ICCS 2023 Event Speakers
Richard Aborn, President of the Citizens Crime Commission
Richard M. Aborn is president of the Citizens Crime Commission of New York City, a non-partisan non-profit organization with multidisciplinary expertise that works to improve public safety through innovation. At the Crime Commission, Aborn advances strategies to improve the justice system, strengthen gun policies and practices, prevent youth gun violence, and prevent cybercrime.
Under Aborn's leadership, the commission launched the Predictive Prevention Lab, an incubator to develop predictive prevention solutions to enhance the effectiveness of crime prevention through behavior change. The commission partnered with researchers at New York University to develop a program, called E-Responder, rooted in proven conflict resolution strategies, which trains community-based anti-violence professionals to interrupt conflicts on social media before the conflict escalates into real-world violence. In addition, the commission partnered with Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh to create an intelligent tutoring system that builds internet users' resilience to phishing attacks.
In addition to his work at the Crime Commission, Aborn serves as president of CAAS LLC, which advises police departments, criminal justice agencies, corporations, and other organizations in the United States, Latin America, and Europe on criminal justice policy, violence reduction, and Rule of Law issues.
Harold Chun, Director of Security Legal at Google
Harold Chun is the director of security legal at Google. Chun manages a team of attorneys and investigators involved in protecting Google and its users through law. In this capacity, he provides legal counsel to Google’s cybersecurity, user security, and physical security teams on a broad range of topics such as nation-state cyberthreats, infrastructure security, software vulnerability research, child-safety efforts, and preventing real-world imminent harms. Due to the nature of the work, his team interacts regularly with domestic and international law enforcement and national security agencies to protect Google and its users. Prior to Google, he served as a federal prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice as both an assistant United States attorney in the Southern District of California focused on transnational organized crime and narcotics cases, and as senior counsel at the DOJ’s Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Pection (CCIPS), where he prosecuted technically complex cybercrimes and engaged in international trainings and policy discourse related to cybercrime, cybersecurity and trade secret theft.
Bill Claycomb, Principal Researcher, CERT Division’s National Insider Threat Center
Bill Claycomb is a principal researcher for the CERT Division’s National Insider Threat Center and principal cyber advisor for the CMU/SEI National Initiative for the Advancement of Cybersecurity. He leads multidisciplinary projects related to cybersecurity and human behavior, primarily investigating novel techniques for detection, prevention, and mitigation of insider threats for government and industry. Claycomb’s early work involved efforts to improve biometric security systems, and since then his research portfolio has included both domestic and international research efforts across a broad range of topics such as malware detection, cloud computing security, wireless and mobile security, enterprise architecture, digital rights enforcement, and identity management. Prior to joining the SEI, he pioneered early efforts for preventing insider attacks on enterprise information systems at Sandia National Laboratories. Claycomb has published numerous peer-reviewed conference and journal papers, served as steering committee chair for the IEEE Workshop on Research for Insider Threats (WRIT), served as associate editor for a special issue on insider threats for the ACM journal Digital Threats: Research and Practice, associate editor for the inaugural issue of Counter Insider Threats: Research and Practice, and has served four times as a program chair-in-chief for the IEEE Computer Society Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC).
Chris Farr, Executive Director, Commercial Strategy for Strider
Chris Farr is an executive director of commercial strategy for Strider, a strategic intelligence firm. Previously, Farr spent nearly 20 years at Eli Lilly and Company, where he held roles in sales, Lean Six Sigma, and information security. In his time in information security, Farr led Lilly’s information security education team and was Lilly’s first-ever insider threat program leader. Chris has a B.S. in business from Indiana University and an M.S. in cybersecurity risk and strategy from New York University.
Dave Fitzgibbons, Acting Assistant Director, Insider Threat Office
In February 2023, Dave Fitzgibbons was appointed as acting assistant director of the Insider Threat Office (InTO). In this position, Fitzgibbons leads the FBI’s efforts to deter, detect, and mitigate insider threats.
In September 2022, Fitzgibbons was promoted to section chief of the Insider Threat Office.
Fitzgibbons joined the FBI in 2009 as a special agent assigned to the Salt Lake City field office, Idaho Falls resident agency (RA), and subsequently the Pocatello, Idaho, RA, where he worked on various criminal matters, including organized crime and drug enforcement (OCDETF), gangs, public corruption, white collar, and Indian Country crimes.
In May 2014, Fitzgibbons transferred to the Atlanta field office, where he was assigned to the Violent Crime Task Force.
In January 2016, Fitzgibbons was promoted to supervisory special agent (SSA) in the counterterrorism division, international terrorism operations section. In this position, he was responsible for the program management of counterterrorism cases in the CONUS I region (New York).
Returning to the field in August 2017, Fitzgibbons was selected as an SSA in the Salt Lake City field office and led the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) International Terrorism (IT) Program. In this capacity, Fitzgibbons led a team responsible for all IT matters in Utah and was the program coordinator for all IT matters in Utah, Idaho, and Montana.
In September 2019, Fitzgibbons was selected as assistant special agent in charge (ASAC) of the Salt Lake City field office’s national security branch. In this capacity, he oversaw the counterterrorism, cyber, counterintelligence, WMD, RCFL, surveillance, and SABT programs. Additionally, Fitzgibbons oversaw critical incident response and private sector and academia engagement.
Prior to joining the FBI, Fitzgibbons worked as a CPA for eight years in Houston. Fitzgibbons earned his master’s and bachelor’s degrees in accounting from Texas A&M University. He was raised in Texas and currently resides in Huntsville, Alabama, with his wife and three children.
Stephen Fullington, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Counterintelligence/Cyber Division, New York Office
Acting Special Agent in Charge Stephen Fullington is responsible for more than 25 teams that conduct investigations, collect intelligence, and run sophisticated operations targeting the nation’s top counterintelligence and cyber adversaries. His teams focus on the investigation of complex counterintelligence, cyber, insider threat, and espionage matters.
Prior to his current assignment, Fullington led a group of more than 100 supervisory special agents, special agents, task force officers, and intelligence division personnel with responsibility for investigating counterintelligence threats to the nation. He has been an FBI agent for more than 20 years and previously led a team responsible for investigating and mitigating cyberattacks targeting the financial sector in the New York City area.
Fullington also served over seven years as a team leader of an FBI evidence response team. In this capacity, he led evidence collection teams during several crisis responses, including domestic and international terrorist attacks.
Fullington has received the Attorney General’s Award and the Director of National Intelligence Director’s Award for his contributions to the national security of the United States. Prior to joining the FBI, he was a manager of compliance and risk management at Prudential Financial.
Andy Greenberg, Senior Writer, WIRED, Author of Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency
Andy Greenberg is an award-winning senior writer for WIRED, covering security, privacy, information freedom, and hacker culture. He’s the author of the new book Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency. His previous book Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin’s Most Dangerous Hackers, as well as excerpts from it published in WIRED, won a Gerald Loeb Award for International Reporting, a Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists, two Deadline Club Awards from the New York Society of Professional Journalists, and the Cornelius Ryan Citation for Excellence from the Overseas Press Club. Before coming to WIRED, Greenberg worked as a senior reporter for Forbes magazine. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, filmmaker Malika Zouhali-Worrall.
Peter M. Marta, Partner, Hogan Lovells, New York
Peter Marta joined Hogan Lovells’ cybersecurity practice after serving as the global head of cybersecurity law at JPMorgan Chase, where he was head counsel to the firm’s chief information security officer and its chief security officer. In that role, Marta counseled all levels of the organization, from its security operations centers to the boardroom. Prior to his corporate experience, Marta worked in the U.S. intelligence community.
In his current role, Marta advises companies and boards on cyber and data risk management and governance, cyberincident preparedness and response, regulatory strategy, and government and internal investigations.
Scott Norwell, FBI Supervisory Special Agent (on IT employee insider threats)
Supervisory Special Agent Scott Norwell is a 23-year veteran of the FBI. Norwell served in the FBI’s Milwaukee division from 2000 to 2006, where he investigated white collar crimes, violent crimes, terrorism, and counterintelligence threats. He was a member of Milwaukee’s victim witness task force, fugitive task force, and SWAT team. In 2006, Norwell transferred to the New York office, where he was assigned to work global counterintelligence investigations. In that position he conducted numerous reactive and proactive investigations involving counterintelligence threats originating from the Middle East and North Africa.
In 2010, Norwell accepted a promotion to supervisory special agent at the terrorism finance operational section at FBI headquarters. In that capacity, he oversaw the financial exploitation related to dozens of terrorism cases. In 2012, Norwell returned to the New York office to again work counterintelligence investigations. In 2015, he was appointed as the supervisory special agent of a counter-proliferation squad assigned to disrupt and/or prosecute individuals and criminal organizations attempting to illegally obtain and export sensitive U.S. defense technology for the benefit of foreign adversaries.
From 2017 to 2022, Norwell supervised New York’s counterespionage squad, which handled all investigations concerning sensitive insider threats involving espionage, economic espionage, and media leaks in New York’s AOR. In 2023, Norwell requested a transfer to a white collar squad that investigates economic crimes against major financial institutions.
Prior to joining the FBI, Norwell earned a Bachelor of Science degree in finance at Providence College and a master’s degree in accounting at Rutgers University. Norwell was a Certified Public Accountant for a Big Four accounting firm.
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John Reynolds, FBI Supervisory Special Agent (on state-sponsored insider threats)
Supervisory Special Agent Reynolds is currently an acting assistant special agent in charge (ASAC) in the counterintelligence division of the FBI’s New York office. In this role, he oversees all counterintelligence, technology transfer, and transnational repression investigations pertaining to several nation state actors, including the People’s Republic of China, Iran, and North Korea. When not in the acting ASAC role, Reynolds leads a counterintelligence squad focused on threats to U.S. critical infrastructure, particularly the financial services sector.
Prior to working on counterintelligence matters, Reynolds led the New York office’s Safe Streets Task Force in the Brooklyn Queens Resident Agency. This joint FBI/NYPD task force utilized enterprise investigations and racketeering (RICO) statutes to disrupt and dismantle local and transnational gangs. The task force apprehended and prosecuted New York City’s most violent gang members.
As an agent, Reynolds investigated violent drug trafficking organizations and gangs in the New York field office. Reynolds conducted numerous racketeering and homicide investigations that resulted in guilty verdicts at trial and life sentences for multiple defendants. Reynolds also investigated and successfully resolved the kidnapping of U.S. citizens in Africa.
Prior to joining the FBI, Reynolds earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science at the University at Albany. Reynolds also served as a police officer in the Bronx with the New York City Police Department.
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Paul F. Roberts Jr., FBI Supervisory Special Agent (on white collar insider threats)
Assistant Special Agent in Charge Paul Roberts currently leads the complex financial crimes branch in the New York field office of the FBI. In this role, he oversees all financial crime investigations in the New York City area, including corporate fraud, securities fraud, bank fraud, money laundering, intellectual property rights violations, and other general fraud schemes. Roberts also has management responsibilities over forensic accountants supporting criminal, cyber, and counterintelligence investigations. Prior to this assignment, Roberts led a securities fraud squad in the New York office from 2017 through April 2022. Roberts was previously an agent on a securities fraud squad from 2008 through 2015 and was involved in several complex financial crime investigations during this period. Among his assignments, Roberts was a member of the team that investigated the Ponzi scheme carried out through Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities. From July 2015 through January 2017, Roberts was assigned to the economic crimes unit, financial crimes section at FBI headquarters. In this role, he had program management responsibilities for corporate fraud, securities fraud, bank fraud, and mortgage fraud investigations across the country.
Roberts holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and computer science from Boston College. Prior to joining the FBI, he was an actuarial analyst with an employee benefits consulting firm.
Darron Smith, Insider Threat Program Manager at Bloomberg L.P. in New York
Darron Smith is the insider threat program manager at Bloomberg L.P. in New York, leading a global team of analysts, investigators, and data scientists. Leveraging over 15 years of experience in risk management and conducting workplace investigations in the private sector, Smith has tackled insider risks by implementing creative approaches to detecting, responding, and mitigating potential threats. He is a certified fraud examiner and is trained in the Critical Pathway to Insider Risk.
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Edward Stroz, Founder, Stroz Friedberg, LLC
Edward Stroz founded Stroz Friedberg, LLC, an international digital forensics and cyber investigations firm, which
Elsine van Os, CEO of SignPost Six (The Hague), Moderator
Elsine van Os is the founder and CEO of Signpost Six (The Hague), a global insider risk consultancy firm. Van Os is a thought leader on insider risk and has an educational and professional background in psychology as well as intelligence and security. She has worked on high-profile assignments for the Dutch Ministry of Defense and Shell International, where she was responsible for security threat assessment at country, asset, and individual levels worldwide. Van Os has worked in various capacities in more than 50 countries. She is also the owner of Signpost Film Productions, with which she produced a documentary about Edward Snowden in 2018.
