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Speaker Bio – Scott T. Nichols

Mr. Nichols has over 25 years of experience in the Information Security and
Healthcare Technology industries. Mr. Nichols leads the Global Product Security
program at Danaher Corporation, representing over 30 companies, including 4
medical device manufactures and 8 life sciences companies. Focusing on security
by design for Danaher’s medical devices, diagnostics, life sciences, water
quality, environmental and applied solutions product portfolios. Mr. Nichols is
the chairman for the Danaher Global Product Security Council and serves on the
steering committee for the Medical Device Innovation Consortium (MDIC). He is a
certified healthcare information security and privacy practitioner (HCISPP) and
a certified HIPAA privacy security expert (CHPSE).

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Speaker Bio – Hamlet Khodaverdian

Hamlet Khodaverdian is Vice President of Americas at LMNTRIX, a company
specializing in threat detection and response to address advanced and unknown
cyber threats that bypass perimeter controls. As a business technology executive
with more than 20 years’ experience, he has held various roles in multiple
companies, leading sales teams, software engineering teams, IT infrastructure
teams, business intelligence and data science teams. Previously, he has been at
Canon R&D, Western Mutual Insurance Group, Alliance Funding Group, Quick Bridge
Funding, and has been involved in a number of startups.

Through his various leadership roles, Hamlet has gained extensive experience in
building high- performance teams, in addition to extensive experience with
enterprise risk management, security architecture (both infrastructure related
and software engineering related), governance and compliance.

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Speaker Bio – Len Tateyama

Len Tateyama is the Director of IT at NetSecure, by Alvaka Networks, leading the
company’s Network Operations Center and Field Services teams. Len is responsible
for the developing and maintaining technical infrastructure and the delivery of
managed and consulting services to clients. With twenty years of experience
leading information technology, he has held various executive positions in the
highly regulated environments of financial management and banking sectors.

Areas of expertise include managing operational support teams; data center
build-outs; selection and management of managed services providers; service
delivery models; network and security systems design; storage area networks;
disaster recovery/business continuity; application development and maintenance;
large scale project management; vendor and contract management; risk assessment;
and budgeting.

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Speaker Bio – David McNeil

David McNeil is the principal for a leading risk management and commercial
insurance brokerage, EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants. David speaks on
cyber issues for business. He is a recruited member of the Orange County
Sheriff’s Technology Advisory Council (TAC); Anaheim Police Department Special
Operations TAC; FBI InfraGard (SIG’s Cyber, Dams, Water and Wastewater); and the
Homeland Security Defense Group. Specialties include the fields of High Tech,
Manufacturing, and U.S. Infrastructure protection regarding the water industry.

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Speaker Bio – Mark Essayian

Mark Essayian is President of KME Systems Inc., an IT support company he founded
in 1993 that provides technology products, process, security and business
continuity consulting to a wide range of clients. KME Systems helps clients
improve profitability via the way they communicate with and assist their
respective clients.

Mr. Essayian’ s background has involved technology for over 30 years. He
attended the University of California Irvine where he earned a degree in Physics
with an emphasis in computer science and engineering. Mark is expert and
passionate about assisting clients along their IT journey to protect their
assets, culture and people.
Mark has presented for the Wall Street Journal, SCORE, Microsoft partner
network, technology manufacturers, IT peer groups and numerous executive
meetings. Mark also currently serves on advisory boards for several
manufacturers and is a source of information to the IT industry.

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Speaker Bio – Kevin McDonald

Kevin is a trusted technology and security practitioner and public policy
advisor to some of America’s most influential people and organizations. He
advises corporate executives, federal and state legislators, law enforcement,
high net worth individuals and other business leaders. He is a sought after
consultant, writer, presenter and trainer on the issues surrounding personal,
physical and cyber security, compliance and advanced technology. Kevin has
written for and been interviewed by dozens of national publications and on major
television, radio and digital outlets.

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Speaker Bio – Lance Larson

Investigator Lance Larson. Ph. D., – Lance Larson is a Cyber Investigator for
the Orange County Intelligence Assessment Center (OCIAC), a Department of
Homeland Security-funded fusion center. Lance has been a police officer with a
law enforcement agency for nineteen years. During his tenure with the
department, he has served multiple assignments including a role as the technical
leader for the first online crimes against children sting in California, patrol,
special investigations, and his current role helping to protect the cyber
security infrastructure within Orange County at OCIAC. Dr. Larson holds a Ph.D.
in Applied Management and Decision Sciences – Information Systems management, is
a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), a Certified
Ethical Hacker (CEH), GIAC Certified Cybersecurity Incident Handler (GCIH) has
authored two books, and teaches both undergraduate and graduate information
systems and homeland security courses for the California State University System
in San Diego.

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Speaker Bio – Frank Ury

Frank Ury is an Orange County leader in both governance and technology
operations, sales and business development with a background in setting
infrastructure, and IT operations strategies and roadmaps. Frank’s technology
career includes senior technology positions in many major companies, including
DXC Technology, HP Enterprise Services, Intel Corporation and Black and Decker.
Having served for 12 years as a Councilmember and Mayor of the City of Mission
Viejo, Frank was influential in assisting the District with the development and
financing of the Lake Mission Viejo Advanced Water Treatment Plant. Frank
currently serves on the Big Data-Open Data Committee for the Southern California
Association of Governments, and on several regional cybersecurity advisory
boards.

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Speaker Bio – Sheriff Don Barnes

Sheriff Don Barnes has over thirty years of law enforcement service to the
people of Orange County, joining the Orange County Sheriff’s Department in 1989.
Over the course of his career with the department, he has held every leadership
rank, culminating with his election as the 13th Sheriff-Coroner for Orange
County in November 2018.

The Sheriff has worked to be an advocate for law enforcement and public safety
both at the state and federal level. He currently serves as an executive officer
with the California State Sheriffs’ Association (CSSA) and serves as the chair
of CSSA’s Technology Committee. At the national level, he serves as chair of the
Major County Sheriffs of America’s (MCSA) Intelligence Commander Group. In that
capacity the Sheriff is working to ensure open communication amongst local,
state and federal law enforcement regarding critical threats facing our nation.
This work is also accomplished through his service as MCSA’s representative to
the Department of Justice’s Criminal Intelligence Coordinating Council (CICC).

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Speaker Bio – Brian Keith

Brian Keith serves as a Protective Security Advisor (PSA) for the Los Angeles
District. As a PSA, he coordinates, facilitates, and performs vulnerability
assessments for local critical infrastructure owners and operators, and serves
as a physical and technical security advisor to federal, state, and local law
enforcement agencies. In addition to conducting vulnerability assessments, Brian
supports homeland security efforts by serving in an advisory and liaison
capacity for the State Homeland Security Advisor. Prior to serving as a PSA,
Brian was appointed as Deputy Director for Critical Infrastructure Protection
(CIP) to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Office of Homeland Security (OHS).
Throughout the past 20 years, he has conducted several law enforcement
technology presentations at the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) National
Academy in Quantico, Virginia, and the New York State Police Union Association.

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Speaker Bio – Pierson Clair

Pierson Clair is a managing director in Kroll’s Cyber Risk practice, based in
Los Angeles. Pierson brings an uncommon perspective to cyber risk challenges
from his years as a leading digital forensic examiner, technical security
consultant, researcher, and educator. He has conducted extensive academic
research at the forefront of cyber risk, most currently on changes of
investigative significance in Mac and mobile device hardware and software. Prior
to this emphasis, he focused on the dynamics within the complex framework of
protecting critical national infrastructure as well as intelligence, espionage,
and terrorism. In addition to working on analytical projects with members of the
Intelligence Community and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Pierson has
provided sophisticated digital forensic services for a wide range of private
sector clients and law enforcement agencies.

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Smoke Testing Servers

SMOKE TESTING IS A TERM USED TO DESCRIBE THE TESTING PROCESS FOR SERVERS AFTER
PATCHES ARE APPLIED.

The process typically involves making sure servers are rebooted in the right
order, making sure they have completely rebooted, restarting applications in the
right order, and then testing to be certain everything is working properly when
users return to work in the morning.

This typically takes 30 minutes per server, depending upon your environment.

PCs are not typically smoke tested, or if so, not all of them.

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How To Estimate Hours

Estimating an average time for patching servers and PCs can be a bit tricky. It
can vary from one month to the next, depending upon the number and complexity of
the patches released by your software vendors. You must consider all versions of
operating systems and have a complete inventory of all your application software
to do this job correctly. Our experience has shown that manual patching of
systems takes on average of about 1.5 hours each.

There are many variables to consider. Some are:

 * How long does it take you to download patches for each system/site?
 * Are you able to patch multiple systems in parallel?
 * How many software applications are you patching?
 * How many reboots are involved, etc.?
 * What kind of reporting must be completed to satisfy auditors and regulators?
   And how will you collect and document that information to prove compliance?

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How To Estimate The Hourly Rate

You want to enter in a fully burdened labor rate for this field. What that means
is that you want to take the base hourly rate, plus 25-30% for employer payroll
taxes, benefits, vacation/holiday time, etc.

For example, someone making $80,000 per year will typically work 52 weeks of 40
hours, or 2080 hours. $80,000 divided by 2080 is $38.46/hour.  Multiply that
hourly rate by 1.3, and you get $50.00/hour.  Of course, rates of pay, taxes and
benefits will vary from city, state and company; but 30% is usually a good
number to use. Don’t forget to account for time-and-a-half or after-hours rates
of pay if patching is being done in the late evening, early morning, or weekends
(in order to avoid impacting user productivity).

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About The Cost Calculator

This is a basic cost calculator for you to compute your typical monthly cost for
patching your servers, PCs, laptops, tablets and associated application
software. It also forms the basis for you to begin calculating your Return on
Investment for software patching, or for comparison with alternatives to the
manual process of patching operating systems and application software—such as
Patch Management as a Service, also known as Vulnerability Management as a
Service.

If you are presenting to management for a budget, and using this calculator as
the basis for a Return on Investment (ROI), you will need to do more homework.
An ROI measures as a ratio of the cost of investment against its expected
benefit. For patching, calculating benefit can be very difficult to determine.
How do you measure the cost of a system breach you have not yet had? You can
estimate what expenses, penalties, and losses a company might incur when a
breach occurs; but there is no certainty of a breach event and what those costs
actually are. There are also regulatory compliance issues and/or potential fines
for not patching, but those, too, can be vague. For calculating these potential
risks and costs, it is advisable to enter into a discussion with your management
team.

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