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30 May 2008, Washington, DC.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner and ten of his
senior deputies and advisors were the audience for Bill’s presentation
of “New Cyber Threats Change Old Assumptions.” The commissioner
and his staff engaged in energetic discussion during the session, which
resulted in decisions to change some IRS cybersecurity approaches. The
session took place at IRS headquarters.
15-21 May 2008, Washington, DC.
Bill presented “New Cyber Threats Change Old Assumptions”
to three small groups of senior officials from the Federal Aviation Administration
(FAA), at FAA Headquarters. Each presentation led to in-depth discussions
among the 10-15 seniors present at each session.
24 April 2008, McLean, VA.
Cyber threats and activities were the topic Bill presented to a
senior MITRE official. The result was an invitation to brief senior IRS
officials.
17 April 2008, McLean, VA.
Bill presented a strategy to be pitched to the Deputy Secretary of Defense
requesting a half-billion dollar increase in spending for military cybersecurity
research. The audience was thirty of the top military cybersecurity researchers.
Bill’s presentation achieved the group consensus that this was the
best pitch to gain the added funding.
7 April 2008, McLean, VA.
Thirty people from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) were
the audience for Bill’s brief on cyber threats. A technical glitch
forced Bill to brief without slides. He found the results superior to
his planned presentation and the talk resulted in the establishment of
strong relationships with several senior DHS officials.
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March 2008, Northfield, VT.
Norwich University instructors and students were the audience for
Bill’s talk entitled “Information Security; New Threats
Change Old Assumptions.” Bill subsequently met with the Vermont
Governor and Lieutenant Governor (who promoted Bill’s novel).
25 March 2008, McLean, VA.
A senior National Defense University (NDU) official was the audience
for Bill’s talk on cyber threats and government cyber activities.
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25 March 2008, McLean, VA.
A senior Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) audience of 20 people heard
Bill speak on cyber threats. The talk led to invitations to brief the
top officials in FAA.
21 March 2008, McLean, VA.
Two senior Marine Corps officials were the audience for Bill’s thoughts
on cyber threats.
13 March 2008, McLean, VA.
Bill presented “Enhance CIIS Technical Base” to a group of
ten MITRE senior techies. The goal was to explore how best to use senior
techies in the MITRE work program.
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March 2008, McLean, VA.
“Secrets of Successful Presentations” was the topic
as Bill presented to 15 MITREites.
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December
2007 to February 2008, McLean, VA.
To conduct research for his future How To books, Bill presented
a group mentoring session entitled How To
Get What You Want. The session included five people. Feedback
from the participants was extraordinary: “It changed my life…it
really changed my life,” “It made my life much easier,”
“I would like to keep going with this mentoring group and
am sorry to see it end.” One class member sent a card: “The
lessons I learned will help me in all aspects of my life. Thank
you, thank you, thank you!”
27 February 2008, Bedford, MA.
Bill presented a summary of cybersecurity issues to 15 MITREites.
15 February 2008, McLean, VA.
Bill presented a summary of cybersecurity issues to eight MITREites.
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12 February 2008, McLean, VA.
Leap-Ahead Cyber Research Offsite was the topic Bill briefed to 40 military
researchers.
6 February 2008, McLean, VA.
Bill presented Mission Assurance against Sophisticated Threats (MAST)
to six MITRE seniors.
5 February 2008, McLean, VA.
Bill presented Mission Assurance against Sophisticated Threats (MAST)
to ten officials from the Federal Aviation Administration.
14 January 2008, McLean, VA.
Bill presented a summary of cybersecurity issues to 15 MITREites.
9 January 2008, McLean, VA.
Bill presented Mission Assurance against Sophisticated Threats (MAST)
to 35 people in two separate presentations.
8 January 2008, Washington, DC.
Bill was the dinner keynote speaker for 240 people at the 2008 Scholarship
For Service (SFS) Annual Job Fair and Symposium, held in the ballroom
of the Renaissance Mayflower Hotel. He spoke on Adventures of SFS Grads.
The conference bought 20 copies of Bill’s
novel and raffled them off to attendees.
3 January 2008, McLean, VA.
Bill presented Mission Assurance against Sophisticated Threats (MAST)
to 25 MITREites.
19 December 2007, Bedford, MA.
Bill briefed Mission Assurance against Sophisticated Threats (MAST) to
50 MITREites in two separate presentations.
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December 2007, Colorado Springs, CO.
Bill presented Secrets of Successful Presentations to 20 MITRE and
government people.
11-12 December 2007, Colorado Springs, CO.
Bill briefed Mission Assurance against Sophisticated Threats (MAST)
to 100 MITRE and government people in three separate presentations.
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5 December 2007, McLean, VA.
Bill presented Mission Assurance against Sophisticated Threats (MAST)
to 50 people, including 40 from the Federal Aviation Administration.
25 October 2007, McLean, VA.
Ten officials from the Federal Aviation Administration were the audience
for Bill’s Mission Assurance against Sophisticated Threats (MAST).
24 October 2007, McLean, VA.
Bill presented Mission Assurance against Sophisticated Threats (MAST)
to a half dozen senior MITREites.
22 October 2007, McLean, VA.
Bill presented Mission Assurance against Sophisticated Threats (MAST)
to 50 MITREites.
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19 October 2007,
Annapolis, MD.
Bill presented the morning keynote (Information Security: New Threats
Change Old Assumptions) to 90 people at EDOC 2007 (The Enterprise
Computing Conference) at The Westin Hotel Annapolis. The
sponsors bought 90 copies of Bill’s novel and distributed
them to attendees. Bill did a book signing after his talk.
17 October 2007, Washington, DC.
A half dozen senior judges from the Federal Judiciary were key members
of an audience of 20 that Bill briefed on cybersecurity threats
and issues. As a result of the briefing, the judges added cybersecurity
as a topic at their next Federal Judiciary conference and invited
Bill as a keynote speaker.
16 October 2007, McLean, VA.
Bill presented Mission Assurance against Sophisticated Threats (MAST)
to a dozen officials from the Federal Aviation Administration.
11 October 2007, McLean, VA.
Bill presented the results of a leap-ahead cyber research offsite
to a dozen MITREites.
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11 October 2007, McLean, VA.
Bill presented Mission Assurance against Sophisticated Threats (MAST)
to 35 people at a technical exchange meeting on business continuity planning.
10 October 2007, Washington, DC.
A dozen Department of Homeland Security (DHS) seniors were the audience
for Bill’s Mission Assurance against Sophisticated Threats (MAST)
presentation.
9 October 2007, Bedford, MA.
Bill briefed an audience of 40, including the MITRE Board of Trustees,
officers, and others on cybersecurity activities.
9 October 2007, Bedford, MA.
Bill presented Mission Assurance against Sophisticated Threats (MAST)
to about 40 MITREites.
7 September 2007, McLean, VA.
Bill presented a Mission Assurance against Sophisticated Threats (MAST)
overview to a half dozen MITREites.
5 September 2007, McLean VA.
Bill presented summaries on Mission Assurance against Sophisticated Threats
(MAST) activities to a half dozen MITRE officers.
28 August 2007, Washington, DC.
The pentagon was the location for Bill’s brief on Mission Assurance
against Sophisticated Threats (MAST) activities to about 30 senior DoD
officials.
23 August 2007, McLean, VA.
Bill presented an hour summary of a Global Information Grid Tiger Team
to about 30 MITREites..
16 August 2007, McLean, VA.
Bill presented Mission Assurance against Sophisticated Threats (MAST)
to several MITRE officers.
30 July 2007, McLean, VA.
Bill changed the name of his talk from “Countering Sophisticated
Cyber Threats" to "Mission Assurance against Sophisticated Threats
(MAST)" and presented it to a dozen MITREites. Prior MAST talks were
an introduction to Bill’s MAST initiative.
25 July 2007, Dayton, OH.
Bill presented “Countering Sophisticated Cyber Threats" to
a group of 50 people, including a three-star general and many senior officers
and civilians.
19 July 2007, McLean, VA.
Bill presented “Mission Assurance against Sophisticated Threats
(MAST) to a group of 40 MITREites.
16 July 2007, McLean, VA.
At a MITRE Technical Exchange Meeting (TEM) on the Practice of Enterprise
Architecture, Bill tried another presentation experiment. As the closing
speaker, he prepared his talk of 29 slides entirely during the TEM, a
topic about which he knew little, and presented “In Conclusion”
to 50 people. The talk received a special recognition award from TEM organizers.
9 July 2007, McLean, VA.
Bill presented “Mission Assurance against Sophisticated Threats
(MAST) to a governance group of 20 senior MITREites.
2 July 2007, McLean, VA.
Bill presented to the MITRE president and several vice presidents the
status of work related to “Countering Sophisticated Cyber Threats.”
26 June 2007, Herndon, VA.
Sixty people heard Bill’s popular talk on “Countering Sophisticated
Cyber Threats.” This popular talk has sold itself, with requests
for presentations spreading by word-of-mouth alone—no advertising
by Bill.
25 June 2007, Columbia, MD.
A dozen senior government executives heard Bill’s talk on “Countering
Sophisticated Cyber Threats.”
20 June 2007, Bedford, MA.
An audience of 50 MITREites heard Bill’s popular talk on “Countering
Sophisticated Cyber Threats.”
14 June 2007, Crystal City, VA.
Several very senior government executives were the audience for Bill’s
talk on “Countering Sophisticated Cyber Threats.”
6 June 2007, McLean, VA.
The MITRE Board of Trustees and several senior sponsors were the audience
for Bill’s featured talk on “Countering Sophisticated Cyber
Threats.” About 40 people were present.
18 May 2007, Alexandria, VA.
Bill hosted a government workshop on mission assurance for over 100 people
and gave the opening talk.
17 May 2007, McLean, VA.
Bill presented “Countering Sophisticated Cyber Threats” to
20 senior MITREItes.
17 May 2007, McLean, VA.
Bill presented a summary of his work on “Countering Sophisticated
Cyber Threats” to a dozen MITREites.
16 May 2007, McLean, VA.
“Countering Sophisticated Cyber Threats” was again Bill’s
topic, this time to a dozen senior MITREites and sponsors.
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May 2007, Washington, DC.
“Secrets of Successful Presentations” was well received
by a dozen MITREites.
15 May 2007, Colombia, MD.
Bill presented “Countering Sophisticated Cyber Threats”
to 25 senior people.
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8 May 2007, McLean, VA.
At a Technical Exchange Meeting (TEM) on information sharing, Bill tried
a presentation experiment to 50 people. Having sat through the TEM, he
served as the final speaker on the closing panel and gave a five-minute
talk without slides that strove to both summarize the TEM and inspire
the attendees.
27 April 2007, Linthicum, MD.
Bill’s talk on “Countering Sophisticated Cyber Threats”
turned viral. This presentation was to another auditorium of over 100
people.
25 April 2007, Rosslyn, VA.
“Countering Sophisticated Cyber Threats” was Bill’s
topic for presentation to 60 senior people in a plenary session of the
Defense Science Board.
“Countering Sophisticated Cyber Threats” was again Bill’s
topic, this time to a dozen senior MITREites and sponsors.
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April 2007, Washington, DC.
“Information Security; New Threats Change Old Assumptions”
was the title of Bill’s featured keynote at a conference of
125 people sponsored by ImmixGroup. The
sponsors bought 125 copies of Bill’s novel and distributed
them to attendees. Bill did a booksigning after his talk.
18 April 2007, McLean, VA.
Bill presented a Center for Integrated Intelligence Systems (CIIS)
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2007, McLean, VA.
Bill reprised “Secrets of Successful Presentations”
for 50 MITREites.
4 April 2007, Chantilly, VA.
An auditorium of over 200 people heard Bill speak on “Countering
Sophisticated Cyber Threats.” The crowd set a five-year record
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30 March 2007, Hampton Roads, VA.
Another group of 20 Air Force generals and colonels was the audience for
Bill’s talk on “Countering Sophisticated Cyber Threats.”
MITRE bought 20 copies of Bill’s novel
and distributed them to the generals and colonels.
13 March 2007, Bedford, MA.
Bill presented a Center for Integrated Intelligence Systems (CIIS) overview
for newcomers to the CIIS. The talk was based on 20 interviews that he
conducted and included many cameos and stories of MITREites. It was designed
to inspire newcomers to adopt the MITRE culture and live up to a high
standard. The talk was inspired by a welcoming talk Diana Chapman Marsh
gave at Wellesley College in October.
13 March 2007, McLean, VA.
Bill presented “Countering Sophisticated Cyber Threats” to
another bunch of about 50 MITREites.
20 February 2007, Hampton Roads, VA.
Almost 20 Air Force generals (including a four-star, two three-stars,
and many two-star generals) were the audience for Bill’s presentation
on “Countering Sophisticated Cyber Threats.”
17 January 2007, Rosslyn, VA.
The Air Force Scientific Advisory Board Panel on cyber war was the audience
for Bill’s presentation on “Countering Sophisticated Cyber
Threats.” Attendees included 25 senior people.
8 January 2007, McLean, VA.
Bill presented “Countering Sophisticated Cyber Threats.” Attendees
included 30 MITREites.
21 December 2006, McLean, VA.
Bill presented “Countering Sophisticated Cyber Threats.” Attendees
included 20 senior government staffers and 20 MITREites.
15 December 2006, McLean, VA.
Bill presented a proposal for work in a new area of countering sophisticated
cyber threats. The proposal was accepted.
14 September 2006, McLean, VA.
Bill presented a reprise of "Key Management Infrastructure—Independent
Assessment."
22 August 2006, McLean, VA.
Bill presented "Key Management Infrastructure—Independent Assessment"
to 20 MITREites.
11 August 2006, Pentagon, Washington, DC.
Bill presented "Key Management Infrastructure—Independent Assessment"
to many senior executives. The recommendations of Bill’s team were
accepted and the effort moved on to success.
26 July 2006, McLean, VA.
Bill presented “IA Challenges and Opportunities” to 20 people
at a government offsite.
20 July 2006, Pentagon, Washington, DC.
Bill presented “Countering Sophisticated Cyber Threats” to
several senior government officials.
2 June 2006, McLean, VA.
Bill presented “C4ISR Integration and Interoperability Report –
Issue Update, Information Assurance.” The goal was to lay the groundwork
for follow-on efforts.
19 April 2006,
Chantilly, VA.
"Show As You Tell—Secrets of Successful Presentations"
continues its run with a presentation to MITRE's Recon Engineering
and Integration department.
21 April 2006, Bedford, MA.
The Boston chapter of International Association of Law Enforcement
Intelligence Analysts (IALEIA)
receives the first presentation outside MITRE of "Show As You
Tell—Secrets of Successful Presentations."
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14 April, Bedford, MA.
"Information Security—It's All In How You Play The Cards"
gets another run at a lunch meeting of MITRE's Open Services Section.
29 March 2006,
McLean, VA.
Bill once again presents "Show As You Tell—Secrets of
Successful Presentations," this time to his own Information
Security Division, via VTC between McLean and Bedford.
28 March 2006, McLean, VA.
Bill presents "Show As You Tell—Secrets of Successful
Presentations" at an Interaction Skills Technical Exchange
Meeting.
24 March 2006, McLean, VA.
"Show As You Tell—Secrets of Successful Presentations"
continued its hot run with a presentation to MITRE's Analysis and
Studies department.
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23 March 2006, Linthicum, MD.
Bill presented "Information Security—It's All In How You Play
The Cards" to 120 people at the National Security Agency.
17 March 2006,
McLean, VA.
Bill's initial presentation of "Show As You Tell—Secrets
of Successful Presentations" to the Center for Enterprise Modernization
(CEM) was so successful that he did a return engagement.
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14 March 2006, Washington, DC.
The inaugural session of the Department of the Treasury Lecture Series
included Bill as one of the distinguished panelists in a session entitled
"The Future of Cyber Security: Perspectives and Prognostications
from Industry Experts." He spoke to 50 people on the security implications
of advancing technology.
7 March 2006, Tyson's Corner, VA.
The DC Chapter of FBI's InfraGard program was the audience for Bill's
keynote on "Information Security-It's All In How You Play The Cards."
A booksigning followed the talk.
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McLean, VA.
"Show As You Tell—Secrets of Successful Presentations"
was the maiden voyage of a new talk based on Bill's forthcoming
How-To book by the same name. Bill presented to 100 people at the
Center for Enterprise Modernization. |
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9 February 2006, McLean, VA.
"Information Sharing--More Than CDS" was the title of a new
briefing Bill presented to 40 people at five MITRE sites. Bill's talk
kicked off an all-day meeting on Cross Domain Solutions.
8 February 2006, Washington, DC.
Bill gave a featured keynote talk to 50 people at the IT
Security and Cyberterrorism Conference organized by INPUT Market Research.
He presented "IT Security Grows Up--The Beginning of a New Age."
27 December 2005, McLean, VA.
Bill presented "Information Security--It's All In How You Play The
Cards" to 50 people at seven MITRE sites (through videoteleconference
and phone dial-in).
20 December 2005, Washington, DC.
Bill was the featured keynoter for 200 people at the Federal Communications
Commission (FCC) Computer Security Day. He presented "Information
Security--It's All In How You Play The Cards."
19 October 2005, McLean, VA.
Bill presented an introductory keynote at a technical exchange meeting
on Security and Enterprise Architecture.
20 September 2005, Linthicum, MD.
At a computer network defense workshop sponsored by the National Security
Agency, Bill presented "Ten Steps To Improve DoD Insider Threat Protection"
to 80 people. He also participated as a panelist on countering insider
threats.
2 August 2005, O'Fallon, IL.
At a technical exchange meeting on security for combatant commands, Bill
presented a featured talk on "Adventures in GiG IA" to about
50 people via a multisite videoteleconference.
25-26 July 2005, Pentagon City, VA.
Bill participated as one of a dozen industry seniors in doing an independent
assessment of Department of Defense (DoD) Information Assurance (IA).
Other industry players included Dr. Matt Blaze (University of Pennsylvania),
Dr. Bill Cheswick (Lumeta Corporation), Tony Cole (Symantec), Dr. Steve
Crocker (Shinkuro CEO and ICANN Security and Stability Advisory Committee
Chair), Mary Ann Davidson (Oracle), John Gage (Sun Microsystems), Phil
Reitinger (Microsoft) Kent Schneider (Northrop Grumman), John Stewart
(Cisco), and others. On behalf of the group, Bill presented findings and
recommendations to many DoD seniors, including several general officers,
multiple Deputy Assistant Secretaries of Defense (DASDs), and the Acting
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration
(ASD/NII).
7 July 2005, Boston, MA.
Bill briefed Enterprise Systems Engineering Information Assurance to 50
people. He briefed on behalf of a team that also included Brian White,
Cindy Spaney, Richard Games, and Hugh Thomas.
6 July 2005, Boston, MA.
Government acquisition shortcomings were the topic of Bill's brief, "Untimely,
Inadequate Solutions," presented to 50 people. He briefed on behalf
of a team that also included Tom Backman, Ann Cady, Howard Carpenter,
and Jim Root.
20 June 2005, McLean, VA.
Bill presented "C4ISR Integration and Interoperability Challenges--Information
Assurance" to a meeting of MITRE officers.
13 June 2005, McLean, VA.
Over 100 people at about fifteen video teleconference locations heard
Bill present "Enterprise Systems Engineering Office Information Assurance
Activities."
9 June 2005, McLean, VA.
"Information Assurance for Missile Defense" was the title of
a new talk Bill presented to several dozen people who support the Missile
Defense Agency.
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MA.
Bill presented another full-house version of "Show As You Tell-How
To Give A Briefing." This session again was at MITRE-Bedford. |
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11 May 2005, McLean, VA.
Bill gave the introductory talk at a Black Core Technical Exchange Meeting
(TEM) within MITRE.
5 May 2005, Budapest, Hungary.
"Cyberterrorism; We're Toast," was resurrected for a
session on "Cyberterrorism: The True Nature of the Threat."
This was in a conference sponsored by The
Atlantic Council of the United States, on "Topics in Terrorism:
Toward a Transatlantic Consensus on the Nature of the Threat." Organizers
purchased 65 copies of Bill's novel to hand out to participants.
This was Bill's first European booksigning. The conference was held in
Art'otel, Budapest. Bill also wrote a paper on cyberterrorism that will
be delivered to a wide audience, including Congress. It will be interesting
to see how Congress reacts to a humorous paper lurking amidst a scholarly
collection.
19 April 2005, Denver, CO.
Bill presented Cybersecurity Points of Light to 500 people as the featured
plenary keynote at the annual
cyber security conference of the Department of Energy (DOE). The conference
took place in the The Westin Westminster hotel near Denver. Bill also
had a successful booksigning.
11 April 2005, Huntington Beach, CA.
Bill presented a talk at the exclusive Chief
Security Officer (CSO) Perspectives Conference, hosted by CSO Magazine
and held at the Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach. The title of his talk
was "Cutting-Edge Cybersecurity; Products and Tactics that make a
Difference." Organizers purchased 220
copies of Bill's novel, gift-wrapped them, and hand-delivered the books
for the hotel rooms of conference participants.
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Bedford, MA.
"Show As You Tell—How To Give A Briefing" received
its second test-run at MITRE—Bedford. The chairs filled early.
Later arrivals stood against the wall, sat on the floor, or clustered
around the door. |
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5 April 2005, McLean, VA.
Bill was the keynote speaker in a security seminar sponsored by immixTechnology,
Inc. He spoke on "Computer Network Defense, Present And Future."
Organizers purchased 50 copies of Bill's novel
to hand out to participants.
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McLean, VA.
Bill launched a major new briefing with his initial presentation
of "Show As You Tell—How To Give A Briefing." This
was presented to a test audience of 34 at MITRE McLean. |
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1 March 2005, Washington DC.
At the invitation of the Navy's CAPT Sheila McCoy, Bill participated as
a panelist at the Wireless/RFID
conference. He spoke on "Managing The Risks Of Sharing Information"
in a session on "Managing Risk: Balancing Convenience, Security,
and Policy." The session was within a track on "Wireless
Security Challenges and Opportunities". The conference was sponsored
by the E-Gov Institute and was held in the Ronald Reagan Building and
International Trade Center. Federal Computer Week covered the session
and cited
Bill's talk.
25 February 2005, McLean, VA.
"Grand Challenge—Secure Information Sharing" was the title
of a major talk Bill presented to almost 200 people at a Technology Needs
Technical Exchange Meeting at MITRE.
23 February 2005, Falls Church, VA.
The Virginia Tech Northern Virginia Center hosted Bill as the featured
speaker at their Information Assurance Colloquium. Bill presented Cybersecurity
Points of Light.
4 February 2005, Rosslyn, VA.
"Cross-Domain Challenges and Research Opportunities" was the
title of a major new brief that Bill presented to Dr. Charles Holland,
Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Science and Technology, and his senior
staff. Bill's purpose was to spring loose more investment in military
cybersecurity research.
27 January 2005, Bethesda, MD.
IBM hosted Bill for a keynote talk entitled Quest
For The MLS Grail at an IBM workshop on Multilevel Security (MLS).
Participants included about 50 IBM staff conferenced in from numerous
sites.
16 December 2004, Fairfax, VA.
Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) - Northern Virginia (NOVA)
chapter again hosted Bill as featured evening speaker. Bill presented
to 70 people his first public release of "Security To Enable Sharing."
The talk took place at PEC Solutions in Fairfax, VA.
9 December 2004, Laurel, MD
Bill presented "Senior Industry Review Group (SIRG) Recommendations
and Observations" to 400 people at an Information Assurance Technical
Framework Forum (IATFF) conference on "GIG Architecture Implications
for IA Products and Services." The SIRG is a small group of industry
seniors requested by the National Security Agency (NSA) to provide an
independent assessment of Information Assurance plans for the Global Information
Grid. Bill is a SIRG member. The NSA-sponsored conference was held in
the Kossiakoff Center at Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Laboratory.
30 November 2004, McLean, VA.
Bill presented "Cybersecurity Points of Light" as part
of the MITRE Joint Lecture Series. The talk was broadcast live to
Brussels, Colorado Springs (CO), Eglin-Hurlburt (FL), Huntsville
(AL), Lexington Park (MD), Eatontown (NJ), Norfolk Naval Base (VA),
Quantico (VA), San Antonio (TX), San Diego (CA), MacDill AFB (FL),
and many other national and international sites. |
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21 October 2004, McLean, VA.
Bill unveiled a powerful new talk, "Security To Enable Sharing,"
presented to several hundred people at a MITRE-hosted Cross-Boundary Information
Sharing (XBIS) conference. Improved cross-boundary information sharing
is crucial in the fight against terrorism. Bill's talk summarized information
sharing issues and identified applicable areas of technology most in need
of research or experimentation. It also revealed the powerful insights
to be gleaned from observing the behavior of five-year-old girls. The
next day Marty Faga, MITRE president, gave a state-of-the-company presentation
to all 5,000+ MITRE employees. He was asked who the most interesting characters
were whom he encountered in or out of work. He responded, "...My
other candidate is sitting here in the room. It's Bill Neugent, who repeatedly
and just yesterday gives a wonderful technical briefing that's completely
understandable by everybody in the room and he delivers it as a stand-up
comic. It's really great. I was sitting here yesterday thinking it doesn't
get better than this."
20-22 August 2004, Aspen, CO.
Bill participated as an invited guest in the Markle
Foundation's Task Force on National Security in the Information Age.
The exclusive group is composed of leaders from the civil liberties community,
industry, and former government officials. The Task Force was formed out
of the belief that we can never sufficiently harden all potential targets
against a terrorist attack or threat; instead first-rate information collection,
analysis, communications, and sharing tools should be developed to obtain
advance warning of terrorist intentions so that we can interdict terrorist
plans and focus scarce resources on the most likely terrorist targets.
The meeting took place at the Aspen Institute's conference facilities.
5 August 2004, Memphis, TN.
Bill spoke to the Memphis Chapter of Sisters in Crime (SinC), which
met at the home of John and Jan Oglesby. Bill's topics were cybersecurity
and his experiences in publishing and marketing No
Outward Sign. A multi-author booksigning followed, with Bill, Florence
A. Dauer, who (with Cheryl J. Keating) had just published the novel Stained
Glass, and Nina Salley Hepburn, who (with Beverly Williams) recently
published a collection of short stories entitled Way
Down South, Stories from the Heart of Dixie.
5 August 2004, Memphis, TN.
"Cybersecurity Points of Light" was Bill's luncheon keynote
address to over 60 members of the Memphis Chapter of Society
for Information Management (SIM). The group
made an advance purchase of 30 copies of No Outward Sign, which were handed
out to SIM members. Other participants bought 10 books at a booksigning
following the talk, which was held in the Crescent Club. This was by far
the largest attendance at any meeting of the local SIM chapter.
1 August 2004, Washington, D.C.
Bill presented an invited talk on Cyber Insecurity at the annual conference
of the World Future Society. He spoke to a crowded room in the Technology
and Science session and also did a booksigning. Rather than predict future
scenarios, Bill spoke as a novelist and presented plots that might unfold
in the near and distant future. The conference was held at the Grand Hyatt
Washington.
7 July 2004, O'Fallon, IL.
"Cybersecurity Points of Light" was the topic of Bill's keynote
talk at a Technical Interchange on Information Assurance for Combatant
Commands.
11 June 2004, Washington, D.C.
Bill gave a keynote address at the 5th
Annual SecurE-Biz CxO Security Summit, sponsored by the Department
of Defense (DoD), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the National
Reconnaissance Office (NRO), and the National Security Agency (NSA), all
partnered with industry. Bill also served as a panelist with several CTOs
and other leading industry figures. The Summit was held at Marriott Metro
Center.
7 June 2004, San Diego, CA.
Bill presented "Cybersecurity Points of Light" to 20 people
at the MITRE San Diego site.
1-25 June 2004, San Diego, Carlsbad, and San Jose CA;
Norfolk, VA.
Bill once again put his book life on hold to run a Red Team requested
by the pentagon. This time the object of scrutiny was efforts to develop
Content-Based Information Security (CBIS).
12 May 2004, McLean, VA.
"Web Services Security In Context" was the topic of Bill's invited
talk to 50 people at a Technical Exchange Meeting (TEM) held at MITRE.
11 May 2004, McLean, VA.
Bill presented "Cybersecurity in Biosurveillance Systems" to
60 people at a Technical Exchange Meeting (TEM) on "Biosurveillance:
Predicting, Detecting and Managing Disease Outbreaks." The TEM was
organized by the BioBiz Council.
28 April 2004, Falls Church, VA.
Bill gave the opening keynote to 250 people at the National Security Institute's
19th annual national security forum - IMPACT
2004! Security Strategies for Uncertain Times. Bill's talk was followed
by a sold-out booksigning at the Fairview Park Marriott.
22 April 2004, Salt Lake City, UT.
Bill presented the closing keynote talk to 500 attendees of The
Sixteenth Annual Software Technology Conference 2004. The conference
took place in the Salt Palace Convention
Center.
29 March - 4 May 2004, locations in MD, VA, MA, CA,
and NJ.
Bill put his book life on the back burner to head a senior government
Red Team looking into High Assurance Internet Protocol Encryptors (HAIPEs).
Consulting to the team were the outgoing and incoming Assistant Secretary
of Defense (Networks and Information Integration).
25 March 2004, Laurel, MD.
Bill presented a featured talk entitled "Information Assurance -
The Present; Points of Light" to 350 people at an Information
Assurance Technical Framework Forum (IATFF) conference on "Information
Assurance: Back To The Basics." Dr. Roger Schell, one of the founders
of modern cybersecurity, presented "The Past." Mike Redgraves
of NSA presented "The Future." The NSA-sponsored conference
was held in the Kossiakoff Center at Johns Hopkins University/Applied
Physics Laboratory.
11 March 2004, Adelphi, MD.
Bill gave a luncheon keynote entitled "The Cybersecurity Story; Show
As You Tell" to 80 people at the Federal
Information Systems Security Educators' Association (FISSEA). A booksigning
followed the talk. See the abstract.
2 March 2004, McLean, VA.
Bill presented "Cybersecurity Needs and Approaches" as the opening
keynote address to 50 attendees at the Federal Aviation Administration
(FAA) Information Technology (IT) Information Systems Security (ISS) Research
and Development (R&D) Workshop.
25 February 2004, Arlington, VA.
Bill spoke and did a booksigning at the Information Assurance 2004 conference
sponsored by the Institute for Defense
and Government Advancement (IDGA).
10 February 2004, Austin, TX
Barnes
& Noble hosted Bill for a booksigning on Tuesday, 4:00-6:00 PM
CST. This Austin Co-op is located at 2246 Guadalupe St.
9-10 February 2004, Austin, TX.
Bill participated as an invited speaker at the exclusive Technology
Transfer Institute (TTI)/Vanguard conference on security and privacy.
The group purchased 130 copies of No Outward
Sign for conference attendees. Bill's talk, Enterprise
Cybersecurity Needs and Approaches, was at 2:45 on 9 February.
The conference was held at the Four
Seasons Austin. Vanguard is a unique forum for the introduction, discussion,
and evaluation of emerging and breakthrough information technologies.
"At the core of Vanguard is a world-class Advisory Board, which contributes
to meetings with a rare blend of futuristic vision grounded in technological
reality. This elite group, in combination with world-renowned speakers
invited to each session, comprises a powerful intellectual network ..."
14 January 2004, Reston, VA.
On invitation from Intellitactics,
Inc., Bill presented his views on trends and future directions in
Federal government cybersecurity and security information management technology
to a corporate gathering.
9 December 2003, Cocoa Beach, FL.
Bill gave a keynote presentation on cyberterrorism to two-hundred people
at the 2003 Technology for Information Security Conference (TISC 2003),
which took place at the DoubleTree Hotel. Conference
planners bought 100 copies of No Outward Sign and distributed them to
select attendees. Bill also did a booksigning.
29 November 2003, Yeadon, PA.
It's A Mystery To Me Bookstore hosted Bill for a charming booksigning
in which Bill and Jill met some remarkable people, including Juanita,
Maria, Naima, and the incredible Gary, a laborer on the Pennsylvania Railroad
who proved to be one of the most literate and insightful people Bill has
ever met. Yeadon is in the western suburbs of Philadelphia.
18 November 2003, Los Alamos, NM.
Bill presented his cyberterrorism talk to a full house of 150 people
at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). He was introduced by Dr.
Ray Neff, LANL Chief Information Officer (CIO), and served as the
speaker for the lab's first-ever Cyber
Security Awareness Day. LANL purchased
115 copies of No Outward Sign to hand out to attendees and
received disgruntled comments from those unlucky attendees who did
not receive a coupon for the book. A booksigning followed the talk.
Cyber security awareness day was conceived and organized by Ms.
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12 November 2003, Washington, D.C.
A VeriSign Network Security Seminar featured Bill's cyberterrorism talk.
He also moderated a panel of industry executives and did a booksigning.
VeriSign purchased 150 copies of No Outward
Sign for seminar attendees. The seminar took place in the Renaissance
Washington, DC.
10 November 2003, Willimantic, CT.
Bill gave a cyberterrorism talk to about eighty people at Eastern
Connecticut State University. A booksigning followed the talk, which
was hosted by the Computer Science Department. Earlier in the day, Bill
visited Dr. Jian Lin's Operating Systems class and gave a talk on operating
systems security. Check out the photos.
8 November 2003, Mansfield Center, CT.
Bill did a booksigning at Husky Books, near the University of Connecticut.
Check out the photos.
7 November 2003, Storrs, CT.
The University of Connecticut, Bill's
alma mater, hosted his talk on cyberterrorism. The sponsor was the Computer
Science and Engineering Department within the School of Engineering.
6 November 2003, Hanscom AFB, MA.
The Association of Old Crows (AOC) Patriots' Roost chapter hosted a luncheon
and booksigning with Bill as the featured speaker. The talk took place
at the Hanscom Air Force Base Minuteman Club.
5 November 2003, Waltham, MA.
The Softpro Bookstore
at its new location in Waltham welcomed Bill for an evening talk and book-signing.
Bill signed books from 6:30 PM until 8:00 PM. This was the initial author
event at the Waltham store.
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Mechanicsburg, PA.
Bill joined six other authors for a major booksigning at the Mechanicsburg
Mystery Bookshop. The bookstore is at 6 Clouser Rd. Other authors
were Melissa Griffith, Rich Kisielewski, John Luciew, Catherine
Magaro, Mark Nesbitt, and Dennis Royer.
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Seven authors at Mechanicsburg Mystery Bookshop
And the lady wanted Bill's signature
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29-30 October 2003, Arlington, VA.
Bill chaired a conference on Protecting Government Infrastructures Against
Cyberterrorism. The conference boasted an impressive array of influential
speakers. Bill presented his cyberterrorism talk as a featured keynote
on the 30th. Advantage Global Communications
(AGC) sponsored the conference, which was held in the Sheraton
National Hotel.
29 October 2003, Bethesda, MD.
Bill participated as a panelist in an evening workshop entitled "Birthing
a Book: From Gestation to Delivery and Beyond." The session was sponsored
by Washington Independent Writers
(WIW). Other speakers included (1) Ellen Hoffman, writer for Business
Week and author of The Retirement Catchup Guide, Bankroll Your Future
Retirement and two travel books; (2) Tim Wendell, former sports writer
for USA Today and author of the novel Castro's Curve Ball as well as a
nonfiction book, The Influence of Hispanic Players on Major League Baseball;
and (3) Jeff Kleinman, a lawyer and literary agent with Graybill and English
L.L.C. The workshop took place at the Bethesda Chevy Chase Services Center
(BCCSC) in downtown Bethesda.
22 October 2003, Tampa, FL.
The Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA)
hosted Bill as their luncheon speaker on cyberterrorism. Bill spoke before
160 attendees and did a booksigning. The event took place in the Enlisted
Club on MacDill Air Force Base.
15 October 2003, Charlotte, NC.
The College of Information Technology at the University of North
Carolina at Charlotte invited Bill to speak on cyberterrorism at the annual
security symposium sponsored by the Information Security and Privacy
Program within the Department of Software and Information Systems. UNCC
bought 250 copies of No Outward Sign for distribution to attendees.
Bill gave the luncheon keynote address to 200 people and did a booksigning.
23-24 September 2003, Washington, D.C.
Bill chaired a conference on Information
Superiority 2003 in The Washington Plaza Hotel. Speakers included
several senior officials from the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
The conference finished with Bill's talk on cyberterrorism.
21-22 September 2003, Atlantic City, NJ.
Bill and Jill featured No Outward Sign at an author booth in the New Atlantic
Independent Booksellers Association (NAIBA) trade show held in The Borgata
hotel.
17 September 2003, Washington, D.C.
Bill sold out at a second booksigning on the Expo floor of the E-Gov
Information Assurance 2003 Conference. Copies of No Outward Sign were
raffled off as door prizes in each of the four parallel sessions of the
conference.
16 September 2003, Washington, D.C.
Bill gave the featured luncheon keynote address on cyberterrorism to 160
people at the E-Gov Information
Assurance 2003 Conference in the Ronald Reagan Building International
Trade Center. At a mini booksigning following the talk, he sold out.
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The Knowledge Management book club met at MITRE to discuss its Summer
2003 selection — No Outward Sign. Bill joined the club
to answer questions about his book and the topics of cybersecurity
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18 August 2003, Washington, D.C.
Bill presented another cyberterrorism talk at the National
Defense University Information Resources Management College. Students
were taking a class on homeland security. The talk was in Marshall Hall
on Fort McNair.
6 August 2003, South Bend, IN.
Bill spoke on cyberterrorism to 75 people at Indiana University South
Bend (IUSB). The talk was sponsored by The Department of Computer and
Information Sciences and included attendees from other schools including
Notre Dame University. A reception preceded the talk and a booksigning
followed. Check out the flyer,
the article
in the university paper, and photos
of the event. Prior to the talk, Bill was interviewed live on FOX 28 WSJV
TV South Bend/Elkhart by Steve Duval, Wake Up Co-host, and was featured
in an article by Stacey Creasey in Pilot News, based in Plymouth, IN.
22 July 2003, Eatontown, NJ.
The MITRE site near Fort Monmouth hosted Bill's Cyberterrorism talk.
17 July 2003, Vienna, VA.
Bill presented his cyberterrorism briefing to forty people at a meeting
of the Information Systems Security
Association (ISSA) - Northern Virginia (NOVA) chapter. The meeting
took place at the International Standard for Information Security (ISC)2
Facility, 1964 Gallows Road, Suite 210. Bill was invited to give another
talk at a future date.
15 July 2003, Leesburg, VA.
No Outward Sign was the July reading selection
by The Virginia Book Club. Bill and his wife Jill met with club members
to discuss the novel. Sharon Brusie hosted the club meeting. Her daughter,
Hayley Tew, presented Bill and Jill with her illustrated poem "Things
A Butterfly Knows." The club invited Bill to return when he finishes
a draft of the novel Daughter of Light, so that club members can participate
in refining the book.
10 July 2003, Washington, D.C.
Bill gave his cyberterrorism talk at a VeriSign
Public Sector team meeting at the VeriSign office at 1666 K Street, Suite
410. VeriSign bought twenty copies of No Outward
Sign in advance for their sales team. Bill also did a booksigning.
8 July 2003, Arlington, VA.
Bill presented a talk on cyberterrorism as part of the Washington Area
Trusted Systems Hour (WATSH) seminar
series, sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Dr. Carl
Landwehr of NSF hosted the event.
26 June 2003, San Francisco, CA.
Bill gave a keynote speech on the insider threat to over 600 people at
the Department of Veteran's Affairs annual
cybersecurity conference. At the booksigning following his talk, Bill
sold out and based on the long line of disappointed buyers he could have
sold twice or three times as many books as he'd brought. Conference attendees
who wish the same discount rate for a signed book can email
Bill. The conference was held at the Hilton San Francisco.
25 June 2003, Livermore, CA.
Bill presented a featured talk on cyberterrorism to over 100 engineers
from Sandia National Laboratories/California
and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
24 June 2003, Washington, D.C.
Bill presented a featured lecture on cyberterrorism in a course on Homeland
Security at National Defense University.
The course was offered by the Information Resources Management College,
Department of Information Operations and Technology.
20-23 May 2003, Stockholm, Sweden.
Bill participated as the U.S. cybersecurity representative to an advisory
board assisting the Swedish armed forces.
17 May 2003, Washington, D.C.
Bill moderated a panel he organized entitled, New
Marketing Strategies, at the 2003 Washington
Writers Conference, held in the National Press Club. Panelists included two
New York literary agents, Brian
DeFiore and Michael Psaltis,
along with Jacqueline Deval
(publisher of Hearst Books and author of "Publicize Your Book: An
Insider's Guide to Getting Your Book the Attention It Deserves" -
Putnam/Perigee), and Bella
Stander (who teaches Book Promotion 101 - "Finishing School"
for Authors). Bill's plug for Jacqueline's book caused a sales
stampede. Bill placed a full-page
ad in the conference program.
16 May 2003, Washington, D.C.
Bill's wife, Jill, was a presenter at the Web Site Design Workshop held
at the 2003 Washington
Writers Conference in the National Press Club. The other workshop
presenters included Barbara Pruett (Clouds
Hill Publishing) and Frank Stovicek (President of Perspective
Concepts).
16 May 2003, Washington, D.C.
Bill participated in the first working meeting of the Cyber Conflict Studies
Association at National Defense University.
John Lowry of BBN told Bill he'd just finished Bill's book and enjoyed
it. A woman asked John to describe the book. He said Bill writes "like
Robert Ludlum." The woman bought a book on the spot.
6 May 2003, Savannah, GA.
Bill gave the closing dinner keynote speech at the Government CIO Summit
held at the Hyatt Regency. The conference sponsor,
Federal Computer Week, bought 150 hardcover
copies of No Outward Sign for conference attendees. Bill signed
the books at a booksigning and savored his future as a celebrity.
22 April 2003, Reston, VA.
Bill presented a talk on cyberterrorism
at Northrop Grumman, sponsored by Information
Technology, Organization & Workforce Development. A booksigning
followed.
17 April 2003, McLean VA.
Richard Theme interviewed Bill to tap Bill's experience as a cybersecurity
expert and novelist. Thieme is writing a non-fiction book titled Masters
of the Unseen; The Art of Information Warfare.
8 April 2003, Albuquerque, NM.
Bill gave a featured talk entitled, Cyberterrorism;
We're Toast, to 180 people at Sandia
National Laboratories on Kirtland Air Force Base. He also did a booksigning
and was interviewed by Impact, the SNL video news magazine. Read
about the events, including the contaminated auditorium.
3 April 2003, Huntsville, AL.
Bill gave a keynote speech on Cyberterrorism
to 100 people at the Computer Network Operations session of the Southeastern
Software Engineering Conference. His session was sponsored by the
Army Aviation and Missile Command’s Software Engineering Directorate,
Army Space and Missile Defense Command. Read about his first
keynote speech and an associated booksigning.
31 March 2003, Washington, D.C.
Bill and Jill presented to fifty writers a workshop
on Self-Publishing your Book in the Digital Age;
sponsored by Washington Independent Writers (WIW).
24 March 2003, Centreville, VA.
Bill presented a lunch talk on Cyberterrorism
at SPARTA as a guest of the esteemed
and honorable Doug Price. Bill also did a booksigning.
22 March 2003, Glenwood, MD.
Bill and Jill delivered copies of No Outward Sign to Books With a Past,
a booming independent bookstore owned and operated by Dr. Marv Schaefer,
one of the original cybersecurity pioneers, and Mary Alice Schaefer. Books
With a Past became the first bookstore to stock No
Outward Sign. The store is in the Inwood Village Center on Route
97 and specializes in 19th thru 21st Century used books, with extraordinary
coverage of cryptography and mathematics.
11 March 2003, McLean, VA.
A number of senior analysts from Gartner Group interviewed Bill about
No Outward Sign and sought his insights on
cyberterrorism. The analysts are planning a cyberterrorism exercise to
follow-up on their successful Digital
Pearl Harbor simulation that took place in July 2002, done in collaboration
with the U.S. Naval War College. Analysts interviewing Bill included Richard
Hunter, VP and Research Director, and many others.
22 February 2003, Alexandria, VA.
Bill did another oddly placed booksigning, this time at the Metropolitan
Exhibitors 7th Annual Doll/Bear Collectible Show and Sale, at the Holiday
Inn Metro Center, 2460 Eisenhower Avenue. The show ended quite early when
a broken water main flooded the hotel and when heavy snow and rain broke
through the ceiling in a waterfall. Read
more.
3 February 2003, Arlington, VA.
Bill spoke on A Program for Countering Insider Threats
at Advanced Countermeasures for the Insider Threat (ACIT), an invitational
workshop sponsored by the National Institute for Standards and Technology
(NIST) in conjunction with The Advanced Research and Development Activity
(ARDA), held at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City. Bill's
novel was chosen by conference organizers to be distributed free to conference
participants. At the request of the organizers, Bill also did a
booksigning at the conference. Read more.
11-12 January 2003,
Chantilly, VA.
Bill’s first booksigning took place at the D.C. Big Flea, a huge
antique and collectible fair featuring over 1,100 booths, held at Dulles
Expo Center, Chantilly VA. Read the full Big
Flea story.
16 October 2002, Hampton Roads, VA.
Bill briefed on Information Assurance at
Langley AFB.
18 September 2002, Washington D.C.
Bill briefed on Protection Against Internal Threats
at the E-Gov Information Assurance Conference, held in the Ronald Reagan
International Trade Center
12 June 2002, Colorado Springs, CO.
Bill briefed on Countering Insider Threats
at the Federal Information Superiority Conference, held in The Sheraton
Hotel.
18 May 2002, Washington D.C.
Bill moderated a session entitled, Fiction Writing:
Perfecting Your Prose, at the Washington Writers Conference, held
in the National Press Club.
16 May 2002, Washington D.C.
Bill gave the keynote speech on Cyberterrorism
at the 2002 International Retail Debt Conference held in The Mayflower
Hotel.
18 April 2002, Laurel, MD.
Bill organized and hosted an all-day conference on Countering Insider
Threats and presented Countering Insider Threats
and A Recommended Program For Insider Monitoring
at the Information Assurance Technical Framework Forum, sponsored by the
National Security Agency and held at the Kossiakoff Center, Johns Hopkins
Applied Physics Laboratory.
24-31 March 2002, Rome, Italy.
Bill participated in the Maui Writers Retreat with Dorothy Allison, Terry
Brooks, Liz Engstrom-Cratty, John Saul, John Tullius, and others, held
in the Rome Cavalieri Hilton. Bill wrote a short story called The Relic
that was inspired by the Roman catacombs. The story was published in Pronto!
Writings from Rome by Writers House Books from TripleTree Publishing.
16 January 2002, Ballston, VA.
Bill served as reporter for a Washington Independent Writer (WIW) Pubspeak
by Mariah Burton Nelson at Chevy’s Restaurant in Ballston Common
Shopping Mall. His article, “Nelson Slam-Dunks At Pubspeak,”
appeared in the February 2002 issue of The Independent Writer.
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