{"id":135691,"date":"2021-06-25T09:46:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T13:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/?page_id=135691"},"modified":"2021-11-09T11:45:11","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T16:45:11","slug":"speaker-bios","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/security\/education\/camp\/archives\/sc-2021\/speaker-bios\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 Speaker Bios"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Harry Hoffman<\/strong> &#8211; <em>Northeastern University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span>Harry Hoffman is the CISO at Northeastern University. He is responsible for the total information security needs across Northeastern\u2019s global campus presence. He is tasked with the development and maintenance of information security strategy and policy, privacy, security training and awareness programs, as well as ongoing IT risk and compliance programs. \u00a0Harry has spent his career in higher-ed, and is the former Chair of CCORE and REN-ISAC as well as a regular contributor to Educause committees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul Thompson<\/strong> &#8211; <em>Capitol Technology University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Paul Thompson received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. His main research area is probabilistic information retrieval. He was a professor at Drexel University and later a research professor at Dartmouth College. He also worked as a research scientist in government contracting and legal publishing. He joined Dartmouth\u2019s Institute for Security Technology Studies (ISTS) in 2001.\u00a0 In 2018, he continued this work with North Carolina State University\u2019s Laboratory for Analytic Sciences.\u00a0 Currently, he is a doctoral dissertation chair with the Department of Cyber and Information Security at Capitol Technology University.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chris Hartley<\/strong> &#8211; <em>The Ohio State University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: inherit !important;\">Chris Hartley received his Bachelor\u2019s of Science in Computer Science and Engineering from The Ohio State University in 2008.\u00a0 He worked as a networking engineer for OARNet (The Ohio Academic Research Network), serving 5 9s to K-12, Higher Ed and state agencies across the state until 2010, when he became a full-time security engineer at OSU.\u00a0 He\u2019s led intrusion detection and incident response and now focuses primarily on security automation and security tooling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Alexander Merck<\/strong> &#8211; <em>Duke University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span>Alexander Merck is the Security Architect for Duke University and lead engineer for the STINGAR project. His interests include security automation, reverse engineering, and building security monitoring containers. When not actively attacking or defending networks, Alex can be found spreading honeypots across the world.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harry Hoffman &#8211; Northeastern University Harry Hoffman is the CISO at Northeastern University. He is responsible for the total information security needs across Northeastern\u2019s global campus presence. He is tasked with the development and maintenance of information security strategy and policy, privacy, security training and awareness programs, as well as ongoing IT risk and compliance&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4352,"featured_media":0,"parent":135697,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/135691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135691"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/135691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137725,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/135691\/revisions\/137725"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/135697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}