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How to Hack a Presidential Election

December 8, 2016 @ 22:30 - December 9, 2016 @ 01:00

Co-sponsored by: ISSA-NOVA

12-2016 – ISSA NOVA (IEEE Computer Society DC/N.VA Monthly Cybersecurity Event)

How to Hack a Presidential Election

Presented by Mr. Mark Rasch

Thursday, December 08, 2016

5:30 PM – Networking and Dinner

6:30 – 8:00 PM – ISSA NOVA Announcements & Program

 

Mr. Rasch will describe the fragility of modern IT systems due to their key dependencies on contributing systems. The example he will use is the US Presidential election system and how it could theoretically be compromised.

Mark D. Rash, Esq. is an attorney and information security and privacy consultant in Bethesda, Maryland. He has worked with companies like TJX and other on data breach and data breach disclosure investigations, developed data breach disclosure policies and procedures for members of the Direct Marketing Association, and developed information security and incident response policies and plans for Fortune 50 companies and major financial institutions. He worked with VISA and MasterCard to help develop the original PCI (Payment Card Industry) guidelines for securing payment systems.

He was formerly a Managing Director for Technology at FTI Consulting, the Senior Vice President and Chief Security Counsel for Cautionary, Inc. and Vice President for cyberlaw Predictive Systems, Inc., where he provided computer security consulting and implementation services to the US Government, intelligence and law enforcement agencies, and commercial enterprises. He is also a founding consultant to Triopoly (now TruArx), specializing in PCI compliance solutions. For almost 10 years, Mr. Rasch lead the U.S. Department of Justice’s efforts to investigate and prosecute computer crime investigations, forensics and electronic evidence laws. He investigated and prosecuted the earliest computer crime cases including those of Kevin Poulson, Kevin Mantic, and Robert. T. Morris.

Mr. Rasch has written and lectured extensively on computer crimes, trademark, and trade secret issues on the Internet, and has been featured in USA Today, The New York Times, NBC Nightly News, ABC’s Nightline, PBS’ Technopolitics, CNBC, and NPR as an expert on computer law and policy. He has been an adjunct faculty member of the Washington College of Law at American University, where he taught courses in white-collar crime, at the George Washington College of Law at American University, where he taught courses in white-collar crime, at the George Washington University School of Engineering, where he taught courses in Law for Engineers, and at the Catholic University School of Law where he taught courses in Evidence Law. He is also a senior advisor and former faculty member at the University of Fairfax graduate and PhD program in information security where he has taught classes in computer incident response and forensics. He authors a monthly column on law and technology on Symantec’s SecurityFocus website, and an occasional contributor to Wired Magazine and the Intellectual Property Law Journal.

Agenda:

Thursday, December 08, 2016

5:30 PM – Networking and Dinner

6:30 – 8:00 PM – Program

Location:
Bldg: TBD
Reston, Virginia

Venue

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