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Instructional Staff

As director for the CIAC, an NSA Center for Academic Excellence in Information Assurance, Endicott-Popovsky is responsible for guiding the research direction and developing an information assurance curriculum. Her research interests include forensic-ready networks and integrating secure coding practices. Her 20-year career in industry includes executive positions creating and managing strategic IT plans, projects and standards efforts.

Kirk C. Bailey, CISSP, CISM
Chief Information Security Officer, University of Washington

Prior to his appointment as the chief information security officer (CISO) for the University of Washington, Bailey served as the first-ever CISO for the City of Seattle. He has an extensive background in large mainframe systems, distributed computing and network environments, and emerging technologies. For the last 20 years, his professional focus has been the methodologies and technology associated with information systems control, administration and protection.

Peter Gregory, CISA, CISSP
Security Strategist

Gregory is a career technologist and currently a security strategist at a financial management company in Redmond, Wash. He is the author of several books including CISSP for Dummies, Securing the Vista Environment, and Solaris Security. Gregory has spoken at numerous industry conferences including RSA, SecureWorld Expo, InfraGard and West Coast Security Forum.

Ernie Hayden, CISSP, CEH
Chief Information Security Officer and Manager, Enterprise Information Security, Port of Seattle

At the Port of Seattle – one of the largest combined airport and seaport operations in the U.S. – Hayden is responsible for information security policy and practices, business continuity/disaster recovery planning, privacy issues and elements of emergency communications. He started at the Port in April 2004 and holds the Certified Information Systems Security Professional and Certified Ethical Hacker designations.

Ming-Yuh Huang
Boeing Fellow, The Boeing Co.

Huang is a Boeing Fellow leading Boeing's Strategic Information Assurance R&D Program in support of the corporate enterprise and a wide array of large-scale commercial/military programs. He received his B.S. in Physics in 1979, and did M.S. and Ph.D. studies at the University of Oregon Computer Science Department.

Neal Koblitz
Professor of Mathematics, University of Washington

Koblitz is a professor of mathematics at the University of Washington in the Department of Mathematics. He is also an adjunct professor with the Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research. He is the creator of hyperelliptic curve cryptography and the independent co-creator of elliptic curve cryptography. Koblitz received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University in 1968, where he was a Putnam Fellow. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1974 under the direction of Nick Katz.

Bill Nelson
Lead, Computing Investigations; Computing Forensic Examiner and Curriculum Developer, Law Offices of Christopher K. Steuart

For the past eight years, Nelson has been responsible for computing investigation within a Fortune 50 company. In this capacity, he created an internal company training program on computer forensics for security investigators. He also conducts training workshops for corporate IT professionals, and provides consultation to IT professionals and law enforcement investigators on computing investigation technical issues. Nelson is the lead author of Guide to Computer Forensics and Investigations.

Michael Ness
CEO, Ness Group

Ness is the principal of Michael D. Ness, Business Risk Consulting, a firm that focuses on risk management (enterprise risk management), business continuity planning, corporate security, fraud prevention and project management. Ness received his B.S. degree from the University of Maryland, University College, and is a Certified Business Continuity Planner through USG Inc., Minneapolis, Minn. He is also a graduate of the U.S. Department of the Treasury Secret Service Academy.

Ivan Orton
Senior Deputy Prosecutor (Cyber Crime), King County Prosecutor's Office, Seattle

As senior deputy prosecuting attorney, Orton investigates and prosecutes complex economic crime, financial abuse of the elderly and computer crime. He is author of the current Washington computer trespass and malicious mischief statutes, and co-author of Cybercrime (Carolina Academic Press, 2001). Orton is a member of the NIJ Technical Working Group/Digital Evidence, with a book to be published in the near future. He is also author of proposed federal legislation requiring each state to honor the production orders issued by the courts of other states in criminal cases. Orton is currently working on the topic of the legality of active defense.

Ray Pompon
Senior Security Officer, Capital Stream

Pompon is the senior security officer at Capital Stream, an application service provider for financial institutions. With nearly 20 years of experience in network security, he works closely with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Secret Service in cyber-crime investigations and apprehensions. He has been involved in several major intrusion cases and for six years was president of Seattle InfraGard. Pompon graduated with a degree in information technology from the University of Hawaii in 1990. He has also earned several industry and vendor certifications.

Seth Shapiro, CPCU, ARM, AIS, ARe
Director, Frank Crystal and Company

As director for Frank Crystal and Company, Shapiro is responsible for guiding clients through risk assessments; designing risk optimization and financing programs; developing enterprise risk management plans and information security management evaluations and plans; and developing board assessments. His 18-year career in industry includes executive positions in risk management.

Mike Simon
Chief Technical Officer, Creation Logic

Simon is a leading expert in computer security, information assurance and security policy development. He began his career in 1985, designing and building the secure network laboratory infrastructure for research programs at the University of Idaho. As CTO for local network engineering firms, Simon has improved the security posture for hundreds of customers in a variety of industries.

James Whittaker
Security Architect, Microsoft Corp.

Whittaker is a security architect in the Trusted Computing Group at Microsoft Corp. He is the author of How to Break Software (Addison-Wesley, 2002), and co-author (with Hugh Thompson) of How to Break Software Security (Addison-Wesley, 2003). He holds patents on various inventions in software testing and defensive security applications while a professor at Florida Tech. He earned his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Tennessee in 1992.

Joe Zaccaria
Managing Director, Corporate Protective Solutions

Zaccaria is managing director of Corporate Protective Solutions, a large, international consulting firm, and has more than 27 years of experience in public security, crime prevention, physical security, security design and health care finance issues. He has numerous professional security certifications and organizational memberships and has been recognized for his expertise in access control and security risk assessment tools.

Instructors are subject to change.