Order of Thor Medal Ceremony

Paul de Souza, USAF Colonel April Vogel, and USAF SSgt Christine de Souza

Paul and Christine de Souza recipients of The Order of Thor Medal. Thank you Lieutenant General (ret.), US Army Rhett Hernandez, US Army Major Joe Billingsley, USAF Colonel April Vogel, Chris Cleary, MCPA and CSFI friends!

Lieutenant General (ret.), US Army Rhett Hernandez presenting the Order Of Thor Medal to Paul de Souza, CSFI Founder

Paul de Souza, CCSE, NSA-IAM, BCCPP, Sec+, Net+, CHCP, SANs E-Warfare, JNCIA-FWV.

 

Mr. de Souza is the Founder/President of CSFI (Cyber Security Forum Initiative) and its divisions CSFI-CWD (Cyber Warfare Division) and CSFI-LPD (Law and Policy Division). He is the co-author of the book Strategic Intelligence Management, and he serves as an Advisor for MCPA (Military Cyber Professionals Association).  He served as a Federal Director of Training and Education for Norman Data Defense Systems, and he also teaches Cyber Defense Strategies at George Washington University. Mr. de Souza has over 15 years of cyber security experience and has worked as the Chief Security Engineer for AT&T, where he designed and approved secure networks for MSS (Managed Security Services). Mr. de Souza also worked for CSC and US Robotics as a Security Engineer. He has consulted for several governments, military organizations, and private institutions on best network security practices and also presented in the countries of Estonia, Georgia, Australia, Brazil, Czech Republic, Belgium, Spain, Sweden, Israel, and Romania, as well as all across the United States.

 

SSgt Christine de Souza is a director of the Cyber Security forum Initiative (CSFI), serves as CSFI’s Chief Information Assurance Officer, and is a manager of CSFI’s Cyber Warfare Division. She serves in the Maryland Air National Guard as a traditional cyber surety journeyman in the 175th Cyber Operations Group, where she participates in cyber exercises and training partnerships and was nominated as Airman of the Year 2014. SSgt de Souza holds a dual Master’s degree from Utica College in Cyber Security under the concentrations of both Intelligence and Forensics. In her civilian life, Christine works for Lunarline, Inc., a cyber security contracting and consulting company as an information assurance engineer on contract with the Department of Transportation on the cyber security team for the Federal Railroad Administration.

Chris Cleary, Joe Billingsley (MCPA Founder), Loren Friedel, Paul de Souza (CSFI Founder), Christine de Souza, Ira Hoffman, and Anthony Guess-Johnson

Join the MCPA! https://www.milcyber.org

Filed under: CYBER WARFARE, CYBERSPACE OPERATIONS

DEFCAMP #5 – Bucharest!

 

CSFI had the honor to be a SILVER sponsor of this year’s DEFCAMP #5. Other SILVER sponsors included BMW (thank you for the amazing smooth rides in Bucharest), DELL, IXIA, KPMG, Cyber Ghost, Symantec, and others. It was great to stop by Safetech’s booth and chat with Teodor Lupan. It was 2 days of intense presentations with 3 days of CSFI training, capture the flag, and tons of activities. The first day started with registration at 0800 and ended with the last presentation on SSH Tunneling around 2315. Our CSFI team was impressed by the professionalism, creativity, energy levels from the staff members, and audience at DEFCAMP. I highly recommend this event!

Thank you Andrei, Florina, and staff for being amazing hosts! Romania is certainly proud of you.

 

Mr. Anthony Guess-Johnson CSFI Senior Information Assurance Officer, presenting on Leading and Developing the Cyber Workforce

Mr. Paul de Souza CSFI President, presenting on Cyber Ranges and FOXOP

Mr. Roger Kuhn CSFI Director/Fellow, presenting on SCADA Security

Paul de Souza, Avădănei Andrei, and Roger Kuhn

Paul de Souza, Florina DUMITRACHE, and Roger Kuhn

Hacking away…

Filed under: CYBER WARFARE, CYBERSPACE OPERATIONS, EW