Topic: Export Control Overview from The Bureau of Industry and Security
Speaker: Jonathan Barnes
Jonathan Barnes is a Special Agent (SA) with the U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security Office of Export Enforcement. The Bureau of Industry and Security’s mission is to advance U.S. national security, foreign policy, and economic objectives by ensuring and effective export control and treaty compliance system and promoting continued U.S. strategic and technology leadership.
SA Barnes joined the Bureau of Industry and Security in 2002, and is the Forward Assigned Agent in Huntsville, AL.
SA Barnes will present an Export Control Overview detailing the Bureau of Industry and Security’s regulations and policies.
Login credentials will be sent via separate email on Wednesday Nov 17th.
Register Here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/link-and-learn-export-controls-tickets-201324726677
The meeting on November 9th will be a virtual IHMA meeting that will cover IHMA specific items and events presented by our chapter president Ed Dowling and other board members. The meeting will start at 11:30am.
Since the meeting is restricted to IHMA members and will be virtual, we will skip the Eventbrite registration and ask that you reply to an email that will be sent to the chapter members from secretary@huntsville-infragard.org. Once we receive your email, we will share the Teams meeting link in an acknowledgement email. If you didn’t get an email, please email secretary@huntsville-infragard.org and we will send the link to you.
Presenter:
Beau Barnes
Trial Attorney
Counterintelligence & Export Control Section
National Security Division
U.S. Department of Justice
Topic:
What Security Officers Need to Know About Garrity Rights
Bio:
Beau Barnes is a Trial Attorney in the Counterintelligence and Export Control Section, National Security Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. In this position, he investigates and prosecutes espionage, export control, sanctions, malign foreign influence, and cyber intrusion matters, among others. Prior to his current position, Beau was in private practice at two separate international law firms in Washington, DC, where he represented individuals and companies facing government investigations, prosecutions, and regulatory enforcement actions related to national security, fraud and corruption, and privacy and cybersecurity issues. Beau previously served as a law clerk in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Beau is a graduate of Boston University Law School, the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy at Tufts University, and Lewis & Clark College.
FBI OPS announced last week that they will start accepting InfraGard membership applications on 30 July 2021. The application and process has been streamlined for efficiency and applicability. You may apply for membership by clicking “JOIN INFRAGARD” or on the link in the menu bar above.
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https://www.infragard.org/Application/General/NewApplication
Presenter:
Special Agent Tonya Matney
Homeland Security Investigations
Topic:
Case Study: Nader Modanlo, doing business as, Final Analysis, Inc.
SA Matney will present a case study which targeted a former NASA subcontractor, who was a Naturalized United States Citizen from Iran. MODANLO was convicted in 2013 for charges arising from a conspiracy to illegally broker satellite and rocket technology to Iran over many years while profiting $10 million as part of secret effort to help Tehran launch its first ever satellite.
Bio:
Tonya Matney is a Special Agent (SA) with Homeland Security Investigations, the investigative arm of DHS which was formed after the events of 911 and combined the legacy authorities of both the former Immigration and Naturalization Service and US Customs Service. SA Matney is assigned to the Counter Proliferation Investigations (CPI) group in Baltimore, Maryland where she has disrupted and dismantled individuals, groups, and procurement networks both domestic and foreign, who attempt to obtain U.S. technology and provide it to proscribed destinations and international terrorist organizations throughout the world in violation of U.S. export laws.
Topic:
The FBI’s Illicit Data Loss Exploitation (IDLE) program
Presenter:
SSA Jim Simcox
IDLE Team Lead
FBIHQ-Cyber Division
NCIJTF, Chantilly, VA
Bio:
Mr. Simcox is a 9-year veteran of the US Navy, and 19-year veteran of the FBI. He has worked Counterterrorism and Counterintelligence matters but has focused on Counterproliferation and Cyber matters for the past several years helping to protect critical technologies and intellectual property during that time. His current position is within the FBI’s Cyber Division at FBIHQ and he is the program lead for the IDLE Program.
The FBI’s IDLE Program is a process to help protect valuable data on networks from the most sophisticated cyber actors regardless of their internal access. The IDLE process is wholly owner-run and provides no government access. It provides three capabilities based on a unique “honey” folder and file configuration that deploys decoy content, may detect exfiltration and/or lost data, and may provide internal tripwire alerts on illicit exfiltration activity. IDLE is compliant with the new NIST 800-172 Standards, as well as the new MITRE Sheild Knowledge Base. We also partner with the National Defense Cyber Alliance.
Cybersecurity Awareness – It isn’t working and how to fix it.
A discussion led by Mr. Darren Mott on the recent spate of cyber incidents (SolarWinds, Colonial Pipeline, JBS) and how changing the approach to cybersecurity awareness can reduce corporate and individual cyber risk.
Bio: Mr. Darren Mott is a Senior Staff Member at Quantum Research International, Inc. and the National Cyber Security Operations Center. He is also a recently retired FBI Special Agent who spent his career investigating and managing Cyber and Counterintelligence programs at FBI Headquarters and in the Charlotte, Cleveland, and Birmingham Field Offices. Mr. Mott also hold Master’s Degrees in Education and Cybersecurity.
The North Alabama Counterintelligence Task Force Link and Learn Program
FBI Citizens Academy Alumni Association and InfraGard Huntsville Members Alliance are partnering with FBI Birmingham to support a new virtual “Link and Learn” monthly program.
These free programs will be open to FBI private sector partners and others, including security personnel across North Alabama.
Every third Thursday of each month from 11am -12pm a speaker will be featured on a counterintelligence topic and will include case presentations from the agents and supervisors who worked them.
We hope you will be able to join in on this new program and gain insight on a variety of counterintelligence topics.
Program Date: Thursday June 17 11AM-Noon
Presentation: National Counterintelligence Task Force – Overview
Speaker: Matthew Osegard, Unit Chief, National Counterintelligence Task Force, FBI Headquarters
Matt Osegard has served in the FBI since 2004. He worked on and led a wide variety of Counterintelligence and Cyber matters as a Special Agent and Supervisory Special Agent. He is currently the Unit Chief of the National Counterintelligence Task Force, a position he’s held since January 2020. Prior to this assignment, Mr. Osegard served in the Chicago field office.
Prior to his FBI career, Mr. Osegard served as a US Army officer and as a public school teacher in Kentucky. He has a Bachelors’ Degree from Marquette University and a Masters’ Degree in Homeland Security Studies from Tulane University.
Virtual ZOOM presentation. Please register below via Eventbrite for this FREE event. Only 250 participants will be admitted. Zoom link will be provided to registrants on Mondays prior to the event.
REGISTER HERE : https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fbi-counterintelligence-link-learn-june-17-2021-1100am-noon-tickets-157273714915
Looking forward to seeing you on the 17th!
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Introduction and speaker Charles J. George’s BIO
InfraGard is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year and re-booting the Mobile, Alabama chapter. You are invited to join InfraGard and the FBI in this virtual educational and networking event.
Agenda May 18, 2021 (CDT):
9:00 am – 9:15 Introductions
Kimberly Pratt, Executive Director, InfraGard National Members Alliance
SAC James Jewell, FBI Mobile
SA John Holland, FBI Private Sector Coordinator, FBI Mobile
Jason Burt, Cybersecurity Advisor, Region IV, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, DHS
9:15 – 10:00 John Bates, FBI Mobile: WMD, Chemical Precursors, IEDs
10:00 – 10:45 George Rey, Drones
10:45 – 11:00 Break
11:00-11:45 SA Jerry Bezet, Private Sector Coordinator, FBI Louisiana: China
11:45 – 12:00 Wrap-up
