Jeff Bardin

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Jeff Bardin

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Since 1982 Jeff has worked in leadership positions organizations such as General Electric, Lockheed Martin, and Marriott International.  He also served as the Security Manager for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (LMIT), Chief Security Officer for Hanover Insurance, the Chief Information Security Officer for Investors Bank & Trust, and the Director, Office of Risk Management for EMC. Jeff is currently Chief Intelligence Strategist for Treadstone 71. In 2007 he was awarded the RSA Conference award for Excellence in the Field of Security Practices. The Bardin-led security team from Hanover Insurance also won the 2007 SC Magazine Award – Best Security Team competing against such organizations as Barclays Global and the Department of State.

Jeff sits on the Board of Directors, Boston Infragard; Content Raven, Wisegate, was a founding member of the Cloud Security Alliance; is a member of the Cyber Security Forum Initiative, the RSA Conference Submission Selection Committee and formerly on the Customer Advisory Board for Chosen Security. Jeff published The Illusion of Due Diligence in 2010 and was a co-author for the Computer and Information Security Handbook, Understanding Computers, and has published articles for magazines such as The Intelligencer, CSO, and SC Magazine. Jeff served in the USAF as a cryptologic linguist, and in the USANG as an officer.  He has BA in Special Studies - Middle East Studies & Arabic Language from Trinity College as well as a MS in Information Assurance from Norwich University.  He is also a professor of masters programs in cyber intelligence, counterintelligence, cybercrime and cyber terrorism at Utica College. Jeff also holds the CISSP, CISM, C|CISO and NSA-IAM certifications.

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jbardin [at] treadstone71 [dot] com

Latest Posts by Jeff

No Value to Jihadist Websites?

|   In my experience, the forums produced information through the initial sharing of public keys for Mujahideen Secrets that led to three layers of penetration that took nearly four months. This included multiple encrypted discussions held outside the forums as my persona was passed from one contact to...

Cyber Shafarat 2012: Cyber Warfare, OPSEC and Intelligence

|   Ask yourself, have the standard course offerings on the market for the last several years served to enhance organizational security postures? The state of cybersecurity and available metrics would say otherwise.

Cyber Shafarat 2012

|   The Cyber Shafarat 2012 initiative will greatly accelerate the effort of filling the skills gap. It will also bring new energy to Treadstone’s longstanding effort to educate learners across the United States and around the world.

The Proliferation of Cyber Janitors (and the mentality behind this movement)

|   They may mouth the words ‘proactive’ and ‘preventative’ but the products indicate otherwise. They propagate the cyber janitor skillset.

Foxnews.com - Drones, Malware and a Continued Lack of Infosec - Rinse and Repeat

|   Treadstone 71 tapped for Foxnews.com interview on drone malware and Japanese hacks (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries)http://video.foxnews.com/v/1212998285001/how-do-we-police-hackers/

Hey, what’s for supper? We are having a risk-based pot roast tonight! Roll the dice.

|   Risk is choosing what part of your house you ‘bet’ will fail based upon chance. Will it happen when you sleep at night? Will it occur while you are away? Will it happen during the day when the baby is sleeping or at dinner time when your family is there for Thanksgiving? And you say you don't...

Cyber Surveillance & Warning Striker

|   Cyber Surveillance & Warning Striker

When to Strike Back!

|   Seed the movement--Once the decision to launch a cyberattack is made, start it off right. Purchase or steal botnets covertly from criminal networks to launch attacks, feed 'patriotic' blogs to incite attacks and list targets, etc. Treadstone 71

Information Security Program Management Maturity Model

|   Information security is treated as a standardized building code where each function of the systems/software development lifecycle must meet building code standards prior to moving to he next step.

Cyber Militias - How Would you Establish Yours?

|   Volunteer based non-state actors have played an important part in many international cyber conflicts of the past two decades. In order to better understand this threat I describe three theoretical models for volunteer based offensive cyber militias: the Forum, the Cell and the Hierarchy. - Rain...

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