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About the Author
Bob Blakley is an Operating Partner at Team8. He was
previously Global Director of Information Security Innovation
at Citi. He recently served as a member of the National
Academy of Science’s Committee on Technical Assessment
of the Feasibility and Implications of Quantum Computing. He
has also served as Plenary chair of the NSTIC Identity
Ecosystem Steering Group and as Research and
Development Co-Chair of FSSCC – the Financial Services
Sector Coordinating Council for Critical Infrastructure
Protection and Homeland Security. He is currently a member
of the Forum on Cyber Resilience – a National Academies
Roundtable.
Prior to joining Citi, Bob was Distinguished Analyst and
Agenda Manager for Identity and Privacy at Gartner and
Burton group. Before that, he was Chief Scientist for Security
and Privacy at IBM. He is past general chair of the IEEE
Security and Privacy Symposium and the ACSA New
Security Paradigms workshop. He was awarded ACSAC’s
Distinguished Security Practitioner award in 2002, and is a
frequent speaker at information security and computer
industry events.
Bob received the A.B. in Classics from Princeton University,
and the MS and PhD in Computer and Communications
Science from the University of Michigan.
Bob Blakley can be reached online at @bobblakley and at our
company website https://team8.vc/
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