Elevating the Federal Cybersecurity Discussion to include Prevention and Detection

Herbert Stapleton is a Deputy Assistant Director (DAD) in the FBI’s Cyber Division. Mr. Stapleton is responsible for the FBI’s operational programs targeting sophisticated cyber threats from criminal and nation-state actors.

Prior to his current role he served as the Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Cincinnati Field Office, where he led the Cyber, Intelligence, and Crisis Management programs in Southern Ohio. Mr. Stapleton began his FBI career as a Special Agent in the St. Louis Field Office, Cape Girardeau RA, and later served in the Chicago Field Office.

Prior to joining the FBI, he practiced corporate and commercial law in a private law firm.

Mr. Terry Mitchell assumed the position as the Principal Cyber Advisor to the Secretary of the Army and the Army Chief of Staff on September 15, 2020. Mr. Mitchell is responsible for advising both the SA and CSA on all cyber matters and implementing the Department of Defense Cyber Strategy within the Army. As the PCA, he represents the Secretary at cyber-related senior DoD level forums to include the Cyber and Digital Modernization Monthly Meetings, the Deputy Management Action Group, etc. to inform and advocate for cyberspace activities. He is also responsible for implementing the Department of Defense Cyber Strategy within the Army by coordinating and overseeing the execution of the Army’s policies and programs relevant to Cyber, including certification of the Army’s Budget for Cyber activities.

Prior to his appointment as the Principal Cyber Advisor, Mr. Mitchell was assigned as the Director of the Army G-2 Plans and Integration Directorate since January 1, 2015. He lead the development of policy and plans and set conditions to meet or exceed anticipated Army Intelligence manning, equipping, training, resourcing, and readiness requirements. He oversaw the functional management of the signals intelligence, geospatial intelligence, open source intelligence, and measurement and signatures intelligence disciplines. He led Army Intelligence initiatives to identify, exploit, and field new intelligence capabilities from across the military, agencies, academia, and industry, to enable their assessment, acquisition, and integration into the Force. The directorate integrates Army Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance technology across the Army and DoD. He directed the activities of an intelligence-focused science and technology community of interest that brings together members of the Intelligence Community, Military Services, academia, and industry to develop initiatives to assess the military utility and integration of emerging/leading-edge technologies. He oversaw the collaboration and synchronization between the G-2 staff and Army Futures Command.

Before this time with the G-2, Mr. Mitchell served as the Assistant Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Command and Control in the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Advanced Systems & Concepts), where he formulated and executed policy, programs and initiatives to promote rapid transition of technologies and enabling operational concepts from applied engineering to field and sustained military capabilities to support joint missions. Programs directed by this office include Advanced Concept Technology Demonstrations, Joint Capability Technology Demonstrations, Technology Transition Initiative, Joint Warfare (Experimentation) Program and programs to enhance the Defense industrial base.

Mr. Mitchell retired from the Army in 2001 after an active duty career spanning twenty- seven years. His operational military assignments included duties in multiple Army Military Intelligence Battalions and intelligence centers in the European and Central Command theaters. He also served at the US Army Intelligence Center and School, designing programs of instruction for multidiscipline/multi-echelon intelligence systems. He also completed an assignment in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Operational Test and Evaluation Office, where he was awarded the DoD Military Tester of the Year award for his test strategy and conduct of the Year 2000 (Y2K) Operational Evaluations.

Ken Walker joined Owl in August 2019 following the merger of Owl and Tresys Technology, having spent 13 years at Tresys. Bringing nearly 30 years of experience in information systems security, he is responsible for the planning, creation, maintenance, and support of all Owl packaged solutions and products. Prior to Tresys, Ken was the Co-founder and Chief Architect for Secure Methods, Inc. where he was responsible for the development of the company's product suite. Ken was a senior security engineer for Trusted Information Systems, Inc. where he worked on a variety of security projects including the Gauntlet firewall, Domain and Type Enforcement, key escrow, and Trusted Xenix. In addition, Ken held related technical positions with DynCorp and Booz-Allen Hamilton.

Greg Crabb is the founder of 10-8, LLC. With more than 25 years of law enforcement and security experience, he specializes in providing consultation to cybersecurity leaders and organizations to help protect their digital assets against evolving cyberthreats. Greg focuses specifically on delivering advisory services to C-suite executives, their boards, and other leaders responsible for securing their organization’s operations, products, and services.

For six years as the U.S. Postal Service’s chief information security officer, Greg secured the agency’s technology and information assets against nation-state threat actors. These efforts helped protect military mail globally and the unprecedented 2020 U.S. elections. With his successful track record as a cybersecurity executive and law enforcement official, Greg stands ready to apply proven models and his vast experience to help organizations strengthen their cybersecurity posture, obtain security certifications, such as CMMC, and achieve ongoing success.

Major General Matthew P. Easley became the Director for Cybersecurity and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) in the office of the Army Chief Information Officer (CIO) in September 2020. In this role, MG Easley oversees cybersecurity policy development and compliance to secure Army data and information in an environment resistant to known and emerging cyber threats. He is helping architect the Army's future zero trust cybersecurity framework and enabling secure cloud applications.

MG Easley’s prior command and operational assignments include Director, Artificial Intelligence Task Force, Army Futures Command; Deputy Commanding General – Cyber, 335th Signal Command, East Point, GA; Chief of Staff, 335th Signal Command, Camp Arifjan, Kuwait; Commander, 505th Signal Brigade, Las Vegas, NV; Commander, 319th Signal Battalion, Camp Buehring, Kuwait; Instructor for Command and General Staff College; and company-grade positions in the 121st Signal Battalion at Ft Riley (1ID) and in the 32nd Signal Battalion in Germany (V Corps).

is military education includes the Signal Officer Basic and Advanced Courses, the Command and General Staff College, the Joint and Coalition Warfighting School, and the Army War College.

MG Easley received his commission upon graduation from the U.S. Military Academy, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Engineering Physics. He also holds a masters degree in Electrical Engineering from Kansas State University, and a doctorate degree in Computer Science with a specialization in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

MG Easley is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE) and is a member of the Sigma Pi Sigma (Physics), Eta Kappa Tau (Engineering and Technology), Phi Kappa Phi (Academic) and Sigma Xi (Research) academic honor societies. He is also a volunteer program evaluator for ABET to accredit electrical, computer and systems engineering undergraduate programs.

In his civilian career, Dr. Easley was a research scientist at the Rockwell Science Center (later Teledyne Scientific) conducting original research in information fusion, automated reasoning and autonomous systems and supported both the second DARPA Grand and Urban Challenges. Later he joined the Boeing Company as a senior systems engineer / architect where he won the Phantom Work’s Team Excellence award for a technology demonstration on the USMC Common Aviation Command and Control System (CAC2S). Matt also worked the design and development of the mission system architecture for Boeing’s recently won MQ-25 carrier-based refueling drone program for the US Navy.