Speech slides for CyberTexas conference in San Antonio, August 14, 2018.

1. 300 Years in the
Making: How San
Antonio Developed the
Foundation for a
Thriving Cybersecurity
Ecosystem
August 13, 2018

2. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/Confluence_of_Civilizations_in_the_Americas.jpg
Cradle of Innovation in the Americas
“Confluence of civilizations”, as depicted by John O. Gorman on the Lila Cockrell Theatre downtown: To the
right, from center, depicted are the native Inca, Aztec, and Indian tribes of the Southwest and to the left the
history of Western Civilization. One of the oldest regions inhabited by people in the world.

3. Oldest Regions Inhabited By Humans in the
World
For over 11,000 years Native American hunter-gatherers utilized the
lush and varied ecosystems of San Antonio's Olmos Creek basin
fresh water springs and rivers leaving evidence of tools and
technology here for millennia. 1691 Spaniards Camped with Payaya
Indians at the river’s head waters. It was the day of Saint Anthony de
Padua and they named the spot San Antonio de Padua.

4. Ditches and
Dams for
Irrigation
In 1761 the Spanish missions
utilized started what would become
the first municipal water distribution
system in North America—a ditch,
a dam, and ultimately a network of
irrigation canals—aqueducts or
“acequias”.
The first canal dug at the San
Antonio Springs was the Alamo
Madre in 1745, and it diverted
water from the east side of the
headwaters just below the Springs.
The site, present-day Brackenridge
Park.
1761

5. First Military
Flight
Captain Benjamin D. Foulois
seated at the controls of a
Wright Military
biplane; a radio transmitter is
tied into the passenger seat;
1911.
1910

6. Best Picture
&
Engineering
Effects
Following the Star Film Ranch
start in San Antonio, in 1927, the
film Wings was the first film to win
the Academy Award for Best
Picture Production for the film year
1927/1928. Wings also won a
second Academy Award for
Engineering Effects.
Starring Clara Bow, Charles
"Buddy" Rogers, Richard Arlen
and Gary Cooper, in a bit role, the
film completed with a budget of $2
million in San Antonio. Gary
Cooper would be the only one
from the first "brat pack" to go on
to fame in the talkies.
The movie featured scout aircraft
including Thomas-Morse MB3s

7. TIBR
Founded in 1941, Texas Institute for
Biomedical Research (TIBR) hosts the
world’s largest computer cluster dedicated to
statistical analysis of the human genome.
While other scientists were focused on gene
expression in a person with hereditary
disease, TIBR’s Dr. John Blangerro's tracks
gene variation up and down the hereditary
ladder across generations—studying the
target patient as well as his or her spouse,
children, and parents.
1941

8. The American Society of Mechanical Engineers Southern Gas Association Analog
A National Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark, Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, Texas August 17, 1990
SwRI 1947 - $500M R&D
The Analog, 1955: The first device of its kind applied to gas pipeline systems. 70 Members 10 Nations – Still is use today.

9. Col. Harry
Armstrong
“Aeromedical Problems of
Space Travel”
1948

10. Maj. General Bernard
Schriever
Commander of Western
Development Division
Headquarters
Feb. 19, 1957
Inaugural Air Force Office of Scientific
Research Astronautics Symposium in
San Diego.
Schriever would go on after the rebuffed
“space speech” to control 40% of the USAF
Budget and is the Father of Air Force Space
and Missile programs.
http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19570401,00.html

11. For the San Antonio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
compliments of Armour.io.
Beep, beep, beep…
October 4, 1957, the Russians field
Sputnik, a global positioning system.
President Eisenhower contacts San
Antonian General Bernard Schriever to
respond. Schriever hires Philadelphia
native Col. Francis X. “Duke Kane” to
lead Strategy of Technology and
Project Forecast.
1957

12. Lt. Col. Ed
White
White performed the first American
spacewalk during the Gemini 4 mission
on June 3, 1965. White, pilot of the
Gemini IV four-day Earth-orbital
mission, floats in the zero gravity of
space outside the Gemini IV
spacecraft.
Image: Compliments of NASA
America's First Spacewalk,
San Antonio’s Astronaut
Hero Edward H. White II.
July 3, 1965

13. First IoT
1973, Datapoint’s
ARCNET, the first
Internet of Things
(IOT)—digital control of
a motor garnering the
patent for token passing
in networks.
Token passing is at the
heart of how networks
identify and pass
information around
networks such as the
Internet today.
1973

14. 1979
John Taboada, Ph.D.
Taboada Research Instruments, Inc.

15. 1988
Heart Stent
Developed by a collaboration of
Dr. Palmaz at the University of
Texas Health Science Center
and the Dr. Schatz at the School
of Aerospace Medicine, the
Palmaz-Shatz stent would
revolutionize medicine, cutting
in half the number of people
who die from heart disease.

16. 1998

17. Exactly 85 years after Clyde
Tombaugh’s historic discovery of
Pluto, the NASA spacecraft set to
encounter the icy planet this
summer is providing its first views
of the small moons orbiting Pluto.
Alan Stern, New Horizons principal
investigator from Southwest
Research Institute, leads the to
understand the formation of the
Pluto system, the Kuiper Belt, and
the transformation of the early
Solar System.Artist’s conception of the New Horizons spacecraft at Pluto.
Image Source: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics
Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute, JHUAPL/SwRI.
March 10 to April 4 and May
15 to May 27, 2015, New
Horizons will become a spin-
stabilized probe that simply
beams data back to Earth at
every opportunity.
New Horizons
New Horizons probe has a 1 kilobit per
second data connection from Pluto.
2015

18. CORE4
INNOVATION
San Antonio is a crucible wherein men
and women who are outspoken about
realities that are not popular or
understood forge the future—this is
true in all major periods of time from
the mission period through today.
San Antonio, leading the world in
STEM innovation since 1764.
America's First
Spacewalk, San
Antonio’s Astronaut Hero
Edward H. White II.
Image: Compliments of NASA

19. 300 Years in the
Making: How San
Antonio Developed the
Foundation for a
Thriving Cybersecurity
Ecosystem
August 13, 2018

20. Fred Ramirez
Founder and Principal
CNF Technologies
As an Air Force government employee at the Air Force Information
Warfare Center, he led the establishment and management of the first
Air Force Computer Emergency Response Team (AFCERT). He went
on to manage the Air Force Countermeasures Engineering Team,
responsible for developing and enhancing computer network defense
tools in support of the Air Force. In 1999, in response to sophisticated
malicious network activity, he created and tested DoD’s first virtual
HoneyPot capability in an operational environment.
In 2000, Fred moved on to the private sector and joined SecureInfo
Corporation. He co-founded and was the general manager of VAST
Security LLC that was selected over 21 competitors for the VACIRC
contract. As the VAST general manager, he directed and oversaw a
staff of over 220 engineers and computer scientists and 8
subcontractors.
In 2005, Fred founded Cyber Net Force, now CNF Technologies.
Through Fred’s leadership, CNF has helped its clients with cyber
technology insertion and integration, penetration and security testing,
system integration, cyber operations, development and integration
testing, project planning, requirements analysis, system design,
software development, prototyping and enterprise implementation.

21. Chris Cook is the principal owner of San Antonio Cyber Consultants --
an independent senior management consultancy specializing in
expanding cyber security academic programs, retaining, recruiting and
growing cyber security businesses, and increasing community cyber
security awareness and preparedness.
He has forty years of public service, serving in senior intelligence,
cyber, cyber security and public safety leadership positions in local
and federal government. During twenty-eight years of military service
he filled a variety of senior staff and command positions, serving in
Washington DC (at the Pentagon and National Security Agency); San
Antonio, Texas; Colorado Springs, Colorado; Panama City, Panama;
Taipei, Taiwan and Misawa, Japan. His final Air Force assignment was
as Director of Staff, Air Intelligence Agency, in San Antonio. Most
recently he served as Director of Strategic Planning, Facilities, and
Contract Management, for the San Antonio area regional 9-1-1 district
As a volunteer, he led community participation in DARK SCREEN - a
2003 community based cyber defense exercise. Since then co-chaired
the 2005, 2008, and 2014 San Antonio Information Technology (and
Cyber) Economic Impact Studies. He led the successful effort to
attract the new AF Cyber Command to San Antonio.
Mr. Chris Cook
Principal,
San Antonio Cyber Consultants

22. Dr. Gregory White has been involved in computer and network security
since 1986. He spent 30 years with the Air Force and Air Force
Reserves. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Texas
A&M University. He currently serves as the Director of the Center for
Infrastructure Assurance and Security (CIAS) and is an Associate
Professor of Computer Science at The University of Texas at San
Antonio (UTSA).
Dr. White has been involved in security instruction for many years. He
taught at the U.S. Air Force Academy for seven years where he
developed and taught courses on Computer Security and Information
Warfare. He helped build the nation's first undergraduate information
warfare laboratory while at the Academy and twice received the
Academy's Computer Science Research Excellence Award.
He is very active in the development and presentation of cyber security
exercises for states and communities around the nation and with the
development of training designed to help states and communities
develop viable and sustainable cyber security programs. He very active
in development of cyber security competitions and was instrumental in
the development of the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition
and the CyberPatriot National High School Cyber Defense
Dr. Greg White
Director, University of Texas at
San Antonio Center for
Infrastructure Assurance and
Security

23. Mr. Kaufman entered government service in 1982, as a
commissioned officer. He served 21 years in various assignments
to include command, computer network defense operations,
personnel, executive officer, staff officer, USAFA professor and
coach, test and evaluation, and research and development.
Mr. Kaufman entered USAF Civil Service in May 2003, as the
Chief, Technology Applications Branch, Information Operations
Directorate, with the Air Force Information Warfare Center. As the
Branch Chief, he led a 30-person team tasked with providing
operational support to the Air Force Computer Emergency
Response Team and Major Command Network Operations and
Security Centers. He was selected Director of Resource
Management in February 2004 where he was responsible for all
AFIWC mission support functions.
In 2006, he was selected Director, Information Operations where
he led 300 engineers and scientists tasked with exploring leading
edge technology, prototyping solutions, developing concepts, and
migrating capabilities to the warfighter. He entered his current
position in August 2009. In January 2018 he was inducted into the
San Antonio Cyber Hall of Honor for his impacts on the
Mr. Robert J. Kaufman III
Deputy Director of the 318th
Cyberspace Operations Group,
67th Cyberspace Wing

24. Cyber City USA
In 1947, when the USAFSS was activated our
destiny was cast by history. The Alamo City’s
workforce today includes 7,500 SCI-cleared
personnel.
The Alamo City is home to the second-largest
concentration of data centers in the country—
Rackspace, Microsoft, Caterpillar, and
CyrusOne are all here. The UTSA Cloud and
Big Data Laboratory led by Paul Rad is home
to R&D for the world’s most advanced IT
companies—from Yahoo and Facebook.
According to a recent Mayoral tally, the city
has nearly 100 cybersecurity companies and
vibrant technology startup scene. Tech talent
is cultivated at Tech Stars and Geekdom,
while being anchored by Rackspace— the #1
managed cloud company in the world,
grossing $1 billion per year.

25. .
San Antonio
1947
USAF Security
Service
Created in 1947, the United
States Air Force Security Service
(often abbreviated USAFSS)
was essentially the United
States Air Force's cryptographic
intelligence branch; its motto
was Freedom through Vigilance.
Today, USAFSS is currently
designated as the Twenty-Fifth
Air Force (25 AF) operating in
San Antonio along side 24 AF
Cyber, and the United States
Cyber Command in San Antonio.

26. Wheel Group, 1995
Cisco Extends Leadership in End-To End
Network Security Products, 1998
SAN JOSE, Calif. February 18, 1998 Cisco
Systems, Inc. today announced it has signed a
definitive agreement to acquire privately-held
WheelGroup Corporation of San Antonio, Texas.
Under the terms of the acquisition, between 1.8
and 2.0 million shares of Cisco common stock
will be exchanged for the outstanding shares
and options of WheelGroup. Based upon Ciscos
February 18 closing price of $65.50 the stock
exchanged would have a value of approximately
$124 million.
San Antonio Cybersecurity
1987-1997

27. 2009
San Antonio Cybersecurity
1998-2009

28. Pictured: Members of the CyberPatriot team from the New Braunfels
Information Technology Security Academy stop for a picture with Maj. Gen.
Suzanne Vautrinot, 24th Air Force commander, after attending the 2nd
Annual Mayor's Cyber Cup at the Venues at Valero here Feb. 18. (U.S. Air
Force photo by Lt. Col. Cynthia East, 24th Air Force Public Affairs)
San Antonio Cybersecurity
2010-2018
CyberPatriot
2015

29. San Antonio 2019
and Beyond

30. 300 Years in the
Making: How San
Antonio Developed the
Foundation for a
Thriving Cybersecurity
Ecosystem
August 13, 2018