Dr. Phyllis Schneck is Vice President and Director of Threat Intelligence for the Americas for McAfee, Inc. In this role, she is responsible for design and applications of McAfee’s threat intelligence, strategic thought leadership around technology and policy in cyber security, and leading McAfee initiatives in critical infrastructure protection and cross-sector cyber security. For more than 14 years, Dr. Schneck has had a distinguished presence in the security and infrastructure protection community, most recently as a Commissioner and a working group Co-Chair on public/private partnership for the CSIS Commission to Advise the 44th President on Cyber Security. Dr. Schneck server for eight years as a chairman of the National Board of Directors of the FBI’s InfraGard program and founding president of InfraGard Atlanta, growing the InfraGard program from 2000 to over 30,000 members nationwide. Named one of Information Security Magazine’s Top 25 Women Leaders in Information Security, Dr. Schneck briefed the Japanese Government on information sharing and infrastructure protection, and was the moderator of the White House Town Hall Meeting in Atlanta for the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace in June of 2002. She holds three patents in high-performance and adaptive information security, and has six research publications in the areas of information security, real-time systems, telecom and software engineering. Dr. Schneck received her PH.D. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech, and pioneered the field of information security and security-based high-performance computing at Georgia Tech. She maintains a seat on the Advisory Board of the Johns Hopkins University Department of Computer Science, served on the Steering Committee for the Sam Nunn Information Security Forum as well as a term on the Georgia Tech Advisory Board, and co-founded the Georgia Tech Information Security Center and the Georgia Electronic Commerce Association’s Working Group on Information Security.
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