Aspen Institute


Clark Ervin Director, Homeland Security Program The superbly-educated native of


Houston, Texas, and former Rhodes Scholar, joined the Aspen Institute in 2005. Prior to that he had served in senior positions in the private sector, as well as state and federal government levels, in- cluding holding management posts under both President Bushes.


From January 2003 to Decem- ber 2004, Ervin was a member of the administration of President George W. Bush as the first inspector general of the United States Department of Homeland Security. He also was inspector general


BAE Systems


Terrence R. Head, Ph.D. Director of IT Administration and Strategic Programs


Terrence


Head takes on a lot of tasks at a $36 billion global defense company. He is de facto chief of staff to BAE’s CIO. That means he reports regu- larly to senior management on high value, dollar and


resource-driven initiatives. “I have visibility across all the IT projects and their risks, is- sues, depen- dencies, costs,


and schedules,” he says.


He is also the technical emissary for BAE’s CEO, Linda Hudson, on the company’s global information management and technology council. He recommends that students who’d like a job like his become experts on technical issues such as com- puter networking, security protocols, and data stacks. But with the growth of “advanced persistent threats” they must also be strategic analysts who understand the motivation of the attacks and attackers. Head, 35, whose work phone is an iPhone 4, says students need to prepare defenses against intruders that want to steal information or shut down networks, as “the keys are not just infrastructure protection, [they are] information protection.”


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of the United States Department of State and the Broadcasting Board of Governors from August 2001 to January 2003.


Before that, he served President George


H.W. Bush as the associate director of Policy in the White House Office of National Service. From 1995 to 2001, he served the state of Texas initially as the assistant secretary of State, and later as deputy attorney general. He also practiced law for Vinson & Elkins, and Locke, Liddell, & Sapp in Houston.


Current Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano appointed Ervin to the Homeland Security Advisory Council to the Wartime Contracting Commission on Iraq and Afghanistan.


Barracuda Networks


Paul Q. Judge, Ph.D. Chief Research Officer To bring the


Morehouse College graduate on board, Barracuda had to pay an estimated $20 million for a year-old company that Judge founded: Purewire Inc., a top Web secu- rity-as-a-service firm. Barracuda protects the IT infrastructure of more than 100,000 organizations. Judge, 33, a serial entrepre- neur, oversees the “creation and man- agement of the secu- rity intelligence that fuels the protection of those networks.” Purewire wasn’t


Judge’s first payday. Previously, he had been chief technology officer and senior vice president at Secure Computing. That association grew out of Judge’s tenure at CipherTrust, which he helped co-found. While there, he devised its technology strategy and occasionally lead the research, engineering, and product man- agement sectors. Judge cashed out in 2006, when CipherTrust was purchased for $273 million by Secure Computing. Judge worked there before founding Purewire. The winner of a 2006 Black Engineer of the Year Special


Recognition Award says that the intersection of social and mobile creates a great opportunity for expanding the usability of the Web. However, “we must work on creating the right security, trust and safety mechanisms so that the future of the Web is not overcome by attacks and fraud.”


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