External Advisory Board

Dr. Eric Cole is an industry recognized security expert, technology visionary and scientist, with over 15 years’ hands-on experience. Dr. Cole currently performs leading edge security consulting and works in research and development to advance the state of the art in information systems security. Dr. Cole has over a decade of experience in information technology, with a focus on perimeter defense, secure network design, vulnerability discovery, penetration testing, and intrusion detection systems. Dr. Cole has a Masters in Computer Science from NYIT, and a Ph.D. from Pace University with a concentration in Information Security. Dr. Cole is the author of several books which include Hackers Beware, Hiding in Plain Site, Network Security Bible and Insider Threat. He is also the inventor of over 20 patents and is a researcher, writer, and speaker for SANS Institute and faculty for The Institute for Applied Network Security. Dr. Cole has a wealth of knowledge from industry, academia, and government and has assisted with many key projects. He is an advisor to Cyberwatch, a Lockheed Martin Fellow and a frequently invited speaker at a variety of conferences and security events.

Dr. Myron L. Cramer is the founder of Essex Corporation, the IA business unit of Northrop Grumman. With over 30 years of experience in government and commercial technology programs he is a recognized leader in advanced technology programs. His experience spans many areas of technology and operations, including information systems and software applications; operational requirements analysis; engineering research, and development.

Dr. Cramer has held previous management positions with SAIC, Booz, Allen & Hamilton, and ARINC Research Corporation. As a faculty member at the Georgia Tech Research Institute, he led investigations in Competitive Information Technologies, a program addressing the competitive perspective of information technologies as they relate to government and business. This area is known as Information Warfare or Information Operations; it includes techniques and technologies to gain a competitive advantages over competitors and adversaries. As Senior Faculty Leader for the Secure Information Systems New Initiatives Group he developed new programs in network security, such as a new concept in real-time intrusion detection. He was a faculty member in “Information Revolution” research and education project addressing the consequences of the new Information Age. For commercial sponsors, he led an independent evaluation of the original internet banking application and evaluated a new internet service offering from a major regional Internet Service Provider. He founded and led GTRI’s Software Process Working Group to implement Carnegie Mellon CMM software engineering processes.

Timothy is a senior supervisory computer scientist in the Information Technology Laboratory at the NIST in Gaithersburg, MD. He leads a research team in the Systems and Network Group. In addition to 25 years of work experience, Tim earned a B.S. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has also done extensive graduate work at St Mary’s University. Having authored many professional papers, he is an internationally invited speaker and co-chair of the National Information Systems Security Conference. Former posts include special agent, US Air Force Office of Special Investigations, the Standard Information Systems Center, Air Force Cryptological Support Center, and Air Force Information Warfare Center.

Bill Horne is a Research Project Manager in the Trusted Systems Lab of HP Labs. He currently manages several research projects, where he is responsible for setting research directions and transfering technology to HP’s business units and customers. His research interests include network security, access control, risk analysis, cryptography, privacy, and tamper-resistant software. Prior to joining HP in 2002, he held research positions at InterTrust’s STAR Lab and NEC Research Institute.

Robert Roberts is Vice President for Research at the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) and former Director of the Science and Technology Division. IDA consists of two Federally Funded Research and Development Centers for the Department of Defense — one focusing on studies and analyses, the other on communications and computing.

Dr. Wayne Zage is the Director of the Software Engineering Research Center (SERC), a National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) and a professor in the Computer Science Department at Ball State University (BSU). Wayne has been conducting research in SERC since 1986 and has received over 30 grants to support his research in software design metrics. The design metrics technology was developed to analyze the design of new and existing systems in order to provide developers support for planning, predicting, monitoring and evaluating the quality of both the product and process of software development.

Wayne was the recipient of the BSU Outstanding Young Faculty Award in the 1980s, the BSU Outstanding Research Award in the 1990s, and the BSU Outstanding Faculty Award in this decade. Most recently he and Dolores Zage received a national award, the 2007 Alexander Schwarzkopf Prize for Technological Innovation from the NSF I/UCRC Association for the design metrics research.

In addition to the SERC administrative work, Wayne is a researcher on projects that include global software testing in collaboration with the University of Limerick, Ireland sponsored by the National Science Foundation, metrics directed verification of UML designs sponsored by Raytheon, and software reliability and security sponsored by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory.