Dan Geer

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American computer scientist

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alma_materHarvard University (SC.D. Biostatistics)
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known_forProject Athena
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Dan Geer is a computer security analyst and risk management specialist. He is recognized for raising awareness of critical computer and network security issues before the risks were widely understood, and for ground-breaking work on the economics of security.

Career

Geer is currently the chief information security officer for In-Q-Tel, a not-for-profit venture capital firm that invests in technology to support the Central Intelligence Agency.

In 2003, Geer's 24-page report entitled "CyberInsecurity: The Cost of Monopoly" was released by the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA). The paper argued that Microsoft's dominance of desktop computer operating systems is a threat to national security. Geer was fired (from consultancy @Stake) the day the report was made public. Geer has cited subsequent changes in the Vista operating system (notably a location-randomization feature) as evidence that Microsoft "accepted the paper."

Geer received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, where he was a member of the Theta Deuteron charge of Theta Delta Chi fraternity. He also received a Sc.D. in biostatistics from Harvard, and has worked for:

In 2011, Geer received the USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award.

References

References

  1. [https://web.archive.org/web/20080529025426/http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1196 Dan Geer leaves Verdasys for In-Q-Tel], by [[Ryan Naraine]], ''ZDNet'', May 28, 2008. Accessed 2008-07-09.
  2. "Critique of Microsoft eyed in firing: Ex-tech officer claims report cost his job", by Jay Fitzgerald, ''Boston Herald'', September 27, 2003. [http://cryptome.org/cyberinsecurity.htm Reprint]. Accessed 2008-07-09.
  3. [http://www.csoonline.com/article/441013 Dan Geer Helping CIA] {{Webarchive. link. (2021-02-16 , ''CSOonline.com'', August 4, 2008.)
  4. (2013). "Daniel Earl Geer, Jr., Sc.D.". veracode.com.
  5. (2013). "Flame Award : USENIX". usenix.org.

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