Speaker: Ben Marsden

Ben Marsden is currently the Information Security Director for Smith College in Northampton, MA, a new position created in 2012. He is responsible for the general Information Security profile for the institution. Prior to his current position, Ben served as Director of Systems and Network Services for Smith College starting in 1999. From 1983 to 1999 he worked progressively from operations and systems administration to assistant director for the Engineering Computer Services department in the College of Engineering at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.


Speaker: Christopher Misra

Christopher Misra is the Associate Chief Information Officer for Security with the University of Massachusetts Amherst where he has worked for the past twelve years. His responsibilities include management of the campus information security program, incident handling, various compliance requirements, and network security and identity management architectures. Chris has been active for many years with various regional and national information security organizations including the Security Task Force, Internet2 Salsa, and REN-ISAC, serving on program committees, chairing working groups, and presenting at conferences. Chris is also an instructor at UMass where he has taught undergraduate courses on Network Security for many years.

Speaker: Jason Pufahl

I am the Chief Information Security Officer for the University of Connecticut with 17 years of experience in IT and am CISSP and CISM certified. I've spent the last 10 years dedicated to information and network security with expertise in: security awareness and training, business continuity planning, risk management, incident handling, regulatory compliance, policy creation, IPS/IDS implementation, firewalling, VPN, bandwidth controls, wireless security, network admission controls and abuse control.

Speaker: Nikki Reynolds

Nikki Reynolds is Director of Educational Technology Services at Hamilton College. As a member of the Library and Information Technology Services department at Hamilton, she is responsible for the planning and management of facilities and services that provide well coordinated support for the use of technology across the curriculum. In addition, Nikki collaborates the members of the Help Desk and others to manager technical communication with the campus, particularly faculty and students. It is in this role that she became co-leader for the Information Security Awareness program at Hamilton College.

Nikki received her B.S in Architectural Studies from Washington State University, and her M.S. in Systems Science and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Binghamton University. The one constant theme throughout the years of study and work has been her interest in creating systems and services that support and empower people by accommodating the diversity of human attributes and abilities.

Speaker: Maureen Scoones

Maureen Scoones is the Associate Director of IT Process Improvement and Education in Information Technology Services at Hamilton College. In her role, she collaborates with administrative offices to improve business processes and with instructional technologists and librarians to help faculty incorporate information and technology resources into teaching, learning and research. She also coordinates ITS communication efforts and oversees technology education opportunities and annual ITS assessment activities.

Maureen is a Frye Fellow (2008). She has made presentations at ACRL, EDUCAUSE, NERCOMP, CLAC, and ACM-SIGUCCS. She earned a B.A. in Mathematics and an M.S. in Higher Education Administration from Syracuse University. Prior to coming to Hamilton, she spent 15 years at Utica College in a variety of roles within the IT department, most recently as the Director of Computer User Services.