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Panel Of Experts Discuss Innovations In Science At The BEYA STEM Global Competitiveness Conference And Highlight The Importance Of Health Care IT

Sunday, February 28th, 2010

L-R: Wayne Owens, Health Care IT Solutions; M. Christopher Gibbons, associate director of the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute; David Horrocks, president and CEO of CRISP Health; and David Sharp, director, Center for Health Information Technology, Maryland Health Care Commission. Report and photos by Ibrahim Dabo.

A panel discussion led by Dr. Michael Christopher Gibbons, associate director of the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute, also a faculty member at the Johns Hopkins’ Schools of Medicine and Public Health, discussed Health Information Technology / Health Information Exchange (HIE) extensively at the 24^th annual Black Engineer of the Year STEM Global Competitiveness Conference held at the Baltimore Convention Center between Feb. 18 – 20.

Dr. Gibbons moderated the panel discussing Innovations in Science: Health Care Information Technology.

The panel of experts, which included David Sharp, director, Center for Health Information Technology at the Maryland Health Care Commission; David Horrocks, president and CEO of CRISP Health (Chesapeake Regional Information System for our Patients); and Wayne Owens of Health Care IT Solutions, stressed on the need for the health care industry to capitalize much on the emerging technologies that are revolutionizing our world, and which will enable medical practices to run more effectively and efficiently in the United States.

Describing HIE in brief, Dr. Gibbons said it involves the exchange of health information about patients, such as exchanging information about patients between patients, their providers and between hospitals. He said HIE can also be utilized at the population level to gather meaningful information about people and certain types of diseases.

Participants had an opportunity to ask questions.

“Dealing with data at that level can certainly have implications for understanding disparities and inequalities and potentially for solving them,” Gibbons said.

Dr. Gibbons spoke about some of the problems faced in the senior population level such as social isolation, which he said could lead to factors as disorientation, depression, and cardiovascular disease.

“What if all of our seniors were now not only connected to their doctors, or their health systems, but connected to each other,” Gibbons said talking about the potentials on how effectively technology can play a role in dealing with health issues.

David Sharp said Health IT is essential to improving health care quality, preventing medical errors and reducing costs.

David Sharp, director at the Maryland Health Care Commission said: “Health IT is really about improving health care quality, preventing medical errors and reducing health care costs.”

Mr. Sharp added that unlike many, many states that are currently in the planning stages of Health IT, Maryland is among the few that are actually in the implementation phase of this technology.

He spoke about the importance of electronic health record option, which will ease access to a patient’s medical record wherever they are in the country and may need urgent medical attention.

“Eventually that record should be available from you. If you are in Sunny, Florida, and you trip and break an ankle, that hospital or physician should be able to access that information and be able to look at your medical history, your allergies and anything else related to care that will help provide a better care,” Sharp said.

“Health Information Technology holds a tremendous promise for improving outcomes, efficiency, safety and access,” David Horrocks said

David Horrocks, gave an overview of his organization, CRISP Health, and said there is a great deal of economic activity around Health IT.

“Health Information Technology holds a tremendous promise for improving outcomes, efficiency, safety and access,” Horrocks said, adding that three essential components tied to this are Health Information Exchange, Electronic Health Records, and Personal Health Records.

Horrocks said Personal Health Records (PHR) will become increasingly important, especially with the amount of information that any one patient or consumer can have about themselves.

He said such information grows over time and becomes hard to manage, adding that PHR will be very instrumental in its effective management.

“You cannot use 1950s style systems to practice 2010 style medicine,” Wayne Owens said.

Wayne Owens said in his last admission as Global Director of Health Care, he learned a lot from traveling around the world that in many respects, the U.S. is behind many countries on many advances — something that needs to be addressed.

Mr. Owens said the Obama Administration is getting it right on the road forward and we are going to now be focused.

“It really has been about priorities and having the money there to do it. This is not inexpensive and why have other countries put the money there,” Owens said.

“When we talk about implementing a health information exchange in the State of Maryland, that exchange will be interoperable to other states, to the entire federal agencies, and to the world,” Owens said, adding that as we travel, our records will be available wherever we are.

Participants at the BEYA Conference came from across the U.S.

Owens gave a distinction of what hospitals looked like in the ‘50s and today, highlighting the advancement of technology and infrastructure.

On the other hand, when comparing Medical Records in the ‘50s to that of the modern day, it is clearly evident that a lot of work needs to be done to transform much of the paper-style records into electronic format.

“You cannot use 1950s style systems to practice 2010 style medicine,” Owens said.

Health Care IT in the U.S. is an $800 billion industry.

He said there has been multiple failures in health information exchange and highlighted as part of vision going forward the need for affordability.

“You can’t solve and come up with a system and make it so difficult…,” Owens said, adding that they need to have low start-up costs and be repeatable.

“A lot of these systems fail simply because they are not sustainable – not that there vision is not good. The economic business model has to be very focus,” Owens said.

Audio files of highly enlightening panel discussion coming your way soon…

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24th BEYA STEM Global Competitiveness Conference

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24th BEYA STEM Global Competitiveness Conference Opens Doors Of Opportunities In STEM Programs And Celebrates Excellence

Sunday, February 21st, 2010

William H. Swanson (Chairman & CEO of Raytheon Company) presents the Black Engineer of the Year Award to John D. Harris, II, (Vice President, Contracts & Supply Chain - Raytheon Company). Photo and Report and interviews by Ibrahim Dabo.

Thousands of people from the academic, government, and private sectors across the United States gathered in Baltimore, Maryland, between Feb. 18-20, 2010, for the 24th annual Black Engineer of the Year Awards (BEYA) STEM Global Competitiveness Conference.

The conference, which was merged with the Minorities in Research Science (MiRS) Conference, was hosted at the Baltimore Convention Center, where African Americans in science, technology, engineering and math were honored for their dedication and excellence.

Highly informative sessions, such as the Health Care Town Hall Meeting with a focus on “Innovations in Science: Health Information Technology”, were led by some of the leaders in the industry.

In brief, the conference could be seen as a ground for sharing vital information in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) fields; creating opportunities through the career expo that featured leading industries and universities; and honoring those who have excelled in the STEM field at luncheon receptions and the awards gala.

The Obama Administration has science and technology as one of its priorities, with President Obama committing 3 percent of the United State’s Gross Domestic Product on research and development.

And, in order for America to lead the rest of the world in this area, certain goals need to be met.

Tyrone D. Taborn, Publisher, USBE & Information Technology Magazine said the BEYA/MiRS honorees "represent an array of scientific and technical professionals who are working in critical areas of educational, government and industrial sectors."

Tyrone D. Taborn, Publisher, USBE & IT Magazine said the BEYA/MiRS honorees "represent an array of scientific and technical professionals who are working in critical areas of educational, government and industrial sectors." Photo Credit: Ibrahim Dabo.

“To meet these goals, 10,000 more scientists, students, post-doctoral fellows, and technicians, as well as 100,000 highly qualified math and science teachers must be contributing to America’s scientific and technical enterprise by 2015,” Tyrone D. Taborn, publisher, US Black Engineer & Information Technology Magazine said in his BEYA welcome letter.

Mr. Taborn added that the BEYA/MiRS honorees represent a growing cadre of diverse professionals who are contributing to the United States’ competitiveness and serving as role models to groups in the sciences that have been historically underrepresented.

“To maintain our country’s leadership in the 21st century, we must cultivate the skilled scientists and engineers needed to create tomorrow’s innovations,” Taborn said.

John D. Harris, II, vice president, Contracts and Supply Chain at Raytheon Company and Ibrahim Dabo. Photo Credit: Olivier Rousset.

John D. Harris, II, vice president, Contracts and Supply Chain at Raytheon Company, was honored with the 2010 Black Engineer of the Year Award.

Mr. Harris began his career more than 25 years ago as a new graduate in Raytheon’s contracts leadership development program.

In his acceptance speech, Harris spoke about his love for sciences at an early age, and also expressed gratitude to all those who believed in him and gave him the opportunity to prove himself in the field.

He said the need for people to be given opportunity should continue, and when they excel, they should also be in a position to do likewise.

Isaiah A. Brown, applied physics & civil engineering, Morehouse College, Georgia, is inspired, and says part of long terms plans are to rehabilitate the dilapidated housing in California.

John D. Harris, II, and Isaiah A. Brown, applied physics & civil engineering, Morehouse College, Georgia, is inspired, and says part of his long terms plans are to rehabilitate dilapidated houses in California. Photo Credit: Ibrahim Dabo.

Isaiah A. Brown, a sophomore in Applied Physics and Civil Engineering at Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA., said: “The BEYA Conference has inspired me to improve my personal net-worth by continuing my education and expanding my network. Due to its many military sponsors, I have had the opportunity to see many of the awards that can come with working [hard in] a STEM job in the military.”

Brown’s plans for the future is to continue into industry as a licensed civil engineer and eventually partake in urban development. He has great plans for development and adding value to the lives of others.

“One of my dreams is to go back to some of my home cities in California and partake in projects which will rehabilitate the dilapidated housing in those areas in order to donate or sell them back to needy families at reasonable [costs],” Brown said.

“I will always remain with the National Society of Black Engineers, because I intrinsically believe in their mission statement, which is to ‘Increase the number of culturally responsible Black Engineers who excel academically, succeed professionally, and positively impact the community,’” Brown added.

The Gala After-Party was a perfect way to seal-up the conference. Photo Credit: Ibrahim Dabo.

The Gala After-Party sealed up events for Saturday night as students and executives took to the dance floor at the Baltimore Hilton hotel.

The 25th BEYA STEM Global Competitiveness Conference is slated for Feb. 17th – 19th, 2011 at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C.

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24th BEYA STEM Global Competitiveness Conference

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Exclusive Interview: Mingle360 CEO Dan Coffing Tells It All About Groundbreaking Social Networking Technology Using MingleStick

Monday, December 21st, 2009

Dan Coffing is CEO of Mingle360. Interview by Ibrahim Dabo.

What could be more frustrating than having to deal with a pile of business cards and not even remembering who handed them to you? What about collecting tons of handouts from vendor expos and not being able to classify them in a timely manner? Mingle360’s emerging cutting edge technology for social networking, which is rapidly gaining grounds, is here to put an end to your frustration.

Mingle360 has come up with a very simple way to allow two people to connect and exchange references about content

“The idea of electronic business cards has been sort of rattling around the intellectual space for a long, long, time. People don’t really love the typing; ‘I forgot why and where and what this person looks like’ kind of exercise,” Dan Coffing, CEO of Mingle360 told Ib’s Blog in an exclusive interview.

“We came up with this concept back in 2006. It was about the diversity of content that you can have online, and, how do we make it very, very easy for two people in a face-to-face meeting to say, ‘hey, come find out about me and later I will find out what me I am wishing to disclose. So that really opened up a lot of power for what this can do as a social tool.”

MingleStick is mostly used in trade-shows, conventions, and corporate events to allow people to interact and participate in a variety of things in a physical environment.

“Probably what makes us excited about this from an IT perspective is that it’s got those kinds of legs—that kind of versatility—because it’s just an ID,” Coffing said.

“You could use this for any number of other types of applications, just sort of, the person just enrolls the MingleStick to that functionality and suddenly the transaction is going to be supported in that fashion as well. There is an infrastructure to what we are doing that goes above and beyond an interesting trade show of business card application.”

The interview with Mr. Coffing continues below.

IBRAHIM DABO: Thanks to Mingle360’s use of technology, the era of business cards is slowly fading away, making networking easier than ever. How did your concept come about?

DAN COFFING: I think the fundamental thing was realizing the diversity of content that you can have about a person that’s stored online and looking for a very simple or even impulsive way to allow two people to actually connect and exchange references about content. We’d look at that and say, ‘hey, well, in this context it’s business card that I want to give you; in that context I don’t want you to have my cell phone [number]; in this context it’s a dating profile; over there it was social connection of some kind; here’s a resume,’ and on and on the list goes. So rather than having five, six, seven [or] ten business cards and making the other poor soul type all that information in, we thought there’d be a much better way for people to say, ‘hey, I’m interested. Let’s create the pathways to follow-up and in some sort of controlled disclosure process and to do that electronically rather than in paper.

IBRAHIM DABO: Let’s talk about the MingleStick. How does this device work?

Within few seconds of pressing the button a on MingleStick, profile information is exchanged between two people who can both access that information online via their MingleManager

DAN COFFING: In terms of [in] the user’s hand, it’s simple. It’s a one-click device. It passes a data reference between one MingleStick and the other. The data reference is hooked to an online profile gateway. This is what’s written into our patent-pending filings on that. So what it allows you to do is a person at an event—before an event or even after an event—they link their online profile with the MingleManager to their MingleStick and they go about the course of the evening, or the activity, and they’re handing out almost like tokens, or like a ‘check’ that says ‘hey, you can come back to my profile and I will then authorize you to see certain things.’ So the user experience at the event is very, very simple. They both press the button within a certain few seconds of each other and it will indicate a green success light, and when once that’s done, it indicates that the handshake has occurred and that both people now have the ability to go back and access whatever minimum amount of profile information that other users wanted to disclose to them. So, it moves from a live event—to a collection of cards and what you’re used to now—to returning back, plugging the device in and up will come the pictures and, depending on the level of disclosure, the different contact data points that person wanted to pass to the other party.

IBRAHIM DABO: How easy is it to use the online user-interface (MingleManager) for managing the uploaded MingleStick connections?

DAN COFFING: It’s very easy. You plug it in [and] it auto-runs. It takes you to the website. You do have a password login there, and then there is a pretty robust online outlook—sort of a centralized address book that organizes all the people. It flags them by the date; probably the event that you met them at [and] possibly the location, and you can group them by whatever might be the interest that you want to describe that particular affiliate group.

IBRAHIM DABO: Having brought social networking solutions to conventions and the like, how would you describe the level of success using this emerging cutting edge technology?

DAN COFFING: Well, I think, if you get the chance—and you probably did before the interview—to take a look at the videos on our site. The user testimonials have been very, very enthusiastic. I’ve joked before that it’s almost surprising how much late hate there is for paper business cards. Once you release a ubiquitous exchange technology into a meeting environment such as a trade show or convention—and it doesn’t have to be that; it could be a college event, or some other festival or training event or gathering—everybody gets the same connection technology. Then all of a sudden you will transform that room into a [group of] people who are very excited about the technology and use it as a source of social ingress or conversation starter. It’s been very, very well received from the user community.

IBRAHIM DABO: Your services seem to be geared primarily toward event organizers. What about individuals who might be interested in your product?

DAN COFFING: Your question is well placed. Yes, www.minglestick.com is the mechanism for individuals to purchase directly. The key thing about the technology is to have folks using the sticks around other users. So it makes a natural path for a user group—like a Chamber of Commerce—to both provide sticks to their members for free and also offer it for sale to guests. The more often a person participates in a ‘mingle-ized’ event, the more it will make sense to own their own.

IBRAHIM DABO: Privacy is always a major concern. How secured is personal information on MingleStick, and, in the event one loses this device, can the information be somehow retrieved?

DAN COFFING: That is the versatility of the architecture that we’ve designed and actually written into our IT business process…. Because it doesn’t actually contain your information, it just contains a data reference—and it’s a private data reference. It’s not like you can get my ID and go look it up some place, which you can’t. So I am handing out data references rather than actual information and that means I can: A) decide later what I want to disclose to you; and, B) if it fell into [the hands of] a third-party, there wouldn’t be a lot of use to it because it’s just data. The data doesn’t have any meaning outside of our system and if they don’t have your username and password, it’s just jibberish. So the physical security of the device is really geared around the device not containing any information at all but their information exists on the website.

IBRAHIM DABO: The MingleStation is also proving to be very essential to exhibitors and tradeshow organizers. What basically is the difference between the MingleStation and traditional lead retrieval systems?

DAN COFFING: First of all let me describe the difference between the MingleStick and the MingleStation.

MingleStick technology is replacing the need for physical business cards

The MingleStick is the user device—simple, one-click, solitary green light, ultra-easy connection mechanism. And so people can very quickly and spontaneously go [and say], ‘hey, it was great talking with you; I’d like to connect,’ and literally as fast as they can swap a physical card, they can use that MingleStick to make that connection. That’s one of the things that people enjoy so much about it. The upside continues on from there: so you end up with photo recognition of who is the person you met with, some customized profile information, an address book that keeps itself up-to-date, and you didn’t have to type anything in. That’s maybe the winner of everything else. It sort of does the whole transaction electronically the way it should have been from the start.

The MingleStation is a desktop, countertop unit that corresponds to the MingleStick and allows users to now not just in a mutual agreement with somebody else say, ‘hey, you and I should connect. We should talk, [and] we should exchange information.’ But now you are able to do that to an exhibitor, to a vendor, to somebody that is offering their services at a given environment. While the MingleStation is passive, it has higher capacity power. It has some extra software tools, and it also has the ability, when I log in, to see that particular vendor’s account in my MingleManager. They [the vendors] have the ability to disclose, [and/or] provide some online documents. Basically, it opens up a variety of green technology capabilities that I didn’t have to walk home with your very classic bag full of junk that sits in the corner until I finally throw it out three months later. It is that I can have all those documents, all the people that I flagged and say, ‘hey, I would like to know more about your company and your services,’ and be able to accumulate those tag requests, if you will, all electronically, all at the one-click of the button. That’s the difference between the MingleStation and the MingleStick.

Now what the MingleStation also adds over a traditional lead retrieval equipment is actually a two-way transaction. It is that I as the user, I’m walking home with a flag of the vendors I visited and vice versa for the vendors. The vendors are used to walking home with the name and the contact information but not used to having maybe a picture or a messaging mechanism or other social media or social graph types of orientation or potential data scenarios and things like that. So there is an upgrade for the vendor experience. For the user experience, right now you walk home… like I wonder who’s going to call me next. And if I didn’t write it down or do something to sort of memorize which booth I visited, [then] I’m at a loss. And so this sort of gives a much higher connection rate for the user experience and say, ‘there were seven booths that I visited today and I actually met with the sales person and I am going to have an electronic copy of that sales person’s name should I want to reach out or do more research or what have you.’

MingleStick-MingleStation

The third aspect to really understand is that the MingleStick-MingleStation system creates an environment. Environment is what really brings home the value stated because right now people have the bar scan, the RFID (radio frequency identification) or something like that. If it were a one-way client-to-vendor, I walk up, they try to get my information and it’s sort of just totally asymmetrical relationship. When you release MingleSticks in an environment and everybody is clicking around adherently—and we had one event with 720 users that passed over 30,000 business cards—that’s not a dynamic that you can create in any other way without ubiquitous technology like ours. Every person clicking amongst themselves and creating those connections creates a much higher activity level for the booth exhibitors and the sponsors and the people that were showering out $1,000 [or] $2,000 [or] $3,000 to operate and exist at that trade show environment. So we see a multi-faceted mechanism here of a better user experience, a better data-gathering mechanism and just a lot more connection activity going on on a show floor because of the ecosystem of the environment that the MingleStick-MingleStation technology creates.

IBRAHIM DABO: Impressive technology indeed. How cost effective are your products/services?

DAN COFFING: It will all depend on who the decision maker is on that point. We’ve seen environments where people were happy to pay $20 just not to have to type anything in from one event. So right away there is one value statement to it—being able to use this on a regular basis; this is real time saver. Fundamentally more important is: what is the value or the cost of that one, two, three, [or] five dozen connections you did make? And those sort of transactions—it’s networking that makes so much business transpire and there’s just something profoundly more valuable. When you and I met face-to-face there was a rapport that was established there that you can’t easily duplicate online. And so the fact that I am connecting with more people, engaged in more conversations and in turn from the exhibitor perspective [it is] the same. They are also connecting with more people and engaged in more conversations. This is incredibly important because you have to ask yourself why this person was attending the event. Simply put, it was to meet people. So if a person meets 30, [or] 40, [or] 50 percent more meeting of people, this is a very powerful statement for what the overall platform can do.

IBRAHIM DABO: Mingle360 has added integration with Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter, which could be seen as a significant milestone considering the fact that millions of people are using these Social Networking websites. Tell us a little more about this recent development and how it works.

DAN COFFING: That’s a logic question. The idea is that MingleManager is just a portal. So if part of what you want to communicate to a person is, ‘I live on Facebook’ or ‘I live on Hi5’ or LiveJournal or Crooks [and Liars] or any of these other sites, you can make it very easy for the person that you invited with MingleStick click to sort of come find the bulk of your contents. I think it’s probably a graduated process from, ‘hey, it was great to meet you’ to, ‘come, be my friend on Facebook.’ We want to make that process very, very smooth. We are just a portal allowing people to say, ‘come see me,’ whatever ‘me’ gets defined to be. The other aspect that is important is that you want to make the data movement as smooth as possible so that it’s easy to export down to Outlook or to CSP (Communicating Sequential Processes), or just synchronize down to your phone and things like that. And so those are some of the features that we look to establish. Regarding Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, these social media tools are essentially miniature broadcast engines for me to advertise to my 300 friends and acquaintances the things and activities I’m doing during the day. It becomes a valuable tool for the growth of MingleManager and MingleStick to say, ‘hey, let’s make it easy for people to essentially navigate and participate with their Mingles within the sites that they are already familiar with.’

IBRAHIM DABO: In this technology-driven age, to what extent do you see your product revolutionizing the world of networking?

MingleStick is a one-click device that passes a data reference between one MingleStick and the other.

DAN COFFING: I think it underscores the importance of face-to-face connections and it says right now that there is a standing encumbrance to making that as smooth and as versatile as it could or should be. And so being able to, like I mentioned earlier, sort of raise the level of activity, raise the game, raise the flexibility of that connection from three or four steps down to one step, as simple with a one-click connection. It takes some of the friction out of a transaction. It takes a lot of the: ‘Now, I’m not going to be bothered with that,’ [or] ‘why the heck do I have this business card again,’ that sort of mentality that we sort of put up as a subconscious grid for the way we handle our connections. So is this the next Google [or] Facebook—I don’t know if it is necessary to speak in those terms. But every process and step that you can make in the way of making people get access to data and the object and things in their real world affairs and sort of handle that information from a very powerful data gathering, data mining, data processing tool, i.e., their computers or their mobile phones, every step that you could take along that way, and I think is an accelerant to furthering the relationships that people are having.

For more information, visit:

Company website: www.mingle360.com
Product website: www.minglestick.com

For contact details, call or email:

Sales: 703-425-0402 x111 / connect@mingle360.com
Investor Relations: 703-425-0402 x510

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Congressman Elijah Cummings Emphasizes The Need To Know Technology

Sunday, November 15th, 2009

Congressman Cummings said it is important to know technology. Report and photos by Ibrahim Dabo

Congressman Elijah E. Cummings (D – MD) has stressed on the need for business leaders to keep up with technology innovation.

Cummings was speaking at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Economic Recovery Forum in Baltimore, Maryland, on October 31, 2009.

“I tell people all the time, make sure you go and learn more about technology,” Cummings said. “Technology is very important; I’m begging you — get to know technology.”

Talking about how embarrassing not knowing technology can be, Cummings cited a personal experience when he struggled to cope with technology in the early ‘90s, a story that engulfed the packed Banquet Room at Johns Hopkins University with laughter.

Cummings said, "We can be better."

“Don’t be like me,” Cummings said. “But I’m serious, you are all laughing—some of you are in that position right now. We can do better than that, and if Barrack Obama, President Obama, has taught us anything, it is that we can be better.”

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IT Security Automation Conference Highlights New Security Strategies

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

Hager said it is important to make sense of information gathered and put it into action. Report and photos by Ibrahim Dabo

Day Three of the 5^th Annual IT Security Automation Conference in Baltimore, Maryland, was fully engaged with presentations, keynote, panel discussions, workshops and Expo.

Speakers continued to talk about how information systems can be well managed to adequately deal with attacks from the ‘bad guys,’ risk management, and better decision making.

“If there is information advantage in the U.S., it starts here: it is about the ability to gather, manage, protect vast quantities of information from all kinds of sources,” said Tony Hager, Chief of the Vulnerability Analysis and Operations Group, National Security Agency (NSA).

Hager said it is important to not only make sense of information after it has been gathered but to also take action.

“We don’t want to spend a lot of money on the data gathering point—that’s where we are today,” Hager said. “What we want to find is ways to move that information to where it is needed in a form in which it is needed to allow us to make those kinds of tough choices…”

Hager added that there is a need to figure out the risks and vulnurabilities as soon as possible in order to drive the decisions that have to be taken to the nation in order to protect us.

Hale said we need to be ahead of the 'bad guys'

Richard Hale, Chief, Communications Information Assurance Engineering & Support, Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), said he worries about the fragility of our technology, reinforcing the need to be proactive.

“This business of cyber attacking right now is pretty easy,” Hale said. “Attacks are really easy, cheap, [and] scalable. They can be developed fast. ‘Bad guy’ really don’t need a lot of infrastructures.”

Hale said ‘bad guys’ are very agile, and that we have to think about these technology realities as part of a solution.

The Expo was also packed with many organizations showcasing technologies that focus on Healthcare IT, Cyber Security, and other Emerging Secure IT Technologies.

Karyn Broughton, Senior Associate, Booz Allen Hamilton, represented her company at the Expo

G2, Applied Security Automation, were present at the Expo

Many Senior Executives and IT Professioals attended the conference

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Ross: We Need To View Security As An Investment In Our Mission’s Success

Friday, October 30th, 2009

Dr. Ron Ross, Senior Computer Scientist and Information Security Researcher at NIST, presented at the 5th Annual IT Security Automation Conference in Baltimore. Report and photos by Ibrahim Dabo

October 26 – 29, 2009 marked the 5th Annual IT Security Automation Conference and Expo, held at the Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, Maryland. The conference highlighted emerging technologies designed to support the security automation needs of various sectors, as well as providing a common understanding for using specific open standards.

Very well attended, the conference attracted public and private sector senior executives, security managers and staff, Information Technology professionals, and developers of software products and services.

Among notable speakers were Dr. Ron Ross, Senior Computer Scientist and Information Security Researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). His specialization includes security requirements definition, testing and evaluation, risk management, and information assurance; and he leads the Federal Information Security Management Act Implementation Project for NIST. Ross presented exclusively on the importance of information security and good risk management strategy for senior executives and IT professionals.

Enterprise Architecture

While acknowledging that there is way too much IT today and not having control over it, Ross said that Enterprise Architecture is the salvation long term for our security problems. “We consolidate, we standardize, we optimize, and, what does that do for us as security professionals? It gives us a hope of deploying the right controls to the right parts of the systems, together with all the configuration settings to really make a difference.”

Working With Industry To Develop More Secure Products And Systems

Ross said there is a need to revisit the trusted product evaluation program strategy – working with industry to make

Among attendees at the conference were senior executives and IT professionals

better products. All the security configuration settings in the world still rest on some piece of software, said Ross, but how good and highly assured is that software, and are we using good secured coding techniques to develop these myriad of products? He went mention key questions that need to be considered when products are bought: such as, how do we securely hook them up, how do we use our current systems and security engineering practices which have been developed over the past decade to really do the right thing?

Vision

Ross said the vision with the Unified Information Security Framework is to develop a core set of standards and guidelines that the entire federal government and contracting base can use.

In November, NIST will release the final draft of the new Special Publication 800-37, which will fundamentally restructure the current certification and accreditation process for information systems.

“Gone will be the static paper-base three-year approach that we’ve grown up with,” Ross said. “In comes the era of continuous monitoring, situation awareness, automation, up-tempo — those are the words the adversaries work with everyday.

"We have to be able to change the infrastracture rapidly so the adversary doesn't have the ability to run right through our defenses," Dr. Ross

Ross stressed the importance of getting inside the adversaries’ cycle and operating in their space, and not get slaved to the bureaucracy, checklists, dashboards, and everything that absolutely doesn’t give any real sense of where one is with regard to security.

He said the adversaries respect “strength and mechanism,” adding that “we have to get to the point where we find the right metrics, we do the right thing with regard to reporting – that’s always going to be important – but fundamentally we have to do the right thing with regard to protection.”

Enterprise-wide Risk Management

Looking beyond SCAP (Security Content Automation Protocol) and into the infrastructure, NIST will put out the final draft of the Special Publication 800-39 — Develop enterprise-wide risk management guidance. Ross said they will propose a three-level hierarchy for risk management which is not available today. Level 1 will look into Organization; Level 2, Mission/Business Process; and Level 3, Information Systems.

“We will never have enough controls in place; there will never be enough SCAP configuration settings to fully stop the adversary. So how do we manage risk in the very dangerous environment and more importantly how do we monitor risk over time?” Ross said, adding that the setting on your system today and the current state of your security today is not going to be the same tomorrow. He raised the question of how do we effectively manage risk in these very complicated times.

“It’s all about mission. We have to be able to turn the equation around and stop thinking about security as a cost center, and start looking at security as an investment in our mission’s success,” Ross said.

Limitation of Privileges

Ross spoke on the important of limiting the many privileges that are given to many people, saying the SCAP project in general, is an articulation of one of the fundamental principles of information security in our business—least privilege, least functionality.

“As security folks, we’d like to close down all ports, protocols and services, and functions, unless we need those to be

Ross said it is very predictable how our networks are set up, adding that "we've got to be able to change things around quickly to confuse and delay the adversaries that are very, very capable"

successful in carrying out our missions,” Ross said, cautioning that the vendors traditionally like to deliver products wide open—maximum functionality. He said with the SCAP project, we can close down avenues of attack, avenues of approach for adversaries, citing an example of disabling the auto-execute command so that when someone plugs in a flash drive into the USB port of a laptop, that malicious code does not execute automatically.

Risk Management Framework

Ross said the Risk Management Framework gives a disciplined construction approach to building a good security program—one that is flexible, agile, and meets the needs of the individuals and mission owners, adding that authorized and official senior leaders should get the important information they need to make credible risk-based decisions.

“We can use automation to our benefit: automating things that humans don’t do very well, automating things in the SCAP business, having automation help us manage our controls, giving us a sense of what’s working [and] what’s not working, how to make things better. That’s the information that senior leaders need to have today,” Ross said.

He added that senior leaders have to worry about a plethora of risks today, security being only one aspect. He said they also have to deal with program risks, safety risks, and budget risks.

“The good risk management strategy that sits at the top of the enterprise is critical,” Ross said, adding that without senior leadership involvement, and for the most part, all the management chain down to the people in the trenches, none of this is going to work all that well. He said the risk management piece needs to be at the top of the organization so that strategy can be pushed down to everyone who is working to keep those enterprise assets as safe and secure as they can be.

Dr Ross (left) and Vern Williams (right) of ACCI. Ross was elected to the grade of ISSA Distinguished Fellow.

In recognition of his exceptional service to the security community and significant contribution to the Local, State or National Security posture, or capability, the Officers and Board of Directors of ISSA (Information Systems Security Association) international certified that Dr. Ron Ross be elected to the grade of ISSA Distinguished Fellow.

Related Links
· Dr. Ron Ross’ Profile
· Exclusive Interview: SimulScribe CEO, James Siminoff, On Voicemail-To-Text Transcription
· IT Security Automation Conference Reinforces The Need For Better Security Measures
· Click on the album below for photos taken at the conference and Expo (All photos by Ibrahim Dabo)

5th Annual IT Security Automation Conference, Baltimore, Maryland

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Exclusive Interview: SimulScribe CEO, James Siminoff, On Voicemail-To-Text Transcription

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

James Siminoff is Co-founder and CEO of PhoneTag. He is also CSO of Ditech Networks

Never again do you have to worry about shuffling through tons of voicemails. PhoneTag (SimulScribe) has made it simple for users through its voice-to-text platform.

The leading provider of voicemail-to-text (VTT) applications to service providers and enterprises in the United States, SimulScribe offers retail subscribers various service options through its award-winning PhoneTag VTT service. Co-founded by James Siminoff, who serves as Chief Executive Officer (CEO), SimulScribe, on September 10, 2009 signed a $17 million partnership agreement with Ditech Networks, a global leader in voice processing software applications.

Sept. 28, 2009, Siminoff, now Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) of Ditech Networks, spoke exclusively to Ibdabo.com about his company’s services, the partnership deal with Ditech Networks, and plans for the future.

IBRAHIM DABO: The names PhoneTag and SimulScribe are sometimes used interchangeably. Is there really a difference between the two?

JAMES SIMINOFF: SimulScribe is actually the company that we started and PhoneTag is just the retail brand that we ended up changing for the retail customers because SimulScribe was a… tough name or really sort of a crappy name for people to remember.

IBRAHIM DABO: You are Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of PhoneTag. How did the company come about?

JAMES SIMINOFF: Really it came through the voicemail. So it was sitting around and sort of thinking about voicemail and I said I think and I can fix it, which over the time, we decided why don’t we try. So basically it was just one of those on the whelm sort of, you know, if you could read your voicemail that was text, that will sort of fix the pain of trying to access voicemail. And right from there… It’s pretty simple.

IBRAHIM DABO: The company is already a major player in the speech-to-text transcription service in the U.S. How effective is the transcription?

JAMES SIMINOFF: We have a couple of different models. Our overall transcriptions are 97 percent accurate.

IBRAHIM DABO: Okay, and what are the different models?

JAMES SIMINOFF: We have a fully automated, we have script-to-computer and then we have a model where we have humans that basically touchup where the automation doesn’t work.

IBRAHIM DABO: Let’s talk a little more about the services you offer. What are some of the options available to a potential subscriber?

JAMES SIMINOFF: For the potential subscriber, we always sell, we have it basically as unlimited for $30. We have it – if you have forty messages it’s $9.95 a month, and we also have an a la carte which is $0.35 per message.

IBRAHIM DABO: All these services you describe are applicable to home, office and cell phone voicemail systems, correct?

JAMES SIMINOFF: Correct! Yeah, we unify all the voicemails.

IBRAHIM DABO: Alright. Now, there is an online interface to which users can upload the contents of their phonebook. What are some of the benefits of this user interface?

JAMES SIMINOFF: Well, it’s sort of – just the fact that you can go and you can view your voicemail online; listening to it online makes it very easier, especially when people are traveling. The Contact Book, the reason that we do that is because if you upload your Contact Book, when you get a call from someone in your Contact Book that you have an email address for, we actually send the transcription from that person’s email address. So all you have to do is reply to that e-mail. So, for example, if you are in my address book and you called me and left a message, as soon as… hit reply and it just goes back to you. So really it’s sort of turning a voicemail into an email conversation is the whole idea.

IBRAHIM DABO: What are some of the names of carriers integrated with PhoneTag?

JAMES SIMINOFF: The main carriers that are integrated for the retail customer are AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile.

IBRAHIM DABO: Where would potential subscribers find information about pricing and how they could utilize this service?

JAMES SIMINOFF: Visit www.phonetag.com

IBRAHIM DABO: PhoneTag’s services extend beyond the U.S. borders, correct?

JAMES SIMINOFF: Yes, they do. We do at Canada right now and a few Latin America countries.

IBRAHIM DABO: On September 10th, SimulScribe signed a $17 million partnership agreement with Ditect Networks…

JAMES SIMINOFF: Correct!

IBRAHIM DABO: What are some of the key terms involved?

JAMES SIMINOFF: Well the key terms involved is that basically Ditech Networks acquired the right to our wholesale business. So Ditech Network sells equipment and services to carriers, and now they are going to include this [VTT] as one of their services to sell to carriers.

IBRAHIM DABO: Now Chief Strategy Officer of Ditech, what does the future hold for both companies?

JAMES SIMINOFF: The future is basically that Ditech will be enabling carriers all around the world for voicemail detect and other speech detect services and that SimulScribe will continue to innovate those services, basically supplying those to Ditech to then be sold.

IBRAHIM DABO: Many thanks, Jamie, for your time.

JAMES SIMINOFF: Oh! Thank you!

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Exclusive Interview With Jane Gennarelli

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

Jane Gennarelli is Principal of Magellan's Law Corporation and the original creator of Litigation Best Practices in a Box™

May 2008. Litigation Best Practices in a Box(TM) is a tool used by many of the largest law firms in the world to assist with litigation discovery materials. It has pre-defined standards, procedures, logs, and forms, and is instrumental to law firms in complying with the Rules of Civil Procedure for handling electronic discovery.

Ibrahim Dabo interviews Jane Gennarelli, a Principal of Magellan’s Law Corporation, and also the original creator of Litigation Best Practices in a Box™. Gennarelli is a leading expert in litigation management, and has thirty years of experience in this field. While responding to questions, she talks exclusively about her company, the product, and how many leading law firms are benefiting from it.

IBRAHIM DABO: Please give a brief overview about your organization, Magellan’s Law Corporation.

JANE GENNARELLI: Magellan’s Law Corporation is a product and consulting company that assists attorneys and paralegals in effectively handling and managing litigation discovery materials. Our flagship product — Best Practices in a Box ™ — is a browser-based tool that includes predefined standards, procedures, logs and forms for all of the tasks associated with handling litigation discovery materials — both paper and electronic documents. It incorporates procedures for complying with the rules of civil procedure for electronic discovery. The product is customized by our clients to include firm-specific information and preferences. The tool permits a law firm to quickly and easily implement a customized best practices program that is a good fit with its practice.

Law firms use the product to attain consistency in the way in which discovery materials are handled, to improve quality and reduce costs for these tasks, to train new associates, paralegals and litigation technical staff, and to ensure that litigation technology is optimally used. Firms also use it as a marketing tool. Attorneys show it to potential clients to demonstrate the firm’s commitment to providing high-quality, cost effective representation. It is currently in use by firms of all sizes across the country.

In addition, we provide related consulting services. We assist law firms in determining the right resources for supporting their litigators — we make staff, technology and process recommendations. We also have significant case-specific experience in managing discovery activities for our clients.

You are the original creator of Litigation Best Practices in a Box™. When and how did you come up with the idea of creating this product? What was your motivation?
I have been working in litigation for 30 years. In that time, I’ve assisted thousands of attorneys with managing case discovery documents. In that time, I’ve also seen law firms – time and again – manage various document handling tasks on their own (tasks like collecting responsive documents from their clients, screening those documents for privilege, coding those documents for a database, and so on). In almost all of those situations, I observed that law firms were not applying some very basic project management techniques to the work they were doing. Some of my observations were:

1. They didn’t plan the activities — they didn’t create schedules or budgets or determine what resources they needed.
2. They didn’t use written procedures.
3. They didn’t adequately train people doing the work.
4. They didn’t take quality control steps to ensure that the work was being done right and that it was consistent.
5. They didn’t track what they were doing or keep any productivity or status records

The results were almost always the same: they missed court deadlines, databases weren’t ready by when they were needed, the quality did not meet expectations, and the work cost more than it needed to.

I recognized a problem that I wanted to fix. In 2000, I became an independent consultant focusing on assisting law firms in creating and developing best practices programs. In 2001, I started working on the first release of a Best Practices product, which was in pdf form. In 2003, Jim Feuerstein and I formed Magellan’s Law Corporation. Jim converted the pdf version into html and we released the first html version in late 2003.

What is the idea behind the name “Best Practices in a Box”? Why “in a box”?
In recent years, more and more law firms are recognizing the need to implement best practices for handling their discovery materials. Aside from our clients, few firms have gotten very far along. In most cases, they have the expertise to create best practices, but they simply don’t have the time. It is an overwhelming task. Drafting best practices from scratch is a full-time job for months and months and months. We use the phrase “in a box” in our product name to imply ease of implementation. Most of our clients customize the product before using it, so they are not all using it right “out of the box”. But using our product as the basis for their best practices is a much more efficient approach. We wanted a name that implied its ease of implementation.

How easy do your new clients find it to use this product?
In short, very. It’s browser based, so anyone that can use the internet can use our product. Feedback from our clients has been that the content is clear, easy to understand, thorough, and well-organized.

Describe the success of this product, and especially the impact of the new release, Version 3.0?
I think the success of the product should be viewed in two ways.

1. Its success as a product for Magellan’s Law Corporation — the developers and distributors who are building a business around it.
2. Its success at our clients and as a contribution to the litigation arena as a whole.

Let me briefly discuss each of these points.

Its success at Magellan’s Law Corporation:

Our client base is vast and diverse. The product has been purchased by some of the largest law firms in the world, as well as by very small firms with only 1 or 2 attorneys. Our clients are located across the continental US and in Canada.

Most of our clients are law firms with hundreds or thousands of attorneys that are located in major US markets. It is rare that I speak to a litigation support professional who is not familiar with our product.

Our sales have seen a sharp increase since the release of version 3.0. Law firms across the country are looking for tools to help them comply with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure regarding electronic discovery, and release 3.0 provides thorough coverage of those rules.

Its success at our clients and in the litigation arena:

Law firms — as a rule — have not historically been known for implementing standards and procedures for handling tasks.

They have in the past few years recognized a need for doing so for handling litigation discovery materials (especially for handling electronic discovery). As a result, law firms are scrambling to develop and implement standards. That is a huge undertaking and most firms lack the resources to develop such a program in a timely manner.

Our product — the only one of its kind — solves that problem for them. They simply customize our pre-defined standards to fit their practice, and they are able to have a program up and running in weeks or months, rather than years.

The benefits to our clients are significant, and therein lies the “success”: they are able to provide high-quality, cost-effective representation in a way that eluded them in the past.

It’s “success” can also be viewed by its contribution to the litigation arena: this product has raised awareness in the litigation community regarding the need for best practices.

Our product has helped to elevate that “need” to a new level: because so many large firms have licensed our product, other firms find themselves in a position where they recognize they need to do something to stay competitive.

How is this product different from other litigation management products?
Magellan’s Law Best Practices in a Box ™ is the only product of its kind. That is, it is the only product on the market that is a collection of procedures for all of the tasks associated with handling litigation discovery materials and that is aimed at helping a law firm to implement a best practices program. Other litigation support products include software tools for housing images and data for discovery documents, tools for processing electronic discovery, tools for handling transcripts (for depositions, for example), and tools for presenting materials at trial. They are software tools, not content tools.

For the benefit of readers who are unfamiliar with this concept, what is e-discovery?
E-discovery (or “electronic discovery”) has become a huge factor in litigation today. To understand it, you need to understand a little about the litigation process. Let me explain that in very general terms.

Discovery — one of the first activities in a law suit — is the process by which each side in a law suit turns over relevant materials to the other side. In most law suits, that means turning over documents that include relevant information. In years past, that meant turning over paper. In large cases, hundreds of millions of pages of documents may have been turned over in a single case. Paper documents were collected from files, and word processing documents and emails were printed to paper and produced. In the last 10 years or so, a transition has been occurring, and document productions have been changing from mostly paper to mostly electronic. Exchanging paper still happens, but today it’s usually the smaller portion of a document production. Electronic discovery is the process of collecting, processing, culling, reviewing and producing discovery documents in electronic form.
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Jane Gennarelli was among notable speakers who presented at The International Litigation Support Leaders Conference in Washington, D.C., between 15 and 16 May, 2008.

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Exclusive Interview With Pier Luigi Giganti

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

: Pier Giganti is a senior engineer in the telecom industry

Jan. 2003. Ibrahim Dabo interviews Pier Luigi Giganti—International Billing Programme, Head Of Balance Manager, Provisioning And Mediation, IT Development – H3G Italy.

While responding to questions, the telecom guru and former OSS Design Consultant for Hutchison 3G UK talks exclusively about Hutchison 3G and its services, the difference between the Third Generation Mobile services and that of the present technology, and the influence the technology will have on sport.

IBRAHIM DABO: What basically is the difference between Third Generation Mobile services and the present technology today with Mobile phones?

PIER LUIGI GIGANTI: The main difference relates to the breadth and the quality of services that 3G/UMTS will provide. For the customer it will be a total new experience with high quality data and video services being available anywhere and at any time. You will be able to talk to your friend who is located in another continent and you will actually see him/her. On the screen of your terminal, you will be able to watch news broadcasts, music and goal video-clips, to locate the closest restaurant in a town you are visiting.

In terms of development of this kind of phones, do you see H3G taking the technology to say, an African country for a pilot country like say, South Africa which plans to host the 2010 World Cup?Very much so as I believe there is enormous potential and interest in African countries. However, penetration of 3G services in this area will also depend on the arrangements in place for granting UMTS licenses in such countries.

What will be the main marketing attraction, using football to be the main flagship of this kind of phone?
Football and sports will be key driving of the H3G services as a H3G customer will be able to watch goals and highlights of a football match only seconds after they happen. It will be like being at the football ground while being miles away

Which countries do H3G plan its coverage of services when been launched?
H3G will provide its service in Italy, UK, Sweden, Australia, Thailand, Hong Kong, Austria, Denmark and later on Ireland, Israel and New Zealand.

Can we say this company`s technology has more advantage than traditional Internet access?
The key advantage is that you will not be constrained by specific locations and wired access, but you will be free to roam around and still get similar if not better services as if you were sitting at home in front of your pc.

With football being one of the main flagships of this new product, are there any plans for development strategies to improve the quality of the game in countries you will operate in?
H3G have acquired rights to broadcast on the 3G videophones matches of key football clubs around the world (Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal, Juventus, AC Milan, Inter, etc.). This has implied huge investments in the football arena, which will ultimately favor the progress of this sport.

Do you think video clips broadcast will be accessed very fast using these handsets, will the weight of the phones be light?
The throughput allowed by the UMTS technology will be much higher, at least 50 times, than the one permitted by conventional 2G/GSM terminals. It will be a new brand experience and the weight of the hand-sets will be broadly comparable with the current mobile phones.

How do you see this new product revolutionising soccer worldwide?
It will help making football an even more global affair than it currently is, it will enable sharing of goal videos among friends, it will satisfy the thirst of the football lovers around the world.

Technology has contributed a lot to the development of football worldwide. Do you think with H3G`s new phones, the Premiership league could be made more popular in Latin America and the USA for instance, where the Premiership is not watched as much as the Spanish Liga or Serie A?
It will certainly enable a wider circulation of football clips around the world, but I do not believe that tastes will be altered. Hence, I believe that Latin Americans – just to give you an example – would still privilege flair and skill rather than agonism.

What are your last words for us?
I would like to thank you, Ibrahim, for allowing myself to share my 3G excitement with you, your friends and the visitors of this site. I would also like to congratulate you for the principles of friendliness, camaraderie and mutual trust that are sponsored by this web site.

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