William Yang - Talks and Tutorials

National InfraGard The Provisional Board and Beyond

ABSTRACT

With the deployment of a public-private partnership organization that brings law enforcement and the government closer to industry and its citizens for the purpose of protecting the critical infrastructures of the United States, many questions have arisen about how that organization is structured, what it does, and what it can do. In this talk, we discuss what InfraGard is, how it works, and how its structured.

We discuss:

• The national structure of the InfraGard program
• The (provisional) Executive Board and its functions
• The chapters
• How the chapters function and work.
• What will make InfraGard work, grow, and prosper.

This material requires about 20 minutes. It is written for individuals and organizations that are interested in joining InfraGard or starting a chapter of InfraGard.

HISTORY

1. 24 Feb 2000 at the Bank of America, Little Rock, Arkansas.
2. 08 Mar 2000 at the HIGC roll-out conference, Honolulu, Hawaii.
3. 12 May 2000 at the Federal Bureau of Investigation Field Office in St. Louis, Missouri.
4. 30 Aug 2000 at the Ford Motor Company in Detoit, Michigan.
5. 20 Sep 2000 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
6. 21 Sep 2000 St. Louis, Missouri
7. 22 Sep 2000 Miami, Florida
8. 03 Nov 2000 Jackson, Mississippi
9. 15 Nov 2000 Denver, Colorado
10. 30 Mar 2001 Nashville, Tenessee
11. 22 Apr 2002 Palm Springs, California

Slides and Reference Materials

The slides for this talk are available online:

• national-infragard.pdf (bytes): Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format
• national-infragard.ppt (bytes): Powerpoint '97 (PPT) format

COPYRIGHT

The National InfraGard presentation and this area are:
Copyright ©2000 William D. Yang.
All rights reserved.

Biography

William Yang is the State IT Security Policy Officer for the State of Ohio, responsible for enterprise information assurance/security strategy and policies. In addition to standard assurance activities in relation to information crime, he is actively involved in regulatory compliance, critical infrastructure protection, and homeland security efforts for the government of Ohio. His prior experience includes being the director of operations for a managed security service company, and extensive experience with OSC (Ohio Supercomputer Center), leading software development projects and handling the application of Internet technologies to the cultural, social, and political enrichment of communities.

Mr. Yang has been actively involved in fostering cooperation, information sharing, and trust between law enforcement and private industry since 1995. He was one of six founding members of the InfraGard Provisional National Executive Committee in 1998 and served on the National InfraGard Executive Board through 2003. He was the first elected leader of the public-private partnership organization, InfraGard, serving as Chair of the Executive Board from 2001-2002.

Mr. Yang graduated with a bachelor of arts in Philosophy from the Ohio State University in 1995. He is the founder of GCFN.NET, a network service based on the process of building trust and community to better deliver real solutions.