Michel Kabay

Current

• CTO, School of Graduate Studies at Norwich University
• Program Director, MSIA at Norwich University
• Security Strategies Columnist at Network World

• Principal at Independent Consultant, Operations & Security (Sole Proprietorship)

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Past

• Technical Editor, Computer Security Handbook, 4th & 5th Editions at Wiley-Blackwell
• Assoc. Prof. Information Assurance at Norwich University
• Program Director, BSCSIA at Norwich University

• Security Leader (Consulting) at Adario/AtomicTangerine
• Director of Education at NCSA/ICSA Labs/TruSecure
• President at JINBU Corporation (Sole Proprietorship)
• Director of Technical Services at MATHEMA, Inc.
• Systems Engineer at Hewlett-Packard (Canada) Ltd
• Compiler Analyst, Programmer & Statistical Consultant at Lupfer & Long, Inc.
• Associate Professor of Biology at Université de Moncton
• Professor of Statistics & Biometry at Canadian International Development Agency
• Teaching Fellow; Research Fellow at Dartmouth College
• Teaching and Research Assistant at McGill University

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Education

• Dartmouth College
• McGill University
• McGill University

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Recommended

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Industry

Higher Education

Websites

• My Website
• My Company
• My Blog

Michel Kabay’s Summary

Always interested in consulting work, technical editing, course development, and executive seminars.

Highlights: >850 published articles on computer operations and security; co-editor of Computer Security Handbook; have taught information security at NATO HQ, NATO COINTEL, US Army War College. Program chair for > 60 professional IT conferences since 1986. Have taught internationally in UK, Germany, Japan, China, Canada. Professional technical editor since 1970. Information Systems Security Association Hall of Fame member since 2004. Fluent in French, modestly competent in German.

Please visit my Web site at http://www2.norwich.edu/mkabay for a complete picture of my work, including a downloadable PDF file with my complete CV, list of publications and list of courses taught and lectures delivered.

Michel Kabay’s Specialties:

Organizational analysis, operations management, information security policy development & implementation, medical informatics security, IA education / training / awareness, live / online course construction & delivery, professional technical editing, writing

Michel Kabay’s Experience

• CTO, School of Graduate Studies

  Norwich University

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  January 2005 — Present (3 years 7 months)

  Chief Technical Officer, School of Graduate Studies: responsible for providing guidance to colleagues and staff in identifying technical solutions to practical problems including information organization, storage, retrieval, analysis and security. Member of liaison group between SGS and Information Technology Group.

• Program Director, MSIA

  Norwich University

  (Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  January 2002 — Present (6 years 7 months)

  Responsible for creating and maintaining curriculum of Master of Science in Information Assurance program in the School of Graduate Studies. Overall responsibility for academic and management policy, administration, faculty and students in the MSIA program.

• Security Strategies Columnist

  Network World

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry)

  January 2000 — Present (8 years 7 months)

  Prepare two security-related columns a week for distribution to readers of the Security Strategies newsletter < http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/sec/ >. Readership has grown from 16,000 in 2000 to >50,000 now.

• Principal

  Independent Consultant, Operations & Security (Sole Proprietorship)

  (Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 1998 — Present (10 years 1 month)

  Consulting services in operations management; facilities security; security policy development and improvement; security awareness, training and education; organizational dynamics analysis and optimization; survey design and statistical analysis; research for and writing of technical white papers; assistance as subject-matter expert for technical advisory boards.

• Technical Editor, Computer Security Handbook, 4th & 5th Editions

  Wiley-Blackwell

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Publishing industry)

  January 2000 — June 2008 (8 years 6 months)

  Under the direction of Senior Editor Sy Bosworth, responsible for planning chapter titles, sequence and authors for the 4th and 5th editions of the Computer Security Handbook. Provide editorial supervision of content and references. Support Sy Bosworth with additional copy-editoring. Responsible for maintining planning documents to track status of chapters. In 5th edition, support Editor Eric Whyne who manages correspondence with authors.

• Assoc. Prof. Information Assurance

  Norwich University

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  July 2001 — June 2007 (6 years)

  Teach Fundamentals of Informatics; Introduction to Computers and C++ Programming; Introduction to Business Software; Introduction to Information Assurance; Information Assurance Management; Introduction to Cyberlaw and Cybercrime; Database Management Systems; Advanced Econometrics; Special Topics in Computer Science; Software Engineering; COBOL. Director of the Annual Student Symposium in IA; Faculty Advisor for ACM SIGSAC. Publisher of Norwich University Journal of Information Assurance (NUJIA, < http://nujia.norwich.edu >).

• Program Director, BSCSIA

  Norwich University

  (Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  January 2004 — June 2007 (3 years 6 months)

  Responsible for curriculum design and update of Bachelor of Science in Computer Security and Information Assurance in the Division of Business & Management. For details, see
  
  http://www.norwich.edu/academics/business/informationassurance.html

• Security Leader (Consulting)

  Adario/AtomicTangerine

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

  February 2000 — June 2001 (1 year 5 months)

  Representing AtomicTangerine at professional meetings and on professional committees. Teaching seminars at professional meetings and in colleges and universities. Writing White Papers and journal articles on selected topics. Serving as a technical content supplier for the AtomicTangerine Webmaster and for International Institute for Information Integrity (I-4) members. Supporting the ISU (Information Security University). Responding to requests for information from journalists, academics and students. Providing consulting services for clients in operations management and security.

• Director of Education

  NCSA/ICSA Labs/TruSecure

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

  January 1991 — January 2000 (9 years 1 month)

  Ensuring that all ICSA staff remained up to date in relevant information about information security and I.T. standards, business and regulatory environments. Representing ICSA at professional meetings and committees. Teaching seminars at professional meetings and in colleges and universities. Writing White Papers and journal articles. Technical resource for the ICSA Webmaster and for Consortium managers. Responding to requests for information from journalists, academics and students. Series Editor of the NCSA Guides to Information Security with McGraw-Hill publishers. Wizop for ICSA CompuServe Security Forum.

• President

  JINBU Corporation (Sole Proprietorship)

  (Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 1986 — June 1998 (12 years)

  Consulting in information systems management, security audits and planning, disaster prevention, mitigation and recovery planning, performance analysis and optimization on mainframes, minis and microcomputers. Developing and teaching courses in operations management, information systems security, system performance, database performance, and telecommunications. Experimental and sampling design; survey design and analysis. Organizational analysis and project evaluation. Also Instructor at the Institute for Government Informatics Professionals of the University of Ottawa; instructor in JPC program at John Abbott College Continuing Education (Ste Anne de Bellevue).

• Director of Technical Services

  MATHEMA, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  December 1983 — July 1986 (2 years 8 months)

  Operations of Computer Service Bureau for 28 companies. Responsibilities included providing systems technical support; tuning operating systems; evaluating utilities; standards for documenting procedures; load, recovery, and backup strategies; microcomputer policy and support. Used statistical techniques for capacity planning. Taught courses in operating system internals, system monitoring techniques, network and relational database design, and application program performance enhancement. Assisted actuaries in statistical methodology.

• Systems Engineer

  Hewlett-Packard (Canada) Ltd

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)

  February 1980 — December 1983 (3 years 11 months)

  CONSULTING: HP3000 Performance; IMAGE/3000 optimal database design.
  TEACHING: operating system internals and performance, network database design, advanced programming techniques, ad hoc report generator, system management, operations, patching operating system tables, intelligent screen formatter, and text and document processing.
  TECHNICAL SUPPORT: Team Leader, Phone In Consulting Service (PICS); Software Coordinator for Montreal office.
  RESEARCH: 6 months at HP Cupertino developing SYSDUMP Computer-Based Training prototype.

• Compiler Analyst, Programmer & Statistical Consultant

  Lupfer & Long, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  May 1979 — February 1980 (10 months)

  INPROSYS a relational database management system for General Motors (USA) Corporation Toxic Substances Database which recorded employee exposure to over 2,000,000 different substances in automobile components and manufacturing compounds. Designed syntax for statistical functions of command language; wrote BASIC code for parsing and error messages; wrote code generating sections of compiler to produce object language (structured COBOL); designed quality assurance tests; wrote and produced first edition of reference manual, taught course for medical directors.

• Associate Professor of Biology

  Université de Moncton

  (Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Higher Education industry)

  September 1978 — May 1979 (9 months)

  TEACHING: biometry, introductory biology, human physiology.
  CONSULTING: helped faculty and others design and analyze research.

• Professor of Statistics & Biometry

  Canadian International Development Agency

  (Government Agency; 51-200 employees; Higher Education industry)

  November 1976 — August 1978 (1 year 10 months)

  Assigned to Université nationale du Rwanda -- central Africa.
  
  TEACHING: Helped teach programming using FORTRAN and microcomputer assembler. Taught survey design and data analysis to post graduate students in management and business administration. Designed and taught course in experimental design and statistical analysis for postgraduate students in agronomic engineering program. Designed, taught courses in applied statistics for the BA program in social and economic sciences.
  CONSULTING: Organized symposium on Microcomputers and the Third World in 1978. Wrote computer programs for statistical analysis for Centre d'Etudes et d'Application de l'Energie au Rwanda and for agronomy department. Helped design and analyze studies of local cooperative management projects, agricultural field research, FAO Tick Control Project drug trials and species diversity studies.

• Teaching Fellow; Research Fellow

  Dartmouth College

  (Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Higher Education industry)

  September 1972 — August 1976 (4 years)

  CONSULTING: Helped professors and graduate students in experimental design and analysis.
  RESEARCH: Designed, executed, and analyzed experiments in rotifer developmental biology. Wrote computer programs for data analysis on microcomputers.
  TEACHING: Assisted in biochemistry, general biology, comparative anatomy, embryology, general genetics, molecular genetics. Developed and taught course in applied statistics for graduate students in biology.

• Teaching and Research Assistant

  McGill University

  (Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  May 1969 — August 1972 (3 years 4 months)

  Teaching Assistand in general biology and general genetics labs. Summer Research Intern (Summer 1969) under direction of Dr Sally Long. Research projects: melanocyte implantation therapy and melanin substrate replacement for genetically determined albinism in laboratory mice.

Michel Kabay’s Education

• Dartmouth College

  PhD, Inverterbrate zoology & applied statistics, September 1972 — August 1976

  Two major projects:
  1) Allelochemic effects of rotifers Asplanchna sieboldi on reproductive cycle of rotifer Brachionus calyciflorus.
  2) Alpha tocopherol (vitamin E) effects on polymorphism in Asplanchna sieboldi.

• McGill University

  MSc, Teratology & Developmental Genetics, September 1970 — August 1972

  Worked on methylmercury teratogenesis and effects of alpha-tocopherol in reducing mercury toxicity in mouse embryos; also thesis project on statistical analysis of homeorhesis in F1 hybrids of inbred mouse lines.

• McGill University

  BSc, Genetics, September 1966 — August 1970

Additional Information

Michel Kabay’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company
• My Blog

Michel Kabay’s Interests:

Hobbies: Occasional co-host, radio program Something to Talk About, WGDR since 1998. Playing chamber music, singing art songs (basso), listening to loud heavy-metal rock music; cross-country skiing; reading philosophy of science, SF and crime novels. Reading to children at the Northfield Public Library. Mowing six acres of meadow and maintaining paths in 40 acres of woodlands and fields in Vermont. Savoring every day with my beloved wife Deborah Black, light of my life.

Michel Kabay’s Groups:

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); American Association of University Professors (AAUP); Association for Computing Machinery & ACM Special Interest Groups SIGCAS (Computers & Society), SIGSAC (Security, Audit & Control); Computer Security Institute (CSI); Information Systems Security Association (ISSA); International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC)2. International Primate Protection League (IPPL); Greenpeace; Friends of the Earth; Sierra Club. Amnesty International. Associate Editor, ACM Ubiquity. Board of Advisors, Lost Nation Theater 1999-2002., FISSEA

•    Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) member
•    National Information Security Group member
•    Norwich University MSIA Alumni member
•    Computer Security Handbook 5th Edition member
•    SecurityPortal Alumni member

Michel Kabay’s Honors:

See http://www2.norwich.edu/mkabay/cv/cv.pdf

Michel Kabay’s Contact Settings

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