Paul Rosenzweig is the founder of Red Branch Consulting PLLC, a homeland security consulting company. He is also a Senior Advisor to The Chertoff Group. Mr. Rosenzweig formerly served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy in the Department of Homeland Security. He is a Professorial Lecturer in Law at George Washington University, and a Senior Fellow in the Tech, Law & Security Program at the American University, Washington College of Law. He serves as an advisor to and former member of the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Law and National Security, and a Contributing Editor of the Lawfare blog. He is a member of the ABA Cybersecurity Legal Task Force and of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Advisory Committee on Admissions and Grievances. He serves, as well, as a Hearing Committee Member of the District of Columbia Board of Professional Responsibility. In 2011 he was a Carnegie Fellow in National Security Journalism at the Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University.
Mr. Rosenzweig is a cum laude graduate of the University of Chicago Law School. He has an M.S. in Chemical Oceanography from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, and a B.A from Haverford College. Following graduation from law school he served as a law clerk to the Honorable R. Lanier Anderson, III of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
He is the author of Cyber Warfare: How Conflicts in Cyberspace are Challenging America and Changing the World and of three video lecture series from The Great Courses, Thinking About Cybersecurity: From Cyber Crime to Cyber Warfare; The Surveillance State: Big Data, Freedom, and You; and Investigating American Presidents.
He is the co-author (with James Jay Carafano) of Winning the Long War: Lessons from the Cold War for Defeating Terrorism and Preserving Freedom and co-editor (with Jill D. Rhodes and Robert S. Litt) of the Cybersecurity Handbook (3rd ed.). He is also co-editor (with Timothy McNulty and Ellen Shearer) of two books, Whistleblowers, Leaks and the Media: The First Amendment and National Security, and National Security Law in the News: A Guide for Journalists, Scholars, and Policymakers. Mr. Rosenzweig is a member of the Literary Society of Washington.
Mr. McCormick brings 20-plus years of security and governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) experience as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Reciprocity, a leading provider of real-time risk insights directly connected to business priorities. Prior to Reciprocity, he led Security Compliance at HackerOne. He has also held security leadership positions at RSA Security, KEYW Corporations, and Booz Allen Hamilton. Prior to his career in the private sector, Mr. McCormick worked in the U.S. Intelligence Community at the FBI, NSA, and CIA and was a Nuclear Weapons Specialist as well as a Signals Intelligence/Digital Network Intelligence Analyst for the U.S. Air Force. He advises security-focused startups and also serves on working groups and leadership within the ICANN and Internet Governance community.
Mr. Carney brings 30 years experience designing and delivering Information Security solutions to Global 1000 and Government organizations internationally, with a proven track record leading teams through all phases of the Information Security process, including audit and review, design and implementation, and development of custom software components. Most recently Mr. Carney led the First Watch Threat Intelligence team at RSA NetWitness, and currently serves as Director of Research Product Management for Tenable, Inc, the leading Cyber Exposure Management company.