About the CCSA Board of Directors
James Mulvenon (Chairman of the Board)
James Mulvenon is Director of DGI’s Center for Intelligence Research and Analysis. A specialist on the Chinese military, Dr. Mulvenon's research focuses on Chinese C4ISR (command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, and reconnaissance), defense research / development / acquisition organizations and policy, strategic weapons programs (computer network attack and nuclear warfare), cryptography, and the military and civilian implications of the information revolution in China.
Among his professional affiliations, Dr. Mulvenon is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a founding member of the Cyber Conflict Studies Association, and a member of the National Committee for U.S.-China Relations and the Association for Asian Studies.
Greg Rattray (President)
Greg Rattray is an internationally recognized cyber defense and policy expert with over twenty years of experience in cyber security, operations and intelligence. He served as the Director of Cyber Security on the White House National Security Council Staff under Richard Clarke and Dr. Condolezza Rice. He is currently the Chief Internet Security Advisor to the CEO of ICANN - the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers - and he continues to advise the White House, Department of Defense, intelligence community, academic education, and research programs on global risk and enterprise policy. Additionally, Mr. Rattray is a partner at Delta Risk LLC, where he provides consulting services for the development of cyber security initiatives across both the government and private sectors.
From 2003 to 2005, Mr. Rattray served as the Director for Cyber Security on the National Security Council, and led national policy development and NSC oversight for cyber security to include the Executive Order on Information Sharing, Homeland Security Policy Directives on Critical Infrastructure and Incident Response, the establishment of cyber security roles for the Department of Homeland Security, and interagency responsibilities in the National Response Plan. Prior to working on the NSC, he was an Air Force Fellow serving the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board. During his tenure he was a key contributor to the President's National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace and served on the White House team for legislation and policy on establishment of the Department of Homeland Security.
Mr. Rattray has been a Full Member of the Council on Foreign Relations since 2002, and is a member of the InfraGard National Advisory Board and the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association.
Bob Gourley
Bob Gourley is the primary blogger at CTOvision.com and is the founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Crucial Point LLC, a technology research and advisory firm. He is a former CTO of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). He was named one of the top 25 most influential CTOs in the globe by Infoworld in 2007, and selected for AFCEAs award for meritorious service to the intelligence community in 2008. He was named by the Washingtonian as one of DC's "Tech Titans" in 2009. He holds three masters degrees including a master of science degree in scientific and technical intelligence from the Naval Postgraduate School, a master of science degree in military science from USMC University, and a master of science degree in computer science from James Madison University. Bob has published over 40 articles on a wide range of topics and is a contributor to the 20 Jan 2009 Book titled "Threats in the Age of Obama."
Adam Segal
Adam Segal is the Ira A. Lipman Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he directs the cyberconflict and cybersecurity initiative (https://secure.www.cfr.org/project/1497/cyberconflict_and_cybersecurity_initiative.html).
His areas of expertise include Asia, technology, and security, and is the author of two books on China and technology, most recently Advantage: How American Innovation can Overcome the Asian Challenge (http://amzn.to/a5f9U8) . He is also a research associate of the National Asia Research Program.
Before working at CFR, Dr. Segal was an arms control analyst for the China Project at the Union of Concerned Scientists. He has been a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for International Studies, the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, and Tsinghua University in Beijing, and has taught at Vassar College and Columbia University.
Jason Healey (Secretary)
Jason Healey is currently senior consultant at Delta Risk LLC and has worked cyber security policy, intelligence and operations from the White House to Wall Street. Before coming to Delta Risk, he was an executive director for Goldman Sachs Asia, where he built their crisis management capability and managed business continuity. Prior to that, as Director for Cyber Infrastructure Protection at the White House, he helped coordinate US efforts to secure cyberspace and other elements of critical infrastructure. Jason started his career as an intelligence officer in the US Air Force. During his time at HQ Air Force at the Pentagon, he coordinated all Air Force efforts to stand up the Joint Task Force - Computer Network Defense to be the first ever joint military cyber warfighting command. He subsequently took over current intelligence and warning at the JTF during its first two years of operation.
Paul Kurtz
Paul Kurtz is a recognized cyber security and homeland security expert. He served in senior positions on the White House's National Security and Homeland Security Councils under Presidents Clinton and Bush and is currently an on-air consultant to CBS News and a Partner at Good Harbor Consulting, LLC.
As a Partner at Good Harbor Consulting, LLC., Mr. Kurtz advises clients on cyber-security and homeland security issues. Prior to joining Good Harbor, Mr. Kurtz was special assistant to the President and senior director for critical infrastructure protection on the White House's Homeland Security Council (HSC), where he was responsible for both physical and cyber security. In 2003, Mr. Kurtz served on the White House's National Security Council (NSC) as senior director for national security of the Office of Cyberspace Security and a member of the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board, where he developed the international component of the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace. Previously, he was a director for counterterrorism in the NSC's Office of Transnational Threats from 1999–2001.
Prior to his White House work, Mr. Kurtz served in several bureaus in the State Department, specializing in weapons of mass destruction non-proliferation policy and strategic arms control. He also served as political advisor to Operation Provide Comfort in Incirlik, Turkey, and as science attaché in Vienna, Austria. He participated in several arms control inspection teams, traveling to Iraq and North Korea.
Matthew Devost
Matthew Devost holds an Adjunct Professor position at Georgetown University, where he teaches "Information Warfare and Security." Mr. Devost is President and CEO of the Terrorism Research Center, Inc. (www.terrorism.com) overseeing all research, analysis, assessment, and training programs. In addition to his duties as President, Mr. Devost also provides strategic consulting services to select international governments and corporations on issues of counter-terrorism, information warfare and security, critical infrastructure protection, and homeland security. Mr. Devost also co-founded and serves as Executive Director of Technical Defense, Inc., (www.technicaldefense.com) a highly specialized information security consultancy.
Previously, Mr. Devost was the Director of Operations for Professional Services at Counterpane Internet Security. At Counterpane, Mr. Devost led a team of technical information security consultants providing vulnerability assessments and information security consulting services to international corporations and governments. Mr. Devost had performed the same function as Director of Operations for Security Design International, Inc, which was acquired by Counterpane Internet Security. Prior to joining SDII, he was the Director of Intelligence Analysis for Infrastructure Defense (iDefense), where he led an analytical team identifying infrastructure threats, vulnerabilities and incidents for Fortune 500 and government clients including Microsoft and Citigroup.
As a Senior INFOSEC Engineer at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), Mr. Devost provided support on Information Operations and its related subsets to the Department of Defense Community to include the Defense Information Systems Agency, the Joint Staff and unified Commands, the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Office of the Manager - National Communication System, and numerous other defense, intelligence, and law enforcement entities.
In 2004, Mr. Devost was appointed to the Defense Science Board Task Force on Critical Homeland Infrastructure Protection to provide advice to the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security. Mr. Devost serves as a Senior Advisor to the Airline Pilots Association National Security Committee, was a founding Director of the Cyber Conflict Studies Association, and is and adjunct member of the Los Angeles Terrorism Early Warning Group.
Robert Schmidt (Treasurer)
Rob Schmidt has over 23 years experience within the highest levels of the Banking and Finance community concentrating on risk analysis and mitigation. He is a recognized expert on cyber-consequence evaluation and mitigation for the financial service industry. He is a member of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Council on Domestic Intelligence, and the Intelligence and National Security Alliance helping address challenges facing the nation related to internal or domestic threats. He currently serves as the President/CEO of the 20,000-member InfraGard National Members Alliance and leads the operational side of private sector involvement with the Federal Bureau of Investigation's InfraGard program.
Prior to his tenure as the President/CEO of the InfraGard National Members Alliance, Mr. Schmidt served on its Board of Directors and was responsible for reshaping the corporate governance of the 84 private sector entities. He redefined and clarified the nature of the partnership with the FBI to facilitate complementary understandings with a variety of organizations including the Departments of Homeland Security, Treasury, and Commerce.
Mr. Schmidt has provided portfolio protection to global financial institutions as an Options Trader in energy, treasury, precious metal, currency, grain, livestock, and Dow Jones options, as well as similar index options like the S&P 500, OEX, and SPX at the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), and Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME). He has served as a Special Liaison to the Office of the Chairman on computer security (CBOE), working with the National Security Agency (NSA) and several private contractors to develop a coherent strategy for detecting and repelling the systematic breach of CBOE systems. He continues to be an active member of the financial service industry, contributing substantially to government regulatory reassessments and business process enhancements for the Chicago Commodity and Options Exchanges, among other organizations.
Marc Kolenko
Marc M. Kolenko is a solutions-oriented Cyber Defense and Information Systems Security Engineering Professional with over 25 years of notable success directing a broad range of Enterprise IT initiatives, in both Commercial and Government markets. Kolenko currently serves as the Information Assurance Manager for a combined DOD and Intel Community collaborative fusion center. He leads IA/CND, CIRT, and Cyber-operations that support C2 and ISR missions of the highest National priority. Mr. Kolenko's professional skills span the network operations, KM, and systems engineering lifecycle.
A former decorated USAF Officer, Mr. Kolenko started his career at Onizuka AFB’s Air Force Satellite Control Network’s Program Office as a Project Manager and Contracting Officer’s Technical Representative. After separating from the USAF in 1990, he worked for both Bolt Beranek & Newman and Advanced Network & Systems. In 1995-96, Mr. Kolenko took his Internet business experience to Europe assisting Fischer & Lorenz (Copenhagen, Denmark), an IT consulting firm that served both the European Union and commercial enterprises across the continent, launch its Internet Business Consultancy. Mr. Kolenko further developed his specialization in Information Security while working with The Yankee Group, Cambridge Technology Partners, and PictureTel. In 1999, he helped launch Nortel’s Next Generation Networks Infrastructure Practice. In 2003, Mr. Kolenko joined General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) as technical lead supporting the Dept of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Homeland Secure Data Network (HSDN), and to develop next-gen, net-centric solutions for Federal Civil and DoD IT markets. He concluded his time at GD with Advanced Information Systems (AIS) as chief engineer for secure, converged network solutions, which included cross-domain information sharing environment, and digital and enterprise rights management (DRM/ERM) technologies that are used by the Federal Government.
Beyond the Cyber Conflict Studies Association, Mr. Kolenko has professional affiliations with: Norwich University Applied Research Institute; Technology Association of America (former Sub-Committee Chair for ISE); ImMobile; IT Sector Coordinating Council; Global Security Consortium; Intelligence and National Security Association; DIB/CIPAC/ NCSD - USCERT; and AFCEA.
Neal Pollard
Neal focuses on policy, strategy, operations, and technology development for trusted cyber operations, for government and industry, in PwC’s Washington Federal Programs practice. He also works with corporate clients in PwC’s Forensics practice, for crisis response and countermeasures against cyber crime, insider threats, and industrial espionage. He has over 15 years of experience in law, policy, strategy, planning, interagency coordination, operations, and technology development for counterterrorism, cyber security, homeland security, and countering weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Neal is also Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University, where he teaches graduate courses in homeland security, counterterrorism, and information warfare. He is a member of the United Nation’s Expert Working Group on use of the Internet for terrorist purposes. He is also Senior Associate of the Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and Adjunct Senior Fellow for Cyber Policy at the Federation of American Scientists. He was a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, where he was also an International Affairs Fellow (2005–2006), focused on researching cyber terrorism. He publishes extensively on law, policy, and strategy for cyber security and counterterrorism, and is author of two forthcoming books: Strategic Cyber Security and Conflict: A Primer for Policymakers (Congressional Quarterly Press, summer 2012), and Homeland Security: A Guide for Policymaking in the 21st Century, co-authored with CDR Rick “Ozzie” Nelson, USN (Ret.) (Congressional Quarterly Press, winter 2013). Prior to joining PwC, Neal was a senior officer in the U.S. intelligence community, where he served multiple managerial and operational assignments with commendations, in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the National Counterterrorism Center, and the Central Intelligence Agency. He was also Director for Counterterrorism on the staff of the Commission on the Prevention of WMD Proliferation and Terrorism (GrahamTalent Commission). Prior to government service, he was Vice President at Hicks & Associates, Inc., and Board Director and General Counsel of the Terrorism Research Center, Inc., a corporation he co-founded in 1996, rebranded Total Intelligence Solutions in 2006. Neal received a Bachelor of Arts in political science, and Bachelor of Science in mathematics from the University of Oklahoma; a Master of Letters in terrorism studies from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland; and a Juris Doctor cum laude from the Georgetown University Law Center. He is admitted to the Virginia Bar.
Jose Nazario
Dr. Jose Nazario is a noted security researcher specializing in wide area network attacks and cyber conflicts. Dr. Nazario currently works as the manager of security research at Arbor Networks, a large-scale network security solutions provider. In this capacity he has analyzed several significant cyberconflicts including the Russia-Georgia war of 2008 and the Estonia cyberattacks of 2007, the attacks on South Korean and US government and commercial sites in 2009, and many other global events. Additionally, he is a core member of the Conficker Working Group and works with others to address Internet-scale pathologies.
