University Computer Policy and Law Program
the program for Information Technology Ethics Education

Dr. Edward G. Amoroso

Chief Information Security Officer - AT&T

Ed Amoroso currently serves as Chief Information Security Officer for AT&T, a position he has held since 1999. His twenty-year career at AT&T has been focused exclusively on information security, with a particular focus on security programs with AT&T's federal government clients. Ed helped build the first secure UNIX operating system at Bell Labs; he was also the lead for trusted software security development on the Strategic Defense Initiative; in addition, Ed had lead responsibility for real time security protection of the White House Y2K Information Coordination Center.

Ed is currently responsible for real-time protection of AT&T's vast network infrastructure and business enterprise environment. This includes responsibility for security architecture, real time incident response, security patch management, anti-virus processing, Sarbanes-Oxley security compliance, security policy requirements and enforcement, public key infrastructure, intrusion detection, and other related security activities. Ed's team is also responsible for designing, building, and supporting all of AT&T's award-winning managed and professional security services, including Network-Based Security, Internet Protect, and DDOS Defense.

Ed is the author of three textbooks and dozens of articles on information security. He is the 1999 winner of the AT&T Labs Technology Medal, and has served proudly as an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the Stevens Institute of Technology for the past fifteen years. Ed holds the MS and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the Stevens Institute of Technology, as well as the BS degree in Physics from Dickinson College. He is a 2000 graduate of the Columbia Senior Executive Program; his work has been prominently featured in several major media outlets including the Wall Street Journal.