Dan Shoemaker is the Director of the Institute for Cyber Security Studies, a National Security Agency (NSA) Center of Academic Excellence, at UDM. Dr. Shoemaker is a well-known speaker and writer in the area of cyber security. He is a professor at UDM, where he has been the Chair of the computer and information systems program since 1985. He is also a visiting professor in cyber security at London Southbank University. His PhD is from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. Dr. Shoemaker is Cochair of the Workforce Training and Education working group for the secure software assurance initiative within the US Department of Homeland Security's National Cyber Security Division (NCSD). He is one of the earliest academic participants in the development of software engineering as a discipline, starting at the SEI in fall 1987. He is the coauthor ofInformation Assurance for the Enterprise. He is also a prolific writer and speaker on cyber security topics across the nation. Dr. Shoemaker can be reached at dshoemaker1 at twmi.rr.com.