Advancing Cybersecurity with ICAM

Bill Fisher is Security Engineer, NCCoE, at NIST.

Dr. Brian Hermann is the Director and Program Executive Officer for the Services Development Directorate. He is responsible for the development and acquisition of Information Technology services for the Department of Defense. His three portfolios encompass DoD-wide enterprise services and unified capabilities, business systems, and warfighting command and control capabilities.

Dr. Brian G. Hermann previously served at the Defense Information Systems Agency as the Chief of the Enterprise Services Development Division and Manager of the Unified Capabilities portfolio. He was responsible for developing and implementing information technology services and strategies for unification of communications and collaboration services for the DoD-Wide Enterprise.

A retired U.S. Air Force Communications and Cyber Officer, Dr. Hermann has served in a variety of communications, acquisition-related, software, test and evaluation, information technology, and educational positions. He developed techniques for evaluating software product maturity and reliability used for major acquisition programs including JSTARS, the CV-22, and the E-3 Radar System Improvement Program for the AWACS. He also has extensive experience teaching systems and software engineering, delivering information technology services, and leading educational departments. As a National Defense Fellow, he published research on a normative U.S. Government response to cyber-attacks.

In his final active duty tour, Colonel Hermann led DISA’s Net-Centric Enterprise Services (NCES) program’s collaboration services team and served as the Chief of DISA’s Enterprise Applications Services Division.

He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science with a focus on Software Engineering from Arizona State University. He is also a graduate of the Air War College, the College of Naval Command and Staff, and the Air Force Institute of Technology.

After military retirement, Dr. Hermann spent several years in industry before rejoining the government in July 2016.

Alper Kerman

Chris Roberts is a seasoned technology leader with over 25 years of experience in the industry, having held various engineering and sales roles at market-leading companies such as Microsoft, Dell, and Quest Software. Currently, he serves as the Director of Federal Sales Engineering at Quest Software Public Sector Inc., where he leads a multi-disciplinary team of IT professionals. Their mission is to support governmental agencies with comprehensive software solutions around Zero Trust, securing Active Directory against unwanted intrusions, managing privileged access, and providing advanced recovery and governance tools. Previously, as a Senior Solution Architect at Quest Software, Chris focused on building and delivering innovative solutions for IT operations in enterprise customer environments.

His expertise lies in modernizing legacy workloads and specializing in performance analytics for large-scale applications in both private and public cloud spaces. At Microsoft Corporation, Chris held roles as an Architectural Engineer and Principal Technology Specialist. He was instrumental in driving the introduction of technologies considered the standard in enterprise IT today while driving customer sales and success programs, delivering comprehensive technology roadmaps, and leading competitive opportunity management. Chris studied Computer Science and Marketing at the University of Maryland and Andrews University. His specialties include public speaking, enterprise software architecture, virtualization, cloud analytics, identity management, and technology management, among others.

His track record of success, combined with his extensive knowledge and skills, make him a credible voice in the technology industry focused on solving challenges within the federal government.