Advanced Cyber Security Center

The ACSC is a collaborative, cross-sector research facility working to address the most critical and sophisticated cyber security challenges. Based at the MITRE Corporation campus in Bedford, MA, the Center takes advantage of the region's unparalleled university, industrial and research resources to develop next-generation solutions and strategies for protecting the nation's public and private IT infrastructure.

By drawing on expertise from across health care, energy, defense, financial services and technology, the Center brings together expert practitioners to share best practices, conduct real-time threat analysis and develop next-generation secure computing architecture, among other functions. The Center will partner with similar centers and other key clusters in the U.S. and globally.

The Center was publicly launched on September 20, 2011 at a conference hosted by The MITRE Corporation and Mass Insight.

Project Area Selection Criteria

  • Multi-sector applicability
  • Better addressed in collaborative environment
  • Not in large-scale research elsewhere

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Steering Committee:

  • Paul Acosta, Manager, Network Operations, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Don Anderson, Vice President, Internet and Directory Services Group, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
  • Jennings R. Aske, Chief Information Security Officer, Partners Healthcare System Inc.
  • Bruce Bakis, Principal InfoSec Engineer/Scientist, The MITRE Corporation
  • Jay Carter, Chief Information Security Officer, Harvard University
  • Andy Ellis, Chief Security Officer, Akamai
  • Joshua Haines, Assistant Group Leader, Information Systems Technology Group, Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Bret Hartman, Chief Technology Officer, RSA
  • Rehan Khan, Chief Information Officer, Northeastern University
  • John McKenna, Vice President, IT Strategy & Planning, Liberty Mutual Group
  • Ken Patterson, Chief Information Security Officer, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
  • Alex Popowycz, Vice President of Technology Risk Management, Fidelity Investments
  • Tom Quinn [University-Industry Work Group Chairman], Chief Information Security Officer and Senior Vice President, State Street Corporation
  • James Rigoli, Vice President, Internet & Directory Services Group, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
  • Mark Rizza, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, John Hancock Financial Services
  • David Saul, Senior Vice President and Chief Scientist, State Street Corporation
  • Frank Serna, Director, Systems Engineering & Evaluation Directorate, Draper Laboratory
  • Quinn Shamblin, Executive Director of Information Security, Boston University
  • Marilyn Smith, Director of Information Services and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Carlos Solari, Vice President, Cyber Security Technology and Services, CSC
  • Samuel Visner,Vice President & Cyber Lead Executive, Cybersecurity HGMS, CSC
  • Patricia Washington, Sr. Director/Audit and Risk, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
  • Larry Wilson,Information Security Lead, University President’s Office, University of Massachusetts
  • Curtis Wood, Secretariat Chief Information Officer, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Executive Office of Public Safety and Security
  • John P.L. Woodward, Executive Director - Space, Intelligence, and Information Operations, The MITRE Corporation
  • Chris Wysopal,Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Veracode

Strategic Advisory Board:

  • Mel Bernstein, Ph.D., Senior Vice Provost for Research and Graduate Education, Northeastern University; Former Director of University Programs, Department of Homeland Security
  • Marshall N. Carter, Chairman, New York Stock Exchange Group
  • Gary Gagnon, Vice President and Corporate Director, Cyber Security, The MITRE Corporation
  • Jack Goldsmith, Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Law, Harvard University; Former United States Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, Department of Justice
  • Melissa Hathaway, President, Hathaway Global Strategies LLC; Senior Advisor, Project Minerva, Harvard-MIT-DoD; Former Acting Senior Director for Cyberspace for the National Security Council
  • Samuel Visner, Vice President & Cyber Lead Executive, Cybersecurity HGMS, CSC
  • Michele Whitham, Partner and former Managing Partner, Foley Hoag LLP; Co-chair, Security and Privacy Practice Group
  • Jack Wilson, President (interim), Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate; President Emeritus and Distinguished Professor of Higher Education, Emerging Technologies, and Innovation, University of Massachusetts

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