Network Security News

Carnegie Mellon CyLab hosting panel on cybersecurity

Friday, April 17, 2009

Earl Crane, chief information architect for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), will make a guest speaker appearance Thursday, April 23 at the Cosmos Club in Washington, DC, as part of a cybersecurity event hosted by Carnegie Mellon University.

A panel of experts will feature discussion of network security topics concerning technology and policy related to cybercrime, identity theft and internet privacy, according to the university. Carnegie Mellon's CyLab, part of the college of engineering, is sponsoring the event.

The panel will be moderated by CyLab founder Pradeep K. Khosla, who will lead the panel discussion about problems such as how companies need to rethink network security and how employees surfing the internet may expose a network to ever-growing cyber threats.

Crane earned both his undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering and a master's of information systems management degree at Carnegie Mellon. Currently Crane is the DHS information security program principal for information security architecture, interoperability and configuration of security features and services within DHS.

Carnegie Mellon CyLab, founded in 2003, is one of the largest university-based cybersecurity research and education centers in the United States, the university said.