Howard Schmidt

Howard Schmidt

Howard Schmidt is President & CEO of Information Security Forum. He has had a long distinguished career in defense, law enforcement and corporate security. He has served as vice president and CISO and chief security strategist for online auction giant eBay, and in the position of chief security strategist for the US-CERT Partners Program for the National Cyber Security Division under the Department of Homeland Security. He retired from the White House after 31 years of public service, and was appointed by President Bush as the vice chairman of the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board and as the special adviser for cyberspace security for the White House in December 2001. In August 2008 he was appointed President of the Information Security Forum (ISF), a not-for-profit association of public and private sector bodies that work to resolve information security and risk management issues.

 

  • President of ISSA International
  • President of Information Security Forum
  • former Vice President/Chief Information Security Officer and Chief Security Strategist for eBay
  • former Vice Chair of the President's George W. Bush’s Critical Infrastructure Protection Board
  • former Chief Security Strategist for the US CERT Partners Program for the National Cyber Security Division, Department of Homeland Security
  • former supervisory special agent and director of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI), Computer Forensic Lab and Computer Crime and Information Warfare Division
  • former special agent U.S. Army Reserves Criminal Investigation Division
  • former head of the Computer Exploitation Team at the FBI’s NationalDrugIntelligenceCenter
  • former Arizona police officer
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