Dan Geer
{{short description|American computer scientist}}
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| field = Computer Scientist
| work_institution = MIT
CertCo
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| alma_mater = Harvard University (SC.D. Biostatistics)
MIT (SB EECS)
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| known_for = Project Athena
Open Market
CertCo
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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.[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.
In 2003, Geer's 24-page report entitled [http://cryptome.org/cyberinsecurity.htm "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."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. Geer has cited subsequent changes in the Vista operating system (notably a location-randomization feature) as evidence that Microsoft "accepted the paper."[http://www.csoonline.com/article/441013 Dan Geer Helping CIA] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210216210005/https://www.csoonline.com/article/2123038/dan-geer-helping-cia--enjoying--gee-whiz--moments.html |date=2021-02-16 }}, CSOonline.com, August 4, 2008.
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:{{cite web|url=http://www.veracode.com/board-of-advisors/daniel-earl-geer-jr.-sc.d.html |title=Daniel Earl Geer, Jr., Sc.D. |work=veracode.com |year=2013 |accessdate=19 June 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131026144414/http://www.veracode.com/board-of-advisors/daniel-earl-geer-jr.-sc.d.html |archivedate=26 October 2013 }}
- Health Sciences Computing Facility, Harvard School of Public Health
- Project Athena, MIT
- Digital Equipment Corporation
- Geer Zolot & Associates
- OpenVision Technologies
- Open Market
- Certco
- @stake (acquired by Symantec in November 2004)
- Verdasys
In 2011, Geer received the USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award.{{cite web |url= https://www.usenix.org/about/flame |title=Flame Award : USENIX |first= |last= |work=usenix.org |year=2013 |accessdate=19 June 2013}}
References
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External links
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- [http://geer.tinho.net/pubs Dan Geer's home publications page]
- [http://www.thiemeworks.com/an-interview-with-dan-geer/ All Geered Up: An Interview With Dan Geer By Richard Thieme] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160322123816/http://www.thiemeworks.com/an-interview-with-dan-geer/ |date=2016-03-22 }}
- [http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2005120902103731 Letter to Massachusetts Senator Marc Pacheco on OpenDocument Standards by Dan Geer]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20050410004151/http://napps.nwfusion.com/weblogs/security/003879.html Oh Dan Geer, where art thou? by Ellen Messmer]
- [http://www.verdasys.com/pdfs/EconMatters.pdf Security of Information When Economics Matters by Dan Geer (PDF format)]
- [http://www.verdasys.com/pdfs/ShrinkPerim.pdf The Shrinking Perimeter: Making the Case for Data-Level Risk Management by Dan Geer (PDF format)]
- [http://geer.tinho.net/ieee.geer.0606.pdf Dan Geer's Convergence Time based security and the convergence of both digital and physical security (PDF format)]
- [http://geer.tinho.net/geer.housetestimony.070423.PDF Dan Geer's April 23, 2007 Testimony to Subcommittee on Emerging Threats, Cybersecurity, and Science and Technology (PDF Format)]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20120617060438/http://www.ftc.gov/acoas/nominations/geer-2.pdf Geer's nomination to the FTC Advisory Committee]
- [http://geer.tinho.net/geer.blackhat.6viii14.txt Geer's keynote speech at Black Hat USA 2014: Cybersecurity as Realpolitik]; [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT-TGvYOBpI video of Geer's keynote]
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Category:Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health alumni
Category:Chief security officers