What we’re about
Welcome to the Cybersecurity Innovation Forum Meetup Group organized by the Center for Assurance Research & Engineering, College of Engineering and Computing and the School of Business, George Mason University.
The Cybersecurity Innovation Forum Series is generously supported by Accenture.
Our meetups are held several times a year and feature a series of 15-minute presentations by cybersecurity experts and technology innovators followed by a panel discussion and questions. The focus of the meetings is on cybersecurity innovation including innovation rationale and motivation, technology, metrics and lessons learned.
Upcoming events (1)
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Please join the Center of Excellence for Cybersecurity Risk Management and Resilience (CRC) and Indicio CEO and co-founder Heather Dahl for a discussion of the recent White House AI Executive Order and Privacy Considerations, moderated by J.P. Auffret, co-director of Center for Energy Science and Policy, co-director of CRC, George Mason University. The virtual workshop is one in a series on the AI Executive Order with other sessions on: Workforce, Intellectual Property, Standards, Innovation, Competition, and International Considerations.
ABOUT HEATHER
Heather Dahl is CEO and co-founder of Indicio and has built the company into a global market leader in verifiable identity and data using decentralized identity technology.
These include the first successful Digital Travel Credential (DTC) based on International Civil Aviation Organization standards, which is currently in trial deployment with multiple airlines. Indicio’s implementation of the DTC paves the way for replacing paper passports and creates verifiable biometrics that mitigate attempts at fraud through generative AI.
For work leading to the DTC, Indicio won a KuppingerCole European Identity and Cloud Award, and a SuperNova Award from Constellation Research. Constellation’s Steve Wilson described Indicio’s work on verifiable data as “leading edge.”
Prior to Indicio, Heather led the Sovrin Foundation through its most significant period of growth, and she led research teams at KPMG and at telecommunications firm Neustar.
She has served as the chair of the National Press Foundation board of directors and as chair of the Congressional Correspondents Association. She is a member of the Governing Board of the Hyperledger Foundation. Heather is widely regarded as a global thought leader on online privacy and security issues, and she advises governments and global NGOs on decentralized identity applications. Heather is a committed advocate for privacy-preserving cybersecurity technologies.
ABOUT J.P.
J.P. Auffret is director, Center for Assurance Research and Engineering in the College of Engineering and Computing, co-director, Center of Excellence in Government Cybersecurity Risk Management and Resilience and director, Research Partnerships in the Costello School of Business at George Mason University, USA. Auffret is also co-founder and current president of the International Academy of CIO (IAC), an NGO headquartered in Tokyo.
