Daniel Shoemaker

Daniel P Shoemaker, PhD, Senior Research Scientist at UDM’s CCSIS, the Director of University of Detroit’s NSA-CAE program and Visiting Professor at London Southbank University.

UDM’s Center includes the Computer Information Systems-Information Assurance Department, as well as the Center of Academic Excellence for National Security Agency. The Center has just completed a two year Department of Defense Contract to develop Software Assurance Curriculum and Courseware. Dan is a full time Professor at University of Detroit Mercy with 25 of those years as Department Chair. As the Co-Chair for the, National Workforce Training and Education Initiative he is one of the Authors of the National Software Assurance Common Body of Knowledge (CBK) for the Department of Homeland Security and numerous articles published with his dear friend Nancy Mead at Software Engineering Institute. And while Dan spends a lot of time in the DC area, he is a Michigan man at heart. Beginning with his education at the University of Michigan and the outreach opportunities he shepherds within the State of Michigan through his leadership of the International Cyber-Security Education Coalition. This Coalition covers a five state region with research partners as far away as the United Kingdom. Dan also spends his free time authoring some of the leading books and articles in Cyber Security. Look for his newest edition to hit the press, this spring Cyber Security : The Essential Body of Knowledge, based on the DHS National Cyber Security Division’s EBOK.