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Google Manager, FBI Officials to Speak at HSMI Conference on Cyber Threats


Gordon Snow, assistant director of the FBI Cyber Division, will join a panel of national experts, including a Google administrator, to discuss cyber security crimes and trends at Homeland Security Management Institute’s 2010 National Conference. The annual conference will take place from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 10, in the MCC Theatre on Monroe Community College’s Brighton Campus, 1000 E. Henrietta Road. Conference fee is $99 per person.

Snow, who is keynote speaker, leads the FBI’s efforts to protect the country against cyber-based attacks and high-technology crimes. He has a broad range of investigative and leadership experience, including supervising the foreign counterintelligence program as SWAT program coordinator in Detroit. In 2005, Snow was appointed chief of Weapons of Mass Destruction and Acquisition of U.S. Nuclear and Missile Technology unit at FBI headquarters. In 2007, he served in Afghanistan as the FBI’s on-scene commander for the Counterterrorism Division and shortly after was appointed section chief in the Cyber Division.

Other speakers at the conference:

Jeffrey A Tricoli, a supervisory special agent with the FBI. Head of the cyber crime program with the Buffalo office of the FBI, Tricoli has investigated violations involving computer intrusions, Internet fraud, child pornography and computer forensics.

Cory Louie, manager of Trust & Safety for Google Inc. Louie is responsible for protecting the company brand and its users. Before joining Google, Louie was a Secret Service special agent who specialized in the investigation of network intrusions and cyber crimes.

William J. Hochul Jr., U.S. attorney for Western District of New York. A career federal prosecutor who handled the “Lackawanna Six” terrorism case, Hochul has served as chief of the local U.S. Attorney’s National Security Division and chief of the Anti-Terrorism Unit.

For more information about the conference or to register, call (585) 753-3921 or go to "
https://www.monroecc.edu/go/hsmi".

John Perrone
HSMI
07/30/2010