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The Professionals for Cyber Defense (PCD) is an elite group of professionals with cyber security expertise united in cause to protect our nation from strategic cyber attacks on its information infrastructure. The PCD is composed of approximately 40 concerned scientists and leaders. Members and their affiliations are:

O. Sami Saydjari
Chairman

President, Cyber Defense Agency, LLC
Former Information Assurance Program Manager, DARPA
Former Fellow, National Security Agency

Dr. Roy Maxion
Vice-Chairman

Director, Dependable Systems Laboratory
Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University

Dr. Salvatore J. Stolfo
Treasurer

Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University

Laura S. Tinnel
Secretary

Principal Scientist, Global InfoTek, Inc.

Dr. Robert Balzer

Chief Technology Officer, Teknowledge Corporation

Terry Benzel

Assistant Director of Special Projects, USC Viterbi School Information Sciences Institute
Co-Principal Investigator, NSF DETER Security Testbed

Thomas A. Berson

Owner, Anagram Laboratories
Fellow and Past-President, International Association for Cryptologic Research
Past-Chair, IEEE Technical Committee on Security and Privacy

Richard Clarke

Chairman, Good Harbor Consulting, LLC
Former Special Advisor to the President for Cyber Security
Former National Coordinator for Security and Counter-terrorism

George Cybenko

Dorothy and Walter Gramm Professor
Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College

John C. Davis

Director of Information Security, Mitretek Systems Inc.
Former Commissioner on Presidential Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection (PCCIP)
Former Director of NCSC/NSA

Matt Donlon

Former Security and Intelligence Office (SIO) Director
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

David J. Farber

Moore Professor of Telecommunications and Professor of Business and Public Policy
University of Pennsylvania

Richard J. Freiertag

Cyber Defense Agency, LLC

Dr. Tiffany M. Frazier

Director Advanced Computing, Alphatech, Inc.

Seymour Goodman

Co-Director, Georgia Tech Info Sec Center

Bob Gourley

Chief Technology Officer, Crucial Point LLC
Former Chief Technology Officer, Defense Intelligence Agency
Former J2, JTF-CND

Dr. Thomas Haigh

Adventium Labs
Former CTO and VP for Research, Secure Computing Corporation

Dr. Stephen Kent

Vice President & Chief Scientist - Information Security
BBN Technologies
Former member of the Internet Architecture Board

Angelos Keromyitis

Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department
Columbia University

Marv Langston

SAIC
Former Deputy Chief Information Officer, DOD, 1998-2001
Former Director Information Systems Office (ISO), DARPA
Former Chief Information Officer (CIO), Department of Navy, 1996-1997

Pat Lincoln

Member of Defense Science Board Panels 2000-2001
Director, Computer Science Laboratory, SRI International

John Lowry

Technical Director for INFOSEC
BBN Technologies / Verizon

David Luckham

Research Professor of Electrical Engineering
Stanford University

Steve Lukasik

Consultant SAIC, Former Director, DARPA
Former Chief Scientist, FCC

Dr. John McHugh

Canada Research Chair in Privacy and Security
Faculty of Computer Science
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia

Dr. Clifford Neuman

Director, USC Center for Computer Systems Security,
Information Sciences Institute,
University of Southern California

Peter G. Neumann

Principal Scientist, Computer Science Lab, SRI International

Roger Novak

Managing Member, Novak Biddle Venture Partners

Allen E. Ott

President, Distributed Infinity, Inc.

Dr. Michael Paige

Former Director, Xerox PARC

Vern Paxson

Associate Professor, EECS, University of California, Berkeley
Senior Scientist, International Computer Science Institute
Staff Computer Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Phillip A. Porras

Program Director Computer Science Laboratory
SRI International

Sue Rho

Cyber Defense Agency, LLC

Dr. Arthur S. Robinson

President, System/Technology Development Corporation (S/TDC)
Formerly Technical Director of RCA
R&D for U.S.N. Aegis Weapons Systems

Randy V. Sabett, J.D., CISSP

Associate, Information Security & Cybercrime Practice Group,
Cooley Godward LLP
Co-Vice Chair, Section of Science and Technology Information Security Committee, American Bar Association

Shankar Sastry

Dean of Engineering, University of California Berkeley
Director, NSF Science and Technology Center TRUST: Team for Research in Ubiquitous Security Technologies

Gregg Schudel

Cisco Systems, Inc. Applied Intelligence, PSIRT Team
Former Manager of Experimentation, DARPA Information Assistance Program

Larry J. Schumann

President, EnterpriseTec, Inc.
Member of the President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory (NSTAC) Committee (1996-2000)

Jonathan Smith

Professor Computer and Information Science Department
University of Pennsylvania

Doug Tygar

Professor of Computer Science and Information Management
University of California, Berkeley

Joe Weiss

Executive Consultant, KEMA Consulting

Dr. J. Kendree Williams

Alpha Geek Emeritus
Former CTO, Zel Technologies

Larry Wright

Booz Allen Hamilton
Chairman, Defense Science Board Task Force on Defensive Information Operations 2000-2001






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