Julia H. Allen is a senior member of the technical staff within the Networked Systems Survivability Program at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), a unit of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. The CERT^® Coordination Center is also a part of this program. Allen is engaged in developing and transitioning enterprise security frameworks and executive outreach programs in enterprise security and governance. Prior to this technical assignment, Allen served as acting director of the SEI for an interim period of six months as well as deputy director/COO for three years. Her degrees include a BS in Computer Science (University of Michigan) and an MS in Electrical Engineering (University of Southern California). She is the author of The CERT Guide to System and Network Security Practices (Addison-Wesley, June 2001) and Governing for Enterprise Security (CMU/SEI-2005-TN-023, 2005).