About This Blog

These are the random ramblings of a geek who has doing cyber security work for so long that he may have an opinion or two about how things should be done.

About Rick Howard:
Rick is responsible for the day-to-day intelligence gathering and distribution efforts at iDefense (a VeriSign Security Service) and is charged with developing strategic and tactical plans for the department. He is an experienced computer security professional with proven success in the utilization of network intelligence for network defense. Prior to joining iDefense, he led the intelligence gathering activities at Counterpane Internet Security and ran their global network of Security Operations Centers (SOCs). Rick served in the US Army for 23 years in various command and staff positions involving information technology and security and retired as a lieutenant colonel in 2004. He spent the last two years of his career as the Director of the US Army's Computer Emergency Response Team (ACERT), where he coordinated network defense, network intelligence and network attack operations for the Army's global network.

Rick holds an MS in Computer Science from the Naval Postgraduate School and an Engineering degree from the United States Military Academy, where he also taught computer science later in his military career.

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