 20th year.

Title/Abstract: UFOs and Government: a Case Study in Disinformation, Deception, and Perception Management

There is no one "government." There are many components of government that interact and respond to challenging and anomalous events, often contending with one another - and leaving their disputes on record.

UFOs were challenging and anomalous since the 1940s, when "foo fighters" trailed planes on bombing runs over Germany and Japan. But strange flying vehicles did not go away when the war ended. In the 1950s, the CIA advocated training observers "inside" to learn what they could while dismissing reports from "outside."

To understand why and how a government responds that way is analogous to hacking a complex system. One has to do appropriate reconnaissance, then execute effective counter-measures, then engage in offensive operations.

The proliferation of reliable reports of unidentified flying objects elicited a response that feels familiar in the days of Assange, Snowden, and the NSA. UFOs were anomalous, well-documented, and challenging because, as Major General John Samford said, “credible people have seen incredible things.” Snowden, too, thought he had seen incredible things that needed to be brought into the light.

But this talk isn't about Snowden, it's about how governments manage these challenges. An NSA veteran thinks that Thieme's talk is "perfect timing - it's about how the government deals with serious yet largely unknown or not understood potential threats, while trying desperately to keep the public from knowing what they are doing. What better way to discuss the current situation at a meta level, without ever getting into the knee-jerk muddle of response to current events? You can't ask for a better context for this talk."

Richard Thieme was privileged to be invited to join the UFO History Group which includes the best researchers in the field. After 5 years of work, they produced “UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry,” an outstanding work of historical scholarship that reads like a fascinating detective story. In almost 600 pages and with nearly 1000 citations, the work illuminates the response of the government since the early 1940s. how and why policies were set, and how they were executed. Reviewers say, "this is the best book about the UFO phenomena that was ever written" and "UFOs and Government is a triumph of sober, conscientious scholarship unlikely to be equaled for years to come."

Don Quixote said, “Insanity is seeing things as they really are." This speech uses UFO phenomena as dye in the arteries of "how things really are." And how governments carry out cover and deception with all of the best intentions in the world.