T.S. Kuhn Revisited

Daniel Geer is Chief Information Security Officer at In-Q-Tel, a non-profit organization that invests in intelligence community technologies.  He spent ten years in clinical and research medical computing followed by five years running MIT's Project Athena, the first distributed computing emplacement that pioneered the X Window System and Kerberos, founded the first information security consulting firm on Wall Street (1992), convened the first academic conference on electronic commerce (1995), and was the principal author of and spokesperson for Cyberinsecurity: The Cost of Monopoly (2003), co-founder of SecurityMetrics.Org (2004), convener of MetriCon (2006-present), author of Economics & Strategies of Data Security (2008), and author of "Cybersecurity & National Policy" (2010).  Geer has testified five times before the U.S. Congress and has been an advisor to the Federal Trade Commission, the Departments of Justice and Treasury, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Secret Service, the Department of Homeland Security, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the White House. 

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