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Alex Nicoll

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Alex Nicoll

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Alex is a Senior Cyber-Security Analyst with the CERT program at Carnegie Mellon University. Alex serves as the technical lead for Cyber-Security Compliance Validation assessments performed at the behest of the Department of Homeland Security. In addition to his CCV work, Alex also functions as a subject matter expert on various security and privacy related topics including secure operating systems and vulnerability assessments. Prior to joining CERT, Alex was a Senior Technology Research Fellow at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (A NSA Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance), where he served as the Associate Director of the Nebraska University Consortium on Information Assurance. Alex also worked for BAE Systems at US Strategic Command. Alex served as the primary Systems Architect on the Distributed Command and Control (DC2), designing data centers and large scale redundant/fault-tolerant computing systems. Prior to his work at the University of Nebraska, Alex was a systems administrator and engineer for both Texas Tech University and Purdue University.

November 2013 - Webinar Panel Discussion: Managing the Insider Threat: What Every Organization Should Know

Topics: Insider Threat

In this webinar, a watch panel discusses Managing the Insider Threat: What Every Organization Should Know.

November 2013 - Webinar Best Practices and Controls for Mitigating Insider Threats

Topics: Insider Threat

In this 2013 webinar, Alex Nicoll and George Silowash discuss how the CERT division develops, inspects, and transitions insider threat controls to the public.

July 2012 - White Paper Insider Threats to Cloud Computing: Directions for New Research Challenges

Topics: Insider Threat

In this paper, the authors explain how cloud computing related insider threats are a serious concern, but that this threat has not been thoroughly explored.

September 2011 - Podcast Why Organizations Need a Secure Domain Name System

Use of Domain Name System security extensions can help prevent website hijacking attacks.