timothy brown is the vice president and chief architect at ca inc. mr.rown has been involved in many areas of security including threat research, hon. the management, consumer and enterprise at and they, access management, network security, encryption compliance, and diminish security services. mr. john curran is the president of security at american registry of internet numbers. he is also the chief technology officer at xo communications. he also has been an active participant in the internet engineering task force. it is my privilege to allow mr. duncan to introduce the next gentlemen, who had something to do with perdue university. since i went to notre dame, i would like you to introduce him. [laughter] >> thank you. this morning is my distinct pleasure to introduce one of my constituents. he is also someone from my alma mater, clemson university. at clemson, he leads efforts focusing on the high performance communications and collaborating with state and national government entities. under his leadership, clemson univ. has appeared at no. 60 in the