Dr. Richard Forno is a Principal Lecturer in the UMBC Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, where he directs the UMBC Graduate Cybersecurity Program, serves as the Assistant Director of UMBC’s Center for Cybersecurity, and is an Affiliate Scholar of the Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society (CIS). Prior to academia, his twenty-year career in operational cybersecurity includes helping build a formal cybersecurity program for the US House of Representatives, serving as the first Chief Security Officer for Network Solutions (then, the global center of the internet DNS system), consulting to Fortune 100 companies, the government, military, and more. As a technologist and student of national security studies, Dr. Forno is an unconventional, albeit realistic, critical thinker about the relationships between technology, security, and society. Most recently, he is co-author of Cybersecurity and Local Governments (2022, Wiley).
Experience
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2010–presentPrincipal Lecturer, UMBC
Education
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2010Curtin University of Technology, Ph.D., Internet Studies
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2002Salve Regina University, M.A., International Relations
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1997US Naval War College, Graduate Certificate, Strategic Studies
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1994American University, B.A., International Relations
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1992Valley Forge Military College, A.A, Business
Publications
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2022Cybersecurity and Local Government (co-author), Wiley
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2001Incident Response (co-author), O'Reilly
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