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Edward Amoroso
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Born	(1961-12-03) December 3, 1961 Brooklyn, New York
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Columbia University Stevens Institute of Technology Dickinson College
Known for	Computer Science
Scientific career
Fields	Computer Science
Institutions	TAG Cyber LLC New York University Stevens Institute of Technology Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab

Edward Amoroso Edward Amoroso is an American expert in computer security based in the New York City area. Amoroso is a Distinguished Research Professor [1] at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering in the Computer Science and Engineering Department. He is also Adjunct Professor of Computer Science [2] at the Stevens Institute of Technology, where he has instructed graduate and undergraduate students in the classroom since 1990. Amoroso is the founder of TAG Cyber LLC,[3] which develops cyber security industry advisory and research. In addition to serving as a Senior Advisor to the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, he is also the author of several books on cyber security and computer science. Amoroso retired from AT&T, [4] as Senior Vice President and Chief Security Officer in 2016 after 31 years of service.

Early Life and Education

Edward Amoroso was born in Neptune, New Jersey and attended the Christian Brothers Academy in Lincroft, New Jersey. After receiving the bachelor’s degree in physics in 1983 from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, he attended the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, where he received the M.S. degree in computer science in 1986, and the PhD degree in computer science in 1991. Amoroso is also a 1999 graduate of the Columbia Senior Executive Program (CSEP) at the Columbia Business School. Amoroso joined Bell Laboratories in 1985, where he began his career in computer security, working on projects such as integrating security into Unix System V. Amoroso would later become the first Chief Security Officer for AT&T.

Career

Amoroso began his career in 1984 writing inertial measurement software for the Space Shuttle while at Singer-Kearfott in Wayne, New Jersey. In 1985, he joined AT&T Bell Laboratories, where he helped develop a secure version of the Unix operating system called System V/MLS, designed to meet the B1 Criteria in the Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria (TCSEC), also known as the Orange Book.

Amoroso used System V/MLS as basis for a denial of service model [5] which was included and referenced as the Amoroso Model in the Canadian Trusted Computer Product Evaluation Criteria in 1992. [6] He was also the first researcher to introduce the concept of attack trees [7], which are important in the quantification of risk for cyber threat analysis.

During his career, Amoroso helped develop a new means for measuring trustworthy software development, [8] which was used as the basis for securing software development on the US Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). He also pioneered concepts related to micro-segmentation with seminal papers that introduced the concept of “rings around things” [9] [10].

During his time at AT&T, Amoroso held a variety of research, development, engineering, management, and leadership roles in cyber security across AT&T, culminating in the Senior Vice President and Chief Security Officer (CSO) role in 2005. His advice and commentary on the cyber security industry is well-documented during that era in articles, interviews, talks, and videos. [11] [12] [13].

Amoroso’s teaching career began as Adjunct Professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, where he has been teaching introductory cyber security to graduate students in the Computer Science Department since 1990. Amoroso also spent time teaching computing security at Monmouth University in the 1990’s, documenting his course at an ACM conference in 1993. [14]

Amoroso accepted the position of Distinguished Research Professor at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering in the Center for Cyber Security (CCS) in Brooklyn, New York in 2017. [15] He also serves as a Senior Advisor to the Asymmetric Operations Group at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland.

Amoroso’s founding role at TAG Cyber LLC includes publication of the Security Annual, which is freely available [16] for download to enterprise security experts. The material includes research on fifty cyber security controls as well as listings for thousands of commercial cyber security vendors.

Amoroso’s board-related appointments include one year as an Independent Director for M&T Bank, in Buffalo, New York, [17] several years as a Board Trustee at the Stevens Institute of Technology, and time spent on the National Security Agency (NSA) Advisory Board (NSAAB). He is holder of ten patents for inventions related to cyber security.

Media Citations and Commentary

• Vice (6 July 2016) Pearl, Mike "We Asked a Cybersecurity Expert if Clinton's Email System Could Have Jeopardized National Security"
• Scientific American (23 March 2016) Sneed, Annie "The Most Vulnerable Ransomware Targets Are the Institutions We Rely On Most"
• CBS News (15 August 2014) "How a password manager can help you stay more secure online"
• CNN Money Pagliery, Jose (15 August 2016) "Hacker claims to be selling stolen NSA spy tools"
• CBS News (3 December 2014) "​5 counterintuitive ways to protect against hackers"
• MIT Technology Review (21 February 2013) Lim, Dawn. "Startup Red Balloon Security Offers to Protect Printers, Phones, and Other Devices from Hackers"
• PBS Newshour (18 April 2015) "The hack attack that takes your computer hostage till you pay"
• NY Daily News (4 March 2015) "Should you check your personal email at work?"
• Varonis (6 January 2015) Interview With NYU-Poly’s Professor Justin Cappos: Security Lessons From Retail Breaches

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