Title: Perspectives on Cybersecurity from a US Government Cybersecurity Engineer
Speaker: Bill Newhouse,  Cybersecurity Engineer, National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence
Date: Monday, November 11, 2024
Time: 12:30 p.m.-1:20 p.m.
Location: Van Leer Building, C240

Abstract: An exploration of a 38-year US Government career focused initially on secure telecommunications and now focused on cybersecurity. He will describe his current work at National Institute of Standards and Technology’s applied cybersecurity laboratory and share insights about cybersecurity and cybersecurity work in the US Government. Along the way, he will share some highlights of his work, places visited, and communities of interest where he has tried to make an impact.

Bio: Bill Newhouse is a cybersecurity Engineer at NIST’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) where he co-leads the Migration to Post-Quantum Cryptography project, a collaboration with industry and government, to share insights on practices that will ease the migration to Post-Quantum Cryptographic algorithms that are resistant to quantum computer-based attacks. He is active in US Government interagency research and development coordination groups which has allowed him the opportunity to steward the development of two national cybersecurity research and development strategic plans. Mr. Newhouse has been with the U.S. Federal government since 1986. Initially, his career focused on telecommunications, then information assurance, and now cybersecurity. He studied Electrical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology (graduation Dec 1990) and has a master’s degree in Telecommunications and Computers from the George Washington University (graduation Aug 2001). He completed seven cooperative work quarters at the National Security Agency and then transitioned to full-time employment after graduating from Georgia Tech in December 1990. He worked for NSA until March 2010 and has been at NIST for the last 14+ years.