Distinguished Lecturer

Richard Danzig
Vice Chair
The RAND Corporation

Richard Danzig, who served as Secretary of the Navy in the Clinton Administration, is a member of the Defense Policy Board, the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, and Homeland Security Secretary’s Advisory Council. During Senator Obama's 2008 Presidential campaign, Danzig was one of his principal national security senior advisors. Earlier, in the Office of Assistant Secretary of Defense, he served first as Deputy Assistant Secretary and then as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower, Reserve Affairs and Logistics. For his work in national defense, he received the Defense Distinguished Public Service Award--the highest Department of Defense civilian award--three times. Danzig is Vice Chair of the Board of The RAND Corporation, a member of the Aspen Strategy Group and a senior advisor at the Center for New American Security, Center for Naval Analyses, and Center for Strategic and International Studies. Danzig is also a Trustee of Reed College, a Director of the Center for a New American Security and a Director of Saffron Hill Ventures. Danzig was previously a director of the National Semiconductor Corporation and Human Genome Sciences Corporation, Chairman of the Board of the Center for a New American Security and Chairman of the Board of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. In academic life, he was an Assistant and then Associate Professor of Law at Stanford, taught contract law at Georgetown, was a Prize Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows and a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow. He has been a partner in the law firm of Latham and Watkins and Litigation Director and then Vice Chair of the International Human Rights Group, for which service he was awarded the organization's Tony Friedrich Memorial Award. With Peter Szanton, Danzig is the author of National Service: What Would It Mean? (Lexington, 1986). His recent publications include, “Driving in the Dark: Ten Propositions About Prediction” and co-author of “Aum Shinrikyo: Insights into How Terrorists Develop Biological and Chemical Weapons,” both published by the Center for a New American Security. He received his BA from Reed College, his JD from Yale and his Bachelor of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy from Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. Upon his graduation from Yale, Danzig served as a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron White.

Distinguished Panel

Ralph Langner

Director and Founder
Langner Communications

Ralph Langner is Director and Founder of Langner Communications, an independent German cyber defense consultancy. A Principal at its US sister company, The Langner Group (based in Arlington, Virginia) and a nonresident Fellow at the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence at the Brookings Institution, Langner is an expert in the cyber defense of power, water-treatment, nuclear, food and beverage, automotive, steel, and other industries. He is especially noted for his comprehensive analysis of the notorious Stuxnet malware. A frequent speaker at international conferences, he has advised the US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC), US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), International Council on Large Electric Systems (CIGRE), and the White House.The Huffington Post honored Langner as a Game Changer for explaining cyber warfare to the public. The author of several books, including Robust Control System Networks: How to Achieve Reliable Control After Stuxnet (Momentum, 2011) and with Perry Pederson, Bound to Fail: Why Cyber Security Risk Cannot Simply Be “Managed” Away (The Brookings Institution, 2013), he earned his degree in psychology at the Free University of Berlin, where he performed research on human information processing, modeled by cybernetics and artificial intelligence.

Andy Ozment

Assistant Secretary
Office of Cybersecurity and Communications
US Department of Homeland Security

Andy Ozment is Assistant Secretary of the Office of Cybersecurity and Communications in the National Protections and Programs Directorate at the US Department of Homeland Security where he leads an organization charged with enhancing the security, resilience, and reliability of the nation’s cyber and communications infrastructure. Prior to his current position, Ozment served at the White House as Senior Director for Cybersecurity where he led a team that implemented the President’s Executive Order on Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity, the Cross Agency Priority goal for cybersecurity and the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace. Earlier, he held positions at the Office of the Secretary of Defense, National Security Agency, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Merrill Lynch, and Nortel Networks. Ozment earned his BS in Computer Science from GeorgiaTech, an MS in International Relations from the London School of Economics and his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge.

Stefan Savage

Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
Director, Center for Network Systems
University of California, San Diego

Stefan Savage is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, where he performs research at the intersection of distributed systems, networking, and computer security. His current work focuses on embedded security and the economics of cybercrime. He serves as Director of UCSD's Center for Network Systems (CNS) and Co-director of the Center for Evidence-based Security Research (CESR), a joint effort between UCSD and the International Computer Science Institute. A Sloan Fellow, an Association for Computer Machinery Fellow, and a Weiser Award recipient, Savage earned his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Washington and his BS in Applied History from Carnegie Mellon University.