Dr Dorothy E. Denning
Dorothy E. Denning is a Professor in the Department of Defense Analysis and a member of the Center on Terrorism and Irregular Warfare at the Naval Postgraduate School. Her current research and teaching encompasses the areas of conflict and cyberspace, trust and influence, terrorism and crime, and information operations and warfare. She is author of Information Warfare and Security and over 130 articles, and has testified before the U.S. Congress on encryption policy and cyberterrorism. Dr. Denning is an ACM Fellow and recipient of the Augusta Ada Lovelace Award, the Harold F. Tipton Award, the National Computer Systems Security Award, and several other security awards. She is an honorary CISSP and CISM, and was a featured security innovator in Time magazine. She received the B.A. and M.A. degrees in mathematics from the University of Michigan and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from Purdue University. She has previously worked at Georgetown University, Digital Equipment Corporation, SRI International, and Purdue University.
 

Dorothy Denning

Leigh Armistead:
Leigh Armistead is the Strategic IO/IA Development Manager for Honeywell Technology Soluntions Inc. He has written two books, the most recent Information Operations: Warfare and The Hard Reality of Soft Power (Brasseys, August 2003) which serves as a textbook for a number of DoD organizations. Formerly a Master Faculty at the Joint Forces Staff College, Leigh is currently enrolled in a PhD program at Edith Cowan University with an emphasis on Information Operations, where he also serves on the Editorial Review Board for European Conference on Information Warfare, is a Co-Editor for the Journal of International Warfare and the Chairman for the IQPC annual conference on Information Operations.

Leigh Armistead

Dr John Arquilla
John Arquilla is professor of defense analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School, and director of its information operations center.  He has been closely involved with information warfare and operations since 1990, and is best known for having advanced the notions of cyberwar, netwar and swarm tactics in a series of RAND studies with his colleague David Ronfeldt.  He has had firsthand experience as an information strategist in Operation Desert Storm, the Kosovo War, and in several aspects of the war on terror.  Dr. Arquilla earned his degrees in international relations from Rosary College (BA 1975) and Stanford University (MA 1989; PhD 1991), and has authored six books and dozens of articles on a range of topics in military and security affairs.  His most recent book is The Reagan Imprint:  Ideas in American Foreign Policy from the Collapse of Communism to the War on Terror. 

John Arquilla

Timothy L. Thomas
Timothy L. Thomas is an analyst at the Foreign Military Studies Office (FMSO) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He retired from the U.S. Army as a Lieutenant Colonel in the summer of 1993. Mr. Thomas received a B.S. from West Point and an M.A. from the University of Southern California. He was a U.S. Army Foreign Area Officer who specialized in Soviet/Russian studies. His military assignments included serving as the Director of Soviet Studies at the United States Army Russian Institute (USARI) in Garmisch, Germany; as an inspector of Soviet tactical operations under CSCE; and as a Brigade S‑2 and company commander in the 82nd Abn Division. Mr. Thomas has done extensive research and publishing in the areas of peacekeeping, information war, psychological operations, low intensity conflict, and political‑military affairs. He is the assistant editor of the journal European Security; an adjunct professor at the U.S. Army's Eurasian Institute; an adjunct lecturer at the USAF Special Operations School; and a member of two Russian organizations, the Academy of International Information, and the Academy of Natural Sciences.

Tim Thomas

Dr. Sviatoslav Braynov
Dr. Sviatoslav (Svet) Braynov is an Assistant Professor at the Computer Science Department at the University of Illinois at Springfield. He has published more than 40 papers in refereed conferences and journals.  He was also an invited speaker to several conferences, delivered several tutorials, and has served as a co-chair and a program committee member of more than 15 international conferences and workshops. His research interests include computer security, information warfare, electronic commerce, artificial intelligence, and game theory

Sviatoslav Braynov

Dr. Andy Jones
Andy Jones has a background in Military intelligence and security research. After completing military service he ran the UK defence research IW group before moving to University to lecture on the subject and to the British Telecommunications Security Research Labs where he continues to carry out research in the area. He also holds a post as an adjunct at Edith Cowan University in Australia

Andy Jones

Dr. Stilianos Vidalis
Dr. Stilianos Vidalis is a Research Fellow at the University of Glamorgan. He has taken part in a series of EU projects. He is lecturing in the subjects of information security, computer networks and computer operations. His research interests include information security, threat assessment, network security, effective computer defence mechanisms and intrusion detection systems. He holds a PhD in the area of threat assessment

Stilianos Vidalis