- Noam Chomsky
Avram Noam Chomsky, Ph.D (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, political activist, and a prolific author and lecturer. He is the Institute Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chomsky is credited with the creation of the theory of generative grammar, considered to be one of the most significant contributions to the field of linguistics made in the 20th century.
- Bruce Schneier
Bruce Schneier is president of Counterpane Systems, the author of Applied Cryptography, and the inventor the Blowfish algorithm. He serves on the board of the International Association for Cryptologic Research and the Electronic Privacy Information Center. He is a contributing editor to Dr. Dobb's Journal, and a frequent writer and lecturer on cryptography.
- Michael Howard
Michael Howard is a software security expert from Microsoft. He is author of several computer security books, most famous "Writing Secure Code". Michael Howard is frequent speaker at security related conferences, and he frequently publishes articles on this subject. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/images/features/2005/MichaelHoward2005.jpg
- Esther Dyson
Esther Dyson is a self-described authority on emerging digital technology, and considered a founding member of the digerati. Esther Dyson is the daughter of Freeman Dyson, a physicist, and Verana Huber-Dyson, a mathematician, and the sister of the digital technology historian George Dyson. After graduating from Harvard in economics, she joined Forbes as a fact-checker and quickly rose to reporter.
- Franco Frattini
Franco Frattini (born 14 March 1957) is an Italian politician, currently serving as European Commissioner for Justice, Freedom and Security. He is also one of five vice-presidents of the 27-member Barroso Commission.
- Anton Chuvakin
Anton Chuvakin is a computer security specialist, currently Director of Product Management with LogLogic, a U.S. Log Management and Intelligence company. His past positions included a role of a Security Strategist with netForensics, a U.S. Security Information Management company. A physicist by education (M.S. Moscow State University, Ph.D. State University of New York at Stony Brook), …
- Mark Anderson
Mark (Cronus) Anderson is a leading Irish security professional. Mark is the co-founder of Whitedust along with Mark Hinge. Prior to founding Whitedust, he created (what is claimed to be) the first 3rd party Spam / Antivirus services for companies, Whitemail. Recently Mark has achieved a level of exposure for being the lead developer of Eve - a visual network traffic analyser.
- John Mearsheimer
John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1982. He graduated from West Point in 1970 and then served five years as an officer in the U.S. Air Force. He then started graduate school in political science at Cornell University in 1975. He received his Ph.D. in 1980.
- Rosa Delauro
Rosa DeLauro is a member of the United States House of Representatives. Holding the position since 1991, DeLauro represents Connecticut's 3rd congressional district. She is currently serving her ninth term. Before becoming a member of the House, DeLauro served as Executive Director of EMILY'S List, as well as serving as Chief of Staff to U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd .
- Kip Hawley
Editor's note: Today we unveil a new regular feature called "Five Good Questions." We'll interview an industry newsmaker about current issues and events. Our first interview is with Transportation Security Administration Administrator Kip Hawley . He has served as administrator since July 27, 2005. Hawley brings more than 20 years of transportation and technology experience to TSA, now part of the Dept.
- Wietse Venema
Wietse Venema is best known for the software TCP Wrapper , which is still widely used today and is included with almost all unix systems. Wietse is also the author of the Postfix mail system and the co-author of the very cool suite of utilities called The Coroner's Toolkit or "TCT". He is currently working at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center and he has gratiously agreed to allow us to catch up with him and and see what he's been up to lately.
- Window Snyder
Window Snyder is head of security strategy at Mozilla Corporation. She is co-author of "Threat Modeling", a standard manual on application security.
- Steven M. Bellovin
Steven M. Bellovin is a researcher on computer networking and security. He is currently a Professor in the Computer Science department at Columbia University, having previously been a long time employee at AT&T Labs Research in Florham Park, New Jersey. As a graduate student, Bellovin was one of the originators of USENET. He later suggested that Gene Spafford should create the Phage mailing list as a response to the Morris Worm.
- Thomas Homer-Dixon
Thomas Homer-Dixon (born 1956 in Victoria, British Columbia) is the Director of the Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Toronto, and Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. Homer-Dixon was born in Victoria, British Columbia, in 1956, and was raised in a rural area outside Victoria. He received his B.A. in political science from Carleton University in 1980 and his Ph.D. in Political Science from MIT in 1989, …
- Whitfield Diffie
Whitfield Diffie is a US cryptographer and one of the pioneers of public-key cryptography. He is Chief Security Officer of Sun Microsystems, Vice-President and Sun Fellow. Andrew Sentence is an external member of the Monetary Policy of the Bank of England, the body responsible for setting interest rates in the UK to meet the Government's inflation target.
- Luke Welling
Luke Welling is a PHP and MySQL expert, author, and conference speaker who lives in Melbourne, Australia. He was a one-time instructor at RMIT University.
- Dave Aitel
Dave Aitel is a computer security professional. He joined the NSA as a research scientist aged 18 where he worked for six years before being employed as a consultant at @stake for three years. In 2002 he founded a software security company, Immunity, where he is now the CTO.
- Ignatius Piazza
Dr. Ignatius "Naish" Piazza (b. 1960) is the founder and director of the Front Sight Firearms Training Institute in Pahrump, Nevada. He is a four weapons combat master, and lives near Santa Cruz, California.
- Mario Scaramella
Mario Scaramella (born April 23, 1970) is an Italian lawyer and self-styled security consultant who came to international prominence in 2006 in connection with the poisoning of the ex-FSB agent Alexander Litvinenko. He served as an investigator and adviser to the controversial Mitrokhin Commission set up by Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia party in order to investigate supposed links between Berlusconi's political rivals, …
- Amit Yoran
Amit Yoran Former Director of National Cyber Security Department of Homeland Security Amit Yoran serves as an independent director and advisor to several early stage security technology companies and large corporations. He was appointed by President George W Bush as the Administration’s cyber chief, responsible for coordinating the national activities in cyber security.
- James K. Galbraith
Galbraith is the author of six books and several hundred scholarly and policy articles. His most recent book, "Unbearable Cost: Bush, Greenspan and the Economics of Empire, was published by Palgrave-MacMillan in late 2006. His next book will be "The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too," forthcoming from The Free Press.
- Ivan Boesky
Ivan Frederick Boesky (born March 6, 1937, in Detroit) was notable for his prominent role in a Wall Street insider trading scandal that occurred in the United States in the mid-1980s. Boesky was born to a Russian-Jewish family. He is a graduate of the Detroit College of Law (now known as the Michigan State University College of Law). By 1986, Ivan Boesky had become an arbitrageur who had amassed a fortune of about US$200 million by betting on corporate takeovers.
- Captain Midnight
John R. MacDougall, also known as Captain Midnight, is an electronic engineer and business owner, who jammed HBO's satellite signal in 1986 to broadcast a message protesting their rates for satellite dish owners. In the mid-1980s, controversy erupted in the cable programming world as cable operators began scrambling their programming and charging fees to home satellite dish owners who accessed the same satellite signals cable operators received.
- Roger Needham
Roger Michael Needham CBE FREng FRS (9 February, 1935 - 1 March, 2003) was a British computer scientist. Needham began his undergraduate studies at the University of Cambridge in 1953, graduating with a B.A. in 1956 in mathematics and philosophy. His Ph.D. thesis was on applications of digital computers to the automatic classification and retrieval of documents. He worked on a variety of key computing projects in security, operating systems, …
- Jonathan Shapiro
Jonathan S. Shapiro is an expert in low-level computer system programming. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at The Johns Hopkins University. Areas of focus have included the C and C++ programming languages, operating systems (including kernels/microkernels), security, and formal program verification.
- Fred Hassan
Fred Hassan is chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Schering-Plough Corporation. Prior to joining Schering-Plough in April 2003 and assuming his current position, Mr. Hassan was chairman and chief executive officer of Pharmacia Corporation. He joined the former Pharmacia & Upjohn in May 1997 as chief executive officer and was elected to the Board of Directors.
- Kevin Duffy
Kevin Thomas Duffy (born 1933) is an American lawyer and currently a senior judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Duffy graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Fordham College in 1954 and with an LL.B from the Fordham University School of Law in 1958. He clerked for J. Edward Lumbard a Second Circuit Court of Appeals (1955-1958).
- Manoj Joshi
Manoj Joshi is an Indian journalist and author. He is currently the editor (Views) with the "Hindustan Times". After an undergraduate degree at St. Stephen's College, Delhi, Joshi studied history at Lucknow University and earned his Ph.D. from the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. In addition to his journalistic writings, Joshi has written in several academic publications around the world on security, …
- Leonard Adleman
Leonard Max Adleman (born December 31, 1945) is a theoretical computer scientist and professor of computer science and molecular biology at the University of Southern California. He is known for being a co-inventor of the RSA (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman) cryptosystem in 1977, and of DNA computing. RSA is in widespread use in security applications, including digital signatures. Born in California, Adleman grew up in San Francisco, and attended the University of California, …
- Alexandr Vondra
Alexandr "Saša" Vondra (born 17 August 1961 in Prague) was the foreign minister of the Czech Republic from 4 September 2006 to 9 January 2007 and Senator for Litoměřice district for the Civic Democratic Party (ODS) since autumn Czech Senate election, 2006. In the new government reshuffle announced for late December 2006, he is to become a deputy Prime Minister for European affairs. He graduated in geography from Charles University in Prague in 1984.
- Paul R Pillar
Dr. Pillar is a Visiting Professor (Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University), and member of the core faculty in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University. With twenty-eight years of experience in the U. S. intelligence community, his most recent position was as National Intelligence Officer for the Near East and South Asia.
- Rafail Ostrovsky
Dr. Rafail Ostrovsky 's research interests include all aspects of the theory of computation, especially in cryptography, network algorithms, analysis and classification of high-dimensional data. Specifically, Dr. Ostrovsky works on interactive passwords, fault-tolerance, multi-party computation, zero-knowledge, algorithms for high-dimensional geometric problems such as clustering and nearest-neighbor search, metric embeddings, and routing and flow control in communication networks.
- James der Derian
James Der Derian is a Watson Institute research professor of international studies and professor of political science at Brown University. In July 2004, he became the director of the Institute’s Global Security Program. Der Derian also directs the Information Technology, War, and Peace Project in the Watson Institute’s Global Security Program. Der Derian was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, where he completed a M.Phil. and D.Phil. in international relations.
- Robert M. Kimmitt
Mr. Kimmitt has had a long public service career, both at home and abroad. He served from 1991 to 1993 as American Ambassador to Germany and was awarded the U.S. Defense Department Distinguished Public Service Award as well as Germany's highest honor, the Order of Merit.
- Hugo Teufel III
Hugo Teufel III (born July 25, 1961 in Albuquerque, NM, and raised in Wichita, KS and Denver, CO) was appointed as Chief Privacy Officer for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security by Secretary Michael Chertoff on 21 July 2006, after a ten-month vacancy that was filled by acting Chief Privacy Officer, Maureen C. Cooney. Teufel is the second chief privacy officer for the DHS, after Nuala O'Connor Kelly, appointed by Secretary Tom Ridge.
- Melih Abdulhayoglu
Melih Abdulhayoglu gained a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronic Engineering (B.Eng.) from the University of Bradford in 1991. At Bradford, he supported the development of security technologies for the British government. He is respected as a thought leader for the identity and trust industry, "Melih" is a key public speaker and has led the company in its responsibilities as a contributing member of the Trusted Computing Group, …
- Kanti Bajpai
Indian TV's most popular face on international affairs, Professor Kanti Bajpai, is the current Headmaster of The Doon School, Dehra Dun, India. Bajpai graduated from Doon in 1972; his father, a former ambassador to the United States had also been educated Doon, as was an older brother who also became a diplomat. Bajpai was awarded a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and an Master of Arts in Political Science from the University of British Columbia.
- Jerry Schneider
Jerry N. Schneider (born circa 1951) is a social engineer and security consultant. Schneider, still in high school in 1968, started a company called "Creative Systems Enterprises." He began selling his own invented electronic communication devices. Parts were scavenged from Pacific Telephone and Telegraph's dumpsters. During this scavenging, he built up a collection of PTT documents including invoices and training manuals.
- Isser Harel
Isser Harel (1912 - 18 February, 2003) was spymaster of the intelligence and the security services of Israel and the Director of the Mossad (1952 - 1963).
- Ken Sutherland
Ken Sutherland is a writer and businessman working in the area of software, security and business improvement. Within his current role, Ken Sutherland has overall responsibility for Telindus Surveillance Solutions Ltd, (TSS) the fastest growing part of the Telindus Group. He is an expert on how video technology can be integrated on to a high-speed digital network to provide an integrated CCTV surveillance solution.