Date: Wednesday, June 6, 2007 Time: 7:00am - 9:00am (EDT) Location: Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
Liquid Machines will be hosting a breakfast networking meeting in Washington, D.C. on June 6, 2007. The goal of the meeting, which will feature Richard A. Clarke, the former White House cyber-security czar; Michael Sheehan, the former Deputy Commissioner of Counter-Terrorism for the NYPD; and Michael Ruffolo, president and CEO of Liquid Machines, is to bring together a group of security industry experts and interested businesses/organizations' executives to discuss the growing data loss epidemic and what can be done to put a halt to the steady flow of sensitive customer/employee data and critical intellectual property information that has been made public.
“Despite the temptation to use the term ‘data breach’ as a catch-all for the exposure of Social Security numbers, credit card information and addresses—a data breach can actually represent a multitude of meanings for different people,” said Clarke. “Data breaches resulting in loss of a company’s intellectual property can be utterly catastrophic to corporations whose competitive advantage is ensured by trade secrets.”
Richard A. Clarke
Richard A. Clarke is an internationally recognized expert on security, including homeland security, national security, cyber security and counterterrorism and is currently an on-air consultant for ABC News. Over the course of an unprecedented 11 consecutive years of White House service, he held the titles of Special Assistant to the President for Global Affairs, National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism and Special Advisor to the President for Cyber Security. As Chairman of Good Harbor Consulting, LLC, Clarke advises clients on a range of issues, including corporate security risk management, information security technology and how to deal with the Federal Government on security and IT issues and counterterrorism.
Michael Sheehan
Michael Sheehan is a Principal of Good Harbor Consulting and the former Deputy Commissioner of Counter-Terrorism for the New York Police Department (NYPD). In this role, he was responsible for overseeing counter-terrorism operations in the Department, including terrorism investigations in partnership with the FBI Joint Terrorist Task Force, training and exercises for NYPD personnel and risk assessment and critical infrastructure protection of key sites within New York City. Prior to his tenure with the NYPD, Sheehan served in the U.S. Government for 25 years in the Department of Defense, the Department of State and the White House. He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1977 and was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the Infantry. In addition to field training that included Airborne, Ranger and Special Forces qualification, he completed two Masters Degrees, one from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and one from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.
Michael Ruffolo
Michael Ruffolo brings more than 20 years of experience in global sales and marketing management, professional services, operations and information technology to his role as president and CEO of Liquid Machines. Prior to Liquid Machines, he server as the COO of Akamai, where he successfully refocused the company on the enterprise and government markets, driving double-digit revenue growth while dramatically improving operating results. Prior to Akamai, he was the executive vice president of Global Sales, Services and Marketing at EMC Corporation, where he drove over $8.5 billion in revenue. In addition, Ruffolo was president of the Document Solutions Group at Xerox Corporation, in which he had worldwide operational and profit responsibility for a group delivering annual revenues of more than $3 billion. Before joining Xerox, Ruffolo was vice president and CIO at NCR Corporation. He has been an independent director on both public and private company Boards and currently serves on the Board of Open Service in Westboro, Massachusetts. He is also an Advisory Board member at Virtusa in Westboro, MA and at the CIO Group in New York.
