Mini-conference Jury

Daniel Owen - Corporate Data Security Officer, London Drugs

Daniel Owen - Corporate Data Security Officer - CISSP, CISM, GSEC, GCIH, CIPP/C

Daniel Owen is the Corporate Data Security Officer and Incident Response Lead at London Drugs Limited. In this position, he is responsible for the company’s information security governance and operations which protect both private and corporate information. Prior to joining London Drugs Limited, Daniel served as a consultant to both public and private organizations in Canada and New Zealand.

Daniel’s expertise includes industry and regulatory compliance, security control procurement, information security governance and incident handling. He has a technical background which includes secure networking, applied cryptography, identity and access management and forensics.

Along with maintaining multiple business and technical security designations, Daniel is also an active participate in the local security community and acts as a mentor for the SANS Institute teaching the Security Essentials course.

Konstantin Beznosov,
Assistant Professor, ECE UBC

Konstantin Beznosov, Ph.D., P.Eng., is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He joined UBC in August 2003 after working as a Security Architect at Quadrasis, Hitachi Computer Products (America), Inc (HICAM), where he designed and developed products for security integration of enterprise applications. Before HICAM, Dr. Beznosov consulted large telecommunication and banking companies on the architecture of security solutions for distributed enterprise applications, as a Security Architect at Concept Five Technologies.

Prior to graduating from Florida International University (FIU) in 2000 with a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Dr. Beznosov was a Senior Research Associate with the FIU's Center for Advanced Distributed Systems Engineering (CADSE), conducting research on engineering access control for distributed enterprise applications. He also worked on distributed DBMS development at High Performance Database Research Center at FIU, where he received a M.S. in Computer Science in 1997. Dr. Beznosov's prior work on applying CORBA Security architecture to computerized medical records at Baptist Health Systems of South Florida laid the foundation for the OMG standard on Resource Access Decision (RAD) Facility. He actively participated in standardization of security-related OMGs specifications (CORBA Security, RAD, SDMM) from 1997 to 2001, and was a co-chair of the Security SIG.

Dr. Beznosov has served on program committees of SACMAT and DOCSec. Having published various research papers on security engineering, he is a co-author of "Enterprise Security with EJB and CORBA" and "Mastering Web Services Security" by Wiley Computer Publishing, and a contributor to the "Handbook of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering" by World Scientific Publishing.