Event
Cybersecurity Center Launch Event & Special Colloquium Talk by Mike McConnell, "The Cyberwar Threat"
Thursday, December 9, 2010
1:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, Rotunda
Ted Knight
301 405 3596
teknight@umd.edu
http://www.ece.umd.edu/colloquium/
Registration is required for those who plan to attend this event. Please register online here.
A Special Booz Allen Hamilton Distinguished Colloquium in Electrical and Computer Engineering, marking the formal launch of the University of Maryland Cybersecurity Center
"Has the Cyberwar Threat Been Grossly Exaggerated?"
Mike McConnell
Executive Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton
Former Director of National Intelligence
Please note that this event will also be streamed live online. No registration is required for those who plan to view the event online.
Biography:
Mike McConnell is Executive Vice President and leader of the National Security Business for Booz Allen Hamilton and is a member of the firms Leadership Team. Mr. McConnell previously served from 2007-2009 as U.S. Director of National Intelligence (DNI), a position of Cabinet rank under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. As DNI, Mr. McConnell served as the principal intelligence advisor to the President and as a member of the U.S. National Security Council.
Mr. McConnells career has spanned over 40 years focusing on international developments and foreign intelligence issues, first as a career intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy, as the Senior Intelligence Officer on the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as Director of the National Security Agency, and later as Senior Vice President with Booz Allen Hamilton after retiring from the U.S. Navy as Vice Admiral after 29 years of service. Over the past few years, Mr. McConnells area of focus has been counter-terrorism, cyber security, counter-proliferation, and foreign intelligence. While managing the U.S. Intelligence Community, a organization of 100,000 people, he had responsibility for a global enterprise and budget of over $47B. In this capacity, Mr. McConnell had extensive interactions with the White House, the Presidents Cabinet, the Congress, International Leaders, and the U.S. Business Community.
Serving first under President George H. W. Bush and later President Clinton, Mr. McConnell served as Director of the National Security Agency (NSA) from 1992-1996. He led NSA as it adapted to the multi-polar threats brought about by the end of the Cold War. Under his leadership, NSA routinely provided global Intelligence and Information Security Services to the White House, Cabinet officials and the Congress in addition to a broad array of military and civil intelligence customers. He also served as a member of the senior leadership team of the Director of Central Intelligence to address major programmatic and substantive foreign intelligence issues from 1992 until 1996.
Prior to his service at NSA and during Desert Shield/Storm and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Mr. McConnell served as the Intelligence Officer for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Colin Powell and the Secretary of Defense, Dick Cheney.
Mr. McConnell holds an M.P.A. degree from George Washington University, is a graduate of the National Defense University (Global Telecom) and the National Defense Intelligence College (Strategic Intelligence), and holds a B.A. in Economics from Furman University. He also has been awarded three Honorary Doctorate degrees, the most recent from The George Washington University in 2008. Mr. McConnell is also a member of Phi Beta Kappa. In addition to many of the nation's highest military awards for meritorious service, Mr. McConnell has been twice awarded the nation's highest award for service in the Intelligence Community; once by President Clinton and once by President George W. Bush. He also served as the Chairman and CEO of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA).
