Vince Crisler

Biography

Vince Crisler has more than 20 years of IT and cyber security leadership within the Department of Defense, federal civilian government, and private sector. He is the CEO and Co-Founder of Dark Cubed, a cyber security product startup company in the Washington D.C. Area.

Prior to founding Dark Cubed, Crisler supported the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Sandia National Laboratories in the development of cyber security protection programs to defend the networks of Federal Departments and Agencies, as well as those belonging to critical infrastructure and key resources (CI/KR) owners and operators. In this role, he was the primary author for the five-year technical vision for the National Cybersecurity Protection System, a $3B cyber security program within DHS. He was also a co-author of the DHS Enhanced Cyber Services (ECS) Policy Paper for the National Security Staff, establishing a critical cyber security information-sharing program in preparation for Executive Order (EO) 13636, Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity, and Presidential Policy Directive (PPD)-21 Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience.

Crisler also served as the Director of Information Assurance for the White House’s Executive Office of the President and was responsible for the creation of the first ever cyber security operations center to protect White House networks.

Prior to the White House, Crisler served in the United States Air Force in organizations to include the White House Communications Agency, the National Military Command Center in the Pentagon, and Ramstein Air Base in Germany. Crisler earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer and Information Science from the Ohio State University and currently lives in the Washington D.C. area.

Presentation Title

Real Time Cyber Intelligence

Presentation Overview

Vince will provide an overview of current advances in the processing of threat intelligence, data collection, and machine learning. He will then contrast those advances against developments in cyber threat adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). The goal of this talk is to give cyber operations personnel a new perspective on techniques to improve their security infrastructure and to highlight key areas where additional research is needed to provide improved cyber security for organizations of all sizes.