Angela Orebaugh is an information security technologist, scientist, and author with a broad spectrum of expertise in information assurance. She synergizes her 15 years of hands-on experiences within industry, academia, and government to advise clients on information assurance strategy, management, and technologies.
Ms. Orebaugh is involved in several security initiatives with the
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), including technical
Special Publications (800 series), the
National Vulnerability Database (NVD),
Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) project, and
secure eVoting.
Ms. Orebaugh is an Adjunct Professor for
George Mason University where she performs research and teaching in intrusion detection and forensics. She developed and teaches the
Intrusion Detection curriculum, a core requirement for the Forensics program in the
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Her current
research interests include peer-reviewed publications in the areas of intrusion detection and prevention, data mining, attacker profiling, user behavior analysis, and network forensics.
Ms. Orebaugh is the author of the Syngress best seller's
Nmap in the Enterprise,
Wireshark and Ethereal Network Protocol Analyzer Toolkit, and
Ethereal Packet Sniffing. She has also co-authored the
Snort Cookbook,
Intrusion Prevention and Active Response, and
How to Cheat at Configuring Open Source Security Tools. Angela is a frequent speaker at a variety of security conferences and technology events, including the
SANS Institute and
The Institute for Applied Network Security.
Ms. Orebaugh holds a Masters degree in Computer Science and a Bachelors degree in Computer Information Systems from
James Madison University. She is currently completing her dissertation for her Ph.D. at George Mason University, with a concentration in Information Security.
