Contextual intelligence in the cyber battlefield

Shane Barney is the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) Chief, Information Security Division (ISD) and the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO).  In this role, he manages USCIS’s next generation Information Technology Security program responsible for ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of USCIS networks, systems, and information, protection from both internal and external threats, as well as the implementation of the information security program and policies for the agency. 

Before accepting the CISO position, Shane served as the Deputy ISD Chief and Deputy CISO and has been Acting CISO since April 2018.

Prior to Shane’s roll as ISD Deputy, he was the Chief of the Cyber Intelligence Branch within ISD overseeing the classified operations, communication security, insider threat, and forensic programs for USCIS.  Before joining the federal workforce, he worked as a contractor for USCIS first in the Contracting Office in Vermont and then with the Office of Security and Integrity in Washington, D.C. As a contractor, Shane helping to charter the technical direction for the intelligence and fraud/risk detection missions on the classified networks. He developed analytical tools, data requirements, and system access needs in support of these missions.

Shane holds two Master’s Degrees and a Bachelor Degree all from the University of Vermont.

Matthew Smith is the Director of Cybersecurity Solutions for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). In his role working for the DHS Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Mr. Smith is responsible for the security architecture, security engineering, and cloud security analysis for the Department enterprise services and Headquarters Component. Mr. Smith is also the Technical Representative of the DHS CIO as FedRAMP Joint Authorization Board member and has been working with his counterparts at the Department of Defense and the General Services Administration to govern secure Federal use of cloud computing. He lead the deployment and integration of Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigations as well as the transformation of the Enterprise Security Operations Center at DHS. Mr. Smith has 20 years of experience in security, operations, and development across industry, academia, and government.

Gregory C. Wilshusen is a Director in GAO’s Information Technology and Cybersecurity team. He oversees information security issues and leads cybersecurity and privacy-related studies and audits of the federal government and national critical infrastructure.

Greg joined GAO in 1997. Prior to joining GAO, he served as the controller for the North Carolina Department of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources, and held senior auditing positions at Irving Burton Associates, Inc. and the U.S. Army Audit Agency. He is a certified ethical hacker, certified information systems auditor, and licensed certified public accountant.

Greg earned a master’s degree in information management from George Washington University’s School of Engineering & Applied Science and a bachelor’s degree in business administration (accounting) from the University of Missouri. He was a senior executive fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

As LookingGlass Chief Technology Officer, Allan Thomson has more than three decades of experience across network, security, and distributed systems technologies. Allan leads technical and architecture strategy across the LookingGlass solutions portfolio.

Prior to LookingGlass, Allan served as Principal Engineer at Cisco Systems, Inc., where he led the software architecture and design of the company’s Cyber Threat Defense System and Platform Exchange Grid. He was responsible for overall systems management and security telemetry collection/aggregation, as well as distributed threat analysis/intelligence services in multi-tenant public and private cloud deployments.

Before joining Cisco, Allan oversaw the technology growth initiatives of several start-up companies, including Airespace, where he was a Software Architect responsible for the design, development and network management/location tracking of the company’s wireless local area network (WLAN) system.

Mr. Sean W. Kelley is a former member of the Senior Executive Service and has over 27 years of IT experience in the federal and private sector. Prior to joining the Federal Government in 2012 (Department of Veteran Affairs & Environmental Protection Agency), he held positions as an Independent Consultant with numerous Healthcare IT Companies. He also served in a variety of key IT positions within the Navy Medicine including the CIO for the United States Naval Ship (USNS) Comfort during Disaster Relief for the Haitian Earthquake; the CIO for Navy Medicine Corporate Headquarters; the Director for the Navy Medicine Enterprise IT Program Management Office and as an IT Manager for the Attending Physician to Congress (OAP).

Mr. Kelley has experience in information technology and cybersecurity with a focus on developing strategic planning to achieve business goals. Mr. Kelley is a contributing author for the Computer Security Handbook in Security Policy and the VA’s Cyber Security Strategy White Paper for the White House and Congress that led to the VA’s Multi-Million Dollar Cybersecurity Strategy. Mr. Kelley has taught cyber security at the Master’s, and Bachelor Degree level and was a highly regarded SANS Institute On-Demand Instructor and course author. Mr. Kelley was recently named to the “FedHealthIT100 which honors those individuals recognized for driving change and advancement in the Federal Health Information Technology Market.”

Mr. Kelley has a B.S. in Healthcare Management from Southern Illinois University, a M.A. in Computer Resource and Information Management from Webster University, and a M.S. in Information Technology Management from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA with a focus in networking and information assurance. Mr. Kelley studied at the Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for Information Systems Security Studies and Research (CISR). “CISR is America's foremost center for defense-related research and education in software security, Inherently Trustworthy Systems (ITC), Cybersecurity Defense, and the use of computational systems in Cyber Operations”. Mr. Kelley is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and a Project Management Professional (PMP). Mr. Kelley is also an ICIT Fellow. Members of the ICIT Fellows Program are part of an elite group of experts who are leading the industry with cutting-edge innovation, thought leadership, and advanced technologies.