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Dan Thomsen is Chief Information Officer & Research Scientist at Cyber Defense Agency. As such, he plays a key role in implementing security solutions. He has twenty years experience in the security industry specializing in computer security research, security design and software engineering. Prior to joining CDA, Mr. Thomsen held several security professional positions at Tresys Technology, LLC and Security Computing Corporation. Mr. Thomsen has made significant contributions to the management of security policy, both role-based access control and the high assurance type enforcement mechanism. Mr. Thomsen has also created high assurance multilevel applications, balancing security, functionality and cost to meet the highest levels of assurance. Mr. Thomsen is a sought after speaker on computer security topics. He has been a featured guest on Minnesota Public Radio for three different shows and has also been on four local television interviews. He has been published in twenty seven different publications in workshops, magazines, book chapters and journals. Mr. Thomsen has an M.S. in Computer Science, B.A. in Computer Science and Mathematics from University of Minnesota. Mr Thomsen plays an active role on the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) program committee for ten years. He was ACSAC 2005 and 2006 conference chair and past program chair. He has also been on the program committee for Security Patterns workshop, ESORICS, ACM SIGMAT, and IFIP working 11.3 on database security as well as a senior member of IEEE. | 