Bernhard Haslhofer,
Senior Scientist & Thematic Coordinator, Data
Science & Artificial Intelligence
Austrian Institute of Technology
Center for Digital Safety & Security
Dr. Haslhofer is an APWG Research Fellow in Residence and Moderator of the Crypto Currency Working Group
Dr. Haslhofer leads the CryptoFinance Research Group at the Complexity Science Hub Vienna. and advises APWG on the development of the Crypto Currency Working Group and development of its data assets for its members, most recently advancing the scope of sourcing for the CCWG’s wallet address database.
Dr. Haslhofer’s research interests are focused on finding and applying quantitative methods for gaining new insights from large-scale,connected datasets. Currently, Dr. Haslhofer is working on:
Cryptoasset Analytics: I lead the development of the GraphSense Cryptoasset Analytics Platform, coordinate the KRYPTOMONITOR research project, and teach a Cryptoasset Analytics course at TU Vienna. Industrial Data Science: I coordinate the COGNITUS research project, which aims at predicting outages in jewelry production and warehousing logistics.
Digital Humanities: in the TRAVELOGUES project, I am collaborating with historians to gain insight into the perception of the Other (Fremdheit) by analyzing travelogues in digitized corpus of the Austrian National Library.
Saeed Abu-Nimeh,
CEO SecLytics
Dr. Abu-Nimeh is an Advisor to APWG and a long-time member of the Organizing Committee of the APWG’s Annual Symposium on Electronic Crime Research
Dr. Abu-Nimeh is one of the leading thinkers on the intersection between machine learning and cybersecurity. Prior to founding SecLytics, he held the position of Distinguished Scientist at PayPal. Before that, he was Senior Scientist at Damballa and a Security Researcher at Websense.
Dr. Abu-Nimeh holds a Ph.D. from Southern Methodist University and a Postdoc from Carnegie Mellon.
Dr. Abu-Nimeh has co-authored more than 19 papers and books on the applications of machine learning to cybersecurity.
Fun fact: When Dr. Abu-Nimeh isn’t busy predicting cyberattacks, he patrols the soccer pitch as a crafty right winger with a nose for goal.
Louise O’Hagan,
Cyber Awareness Interdisciplinary Consortium
Louise O’Hagan is co-founder of the Cyber Awareness Interdisciplinary Consortium, Ireland’s first interdisciplinary consortium to improve cyber awareness in Ireland, and an Irish national pioneer in the development of awareness programming. Ms. O’Hagan, co-founder of Cyber Women Ireland, is currently serving appointments as a member of European Union’s ENISA ad hoc working group on raising Cybersecurity Awareness and as a member of The Children’s Research Network Special Interest Group Child Sexual Abuse and Child Exploitation.
Ms. O’Hagan was principal architect and development manager of the Cyber Awareness Survey at Northern Ireland Water, the water and sewerage authority of Northern Ireland. Ms. O’Hagan developed a Cybersecurity Awareness Program from the findings for the employees, including some aspects of operational technology.
Ms. O’Hagan holds and an MSc in Cyberpsychology – and her MSc thesis “Cybertrends” was anthologized as a book chapter in the text “Cyberpsychology and Society” (Power, A, 2018). Components of research findings from her doctoral studies “The Human Element of Cybersecurity” were chose to be presented formally to the Home Office in the United Kingdom. She has entered her final year of research Doctorate in Queens University Belfast as part of The Leverhulme Interdisciplinary Network on Cybersecurity and Society (LINCS) which supports pioneering research at the interface between the social sciences and electronic engineering, psychology & computer science.
Dean Marks,
Director Emeritus,
Coalition for Online Accountability
Dean S. Marks is a copyright and content protection attorney with expertise in the film and media industry. Most recently, Dean served as Executive Director and Legal Counsel for the Coalition for Online Accountability, which seeks to achieve greater accountability and transparency in the domain name system and substantive collaboration to combat online illegal activity, including copyright piracy. Dean served as in-house counsel for more than 25 years with Warner Bros. and Time Warner, most recently as Senior Vice President, Intellectual Property. He established and guided business practices with respect to copyright, digital rights management and content protection/anti-piracy issues and worked extensively on the introduction of the DVD and Blu-ray formats and protection measures for digital streaming of audiovisual content. Dean also worked on domestic and international copyright policy and legislation. From 1992 to 1995 Dean was Vice President in Time Warner’s European public policy office in Brussels, where he focused on media and copyright related issues. He was a private sector adviser to the U.S. government delegation to the World Intellectual Property Organization (“WIPO”) Diplomatic Conference, which resulted in the adoption of the WIPO Copyright Treaties in 1996. From 2015 to 2017, Dean was Deputy General Counsel and Chief, Global Content Protection for the Motion Picture Association of America, where he headed a global team to safeguard film and television content from all forms of piracy. Dean has testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee and in numerous U.S. Copyright Office hearings and roundtables and serves as an expert for WIPO conferences. He teaches an advanced copyright course at the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center. Dean received his Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations from Stanford University in 1980, and his Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 1985.
Ebrima N. Ceesay,
Senior Distinguished Engineer
Capital One Financial
Dr. Ceesay is an APWG Research Fellow in Residence Without Portfolio
Before joining Capital One, Ebrima was a Principal Scientist, and Senior Software and Security Engineer for Apple, IBM, Booz Allen Hamilton TASC, Leidos and Noblis. He has many years of experience leading, designing, and implementing national cybersecurity initiatives in collaboration with several U.S. federal government agencies and departments, as well as private industry stakeholders, to protect cyber infrastructures.
In addition to working at Capital One, Ebrima is also an instructor at Johns Hopkins University’s Whiting School of Engineering, an adjunct faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley’s Information School, and an associate professor in the Department of Information Sciences and Technology at George Mason University.
Ebrima holds a BS and MS from California State University, Chico and MS and Ph.D in Computer Science, with an emphasis on security and applied machine learning and a Diploma in Entrepreneurial Management from the University of California, Davis.
Dr. Jesse Sowell,
Assistant Professor of International Affairs
Bush School of Government and Public Service
Texas A&M University.
Dr. Sowell is an APWG Research Fellow in Residence and Advisor to the APWG Applied Research Secretariat
Dr. Sowell is currently an Assistant Professor of International Affairs in the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. Dr. Sowell is also an Honorary Lecturer in the Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy at University College London. He holds a PhD in Technology, Management, and Policy from the Engineering Systems Division at MIT. Dr. Sowell’s research focuses on understanding the transnational, non-state institutions and governance mechanisms shaping the management of resources critical to Internet operations vis a vis conventional (state-based) domestic and international governance mechanisms.
Dr. Sowell’s research spans three levels of organizational and institutional analysis: governance, rule-making, and resource management within function-specific organizations; the collaborative challenges faced by these organizations; and how these function-specific organizations can engage with conventional governance and regulatory regimes as credible knowledge assessors. In terms of the governance of the Internet’s infrastructure, Dr. Sowell has evaluated models of consensus-based decision making critical to the Internet’s day-to-day operations, the strengths and weaknesses of these models for coping with uncertainties endemic in managing a global Internet, and how these contribute to political authority within these often informal organizations and non-state institutions. Complementing the institutional supply and demand of technical and operational capabilities and capacities necessary for coping with uncertainties endemic in complex engineering systems (the Internet in particular), Dr. Sowell’s work also evaluates the organizational capabilities and capacities necessary to bridge the knowledge, coordination, and collaboration gaps between these epistemic communities and state-based policy makers and regulators. The third level of analysis focuses on how these kinds of coproduction of knowledge can be integrated into conventional policy and regulatory design, creating the feedback mechanisms necessary for the kinds of sustainably planned adaptive governance necessary to keep pace with technological changes and uncertainties that characterize modern digital platforms in the infrastructure and at the application layer.
Dr. Sowell’s work builds heavily on fieldwork with industry actors. Dr. Sowell is a Senior Advisor at the Messaging, Malware, and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group (M3AAWG), co-chairing the Internet of Things Special Interest Group. From 2015-2018 Dr. Sowell directed M3AAWG’s Outreach efforts developing cybersecurity capabilities and capacity in Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia Pacific, and Africa. He also advises the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) on issues relating to the the impact of the EU’s General Data Protection Directive (GDPR), recently coordinating the “Symposium on Policy Impediments to eCrime Data Exchange” for APWG.EU. He is also working with the APWG on the development of a consortium of academic researchers, industry experts, and policy makers to provide effective advice to government actors on the implications of emerging cybercrime threats.
Before his current appointment at the Bush School, Dr. Sowell was a Cybersecurity Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University.
Genevieve Kinder,
APWG Research Fellow / Cyber Law
Cyber policy research analyst Genevieve Kinder’s practice specializes in policy issues pertaining to internet law and international intellectual property, more particularly the implications and implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and of the recent Directive on the Copyright in the Single Digital Market (Directive (EU) 2019/790). She is a former research assistant to Pr. Michael L. Rustad, Thomas F. Professor of Law and co-director of the Intellectual Property Concentration at Suffolk University Law School. She contributed to the 2021 updated editions of Pr. Rustad’s Internet Law in a Nutshell as well as the Information Technologies: Ethics and the Law treatises, both published by West Academic. In 2019, Genevieve interned at the Law Reform Commission of Ireland where she worked on policy review regarding the domestic integration of recent European directives. Ms. Kinder holds a J.D. from Suffolk University Law School (class of 2021).
Patrick Cain,
President and Director
Cooper Cain Group, Inc. and APWG
Patrick Cain is a Resident Research Fellow of the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), and the President of The Cooper-Cain Group, Inc, a Boston, Massachusetts, USA based computer and Internet security consultancy and a member of APWG?s board of directors. The Cooper-Cain Group provides auditing, risk assessments, technical assistance, policy authoring, and incident response guidance to Universities, ISPs, financial institutions and other large organizations. Mr. Cain has been associated with information security development and operations for over thirty years and drives the APWG?s data collection and sharing initiatives. He was previously the Security Advocate in the Office of the Chief Technology Officer, at Genuity Inc., a large Internet Service Provider, and, preceding that, a defense contractor with Bolt, Beranek, and Newman, Inc. He speaks frequently internationally, is a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), a Certified Information System Manager (CISM), a member of the International Association of Privacy Professions, and an associate member of the American Bar Association. Mr. Cain participated in the FSTC Counter-Phishing project, led an effort in the IETF to standardize phishing and electronic crime reports (RFC 5901), participated in a US White House working group identifying and addressing the vulnerabilities of the Internet, served on a United Nations identity-related crimes experts? panel, and is a periodic observer to the Cybercrime Convention Committee (T-CY) of the Council of Europe. His projects have included developing the first FIPS-140 Level 3 cryptographic module, developing an electronic crime taxonomy, and authoring the APWG?s Code of Conduct for GDPR data exchanges.
Greg Aaron,
President
llumuntel, Inc.
Mr. Greg Aaron is Senior Research Fellow for the Anti-Phishing Working
Group.
Mr. Aaron is an internationally recognized authority on the abuse of domain names for cybercrime, and is an expert on domain name registry operations, DNS policy, and related intellectual property issues. He edits the APWG’s quarterly Phishing Activity Trends Reports. As a member of ICANN’s Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC), he advises the international community regarding the domain name and numbering system that makes the Internet function. Greg has been a member of ICANN’s EPDP Working Groups, which have been creating registration data access policies and examining the requirements of GDPR as they apply to domain name data. He works with industry, researchers, and law enforcement to investigate and mitigate cybercrime, and is also a licensed private detective. He was the senior industry expert on a team that evaluated the policy and technical qualifications of more than one thousand new TLD applications to ICANN in 2012-2013. He has managed multiple top-level domains around the world, including .INFO, .ME, and .IN. He is President of Illumintel, Inc., a consulting company (www.illumintel.com). Mr. Aaron is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.
