PERSON: Cyrus Walker

Data Defenders

CEO

Cyrus is an experienced Information Security industry executive with a diverse technology background. He has served in several executive-level capacities in the commercial and academic sectors of the Information Security and Computer Forensics industry.

Cyrus pioneered the concept of Applied Computer Forensics™ and related forensic analysis models and processes that are now being used by Data Defenders to aid election jurisdictions in ensuring the operational integrity of the their electronic voting systems. In addition to his responsibilities at Data Defenders, Cyrus serves as a subject matter expert on Cyber terrorism defense and Incident Response Management at the University of Arkansas’ Cyber Defense Analysis Center (CDAC) which is funded and directed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Cyrus is the former chairman of the Computer Security and Computer Forensics department at the Wilbur Wright College campus of the City Colleges of Chicago, one of the nation’s leading computer forensics and information security professional development programs.

Prior to Data Defenders, Cyrus spent 12 years in technology consulting where his engineering & management expertise in High Speed Network Design were used to design and test carrier broadband interoperability which served as the foundation for development of the broadband-based Internet that currently serves the country today. Cyrus was recognized for his groundbreaking work and leadership in 1995 by President Bill Clinton.

Additionally, Cyrus’ theoretical work on Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) network design was published in the IEEE conference journal on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems in 1997.

Cyrus holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois.

— data-defenders.com