Angela Orebaugh is a cyber 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 cyber security 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. She is also the Director of Research and Academic Integration for the
Information Assurance Technical Analysis Center (IATAC), where she bridges academia, government, and industry by performing outreach and collecting, analyzing, and disseminating IA research from academia, IA labs, and industry research centers.
Ms. Orebaugh is an Adjunct Professor for
George Mason University where she performs research and teaching in intrusion detection, cyber forensics, and cybercrime. 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, network forensics, user behavior analysis, behavioral biometrics, and cyber psychology.
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.
