Dr. Paul de Souza
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Critical Infrastructure - Laurel, Maryland.
Capitol Technology University
2020 : 2022
Master of Arts - MA
National Security Studies (Terrorism Concentration) - West Virginia
American Military University
2014 : 2016
Senior Executive Program in Cybersecurity - Cyber Exec (EE) Ed alum
The Intersection of Policy and Technology
Harvard Kennedy School
Executive Program in Counter-Terrorism Studies, Israel
Reichman University (IDC Herzliya)
Bachelor of Science
Management - Santa Ana, California
California Coast University
JNCIA-FWV, SEC+, NET+, CCSE, NSA-IAM, CHCP, BCCPP, SANs E-Warfare.
Speaker at Hacker Halted 2009, Miami FL.
Speaker at Techno Forensics/NIST 2009, D.C
Speaker at Lewis University MIS Program 2010 IL
Speaker at Baker College (Cyber Games) 2010 MI
Speaker at University of Great Falls 2010, MT
Speaker at TCC's Military Cyber Security Conference, Washington DC 2011 (Attribution and Response)
Speaker at ISSA National Capital Chapter, Washington DC Jan 2012
Speaker at TCC's Military Cyber Security Conference, Washington DC 2012 (Social Media and the DoD)
Speaker at TECHEXPO Top Secret Conference (Cyber Warfare Global Market), Columbia, MD 2012
IDGA's Electronic Warfare 2013 panelist, Washington D.C., March 2013
Session Panelist – “Cybersecurity Leadership : Past, Present, and Future” Cyber Education Symposium, Arlington VA, Nov 2013.
Discussion of Syrian Electronic Army (Panelist) - Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, Dec 2013
Panelist at the U.S.-Israel Innovation Leadership Program for HLS/Cyber Executives
Irvine, California 2015
DCOI 2015 Event Organizer - ATC (Air Traffic Control) Cyber Security Panel Manager - DC April 2015
Breaking the National Security Backbone, SS7 Vulnerabilities, and Nation State Signals Intelligence (Panelist) - Washington DC August 2016.
PRESENTED AT THE NINTH ANNUAL CYBER SECURITY/IA DAY NOVEMBER 3, 2016 - Indiana, PA. Topic : The Current State of Cyberspace Operations in the Context of American National Security
Presented at the Michigan Collegiate Cyber Defense Network (CCDN) event 2017 - White Cell Team Member.
George Washington University Cyber 9/12 Student Challenge Coach - Atlantic Council Washington DC 2017
Institute of World Politics - Cyber Intelligence Presentation, Washington DC 2017
Panelist at National Defense University's Cyber Beacon V 2018
Panelist at National Defense University's US - Czech Republic Information Sharing 2018
2009 : Present
Cyber Security Forum Initiative
Founder Director President
The organizer of the Cybersecurity Innovation Workshop in coordination with the US Czech Republic Embassy in Washington DC.
Panelist - Defense Innovation Network Summit - CONNECTING HIGH-TECH INNOVATORS TO MILITARY LEADERS (Virtual conference) Defense Innovation Network, March 19, 2020
A Mass Casualty Threat? The Risk to Water Infrastructure from Cyber Hackers, Washington DC (Panel Moderator), July 28th, 2020 - Israeli Embassy in DC/CSFI
RSA Speaker, May 20th, 2021 - Cyber Workforce Development : Experience, Education, and Certification.
Moderator at Hack The Port - Dreamport FL 2022.
Moderator at Hack The Capitol, DC 2022.
2009 :
Cyber Security Forum Initiative
National Engagements Part 2
🇦🇺 Speaker at CebIT, Sydney Australia Nov 2010.
🇪🇪 Speaker at CSFI workshop at NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence Tallinn, ESTONIA June 2011.
🇬🇪 Speaker at GITI 2011 Tbilisi Georgia 2011
🇨🇿 Panelist at The Association for International Affairs in cooperation with NATO, ONR, Estonian Embassy in Prague. CONFRONTING CYBERTERRORISM : POLITICAL ASPECTS OF CYBERSECURITY Czech Republic, Dec 2011.
🇧🇪 Speaker at IQPC Conference ( Current Cyber Security Strategies of Major State Actors), BRUSSELS, Belgium 2012
🇪🇪 Workshop organizer at the 4th International Conference on Cyber Conflict, Tallinn, ESTONIA
🇸🇪 Panelist at Internetdagarna (SWEDEN), Cyber Conflict Escalation Exercise, 2012
🇪🇸 CSFI-DCOE event, Madrid SPAIN, May 2013.
🇮🇱 Speaker at Yuval Ne’eman Workshop for Science, Technology and Security, Tel-Aviv ISRAEL June 2013.
🇮🇱 Speaker at the Annual International Cyberspace Conference : Challenges of the Financial Sector
Tel-Aviv ISRAEL July 09, 2013
🇮🇱 Organizer/Speaker at DCOI Tel Aviv 2014
🇩🇪 Presenter at the IT-Sicherheits-Kongress 2014 - Fürstenfeldbruck bei München GERMANY (Privacy and National Security).
🇷🇴 Speaker at DEFCAMP (Bucharest- ROMANIA) Nov 2014 - Cyber Ranges
🇹🇷 Presenter at the 2015 NATO Centre of Excellence Defence Against Terrorism (COE-DAT) - Ankara 2015 TURKEY
🇬🇧 Summit Producer of The UK Cyber View Summit 2015, London UK.
🇹🇷 Panelist at Turkish Universities of TOBB and THK (TURKEY, Mar 2016)
🇪🇸 Collections/ICWOD Training - Madrid (Spanish Cyber Command) - 2016
🇸🇪 Presenter at SIG Security SWEDEN 2017
🇨🇷 Presenter at Cyber Security Summit COSTA RICA 2017
🇸🇪 Presenter at CYBSEC 2017, SWEDEN 2017
🇸🇪 Presenter at The Swedish Defence University Försvarshögskolan, SWEDEN 2017
🇧🇷 Presenter at CYBER DEFENCE, COMMUNICATIONS AND ELECTRONIC WARFARE EVENT, BRASÍLIA BRAZIL 2018
🇸🇪 Keynote speaker at the Next Generation Threats Göteborg, Sweden 2018
🇬🇧 IO Panel Producer, UK 2019
2009 :
Cyber Security Forum Initiative
International Engagements
🇧🇷 An observer of the EXERCÍCIO GUARDIÃO CIBERNÉTICO 2.0. Brasilia, Brazil, 2019.
🇧🇷 Organizer/Instructor : Cyberspace Operations Planning Training course to the Fórum Ibero-Americano de Defesa Cibernética in partnership with the Brazilian Cyber Command, NOV 2019, Brasilia.
🇮🇱 Presenter at CyberTech, Israel 2020 - AI in the Context Of Offensive Operations.
🇹🇷Panelist at VShield, Virtual Cyber Security Conference 2020 (Turkey). Cyber Security Banking Compliance, BRSA regulations.
🇦🇪 Speaker at CyberTech UAE-Dubai 2020
🇦🇪 Speaker and Event Moderator at GISEC 2021 UAE-Dubai 2021
🇮🇱 Organized CSFI American Delegation to Israel 2022
🇦🇪 Speaker and Event Chair Moderator at GISEC 2022 UAE-Dubai 2022
🇦🇪 Speaker and Panel Moderator at GITEX 2022 UAE-Dubai
🇮🇱 Organized CSFI American Delegation to Israel 2023
2009 :
Cyber Security Forum Initiative
International Engagements Part 2
I teach a comprehensive 150-hour master's level course, equipping students with a deep understanding of cyber threat intelligence (CTI), its role, and its application. This multi-faceted course navigates through intelligence theory, cyber threats, prominent threat models, and frameworks and provides practical exposure via case studies and a capstone lab, all aimed at effectively protecting critical infrastructure.
2023 :
The University of Georgia (Tbilisi)
Professor (Department of Informatics) - Academic Staff
Skills
Bluecoat, Briefing, CEH, Cisco Security, Cisco Technologies, CompTIA, Computer Forensics, Computer Security, Cyber Security, Defense, DoD, Electronic Warfare, Ethical Hacking, Firewalls, FISMA, Government, Government Relations, Information Assurance, Information Operations, Information Security, Information Security Management, Intelligence, International Relations, Intrusion Detection, IPS, IT Strategy, Juniper, Leadership, Lobbying, Malware Analysis, Military, National Security, Network Administration, Network Security, NIST, PCI DSS, Penetration Testing, Program Management, Security, Security Architecture Design, Security Awareness, Security Management, Security Monitoring, Security Policy, Social Media Marketing, TCP/IP, Technical Information, Vulnerability Assessment, Vulnerability Management, Vulnerability Scanning
About
Dr. Paul de Souza is the founder of the Cyber Security Forum Initiative (CSFI). Dr. de Souza has over 20 years of cybersecurity experience. He is faculty at George Washington University and has worked as the Chief Security Engineer for AT&T, where he designed and approved secure networks for MSS (Managed Security Services). Dr. de Souza also worked as a security engineer for Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) and U.S. Robotics. He has consulted for several governments, military organizations, and private institutions across the globe. He served as a Federal Director of Training and Education for Norman Data Defense Systems.
Dr. de Souza serves as a CENTRIC (Centre of Excellence in Terrorism, Resilience, Intelligence & Organized Crime Research) Visiting Researcher at Sheffield Hallam University, U.K., and as a Guest Lecturer at the Swedish Defence University (SEDU) Försvarshögskolanand; former Institute of World Politics Board of Advisors for the Cyber Intelligence Initiative (Ci2) in Washington, D.C.; and served as an Advisor for the MCPA (Military Cyber Professionals Association). He is a Cyber SME NATO Instructor and an Order of Thor Medal recipient.
He is a Negev Hi-Tech Faculty Startup Accelerator Advisor for Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, and an Advisory Board member at IntellCorp (Lisbon, Portugal – Counter-Terrorism/Counter-Intelligence/Cyber). He has been a Visiting Research Fellow at the National Security Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel (INSS) – Cyber Security and Military & Strategic Affairs Programs. He has completed the Executive Program in Counter-Terrorism Studies from the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya in Israel. He is also a Cybersecurity Exec Ed alum at Harvard Kennedy School. He serves as an American Public University Ambassador, a Cybersecurity Programs Advisory Board Member at Capitol Technology University, and a Professor of Cyber Threat Intelligence at The University of Georgia, Tbilisi.
Dr. de Souza has a master’s degree in National Security Studies (M.A.) with a concentration in Terrorism from American Military University, West Virginia, and a Ph.D. in Critical Infrastructure from Capitol Technology University, Maryland.