Howard Schmidt
Howard Schmidt | |
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Obama Administration | |
In office January 20, 2009 – May 31, 2012 | |
President | Barack Obama |
Succeeded by | Michael Daniel |
Personal details | |
Born | Howard Anthony Schmidt October 5, 1949 Executive Office of the President of the United States. He announced his retirement from that position on May 17, 2012, effective at the end of the month.[4]
One of Schmidt's leading policy objectives was the development of "National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace", which sought to enable private industry to create electronic identities that can be relied upon in cyberspace similar to the way that businesses rely on the combination of driver's licenses and credit cards to authenticate identities in physical space.[5] Prior to joining the Obama Administration, Schmidt served as President of the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium,[8] commonly known as (ISC)². In October 2008 he was named one of the 50 most influential people in business IT by readers and editors of Baseline Magazine.[9]
Schmidt died of brain cancer on March 2, 2017, at his home in Muskego, Wisconsin.[10][11] EducationSchmidt held a Carnegie Mellon's CyLab, and a distinguished fellow with the Ponemon Institute.[13]
BiographyPublic serviceSchmidt began his government service in the United States Air Force in 1967, where he studied chemical weapons, high explosives, and nuclear weapons while attending munitions school. Between 1968 and 1974, Schmidt completed three tours of duty in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War.[14] He left active military duty in 1974, then started his civil service career at the Gila Bend Air Force Auxiliary Field, since renamed as the Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range and served as chief of transportation and deputy director of resource management until 1982. He served in the Arizona Air National Guard with the 161st Communications Squadron based at Phoenix International Airport, from 1989 until 1998. Schmidt was a city police officer from 1983 to 1994 for the Chandler Police Department in Arizona where he served on the SWAT team and the Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Unit, and formed and led the Special Enforcement Team.[15] In 1994 he took a position with the FBI's National Drug Intelligence Center, where he headed the Computer Exploitation Team.[16] After working at the FBI, in 1994, Schmidt joined the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) Computer Forensic Lab and Computer Crime and Information Warfare Division.[17] as a supervisory special agent and director. In 1996, while serving in that position, he established the first dedicated computer forensic lab in the government, which was the basis for the formation of the Defense Computer Forensic Laboratory (DCFL).[18] In 1998, Schmidt transferred to the Ft. Lawton in Washington. He has testified as an expert witness in federal and military courts in the areas of computer crime, computer forensics and Internet crime.[19]
In May 2003, Schmidt retired from the 9/11 attacks, he was appointed by President Bush as the Vice Chair of the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board and as the special adviser for cyberspace security for the White House in December 2001.[20] While at the White House, he assisted in the creation of the US National Strategy to Secure CyberSpace.[21] He assumed the role as the chair in January 2003 until his retirement in May 2003, when he joined eBay.[22]
On Tuesday, December 22, 2009, Schmidt was named as the United States' top computer security advisor to President Barack Obama. Previously, Schmidt served as a cyber-adviser in President George W. Bush's White House and has served as chief security strategist for the Department of Homeland Security. He has served as vice president and chief information security officer and chief security strategist for eBay.[23]
In May 2012, Schmidt announced that he would be stepping down as the White House's CyberSecurity Coordinator at the end of the month, citing a desire to focus on family and pursue teaching in the cyber field. He was replaced by Michael Daniel, chief of the White House budget office's intelligence branch.[24] Private industry and professional organizationsSchmidt also had an active career in private industry and professional organizations. In 1997, Schmidt joined Microsoft, as the director of information security, chief information security officer (CISO), and chief security officer (CSO). He was the co-founder of the Trustworthy Computing Security Strategies Group.[25] Schmidt served on the executive committee of the Information Technology Sector Coordination Council. His memberships include the High Technology Crime Investigation Association, the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and the International Association of Chiefs of Police. He has testified before congressional committees on computer security and cyber crime [26] and has featured on various worldwide television and radio shows including, BBC, ABC, CNN, CNBC, Fox TV talking about cyber-security, investigations and technology.[27][28] He is a co-author of The Black Book on Corporate Security and author of Patrolling CyberSpace, Lessons Learned from a Lifetime in Data Security.[29] Schmidt was the first president of the Information Technology Information Sharing and Analysis Center. He served as an augmented member to the President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology in the formation of an Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection. Schmidt has been appointed to the Information Security Privacy Advisory Board to advise the National Institute of Standards and Technology the Secretary of Commerce and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget on information security and privacy issues pertaining to federal government information systems.[31] Schmidt was also on the International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber Threats (IMPACT) International Advisory Board.[32] Publications
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