Abstract :
Gary McGraw interviews Deborah Frincke, who is currently a member of the Defense Intelligence Senior Executive Service and deputy director for research at the US National Security Agency (NSA). This interview was conducted while she served as Chief Scientist of Cybersecurity at the US Department of Energy´s (US DoE´s) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). Prior to PNNL, she was a professor at the University of Idaho, where she cofounded the academic Center for Secure and Dependable Systems and also TriGeo Network Security. Frincke is active in the US DoE´s cybersecurity grassroots community and an affiliated professor with the University of Washington´s iSchool.