Infrastructure Security Plenary Session
Moderator & Panelist : Allan Berg, Assistant Dean and Director, Information Assurance and Infrastructure Protection Center, Capitol College, U.S.A.
Topic: “U.S. Critical Infrastructures, their Inter-relationships to One-another, and the Complexities of their Safeguarding through Contingency and Strategic Planning”

March 29, 14.50 – 15.50

Abstract:
America is an open and technology complex nation with a wide array of critical infrastructures and key resources that spans important aspects of government, economy, and society. The majority of these infrastructures and resources are owned and operated by the private sector, and State, Terroritorial, tribal, or local governments. The US critical infrastructures and key resources are comprised of a vast number of highly interconnected facilities and systems, and functions. This pervasive dynamic further characterizes them as highly lucrative potential targets for terrorist exploitation. While it is not possible to protect or eliminate the vulnerability of all critical infrastructures and key resources throughout the country, strategic improvements in security can make it more difficult to mount successful attacks and serve to lesson their impact.

Biography:
Allan serves as Assistant Dean and Director of the Information Assurance and Infrastructure Protection Center at Capitol College. He has over thirty-five years of experience in the military, intelligence community, private industry, and higher education. His experiences include development of security education programs for industry and the military on operations security, and physical and personnel security. Allan's expertise includes Interned-based education, training and awareness, security management, all-source intelligence collection and analysis, diplomatic activities, and special operations. He serves as a consultant to universities and community colleges across the U.S. where he assists in developing information security programs. Mr. Berg is a member of the national GOVSEC and international GOVSEC ASIA board of advisors and served as the GOVSEC 2003 and 2004 national chairman. He continues to serve as a spokesperson nationally and internationally on information assurance education, training, awareness, certification, and workforce development and has published nationally and internationally.