The External Advisory Board (EAB) of CERIAS provides advice and feedback to the CERIAS Director. The EAB represents the various constituencies served by CERIAS: the Tier I partners, Indiana industry, education, the federal government, and other research institutions.
Tier I partners of the center may nominate senior personnel for membership on the EAB; no more than 15 members are chosen from Tier I member organizations. Additional members representing other groups are chosen by CERIAS leadership with oversight of the internal policy board. All members of the EAB are appointed for renewable 3-year terms.
The EAB provides strategic direction, management advice, and acts as a sounding board for new ideas for the center. Meetings are closed, and discussions are held in confidence.
For more information, contact the Director of CERIAS.
Charles Blauner is currently Managing Director-Global Head of Information Security for Citi, a global Financial Services firm that operates in over 100 countries around the globe. In this role Mr. Blauner is responsible for all aspects of Information Security from policy, to architecture to operations. Prior to his current role at Citi, Mr. Blauner was the Head of Information Security for Citi’s Global Consumer businesses. Blauner has been an IS professional for over 20 years, 15 within financial services. Prior to joining Citi, he has held numerous security positions including having been the Chief Information Risk Officer at both JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank as well as having been a founding member of the IS Consulting group at Bellcore. Mr. Blauner has held numerous industry positions including: Chair of the American Bankers Association E-Commerce Policy Committee, Chair of the OpenGroup Security Program Group, Chair of the FIX Security Working Group, Founding Director of the FS/ISAC.
Dr. Campbell in her role as director of cyber strategic thrust for Sandia National Labs, develops and implements strategies to strengthen the Labs’ cyber workforce and capabilities to provide increased support for Sandia’s national security sponsors’ cyber missions. Her previous position at Sandia was Deputy for Technical Programs in the Defense Systems and Assessments Strategic Management Unit (DSA SMU). From 2003 to 2007, Dr. Campbell led the Assessment Technologies Group in Sandia’s Information Systems Analysis Center. She was responsible for development, coordination and oversight of programs focusing on vulnerability assessments and development of national security solutions in information technologies for multiple government sponsors. From 1999 – 2003 she was Manager of the Microsystems Partnerships Department which assessed and addressed microelectronics vulnerabilities for a variety of government sponsors. In that role Ann led Sandia’s program to support the DoD Anti-Tamper Initiative. Dr. Campbell serves on the National Academies’ Standing Committee on Technology Insight – Gauge, Evaluate and Review (TIGER) and is a 2009 – 2010 MIT Seminar XXI Fellow.
Mr. Dill has been working in information security for 35 years, primarily in IT and communications systems architecture & design and operations & maintenance. Currently he is the CyberSecurity Solution Family Chief Architect, responsible for the coordination and execution of Cyber Security Research and Development within IS&GS and managing contracted R&D with other businesses and at universities. He has been with Lockheed Martin since 1991. In the past Mr. Dill led R&D projects in cross-domain information sharing, multilevel security, Information Assurance management systems, data provenance, identity management and intrusion detection and atmospheric sounding. Other work experiences include IT over satellite comms systems architecture and program management, IA training and career development, C2 program management for the White House Communications Agency, Communications-Electronics Repair Activity Management, DSCS Satellite Terminal Station Chief, and Avionics and Armament Repair Management. Mr. Dill holds a BS in Biology/Botany from Bucknell University, a MS in Telecommunications Management from the University of Maryland and received his initial training in Information Security courtesy of the US Army.
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.
Scott Hollenbeck is the Director of Applied Research for Verisign. In this capacity he manages the company’s efforts to explore strategic technology opportunities through a combination of internal and university-funded research activities. Mr. Hollenbeck is the author of the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP), an Internet protocol for the registration and management of Internet infrastructure data including domain names. Mr. Hollenbeck is also a co-author of the VeriSign Registry-Registrar Protocol (RRP), a pre-cursor of EPP developed for use in the VeriSign Shared Registration System. He has been a contributor to several industry efforts related to domain names and Internet security, including internationalized domain names, ENUM, public key cryptography, S/MIME, the Extensible Markup Language (XML), and the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol. He recently served as a member of the Internet Engineering Steering Group of the Internet Engineering Task Force, where he was the responsible area director for several working groups developing application protocol standards
Simon Hunt is the Chief Technology Officer for the Data Protection Business Unit of McAfee Inc. For more than 12 years Mr. Hunt has served as an innovator and recognized specialist in the security industry - with special focus on data encryption. Mr Hunt was one of the founding employees of SafeBoot and steered the product line from an end-user managed solution to an award-winning enterprise scalable and manageable system. Mr Hunt has a background in IT Consultancy and Training, with 14 years involvement in product management and consultancy for security product providers, and 3 years with a Fortune500 company.
Dr. Micallef is responsible for Telcordia research activities spanning a broad range of software-related topics including architecture, enterprise integration, system dependability and security, distributed computing, and highly available systems. As a research manager at Telcordia, Dr. Micallef works closely with Telcordia business units and government and commercial customers to incorporate software research innovations into new products and services.
Dr. Robinson is currently the principal technologist for cybersecurity for the Northrop Grumman Information Systems (NGIS) sector. In this role Robinson oversees all independent research and development (IR&D) efforts for the $9.7B NGIS sector. Robinson is also the lead for the Northrop Grumman Cybersecurity Research Consortium (NGCRC). Purdue’s CERIAS center is one of the founding members of this consortium.
Mr. Walsh previously served as Corporate Executive Vice President of Strategy, Technology and Development for Ducommun Incorporated, and as President of Ducommun Technologies, a wholly-owned subsidiary. Prior to Ducommun, Mr. Walsh served in a variety of increasingly responsible executive positions with Special Devices, Inc., Ensign-Bickford Industries, Thiokol Corporation and Lockheed Corporation. Mr. Walsh holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from Purdue University, an Executive MBA from St. Joseph’s University and patents for aerospace, automotive and commercial mining and blasting applications.