Cyber Table Top Exercises Overview: SCHOOL, PUBLIC, INFRASTRUCTURE An online tutorial on building and running your own cyber-focused table top exercises. Three exercises are described by emergency management personnel and consulants.  A pre-recorded, no cost, program is available now.   RATINGS: [SP] [CS] [CM] [EM] [MD] [GW]  Program Description On Sunday, April 26th, 2009 at 0830 in La Crosse, Wisconsin three cyber table top exercises will be staged as a pre-conference exercise of the Association of Public safety Communications Officials' (APCO) North Central Conference. Like many table top exercises these exercises deal with an active shooter incident on campus with hostages, emergency response to an unprecedented natural disaster and terrorist disruption of a public gathering. Unlike most table top exercises, however, these exercises focus on the cyber aspects of the three scenarios and how law enforcement and public safety can better prepare for these type of incidents. The objective of these exercises is to transfer knowledge about key aspects of the underlying technologies, how they are exploited and disrupted and how risks can be mitigated. This sixty minute web program will describe the table top exercises and provide the after action report for each exercise based upon results from the conference. Individuals registering for this web program will receive a confirmation email containing links to the three Exercise Planning Guides (EPGs). Each EPG contains useful background information and a pre-reading list to prepare the viewer to get more out of the webinar as well as an actual table top exercise. The Exercise Program Guides are detailed enough to plan and execute your own cyber table top exercises. They are also available to those who have access to FEMA's Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP). [Recommend this LEAPS.TV program to a colleague.] Guest Bios Tom Thienel, Knowledge Transfer Agent The Consultant Registry Tom Thienel provides wireless planning, logistical and implementation support using his unique Application, Design, Engineering, Provisioning and Training (A.D.E.P.T.) model. Tom's specialty is providing wireless mesh networks for counties, municipalities and homeland security. Tom is the resident wireless infrastructure and security asset at a major International airport where he proactively assures the security of all wireless systems including commercial GSM, CDMA and FDMA cellular systems as well as fixed and mesh 802.x and Bluetooth systems. Tom is the designated wireless liaison for all government agencies including FBI, Secret Service, Border Patrol, National Guard, US Customs and other agencies, as needed, such as Federal Protection Service, CIA and DISA. Tom is a practitioner as well as a theorist and is highly regarded by his clients and peers for his ability to understand various attacks and develop effective countermeasures. Bruce Hall, Knowledge Transfer Agent The Consultant Registry Bruce Hall has over 30 years experience in a variety of technical and project management roles in wireless telecommunications engineering, operations and infrastructure. Over the last 7 years Bruce has aided several large corporate clients in translating his expert knowledge into training and technical documentation and is heavily in demand because his writing, training and consulting is based on actual practical field experience. Bruce's clients range from large US-based communications carriers to the government of Uruguay and Pakistan. Bruce was deployed as an expert wireless engineer by FEMA to perform field assessments of wireless systems in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Bruce also owns and operates Freedom Wireless Broadband, a Wireless Internet Service Provider (WISP) and leading broadband communications provider in the Northeast. Freedom Wireless Broadband offers broadband Internet access, private lines, business continuity and e-mail services to business and residential customers and under Bruce's leadership they are focused on providing customer-driven, best-in-class solutions that are backed by exceptional customer care. James P. Cavanagh, Knowledge Transfer Agent Training Institute for Public Safety James P. Cavanagh, is an author, lecturer, consultant, analyst, network architect, security specialist and engineer. In these various roles he provides knowledge transfer services including Subject Matter Expertise, collaboration and training on a broad range of technology-related topics. Jim is an internationally recognized expert on infrastructure and network security, anti-hacking, counter-cyber-terrorism, business and corporate security and implementation of VoIP and IP systems in public safety and law enforcement. He has been honored by the San Jose Chamber of Commerce for a series of four security white papers for business that he distributed free of charge to over 11,000 readers globally including the RCMP and the FBI in the wake of the 9/11 attacks and is the recipient of the International Communications Associations's Citation of Merit Award for "outstanding contributions to global telecommunications". Jim has also worked extensively in the areas of grants and funding for law enforcement and public safety technologies and has led grant projects, written articles and presented seminars and webinars on the subject. Mr. Cavanagh has written Internet commerce and security strategy papers for the governments of Bermuda and South Africa and briefed New Zealand Police, Fire and EMS leaders and the Australian Communications and Media Authority's Emergency Services Communications Advisory Committee on VoiP technology impact on emergency calling. Mr. Cavanagh has published five books on topics as diverse as multimedia networking, network security and frame relay as well as the ebook The Definitive Guide to the Successful Implementation of VoIP and IP Telephony. Mr. Cavanagh is a frequent guest at NENA, APCO and APCOA conferences and has been a guest lecturer at University of Colorado, Georgia Tech and Texas A&M University. Moderator Bios Tom Grahek MEP, Terrorism Exercise Training Coordinator Wisconsin Emergency Management Tom Grahek was a member of the Ashland Fire Department where he retired as a Shift Commander after 25-years. Tom was also an EMT/Paramedic Instructor/Coordinator with the Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College (WITC) for 22-years when he retired and he was the Level "A & B" team Hazardous Materials Coordinator with the Ashland Fire Department for several years. Tom's career includes serving in three branches of the military: the U.S. Navy, the Wisconsin Army National Guard, and the Minnesota Air National Guard from which he retired after 21-years. Tom has also I for 14-years with the 148th Minnesota Air National Guard in the Crash/Rescue division. The last 5-years Tom has been employed by the Wisconsin Department of Military Affairs in the Division of Wisconsin Emergency Management as an Exercise Training Coordinator which is a Senior Management position. Keith Butler, Emergency Management Coordinator La Crosse County Keith Butler has served as the La Crosse County (WI) Emergency Management Coordinator since 2002. The County Emergency Management program is an Office within the County Public Safety Communications (9-1-1 Dispatch Center) Department where Keith served as a Telecommunicator and Supervisor for 14 years. Other previous public safety experiences include Emergency Medical Technician, CPR Instructor and volunteer Fire Fighter. The County Emergency Management Office is usually the lead agency for local public safety exercise development and facilitation, as well as for public safety grant funding for training and equipment. No stranger to exercises, Keith functioned as the lead exercise planner for the 2004 Heartland Defense Exercise in La Crosse County that featured the deployment of a complete U.S. Army field hospital and the triage, treatment and transportation of hundreds of live (volunteer) victims and extremely realistic mannequins by military and civilian aircraft and ambulances. Dozens of area public safety agencies participated in the full-day terrorism exercise that took place at multiple venues. Mr. Butler is also La Crosse County's liaison for the APCO North Central Regional Cyber-terrorism Exercise, the first of its kind in the upper Midwest and Mr. Butler is pleased to be working with the team assisting to expand our body of knowledge in this vital, but yet unfamiliar, arena of cyber-terrorism response awareness. Sponsored by This program is being made available at no charge to the law enforcement and public safety community thanks to the generous support of APCO North Central Regional Conference and The Law Enforcement And Public Safety Channel .