Dan Geer
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Dan Geer is one of a small number of pioneers in the security world that raised critical issues before others could see a risk emerge. He is most recently known to many as the chief technical officer for @stake, a computer security consulting company that did work for large banks and technology vendors including Microsoft. He published a 2003 paper arguing that Microsoft was a monoculture; he was fired the day the report was made public.
The 24-page report entitled "CyberInsecurity: The Cost of Monopoly" was released by the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) which made the argument that Microsoft is a threat to national security.
Geer has a Bachelor Of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT where he became a brother of the Theta Deuteron charge of Theta Delta Chi. He also has a Ph.D. in biostatistics from Harvard, and has worked for:
- Health Sciences Computing Facility, Harvard School of Public Health
- Project Athena, MIT
- Digital Equipment Corporation
- Geer Zolot & Associates
- OpenVision Technologies
- Open Market
- Certco
- @stake (acquired by Symantec in November 2004)
Geer is currently employed by Verdasys.
He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
[edit] External links
- All Geered Up: An Interview With Dan Geer By Richard Thieme
- Letter to Massachusetts Senator Marc Pacheco on OpenDocument Standards by Dan Geer
- Oh Dan Geer, where art thou? by Ellen Messmer
- Data Security Economics Point at the Host by Dan Geer
- Security of Information When Economics Matters by Dan Geer (PDF format)
- The Shrinking Perimeter: Making the Case for Data-Level Risk Management by Dan Geer (PDF format)
- Dan Geer's The Shrinking Security Perimeter interview
