2013 ISSA Intl Conference Keynote Eugene Spafford (Spaf) Exec Dir, CERIAS & Prof - Purdue University

Eugene H. Spafford is one of the senior, most recognized leaders in the field of computing. He has an ongoing record of accomplishment as a senior advisor and consultant on issues of security and intelligence, education, cybercrime and computing policy to a number of major companies, law enforcement organizations, academic and government agencies, including Microsoft, Intel, Unisys, the US Air Force, the National Security Agency, the Government Accountability Office, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Justice, the Department of Energy, and two Presidents of the United States. With over three decades of experience as a researcher and instructor, Professor Spafford has worked in software engineering, reliable distributed computing, host and network security, digital forensics, computing policy, and computing curriculum design. He is responsible for a number of "firsts" in several of these areas.
Dr. Spafford is a professor with an appointment in Computer Science at Purdue University, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1987. He is the Executive Director of the Purdue University Center for Education and Research in
Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS). Starting in 2010, Dr. Spafford became Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier journal Computers & Security, the oldest journal in the field of information security, and the official outlet of IFIP TC-11. He is a member of the Indiana Chapter and Distinguished Fellow of ISSA.