‘Tech Talk’ Forum on “Analyzing Security Threats to Mail-Based Systems for Electoral Processes”
Thursday, July 14, 2022 10:00AM-11:30AM EST
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r. Natalie M. Scala is an associate professor and director of the graduate programs in supply chain management in the College of Business and Economics at Towson University. She earned Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in industrial engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. Her primary research is in decision analysis, with specialization in military and security issues, including risk in voting systems, attack trees and strength of threat in mail voting, integrity of votes throughout the supply chain, poll worker education, and cybersecurity metrics and best practices. She co-directs the Empowering Secure Elections research lab, which defines threats to voting as systemic and an interplay between cyber, physical, and insider sources. Dr. Natalie M. Scala Her work in elections security earned a Join via computer or mobile University System of Maryland Board of Regents Award for app Excellence in Public Service, the system’s highest faculty honor. In conjunction with Anne Arundel County, Maryland, her work in Join from the meeting link cybersecurity and threat training for poll workers received a U.S. Elections Assistance Commission Clearinghouse Award for https://duluth1234.webex.com/ Outstanding Innovation in Election Cybersecurity and Technology. duluth1234/j.php? Dr. Scala frequently consults to government clients and has extensive MTID=m1e763868e340070e81c26eef91 professional experience, to include positions with Innovative 62af95 Decisions, Inc. / ITA International, the United States Department of Join by meeting number Defense, and the RAND Corporation.
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olonel Paul L. Goethals is an Academy Professor and the Director of Research for the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the United States Military Academy. He earned an M.S. degree in Mathematics from Florida State University in 2002 and a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Clemson University in 2011. COL Goethals has served 29 years of active-duty service COL Paul Goethals within the United States Army, most recently as a Research Scientist at the Army Cyber Institute and as a member of the Commander’s Action Group within the United States Cyber Command. He currently serves on the editorial board for the Cyber Defense Review and has served as the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Experimental Design and Process Optimization since 2012.
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COL Paul Goethals and Dr. Natalie Scala co-edited the book, “Mathematics in Cyber Research,” which was published by Taylor & Francis in February 2022.
Welcome and Opening Remarks: COL Scott Nelson, USCYBERCOM Director of Academic Engagement (TBD) LTC Travis Trammell III, NSA Election Security Group Dr. Travis Derico, USCYBERCOM J2 Elections Defense Lead