February 15, 2012
Current Events in Cyberlaw
HEAT, Room 119
8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

Presentation:
The field of cyberlaw is a complex and rapidly evolving discipline that spans criminal law and procedure in dealing with hackers and the insider threat. It deals as well with privacy law, the laws protecting intellectual property, e-commerce law, and tort law. This presentation will describe recent developments in legislation and in case law.

Presenter:
Dan Ryan is a Professor at the Information Resources Management College of the National Defense University in Washington DC, where he teaches cyberlaw, information assurance and intelligence at the graduate level. Earlier in the private sector, he served as a Corporate Vice President of Science Applications International Corporation, and served in earlier executive roles at Booz Allen & Hamilton, Bolt Beranek & Newman, TRW, and Hughes Aircraft Company. In the public sector, he served as Executive Assistant to the Director of Central Intelligence after earlier serving as Director of Information Systems Security for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, acting as the principal technical advisor for all aspects of information security, including classification management, communications security (COMSEC) and cryptology, computer security (COMPUSEC) and transmission security (TRANSEC), as well as TEMPEST, technical security countermeasures (TSCM), operational security (OPSEC), port security, overflight security, and counterimagery. He is an attorney licensed to practice law in Maryland and the District of Columbia, and is co-author of Defending Your Digital Assets published by McGraw-Hill and Cases and materials in Cyberlaw published by Wyndrose Technical Group. He has also published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals on the subjects of law, information assurance, mathematics and engineering. His current research interests include quantitative risk management for information infrastructures and digital forensics.

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