Cyber Security Policy Guidebook

Acknowledgments

This book was inspired by the Honorable Mike Wynne, the 21st Secretary of the Air Force, who established considerable capability for cyber security in the Air Force, and was at the time single-handedly responsible for raising the awareness of national security-related cyber security policy issues. Among countless other laudatory and critical advisory appointments, Mr. Wynne serves as the Chair of the Advisory Board for the Systems Engineering Research Center and also as Senior Advisor to the President at Stevens Institute of Technology.

To create awareness within academia of the importance of cyber security policy, Mr. Wynne chaired a conference on that topic sponsored by Stevens Institute of Technology (SIT 2010). Opinions were solicited from experts in a wide variety of fields who are stakeholders in cyberspace. Many of them spoke at the conference or attended the discussions. Some were unable to attend but provided their comments in written form. Our grateful thanks extend to the speakers and other participants who lent their expertise to that conference.

We are most indebted to those who reviewed the first completed drafts of this volume. Their invaluable feedback has considerably enhanced the comprehensibility of the cyber security policy curriculum contained herein. We therefore gratefully acknowledge these individuals for their efforts and expertise: Warren Axelrod, Larry Clinton, Kevin Gronberg, Richard Menta, William Miller, Brian Peretti, Andy Purdy, and ...