Alan Paller is the Director of Research for the SANS Institute, responsible for the Internet Storm Center (the Internet’s early warning system with 500,000 sensors around the world) and the summary of the most critical new vulnerabilities discovered each week. He chairs the Application Security Summit and the SCADA Security Summit and edits NewsBites, the summary of the most important news stories in security that goes to 205,000 people twice each week. In 2000, President Clinton named Alan as one of the original members of the National Infrastructure Assurance Council, in 2005 the Federal CIO Council chose him as its annual Azimuth Award winner recognizing his singular vision and outstanding service to federal information technology, and in 2009 Alan was selected as one of the Fed100 winners. Alan earned degrees in computer science and engineering from Cornell and MIT.