Richard Pethia manages the Trustworthy Systems Program at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), a federally funded research and development center at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Trustworthy Systems Program focuses on improving trust in network-connected systems by: developing and transitioning tools and techniques that improve the security of existing systems; identifying, developing, and transitioning… Read More

Thomas A. Longstaff is currently the leader of CERT security architecture and research projects at the SEI. In this role, Dr. Longstaff is involved in many computer security and incident handling research projects ranging from malicious code analysis to security engineering. He has been involved in incident handling since the Internet Worm incident of 1988. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Davis, in… Read More

Moira West-Brown joined the CERT Coordination Center in 1991. Until recently, she managed the incident handling group, which focuses on responding to computer security vulnerabilities and attacks: assessing vulnerabilities, coordinating the search for countermeasures, working with sites to resolve security problems, and issuing alerts to warn the community of threats and describe countermeasures. Prior to joining the SEI, Ms. West-Brown worked… Read More