{"524541":{"#nid":"524541","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Obama Names Ant\u00f3n to Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPresident Barack Obama has selected Georgia Tech School of Interactive Computing Chair and Professor Ana (Annie) Ant\u00f3n to serve as one of 12 members of the Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity. The bipartisan commission, created by presidential executive order on Feb. 9, 2016, is part of the Cybersecurity National Action Plan.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAccording to the executive order, the Commission \u201cwill make detailed recommendations to strengthen cybersecurity in both the public and private sectors while protecting privacy, ensuring public safety and economic and national security, fostering discovery and development of new technical solutions, and bolstering partnerships between federal, state and local government and the private sector in the development, promotion and use of cybersecurity technologies, policies and best practices. The Commission\u0027s recommendations should address actions that can be taken over the next decade to accomplish these goals.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Commission will be led by Chair Tom Donilon, former National Security Advisor to President Obama, and Vice Chair Sam Palmisano, former CEO of IBM. The commission will submit its final report to President Obama on Dec. 1, 2016.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt is an honor to be asked to serve on the Commission,\u201d said Ant\u00f3n, now in her fourth year at Georgia Tech. \u201cI look forward to working with the other members to address ways in which our nation can leverage technological advances to enhance cybersecurity while preserving privacy.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnt\u00f3n, who is an expert on software compliance with federal privacy and security regulations, is a professor and chair of the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. She holds additional appointments in both the School of Computer Science and the Scheller College of Business. Before joining Georgia Tech, she was a professor of computer science at North Carolina State University, where she is now an adjunct professor. Ant\u00f3n has been a leader in privacy and cybersecurity since the late 1990s. She is an ACM Distinguished Scientist and Senior Member of IEEE.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnt\u00f3n has written more than 80 peer-reviewed technical papers, and testified before Congress as well as the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. She has served on a number of privacy and security advisory boards, including for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the National Institutes of Standards and Technologies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cProfessor Ant\u00f3n has a wealth of experience in cybersecurity and privacy, and will bring strategic expertise to the important work of the new Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity,\u201d said G. P. \u201cBud\u201d Peterson, president of Georgia Tech.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cWe are thrilled that Professor Anton has been named to this panel,\u201d said Zvi Galil, dean and John P. Imlay Chair of the Georgia Tech College of Computing. \u201cShe is one of the country\u2019s foremost experts on privacy issues, and she will bring that critical perspective to one of the most important security conversations facing the country right now.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI have charged the Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity with the critically-important task of identifying the steps that our nation must take to ensure our cybersecurity in an increasingly digital world,\u201d President Obama said. \u201cThese dedicated individuals bring a wealth of experience and talent to this important role, and I look forward to receiving the Commission\u0027s recommendations.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to Anton, here are the other members of the Commission:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeneral Keith Alexander, USA (Ret) \u2013 \u0026nbsp;Chairman and CEO of IronNet, and former director of the National Security Agency.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAjay Banga \u2013 president and CEO of MasterCard.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESteven Chabinsky \u2013 general counsel and chief risk officer for the cybersecurity technology firm CrowdStrike.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPatrick Gallagher \u2013 Chancellor and CEO of the University of Pittsburgh.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPeter Lee \u2013 corporate vice president of Microsoft Research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHerbert Lin \u2013 Senior Research Scholar for Cyber Policy and Security at the Center for International Security and Cooperation and a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, both at Stanford University.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHeather Murren \u2013 private investor and member of the Board of Trustees of the Johns Hopkins University and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJoe Sullivan \u2013 chief security officer at Uber.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMaggie Wilderotter \u2013 Chief Executive Officer of Frontier Communications from 2004 to 2015, and then Executive Chairman of the company until April 1, 2016.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPresident Barack Obama has selected Georgia Tech School of Interactive Computing Chair and Professor Ana (Annie) Ant\u00f3n to serve as one of 12 members of the Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity. 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