Life as a Target—Welcome to the Club

As a cryptographer for 40 years, Mr. George recognized that he was a target of foreign intelligence, and lived under those conditions. As the world has changed—communications systems, the Internet, online life (banking, shopping, social life)—the set of targets, the type of information that is sought, and the adversary have all changed significantly. We’ll discuss those changes, how they impact us all, and how today’s cyber professionals need to address this threat to protect government, industry, and individuals.

Dickie George currently serves as the Senior Advisor for Cyber Security at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. He provides security advice to leadership and the technical workforce, and currently works on a number of projects in support of the U.S. government. He joined the Lab in 2012, following a 41-year career at NSA, the last 8 years of which he served as Technical Director for the Information Assurance Directorate. At NSA, Dickie was a cryptomathematician and author of over 125 cryptanalytic papers.