Dr. Richard White is a recognized industry expert in the fields of cybersecurity infrastructure, cybersecurity remediation, and cybersecurity program development. With over 25 years of experience in systems design, security technology implementation and security policy development and enforcement, Dr. White has developed innovative and affordable approaches for the rapid deployment of cyber threat detection and remediation technologies. Prior to his tenure at Oxford Solutions, he served as the Chief information Security Officer for the United States Capitol Police where he coordinated and managed all aspects of advanced malware defense, advanced threat detection, incident response, cyber remediation, and containment efforts.

Dr. White brings a multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional perspective to strategic consulting and cyber security strategy formulation for public and private sector clients. He currently serves as a member of the University of Maryland University College adjunct faculty core and is currently the course chair for the Cybersecurity and Information Assurance capstone course and degree program. Additionally, he served as a member of the legislative branch Chief Information Security Officers Council; and is a former member of the GovNet contributors and advisors group. In the government sector, Dr. White continues to provide strategic cybersecurity guidance to the United States Patent Trademark Office, United States Capitol Police, Department of Homeland Security, National Security Agency, and numerous other government agencies as they develop and refine their strategies for cybersecurity.

Previously, Dr. White was a Technical Director with Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., where he led two multidisciplinary teams: network modeling & simulation and high availability networking and resilience. Earlier in his career with Booz Allen Hamilton, he worked with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to provide systems engineering and information assurance solutions for the Intelligence Community, Department of Defense and civilian agencies of the federal government.

While at Mitretek Systems, a non-profit scientific research and technical assessment & evaluation organization, Dr. White led all technical efforts related to the evaluation and technical feasibility studies of project GovNet – his results were presented directly to Richard A. Clarke, National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Counter-terrorism. Additionally, he contributed to Mitretek System’s interdisciplinary cybersecurity research program by developing methods to measure and model the effectiveness of cyber strategies and evolving technologies.

Dr. White is a frequent keynote speaker on cyber security matters and regularly presents individual technical topics, as well as participates as an expert panelist at industry sponsored events.

He is the author of the book Cybercrime: The Madness Behind the Methods.

Dr. White has a Bachelor of Science from the University of Maryland University College. He earned Master of Science degrees in Electronic Business and Telecommunications in 2003 and a PhD with a concentration in Information Assurance in 2007.

Dr. White was the Managing Director for the cybersecurity company Oxford Solutions. He designed and built the company from the ground up, include the complete design and implementation of the Security Operations Center (SOC). Dr. White managed the day to day operations and was instrumental in providing high technical support to the sales team in supporting client engagements.

While he was Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for the U.S. Capitol Police (USCP), Dr. White Brought standard procedures to organizations in disarray by implementing ITIL v3, coordinating with U.S. Senate Information Technology Services service desk to establish incident response models and other IT security practices across multiple federal agencies. After taking charge he was instrumental in USCP receiving first passing external audit review in nine years (IT audit(s) conducted by Cotton & Co.). Official 2010 external audit and financial audit IT findings revealed all past security POA&M items closed, which were comprised of over 63 critical technical findings.

As Technical Director at Booz Allen Hamilton Dr. White Designed the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Network Operations Center (NOC) and Security Operations Center (SOC). He also designed and developed the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) Security Operations Center (SOC). For the Virgin Islands Department of Labor, he designed and implemented an improved layer 2 switch fabric and designed and implemented T3 and microwave connectivity between St. Thomas and St. Croix.