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Cyberdefender; Terry Benzel will work with Deter effort |
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Computer Security Expert Terry V. Benzel has joined the
University of Southern California’s Information Sciences
Institute, where she will play a leading role in a new effort to
combat cyberterrorism
Benzel is now Assistant Director of Special Projects and is
developing new funding opportunities at ISI with a particular
focus on cyber security. She is co-PI on the just-announced
$5.46 million NSF-funded DETER security testbed, in which
ISI will partner with the University of California – Berkeley.
“I am excited about the opportunity to bring the technology
and research of ISI to bear on the critical problems of cyber
terrorism and infrastructure protection. The urgent
application of cyber defense technologies is required in order
to adequately protect the nation's information
infrastructures, and I believe that ISI is well positioned to
make progress," Benzel said. "The Institute has skills and
expertise in many areas, ranging from Grid technology to
network protocols to reasoning systems, enabling us to
attack these problems from many directions."
Prior to joining USC ISI, Benzel was a Division Vice President
at Network Associates, Inc. where she was responsible for
all aspects of the 125-staff advanced research organization
performing government funded R&D for DARPA and other
agencies. Prior to joining NAI, she was Director of the Los
Angeles office of Trusted Information Systems.
Benzel has served as an advisor to government and industry
on R&D strategy and roadmap development, providing
guidance to White House Office of Science Technology and
Policy, Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office, Department
Of Defense and industry alliances. In 2001, she testified
on "Cyber Security – How Can We Protect American
Computer Networks from Attack: The Importance of
Research and Development," before the House Committee
on Science.
She has served as a participant, panelist, chair or keynote
speaker at numerous professional and government
gatherings dealing with security and related issues, and is
the author or co-author of numerous papers in publications
of
the IEEE, ACM, ACSA, and other organizations.
Benzel holds bachelors and master’s degrees in mathematics
from Boston University and an Executive MBA from UCLA.
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