I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Information Technology at George Mason University, and a member of the Center for Secure Information Systems (CSIS). I received my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering in 2005 from the University of Naples “Federico II”, where I served as a Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant before joining the University of Maryland in 2006 as a Faculty Research Assistant. I joined George Mason University in 2011. Please visit my official web page at http://csis.gmu.edu/albanese/