Rebecca (Becky) Bace

Becky Bace is an internationally recognized expert in the area of computer system intrusion detection and network security. She has over thirty years experience in computer software and systems, twenty-five of those in computer and network security. Becky spent twelve years at the National Security Agency (1984-1996), where she built the Agency’s intrusion detection research program, earning the Agency’s Distinguished Leadership Award for that accomplishment. Upon leaving NSA, she went to the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where she served as the deputy security officer for the Computing Division. In 1998, she started Infidel, Inc., a network security-focused strategic consulting firm that serves a wide variety of commercial customers.

Becky serves on the technical advisory boards of Trident portfolio companies Arxan, Clarus, HyTrust, Neohapsis, Qualys, and TriCipher and of other startups in the network security area including Reconnaisance Technologies and Vantos. She formerly served on the technical advisory boards of Trident portfolio companies Sygate Technologies (acquired by Symantec Corporation (SYMC)), Thor Technologies (acquired by Oracle Corporation (ORCL)), and Tablus (acquired by RSA, the security division of EMC (EMC)). In the broader industry, she was on the technical advisory boards of Intruvert, Security Focus, SecureWorks, Tripwire, and @stake, among others. She was a founding principal faculty member for the Intrusion Detection Forum series offered by the Institute for Applied Network Security, and currently works with several groups developing security training programs for law enforcement. She is author of Intrusion Detection (Macmillan, 2000), NIST's Special Publication on Intrusion Detection (SP800-31) and (with Fred Smith) Forensic Testimony: A Guide for Technical Experts (Addison Wesley, 2002), and wrote the chapters on vulnerability analysis and intrusion detection for the Handbook of Computer Security, 4th and 5th edition (Wiley, 2002; 2008).

Bace holds a B.S. (Engineering/Computer Science) from the University of the State of New York, and a M.E.S. (Digital Systems Engineering) from Loyola College.

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