Speaker: Richard A. MacKnight, Director, RAINS-net Topic: "The Regional Alliances for Infrastructure and Network Security - RAINS: Connect and Protect; and the RAINS-Net <http://www.rainsnet.org/> technology." Richard's Bio: Richard A. MacKnight is the Director of RAINS-Net, the first technology initiative by RAINS and core technology supporting Connect and Protect. Since joining RAINS in March of 2003, MacKnight has led the rollout of RAINS-Net, the nations first regional 9-1-1 alert integration with local critical infrastructure providers and emerging secure information-sharing standard. Under MacKnight's leadership, RAINS-Net has garnered a growing installation base that represents the broad public safety stakeholder community. MacKnight serves on the Oregon State Interoperability Executive Council, and the Portland Business Alliance's Cyber Security Cluster task force. Prior to joining RAINS, MacKnight held positions with Oracle's Aerospace and Defense consulting group working on a range of efforts with the U.S. Department of Defense, with Statistica, Inc. on projects for the U.S. Department of Justice, and several projects for the U.S. Department of State. MacKnight has also contributed to several online credit card fraud detection products, corporate eCredentialing systems, and web site spoofing detection tools. MacKnight earned his undergraduate degree at Washington College in Maryland, and an MBA at Marymount University in Virginia.
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